Lets talk fishing

[JangoMike]

When did Fugazy catch the ban?

Damnnnn man.....

 

[MichiganMMA1978]

Damnnnn man.....

I always liked him.... one of the good ones imo

 

[StonedLemur]

Damnnnn man.....

Yeah thats my dude, sad to see him banned.
Don't even know what for.

 

[koquerelle]

Fishing from the shore is almost over here in Québec, so I decided to go out tonight to see if the walleyes were still close to shore even though it was pretty cold (2 Celsius - 28F for you heathens).

The ice forming in the rod's guides were a bitch to deal with, but it was worth it. Last fresh fish for a while.

I caught a 238lb Halibut today. I would've released it but it swallowed jig and was severely bleeding, and wasn't putting up much of a fight when we got it to the surface. It will feed a lot of people luckily.

How long is a fight with such a monster?

 

[koquerelle]

We are cooking him Saturday! Gar is very tasty if you cook it right!

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I can't give a like. Great post!!!

 

[Yoricks Wisdom]

grew up back east.
caught blue fish, flounder and blow fish.
out west mainly lake and river fishing for trout.
up in Minnesota used to catch something called sunfish.
flounder like.

 

[JangoMike]

I can't give a like. Great post!!!

Thanks Sherbro! We ate that thing good. Ready to go back next Sept for more

 

[koquerelle]

grew up back east.
caught blue fish, flounder and blow fish.
out west mainly lake and river fishing for trout.
up in Minnesota used to catch something called sunfish.
flounder like.

Sunfish: the panfish?

 

[Yoricks Wisdom]

yea, probably.
bunch of relatives at a cabin on Lake Elizabeth.
we'd go out and bring back dozens of these little fish,
scaling and fish fry would ensue.
good times.

 

[koquerelle]

Thanks Sherbro! We ate that thing good. Ready to go back next Sept for more

Is it hard to prepare the fish?

 

[koquerelle]

yea, probably.
bunch of relatives at a cabin on Lake Elizabeth.
we'd go out and bring back dozens of these little fish,
scaling and fish fry would ensue.
good times.

I bet. I love panfish as much as walleye and so does my wife.
A fish pie with panfish is divine.

 

[Fake Doctor]

Anyone else enjoy shallow-water carp fishing? Wake up at the crack of dawn, get yourself a nice cup of tea, go out to the dock and put some stationary bait on the (visible) bottom of the lake and just watch what happens? Some minnows come by and play with the bait a bit, maybe a catfish swoops over to check it out. Once the scent gets in the water enough the 5 to 15 pound suckers start to come out and float in wide patterns around the bait, around and around, by it, over it, and just keep swooping around, until suddenly the bait is gone and you're wondering "Did one get it?" They get lazy after that grab the bait oftentimes so if you have a bit of line out they'll leave you thinking they just took the bait and didn't get hooked - but then you get a yank. The buggers, for being lazy shallow water fish, put up a fight like a game fish when they get hooked.

Of course, half the draw is that you're up and on the shore a bit before sunrise, and you get to enjoy the breeze and the lovely colours in the sky as everything that is awake at night goes to sleep and everything that sleeps at night comes alive.

Always enjoyed that. River fishing for rainbow trout is a lot of fun too.

 

[sverre054]

Fishing from the shore is almost over here in Québec, so I decided to go out tonight to see if the walleyes were still close to shore even though it was pretty cold (2 Celsius - 28F for you heathens).

The ice forming in the rod's guides were a bitch to deal with, but it was worth it. Last fresh fish for a while.

How long is a fight with such a monster?

Only about 20 mins. It actually didn't put up much of a fight. It was using the barn door method and just using its dead weight and gravity in the water. It badly swallowed the hooks and was bleeding badly, otherwise, I usually let the giant go. Only needed one crack from the metal baseball bat to kill it.

 

[Roop Holstry]

View attachment 987891 Just got back from vacay. Went to Carolina beach, NC. On the first morning we were there, I got up early and drove the 30 mins to Wilmington and fished greenfield park. I was tossing a top water frog when I got blasted and had a fish on. I fought to get her in and she was big, and put up a fight. I got her about 15 feet from shore when she got tangled in the weeds. I only had 15 pound braid and the line broke with the bass being on top of the weeds. She would have baked in the sun. But more immediately, an 8 foot gator came in looking for an easy meal. With its mouth open, it swam towards my bass. I threw some sticks at it but it kept coming. I said fuck it and jumped in the lake and ran out to get my bass before the gator did. Grabbed her. Weighed her at 4.2, but my scale fucks about sometimes and I rarely trust it and think she was heavier, but whatever. View attachment 987890

I have relatives in Wilmington that live in a gated community with many golf course ponds. A few years back I dragged my kayak onto one at night during a warm spell in February and started tossing around a frog. Caught so many including two 5 pounders that were clearly in prespawn mode. Fishing a frog at night can be tough but it can be fun fishing using only sound and feel.

 

[Roop Holstry]

Catches from this summer:


Northern Pike caught snap jigging a Dartspin

Flounder on a jerkbait

walleye on a Dartspin

bluefish on pencil popper (such an underrated sport fish)

Cow nose ray on gulp. My doctor told me to take it easy since I just cut the tip of my finger off the week before so I figured fluke fishing would be light enough and of course the first thing in hook into is this behemoth and I fight it for 45 minutes on only 15# line. My finger started bleeding again. Also for some reason this lifeguard insisted on involving himself because he was worried about this things little poison barb.

 

[nhbbear]

I have relatives in Wilmington that live in a gated community with many golf course ponds. A few years back I dragged my kayak onto one at night during a warm spell in February and started tossing around a frog. Caught so many including two 5 pounders that were clearly in prespawn mode. Fishing a frog at night can be tough but it can be fun fishing using only sound and feel.

Greenfield lake is where I first used a frog to catch a bass for the first time. This was back in the 90s. But it is always a fun way to fish, providing you can actually hook them up, which is why I rock with a trailer hook. I tried a few other areas called burnt mill creek and I have had success there, but not the last two years.

Incidently, that greenfield bass was the biggest of the year and I ended up having one of the worst fishing years since 2019. 2021 wasn’t great, but 22 was awesome. I started to get my 13 year old fishing but we didn’t have any luck in some spots where I have in the past and I was discouraged by that because I wanted to get him on some fish.

 

[Roop Holstry]

Greenfield lake is where I first used a frog to catch a bass for the first time. This was back in the 90s. But it is always a fun way to fish, providing you can actually hook them up, which is why I rock with a trailer hook. I tried a few other areas called burnt mill creek and I have had success there, but not the last two years.

Incidently, that greenfield bass was the biggest of the year and I ended up having one of the worst fishing years since 2019. 2021 wasn’t great, but 22 was awesome. I started to get my 13 year old fishing but we didn’t have any luck in some spots where I have in the past and I was discouraged by that because I wanted to get him on some fish.

This was my first year not doing any frog fishing. I got too caught up in fluke fishing this summer. I used to frog fish obsessively and got pretty damn good at it. The trailer hook isn’t necessary.

If you ever get a chance to go for snakeheads….that is frog fishing at its finest. You can find northern snakeheads in PA, NJ, Virginia, and Maryland. Bullseye snakeheads in Florida. They are mean and fight super hard. I’ve seen them break off 65# braid. Bowfins are similar enough though if you can get them to eat frogs, although their mouth is bony so a mean hookset and good pressure is needed.

 

[nhbbear]

This was my first year not doing any frog fishing. I got too caught up in fluke fishing this summer. I used to frog fish obsessively and got pretty damn good at it. The trailer hook isn’t necessary.

If you ever get a chance to go for snakeheads….that is frog fishing at its finest. You can find northern snakeheads in PA, NJ, Virginia, and Maryland. Bullseye snakeheads in Florida. They are mean and fight super hard. I’ve seen them break off 65# braid. Bowfins are similar enough though if you can get them to eat frogs, although their mouth is bony so a mean hookset and good pressure is needed.

I am not far from Pittsburgh, so nothing like that here. I have seen bowfin in Wilmington, but I couldn’t get them to bite. I use the trailers to make sure I get a hook in them. Imo it doesn’t mess with the action of the frog and is just a nice extra chance to ensure a hook-up. I have used without and I miss too many strikes. Although, that frog fish from Carolina this year was without a trailer hook if I recall. I think I lost the one I was using a few casts prior when it got tangled in a cypress tree above me-it’s tight casting in a lot of places around this lake.

But yeah, other than that one (over 5) and one other decent bass during the first kayak bass tourney of the year that was 18.75 inches and 4 lbs, my year sucked. They just weren’t hitting, the weather with really heavy rain ruined a few weekends that I could have fished-the last one, the rain started while I was 30 mins into a 45 min travel time to the lake at 5am and when I pulled down to the ramp, I watched clouds of mud flowing into the lake and I called it before it began. Then, I got injured at work dealing with an extremely violent patient and dislocated my shoulder and that ended my year in late summer and I completely missed the fall bite. What’s funny about the kayak tourney is that I helped plan it. A guy reached out to me and said that he saw all the big fish I post on a local forum and he wanted to set up a tournament with me. I told him my work schedule and told him it had to be on Saturdays because I work Sundays. And he got it backwards, so I was only able to fish a few of them and even then, a few hours of each since I have a bad back and can only sit and fish for about 3-4 hours. I was in the lead when I left and it lasted for a few hours, but I came in second that day.

 

[JangoMike]

I went up to a nearby Mountain Reservoir to catch some Stockies...its. a nice relaxing way to fish compared to hauling out the Bass Boat & getting OCD/ADD about finding Bass

 

[jefferz]

Sunfish: the panfish?

In Minnesota, it was probably a bluegill. You can throw a hook in just about every body of water in MN, and pull out a bluegill.
They have pumpkinseeds and greens as well, but there not as common. I think there’s some small pockets of orange throated down by Minneapolis as well, but they might not be native.