The Fishing Thread
 

Growing up in FL, I was bred to fish. Large mouth fishing is my favorite, but I always enjoy a good salt water catch, be it Snook, Redfish, Grouper, Snapper etc...

My favorite setup right now for April/May would be my Abu Garcia Ambassador bait caster on a 6' 6" medium Trophy Angler Stimulator. I've been putting in 2-3 hours a day and bringing up about 15 fish with a watermelon zoom worm hooked via wacky rig. This is my favorite time of year to fish freshwater, as I have it down to a science. I went salt water fishing last week off a local pier, and only hooked into a jack crevalle using a light brown DOA shrimp. If you don't have DOA where you live (could not find them in CT) you are missing out big time. They are my favorite salt water artificials. Ill put some pictures up when I take some.

What do you fish?

I'm from Michigan, and we're sorta surrounded by water, so a Michigander that doesn't or hasn't fished is a rare thing. I would love to go salt water fishing sometime, but it's a bit of a drive for me to get to an ocean.

I mainly catch bass, perch, pike, and carp. In the spring I like to go sucker spearing, and my skills are so pro i was able to spear a crayfish once. Won myself $2 from the nonbelievers.

I use a 7' light rod, XPS performance series(Bass Pro Shop brand). My lure of choice are plastic works and minnows, slightly weighted. I tend to go with Powerbait or Cabelas because they are cheap and do the job and bass aren't super picky. If I am in deeper waters I may use crank bait, like a diver. If I am going for pike, I put a steel leader on my line and use a spinner.

Largemouth bass:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...X/SSPX1171.jpg

And this is why I don't like using real worms:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...X/SSPX1226.jpg

I think my biggest fish is an 8lb carp. I wish i could find the picture, but it's nowhere to be found.

I wish I had the means to go out on the great lakes, there you find the real fish.

you fish for perch??? i was always taught to throw perch out as a lesser fish---of course, all i fish with is stinkbait! so wtf do i know!!!

i'd like to learn to use more baits but i dont have a lot of time and for the most part when i go it's kinda like get in, get what i can and get out---and i know where i can catch catfish so i just use the stink

occasionally i get time to just laze around the river bank and experiment--but i never catch anything

because of flooding i haven't been yet this year but here's a pic from last year

http://www.musicbanter.com/members/c...re1184-001.jpg

I can turn a dozen 3-4 inch perch into a good dinner, just batter and fry em.

ho sorry didn't mean to jump on your fishing thread there, didn't konw
there was a topic started on fishing i did a search on it but no results.
well any way that a big ass fish you got there how many pounds is that
looks abot between 3 to 4 pounds

I used to go fishing every weekend in UK during the season, mostly carp, bream and perch. My best catch ever was an 18 lb carp on 2.5 lb line and a size 20 hook, took me 45 minutes to land it.

Sorry to rain on this parade, but fishing is like the worst leisure activity ever.

Wrong, you're obviously not married :)

I went fishing once. With my dad. Dropped my cellphone into the water. Never been since.

thanks for sharing

Anytime. In fact, I can share more if you are really interested.

oh by all means do, though i can't advocate doing such at the expense of these gentle fishermen

Hey. Women fish.

maybe, when they aren't dropping their mobiles into the water

Far where is vegeangelica when you need her. Wait...she's vegetarian. Dammit!

Well...I learned to hook my bait and cast it. I was too emotional to catch fish after my phone died, however.

yes, tragedy does tend to spoil the mood of fishing, doesn't it

I'm pretty inexperienced cause Ohio doesn't afford many fishing opportunities, but I was able to do a bit of fishing over the summer at a trip to Dale Hollow Lake in Tennessee and it was pretty sweet. We did some top water fishing which was hella fun, and some trolling I think it's called, which is kinda passive. The lake's got both large mouth and small mouth fish too and I'm hoping to do it again sometime.

Oh and I don't have a set up either lol. Just rentals.


Impatience?

I think it must be pretty rewarding catching a fish. And the peace and serenity of gliding along a watery abyss while casting a line.

You nailed it. It's impossible for me to get frustrated with fishing (pretty much the only activity that I won't get frustrated with at some point) because even when I'm not catching anything I'm just enjoying the peace and beauty of being out in a lake.

Yeah, and if there is ever a time I haven't caught a thing , or anything worthwhile (which is most of the time) I still always leave with a smile. Although, I'm not sure if I am just stunned by my appreciation of nature, or just beer.

On another note, we have these beasts here called Jewfish (Goliath Grouper) which grow to be hundreds of pounds. I have always thought they were endangered, but word is they are going to be open for season next month. I've located a pretty sweet spot where there are a few of them chillin in extremely shallow water under a pier and have plotted my attack as soon as season opens. I've been catching ladyfish off shrimp then loosely hooking the lady fish and feeding the jewfish. I've had the largest come up and break the surface a few times, and even reached out and touched that guy. It would be a dream to fill my freezer with 200+ pounds of grouper.

well the largest fish i cought was a 5.5 pound salt water bass and thats
just a baby

I've only ever been ice fishing. I was visiting a friend of mine who lives up North, wayyyy up north, in Yellowknife, one year and her family invited me on an ice fishing trip. We were out there all day in -30 C or so temperatures and we didn't catch anything, but it was so much fun. The whole thrill for me was the risk of falling through the ice!

I was fishing with my cousing with live shrimp last night. He caught a squid and that thing started inking all over the place. We hooked him onto a larger hook with a leader, but caught nothing. We then, sliced him up, caught a couple sheephead, and angelfish, and a ray.

*raises thread from the dead*

I need to replace the piece of **** reel that came with my rod. It'll be for lakefishing for bass and crappie, mostly. Any recommendations for reels under $100?

I always imagined you as noodler. Hmm.

I got a Kastking

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....17LR98dDiL.jpg

Never pictured you as the fishing type, Jethro.

frownland showing off his latest caught... https://media2.giphy.com/media/mnt3vQsOrUzIs/giphy.gif

Going fishing on Friday and I'm pretty excited for it. Going to a lake with crappie, (huge) bass, trout, catfish, and bluegill and your smaller whatever fish.

I have some of these jigs that I'm going after the bass with and I'm pretty sure it'll get something in the lake I'm going to. It's had some world record bass catches.

https://static.slickdealscdn.com/att...6043760.attach

Probably going to catch a lot of trout at the end of the day. Doing a marshmallow and worm trick where the marshmallow floats the worm, I'll see how that goes. Also gonna pick up some minnows for crappie and mackerel for catfish just to see if I can get anything but I'm hoping to get some material for my mask replicas.

Any good tips for bass, trout, or catfish? I think I'll be out a little too early for catfish but tips for them and crappie are welcome.

Bring grenades.

I'm not a huge fast food fan.

Also gonna be using power bait for the trout since they're stocked (ain't no native trout in socal).

I'd probably want a more stable boat but that looks like a fun spot to fish. Speaking of which, a friend and I want to go in together on an inflatable raft for fishing, something made out of a tough material to reduce risks of sinking because of hooks or rocks. Does anyone here fish?

Also here are some terrible photos I snapped of my catch today. Around 18 inches long and 2.5 pounds. Got em with a roboworm.

https://i.imgur.com/WzmzHuN.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/ZXzoG9V.jpg

I hope you killed and ate it... catch n release is fucked.

Spoken like a true pescatarian poseur.

I'd have done that if it was a trout. This was a largemouth bass and it seemed fine, didn't need revival or anything. *shrug*

Whenever I go fishing, I release it

Not only do I like fishing, but I'm also thinking about doing a fish processing business. However, I'm in the very beginning and need to figure out many things first. I've already contacted tohatsu customer service and found out the best deals there. I think this is a good start.