Fishing!

[Curtis2010]

Now you have me missing my days in the panhandle. And hogfish is one of the best things ever put on a dinner plate. Think I had it for 75% of my meals in the keys last year

I've had charter guests come aboard saying they don't like seafood (usually because they've never had real, fresh seafood....no wonder...who likes old smelly fish). We often have freshly speared hogfish on the menu and in one taste they usually do a 180 and eat seafood for the rest of the trip.

 

[Mike M]

Couple pictures from my last off shore trip off the Outer Banks.

A beautiful Mahi in blue water



Sushi!


This dolphin was hooked up, but still made a run at the teaser as it bobbed just on the surface

 

[JeepDiver]

I've had charter guests come aboard saying they don't like seafood (usually because they've never had real, fresh seafood....no wonder...who likes old smelly fish). We often have freshly speared hogfish on the menu and in one taste they usually do a 180 and eat seafood for the rest of the trip.

Yep it makes a big difference. I rarely eat seafood here in Denver. A lot of people around here have asked me if I dont like seafood. Nope love it, to the point of not eating it if it is questionable

 

[aiptasia]

Love some of the fish camps around ocrecoke island, NC. Catch a mess of fish and let them fry it up for you. Best mahi ever.

Only fishing I get to do these days are around the public docs on the St. John's river, which in this area is brackish water. Last morning of fishing I did, there was a mother and calf manatee right off the rain shelter on the dock where I like to fish and they just disrupt all the fish in the area. I only caught one small red drum. Usually, we can get some sea trout, good sized drum and sheepshead this time of year.

 

[hatedheretic]

i'm going down to the Kenai for some dipnetting on Wed-whenever... i'm allowed 55 red salmon :-o think about fileting/steaking that many fish out...

 

[HoppyDaze]

i'm going down to the Kenai for some dipnetting on Wed-whenever... i'm allowed 55 red salmon :-o think about fileting/steaking that many fish out...

Hopefully no brood stock in that harvest

 

[hatedheretic]

hoping my freezer will be good packed; then just gotta go get a moose and i'll be set for the year...

 

[Subsailor]

hoping my freezer will be good packed; then just gotta go get a moose and i'll be set for the year...

92,000 through on the 15th. That's 243,000 compared to 228,000 same time last year. We got ours last week and a buddy is sharing some of his Copper River Reds because his wife just announced she don't want that much salmon.

 

[HoppyDaze]

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/fly-rods/fly-rod-makers-tom-morgan-gerri-carlson-create-unity-universe

Fantastic article...I spent my college years fishing in that area of Montana.

 

[morticus]

Awesome day out on the Columbia!

 

[HoppyDaze]

Awesome day out on the Columbia!

Fishing has been incredible at buoy 10 this year. Even better a bit upstream. Nice work. Send me the eggs

 

[morticus]

Fishing has been incredible at buoy 10 this year. Even better a bit upstream. Nice work. Send me the eggs

I haven't even been down to buoy 10 this year. We caught these right in front of PDX. So far we have put 10 fish in the boat right there. Taking the boat down to Coos Bay this week, for some salmon and tuna action.

 

[HoppyDaze]

I haven't even been down to buoy 10 this year. We caught these right in front of PDX. So far we have put 10 fish in the boat right there. Taking the boat down to Coos Bay this week, for some salmon and tuna action.

Spinners? Herring? Wobblers?

Looks like I need to get the boat out

 

[morticus]

We use Kwik Fish or Spin N Glows until the tide starts moving out faster then switch to wobblers.

 

[HoppyDaze]

I need to get my drift boat out...

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[Kharnynb]

I fish quite a bit here, both winter icefishing and from my (rather tiny) boat in summer.
My boat is about 500 meters from our house and I have to go past the castle to get to "open" water.
Savonlinna is technically an island in the biggest lake in finland, so we have a lot of water around.
Yoopers picture looked like it could have been taken here, i guess now we know why all the fins moved there

 

[nyer]

My brother in law is in town visiting so I took him out into the ocean to see what we could find. We ended up catching 2 small sharks and lost a nice spinner shark after a giant jump out of the water. We had tons of fun. I caught a 6 foot 100 pound tarpon in the same area a few weeks ago. It was by far the largest fish I ever caught. I'm used to fishing for bass and laketrout in Ny. Hopefully we will get out again in a couple of days.

 

[cjbalough]

Some Lake Erie walleye from today - first trip of the year & cooler was too small. Big fish were for pair of 30" 9+ pounders.

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[Yooper]

Yoopers picture looked like it could have been taken here, i guess now we know why all the fins moved there

Yah, except for the castle, it looks just like it.

It's still cold here, even though walleye season opened yesterday. The bluegills and perch are biting, though. We starting catching them in early May. And we'll go out and look for crappies later this week.

I love living in the UP, at least spring through fall! (By the way, the black flies are now ferocious, so this pictures were about 14 days ago!)

 

[masskrug]

Set to go fishing next month in Colorado. Rainbow and Brown Trout.

 

[Gavin C]

Love looking at all these great pictures. I haven't been fishing in years, not since moving to the states.

Used to fish quite a bit when I lived in Australia.

The daily newspaper in Cairns QLD has a bragging board each day. (Cairns Post) Always a great read.

This is from quite a few years back in Darwin Harbour. A Black Jewfish. Absolutely scrumdiddlyumptous. Very tired in this picture. Took quite a bit of time and effort to get it in the boat. Great day as is usually the case with fishing.

 

[unionrdr]

Haven't been back fishing in a couple years, since I can barely walk these days. I need a broke-back buggy for getting down those long piers on Lake Erie, or around the large reservoirs we have around here. Take out the motor, dewind the armature a couple turns, shunt the motor brushes, cut down the commutator...then it'll be the fastest broke-back buggy on the pier!

 

[headbanger]

Made my first trip to Cumberland this year last week, it was a good one. We limited out almost every day on stripes and picked up some nice cats along the way too. The freezer is officially stocked for the year and it's only May, think I need to get a bigger cooler for the boat though.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Can you/should you make gravlax with stripes?

 

[SupervisingChildren]

I took the day off today and went inland trout fishing on my favorite stream. They stock browns, and there's a bunch of natural reproduction brookies in it. I caught about 15 fish, and 5 were brook trout. Totally made my day.
Also had a young fox checking me out shortly after I got to the creek.

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[headbanger]

Can you/should you make gravlax with stripes?

I doubt it, striper has white flaky meat kind of like cod or halibut although the flavor is much more pronounced. To me the best smoked and/or cured fish is more akin to the more oily meat like salmon or mackerel... Although I have had some really good smoked trout, never had it cured though.

And cheers Creamy by the way, it's been a while.

 

[Kharnynb]

gravlax should be salmon/trout, lax is salmon in swedish

I personally prefer finnish style warm-smoked salmon, but it's pretty easy to do gravlax yourself too.

 

[Gavin C]

I took the day off today and went inland trout fishing on my favorite stream. They stock browns, and there's a bunch of natural reproduction brookies in it. I caught about 15 fish, and 5 were brook trout. Totally made my day.
Also had a young fox checking me out shortly after I got to the creek.

Now that's living. Where abouts are you there. It looks so lush and verdant. Great shots, especially the fox. Fantastic!

 

[solbes]

Can't wait to get some walleye this weekend up at our lake place. I fished on the opener for a couple of hours, but had the flu so I didn't hit it too hard. Felt just good enough to cast some white X-Rap 10's for pike and bass. If you've never tried it, I highly recommend it. Works best in the spring when the water temps are in the low/mid 50's. Cast it, jerk it, pause a few seconds, jerk it again, pike bumps it from the side, wait 3-4 seconds, SLAM!! Had 10 or 11 this way, all released to swim another day.

Switching this weekend to some minnow jigging in mornings and slip bobber w/ leech in the evenings for Ol' Marble Eye. Going to try jigging some new Moxie plastic curly tails as well. Bluegills and crappie should provide easy action for the kids off the dock too.

Some pics from years past.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Now that's living. Where abouts are you there. It looks so lush and verdant. Great shots, especially the fox. Fantastic!

That was the east koy creek. It's in western New York about an hour away from where I live. That particular section of creek is my favorite. About a half mile section that I try to fish a few times every year.