Going Fishing

[bradsul]

This is just torture. It's been nothing but rain since opening day on Saturday, the river is high and looks like chocolate milk and it will probably stay that way for the next 2-3 days (assuming the rain even lets up).

 

[Homercidal]

I miss it too. Got the bug the past few years, but the cost of going out was not equal to the fish we were (n't) catching. FIL has a nice old bass tracker. I want one.

I love to fly fish for pan fish and bass, or whatever. Thinking about taking up stream fishing, but it seems pretty hard.

Nothing wrong with perch, walleye, bass, trout, salmon, pike (one of my favorite), etc. I'm not picky. One of my best days fishing was trout fishing on our local small stream as a kid. I didn't catch anything, but dad caught a few browns and we found some morels on the way back to the truck. What a meal!

 

[Anthony_Lopez]

Here's a few pics of some of the hawgs over the last few years...

5 lbs+ It hit a swimbait around 8 pm...

Leopard Smallmouth out of the Quabbin Reservoir. I love the pre-spawn.

Biggest bass I've caught and weighed in Mass. The one of the left is 7 lbs 2 oz. The one on the right was around 3 lbs for comparison. April 6th of last year with 38 degree water.

This one is from my first tournament win. Worst weather I've ever fished in. We finished with a 5 fish bag of 21 lbs 7 oz.

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

I live near an large lake (100 miles long). With trout clocked as large as 30lbs. The lake is 800+ feet in parts. Unfortunately it has also been over fished and is so full of 100 years of fertilizer runoff and no one trusts eating the fish.

I'll have to search out the smaller lakes. Which is fine, but Okanagan lake would have felt more like ocean fishing, which I miss. It just doesn't feel right without a 10 lb canon ball involved. lol

 

[bierhaus15]

Didn't have to work today, so I got out the fly rod and waded a good portion of our local creek. Caught 3 nice (wild) brown trout, including a beautiful 17' incher. I let them all go.

Hopefully this warm weather here in Upstate NY will stay around a little longer - I'd like to try to take some on dry flies.

 

[PWalk]

I've been going for river smallies lately on the Delaware River just south of Trenton, NJ. A couple of weeks ago I picked up 6" blue and purple flake Powerbait lizards for $2 so I thought I'd throw them out there to see if anything would hit. Well nothing did so I cut one in half right below the first set of legs and it resembled a frog and tossed it out there. WHAM! It's amazing how much of a difference presentation makes. I ended up with three nice fish by the end of the day on that same cut lizard lure.

 

[Yooper]

My husband works for the Forest Service. Last week (right after the snowstorm), some fisheries biologists netted a lake to survey it. Here's a photo of one of the muskies they netted:


They also found many walleyes, up to 28"; and some really nice crappies. I can't tell you the name of the lake, but if you come visit, I'll take you fishing!

 

[GreenwoodRover]

DAYUM.
My brother and I usually hit the eagle river area for a week in the fall, we may have to add an hour or 2 to the drive and fish the UP....

 

[bob1852]

This was about 20 years ago....but them walleye tasted GOOD! (cherry creek reservoir just outside of Denver) - and yes, I caught them all myself

 

[Yooper]

DAYUM.
My brother and I usually hit the eagle river area for a week in the fall, we may have to add an hour or 2 to the drive and fish the UP....

I'm about 25 minutes from Eagle River...........................

 

[Homercidal]

My husband works for the Forest Service. Last week (right after the snowstorm), some fisheries biologists netted a lake to survey it. Here's a photo of one of the muskies they netted:
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They also found many walleyes, up to 28"; and some really nice crappies. I can't tell you the name of the lake, but if you come visit, I'll take you fishing!

I remember the time my grandpa caught a muskie. It was huge! I think he used young puppies for bait...

 

[starrfish]

I started when I was 4 ( I know this is an old thread) loved it from my 1st day, and I still fish every chance I get. any advice I can give is start your boys and girls young. BARBIE or SpiderMan poles from wally world work great come in various sizes...

My addition has gotten so bad i've gone from streams, to lakes to ocean and back many times over, moving from spin cast to spinning to fly to bait caster for rubber worms (hey I live in the south now so don't shoot me). I've learned to tie flies, build my own balsa wood plugs, make my own salt water rigs including saltwater mackerel xmas trees, and now building my own rods.

Giving back a bit to my dad now that he's retired... taught him to fly fish... wish I lived back in pa so I could go with him...

caught my biggest salt water fish last october, a 36"+ 20lb red drum from the surf here in SC what a rush! same day caught 3 36" or better sharks on only heavy mono leader no steel!

goal for this year catch a fish on a lure or fly I made myself on a rod I built myself and if on a fly on a hand tied tapered leader I tied myself! lots of me myself and I between jerk in the water to jerk on the bank/shore!

start them early and they'll remember the experience for a life time, my step-kids will!

tight lines

Oh and by the way bring your rod when you take the kids but don't expect to use it much. be patient, you WILL be spending most of the time fixing "problems" my girls FAVORITE line is "Daddy! I have a problem!" ie tangle, snag, hooked in a tree,or the back of her brothers shirt!

I'll never for get those days as long as I live! AND they where much more rewarding than any day, bringing home a cooler full of fish.

If my rod building keeps going well, I plan on making some custom salt water rods for my boy and girl to get them into some surf fishing with me!

 

[DeathBrewer]

Quit hexing me!!!!!



(i'm gonna go fishing again soon, i swear...)