Gone Fishin'

[Sam_Adams]

Well with all of the people on the bag I'm sure there is a good number of folks that like fishing.

I grew up fishing but I have moved more towards fly fishing over the last six or so years. I'd post photos from bass fishing yesterday (caught about eight of them in an hour) but I get uncomfortable about carrying my big camera (and expensive) on the water in a kayak. I need a small little pocket camera for fishing.

Post your picks and your trips that you go on. :action-sm:action-sm

[distortion9]

Because I am a crazy gun nut, I will now magically turn this thread into a political discussion.

Fishermen weigh in on proposed license (http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-lifish0421,0,2216531.story)

BY KENNY PORPORA |Special to Newsday3:53 PM EDT, April 20, 2008

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At 6 a.m. on Sunday, the Bay Shore dock was empty under an overcast sky -- until Bill Moser unloaded his rod and bait from his truck and prepared for a day of fishing, just as he has for more than 50 years.

Moser, 64, of Kings Park is an avid recreational fisherman and an even more avid opponent of the new proposal that would force recreational fishermen to register with the federal government and purchase a license before heading out to sea.

more

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-lifish0421,0,2216531.story

Like Anthony once said, "What, exactly, is "free" about our Country?"

Annnnnnd go

[Glenn Dandy]

thought it was going to be a you tag thread:(


goin Stripper fishin soon il post some pics when i do./.... cool thrad idea Sam.

[Haeder]

goin Stripper fishin soon il post some pics when i do./.... cool thrad idea Sam.

Where ya headed, the KitKat Club?

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j220/DakotaTed/Smallmouth.jpg

In South Dakota, our recreational opportunities result in death for some form of lower animal. Most of 'em are delicious.

[Sinn Fein]

For the most part, I only do salt-water fishing. In the last few years, I haven't done much at all. That's going to change this year.

[FishinForBabies]

I try and make it down to Texas every summer and fish the gulf, usually around Galveston. every once in a while i'll go out on a deep sea boat, but I usually just fish from the shore around san luis pass.

I also do some fly fishing when I get a chance and I keep a fishing pole on the 18 wheeler with me to fish whenever i find a spot.

[seeinred]

I went deep sea fishing in Cabo last month. I didn't catch a single goddamn thing. Our guides sucked, and made me hate deep sea fishing.

[Sam_Adams]

I also do some fly fishing when I get a chance and I keep a fishing pole on the 18 wheeler with me to fish whenever i find a spot.

For years I just had a cheap fly rod I bought from Wal-Mart when I was like 15 but then around 18 I got a very nice fly rod for Christmas from my mom, along with a new fly vest. I now have two of the same vest except one is too large (the one mom bought) but it works for when it's cold outside and I have a jacket on under it.

I used to tie flies but I have to buy all new gear. When I had moved I put my stuff in a storage building for about a year and when I came back to get my gear out I found out that my $300 worth of tying material had been eaten by mites. I picked up a hackle skin and it was rotting and I saw little white mites crawling everywhere and on my hand. It pissed me off. So, I haven't gotten around to buying new stuff.

I need to though. It's a great hobby.

I went deep sea fishing in Cabo last month. I didn't catch a single goddamn thing. Our guides sucked, and made me hate deep sea fishing.

The only time I went deep sea fishing was in San Diego when I was about 12 years old. We didn't catch shit and it was the first time I had got sick on a boat because it was a very windy day with tons of waves. After a couple hours of waves it finally got to me.

It was a very odd feeling. I have been on the water for most of my life and that was the only time I've ever gotten sick.

[Sam_Adams]

Out of curiosity, how do you guys say "Crappie?"

"croppy" or "crappy?"

Here in the South we call them "croppy" but I have heard people from like NC say "crappy" and it just sounds stupid.

[Glenn Dandy]

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/3192/imgp0303fr0.jpg

[maz]

We call them crappies up here Sam
like it's spelled

we'll be goin for Stripers in may
maybe a Striper/ Black Drum combo trip

out of Cape May, NJ

I have a Lil' sony digital camera I bought for fishing trips
but last year we went for Tuna and Dolphin
out of Nags Head
and all my pics were streaked with white and brown
don't know if it's the cam or memory stick

[Gladys kravitz]

Nice thread SAM, I was waiting to see if there were other baggers that fish. I do most of my fishing on Lake Michigan for salmon, trout and monster perch. I also fish up in Wisconsin for panfish, walleyes, smallmouth and northerns. But I spend well over 250 hours fishing Lake Michigan, I have a 24ft boat that I slip for the season. Here is a pic of sunrise while my buddy is fighting a fish.

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e271/jtnost/DSCF0010.jpg

[Sam_Adams]

Nice thread SAM, I was waiting to see if there were other baggers that fish. I do most of my fishing on Lake Michigan for salmon, trout and monster perch. I also fish up in Wisconsin for panfish, walleyes, smallmouth and northerns. But I spend well over 250 hours fishing Lake Michigan, I have a 24ft boat that I slip for the season. Here is a pic of sunrise while my buddy is fighting a fish.

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e271/jtnost/DSCF0010.jpg

I've always wanted a boat with a cabin that I could do nothing but fish, dive and cruise around in the Carribean. Maybe when I get older I can get something like that. When I get older and retired I think I will study shipwrecks and go around as a hobby diving to look for relics.

I mostly fish out of a kayak since it's small (45lbs) and easy to take for a solo trip. I catch and release 95% of the time though since I don't have a live well and it sucks dragging around a stringer of fish with a kayak. If I'm trout fishing then I eat all of those motherfuckers because they are lovely baked with some parsley and lemon :D

[maz]

know much about digital cameras Sam ?
any thoughts on the problem with mine ?

see post #11
any ideas appreciated

[Sam_Adams]

know much about digital cameras Sam ?
any thoughts on the problem with mine ?

see post #11
any ideas appreciated

post a photo fella. still under warranty?

[maz]

maz doesn't know how to post photos yet
but it's a SONY dscU20 i think
hoping it's the memory stick
do they go bad
haven't really used it that much
but had it for about 5 years

it's about 2/3 the size of a pack of smokes
perfect size for the pocket

[Sam_Adams]

maz doesn't know how to post photos yet
but it's a SONY dscU20 i think
hoping it's the memory stick
do they go bad
haven't really used it that much
but had it for about 5 years

it's about 2/3 the size of a pack of smokes
perfect size for the pocket

Did you ever get it wet? I'd have to see a photo to try to figure out what is causing the discolorization.

It would be a fucked up image sensor that is a chip that actually gathers the light for the images. Depending on how much you paid for it, it may be worth it to send it into Sony and pay them a few bucks to repair it.

You can always try a new memory card if you have a feeling that it may be a problem. I haven't ever had a memory card go bad on me. It's pretty hard for them to mess up since they are static devices that don't have any moving parts.

I have an old school 35MM that will put streaks of light on my negatives but it's a problem with my shutter sticking and I have to get it fixed.

You problem could also simply be the camera setting that you have put on that will cause chromatic aberrations in certain lighting conditions

[maz]

I'll take it to a camera place i guess

unfortunately it takes the older style memory stick
not the 1 in my PSP

thanks , Bro
I'll get it fixed or get a new 1

think it was about 2 bills back then

[Sam_Adams]

I'll take it to a camera place i guess

unfortunately it takes the older style memory stick
not the 1 in my PSP

thanks , Bro
I'll get it fixed or get a new 1

think it was about 2 bills back then

Like I said, it could simply be your settings mixed with a bad lighting situation. I couldn't tell without seeing a photo.

[Gladys kravitz]

Out of curiosity, how do you guys say "Crappie?"

"croppy" or "crappy?"

Here in the South we call them "croppy" but I have heard people from like NC say "crappy" and it just sounds stupid.

Croppy up here in the North. And right now they are hitting everything you throw at them.

[Jef Leppard]

Croppy up here in the North. And right now they are hitting everything you throw at them.

the will county strip mines, hiedekie, des plains conservation area are kickin some fuckin ass. kankakee smallies are startin hit soft plastics small in natural colors in a basic jig and twist. hell when does that not work?
and ice fishin in burnham harbor fuckin rules

[LZMF1]

been an avid angler since i was a lil' kid. fresh and saltwater.

so yesterday i went down to burnham park(here in morris county NJ) and wasn't having much luck with the powerbait nuggets or meal worms. i got annoyed and put powerbait on all 3 poles and sat and waited and waited. got all annoyed and reeled the 1st 2 in. as i reached for the 3rd pole i noticed that i had a fish on. i jerked the pole to set the hook and started reeling in. i knew it was a trout because i was using powerbait but i never had one fight like this. this mug put up a hell of a fight. it was jumping out of the water trying to dislodge the hook. i got it in to the wall and realized i didn't have my net right next to me. i yelled to some dude fishing further down from me. he came running with my net for me and then i saw it.....i'm not sure what type of trout it was but it was at least 2 feet long and was almost lavender in color and had a white belly. just as i was bringing the net down to pick up my prize it jumped and got the hook out!!!!! along with my hook were 3 other hooks, 2 swivels and a weight. biggest trout i've ever, ever caught sadly i had it and it got away! i was soooooo pissed.

i usually go up to cape cod in the summer and try to get some fishing done while i'm up there.

http://edit.81x.com/Authors/LZMF1/Image026.jpgi caught this 40" 45 lb striper after a liquid breakfast a few years back

[Haeder]

Walleye fishing in Fon Du Lac, Wisconsin. Don't know who these guys are but they're sure diehards. 10 walleyes over 10 pounds in two nights of fishing.

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j220/DakotaTed/ice1.jpg

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j220/DakotaTed/ice2.jpg

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[LZMF1]

http://edit.81x.com/Authors/LZMF1/3_rainbows.jpg3 rainbows i caught sunday afternoon

http://edit.81x.com/Authors/LZMF1/3_brookies.jpg3 brookies i caught last year

http://edit.81x.com/Authors/LZMF1/nice_brown.jpg i caught this brown last year. 1st cast in and boom! the drag on my reel was screming. i have a 72 gallon aqurium at home so i took it home and lowered the water temp. kept it alive for a few days before i decided to have it for dinner.

[LZMF1]

I went deep sea fishing in Cabo last month. I didn't catch a single goddamn thing. Our guides sucked, and made me hate deep sea fishing.
that sucks that your guides weren't worth shit. trust me. try again next time you get a chance. the second you hook a nice one and reel it in you will be "hooked"(no pun intended)

[Sam_Adams]

Walleye fishing in Fon Du Lac, Wisconsin. Don't know who these guys are but they're sure diehards. 10 walleyes over 10 pounds in two nights of fishing.
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j220/DakotaTed/ice2.jpg

That's just too much buddy. I don't have a problem hunting in the snow but fuck fishing in the snow. You wouldn't catch me out there on that cold shit getting wet when it's below freezing.

[Sam_Adams]

http://edit.81x.com/Authors/LZMF1/3_rainbows.jpg3 rainbows i caught sunday afternoon

When I was in high school since I didn't get to go trout fishing very much I spent a spring break at my grandparent's place and went trout fishing on the Little Red River every day, morning and evening.

I left with 36 trout that size an kept them in my freezer so I could throw them in the oven every once in a while.

I think the daily limit was like four fish a day :icon_roll

[LZMF1]

bag limit here in NJ is 6. the fish have to be a minimum of 9" last year it was 7"

[gleet]

I took off last week to go fishing. We turned the corner on one little lake and found ice so we headed over to the side where the hot spring comes in and managed to catch some perch, largemouth and bluegill. It will be better in another 2-3 weeks.

We went to a big lake further south and caught perch and crappie and rainbow. The crappie (croppie) are just starting and action was slow on them. I got a rainbow with a jaw tag that let me enter a drawing for $1000, so I'll be rich soon.

I live by a river full of steelhead bit never fish for them much. They say we might get to have a chinook season later this summer if enough can get past the seals, dams, and injuns then swim 900 more miles until they get here.

[LZMF1]

I live by a river full of steelhead but never fish for them much. They say we might get to have a chinook season later this summer if enough can get past the seals, dams, and injuns then swim 900 more miles until they get here.damn dude, i'd be in heaven!

[Sam_Adams]

damn dude, i'd be in heaven!

That's like saying, "I live right next to a company that throws away automatic weapons in the dumpster because they don't have any more storage space but I'm not interested in them."

Man I'd love to live by a place that was a salmon run free of grizzlies.

[gleet]

I will give the chinook a try, those bastards are big.

But to get to the river I'd have to walk past the neighbors house at the end of this dead end road and then go thru the trees to the river, it must be a quarter mile from here.

[LZMF1]

http://edit.81x.com/Authors/LZMF1/4_trout.jpg

caught 4 more tonight.

[Sam_Adams]

http://edit.81x.com/Authors/LZMF1/4_trout.jpg

caught 4 more tonight.

We mostly have rainbow trout in our state since they are stocked. That and brown trout.

But we have a smaller amount of Brooks and Cut Throat.

[LZMF1]

NJ stocks rainbow, brook and and brown. so far this year i've caught brookies and rainbows.....not a brownie to be seen yet. there are indiginous brook trout in my area (morris county and passaic county)

[Sam_Adams]

NJ stocks rainbow, brook and and brown. so far this year i've caught brookies and rainbows.....not a brownie to be seen yet. there are indiginous brook trout in my area (morris county and passaic county)

The AR Game & Fish don't stock Brownies but they are in the Little Red and White River. They stock everything else but there is a little town full of old people and tweakers called Heber Springs where tons of tourist flood the area in the Summers and fish out the itty bitty piece of shit fish that are stocked each week.

So, if you want any decent fish you have to go miles down stream to another town and below.

I have to be honest, my father never taught me anything about the outdoors. He knows nothing about them still. So, I taught myself while I was a kid and I went fishing with friends. I fell in love with fly fishing after having the film "A River Runs Through it" burned into my head. Then I saved up my money and bought a cheap fly rod and gear in order to get started.

[BCH]

Walleye fishing in Fon Du Lac, Wisconsin. Don't know who these guys are but they're sure diehards. 10 walleyes over 10 pounds in two nights of fishing.

Is that where you're from? I work with a guy who just re-located from wisconsin a couple years ago. That's where he grew up.

[Natesac]

Is that where you're from? I work with a guy who just re-located from wisconsin a couple years ago. That's where he grew up.

Maybe they spent time together under a porch as children.

[BCH]

Maybe they spent time together under a porch as children.

Tee Hee! :p

Going to check on my reservoir boat today. The NYC DEP will let you fish in the city watershed if properly permitted. There's some real lunkers to be had if you're into trout. For me it's all about the smallmouth.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/watershed_protection/html/reservoirs.html

I have a boat on the New Croton reservoir and hope to be adding one to Muscoot and Titcus. Anyone interested in "boat sharing' in one of them PM me.

[oandapartycock]

My dad used to take us fishing every summer down in Baja. I once caught a 205lb Marlin. But the funnest trip I ever remember was getting caught in a school of Dorado and just reeling them up one after another. We brought back so much fish that we ended up just giving a lot of them away to the locals and the hotel we were staying at.

I once caught a Hammerhead shark too, I'll see if I can't find that picture. Those things are freaky looking up close. They seem like aliens or living dinosaurs.

[LZMF1]

went fishing at the same spot i caught the 4 rainbows last night. only caught 2 this time.

[OJ can scar]

been an avid angler since i was a lil' kid. fresh and saltwater.

so yesterday i went down to burnham park(here in morris county NJ) and wasn't having much luck with the powerbait nuggets or meal worms. i got annoyed and put powerbait on all 3 poles and sat and waited and waited. got all annoyed and reeled the 1st 2 in. as i reached for the 3rd pole i noticed that i had a fish on. i jerked the pole to set the hook and started reeling in. i knew it was a trout because i was using powerbait but i never had one fight like this. this mug put up a hell of a fight. it was jumping out of the water trying to dislodge the hook. i got it in to the wall and realized i didn't have my net right next to me. i yelled to some dude fishing further down from me. he came running with my net for me and then i saw it.....i'm not sure what type of trout it was but it was at least 2 feet long and was almost lavender in color and had a white belly. just as i was bringing the net down to pick up my prize it jumped and got the hook out!!!!! along with my hook were 3 other hooks, 2 swivels and a weight. biggest trout i've ever, ever caught sadly i had it and it got away! i was soooooo pissed.

i usually go up to cape cod in the summer and try to get some fishing done while i'm up there.



http://edit.81x.com/Authors/LZMF1/Image026.jpgi caught this 40" 45 lb striper after a liquid breakfast a few years back

Id hafta say that was a brown trout that you had on. If I knew how to post pics here, I would show you the 9 lb. 11 oz. monster brown I caught last summer in the Catskills.

As a matter of fact I just got back from doin a lil illegal trout fishin myself. I got a license, just no trout stamp.

[OJ can scar]

Tee Hee! :p

Going to check on my reservoir boat today. The NYC DEP will let you fish in the city watershed if properly permitted. There's some real lunkers to be had if you're into trout. For me it's all about the smallmouth.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/watershed_protection/html/reservoirs.html

I have a boat on the New Croton reservoir and hope to be adding one to Muscoot and Titcus. Anyone interested in "boat sharing' in one of them PM me.

Dude, I fish in the Peapacton just about every weekend. The trout arent hitting yet, but we have hauled in a few nice smallies over 2.5lbs.

[BCH]

Dude, I fish in the Peapacton just about every weekend. The trout arent hitting yet, but we have hauled in a few nice smallies over 2.5lbs.

Yeah, had my kids parked on top of a few smallies this weekend using drop shots. If I tell them not to move the rod, they seem to move it just enough :) got a couple of 1.5 to 2 range.

Did you see the 23 pound lake trout that came out of Kensico last year? Holy Shitfuck!

[LZMF1]

Id hafta say that was a brown trout that you had on. If I knew how to post pics here, I would show you the 9 lb. 11 oz. monster brown I caught last summer in the Catskills.

As a matter of fact I just got back from doin a lil illegal trout fishin myself. I got a license, just no trout stamp.
put your pics up on a site like photobucket or what ever free image hosting site you can find. click on the http://www.wackbag.com/images_black/editor/insertimage.gif above ^^^^^(in the reply window) and enter the url in the pop-up window.

i'd love to see a pic of that fucker!


by the way, i went to my usual spot today and got skunked! to top it off i had some annoying kids crossing my lines.....asking me stupid questions and just generally irking me.

[Haeder]

Is that where you're from? I work with a guy who just re-located from wisconsin a couple years ago. That's where he grew up.

I'm from South Dakota.

Mostly a walleye and smallmouth state.

Although I'm hoping to break the state record this year for orange spotted sunfish. The current record is 0 pounds, .55 ounces. That's just a little more than one of those cheap composite poker chips. Caught a half dozen state record orange spotted sunfish last year but didn't know what they were.

I'll probably be famous. Not really famous, just South Dakota famous.

[Haeder]

New state record smallmouth bass caught in South Dakota on April 27th. 20.75" long, 17" girth, 6 pounds 9 ounces.

A toad.

http://www.tonydean.com/photos/p12487.jpg

[gleet]

It's like a smallmouth, only bigger.

There is a hot spring near here with a fish hatchery on it. We fish in the canal coming from it and catch the escapees. My wife caught a huge tilapia that tasted very good. Later, i noticed Idaho has a record book on tilapia and hers easily would have beat it.

There are koi in that canal that are at least 18", swimming wild.

[BigWilly]

Fly fishing trip on Green River in Flaming Gorge Park at the corner of Wyoming, Utah and Colorado. We slaughtered them this last weekend. The last two pics are my introduction into the "20 inch Club".

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/wlarkin/DSC_0573-1.jpg
http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/wlarkin/DSC_0515-1.jpg
http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/wlarkin/DSC_0655-1.jpg
http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/wlarkin/DSC_0648.jpg

[Haeder]

The last two pics are my introduction into the "20 inch Club".


You forgot to say "no homo" sir.

Nice fish.

[BigWilly]

You forgot to say "no homo" sir.

Nice fish.

Thanks, I was gonna see how long until someone said something about that. Figuring this board, I didn't think it would take longer than an hour.

[LZMF1]

http://edit.81x.com/Authors/LZMF1/trout_4_30_1.jpg

http://edit.81x.com/Authors/LZMF1/trout_4_30.jpg

caught 5 more yesterday. they stocked at 11am right next to me. the fish were stunned for a little while so i gave them a chance to acclimate themselves. the fucking cormarants there were going nuts feeding on the freshly stocked trout. if they weren't protected i'd shoot the fuckers......


anyway, i went back later and got 3 on spinners and 2 on powerbait nuggets.

[LZMF1]

2 more rainbows today. little ones only 9" each.

[Budyzir]

http://edit.81x.com/Authors/LZMF1/trout_4_30_1.jpg

http://edit.81x.com/Authors/LZMF1/trout_4_30.jpg

caught 5 more yesterday. they stocked at 11am right next to me. the fish were stunned for a little while so i gave them a chance to acclimate themselves. the fucking cormarants there were going nuts feeding on the freshly stocked trout. if they weren't protected i'd shoot the fuckers......


anyway, i went back later and got 3 on spinners and 2 on powerbait nuggets.

OK, now I'm really hungry!

[Gladys kravitz]

Here's my son with a couple of Jumbo Lake Michigan perch we caught last weekend. The biggest was 15.5 inches and the rest were 12-14". I tried getting him to hold them without the gloves but this is the only way I could get a pic of him with the fish. Heading out again this weekend for Perch and hopefully some coho salmon.

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e271/jtnost/justinperch2.jpg

[LZMF1]

caught 2 more brookies today.

just had them for dinner......damn they were good! i'll post pics of them later.

[LZMF1]

http://edit.81x.com/Authors/LZMF1/0504081245.jpg
1 decent sized brownie and a small brookie from earlier today.

[Hudson]

Fucking Fuck, Fuck!!
Went today with an old buddy to do some fishing and drink some beers all day at an old fishing spot we had found as kids, a stream off the Lackawanna river...we go there and there was a FUCKING HOUSING DEVELOPMENT!!!!..We ended up going to the State Park....too far from home and too many people to really get faced...it kinda sucked.

[LZMF1]

hey hudson i hear ya man. i used to fish a small spot that had some insane bass fishing in it. the bass would only hit on minnows. spinners and any other types of lures just didn't work there. i went to check the spot just to see how the bass were there and was sadly disappointed to find a fucking development full of mcmansions where this awesome spot once was.

[Sam_Adams]

OK, I haven't been fishing in a couple of weeks now, but I was just thinking of a time in High School when I took a friend to my farm.

He was excited as hell to get to fish on a private river (well, it's public water but in 12 years I have seen four people above or below our 1.5mile waterfront) and we paddled upstream to a deep hole below some shoals.

We were fishing for a while and then we drifted a hundred yards downstream to some shoals where a cliff had fallen into the river and created a nice spot for smallmouth bass and rock bass (type of bream).

He didn't bring a pole so he was using an old Shakespear Ugly Sick rod (supposed to bend all around and last forever) while we were out on the river. Well, he got a really heavy strike while reeling in a black and yellow Mepps Aglia rooster.

He was jerked over to the side of the boat and the pole snapped in half right away. He kept reeling in though with the lower half of the rod to pull on. I grabbed the line and pulled the fish in the last few feet and brought it to the surface.

The fish was about a 15-17lbs striped bass and it just dwarfed the fucking lure hanging in its mouth. We both were fucking freaking at the size of this damned fish and I reached down to pull it into the boat. As soon as my thumb touched the inside of its mouth the fish jumped and threw the treble hook of the lure out of its mouth and it disappeared back into the Fourche LaFave river.

We lost a trophy fucking with the flick of a tail.

[BeerBelly]

did you notice any global warming or ozone holes cuz I never notice that when i go fish

[OJ can scar]

Yeah, had my kids parked on top of a few smallies this weekend using drop shots. If I tell them not to move the rod, they seem to move it just enough :) got a couple of 1.5 to 2 range.

Did you see the 23 pound lake trout that came out of Kensico last year? Holy Shitfuck!

No I didnt hear about that. The biggest recorded out of the Peapacton is 22lbs.

Where is Kenisco?

[Haeder]

Buddy of mine with a 2 pound 3 ounce perch he caught through the ice in January.

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j220/DakotaTed/perch.jpg

[Gladys kravitz]

Buddy of mine with a 2 pound 3 ounce perch he caught through the ice in January.

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j220/DakotaTed/perch.jpg

Is that a Devils lake, fat belly, perch? Very nice.

[Haeder]

Is that a Devils lake, fat belly, perch? Very nice.

Nope. Came from a little dam south of Pierre, South Dakota. The lake is maybe 3 or 4 acres. There aren't too many perch in there but they are all huge.

[LZMF1]

that is one big fat assed perch! here in NJ they don't even come close to being that size. i haven't caught a perch in years

[FishinForBabies]

well hell. I finally got off my ass and uploaded pics of one of my fishing trips to Texas a few years back. here ya go:

these were taken on the new buccaneer offshore party boat. here's a small amberjack I caught and tossed back. wasnt big enough yet.
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m254/Trainworm/fish%20and%20fishing/offshoreamberjack.jpg

and some shots of the crap everyone else caught. my stringer of red snapper is in there somewhere.
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m254/Trainworm/fish%20and%20fishing/offshorestringers1.jpg
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m254/Trainworm/fish%20and%20fishing/offshorestringers2.jpg

there are some full grown amberjack in this pic.
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m254/Trainworm/fish%20and%20fishing/offshorebiguns.jpg

[FishinForBabies]

and here are some pics of a trip before that one where I was fishing San Luis Pass on the far west end of Galveston Island in Texas. this is my favorite spot to fish.

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m254/Trainworm/fish%20and%20fishing/fishinfool.jpg

black drum
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m254/Trainworm/fish%20and%20fishing/sanluisblackdrum1.jpg

sheepshead
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m254/Trainworm/fish%20and%20fishing/sanluissheepshead.jpg

spanish mackerel. got into a huge school of these. I was catching the hell of them till I lost all my lures. didnt have any wire leaders and these fuckers have some serious teeth.
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m254/Trainworm/fish%20and%20fishing/sanluisspanishmackerel.jpg

gafftop catfish
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m254/Trainworm/fish%20and%20fishing/sanluisgafftop.jpg

and a good ol stingray
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m254/Trainworm/fish%20and%20fishing/sanluisstingray.jpg

last, my fat ass with a small bonnethead shark
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m254/Trainworm/me%20and%20my%20junk/san20luis20bonnethead20shark201.jpg


I usually try to make it down there at least once every summer. but i didnt make it last year and it doesnt look like i'll make it this year. going to go to Colorado and do some shooting with my new .50 instead.

[LZMF1]

posted for OJ can scar:

http://edit.81x.com/Authors/LZMF1/troutweb.jpeg


damn nice fish!

[OJ can scar]

posted for OJ can scar:

http://edit.81x.com/Authors/LZMF1/troutweb.jpeg


damn nice fish!

Thanks dude! Did a lil fishin today, only caught 1 pickerel, bout 10" or so.

[LZMF1]

no prob dude. i also went fishing. i got 1 fat assed rainbow and lost another one that was at least 18" long.

http://edit.81x.com/Authors/LZMF1/rainbow.jpg

http://edit.81x.com/Authors/LZMF1/rainbow1.jpg

http://edit.81x.com/Authors/LZMF1/me_and_rainbow.jpg

[OJ can scar]

Nice Rainbow man! A buddy of mine caught a 21" upstate a few weeks back. They are few and far between up there in the resivior.

What are you using for bait?

We went fishin in Stokes State Forest last nite and all we caught was a buzz. god damn fish.

[LZMF1]

i got that fat assed rainbow on a yellow #2 roostertail spinner. the 2nd bigger one that i lost took the yellow powerbait floating nuggets. i always seem to have luck with yellow lures and bait when fishing for trout

[Gladys kravitz]

Went fishing solo today and picked up a 15 lbs King salmon. It's always fun fighting the fish, steering the boat and then finally landing it by yourself. I fought this guy for about 20 minutes.


http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e271/jtnost/king51608.jpg

[Sam_Adams]

Went fishing solo today and picked up a 15 lbs King salmon. It's always fun fighting the fish, steering the boat and then finally landing it by yourself. I fought this guy for about 20 minutes.


http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e271/jtnost/king51608.jpg

Wow, nice fish buddy. That bastard would taste lovely. I hope you have a cedar plank large enough for it in the oven.

[Gladys kravitz]

Wow, nice fish buddy. That bastard would taste lovely. I hope you have a cedar plank large enough for it in the oven.


This guy is going in the smoker. I smoke my own fish and he's ready to go to be smoked Sunday. The smaller guys(and the cohos) are much better for the cedar plank.

[LZMF1]

http://edit.81x.com/Authors/LZMF1/P5270439.JPG

my daughter yanked this one out on saturday. beginners luck! i didn't get jack shit and she got lucky with that one!!!!

[gleet]

I got the chinook salmon rules today. We can keep 2 a day, 6 in possession, and catch 40 total for the season. Season is on now but the river is really high and muddy, plus the chinook aren't even here until around July 4 most years. They opened now to get some tourist dollars, no doubt. The guy at the worm store said to use 20-30 lb test with at least 200 yards and a heavier rod than a steelhead needs. I'll dig out my surf casting and deep sea rods and give it a try. Trouble is, I'll have to drive about 20 miles upriver to get to the legal area.

An example of the intended quarry.
http://www.fishchinook.com/DSCF0609a.JPG

[Voss's Tumor]

It's like a smallmouth, only bigger.

There is a hot spring near here with a fish hatchery on it. We fish in the canal coming from it and catch the escapees. My wife caught a huge tilapia that tasted very good. Later, i noticed Idaho has a record book on tilapia and hers easily would have beat it.

There are koi in that canal that are at least 18", swimming wild.

I didn't read the rest of the thread once I read this.

Dude, Koi are worth some cash! If you could catch those and sell them through some online pet store thing, that might be a cool thing to make some cash on.

[Sam_Adams]

I didn't read the rest of the thread once I read this.

Dude, Koi are worth some cash! If you could catch those and sell them through some online pet store thing, that might be a cool thing to make some cash on.

When I was growing up I would get very bored in the Summer. So, I'd go out and catch the Koi out of my mom's fish fountain with balls of bread wrapped around a hook.

[Voss's Tumor]

When I was growing up I would get very bored in the Summer. So, I'd go out and catch the Koi out of my mom's fish fountain with balls of bread wrapped around a hook.

Haha, that's fucking funny dude.

It sounds like I grew up with the opposite of your Dad, Sam. Him and all my uncles were crazy fishermen (One of his buddies at one point held the Lake Fork/Texas champion BLack bass, etc)

Best trip ever was deep sea and our guide got us caught up in a fucking awesome school of red snapper that was being fed on by hammer heads and black tip reef sharks. Between me, my dad, and two uncles we totaled like 30 huge snapper, 5 or 6 black tips, 2 or 3 hammer heads, and just some random other shit like amber jacks and shit.

And yeah, tot he dude who got a bad guide in Cabo, don't let that stop you from finding a good guide in the future. There's great ones all along the Texas Coast, the bad ones don't stay in business long.

[BigWilly]

I got a monster one yesterday after work. They just get bigger from here on out.
http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/wlarkin/Monster_fish.jpg

[LZMF1]

LOL! nice lil' trout!

give 'em a couple of years

[Gladys kravitz]

Here's a couple of kings we caught this past weekend. We've been hitting the water around 230-300 AM the last few weekends using an all glow program(spoons and J-plugs). Nothing beats fishing in the dark when these things start screaming the drags.

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e271/jtnost/kings8308002.jpg

[maz]

Went out of Wildwood this past Sunday

Would've had at least 18 keeper Fluke

But the minimum size was raised to 18" this year

I had 1 keeper
Lots of 17 inchers

Won the pool , but gave it to the owner for fuel

Not many boats out there

The charter boats Hafta be Hurting

[Haeder]

Walleye from Lake Oahe in South Dakota caught on 8/13/08.

Somewhere in the neighborhood of 5-6 pounds.

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j220/DakotaTed/oaheeye.jpg

Brought a half dozen of 'em home. They were delicious.

[LZMF1]

TROUT SEASON OPENED TODAY IN NJ!!!

shitty weather pretty much all morning and afternoon. i thought i was going to keep my tradition of getting skunked but ended up trying out my greay and white rooster tail and got a decent brookie with my 1st cast in with that lure. i soon left satisied knowing that my opening day curse was broken and promptly cleaned, fileted and fried the fucker up.

[CougarHunter]

I saw this fossil of a thread pop up and got excited that Sam finally got done setting up those hippie communes and midnight basketball leagues and decided to start posting again.

[LZMF1]

i caught 3 more brookies today. will post pics sometime later this week.

[LZMF1]

i caught a couple more brook tout today. eventually i'll post pics. just too damned lazy to upload them and link them.

this year i'm getting excellent results with grey roostertails, meal worms and #3 blue fox vibramax spinners. the yellow powerbait hasn't landed anything for me.......yet.

[LZMF1]

http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs036.snc1/3294_1117671392861_1559292788_273115_267930_n.jpg

here's a few i caught today.

[Sinn Fein]

I will do some fishing this year. The wife is a big fan also and is pissed we did none last year and only went once the year before.

I only do saltwater, because you can't fish at any of the good freshwater spots near me anymore. And the ones you can are overcrowded because of all the other ones that are closed.

[LZMF1]

the pic i posted is of the ones i caught tonight. earlier i got 3 rainbows and gave them to my cleaning lady.

trout season is a mere 6 weeks long. in those 6 weeks i get maybe a full week's worth of fishing without being badgered or bothered by my wife and kids. luckily my wife isn't into fishing. it's not that she bothers me......i'm just a self centered, solitary person.

[LZMF1]

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs010.snc1/4185_1118874622941_1559292788_276212_2068205_n.jpg

here's a few i caught today. 2 browns and 4 rainbows.

[blotto98]

Hey how's this for ironic? I just saw this thread for the first time and as I was reading it my fishing buddy sent me a text that were hitting the lake at 1:30.
So maybe I'll have a nice pic to post later!

adios MFer's - I'm going fishin'

[Buster H]

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_di9pR-Sgspo/SghXELok8TI/AAAAAAAAABo/32gw3ham4Jc/n519669676_1766111_5784132.jpg

got these last month. Good day of fishin

[LZMF1]

how much did the fat assed 18 incher weigh in at? very nice i might add!!!

[Buster H]

how much did the fat assed 18 incher weigh in at? very nice i might add!!!
I didn't weigh it so I have no clue. Also, to be fair, it was only 17.5:icon_mrgr

I am a member of a trout club so it's no huge feat. They put in a couple hundred like that. For the most part, the smallest they put in is in the 12" range. We also have a permit that allows us to fish before trout season officially opens. It's more of a way for us to get primed up before it opens in the streams than any "real" fishin.

[LZMF1]

either way it was a damned nice fish!

i went fishing today and caught crappie, perch, and some godawful sunnies but no trout. :-(

[CougarHunter]

My old man put a few hundred 7inch fingerling channel cat in his lake this week. Hopefully the school of 2 foot long bass won't eat them all like the last batch of 500 3inchers.

[LZMF1]

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v3914/126/68/1559292788/n1559292788_285356_7292177.jpg

got these 2 yesterday morning.

[Sam_Adams]

Damn you people and your trout...

We only have two places you can really catch trout here in Arkansas because our water is too warm (in the South, no shit) except for a couple of lakes that are dammed up.

Since the water is so cold at the bottom of the lakes they can have trout in the rivers downstream from the dams.

So, that means I either have to drive like four hours to Eureka Springs where they have trout stocked by game and fish from Beaver Lake or drive like five/six hours to Heber Springs and fish in the Little Red River off of the lake there.

But tons of tourists flood the Little Red (especially in Summer) because it's just a fucking awesome little clear river. They Game and Fish stock the fish there up stream and the dummies fish out the little ones.

If you want good trout and trophy trout you have to go downstream like 20+ miles away from tourists to places like Pangburn. But you won't ever go there and not catch fish. There are some fucking monsters downstream too.

Especially around the catch and release area outside of Pangburn where you can only use barbless hooks.

:( I wish the water was cold enough here in the Fourche Valley to have trout in the river. All of the bass would eat their eggs though. They wouldn't be able to make it I don't think. I should send Game and Fish an e-mail and ask them if they can expand their stocking effort to bring new jobs to the area.

We just have monster bass and catfish here.

But we have a new pond we made with a 25ft damn in a gorge between bluffs. It blew out last year from ridiculous rain (10+ inches in 24 hours one day) and we had just stocked it with thousands of fish.

So, most of them were lost :( We built the thing back up again (now the damn cost us about $17,000 to make with rebuild) and we have it stocked with bream, catfish(blue) and bass.

I was feeding them yesterday and I saw a nice catfish and bass that were both about a foot long so they must have been the very few fish that were still in the little water left when the dam blew out. It made me happy to see some were still in there because they will be catchable this Fall.

The rest are little fish we put in last September so they didn't grow in the Winter. They should be decent next Spring though.

[stevethrower]

Really have to go get a fishing license and try the river in front of my house... my chick is sure there are strippers in there...

[PartyRock24]

My friends caught these yesterday, I think down in Narragansett Bay.


http://i708.photobucket.com/albums/ww88/Flair24/4266_83341902893_720847893_1937677_.jpg
http://i708.photobucket.com/albums/ww88/Flair24/4266_83341897893_720847893_1937676_.jpg

36" 15-20 lbs
http://i708.photobucket.com/albums/ww88/Flair24/4266_83341922893_720847893_19376-1.jpg

[Sam_Adams]

I sent an e-mail to the state game and fish to see if they think the Fourche La Fave River can sustain trout. I think it should. I don't think it gets above 70 degrees. It's usually pretty cool.

They surely would know what the temp of the river gets in the Summer. Now it's not lovely cold like the Little Red River but it also isn't formed from a fucking lake 200ft deep.

I hope they say it can possibly sustain life. Then I will keep writing state Reps to see if they can get the game and fish to make a hatchery in the area or truck them in. The part of the state I have the farm in is one of the areas lacking jobs because the logging market is down and people are going out of business.

It could be a good way to create jobs in the area from anglers and tourists. Who knows.

[agentjmw]

Below 70? Is it in the mountains or something?
We hit 70 mark in march in the waters here and will hit the 90's in a month. 70 is a really low number. Its gets well over 70 in Ontario on St. Clair and it usually freezes for ice fishing.
I don't know shit about trout, does it need to stay below 70?
If there are Bass it has to get to at least 65 to spawn. And Bass eat the ever loving shit out of trout.
Only decent trout area I know of in South is Smokey Mountains.

[Sam_Adams]

Below 70? Is it in the mountains or something?
We hit 70 mark in march in the waters here and will hit the 90's in a month. 70 is a really low number. Its gets well over 70 in Ontario on St. Clair and it usually freezes for ice fishing.
I don't know shit about trout, does it need to stay below 70?
If there are Bass it has to get to at least 65 to spawn. And Bass eat the ever loving shit out of trout.
Only decent trout area I know of in South is Smokey Mountains.

Yeah water has to be cold for trout. They do well in water below 70 degrees and if I remember correctly they die off if it's like 80-85 degrees.

The majority of the areas around here that are stocked with trout are tail waters of big deep lakes so the water is like 45-55 degrees.

It's fucking awesome in the Summer if you go somewhere like Little Red River and it's in the 90's outside and you get to stand in water that's 55 degrees to fish.

The water at my farm in the river may be borderline. It may get up to like 80 degrees in the Summer. So, I'm not sure they would be able to live. And yeah the river is in a mountain. It starts about 40 miles away from my farm and it's a wild river in my area that goes nuts with rain water.

It's just a stone-bottomed mountain river that runs between two mountains in the Ouachitas. It flows between Dutch Creek Mountain and Fourche Mountain in the Fourche La Fave Valley.

[Sam_Adams]

Bad news from the Game and Fish :(

No, the upper end of the Fourche is not suitable for trout introduction.
Water temps do rise above lethal limits for trout in the Fourche and
trout would compete with native fish species.

Tom Bly
District Fisheries Biologist

[jackjack]

Really have to go get a fishing license and try the river in front of my house... my chick is sure there are strippers in there...

Where did they come from? Could be a mob related thing, or just some Boston club owners tired of the uncooperative ones.

[LZMF1]

http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs043.snc1/4400_1127794205925_1559292788_302677_2338238_n.jpg

caught this lil guy yesterday afternoon. i was trying out my newly repaired late 70's/early 80's PENN 420SS reel. i didn't expect to catch anything but this rainbow put up a hell of a fight. i've never seen a fish flip out the way this one did. it took my mealworms, i set the hook and this lil 9 incher went insane jumping around like a maniac. it got itself tangled up on my line and literally ripped some of its skin off with my line. fucker was tasty too!

[Eagle.007]

I just got back from Alaska. It was mostly a family vacation but I was able to fish a bit. Three of us landed about 75 pike in 5 hours and, a few days before, four of us landed 40 or so rainbows in 2 hours. Pics to follow.

[Bluestreak]

Did some fishing with dad on Monday - 2 Striper, a couple of Cod, a good size Conger eel, and hip-deep in Mackerel.

The Striper are running north of Cape Cod, but they're not hitting the bait very hard. Probably due to all the bait fish running around.

[gleet]

We went to a little lake up in the mountains above the house this afternoon. Caught some rainbows, and it snowed for 30 minutes.

[Beeman99]

I go salmon fishing on the Alberni Inlet of Vancouver Island each fall. Biggest spring I've caught so far is 34lbs, but I've seen some 45lb'ers out there. Nothing better than catching big fish and drinking beer on the ocean

[chiapeteater]

We went to a little lake up in the mountains above the house this afternoon. Caught some rainbows, and it snowed for 30 minutes.

What part of Idaho do you live in? If it's still snowing there then I'm moving there.

[Motor Head]

We have a trout lake about 30 minutes from Omaha that is stocked by Fish & Game. It's a deep small lake. I think it used to be a sandpit. I fished there when I was a kid. Now I just fish for hogs (Large Mouth Bass) and catfish.

[Eagle.007]

My dad and I went down the Delaware (between Narrowsburg and Lackawaxen) in our canoe earlier. Some smallmouths, a few pan fish, a walleye each, and he landed a 30 inch pickerel. The belly was very big, about 12-14" circumference. I've never seen one over 25" before this. It was huge. Much bigger than those Alaskan pike.

Still waiting on the pics.

[Sam_Adams]

I need to go fishing but I really can't say I enjoy it when it's around 100 degrees outside. It kind of takes the fun out of outdoor shit real quick.

Wouldn't matter if you were deep sea fishing on a boat loaded with an ice chest full of beer though...oh the retirement years(hopefully)

[Eagle.007]

I caught a 5lb 21" bass earlier. It was my biggest ever. It will be a while before I can get a pic up, new roll of film.

Here are the pics of my dad's pickerel and my little walleye.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27242949@N03/3767298391/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27242949@N03/3767298687/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27242949@N03/3767297893/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27242949@N03/3767299223/

They won't upload, so here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27242949@N03/sets/72157621879588816/) is a link to the flikr page.

[Sam_Adams]

I caught a 5lb 21" bass earlier. It was my biggest ever. It will be a while before I can get a pic up, new roll of film.

Here are the pics of my dad's pickerel and my little walleye.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27242949@N03/3767298391/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27242949@N03/3767298687/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27242949@N03/3767297893/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27242949@N03/3767299223/

They won't upload, so here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27242949@N03/sets/72157621879588816/) is a link to the flikr page.

What is it that you caught your fish on? I can't seem to catch shit for bass unless I use worms. Any other bait will end up catching me small fish.

[Sam_Adams]

Oh, I forgot. About a month ago I caught a big 5/6 pound bowfin fish that was about 24 or 25 inches long.

I really thought I had a killer bass on my line until I saw an eel-looking fish come to shore. It was a good fighter.

I was trying to be careful abotu taking my lure out and I thought I grabbed a safe part of it's mouth because it looked flat like a bass jaw. Well, it looked flat but they are kind of like sharks.

The motherfucker bit down on my finger and a set of razor teeth popping out of the jaw sliced into my thumb and it hurt like a motherfucker. I was sitting there with blood just pouring out of my finger and I didn't have an extra set of pliers to get the hook out with.

so, I just ran over the motherfucker's head with my ATV and his ass was eaten by wildlife. I put him out in a field and the next morning he was gone.

wish I would have taken photos but I wasn't thinking about it since he gashed my thumb open.

this is what they look like though. Even though there is a flat spot on the backside of their lower jaw...don't put your finger there.
http://pond.dnr.cornell.edu/nyfish/Amiidae/bowfin.jpg

[Eagle.007]

Today's bass was on a J-9 perch Repala, both walleye were on J-9 rainbow trout Repalas (which is all my dad used while pike fishing in Alaska. I mostly used an orange J-9), the pickerel was on a silver #2 Blue Fox Vibrax. I caught another decent bass today on a leech.

My buddy and I have had good luck with 3" Japanese softbaits lately. I don't have the package on me but I think they are called Keitech, live impact, swing impact. I use 1/8 oz jigheads with them. Cabela's has live eye jigs, which work great, but I usually use simple black or pink, depending on viability. They are salted and have great action.

Monday night I caught some smallmouths, on the river from my boat, using the pink/keitch combo but they were rather small.

[Eagle.007]

We don't have bowfin here, or at least I've never seen one. Way to punish it, good story. Sounds like it would offer a good fight.

The bass was the second biggest my buddy had ever seen caught. He was out late Saturday and his buddy caught a 15lb catfish in the big lake.

The strange thing is the lure was in the middle of the pond, about 9' deep, with no cover. While bringing it in he found some reeds to hide in. I had to wade into 4' water to pull it out.

[Sam_Adams]

We don't have bowfin here, or at least I've never seen one. Way to punish it, good story. Sounds like it would offer a good fight.


I think they are fairly uncommon. They are similar to the snakehead fish, but are native to the US.

They compete with other predator fish.

I was going to let the dude go but he REALLY bit me and it pissed me off. I catch and release almost every fish I reel in

[Sam_Adams]

I started tying flies again after a break of abour 11 years (stopped after parents divorced and i moved) and I definitely need a lot of practice.

I tied a decent Yellow Stimulator but it's not perfect. Then I tried to tie a Royal Coachman but I had too much Peacock Hearl built up around the head of the fly and I couldn't tie correctly after the hackling and then add the wings.

So, the it was slipping and I stopped. I need to untie it and redo the hearl and hackling.

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e311/Blacktalons/FailedCoach.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e311/Blacktalons/yellowStimulator.jpg

[Sam_Adams]

I just tied these two as well. The little dry fly (just made it, don't know if it has a name or any look like it) is sitting on a hoot about as long as the width of my thumb.

I definitely have to get used to working with this tiny shit again. It took me a fucking hour to learn how to tie the knots properly again and they still slip while i;m trying to do it sometimes. I suck.

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e311/Blacktalons/Blackfly.jpg

This one is a streamer. The white deer hair will help it be close to neutrally bouyant in the water so it doesn't sink quickly and drifts in the current waving it's red tail

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e311/Blacktalons/Streamer.jpg

[Sam_Adams]

I also decided to make a dragonfly

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e311/Blacktalons/Dragonfly1.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e311/Blacktalons/Dragonfly2.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e311/Blacktalons/Dragonfly3.jpg

[Mother Shucker]

OK, this is real old, Montauk, about 1985.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a176/rustytrombone1027/DennisRichfishing.jpg

[Sam_Adams]

I guess you folks don't fly fish or tie flies...hmmm

[gleet]

Hey, I fish and used to tie flies. Now I tie a few ugly terrestrials for trout. We're headed for the river tomorrow if the sun comes out.

[Sam_Adams]

I tied a few more last night.

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e311/Blacktalons/2-2.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e311/Blacktalons/3-2.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e311/Blacktalons/4-2.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e311/Blacktalons/5-2.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e311/Blacktalons/6-2.jpg

[Sam_Adams]

I made some more today. I have no clue if these are standard flies.

But they will work. I'm sure there is something similar out there with a fancy name.

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e311/Blacktalons/MalibouWhite.jpg

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e311/Blacktalons/OrangeBuddy.jpg

[Eagle.007]

Nice flies Sam. Let us know how they work. I tried tying them a few years ago but lost interest (also got too expensive). Took my equipment to our cabin and the mice decided to use all the feathers for nesting material.

My cousin and grandpa both want to take up flyfishing. I'd like to take it up again, have to see how the fall goes.

[Sam_Adams]

I tried tying them a few years ago but lost interest (also got too expensive). .

Yeah you can do them on the cheap if you pick up your supplies at a hobbycraft place like at Hobby Lobby or in the sewing section of Wal-mart.

And for the things you can only get frmo a fly shop, buy the smaller pieces.

Unless you're tying them on the side to make a little extra money then you will never need like a full hackle cape. Just get a partial.

When I was a kid in like the 9th grade I got all the big shit and I never used it all. I didn't even come close to using up a full bird ($70).

[Haeder]

Do you use pheasant feathers?

I kill 75-100 of 'em in a season and usually trash most of the feathers/pelt without a second thought. Looks like I could make enough on tailfeathers alone to pay for a seasons worth of 12 gauge shells.

[BIV]

I guess you folks don't fly fish or tie flies...hmmm
It's been many, many years. Miss fly fishing.

[Sam_Adams]

Do you use pheasant feathers?

I kill 75-100 of 'em in a season and usually trash most of the feathers/pelt without a second thought. Looks like I could make enough on tailfeathers alone to pay for a seasons worth of 12 gauge shells.

Well if you don't care you could just send the feathers to people like us. We don't have pheasants in Arkansas unless they are farm-raised.

They aren't native here or I would go out and shoot them myself as well.

[gleet]

Here come the fish, headed to Idaho.

http://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/op/b/fishcam.asp

[Sam_Adams]

Here come the fish, headed to Idaho.

http://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/op/b/fishcam.asp

One of these days I wil make it out there to go fly fishing for salmon. I have always wanted to take like a week or two out there fishing.

[gleet]

One of these days I wil make it out there to go fly fishing for salmon. I have always wanted to take like a week or two out there fishing.

Let me know when, I'm in the thick of it here.

[THE FEZ MAN]

i used to tie tons of fly's, i need a new vice i wore out the jaws of my old one, i havent done it in at least 13 years, ever since my son was born, i haven even had a fishing license in a few years. i suck.

[LZMF1]

I guess you folks don't fly fish or tie flies...hmmm
being the fancy man that i am i buy my flies.

in all seriousness.....my orvis flyfishing rod had been sitting around collecting dust for a couple of years. i finally decided to use it this year. i still have to practice my cast.

[LZMF1]

i'm down in key west. i will be making a small purchase tomorrow.

a van staal vs100b (http://www.vanstaal.com/VSS100_reels.htm) and an orvis frquent flyer reel (http://www.orvis.com/store/productchoice.aspx?pf_id=91Y4&dir_id=758&group_id=759&cat_id=6005&subcat_id=7445). i'll be dropping 8 bills on my new setup and maybe 40 bucks for my kid to fish off the docks where we're staying. with any luck i'll get a tarpon tomorrow!

[Sam_Adams]

i finally decided to use it this year. i still have to practice my cast.

I watched how to fly fish when I was like 10-yrs-old from Brad Pitt & Company.

Films were my babysitters.
854fE08Nvog

[LZMF1]

a river runs through it is an awesome flick. hmmmm.....i may have to get that on Blu-Ray.

i'm all jacked to go to the orvis store tomorrow to get my new toy. i may spool it up with some power pro hi vis yellow braided or some sufix mono.

[Sam_Adams]

I'm going to take my kayak out to an oxbow lake off of the Mississippi River.

I need to see if I can find a nice bass to put on the wall. If not, then I'll go find the alligators and take some snapshots of them sunbathing if they will let me get close enough.

[whoisisthis]

The Striper are running north of Cape Cod, but they're not hitting the bait very hard.




striper action is about to get hot here in N. California



four of us went 4 hours out the Golden Gate to get some rockfish. Boat ride sucked, action was great, weather was good. We dropped down right on top of them and limited out (10 rockfish, 2 lincod per angler) within 3 hour.

My biggest was this 17 pound lingcod. He's getting grilled for dinner tonighthttp://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii267/sexytimeleslers/IMG00017-20091017-1132-1.jpg


I hear they're nailing sturgeon around here now, also. I'm taking my boat out next week... hopefully I'll have more fish pics then:icon_cool

[LZMF1]

so far i've gotten skunked each time i've gone out for fall trout. i'm starting to get frustrated.

[Sam_Adams]

so far i've gotten skunked each time i've gone out for fall trout. i'm starting to get frustrated.

I was thinking about going out for a drive to a city about an hour away to fly fish.

I have been burning up wanting to go fishing. I don't have waders anymore though so I know I'd fucking freeze in the river right now with the temps cooling down.

[LZMF1]

lol.....a few days ago i went out without my chest high neoprene waders. wasn't fly fishing just had my ultralight trout rod. my favorite rapala got snagged down the river from me and i could see the fucker. i was in shorts and a t-shirt mind you(it was snowing to boot)......i got annoyed and took my shoes and socks off and retrieved my lure only to lose it to a nice rainbow trout that snapped my line when i had it about 8 feet away from me. hence the frustration