Your Fishing Thread

[Aphro]

Last summer, my daughter was catching rock bass off the dock with a stick, a piece of line, and a brand new shiny hook. The fish would bite the unbaited hook as soon as she dropped it in. I think she caught about 15 like that.

 

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For big crappies at night, I like medium shiners. Even walleyes will take them occasionally, and that's always fun on light gear.

Actually, even for small crappies (or bluegills or sunnies or rock bass or perch) I like them too because minnows are so darn clean. Who wants worm-cum on their fingers?

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Second choice:

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Also very clean, but kinda creepy.

 

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Last summer, my daughter was catching rock bass off the dock with a stick, a piece of line, and a brand new shiny hook. The fish would bite the unbaited hook as soon as she dropped it in. I think she caught about 15 like that.

My grandparents had a summer house on one of those thousands of lakes in northern Minnesota. I remember summer days as a kid doing exactly what you described, except mine was a cane pole. Didn't catch anything really big but that was okay because Dad always made us help clean what we caught.

When the fishing got boring, I'd just jump in. I was always dressed for swimming. There's nothing like a dock on a quiet lake.

 

[thør]

http://www.perfectflystore.com/images/egg_sucking_l_pur_red_egg.jpg

 

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http://www.perfectflystore.com/images/egg_sucking_l_pur_red_egg.jpg

Those are some funny looking bugs you've got up there in Alaska.

 

[thør]

Those are some funny looking bugs you've got up there in Alaska.

It's a purple egg sucking leech.

 

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It's a purple egg sucking leech.

I thought you were joking, but I looked it up. It IS a purple egg sucking leech. Learn something every day. A patient uncle taught me how to fly fish when I was young, but I haven't done it for years. I have seen guys fly-fish off docks and catch nice pan fish all day long.

Fresh caught, pan-fried fillets are a wonder.

 

[thør]

I thought you were joking, but I looked it up. It IS a purple egg sucking leech. Learn something every day. A patient uncle taught me how to fly fish when I was young, but I haven't done it for years. I have seen guys fly-fish off docks and catch nice pan fish all day long.

Fresh caught, pan-fried fillets are a wonder.

No use smelling like fish until you catch some.

 

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No use smelling like fish until you catch some.

True, but shiners hardly smell at all. Less than the dock and boat smell in general anyway. You can get them by the bucketful, cheap, and they'll keep pretty much forever in the trap under the dock.

Leeches don't smell either. But they cost more, and they seem to be able to get out of anything you try to keep them in. Boneless things are good at that, I guess.

 

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Do you tie your own flies? How long would it take to make that purple egg sucking leech thing? I think that's pretty cool. I've watched people do it on TV shows and stuff but never tried my hand at it.

 

[thør]

True, but shiners hardly smell at all. Less than the dock and boat smell in general anyway. You can get them by the bucketful, cheap, and they'll keep pretty much forever in the trap under the dock.

Leeches don't smell either. But they cost more, and they seem to be able to get out of anything you try to keep them in. Boneless things are good at that, I guess.

No live fish for bait allowed in fresh water, here.

 

[thør]

True, but shiners hardly smell at all. Less than the dock and boat smell in general anyway. You can get them by the bucketful, cheap, and they'll keep pretty much forever in the trap under the dock.

Leeches don't smell either. But they cost more, and they seem to be able to get out of anything you try to keep them in. Boneless things are good at that, I guess.

No live fish for bait allowed in fresh water, here.

 

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No live fish for bait allowed in fresh water, here.

Ah. Worried about non-native species?

 

[Hard_Rom]

http://www.gofastandlight.com/Images/AtomicPW.JPG

Atomic Teasers
Work fucking awesome on rainbow trout, perch and crappie

No live bait (except worms/leeches and meal worms) no corn allowed in our pond. Invasive species and disease worries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_hemorrhagic_septicemia

 

[remy_lebeau8]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v395/gambit814/BCB-BSR_zpshqba2mfq.jpg

These things are my new favorite bass lures. The purple with the white stripe seem to work best for it. Its basically a rubber worm on a crawler harness. The lures are impregnated with anise.

 

[Hard_Rom]

In town I use doughballs for carp. They seem habituated to dough from folk tossing bread to ducks and geese (which is very unhealthy for them). Outside of town I use canned corn. Cheaper than worms (not icky at all), selective (only carp and odd tiny catfish) and can chum large area.

It's fun to use my steelhead float rod rig and put corn on instead of salmon eggs to catch carp. Love carp fishing. 100lb days are fairly common. Biggest fish in waters close to me. 10-20lb from warm muddy urban polluted waters (Thames River).

The damage and near destruction of the Springbank Dam has allowed muskie to move past it. 36" muskie being caught downtown at the forks. Muskie are a warmer water fish than pike so I'm hoping they do well.

Sewage plant outflows good for fish in winter. 15lb pike are caught Dec thru Feb on minnows under a bobber. Lots of white suckers hang out there so pike like it. Not near as stinky as during summer.

Got a nasty foot fungus from one though. Ruined a pair of running shoes and took six months of fungal cream to stop my feet from smelling real bad. Bought foot powder in bulk and left white footprints where ever I walked without shoes for the half year. Only thing I caught that day.

Carp only fish with molar type 'teeth in throat to 'chew' corn. Other fish may eat but cannot digest and plugs them up fatally.

Never caught a carp under 6lbs. I think they emerge from mud spontaneously at that weight.

 

[snugglestruggle]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v395/gambit814/BCB-BSR_zpshqba2mfq.jpg

These things are my new favorite bass lures. The purple with the white stripe seem to work best for it. Its basically a rubber worm on a crawler harness. The lures are impregnated with anise.

I was wondering when you would get around to posting a pic . I can't tell you how many bass I caught using this classic as a kid.
http://guideimg.alibaba.com/images/shop/86/11/07/2/creme-lure-co-6-scoundrel-live-1rig-1spare-original-soft-plastic-worm_211862.jpg

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Fly fishing is almost as bad as skeet shooting. They are hard to clean and don't taste very good.

I still have my first Zebco 202 reel with rod. Caught lots of fish with that in Illinoizzzz.
Pan fish are Crappy, Bluegill, Sunfish, and those kind.

A friend from southern Illinois used to tell about catching Catfish in the Mississippi River.
They'd dive down next to logs and stick their hand in the gills of a big Cat as big as them and bring it to the surface.

I don't know how true that is but we've seen Catfish in the Mississippi river and Iowa lakes that were man sized.

We catch most of our fish here in Florida at the fish markets or in a restaurant. It's cheaper and easier.

I saw the Carp comment. Lots of big Carp in the Illinois river also. When the local distillery was dumping waste into the river the banks would be rolling in big Carp. Just a doughball made of Wheaties or a few pieces of corn was all it took.

Lots of fun catching them. At times when money was short they weren't bad eating if fixed right. Almost as much fun as hooking a nasty Dogfish!

 

[thør]

Ah. Worried about non-native species?

I'm sure.

There have been some people who have introduced northern pike into places were they were not native around here. The pike eat all the the trout. The F&G are poisoning the pike lakes and then repopulating them with trout.