Searched around & only found the video fishing & BassMasters threads, i know their are plenty of outdoorsman here, so i figured it'd be cool to draw upon the Planets vast experience in all things fishing.
I only use spincast reels & fish mostly large/smallmouth bass & cats. My choice of reels is quite the source of derision from many people i know 'duffer gear', but i haul in my share of 6 pound bass & 10-20 pound cats on that gear no problem. With a little know-how you can use just about any technique you want to on 'duffer gear'.
Berkley Powerbaits are a big part of my trick bag, the difference between those & regular stuff is night & day. My best action last summer came on Mister Twister scented white curly tail grubs, on one day fishing from shore to a bridge pier, i caught smallies, bigmouths, perch & even 1 carp believe it or not... great day. But my bread & butter is a texas rigged Berkley worm, it'll wiggle through any kind of cover without getting hung up.
With cats i strictly bottom fish, no bobber & bait is just as basic... but its always in 2's to give'em a real treat... a shrimp/with a nightcrawler, liver/chunk of cheese etc. Cats are mostly for night sport to me, time to kick back a lil...
So thats me style, how do the rest of you guys get your fish on? What do you fish for, what do you use? IIRC Missouri's trout season just kicked off, anyone getting anything? [Reply]
Originally Posted by allen_kcCard:
How do you read those fish finders? What am I looking at on those screens? I've never had one and am legit not sure how to utilize them
It's not that hard the top left is basically a traditional regular fish finder
the one under it is down imaging which is seeing exactly as the one on top of it just in more detail
The big one on right is side imaging and it basically shoots a beam from both sides in a cone shape, its narrow at the boat thats why you see the black to the right and left then it widens as it goes towards the bank and sends detailed info back on structure... 99% of fresh water fishing is structure, fish like to hide and ambush prey from this...
Most newer units come with traditional and down imaging... the side imaging is what raises the price alot but it's getting cheaper too... These three tools will put you on the fish but finding them and catching them are two different things :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hog's Gone Fishin:
You should take those crappie and use them to bait big cats. Cats absolutely love crappie , cut them in half and bait up.
Loves me some catfeesh, thats no lie... but crappies even better IMO
Pretty sure I'm gonna need to play game warden with R8R and bust out the tape measure on one of those, though... do you have your fishing license on you, Mr R8R? [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hog's Gone Fishin:
You should take those crappie and use them to bait big cats. Cats absolutely love crappie , cut them in half and bait up.
We can't use them here for catfish bait but we use bream , they love them too [Reply]
Originally Posted by Easy 6:
Loves me some catfeesh, thats no lie... but crappies even better IMO
Pretty sure I'm gonna need to play game warden with R8R and bust out the tape measure on one of those, though... do you have your fishing license on you, Mr R8R?
Yea the smallest was 9 1/2 ... They used to have an 8 inch minimum on that lake but it produced too fast and they have too many smaller fish... They want you to take the small ones out... They eat good as long as you are good with the electric knife [Reply]
Originally Posted by R8RFAN:
Yea the smallest was 9 1/2 ... They used to have an 8 inch minimum on that lake but it produced too fast and they have too many smaller fish... They want you to take the small ones out... They eat good as long as you are good with the electric knife
Found this site and I'm going to start working some fishing around peak lunar days to see how much the lunar influence affects fishing. Type in your zipcode to get your specific location. In the upper left hand corner "Location"
Looky what i just got an early Christmas gift from a gf traveling nurse from Alabama.
She is the one i went to New Mexico and stayed a week with her while she was on assignment and that I took my kayak for a spin on the Rio Grande. I lost my kayak and about got killed but such fun!!
This one has fishing pole holders I like that. [Reply]
