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]
Hey Toad - had a coworker move out there a few years ago. He says the river by Portland is full of monster walleyes but nobody around there fishes for them. He says they are treated like carp are around here. What's up with that? [Reply]
Yeah that is true. Not many people fish for them here. I think they just dont know much about them and concentrate on the salmon and trout or sturgeon. its ok it leaves more for those who do know and like to fish for them. It is becoming increasingly more popular though.
I had two flatheads straighten out my hook yesterday. The only thing they will bite on is those green and black crappie tubes. Weirdest thing I've ever seen [Reply]
Originally Posted by Toadkiller:
Yeah that is true. Not many people fish for them here. I think they just dont know much about them and concentrate on the salmon and trout or sturgeon. its ok it leaves more for those who do know and like to fish for them. It is becoming increasingly more popular though.
Those people dont know what kind of eating they're missing.
Originally Posted by BDj23:
I had two flatheads straighten out my hook yesterday. The only thing they will bite on is those green and black crappie tubes. Weirdest thing I've ever seen
It never fails to impress me when a catfish straightens out my hook, thats just some unreal strength. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Toadkiller:
Thanks all, very excited to be moving to this property. There is a hatchery a few hundred yards down the river. If I dont catch anything in the river Ill just launch a fly over into their holding tanks. :-)
Here is where it is located, if you know the area it is part of the washougal.
I've never eaten a flathead before, and I've heard the bigger they are, the worse they taste. I want to try one, but I don't want to kill a big fish like this just to find out that I don't like it.
It was his lucky day, because most people down there don't release them. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BDj23:
I'd say about 20 or so.
I've never eaten a flathead before, and I've heard the bigger they are, the worst they taste. I want to try one, but I don't want to kill a big fish like this just to find out that I don't like it.
It was his lucky day, because most people down there don't release them.
Good man, if you dont plan to eat it... let it go.
I know people who have cattle/pig troughs at their home and they'll take big cats like that home and put them in a tank of well water for a few days before chopping them up into fritters.
Its supposed to clean out the old, muddy taste and my tastebuds think its probably true... but I'm glad he went back in to create another generation worth catching.
Last week, went out to one of my favorite spots at the big local lake about 10 am... someone just hours earlier caught two really nice 8-10 pound channel cats and just threw them on the bank to die, they were both half stinking by the time I got there.
Would love nothing more than to beat their faces in with the ax handle I keep in the truck... if you're going to eat it, fine... but to just throw them on the bank and leave them to die blows my blood pressure through the roof.
I was so mad I could hardly even fish for atleast a half hour after I threw them back in to an out of the way area... "whats WRONG with you people?" [Reply]
People who pull crap like that should have their privileges revoked.
Yesterday while fishing I saw a 5-6lb wiper floating around the river and was bothered by it. I was hoping it died of some sort of natural causes, because if someone killed if and tossed it back.. I'd be a mad person. [Reply]
People who pull crap like that should have their privileges revoked.
Yesterday while fishing I saw a 5-6lb wiper floating around the river and was bothered by it. I was hoping it died of some sort of natural causes, because if someone killed if and tossed it back.. I'd be a mad person.
Theres an unreal amount of Shitheel Sportsmen out there.
Lotta dirtbags these days and it wont be getting any better, it why I end up going further and further afield, like I will saturday, to find undisturbed places where shitheels are too cheap or lazy to go. [Reply]
The spot I've been fishing attracts the worst. People trash it, fish right on top of you, keep fish under length limits and over creel limits, snag game fish (big flatheads) and keep them.
A few years ago they shut the river down to fishing because all of the scummies wrecking it. [Reply]
