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]
Just wrapped up a day of fishing in the Bayou. Great fishing! Both of my boys landed huge redfish and we all took our share of sheepshead, drum and catfish. Great eating! If y’all never have, you gotta fish the Bayou at least once. So cool. Saw gators, bald eagles and all sorts of other critters. Just a wonderful experience. [Reply]
Took the plunge on a pretty high end JonBoat for pond fishing. Wife saw the typical Jons I was looking at and sold me on stability and safety with young folks in boat. Got a year old model so saved about $600. Found an awesome used Trailer that was used to haul a Champion 17 foot Bass Boat and scored it for $400 bucks. Now Im on to fabricating a lift mechanism of sorts so I can leave it by the dock but hold it up out of the water...will have a foot control bow mount MinnKota
Boat:
trailer
May add a depth finder if I think it could help find brush piles and structure
Originally Posted by Why Not?:
Just wrapped up a day of fishing in the Bayou. Great fishing! Both of my boys landed huge redfish and we all took our share of sheepshead, drum and catfish. Great eating! If y’all never have, you gotta fish the Bayou at least once. So cool. Saw gators, bald eagles and all sorts of other critters. Just a wonderful experience.
Someday I was to do a Redfish trip for big Bulls in shallows [Reply]
Originally Posted by Why Not?:
Just wrapped up a day of fishing in the Bayou. Great fishing! Both of my boys landed huge redfish and we all took our share of sheepshead, drum and catfish. Great eating! If y’all never have, you gotta fish the Bayou at least once. So cool. Saw gators, bald eagles and all sorts of other critters. Just a wonderful experience.
I thought about it before but how are the mosquitoes? I mean how big do they get? [Reply]
Originally Posted by Why Not?:
Just wrapped up a day of fishing in the Bayou. Great fishing! Both of my boys landed huge redfish and we all took our share of sheepshead, drum and catfish. Great eating! If y’all never have, you gotta fish the Bayou at least once. So cool. Saw gators, bald eagles and all sorts of other critters. Just a wonderful experience.
I upgraded my depth finders to the Garmin echomap 93sv on the front and the console and added the livescope system to the front. Fish won't stand a chance now.
Removed the Garmin 93 SV chirp and the panoptix live forward system which was good but I wanted the latest version so I have it for sale if anyone is interested. I paid $2000 or $2500 for it two years ago. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hog's Gone Fishin:
I upgraded my depth finders to the Garmin echomap 93sv on the front and the console and added the livescope system to the front. Fish won't stand a chance now.
Removed the Garmin 93 SV chirp and the panoptix live forward system which was good but I wanted the latest version so I have it for sale if anyone is interested. I paid $2000 or $2500 for it two years ago.
Whats something like that worth? I have what's called a "flasher" portable that I used many years ago, I think it's an antique. Maybe we could trade? [Reply]
