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 loochy:
Man, I went deep sea fishing in Hawaii last November and I wanted a marlin soooo bad. No luck though - we only caught 1 skipjack and 1 ahi tuna.
Damn, I may have to take some time off this afternoon to gear up and hit the river.
Coming up that fast the fish are going to be on.
Well. Scratch that idea.
Engineering Counterpart went out to the river to have a look at lunch, he came back saying it was less than a foot from spilling out over the access road out there and it’s done nothing but continue rising since then.
No fishing for me this week, having to hit it hard at work this week to generate funds to pay property taxes and income taxes without dipping into savings... [Reply]
