Any Fisherman Here ?

[Jeeebus]

not my video, but an idea of what the mullet run looks like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l_AULsqiRM&feature=*********

 

[purbeast0]

iGas that fish is huge nice catch! why is it so bloody?

Jeebus i just spent like 30 minutes browsing youtube videos of the tarpon caught during the mullet run. tarpon are some beautiful fish. i fed some from a dock when i wasi n the keys. those things can get huge.

 

[iGas]

iGas that fish is huge nice catch! why is it so bloody?

Jeebus i just spent like 30 minutes browsing youtube videos of the tarpon caught during the mullet run. tarpon are some beautiful fish. i fed some from a dock when i wasi n the keys. those things can get huge.

Thanks, it was the largest salmon that I caught this season. The rest was under 15 lbs. It is bloody because we forgot to bring a club, and had to use a large screw driver to whacked it repeatedly.

I had limited charter halibut fishing in the past, but now I like to get my own gears for it. We lost a very large halibut (perhaps 180~200 lbs) on our last trip, because the gaffer that we had was too small and we didn't have a spear or gun.

 

[weirdichi]

awesome fish! caught it on a 5" purple yamamoto as you can see on the first pic.

http://i.imgur.com/2dRKqDY.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/tBw3Giq.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/E1rX84D.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/tiYHJmb.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/BTLddA1.jpg

Awesome! I'll be driving to a lake in eastern Texas to see why it's always the site of the bass tournaments. I have a feeling I won't catch shiet if I don't have a boat.

 

[purbeast0]

Thanks, it was the largest salmon that I caught this season. The rest was under 15 lbs. It is bloody because we forgot to bring a club, and had to use a large screw driver to whacked it repeatedly.

I had limited charter halibut fishing in the past, but now I like to get my own gears for it. We lost a very large halibut (perhaps 180~200 lbs) on our last trip, because the gaffer that we had was too small and we didn't have a spear or gun.

why do you have to whack the fish in the head?

 

[Jeeebus]

why do you have to whack the fish in the head?

good luck pulling a 200lb pissed off fish into your relatively small boat with gear all over the place.

 

[iGas]

why do you have to whack the fish in the head?

It is easier to fish if we don't have live fish jumping around in a 16' boat.

good luck pulling a 200lb pissed off fish into your relatively small boat with gear all over the place.

I do not think most boat can pull a fish that large into the boat with out risking capsizing, or with out a winch.

For us, we kill the fish and tow it to the dock if we catch anything that large, because the boat is too small to land such a large fish.

 

[purbeast0]

ah gotcha. yeah i just didn't know, never caught anything that large before. the fish i've caught to keep we just toss in a cooler, and it's been on a large boat.

 

[iGas]

The best fishing experienced that I ever had in my life was in the middle of the salmon run this summer. We caught our quota of chinooks, chums, cohos, sockeyes, and pinks salmon in less than 2 hours, which is odd because the salmon runs are not at same time of the year. And, we caught and released at least 25+ for the later 3.5 hours of fishing.

 

[weirdichi]

This past weekend at a local pond. It was about 3lb.

 

[weirdichi]

My catch from this past weekend: 17.5" of awesome bassness. As soon as the plastic buzz frog hit the water, the bass attacked and missed, but came back and hit it hard.

 

[onza]

Can't let this fall down too far. Landed this pig over the weekend in MN.

Personal Best 28" Walleye
12FOW
10:22pm
Deadstick Clam Fire Tiger Blade Jig tipped with a very active shiner

 

[weirdichi]

Can't let this fall down too far. Landed this pig over the weekend in MN.

Personal Best 28" Walleye
12FOW
10:22pm
Deadstick Clam Fire Tiger Blade Jig tipped with a very active shiner

Awesome! My brother caught a few over the weekend as well, but none near as long as that. Where in MN?

 

[onza]

Awesome! My brother caught a few over the weekend as well, but none near as long as that. Where in MN?

Upper Red.

 

[spidey07]

Can't let this fall down too far. Landed this pig over the weekend in MN.

Personal Best 28" Walleye
12FOW
10:22pm
Deadstick Clam Fire Tiger Blade Jig tipped with a very active shiner

Damn fine fish. I hope you tore the rest of them up as well.

 

[deerslayer]

Sort of. I go fishing with my dad. A typical outing consists of me watching him catch fish while I catch nothing. Well, a buzz from all the beer I drink while watching him catch fish.

 

[onza]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpMISvJ6_Cw

Here's the video I edited from the walleye trip.

 

[purbeast0]

now that spring is right around the corner, let's get this thread bumping!

anyways, i've never done any trout fishing but i'm thinking of trying it out a little bit this spring before it gets warmer and i start doing bass fishing. it's supposed to be like 70 degrees tomorrow and they've already stocked some places with trout in my area.

i've never done trout fishing so i have some questions about it and might give it a go tomorrow. well that is, if it's not too early in the season. would going tomorrow, even though it's been cold and snowing the past weeks, would it be worth trying out? or will it most likely be a bust? do trout bite as long as they are in the water?

also, what kind of lures do you use for them? i won't be fly fishing, just a normal spinner reel and rod. yesterday someone told me about a casting spinner or something like that which is good for trout. so i was thinking about that possible but does anyone else recommend anything else? would something like a rooster tail work too? i know some of those are light so how do you cast them further to get a long line out there to try and work it?

and last, as i've never caught a trout before, any tips on how to unhook them? do you just hold them by the mouth like a bass and their mouths just open up wide and you take the hook out?

 

[purbeast0]

caught a couple bass tonight at my usual lake.

going out on a charter boat tomorrow morning at 6am in the chesapeake bay for rockfish and red drum. hopefully we don't get rained out, supposed to rain but hope it's not too much that we can't go out.

 

[Mayne]

So jealous of you guys.

 

[spidey07]

I grabbed a striper while trollng in my buddies new boat. Sonar is amazing. You can see when you're gonna get bit.

Tackle matters for your target.

27 inch striper, circle hooks only. 12 pound mono. Other guys got broke off. I landed that fish in 8 minutes.

Tackle matters. Ate him that night.

 

[spidey07]

caught a couple bass tonight at my usual lake.

going out on a charter boat tomorrow morning at 6am in the chesapeake bay for rockfish and red drum. hopefully we don't get rained out, supposed to rain but hope it's not too much that we can't go out.

Like my dad always said.

You have to suffer to catch fish

 

[purbeast0]

I grabbed a striper while trollng in my buddies new boat. Sonar is amazing. You can see when you're gonna get bit.

Tackle matters for your target.

27 inch striper, circle hooks only. 12 pound mono. Other guys got broke off. I landed that fish in 8 minutes.

Tackle matters. Ate him that night.

our largest one last year was like 30". so far from what i've seen this year, there are some LARGE ones biting. we're primarily live lining and if we have time after that probably troll a bit. we caught the 30" one just live lining before. we were catching a ton of like 22-26" ones.

 

[spidey07]

our largest one last year was like 30". so far from what i've seen this year, there are some LARGE ones biting. we're primarily live lining and if we have time after that probably troll a bit. we caught the 30" one just live lining before. we were catching a ton of like 22-26" ones.

You gotta have the tackle to grab fish that big. Pulling in a 7 pound bass isn't exciting in my striper rig.

My mAster fisher buddy worked a 18 pounder. on 8 line. Took him 20 minutes. But

 

[purbeast0]

You gotta have the tackle to grab fish that big. Pulling in a 7 pound bass isn't exciting in my striper rig.

My mAster fisher buddy worked a 18 pounder. on 8 line. Took him 20 minutes. But

oh yeah, they have that gear on the boat we're taking out. it was fun when the guy had that 30" on his line though, he had to walk all around the boat because the fish was going all around and under the boat. it was just fun to see it and see everyone involved in getting the f out of the way!