Fishermen ... chime in!

[weirdichi]

When in MN, you have to stop in the Twin Cities and get a fried walleye in hot meat sauce at Shuang Cheng in Dinkytown. These are the only times I've caught a walleye.

Soooo gooood!

 

[spidey07]

When in MN, you have to stop in the Twin Cities and get a fried walleye in hot meat sauce at Shuang Cheng in Dinkytown. Sooooo goood. These are the only times I've caught a walleye.

Yes, that's me.

We had a GREAT walleye bite down here in KY lake Cumberland in the spring. 3-5 feet deep even during the day.

 

[purbeast0]

anyone know if Rapala line is any good?

i needed new line so i went to dicks sporting goods but they removed their fishing department a while ago when they renovated, so i went to target and got some 10lb Rapala mono-whatever line. was like $6 and the last line I got (that was berkley and really good) was like $18, so i hope this shit isn't noticeably worse when casting/reeling. i know the name is popular in lures but know nothing about the fishing line.

EDIT:

oh and i probably wouldn't be able to make it to a store to get the line i really wanted to, before i go fishing on saturday, which is why i just got it for $6.

 

[spidey07]

anyone know if Rapala line is any good?

i needed new line so i went to dicks sporting goods but they removed their fishing department a while ago when they renovated, so i went to target and got some 10lb Rapala mono-whatever line. was like $6 and the last line I got (that was berkley and really good) was like $18, so i hope this shit isn't noticeably worse when casting/reeling. i know the name is popular in lures but know nothing about the fishing line.

EDIT:

oh and i probably wouldn't be able to make it to a store to get the line i really wanted to, before i go fishing on saturday, which is why i just got it for $6.

Be careful, a lot of those lines have been sitting on the shelf for a very long time.

 

[purbeast0]

Be careful, a lot of those lines have been sitting on the shelf for a very long time.

do you know what their reputation is though for that brand in general for line?

i didnt' even know i was close to running out till i was fishing in a canal behind our beach house, and it was hitting the end of the line on my casts!

EDIT:

this is exactly what i got but in 10lb test.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007DNOJJA/

i can't find shit for reviews of it online lol.

 

[spidey07]

do you know what their reputation is though for that brand in general for line?

i didnt' even know i was close to running out till i was fishing in a canal behind our beach house, and it was hitting the end of the line on my casts!

I'm not familiar with that line, but I've gotten burned by bad line that's been on a shelf a few times from places where there's not a lot of turnover.

Sounds like somebody has gotten snagged a lot this season.:sneaky:

 

[purbeast0]

I'm not familiar with that line, but I've gotten burned by bad line that's been on a shelf a few times from places where there's not a lot of turnover.

Sounds like somebody has gotten snagged a lot this season.:sneaky:

yea i had more line but my brother used the rest of my spool. i wish i had the spool still to know the exact line i had because i liked it a lot.

 

[purbeast0]

caught these 2 badboys this morning.

http://i.imgur.com/38aHS.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/1TGRr.jpg

2nd one was noticeably bigger and that was my final cast of the day. sucks that the pictures don't really do em justice, they were definitely the bigger size i've caught. sucks that i could only get the ghetto phone pic with the shitty camera not the normal one.

caught em on junebug colored gary yamoto 4" worms. had 4 fish total, 2 other small mouth around 8-9 inches probably. didn't even get bites with any other things I used. was out there for 2.5 hours so it was a good go!

 

[purbeast0]

so went out this morning with my buddy for a few hours. we were trying texas rigged fake worms and weren't getting much attention in the spot i usually do, so i gave wacky style a try for the first time ever.

hhooolllyyy sshhitttt!!

i don't tihnk i'm EVER going back to texas rig. i caught 6 bass within like an hour, and there were some good sized ones too.

here is one of the bigger ones i got:

http://i.imgur.com/Xpqn7.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/7HbnA.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/GzyzF.jpg

and here is another pretty good sized one i got:

http://i.imgur.com/xKmbe.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/mQHZ2.jpg

i couldn't believe how good wacky style worked i was getting bites left and right. i let my buddy try out my fishing rod because he was using my other one which is heavy duty for catfish, and hard to do wacky style on. but he had no luck like i did, cause his technique isn't good

i also tried to fish for carp because another guy there was reeling them in left and right, and he let us use some of his corn. i didn't have good hooks but i had a pretty big one on my line hooked and my line snapped, so it musta been a pretty good sized one!

i'm goign to try to get a rid specifically for carp and give that a go next time i go there, while i fish for bass on the side.

 

[purbeast0]

this is about to be my own damn fishing log cause no other fishermen are chiming in anymore!!

this morning i went to a spot i hadn't been for a long time, where there is a canal on one side and the potomac river on the other side. caught 1 bass in the canal but there was too much crap in it so i decided to try out the river.

GLAD I DID!

i caught the biggest fish i've ever caught in my life! my damn heart was racing when i saw how big it was and my adrenaline was pumping like shit. i was literally kind of scared to take it off of the hook because i've never seen a fish (in person on my line) this big before, and his mouth looked huge lol.

i also caught another good sized bass, as well as 2 others that weren't photo worthy.

here are the pics. the first 4 pics are the largest fish i've ever caught, the last 2 pics are the other one that was large as well but not quite as big.

http://imgur.com/a/8U5vj#s8Quj

 

[davmat787]

My three brothers and I took my Dad fishing a few weeks back as a combined Fathers Day/BDay gift. We went to Westport, on the Washington state coast. While the weather wasn't perfect, and the swells were 7 feet plus at times, we all caught our limit of Kings (Salmon). We were upto 10 miles out in the Pacific, so we did not have to go far which is fine for salmon fishing of course.

The first one I got on the hook broke the line when I was trying to the land the SOB. The line must have been frayed, even though it was maybe 36" no way should it have broke the line we were using. That was probably the biggest I had that day too! Well, that is fishing amirite?

Next up is probably some Halibut fishing off of Neah Bay, or maybe off of Sequi on the Strait of Juan De Fuca. Good times.

Sorry purbeast I don't have anything more exciting, just trying to help your blog along. :awe:

here are the pics. the first 4 pics are the largest fish i've ever caught, the last 2 pics are the other one that was large as well but not quite as big.
http://imgur.com/a/8U5vj#s8Quj

Nice catch! But if you think that is big... you need to go ocean fishing. I think the day we were out the smallest we could keep was 24" lol. To be honest, your fishing is probably much harder than what we were doing, taking more skill. We simply trawled with our lines maybe 40' out, making the leader 10' deep or so after the sinker kite thingy.

 

[purbeast0]

i'm actually going on a charter boat next saturday for a bachelor party, hopefully we catch some big ones out there!

 

[DrPizza]

Ditto a bachelor party next weekend. But, we're putting our kayaks & canoes into either the Allegany or Oswayo in Pennsylvania & floating up into NY. Fishing tournament (starts officially at the state line when we enter NY.) I have plans on winning the smallest fish (I've fished with most of those guys before; I don't think I've ever seen anyone use less than a #6 hook. I've got a couple packages of #14 that I use with a super ultra light when I get bored of catching bigger fish. It's fun to catch fish that are smaller than live bait that we use. But, those #14 hooks work better than anything else for rapid panfish fishing - it only takes a tiny bit of bait & I catch panfish left and right.

I went back up to Black Lake again last weekend for a boat party. Had an awesome time. I didn't get to put too much time into fishing; maybe half an hour earlier in the day, and 15 minutes while I was at the party. Still managed to catch 8 bass, of which 4 were legal sized (15"). All were released.

A couple weekends before that, instead of going out in the boat, I fished the shoreline & caught this hog in about 6" of water, well out of range of anyone casting from a boat.

20 1/2", almost 5 1/2 pounds. Brought it up for a picture, then released it from the dock. A couple of groups of people fishing from the docks who "if you don't want it, I'll take it!" Had to explain to them that it takes about 8 years for a bass to reach this size in NY. No doubt, it was caught at least 2 or 3 times in its life. Next year, it'll be bigger & will provide even more enjoyment for someone else. Then I showed them a picture on my camera of a huge pile of bluegill that we fileted. - There's a huge abundance of them; they taste better than bass, so, let the bass go. I think I converted them.

A week or so before that, my wife got a smaller, but legal walleye (it was 23" in length.) The walleye tasted GREAT! Had a nice fish fry dinner a week later with it. The bass were released after the photo:

The shorter bass was 16", I can't remember the length of the larger bass. No clue how many bass I got this year. There was one night where we were getting nice size smallies (14"+) on about every other cast. 15 years of fishing the same lake & I kind of know my way around.

Had a couple of cool catches - I was fighting a 12" bass while wading in about 3 feet of water along the shore. JUST as I pulled it along the surface, either a musky or the biggest northern I've ever seen exploded at it. At least a dozen times in that area over a couple of days, I lost everything to big northerns (or a few were possibly bowfins; I've caught quite a few bowfin in that area. I wasn't using a steel leader, fishing in really thick stuff. I saw a few of them; I was usually fishing only within about 20 feet of myself, given how thick the weeds were.

I caught this guy about 10 feet from shore in less than a foot of water 2 years ago in the same area. I didn't know it then, but the official New York State record is 12 pounds 14 ounces. I released it without measuring. *sigh* (I know mine was over 10 pounds; I still think it was a little shy of the record though.)

 

[davmat787]

i'm actually going on a charter boat next saturday for a bachelor party, hopefully we catch some big ones out there!

Great idea for a bachelor party. What will you be fishing for, and where?

 

[purbeast0]

in the Chesapeak Bay in MD.

here is the link to the company we're using.

http://www.wormcharters.com/

just hope the weather is good because they don't go out if it's raining.

EDIT:

wow DrPizza awesome fish man! those are some really nice bass! i wish i had measured how long the one i caught was today, but i was too excited and flustered when i caught it that i didn't think to do it. and i wanted to get it back in the water asap.

i went back with my friend today and caught another pretty big one, we measured it and it was 16".

http://i.imgur.com/mK7MR.jpg

he caught one literally 5 minutes before i caught this one that was probably 17" because it was slightly bigger and i measured it but didn't get a real good measure on it because of what happened to it. sucked though because he couldn't get the hook out because the fish swallowed it. after trying to get it out and the fish bleeding, he cut the line and tossed the fish back in the water with the hook down it's throat. the fish floated away on it's side but was moving a little bit like twitching, but it was on it's side. it floated a bit down the river and we lost site of it so i don't know if it ever recovered

 

[Jeffg010]

Currently in cook MN and and my friend got a nice 34 inch northen pike. This our first day here. I got 4 pike 1 perch and 2 bass.

 

[Jeffg010]

Just got back from MN.
I caught a 35 inch Northern Pike.

My dad caught a 16 inch Small Mouth Bass

My 19 inch Walleye

The the day we left we caught 3 Perch, 1 Walleye and 1 crappie in the morning. The walleyes and crappies just started to get hot when we left

Then my dad who is staying for anther month got this that evening.

The hot lure for the pike was a silver spoon and Johnson spoon with gulp tails.
For everything else beetle spins with gulp tails or mimic minnows tails.

 

[purbeast0]

nice fish jeff, those pike are huge!

had a really successful day on the charter boat out in the chesapeake bay. we left at 6:30am and got back around 12:30pm.

we landed on a spot where we were going after rockfish, and literally within about 40 minutes we had hit our limit. we had 11 people and we had 24 rockfish stocked (2 for the captain and deckmate also). we also caught about 5 blue in that time period.

after that another boat who was a friend of the captain ended up coming to our spot and tieing up next to us because his anchor was messed up and we hung out and drank for about an hour out there. the other boat caught 6 fish in that time frame. so we were on a hot spot for a while then it ran out of steam.

after that we trolled for a while for spanish mackeral. we ended up catching 5 of those, as well as 5-7 more blue's that we could keep, since the limit on bluefish is 10/person.

we also caught A TON more rockfish while trolling, but we had to toss them back because we already had our limit.

total i'd say we caught probably around 70 fish, counting the ones we had to throw back. so it was a really fun and successful day.

here are some pictures from the trip.

http://imgur.com/a/eGhZH#0

In the pic of the guy fileting the fish, that pile of filets is what he had already cut up, and the fish in the wheel barrel thing is the remaining he still had left.

we cooked up a bunch of the fish later on and man the rockfish was awesome! blue was just okay, and i didn't get a chance to try out the mackeral.

 

[weirdichi]

Aww man.. I need to go back to MN for some northern fishing. I kind of miss catching them. Thanks for sharing the pics. With only shore fishing, I've only caught dinky largemouths here in Texas.

 

[MrColin]

I like carp fishing with bow and arrow. Haven't been out in years though. A buddy of mine and I would fill garbage bags with the things in his john boat. They aren't good to eat but 20lb fishes are fun to "plant." A flashlight mounted on the bow lights them up really well at night. It takes a while to get used to the refraction effect of the water, but once you get it you got it. It can be a bit hard to find a good spot where the water is clear and the cops don't bug you. They fight pretty hard unless you brain 'em.

 

[DrPizza]

Went to the bachelor party yesterday. Long canoe and kayak trip down the Allegany River from the PA border to the camp we stayed at. 14 of us participated in the fishing tournament; cheap $5 buy-in each. 85+ degrees, middle of the afternoon; not the ideal time for fishing. The results:

Me: 3 nice bass
My son: 2 nice bass (including a big fat 17 1/2" smallmouth) - he won the tourney with that fish.

The other dozen guys: 2 little fish total, about 6" each, and 2 dumped canoes. It was fun harassing the rest of them afterward - my son & I were using the same techniques; 5 legal sized fish to none goes a little beyond pure chance.

 

[Jeeebus]

after that we trolled for a while for spanish mackeral. we ended up catching 5 of those, as well as 5-7 more blue's that we could keep, since the limit on bluefish is 10/person.

Nice. We headed over to my parents' place on the Gulf coast of Florida for a little pre-Isaac beach fun. Great time for everyone. Got to see a couple manatees go by, my 3 year old and I paddled out on the kayak and got within 30 feet of a few dolphins.

The water was like a lake and crystal clear, so both kids had a ton of fun. And while they had fun, daddy was pulling the fishies in. We caught about 11 or 12 spanish mackerel (delicious), and on top of that I caught a bunch of assorted other non-eating, yet fun to reel in fish. Jacks, blue runners, ladyfish, a trout (too small), etc.

We had a big surf rod in a rod holder with half a ladyfish. My wife turned around from playing with the kids and was like - "where's the rod?" She then proceeded to belly flop into the ocean and grab the rod by the end before it was entirely gone. Whatever grabbed the ladyfish was screeching line off the rod and it was really too strong for her. By the time I got downstairs to the beach, it headed straight for a small reef adjacent to my parents' place. Cut the line. My guess was big shark.

Delicious mackerel below.

 

[onza]

Over Labor day, caught on a green beetle spin. 10Feet~ deep

 

[KK]

Went out yesterday, 70s in Jan. couldn't be passed up. Ended up getting 5 bass. Didn't even have to change baits. One pole had senkos, one had a buzz bait, and the 3rd had a rattle trap. caught 2 on the senko, one on buzzbait, and 2 on the rattletrap. The two on the rattletrap were caught last but they were the biggest, the biggest being 2 1/2 lbs. probably. Usually on this lake we get skunked, I guess the weather had them moving.

 

[randay]

some snappers I caught for new years.