The Fishing Thread

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[quote]marlboroman wrote:
that little lake is called Tittle Lake , believe it or not

few years back I ripped an 18"er in that channel ; wouldnt waste my time there during times of heavy traffic though .

we were tossin’ 3/8 oz buzzbaits…lime , white , and black towards dark . slip-drifting with the wind along the west shore…speed fishing at it’s finest .

if you’ve never seen a buzz-bait…it’s like a spinnerbait but with a turbine where the blade should be . the bait is fished fast , right on the surface ; when you get hit theres a big-assed SPLASH and then…fish-on ! but sometimes they miss it though…then it’s just a big splash and then a buzzbait flying towards the boat !
caught a flying buzzbait in my hand once…current PR !!

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good to know, it’s quite the drive to get out there, but we usually make the trip tyo get on that lake 1-2 times a year. We usually stick to the elkhart lakes and crystal.

Gerber has some ginormous bass that won’t bite on anything. If you can figure out what they want you’d have no problem taking in 15+ 17" or bigger bass. I’ve seen some real massive fish in that pothole.

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[quote]DickBag wrote:
hope you guys are hittin the bank hard

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Man, since you said this I started doing it.

I’ve been tying these size 10 minnows using brass bead, maribou and crystal flash, and absolutely slaying the bass. I’ve been rigging up a little ball of strike indicator putty about 18 inches up the tippet from the minnie, firing it out and up with a high popping roll cast, and losing count of how many I’ve landed in a day.

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I caught a 42 lb 43 in. Ling about 40 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico.

It was a fun fight. We only get to go that far 1 -2 times per year because it is so choppy.

I guess I got lucky; damn good eating!

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Second pic…

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I gotta stay off T-Nation and out of the gym until about thursday . but talkin’ fishing doesnt count as either…sooooooo…

hit Rolling Stone lake this past saturday . nice size bass again and a bunch of “hammer handle” pike . didnt have time to hit a good walleye lake .

I’ll be exploring that part of the state more in the future …woods a plenty , and not any tour-its . I hate wanna-bes/pretenders.

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[quote]marlboroman wrote:
I gotta stay off T-Nation and out of the gym until about thursday . but talkin’ fishing doesnt count as either…sooooooo…

hit Rolling Stone lake this past saturday . nice size bass again and a bunch of “hammer handle” pike . didnt have time to hit a good walleye lake .

I’ll be exploring that part of the state more in the future …woods a plenty , and not any tour-its . I hate wanna-bes/pretenders.[/quote]

where be this place? Fishing in our area sucks unless you can get on teh big water.

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Nice fishes dudes!

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[quote]DickBag wrote:
theAnj wrote:
DickBag wrote:
dedicated,SkyzykS and theanj, im glad you guys liked the pics.

i am having trouble with the video for some reason, its giving me cheek.

the sun is very bright and nearly blinding in some parts but you can still see the footage clearly enough to know whats going on and that. il get off my lazy ass and stick it on youtube now

hope you guys are hittin the bank hard

Post the link when you put it on youtube. :smiley:

sorry for my late reply, i got a new job. thats my pathetic excuse.

as for the vid, i want to wait first, because i entered a competition by sending in the pic of the big pike i caught into a pike fishing magazine in the hope of winning a deadbait rod. So after i get word about whether i get a place or not, then i will stick it on youtube.

in the mean time, you can enjoy this 10 pounder i caught last sunday!!!

score.

serious fight off her, i was using the same lure that caught the other beast

im going again this sunday maybe il have a new PB

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Thanks Dickbag- NICE pike! Very cool pics. I’m jealous. Is the reason you release your fish because you catch so much you can’t eat 'em all? Or are pike not good for eating?

I’m moving to Oregon in a couple weeks and my dad has arranged a fishing trip out there with a buddy of his. HOpefully I will have a pic to post in this thread sometime! They’re going to teach me to clean fish (I’ve only done it once, it’s been years) and also we’re going salmon fishing when the timing’s right. Never done that either! I don’t know dick about fishin’, but I’m going to learn! Loved it as a kid. Oddly enough, I know how to cook fish quite well over a campfire though… SOOOOOO excited!

I love this thread and all the fish pics. :smiley:

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[quote]JGerman wrote:
I caught a 42 lb 43 in. Ling about 40 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico.

It was a fun fight. We only get to go that far 1 -2 times per year because it is so choppy.

I guess I got lucky; damn good eating!

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Hey, nice pecs! OH we were talking about fish, right… Nice fish! You’re distracting me from fully appreciating your fish man. Not that I’m complaining. :smiley:

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Pike are good eating, just a ginormous pain in the ass to clean. They are bony motherfucks.

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[quote]zephead4747 wrote:
Pike are good eating, just a ginormous pain in the ass to clean. They are bony motherfucks.[/quote]

Ah. Gotcha. Thanks. :smiley:

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[quote]zephead4747 wrote:
Pike are good eating, just a ginormous pain in the ass to clean. They are bony motherfucks.[/quote]

If you fry them try this on fillets. Leave the skin on, cut across the grain of the meat through to the skin, but not through the skin. The little Y bones that are such a bitch will cook up like sardine bones.

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[quote]DickBag wrote:
SkyzykS wrote:
glad to hear, sounds like your keeping busy, you should post pics of your catches, id love to see the bass

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They aren’t anything too special, largemouth bass in the 12-15 inch range.

They are numerous though. I’ll be heading out tomorrow and I’ll bring the camera.

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I enjoy deep sea fishing myself, usually in the Gulf Coast out of Texas and Florida.

Various tuna species (fresh tastes like a completely different fish than what you buy canned and they fight like hell)

Barracudas (non edible but cool to catch anyways)

Snapper (best tasting fish, ever)

Various local fish

Sharks (super fun to catch, scary to unhook in a fun, thrilling way)

Wade fishing is fun too. Trout and Redfish. A good bull red will fight you for 30+ minutes, caught even easier and more frequently than a bass in a stocked pond.

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Posted this in another thread, thought I’d describe the area in this thread:

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This stream is about a 5 minute walk from my house on the other side of the Kennebec River. In about 400 feet it drops about 3 feet and empties into the river. About 50 feet in that direction there are rapids at low tide. Another 100 feet upstream (left) is the head of tide.

Striped Bass, Brown Trout, alewives, shad, bass, white perch, panfish all pool up right in this area and they push upstream another mile or so to the first small dam.

It’s hard to imagine, but there is a supermarket behind me up the hill and in front of me is a parking lot behind the main street in town. This is what passes for ‘city’ :slight_smile:

On any given year, this all floods from the ice out and the water is at least 4-5 feet above where I’m standing and has in the past 20 years been 12 or so feet. Flood/river history and culture is huge in all these towns along the river. Pretty interesting history. Every town’s main street along the river is called ‘Water Street’… guess why…

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I caught a 35lb pike on accident while fishing for carp, then a 40lb carp the next night at 13, people at the fishery used to come up saying how lucky i was. I’ll have to dig up the pics

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A couple years back my dad and youngest bro went on a fishing trip and caught the biggest catfish my dad’s ever seen- 49.something lbs. in the Cedar River (tributary to Mississippi) in Iowa. They fought a loooong time to get the sucker into the boat. Anyway, my mom took a pic of my teenage bro holding the monster slung over his back shoulder- it went all the way down to his calves.

Mum was suddenly reminded of a group of pics I sent her from when I visited friends out in Myrtle Beach earlier. I made friends with a couple old fishermen on a pier and they let me bait up one of their poles and see if I could catch anything. I ended up catching some tiny little thing about 2 inches long. Before throwing it back, I took a pic of me presenting the fish Vanna White style and grinning real big- it was my first and only salt water fish after all!

So Mom thought it’d be a great idea to blow up my little 2 in. fish pic, and my bro’s 50 lb. whopper, and frame them side by side and give them out as X-mas gifts to all the family. I will NEVER EVER hear the end of that, as it’s posted on walls all over the country in the houses of all my relatives now. Sigh. But the cool thing is, my bro has this totally stoic blase bored look on his face, like “Big whoop, I caught a fish.” And me, I’m like “WOOOHOO! Check me out, I caught a FISH!!!” Mom says it perfectly captures the unique attitudes of each of her “speshul” children. So in a way it’s kinda cool. :smiley: I’ll have to see if Mom made those pics digital yet and post them here, it really is funny.

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[quote]JGerman wrote:
Second pic…
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Nice! Where do you fish out of?

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World record (rod/reel) stingray caught:

http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92308/?fp=1

Not the biggest one ever caught, but the biggest ever reeled in by hand.

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Great fish Dickbag! I just found out that I live near some pretty decent pike water, so I’m going to start going after them this spring. My fishing up to now has mainly been targeting LM bass. Hopefully I’ll have some pics to post after this weekend.