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General => General Discussion and ??? => Topic started by: mjrprint on April 03, 2012, 01:10:42 PM
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Just caught this guy the other day.
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Nice!
3 pounds or so? What'd you get her on?
Whereabouts in the country are you? Here in northern CA I haven't had a bite
since November. Not for lack of trying though. Weird weather patterns have thrown
everything off, I was certain that the spawn couldn't have even started, but then on Sunday
I saw some half inch fry swimming around.
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Thats pretty sweet. We just went to Lake Naciemento. I raked in about 25 Spots and white bass. We were with a group of about 35 cops. My catch was on the low end. Some of these guys came in with 40+ white bass per boat. It was one hell of a fish fry.
EB you need to come south a bit. Naci produces some good fish. My cousins son caught a 16" long Crappy. We did not even have the boat in the water 5 minutes. The thing was a beast. We caught them on chrome and blue jerk baits.
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Caught him on a 6" watermelon senko. Prob about 3 lbs. As for location I'm about an hour west of Philadelphia. We have been catching them all winter here. You have to fish everything slow and if you think you are fishing it slow, do it slower lol. This guy I just flipped it into a pocket and bam. He def wacked it though so I think it's go time here.
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This was last month. Caught on chart turtle blade spinner
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Don't have time to fish right now. Wish I did. I also wish my daughter was able to go with me, she won't sit still long enough to even eat.
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I used to be a die hard large mouth fisher but I finally got in to much trouble fishing devours illegally but hey that's where you can catch ten pounders.
For the last decade I prefer to surf fish for strippers and blues.
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here is the last good fish I caught...2010...
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Watermelon Senkos work pretty good out here too. One of my favorites for sure.
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I have a 4 acre pond that is full of 10 pounders + and I have to hire someone to catch what I am supposed to catch out!! I try to catch at least 100 lbs of Bass a year. I do ask that all that is kept be under 2 lbs and if you catch one of them good ones that you would like to mount then take pics and measurements and get a repleca made. I love to brim fish and last year I caught a 9.5 pound on a fly rod with a brim the size of your hand for bait.... We actually I caught the brim and the bass tried to take it away from me. I have not broken the 12 lb mark yet but have came close.
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Yep, watermelon Senkos.
I don't have the patience to fish slow enough in the winter I guess. This is also
my first season (just started last summer) so I haven't figured out winter patterns and
whatnot.
I'm right next to the famed (and fought over) CA delta. I'm looking at boats right now
and this will be my first year with one. No more shore fishing for me, though in some ways I prefer it.
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This was last year on Lake Michigan. Was my wifes first fish over 10lb.
We try to get out as often as we can. We have a family property in Hesperia, MI.. 100 acers. with a 3 acer pond it, no bass but loaded with perch largest one to date is 17"
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I love shore fishing ponds. But for larger lakes, a boat is nearly a must.
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My iPad has really retarded auto corrects, I meant to say reservoirs and stripers not strippers.
My favorite bass technique was just before sun down on still water using surface lures nothing beats a monster mouth exploding out of the water and grabbing your lure
Like sam I like pike fishing with live minnows those suckers are some good eating!
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Topwater is the jam.
Note my Zara Spook reference in Dan's antique lure thread.
Any of you largemouth guys ever fish at night?
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i spent many many hours putting around in a wooden boat with a 7 1/2 HP evenrude motor trolling along for lake trout with Pfluger #3 spoons on hand action copper bottom line and old converted victrola record player motors for the take up.
here in the Finger lakes the trout were huge 30 yeas ago but not so much now. a 8 pounder is huge today but back in the day
it was not uncommon when the big one hit it waould tip the scale at half again as much.
great eating, no scales and clean like a charm.
There is nothing like pulling in a saw belly fat laker on copper wire hand over hand.
we used to get our limit regular back then mid 60's
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My favorite type of bass fishing is topwater. I grew up with a lake in our neighborhood and would fish it all the time with a floating worm. Worked great. I would catch 5-6 good sized fish a day that way. But the crappie in the lake were monsters. None of them were under 1lb, most of them came in at 2 or better.
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Craps are fun using rooster tails reeling them in as fast as you can.
I found the key to top water fishing for bass was to cast out and let the lure sit for about thirty seconds then twitch it, move it it a few feet at a time. What it did was get the bass interested once it sensed a possible injured frog or fish it would attack explosively.
My favorite was always a jointed rapala, silv bottom ones and extra long.
I used to have luck at night using rubber grubs or rubber worms, night was ok but nothing beats early evening as the sun was setting, or even better after a hard rain the fish would be in a feasting mode trying to eat all the bait fish chewing on all the insects washed in by the rains.
I also used to catch live frogs or toads and toss them out there you never knew if you would get a bass or a pickerel but it sure was fun.
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I used to fish alot when I was younger up in Clearlake Ca, didn't do to well but still loved to fish. Would love to get back into it someday.
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I grew up fishing for largemouth bass. I've caught several 7,8,9 pounders and have actually won a few local bass tournaments when I was younger. My dad and I used to fish in team tournaments at least once a month for the entire time I was in high school. I grew up 20 miles from Lake Fork, I'm sure some of you largemouth guys have heard about Fork. I fished it quite a bit once I got older, but it was a very dangerous lake when I was a younger teen and my dad did not want to risk our lives going out there on the weekends, it was extremely over fished in the early 90's. We fished Lake of the Pines, Bob Sandlin, Toledo Bend, Sam Rayburn, Montecello and Cypress mostly.
I can't wait till my son is old enough so I can take him out like my dad did for me. Those were the best times of my life, fishing 10 hours a day with my dad. My dad would enjoy his beers a little too much sometimes so I had to learn how to pull the boat with the truck at an early age, I think I was 14 the first time I drove us home from the lake. I was 11 when I first started driving the boat, and I think I was 12 or 13 when we got our first serious bass boat with a 200 mercury on it, that boat would do 70 mph but I was limited to 40 when I drove it.
We've got a family bass boat that sits in storage all year. It's a 2003 (I think) Cobra, 20' with a mercury 200. I've taken it out maybe 4 times in 5 years, it's pretty sad. It was my father in law's and every year we say we are going to use it but I don't so very well fishing with a wife who doesn't know what she's doing. I don't ever get to fish, I'm always changing her lures or getting her unstuck from a log, and my favorite, "oh, let's go over to that spot over there, it's looks really fishy", all day long.
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All this talk of freshwater! Any other coastal inshore fishermen out there? I managed a red and 18 speckled trout this past weekend and it will only get better because the trout are still scattered and in transition getting ready to spawn (most likely the next full moon). Can't beat South Louisiana, at least until it rains or a hurricane comes and your under water!
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Nice ScreenPrinter123... I'm in Lafayette... when we going fishing?! ;)
I LOVE fishing for Drum, Reds are obviously my first choice but I don't mind hooking into a monster Black Drum!
I fished and fished fresh water till I was so bored of struggling to catch "large" fish I rarely went. Then I went with my ex-brother-in-law down to Grand Isle and hooked into a 33" Red with 12lb test... FISH ON! I was hooked... I laughed at myself and said "What the hell have I been doing waisting my time trying to catch all those small fresh water fish!?!"
This is me in my boat down out of Southwest Pass (Vermillion Bay).. my favorite part of the photo is my brother-in-law's brother-in-law in his boat in the background... it looks like he's scratching his had in wonder (in reality we were all bringing in those big ol' drums at that point.
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Hey Gilligan, how about next time you are in the New Orleans area. I fish both Port Sulphur and Delacroix and cannot wait to do some surf fishing once the beach bite arrives. I have fished Cypremort Point a few times while staying in the cabins at the state park. It is not an easy place to learn given the drastic changes in salinity at various times during the year, not to mention the beating you can take making it to the passes around marsh island. It was still fun and even got to catch some crabs and have us a boil. Those big drum and bull reds are fun and can really put a hurting on you after a few in a row though I don't target them often as my wife is a fish eating fool so she wants trout and slot size reds. So I comply because it keeps me out on the water!
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I am going to be in Lafayette sometime this summer, after seeing that pic gilligan I think I am going to be dropping a linen the water downmtheremsome where, I have no idea what a drum is but damn they look fun!
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Word... now to find an excuse to get to N.O. ;)
Yeah, I don't really care what I catch... I rarely keep any personally because the wife DOESN'T eat fish... I do and she is coming around. But I'm not gonna clean fish just for myself to occasionally eat. So I am just as happy filling someone else's ice chest or throwing them back.
When in Grand Isle on a VERY uneventful trip I had a cut up mullet down in a channel while I tried to fight the catfish off my line and hooked in to a Jack Crevelle (sp)... WOW... that was worth the entire trip... took me 45 mins to pull that sucker in! Loved it!
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I'll see what I can arrange Mike.
Give me those dates when you get them nailed down. I don't have a boat but I might can make something happen.
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Gilligan I am a shore fisher by preference nothing against boats but off the surf is a wonderful experience, up here I fish for stripers when in season, I occasionally keep a small striper to eat (they say the older the fish the more polluted) but typically I give everything away especially the blues, I truly cannot people eat them nasty things. Open the gut of a twenty pound blue and smell the nasty rotten bunkers they devour and trust me you will never eat a blue again.
Oh yea when I am lucky enugh to catch a legal flat fish that is always destined for my grill!
My favorite methods for striper on the shore is live eel or mackerel, with mackerel tho you have to bring in a hundred sea robins for one striper.
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Sounds like a TSB surf trip is in order! Grand Isle would be fun if no boats is the preferred method. The beach I like to fish is only accessible by boat and I can accomodate four with moderate comfort to get there if you don't mind some bumps (even in an 18' bay boat open water can issue a pounding if the winds are up).
Gilligan...I never have personally hooked a Jack Crevalle, but I have watched someone with one on the line and those things are some serious drag pullers. The closest thing I have experienced to that is hooking into some 40+ inch bull reds while fishing a school of trout and getting pulled around in my old 14 foot jon boat. That was fun even though it ruined the trout fishing for the next 30 minutes each time I hooked another bull red. But that still is nothing compared to a jack crevalle.
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We do a lot of striper trolling here in the Delta. Here is a 32lb one. Excuse my cheesy smile and the blued out section behind the scene....it was a honey hole and I didn't want to share my spot on another forum that I frequent.
Jon
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Damn nice Jon! I hope you know most of the world record stripers including the current world record are caught up here in ct! One was caught about. Decade ago that shatters any living record but the dude caught it on N EPA pier illegally which wiped him and his fish from the records, I fish the same spot occasionally myself it always produces nice fish. Oh yea the world record was caught with live eel my favorite bait to use.
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I don't what the heck sam caught!!!! there, but I like bass fishing and right now if I get a nice weekend I hit the creeks. I call that surprise fishing cuz you never know what your going to pull out.
Darryl
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Mike... nothing really close by here to surf fish... Grand Isle is about 3 hours away but some great fishing.
Screenprinter123, funny you mention being dragged around... I had lost my cajun anchor right before that and was just sitting in a spot where the current kind of kept me put. So that Crevalle drug me all around. I had it on 12lb test as well so it was one hell of a fight. I don't remember how many times it surfaced only to strip off TONS of drag and me having to fight it all over again.
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I don't what the heck sam caught!!!! there, but I like bass fishing and right now if I get a nice weekend I hit the creeks. I call that surprise fishing cuz you never know what your going to pull out.
Darryl
It looks like Sam caught a muskie.
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Any anglers here in the group?
Yup. When I'm not printing my best friend and I own/run Canada's busiest Fly Fishing Forum.
I spend a lot of time flyfishing BC Stillwaters chasing big Rainbows.
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Some Warm Water Fishies
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My favourite picture from last year ;D
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if anyone ever gets up BC/Alberta way and wants to wet a fly, let me know, if I can't join you I can at least hook you up with someone who can or point you in the right direction for some fun!
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Moreover... it doesn't matter at the end of the day how it looks on the line or in the boat or even in the ice-chest.... Most important is how it looks on the plate... And you cannot beat southern Louisiana when it comes to that :P.
I guess we've converted auto wars to fishing wars? :)
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Yeah, you right!
FYI, ^^ that's cajun talk for all you yankees. ;)
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I am a fisherman from waaaay back when I was a fisher boy. My dad and I used to go camping locally on the weekends. I loved those times of night fishing. My dad passed away when I was 12 and after that, I really sunk myself into fishing. At one point in my life, around age 15, during the summers, I spent about 4 days a week about 6-10 hours a day just fishing along the banks of the Ohio River. My biggest fish ever was about a 50lb river carp. Like Darryl said for his creeks, in the river, you never knew what you might pull out. We never would eat the fish out of the river and we never expected any game fish. When I was fishing on the river catching bottom feeders, I'd see these "rich guys" in boats that we're foreign to me floating near by trolling and bass fishing, I thought, what fools, they can't catch anything big using those little fake lures. One day, I tried a little slope nosed plastic aqua sonic lure sold for a dollar at the candy store. I'll post up the picture of the results in a while.
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Those are some nice looking fish Inkworks! I was wondering....after each fish caught do you buy a new boat? It seems like you are fishing from a new boat in each picture ;)
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I used to fish a bunch back when I had a Life.... I miss those days.
I'd hit the local farm ponds and my favorite was top water bass fishing. Nothing like a lunker exploding out of the water to hit a jitter bug or a hula popper.
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First trout I caught in Montana. I like to go for the more normal, eatin' sized ones though, this one was a fluke. Lucky my buddy had a camera.
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This was from a slow day on the Outer Banks. Usually fish the NY, NJ waters, mainly salt water.
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Thats a nice catch!!!!!
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Here is a #175 Yellow Fin Tuna I got in Mexico last year