#155 - "RIP in piece Bepis" edition Previous thr

>>1013524
I only ask because I paid just over 50$ for my silver max combo, and at dicks toda I saw they had just the reel priced at 49.99.

Is the rod in the combo trash?

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Has anyone used these hooks? I think they're pretty neat.

>>1013519
What happened to that bepis namefag? He used to shit up like every thread here.

>>1013536
how does it achieve anything that an offset doesn't do?

>>1013537
Cancer I'm afraid

>>1013540
It keeps the hook upright when using a drop shot

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>>1013519
I put a Rage Craw on a chattermeme hook, should I flip it the other way?

The way it's facing now, I'm concerned that the claws and the blade might fuck with each other.

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>>1013525
It's just a GX2 right? The casting rods aren't super garbage, but you'll want to upgrade eventually. If you're mostly using moving baits I'd just keep the uglystik, but if you're using Texas rigs or bottom lures the sensitivity of a better rod helps a lot.

>>1013543
Definitely turn it the other way

>>1013543

Flip it. Crawfish swim backwards.

>>1013536
That looks pretty neat, I've never been able to tie dropshots right so I need some of those.

>>1013543
yes it should be the other way
>>1013561
what i do is tie the hook on with a uni knot, then run the tag through the eye of the hook to hold it up right, should make things easier

>>1013471
You have never had a well made Tom Collins or a nice dirty dry martini.

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Today's catch. Big fat trout, 52cm but just under 2kg!

>>1013585
Beautiful fish

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>>1013585
10nin later I caught this one, same exact spot. A little smaller, but also very fat!

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What do y'all fishing fags drive?
>>1013574
Thid guy gets it. Tom Collins=thebomb

>>1013585
Jesus im mirin hard >>1013585

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>>1013519
What's the best pattern and why is it firetiger?

>>1013587
>>1013595
Thanks guys, it's definitely one of my nicest catches yet, both of them really.

20min prior to catching them I switched lure so I could fish over some shallow water and it sure paid off.
Sometimes they surprise me with how little water they need to swim around in. There must have been 15-20cm of water where they got hooked.

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>>1013592
2007 klr650 that ive beaten up
>pic related

>>1013561
Yeah I'm gonna try it out in a few. I normally do what >>1013569 does but with a polomar. Sometimes it still get a little janky.

>>1013597
Where I fish if it isn't just straight silver it doesn't catch anything but brush.

>>1013592
>What do y'all fishing fags drive?

A beat up 2000 jeep grand cherokee.

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>>1013536
Only drop shot hook I use

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>>1013592
XJ master race

>>1013623
I never rig it weedless though unless I'm in heavy cover

>>1013625
Festive colors

>>1013632
They are at that.

>>1013625
i dig that jeep

>waste the past 4hrs driving around looking for fishing spots
>always expect these perfect state parks with open fishable water and boat rentals
>in actuality they're in suspect neighborhoods with no parking lots and no direction to fish
>some don't even have roads to them

Fuck this I am done, where the fuck can I fish comfortably!

>>1013643
>not looking on google maps first
do that

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Just caught this beautiful bastard on an oversized jighead with a Yum crawdad. My half acre retention pond has a bunch of Crappies, can't complain

>My buddy wanted to go pond hopping >cancels on me when I was one my way lol
>whatever I'll stop under this bridge and fish for a second
>be in shorts and flip flops
>cast once into the crick
>feel something on my ankle
>figure it's a plant but look anyway
>15 fucking ticks on my feets
>reeled in and fucked off


>>1013592
07 Rav 4 but I think I'm gonna trade my dad for the 4Runner

>>1013643
>state park
>neighborhood

??? What God forsaken state do you live in

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>>1013519
Kek. I totally forgot about that. Nobody was posting this morning, then I went to my brother's graduation, and then just ate a $60 steak and I don't fit in at places with $60 steaks.

Glad somebody picked up the slack without completely fucking it up like the time Skid tried to do it.

>>1013546
Nah I think it's an Abu rod. And those cheaper Abu rods normally aren't too bad.

>>1013597
That or gold.

>>1013654
10/10

>>1013666
satan trips confirm

>>1013663
>15 fucking tics

God danm I have seen 1 in the last 15 years and it was on my sister.

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>>1013592
Grandpa special Ram 1500. Hoping I can scoop up a diesel truck in like 6 months.

>>1013666
Satan has brought us Pepsi back.

I do not fit into places that sell $20 steaks I probably would not be allowed inside the place you went.

>>1013675
Seriously. I've been innawoodsing my whole life and I've never had a tick on me. I didn't even register what they were at first because it's been so long since I've seen one.

>>1013688

Same here. I have had chiggers before, and those fuckers itch like nothing I've ever experienced.

My wife got a tick on the underside of her breast once when we were camping, though. She was also stung/bitten by both a scorpion and a centipede in one night, and stung by a gypsy wasp when we were hiking. Mosquitoes also love her blood. She has terrible luck with critters.

>>1013688
Hell I am 35 and have had maybe 2 on me.

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would a 35-40" Koi be capable of snapping 15lb braid almost instantly with a flick of its tail?

but that is what this fucker did

>>1013716
Not if you have a reel with a drag and no nicks in your line. you did something wrong friend.

>>1013723
it was an accidental foul hook.
I THINK i got its tail and lost a rapala, but when I got the line back it it was frayed

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Wew lads what a day. Started out by driving north a half hour to that river I fished last time and today the water was stupid high. There was a bunch of shit blocking the launch but I just pushed it all aside and went anyway. I threw the jerkbait the whole time to test the waters so I could figure out where they were and I figured that out pretty quick. Ended up with 6 small mouth and 3 over 3 pounds. Biggest being a little over 4 pounds. The best thing about the whole day is I tied on that prop rapala that anon sent me thinking there ain't a way in hell im catching anything on this but I just wanted to see how it worked. First cast, swear to god, pic related explodes on it right after it lands. Thing nearly gave me a heart attack and I didn't even know what it was at first. I swore it was a big pike because he was pulling way harder than any of the other bass I caught that day. I got everything but the blowup on my camera, shit was so sweet.

>>1013716
absolutely, if your drag isn't loose enough or your rod is too stiff, it will shock the line, and snap it almost instantly
>>1013728
> 3 3-4 pound smalllies
thats a good day of fishing

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>>1013654
Fattie crappie. Nice.

>>1013671
Skid! You should buy pic related. They will probably fit up ur butt.

>>1013677
I'm right about that, a $20 steak and you are expected to pig out. This was like $350 with 5 people and we didn't even order booze. Seems like a waste but the steak was pretty good.

tbqhwy I really wanted the chicken but you can't go to a steakhouse like that and eat chicken.

I need to get out fishin tomorrow and play with that shit Zuriss got me. I haven't been to the fishin hole in like two weeks because my sister flew in and been doin other shit.

>>1013666
>>1013677
I feel too classy for you guys.

>tfw wearing business casual to work everyday

I can't afford $60 steaks but I occasionally get them for free. I hope you had the steak tartar Pepsi, that shit is good as disgusting as it sounds.

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>>1013739
Nah, I had a ribeye and sumn au gratin taters

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Got my last package btw. Honestly these might be my favorite bait out of everything you sent me. I've never seen these for sale before. Perfect color too. Honestly can't wait to get out and try them on the ultra light. I might need to pick up some bigger jig heads though the ones I have now are tiny

>>1013747
Damn, so it's not a tube? It's a solid grub with a little skirt like the tubes? I'm not sure if I have seen those either but they look like they will get the job done.

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>>1013757
Yeah they're like a mini senko with a skirted tail. I've been on the look out for a small panfish plastic and this fits the bill more than perfectly.

Here's a side shot of that same bass I posted above. Thing fought ridiculously hard for his size

>>1013736
ive actually got one, and it probably would but it would fuck the bearings, so im content spinning it. i dont always have it, though, usually i only take it if im going to a restraunt or something because otherwise i shred napkins and straw wrappers without even realising im doing it, and i just look down and "oh ive got confetti that i cant throw"
>>1013762
smb always fight so much harder than lmb in my experience

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>>1013771
They absolutly do, here's another one

>>1013777
god i wanna go smallie fishing now, but its 9:20 at night and my bike broke down again (i was running the rear tire low pressure for some dirt, then forgot i was at low pressure when i got on the road, gassed it out of a turn, the rear tire spun on the rim and ripped off my valve stem. i got the new tube but it was threatening to rain today and i didnt want to get rained on)

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>>1013762
I feel ya on the panfish bait thing. I have been searching for more real small stuff and sometimes Walmart will have some cool shit in those assorted Yum boxes on the bottom shelf. Lots of that stuff is still too big for those days when the fish are picky and even big Mayans are only hitting insect sized stuff. The majority of the small Yum bags are like 1/8oz jighead sized.

There's always the tiny Gulp grubs and minnows that come in the jar. Otherwise those little purple "Puddle Jumpers" I found were pretty cool.

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>>1013786
I wanna go back up tomorrow but it's supposed to rain. Kinda sucks considering that's why they had "launch closed due to flooding" signs everywhere blocking the entrance and the ramp that I had to move to launch my boat. Last year the water line was an easy 3-4 feet bellow the bottom of this dock. Climate change is getting me good

>>1013736
I just got one of those fucking things in the mail today that my wife bought me.

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>>1013739
Here classy anon have some 20 year old rum on my hilly billy Jeep decoration.

>>1013728
>>1013747
Hell yeah man, that makes me ecstatic! I'm just glad you've already caught one and ready to catch another. I'm about to use some of your's tomorrow

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Any one have love for the Rage Tail Lizards? I really like them for when I want to run a natural color in stained water.

>>1013709
>>1013714
Thankfully I noticed before any actually dug in. Ticks are one of the few things about the outdoors that I'm kinda worried about.

>>1013716
Yeah that's one of the few problems with braid is there's no shock absorbtion at all, so a very sudden and violent shock can break it. It's more of a problem with lighter line like that.

>>1013788
VMC makes some dope predicted panfish stuff. I haven't looked to see if you can buy the plastics separately.

http://www.rapala.com/vmc/jigs/panfish-jigs/

The wingding and boot tail have caught me a bunch of panfish

>>1013789
you said you had a six weight fly rod right? how are you with casting it?

>>1013799
Better amputate your feet just to be safe.

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Opinions on beetlespins? Just picked one up today, it was $0.89 so I thought why not?

>>1013815
Yeee

They are great. You can run em with whatever soft plastic too.

>>1013809
This

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>>1013543
This is just my preference but I Would use another type of bait with a chatterblade. The blade has so much action so I usually use a more static bait like a fluke or Lake fork magic shad. I like to use Rage craws on Keel Weighted hooks.
If it works for you I can kms

>>1013597
You fish alot of stained/muddy water?

I should buy some wisky stones my ice melts to fast.

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>>1013801
I can cast pretty good as long as there is a decent space behind me. On the boat I would be fine. What size leader/tippet would you use and out of these flys which would be any good you think?

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>>1013716
Targeted alot of these bastards. I use mono( 15lb Berkley Big Game Green) for the stretch. I tie that to a black (carp koi don't like shiny) swivel. I use a 12" of 30lb braided leader tied to #4-6 octopus hook with a hair-rig. I will Either free line bait or clip a weighted pencil bobber to the leader.

>>1013809
Kek rip feets

>>1013833
Why a braid leader?

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>>1013716
>>1013833
I use lighter drag with koi and carp than I do with catfish. They have a softer mouth so you can pull hooks easily. The stretch of the mono helps with that. I use braided leader because of that sensitive mouth aswell. You can go with mono leader but I just have had better success with braid.

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>>1013835
I think it feels grassy to them and they are less likely to spit it.
>>1013716
>>1013833
>>1013839
I use a medium action 8ft spinning rod and 4000 Shimano sienna. I pretty much exclusivly sight fish for them so it gets pretty fun but my buddies who just go after bass make fun of me for targeti g them.

>>1013815
Are you me? I just bought a few at WalShart. I bought them to target the snakehead in open water. Bunch of crappie guys have been slaying them with the beetles

Managed to get out there today. Fished 5 hours for bass, managed 1 dink. Fished 15 mins for crappie, caught 5 and a perch. The bass here have been real wired recently.

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>>1013863
*Weird. Here's that dink too.

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>finally land on a job site with waterfront
>happen to be renovating a fuckhueg mansion
>the lake behind it is private and stocked
>tfw catching 10+ bass a day before and after work just on the shore in front of the house

Feels good man. Note the massive house on the other side of the lake, rich people like their fishin easy. These bass are aggressive too.

Hey guys new to the board...loving it so far. Are there any other central Cali fish bros on here? Getting back into the sport after a long 15 year hiatus. I have a goodly supply of stuff, but as always I'm always looking for the new hot ticket to land em.
Also may be a silly question but has anyone ever bought no name tackle off of wish or geek? If so pros/cons? Shold it be avoided at all costs? If ya never bothered to look on there, take a look for your self.

>>1013843
Huh neat.

>>1013878
I would stay away from no name hard baits, terminal tackle, and line. Soft plastics should be fine.

>>1013881
Kinda what I was thinking too. But honestly from looks alone some of the hard baits don't look much different from the name brands. But that's hardly an objective statement. However at the price they are offered I'd only be out a few bucks. Maybe I'll test the waters and report back my self. If I got any soft baits I'd be looking for body's and trailers mostly. I still have a good supply of an old worm no longer available that I swear by and will use those till they are gone.

>>1013887
Problem with a lot of them is that they crack and fill with water very easily, or something just breaks off randomly.

>>1013887
I'd mostly be worried about hooks bending or the lure just coming apart. Also consistency. Like I know every lucky craft crank will run the same way, but the no names might vary in what they do.

But like you said it's only a couple bucks and they might work just fine so.

>old worms
I haven't been around long enough to have a lure I use go out of production. Thankfully the ones I use most have been around for a while so I don't think they'll go anywhere anytime soon.

>>1013893
Yeah I like consistency also....terminal gear is easy...i was already expecting the hooks to be shit. I can easily fix that. But like they have 44 piece crank bait and popper sets for less than 20 bucks...if I find 5 that work well I'd feel I came out ahead?
Yeah they are old Mann's manipulator worms. They were my go to on a Texas rig...sold producers, and hold up well...some of the bags I have are close to 17 years old and they are still soft and pliable!

>>1013878
Yeah I've bought a bunch of off-brand stuff.

Hardbaits need to be tuned, it's a way to save money if you need to and have the free time to tune them. Absolutely avoid no-name hooks, they're always always always super fucking soft (nothing like pulling a 4/0 EWG completely straight on a 1.5lb bass in open water...) and usually really dull. Soft plastics are okay. I'd avoid line, although I've not used any no-name line before on anything serious.

>>1013897
If you're after good bargains on cranks, hit up the store brand or off-brand sections of big box stores.

For example, a Dick's near me is running 10 for $10 on their Jawbone (storebrand) lures. They have a Rat-l-trap lipless clone and a Strike King KVD 1.5 clone that have always run true for me, and I've bought probably hundreds of them by this point. They use Eagle Claw hooks, which are....meh, but work. Another good bargain is the Matzuos. $2.99 at Dicks or Bass Pro, although style selection is meh. They have a deep-running shad-shaped lure that works wonders, just wish they offered it in a shallower running one. Also a really good looking skitterpop clone.

For soft plastics, kinda hard to beat Big Bite Baits for the cheapos. $1.10-$1.49 a pack, between 6 and 10 plastics in a pack, great for figuring out what works in new water on the cheap. Fairly soft. I use a lot of their flukes. I also fish a lot of Yum worms, they have a 5" Senko clone that I think is actually better than the Senkos. Almost as soft, a fuckload more durable, $2.99 for a 12ct bag.

>>1013831
i'd grab some 7-9 foot 1x (~11-14 pound test) tippets for the streamers and poppers, then the bluegill bugs and other flies fome 4x (~5-7 pound) should be adequate
grab your six, those poppers, and those clouser minnows, go out to that river when its low enough on your boat, and get some smallies on fly, you'll have fun (i dont know how much you've gotten on fly but a 1 pound fish on fly fel like a 5 pound fish on standard tackle)
>>1013833
>>1013839
>>1013843
i bet they could be had on fly, and id be very excited to catch one
>>1013878
avoid no-name brands, they usually suck. if they were good, they'd have a name.
>>1013893
ive got this one worm that was my GOAT
it was a little berkley power bait number, it was maybe 5-7 inches long, i got them at walmart, and they were coiled up for the full length. ive not seen them since i was 12, or even pictures of them online

>>1013902
>>1013831
oh and for those streamers, learn this knot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MGTgvAvm64

>>1013897
I would just worry about them literally coming apart if I hooked a decent fish

>>1013901
Big Bite Baits makes really good stuff especially for panfish. They're also really stepping up their bad lures imo.

>yum dingers
>Almost as soft
No way man. Senkos are like a baby's ass.

>a fuckload more durable
+1. I actually like dingers more in a lot of situations, but if the bass ain't bitin I'll switch over to a Yamamoto.

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>>1013902
I can agree with that...but they are all made in China haha.

Small example in pic

>>1013908
Eh, I guess almost is pretty relative. Yeah, the Senkos are noticeably softer.

Maybe bass aren't as selective in my area or something, because if I'm not catching them on the Dingers swapping to a Senko won't produce fish either. Pretty much the only reason I even still buy Senkos is the color variety, there's a few colors that work VERY well where I'm at that Yum doesn't make, or even make anything close to.

>>1013910
yeah, but its not so much where they're made so much as how carefully they're made. if a motorcycle is made in america by some guy in his garage who just learned how to weld and use a milling machine, you're better off with a shitty chinese scooter

>>1013887
>>1013878


Hard bait is a lot more complicated. They are finely balanced and required to be durable. A lot of good ones also have internal mechanism that help with casting and the overall action of the bait. If you have to spend on money on a lure, it would be on a suspending minnow hardbait because those are where quality can varies greatly.

I have lucky craft flashminnow and surf pointer for the surf in socal. You should be able to catch some good shit with those if you have beach access where you live.

>>1013902
They are very surface oriented. I bet you could easily get one on fly. Just use dull colors, nothing shiny.

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>>1013949
i imagine a foam hopper would get one's attention, and i imagine it would be just like carp fishing
>repost pic from last thread related

>>1013956
Why are you so fat?

>be me
>fucked sleep schedule
>look at kayaks in the middle of the night (its 4:15 right now, when i used to wake up for my job at mcdonnalds)
>find the perfect kayak
>jackson mayfly
>perfect in every way, aside from needing an anchor trolley
>look a little deeper
>this price tag
https://www.evolution-outdoors.com/products/jackson-kayak-mayfly-2017?variant=36499139725
>cry inside
>keep looking
>find another kayak
>sun dolphin boss
>doesnt come out till august or some shit
>cry again
>the search continues
maybe i should just buy a super stable bare bones $400 kayak, then spend some money converting it in to a fishing kayak?
i dont know
>tfw the poorfag struggle

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>>1013979

>>1013992
How the fuck can you not spend 1600 bucks? Several guns I own are worth more than that.

Get a real job.

>>1013995
>get a real job
like what?

>>1013997
Not McDonald's you dumb fat fuck.

What do you even do for work? Retail for 8 dollars an hour? Go to school or trade school.

I would rather rob banks than work minimum wage

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>>1013999
>go to trade school or real school
you say that as if i have money for that
>college degrees are 55k/yr
>tradeschool averages 33k
>inb4 loan
if i get a loan now im 33k in debt, working every hour i can get and only managing 150/wk, and the bank is taking all of it while i try to find a job
>but skid just move to a place where there is work
now i have to take out a bigger loan, rent a truck, pay for gas, move my shit, have enough money for either a down payment or to start renting, get a job there, and now the hole is dug even deeper, and ill spend the rest of my life trying to climb out of a debt because all the other fucking millenials decided "oh it doesnt matter what it costs, the gummint will give me a loan" then the colleges said "well they dont care about the price anyways, so we'll jack it up" and now college prices have skyrocketed to the point the only reason to go to school is to get a degree and get a job good enough to pay for school
/rant
>talk about fishing

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>Be me
>Drunk as hell cuz dad's 50th birthday lastnight/tonight?
>Gonna stay up till sunrise
>Catch hella bass hopefully
Dunno whwre im goin with this but assuming i don't pass out wish me luck. Pic is homemade fireball

>>1014001
Community college is maybe 5k a year. Your excuses are laughable. A state school that's not a community college like ASU or LSU or SIU or something is maybe 25k a year IF YOU LIVE ON CAMPUS.

shut up you're such a whiney bitch. Enjoy working retail forever and maybe making 12 an hour in 10 years as a fat assistant manager.

>>1014003
Fuck off, dickcheese

>>1014002
you're never gonna make it. you'll be dead and done with by the time you'd be going out fashin' and it'll never work out. you just wasted your whole saturday.

>>1014002
dont get hurt

Who fishin this morning? I'm hungover as fuck and only slept a few hours, but I'm going to get out to the lake soon.

>>1014020

I get up at 3:30am for work, so on my days off, I automatically wake up way before sunrise and half the time I'm like, "Fuck it. I have 4 hours before most businesses even open. Might as well go fishing."

>>1013992
get on craigslist. I got a 12 foot sit on top with rod holders, seat, paddle, anchor, all for like 400 bucks. I spent 20 for a trolly kit on amazon then got a transducer rail mount and added a fishy findy that fits in the rod holder mount. I could have done it for less with a basic kayak and been just as well off.

>>1014036
I can't find anything other than sit-ins on my local craigslist, except for one that's from 2011

>>1014039
academy? I've been seeing some 12 foot sit on top fishing style setups for around 400 and less for just the plain sit on tops. If you're just using it for fishing, I'd just look for space to put a big enough cooler for a makeshift livewell and then just add the accessories as you need.

Good luck

>>1013992
>>sun dolphin boss
>How cute, Sun Dolphin has a new ka...
>Wow, that's actually pretty impressive

>>1014039
My tracor supply has some cheap ones.

Kayaks seem like a meme. How are they better than a SOLO canoe? other than catching less wind and having cubbies.

A solo canoe (~12ft) will have similar/same speed,tracking, and maneuverability.

In addition a solo canoe will have more cargo space, a comfier seating position, and will weigh much less. Also easier to portage since it will have a yoke.

Discuss.

>>1013901
Bass Pro's store brand cranks are normally straight too.

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>>1013902
>>1013904
Alright cool. I'll bring my shit with me next time I head up. I really don't think it will be that hard 2bh.


Not sure how but my musky rod is here already. I selected the free shipping that said it would be here in a few weeks but it's here now. Thing is an absolutly beef stick. It's still decently light though compaired to similar spec rods I saw at a few stores. I put 80# braid on my Abu so I think I should be all set to sling those shadzillas

>>1014081
>How are they better than a SOLO canoe?

Nobody's bothered to make a dedicated fishing canoe with any combination of rod holders, anchor trolleys, fishfinder/transducer mounts, drive systems, etc that competes with all the kayaks out there that do the same for as competitive a price. And even if they did, they're competing against dozens of kayak offerings, so even with superior sales, they'd be outnumbered.

>>1013912
I've only really notice a difference in clear water with a lot of pressure. Otherwise dingers have always worked. the only time I would fish exclusively senkos was if I was fishing tournaments.

>colors
Senkos do have some crazy cool colors

>>1014001
http://www.austinkayak.com

If you really want to be poor about it you can make payments on kayaks you buy here

>>1014081
>A solo canoe (~12ft) will have similar/same speed,tracking, and maneuverability.
I highly doubt this

>a comfier seating position
There are kayaks with seats like in canoes

>and will weigh much less
Doubt this too. If anything they're close to the same.

>Also easier to portage since it will have a yoke
I would much rather drag my kayak or pick it up be the handle on the side than try to carry a canoe by myself.

Conoes have a higher CG and I definitely wouldn't want to be in one on rough water. I'd also give kayaks the advantage for shallow water most of the time.

That being said for camping on the river or extended river trips a conoe is great.

>>1014118
>If you really want to be poor about it you can make payments on kayaks you buy here

I go there all the time and I never knew that. I'm definitely going to be poor about it come next year.

>>Doubt this too. If anything they're close to the same.

Nah, canoes are damned light. You can get them in the 30-40 lbs area. But they just don't usually have all the gear and amenities that come on fishing kayaks.

>>1014120
Kek I'm doing it too in a few weeks I was just fucking with skid.

>Nah, canoes are damned light. You can get them in the 30-40 lbs area

I did not know that. I don't want anyone to think I have something against canoes. I just think a kayak is better for solo trips, but to each their own.

>>1014120
>canoe
>30-40lbs
And how many tens of thousands of dollars would that carbon fiber monstrosity cost?

Meanwhile I can get a 10', 38lb roto-molded fishing kayak at Sam's Club for $250, or a 10', 29lb general purpose kayak at Dick's for $200.

>>1014082
Don't you kinda want cranks to be kinda erratic and track in 50 different directions though?

I thought that's why everyone loved Wiggle Warts so much.

>>1014153
...no.

You want them to dive to the depth they say they do, and you want them to do the same thing every cast.

Wiggle warts track true, they just have a VERY exaggerated wobble. Kinda like the Strike King KVD's--the side to side on them is huge. But they do the same thing every cast.

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I don't know if this one is pregnant or morbidly obese but Jesus Christ. Look at this little piggy

I nearly got skunked again this morning, but ended up catching a little dink LMB while trolling a rat-l-trap behind the kayak. Meanwhile my buddy caught at least 6 just using soft plastics. It's frustrating fishing with that dude because he always does significantly better than me even though we're hitting the same spots.

>>1014131

You're looking at most at a couple thousand for those carbon fiber monstrosities that can get as low as 12 lbs. You can get fiberglass ones around 10-11 feet for a couple hundred, though.

And you can get a 10 foot, 30lbs canoe for a couple hundred. Not as cheap as 250, and not in a big box store, though.

Which of course goes back to my point that kayaks are just more ubiquitous/available/cheaper than canoes, especially fishing kayaks. It's why I ended up getting a kayak over a canoe.

If someone were inclined, I have no doubt they COULD make a dedicated fishing canoe with cost and performance similar to a fishing kayak.

>>1014168

Are you using the same bait and presentation too? And if so, does he just get more hook ups and lose less fish?

>>1014177
whats th point in a canoe if its not 17 ft?

>>1014177
>And you can get a 10 foot, 30lbs canoe for a couple hundred. Not as cheap as 250,

What is your definition of a couple?

>>1014185

Many people take canoes on long trips in the wilderness and like a smaller one that's easier to haul around.

At some point, kayak manufacturers really started going after anglers and found a niche for themselves with more compact sit-on-top style loaded with features that you could reach all your needed stuff from a single seat. Canoes just never went in that direction.

>>1014188
>>What is your definition of a couple?


A Mohawk Pac10.5 for $385.

>>1014192
>"suitable for children or small adults"
>weight capacity 175lbs
>35lbs, not 30
>no seat, insubstantial gunwales, only a single crossbeam
yeaaaahhhhh, about that. No.
>>1014185
Significantly more storage capacity than a yak, while still only taking 1 person to paddle effectively. They most certainly have their place.

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Used the rod tip repair kit St. Croix sent me for that rod I returned on my Fenwick I snapped in my car door. You're only supposed to glue the tip on the blank but I figured I'd go ahead and wrap it in thread and epoxy it. I think it worked out pretty well. Kinda makes me want to figure how to put my own custom rod together kinda like that one anon did awhile ago

>>1014204
>but I figured I'd go ahead and wrap it in thread and epoxy it.

Ooooohh, Mr. Fancy pants. Gotta admit that it looks damn nice, though.

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Caught this over slot red this morning. Saw the biggest school of mullet just going crazy but couldn't see anything chasing them, must of been at least 500 maybe more

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>>1014205
Lol, I just really didn't want to shop it out so someone could do the exact same thing but just obviously cleaner. Only part that was a bitch was figuring out how to apply the dust shit St. croix sent me to stay on the rod and melt it on the blank and then evenly swirl around the thread.

Here's another bass from yesterday

>>1014180
For the most part, yes, same bait and presentation. I think the difference is that he is much more accurate at casting to cover and is quicker so his bait is in the water more.

>>1013824
the problem is that you aren't drinking fast enough

>>1013824
Just put some lead weights in the freezer. Or if you don't like poison tungsten weights

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>>1013824
>chilling your whiskey/bourbon

>>1014204
Fenwick. My man!
Snagged a shimano Sedona 1000 size for real cheap on eBay few days ago. When it comes it will be going on my 8ft fenwick eagle for panfishing

>>1014251
You're an idiot

going to spool up some new reels, 2k and 3500 size reel, will be used for freshwater and light saltwater

thinking 15 lb pp and 30 , what do yall think?

>>1014001
well what are you waiting for? because its only going to get harder to do the longer you wait.

> surf fishing at the beach
> some qt from a state department walks up to me and ask about my catch for the day for a fish population survey
> thank the fishing god it was a good day quanity wise so I didn't have to answer her that I got skunked

The whole thing made me not upset that all my catches were absolute dinks today.

>>1014251
this is my first post in this thread: kys

Is the Mitchell 300 still a good reel? I want to get my dad back into fishing and he autistically demands that its the only good reel ever made and its all he'll use.

Why are old people so fucking weird man.

>>1014267
That sounds good. I would say 15lb feels a lot like 6lb mono and 30lb is closer to 12lb. I don't really like the 30lb for anything 1/4oz of less, but works well for 1/2oz+ baits.

I'll say it again, just remember that even though 30lb braid says it has the diameter of 8lb-10lb mono, the line isn't as smooth so 30lb braid is going to cast like 12lb mono even with the diameter of 8lb.

>>1014279
This. No more excuses.

>>1014285
Kek. But yeah, they are solid. I keep thinking about one of those black and green 300 Pro combos. There's a reason those Mitchell reels have been sold everywhere forever. Not the most flashy brand but they are straight.

Otherwise sell him on a Pflueger President.

>>1014287
15 will b used with a 12-15 lb flouro leader for bass and pickerel
the 30 will be used with the same for frogging, or with a heavier leader for salt

>>1014288
Bepis hath risen!

Alright I ordered him one, just had to get the official /out/ consumer review. If I like it I might get one for myself because my Shimano Sahara is starting to piss me off. These things have QC issues.

>>1014291
>Shimano
>QC issues
Don't say that too loud or you gonna piss off the fanbois.

Never owned a 300, but I have a cheaper Mitchell that I have owned for like 20 years and it still works great. It's all Pure Fishing. But I think the 300 is like the President where it's just a solid design that they keep making because fathers and grandfathers know that they work and don't want to change from a reel that has worked well for decades.

And I have been around. Sometimes I'm KVD. And when the last thread hit 310, I was busy yesterday with lil bro's graduation n shit.

>tfw looks like storms rollin in
It's hot out but I might need to hop in the shower and get out there for a minute...

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Feels really weird using a rod this girthy. It casts really easy though which is cool

>>1014303
>tfw that's what your mom told me last night
I think my Dicks $$$ from all that walking finally came thru.

Damn I need to get out there, but I just fired up the AC in my garage and it's gettin comfy in here now.

>>1014308
mine came through right after i went and bought shit yesterday,
using it today since powerpro is on sale
$20 off niggas + $10 off 50 with pick up in store
$53 worth of shit for $23 feels gud

>go to fishing spot
>no fish
>go to fishing spot
>only boat accessible
>go to fishing spot
>bunch of shobies
>go to fishing spot
>only boat accessible
>go to fishing spot
>only boat accessible
>"FUCK IT" and walk half a mile through swamp to find a shore fishable spot
>realize how pathetic I look while people zoom around in their kayaks and pontoons

How the fuck do I rationalize dropping a couple hundred on something I'm only mildly interested in

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Anyone with MTB gunna compete this month? Kinda makes me wonder how we could do competitions here in this thread amongst ourselves.

Also I'm not sure what edgy middle schooler designed that topwater walk bait but the cracked white design almost seems too embarrassing to fish with

>>1014308
rude

fly fishing for the win

>>1014319
i dont have an instagram

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>>1013519
Where in this area should I be attempting to fish at?

>go to Gander mountain
>fishing stuff is at max 15% off
>go to big outdoor store near me
>they have 20% off all fishing supply
>they aren't going out of business

>>1014319
I really like the white topwater...

>>1014332

Do you have a boat?

1) The bridge would be my starting point. Under it in the shade and around the pylons.

2) I'd also hit those areas where the waterways meet. Especially those points.

3) The smaller coves along the far northern shore are also good candidates. The southern one looks like it has some kind of building structure extending out into the water.

Riverbends are also a pretty good place in general. The current slows down. Debris, detrius, and food that attracts fish also tends to concentrate on the opposite side shore rather than make the complete bend.

>>1014338

I never went to Gander Mountain before the sale, but I can see exactly why they're going out of business. Even with the discounts, stuff was only just starting to be similar to Academy prices.

And they don't have the branding that Bass Pro Shops has to support those kinds of prices.

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>>1014343
I mean it will work and catch fish but the design is so obviously made to get kids to pick it because it looks cool. It's got some nice noise to it though I'll give it that

>>1014347
Their prices aren't bad. No Academy around here, but on the big brand name stuff basically everybody sells it at the same MSRP. And they throw out those random "20% off everything this weekend!" coupons from time to time.

>>1014338
I was getting 30% off lots of the stuff I grabbed...

>>1014319
Is that Booyah a spinner or buzzbait?

>>1014332
it's prespawn now right?

probably the little coves

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some retart was fishing with a fly fishing rod and regular bass lures in my local pond this morning.
i went out after he left and recovered 6 brand new lures from the water that were suck on twigs that he was too lazy retrieve and another 6 from branches that I was able to saw off with my pocket wood saw

thanks for the loot, bitch!

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>>1014357
Spinnerbait. I actually really like it. 3/16 is a perfect size for those smallish pond bass.
>>1014366
Thinking the same thing
>>1014367
kek. What was he throwing?

>>1014369
2 of the bait you just posted, 3 rapala stick minnows, some spinners, and a bunch of assorted large soft baits like frog, minnow, and crawfish lures
i knew they were all his due to them all having a tail of green monofiliment line

>>1014370
wow... what a retard. Would have been hilarious to see him try and work those lures with that rod

>>1014346
Have a ski boat but it's my uncle's and I'm not confident taking it out and landing by myself. Also have a kayak that I can take out whenever but I'm afraid I'll get wiped out by a barge or some shit when crossing the channel.

We've never caught dick when out on the boat, I've only ever caught like 4 crappie in one of the coves and a decent largemouth at the very southern tip of the little underwater ridge that's visible.

>>1014366
Water temperature is like 76, so probably post.

>>1014047
my 2 requirements are: 12+ feet, and 30+inches wide. if it meets those requirements, for under $400 i can make it work. unfortunately the only kayak i can find is closer to 500
>>1014050
ikr? it looks real nice
>>1014081
a canoe will also sink in the ocean, a sit on tip kayak is literally a 12 foot bubble to sit on
so no mater how much water soaks you or your gear, you'll still float. hell, you could put it in the water on its side, and try to scoop up all the water you want, it will still float and the scupper holes will let it out
>>1014090
of it shouldnt be hard at all, should be a lot of fun too
>>1014206
nice fish
>>1014316
by convincing yourself youll use it a lot more than you do, taking it out every day for a week, then only taking it out here and there after that
>>1014320
+1

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>>1013519
Has anyone tried these Mike Ike rods? Thinking about the 7 foot 2 or 7 foot 4 in medium heavy for spinner baits and buzz baits and flipping and pitching paired with an Abu Garcia revo rocket baitcaster.

Thoughts?

I was messing around with them at bass pro they seem very nice.

>>1013736
>because my sister flew in and been doin other shit.

Sooo gonna green text how you fuck your sister or what?

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>tfw my crank boxes will barely close and I keep buying more

>>1014367
Was it anything good?

>>1014369
I'm a big fan of the little Booyah Pond Magic spinnerbaits, they are just too light to cast far on memecasters. But yeah, 3/16oz is nice. I rarely get bass on big spinners over 1/2oz unless you really hit a frenzy during pre-spawn.

>>1014430
Nah none of that

can a large bass exist(naturally) in a small body of water?
I have a natural pond in my backyard, that is self sufficient(EG the bluegill/bass have not been stocked in close to 2 decades)

anyways most of the bass are anywhere from 8-12" with the occasional 14-16" biggun.

anyways I had "seen" a fish several times in my life, and always assumed it was a black koi(which are also swimming around).

But yesterday I saw it, clear as day, a 20+" bass, easily 4" in girth, looking like it could swallow my whole hand and then some.

are my eyes(and water) playing tricks on me, or is it possible for a huge ass bass to grow to a size in such a relatively little ecosystem

>>1014453
>>1014453
Big bass can live in thive in tiny ass farm ponds so yeah I'd say it's certainly possible. Start feeding them and get em all fat as shit

>>1014453
The biggest bass I catch are in stock tanks. Cull the the smaller ones for fish fries and turn the big ones free to fight another day.

>>1014453
I have gotten bass from really small ponds, like 100' by 50' in size maybe. But lots of 10"-12". It would be hard for them to get too giant unless there is a really good baitfish population and cover for them to reproduce and grow or maybe crawfish or somebody else is feeding them. Remember that bass take years and years to get 3lb+, especially places with cold winters.

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Got my buddy to finally catch fish. I caught two dinks.

>>1014366
Where are you at anon?

>>1014453
Yes, but if the pond doesn't have a decent population of baitfish the bass have to resort to eating each other and that's not how you get big fishes.

>>1014466
montreal

>>1014470
Ah okay that makes sense. The bass are definitely post spawn down here.

I don't know why, but it always blows my mind that it can be 90 here and be cold up north. I guess I forget the world is as big as it is.

>>1014453
if you want bigger fish more consistently, cull some of the 8-12 inchers now and then, the fish that grow past that size will have less competition for food, and the genes for faster-growing and bigger bass will pre procreated because dinks get removed. do the same with the bluegill, put the big gills back and take the medium ones and only big ones will be left.
it will take years of that for it to really pay off though

>>1014473
Yeah but we spoiled down here with the bass fishing. 3lb bass are about medium size here and 4lb-5lb aren't uncommon. Up there, getting anything over 4lbs is a monster.

>>1014489
Yeah but we have pike/muskies tho

>>1014496
And we have alligator gar. I mean stuff just grows faster in the warm water. Not necessarily bragging or saying it is better because we lose out on some fun native US species but at least the bass can keep up a little better with minorities overfishing everything.

>>1014502
Not saying you were. I'm just saying that if I want to get a good fight and catch a real monster, I wouldn't be targeting bass anyway

>>1013747
Where can I order some? I've been checking tackle warehouse and my local sporting goods stores coming up with nothing.

>>1014489
Am I the only one who would rather catch fish in the 3-4lb range than monsters? I feel like any bigger and on average they fight lazier.

That being said I honestly do not think anything is better than when a bass comes halfway out of the water and does a massive head shake and you see it's a 5+ cause the mouth is so damn big. I think that's a better feeling that nutting.

>>1014506
Kinda depends on where I'm fishing.

Here locally, if it's over 2lbs you're basically just reeling in dead weight, they totally give up once they realized they're hooked. Fishing pressure is so high they get caught regularly enough to realize what's going on, and know they're getting thrown back.
>tfw 1lb crappie give a better fight than 4lb LMB

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>>1014506
Right about that 18"-20" and 3lb-4lb does seem to be some of the best LMB to catch. But it's still hit or miss with them, sometimes the 14" guys will break the water 3 times before you even get them to shore and sometimes a 19" fish will feel like a glob of weeds until you get em 10' from shore.

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>>1014512
It's just that the little ones, while putting on a show usually physically can't pull hard at all, where the bigger feel like they have some power to em.

I dont know how I got this dude to shore. I had a shitty hook set and he jumped several time and when I got him ball the hook wasn't even past the barb in his mouth lol.

>>1014510
Yeah I kinda feel that. Ultralight fishing for those little bass that have never been caught before is fun.

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>>1014516
I had a shitty hook set on one fish right when the sun was going down and it jumped off right when it hit the weed line. Still not sure if 12" snek or skinny bass.

when catfishing for the first time today. only got 1 5lb flathead and a shit load of bites but that was it. they seemed to just tap my bait and then theyd either leave, or id yank on it and nothing. i was using cut bluegill on a slip sinker rig. 14 lb mono, 1oz sinker, steel leader, with a big as fuck hook. i know i was doing something wrong. other people were catching them left and right. they were using bobbers, dont know what they had on them.
do i need a different rig, different bait? both?
i'm going to start taking binoculars fishing so i can shamelessly spy on what people are using.

still happy i got my first catfish. really fun to catch. i did have one on the line that felt really big but came off after a minute.

>>1014528
https://youtu.be/iO_IjBG2rU0
https://youtu.be/NoBgQKl5fwk
https://youtu.be/XRoBqVDga4o

Luke will teach you everything about catfishing. He's one of the most detailed guys on youtube which is funny because catfishing is pretty basic.

Were you using a circle hook? If so, then you were probably ripping the hook from their mouths. You need to let the hooks set themselves.

>>1014528
How big was the hook? I don't go for catfish much and when I do, it's channel cats. But I'm thinkin they either felt the hook and dropped it or the weight was too close and heavy and when they picked the bait up, they felt it being held back. Idk.

Bait too big? Unless you just had bluegill picking at it and that's what you felt when you tried to set the hook. That happens with Texas rigs sometimes when a bluegill nips the tail of a lizard or some shit. Turtles too.

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>>1014535
ohh I fucking hate turtles. Especially snapping turtles. Them and water snakes, we have like 12 species of water snake that look close enough like either copperheads or cottonmouths you don't want to take chances, and all of them will absolutely hit bass lures.

I caught this fucker not 30 seconds after taking his pic on a Texas-rigged baby brush hog. Brown water snake, nonvenomous, but fuuuck not one I'd 100% ID if it weren't full sun.

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>>1014534
nah, i had circle hooks but rushed out of the house to meet my brother at the pond and forgot them. ended up tying on these premade leaders ive had forever but never used. i know luke always says not to set the hook, just real down after they commit, but i thought maybe that was only with circle hooks. pic related is pretty close to what i was using. should i let them take it until my rod stays down? do i still set the hook with these?
>>1014535
pic related. if that doesnt give you an idea, hook was about the size of a standard bic lighter. biggest hook i own. i tried a few diffrent sizes of cut bait. started with inch wide slices of bluegill, then worked my way down to cubes, threw worms on, everything i could think of. only one i actually caught was on a full bluegill steak. lots of bites on everything though. think i was just fucking up by either not setting the hook, or trying to set the hook. not sure which.

>>1014537
Damn, that sucks they actually hit the lures. I've had turtles and birds go for baits, but never any sneks besides bullseye sneks.

>>1014538
id set the hook with that, and when they hit, go in to freespool for a solid 10 count, pick up the rod, lock down and give a good jerk. thats what i usually do soaking big baits in the ocean and it seems to work, and thats what i did when i got my pb channel catfish (only about 24 in)

>>1014542
A 2 foot channel cat is nothing to sneeze at.
>>1014541
Fished for 7 hours today. First 5 hours for bass, ended up catching a ~3lb snapping turtle on a half-ounce jig, and that fucking snek on the TX-rigged lizard, and zero bass. Last 2 hours I busted out my fly rod and threw Chernobyl ants for bluegill, ended up with ~30 'gills and a very small white crappie. Although nothing big enough to be worth keeping/eating.

I really need access to something other than the county parks.
>~7 acre lake
>90* day
>what felt like 37 gorillion fishermen
In reality it was probably around 70-80 different groups, usually families with small kids, but they were dense enough you couldn't just walk the banks and pitch. Which, for a weekend, is typical even if it was hot as fuck. They get fished SO fucking hard there's hardly anything left to catch.

>>1014544
Yeah you gotta find little lakes on private property.

I got kicked out by the cops today but it was getting dark and I was about to leave anyway. He was happy I was just fishin and not shooting dope or whatever bullshit. I was parked all the way in the back of this industrial area at a place where they work on jet engines and it was getting dark on a Sat night so...

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>>1014316
>couple hundred 9_9

nigga do you like being /out/?
nigga do you like being on the water?
nigga do you like to paddle?
nigga do you like to fish?
would you like to access fishing areas that shore bound niggas can't?

nigga a kayak will work for all of that.
see how easy it is to rationalize?
buying a kayak will allow you to get out & fish more productive waters.

now go buy a kayak nigga.

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>>1014545
I went to a pair of lakes that were marked with signs that said 'DNR only' today and it was some of the best fishing I've ever had. Bass were going nuts for topwater and pike were stealing my lures left and right. Not bad at all for NW Illinois. Trespassing is pretty much the only way I fish, everything else just fucking sucks. Screw what the moralfags have to say.

My buddy even got a 4lber. I know you used to live around here and know that you don't see bass like this around here every day. If I went to some public lake I wouldn't have gotten shit.

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>>1014528
I've always let cats take the bait for about 10-15 seconds. They like to gently grab before they really get it. You can either leave your bail open or set your drag looser so there's little resistance. Also what the other anon said about circle hooks. You don't want set the hook like normal.

>>1014541
One time I was working this little mouse topwater in a pond fucking with a turtle and I just let it sit there for a sec cause I was gonna get a video of me fucking with it and while I was trying to get my phone a bass blew up on it. Pretty sure it was this fish.

>>1014551
I'm honestly too scared to trespass around here because all the good ponds are on farmland and I don't like being shot at.

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>>1014551
so you're a poacher?
thats really cool bro..

>>1014555
No, because I don't keep the fish. And I'm not trying to impress you homo.

>>1014554
Yeah, things are a little different up here, especially so close to a major city. Nobody is going to shoot you for fucking around on some forested patch of land.

>>1014554
I wish I could just go fish farm ponds.
>find farm pond on Google Maps
>pull platt book, find owner
>call owner, "Good [time of day], this is Anon, I was wondering if you would allow fishing on your pond? I would be willing to pay a trespass fee and am an ethical fisherman that cleans up after himself"
>no *click*
>repeat x1000
The only time anybody was even willing to say yes, they asked for $250/day to fish a ~1 acre pond that was weeded up, and the owner wasn't even sure it had ever been stocked.

>>1014558
was thinking about trying this but now i wont bother.

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>>1014557
might want to look up what poaching is stupid nigger.

>>1014570
>>1014555
+1

https://akroncanton.craigslist.org/spo/6120776575.html
it would work, but i'd like it if it were a few inches wider, it seems like i might have stability problems, though it also seems like it will be a pretty fast kayak for its size. i dont know, anyone have any experience with anything like this?

>>1013585
>>1013588
Nice fish. Snurrebassen, right? Maybe I should grab me some of those as well...
But your posts just made me wanna say fuck things I have to do and hit the fjord for some chilltime.

>>1014426
No one?

>>1014426
>>1014610
i guess not. the most i know about them is the guy who's name they bear hosts "city limits fishing"

>>1014610
>>1014619
oh i should have put this on the initial thing, but i dont bother buying rods that claim to be designed by some pro fisherman and with his name on it, usually its just meme magic, and buying a rod slightly cheaper with similar specs gives you the same rod with a different colour.

>>1014619
>>1014623
Can anyone who's not skid talking out his ass about memes thats actually used the rods weigh in on this?

They have a good selection of lengths from 7'2" to 7'4" to 7'6" and 8" as well as variations that are glass mix graphite rods for cranks.

Lot of spinning options but I only need one spinning rod because all I use it for is drop shots and small jerk baits and I already have one.

>>1014506

My favorite fish to catch are those that can pull drag off my line. I usually go after catfish and carp so when I hook up the occasional bass, it's just not all that impressive.

On the other hand, after accidentally catching a 7lbs bass on ultralight tackle while targeting crappie, I have started bringing my lighter stuff along with me to chuck lures and live bluegill for the occasional bass.

>>1014545
>>1014551

I still have dreams about the industrial park I went to once where I caught 3 20+ inch bass, a 30 inch channel cat, and several bluegill as big as my hand in the first 45 minutes to an hour.

The security guard drove around a couple times before coming up, asking if I had caught anything and making small talk before eventually asking me if I had an employee ID. I said no and he politely asked me to leave. No biggie.

So I call back a couple of weeks later asking to speak to the security department. Maybe there's some way I can go give my ID or something and get special permission to just fish.

"Oh don't bother. There's no fish out there anyway."

What does a 15+ pound bass look in the water?

It's such a obese and ungainly looking fucker I can't imagine it swimming at all

>>1014623
I've actually been pretty impressed with the Duckett and Skeet Reese rods. They're some of the best bass rods in their respective price brackets.

>>1014602
That's right, a white snurrebasse.

Go for it! If you dont have time during the day, you could always go in the evening.
The trouts in my fjord really seems to wake up after 18.00 these days...
Are you the odense anon by any chance?

>>1014558

You gotta ask friends and coworkers if they have family/friends.

I got my best spot because my wife was showing coworkers pictures of some fish I caught and telling them how much I love fishing. One of the old ladies sje works with asked if I'd like to try fishing her farm tank.

Another friend knows a guy who's neighborhood has a huge lake full of crappie. Only homeowner association members can dish there, but the guy let's us use his flag on our boat.

>>1014648

Very lazy. Part of what makes them hard to catch.

>>1014657
Ah so they are some strong muscular fish wish stamina that can drag line out?

>>1014651
Don't know if I am THE Odense anon, but yes, I live in Odense... you?

>>1014671
There was an anon talking about Odense fjord in a thread a month or two ago, maybe it was someone else.

I live close to Mariager fjord, that's where those fish are from.

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>>1014541
>>1014537
cut their head off and eat them you pussy
you can also cut the head off and fuck the egg sac while the body is wriggling around in death throws

>>1014683
Might have been me...
Didn't get to go out today and now it's time to cook dinner before the girl gets home... no fishing today it seems. Maybe tomorrow...
It's starting to itch for some fishing though. Haven't had the time lately. Took a stroll down on the harbour the other day... lots of little fish swimming around started the itching and now those nice big fat trout you posted didn't exactly help with that...

>>1014557
Yeah people take cattle rustling pretty serious around here. I would mabey do it if the pond was in the open and right by a fence, but if I have to walk anywhere far I'm not gonna fuck with that lol.

>>1014558
Damn that sucks. I worked on a ranch for awhile and there was a pond there that had bass and huge (like 2lb) sunfish. I don't know if it was ever actually stocked or it was just in a good location for runoff and birds to drop stuff. The fish there were so easy. All I had to do was throw a senko and a fish would damn near always hit it on the first drop.

>>1014631
I haven't used that rod, but for the most part a pro isn't going to put his name on something is complete garbage. I really like my other Abu rods as well.

>>1014635
I wish catfish were easier to catch on artificials sometimes

>>1014705
Well I hope you find the time to look for some of those fat trouts in Odense soon, im sure they're there.
Ill probably go again tonight. Crack and break, as they say. :)

>>1014710
They are there. I know it.
Also gotta invest in a cheap kayak for the fjord just for fun. Dunno about Mariager but Odense Fjord is pretty much one big hotspot only most places are inaccessible by foot.

Good luck tonight ;)
And yes, crack and break. Gotta love literal translations.

>>1014551
Where you around? I don't want your spot, just curious which city/area you fish around

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>>1013519
anyone do any west coast washington/oregon surf fishing?
its popular up north in NJ and NY, and where i was in NC along the outer banks, wondering if the PNW has a similar group of surf anglers

Will any spacious kayak work for fishing or do I need a special seat/arrangement

I'm at Costco and they have some for sale that I might be interested in

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>>1014762
399$

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>>1014768
And 299$

>>1014768
Damn, that looks straight for the price.

>>1014762

Sit on tops work best for fishing since it gives you access to more of the boat and are easier to right should they flip. What you want is the ability to be able to reach all your stuff from a sitting position, so spaces for accessory mounts (rod holders, fish finder, etc) are ideal.

I saw that kayak at Costco too and it looks pretty good for the price. A great entry level kayak.

>>1014768
this looks bretty good

>>1013815
Update: got to use it today. Throwing against the wind, the 1/8 oz size still casts quite far. Had nothing for a while, then something absolutely smashed it, I set the hook, it pulled some drag, line snapped. That's three times in about 10 outings where a fish has snapped my line. What am I doing wrong

>>1014762
I have a sit in kayak for fishing and do enjoy it. Though would buy a sit on like the emotion stealth if I did it all over again (yeah poor fag).

>>1014833
using old line?
drag set too high?
shitty knots?
rod eyes damaged and fraying the line?
line weight too low?

>>1013597
Because it's silver with a black back.

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>sit an contemplate "do I really want this kayak"
>several hours pass and I still want it
>realize I can't get the damn thing home and costco doesn't deliver

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>>1013625
>>1013592
99 XJ

>>1014768
Im looking at this as well

I wonder how it will fair in saltwater? Maybe not open water but rather in the bay and inlets?

My #1 obstacle in getting a kayak is idk how to transport around

>>1014655
There's one farm pond I have sometimes-access to. Friend of mine works for the owner, and if I'm with him I can fish it, but the guy's super selective and won't let anybody fish it without my friend along.

Great fishing though, last time I went I had 32 bass and 2 gar in 3 hours throwing a half-ounce white ratltrap. Basically anything remotely shad colored is hot in that pond.

>>1013863
What's the water temp?
Most LMB like water temps about 70F (22C) best. They will hang out in water closest to that temp that they can find, ambushing stuff that passes by as they can find it.

>>1014843
What kind of vehicle do you drive?

There's kayak carriers of varying quality and price for just about everything bigger than a Smart Car, including options for those that don't have a roof rack or roof rails.

>>1014836
Line has been sitting around for a while but it also caught me a 3 pound bass. My drag was actually set kinda low. Used a Jansik Special. Don't seem to be. 8lb test.

It's probably the knot. I think I'll start using uni knots from now on

>>1014856
I have a honda civic 2012

There is a 98 rav4 with a rack on top that my mother/sister drive as well but I'm not sure a 12 ft kayak will balance well on top of it

>>1014861
>2011 impreza hatch

Oh god I didn't think how silly it would look on my car

>>1014861
A 12ft kayak would balance just fine on the Rav4. Might think about a 10ft kayak if you plan on using the Civic.

>>1014866
What is the advantage of 10ft vs 12 ft

>>1014867
Lighter and more easily portable at the cost of stability and tracking in wind/current.

Also usually significantly cheaper for similar features.

>>1014867
>>1014861
Okay, I suppose it's a little late for this, but do you know the basic differences between kayak types and hull designs?

Anyone in NEPA 570/610 looking for a fishing buddy? Also have a jersey license if any north west jersey guys want to fish.

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For you anon

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>>1014875
So cute.

You might almost beat me for dinkest of dinks.

>>1014650
im not saying they're bad rods, just that most of the time, they charge extra only because someone's name is on it
>>1014762
any sit on top 10+feet long, and fairly wide should be usable for fresh water
>>1014841
tie it to the roof of the car. buy some pool noodles and a $15 thing of 50 feet of rope, line the roof with cut pool noodles (going side to side, not front to back, drop the kayak on top, tie it to anything you can find to tie off to
>>1014872
Dicks sporting goods had a chart when i worked there, you want multi chine, or a tunnel hull (looks kinda like a u, so the flotation is on the outside, the pelican catch 120 uses it)

>>1013870
Must not be a lot of prey fish in that water. Taking a bunch of fish out of there would be good for the health of that lake.

>>1014153
No.
You want your lure to have ACTION (which is why everyone loves WWs), but still run straight to you when you reel it in.
A lure that fucks way off track to the left or right is not only a huge hassle, it doesn't have the optimal action to make the lure look realistic either.

>>1014161
That's a breeding female.

>>1014192
That's because in Great-gramps's day back before cars were everywhere, guys would take their dates canoeing and use the large open space in the middle to screw. It's why some places in the Midwest still have local ordinances against canoeing after dark.

>>1014430
>>>/b/

>>1014453
Yes.
One or two bass that size can exist in a small pond like that. It just beats the odds and then has the run of the lake for as long as it lives.
I grew up near a golf course water hazard that was like that-never stocked, just self-sufficient. Every couple of years someone would pull a 10+ pounder out of it.

>>1014866
>>1014869
So what is the best way to attach the kayak to a roof rack. I see multiple methods online. What is the best?

Also, should kayak be stored in an inhouse garage or it can be somewhere in the backyard. Can the environment damage to kayak. Note that I'm in socal and there is no extreme weather.

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Yet a silver fatty here from tonight about 30mins ago. This one is 49cm and 1.61kg.
Also saw a couple of garfish jumping around in shallow water, but they werent really interested.

>>1014843

Most any kayak that can brave a lake and lazy rivers can handle backwater. It's the waves that get you in salt water. And corrosion.

>>1014879
IMO the Duckett rods are better than any of the other ~$100 rods on the market. They have it all. Good blanks, stainless microguides, good reel seat, good grip, good proportions. The Skeets are tiered, some are not really any better than the comparably priced Shimanos and Abus, but the $80 combos are fucking awesome for the money.

Current Dick's employee and lifetime kayaker here. Unless it's strictly a pond/small lake kayak, avoid the fuck out of pontoon hulls (the inverse U shape), they're slow as balls and track poorly, and get BTFO by wind. Multi-chine (shaped like a W) unless you're going out in heavy current, it's a good blend of stability and speed/tracking. V-hull if you do a lot of fishing in current or it's always windy as shit, they're the fastest but least stable laterally.

Sit-on kayaks generally are wider and have a higher weight capacity for any given length, at the cost of being heavier and having weird or difficult grips in the middle. They're generally preferred for fishing as everything's a bit more reachable and they tend to be more stable due to being wider, and you're less likely to lose a ton of tackle into the corners of your hatches. However, they don't generally have the large storage bays if you also kayak camp.

Sit-in kayaks provide more protection from the elements (particularly sun, the only thing that sucks worse than sunburnt ankles is a sunburnt dick), and generally being narrower they will generally be faster at the cost of stability and weight capacity.

If you fish AT ALL out of a kayak, rig yourself an anchor trolley. It's like $5 in parts. Go buy a cheap 3lb grapple anchor and have at it. NEVER EVER tie your anchor off in the middle of the kayak, that's just asking for some asshole in a powerboat to capsize you with wake because you can't turn into it while anchored.

>>1014861

My 12 foot kayak sits very securely on my rav4 with nothing but a couple straps.

>>1014884
If you have crossbars on your roof rack, an actual commercial kayak carrier is the most secure.

I like the SwissCargo one, it works with 1 kayak, 2 kayaks, or 1 SUP and it's ~$130 and comes with a damn good warranty.
>https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/p/swiss-cargo-3-in-1-multifunction-kayak-carrier-15fbeu3n1kykcrrrxpsr/15fbeu3n1kykcrrrxpsr
Just be aware that odds are it won't fit in a garage with the kayak mounted.

UV rays will damage ALL plastics, some faster than others. It is also preferable to store kayaks indoors to keep vermin from chewing up your seats and keeping spiders out of the thing. However, if you don't have anywhere in your garage to put it, rig a tarp or something and have it up off the ground. I've seen people hang it like a hammock with a rainfly over it, seems to work pretty well. If you have a sit-in kayak, rig a closure for the cockpit with bungee cords and tarp material to keep vermin and debris out.

>>1014886
and dont forget big fish, a big fish pulling the wrong way on your boat can capcise you if you cant stand up and lean away

>>1014887
> sunburnt dick

Shit, are you kayaking pantless or something?

>>1014894
I have before, yes.

Obviously, that was a huge mistake.

>>1014893
What the fuck? I have literally never came anywhere close to being capsized from big fish. They'll pull you around sure, but a drag is a thing that exists. You're retarded.

>>1014897
I got tipped once by a surprise flathead when bass fishing. Only because I wasn't expecting to hook into a 40+lb fish and basically did everything wrong.

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These threads need more flyfishing content. I'll try to watch these more.

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>>1014902
Here's a more recent catch

>>1014902
>tfw the only flyfishing I do is sunfish cuz no native trout
Trout parks are cancer btw. You have to compete with 77 gorillion other people, there's a daily fee, and they're so ridiculously overstocked you could literally throw a bare Aberdeen and catch your limit in 5 minutes.

I did buy a bunch of streamers over the winter to try to get some crappie, then promptly lost my only crappie hole due to flooding.

>>1014900
How does that pull you over? It doesn't matter how big the fish is it doesn't pull more than like 8-10 lbs of pressure tops because of your drag. The only way I could see someone capsizing from a big fish is if it surprised them and they fell over which is your own fault and is in no way related to the size of the fish

>>1014897
if the fish is on the side of the boat, and decides he wants to go down (from any depth by the side of the boat) if you're using heavy tackle and not leaning back to balance his force, you're going in
case and point: this shmuck at 30 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsDUQpUfRzg

>>1014907
My sympathies. Nearly all of the trout I fish for are self sustaining. Montana is pretty great for the sport.

>>1014902
+1 on the fly fishing
>>1014907
bass can be had on fly, so can pike, pickerel, carp, and a lot of other species. its worth looking in to fishing for them on fly rod

>>1014909
>over which is your own fault
yeah, if you fall off your kayak from a fish, its your fault, but the potential to make a mistake and it happen is there, and not knowing what you're doing is what will cause it

>>1014909
I use 30lb braid on my bass reel cuz I'm not about to lose a $10 lure to submerged stick #139074, and due to never hooking anything over 4lbs had the drag set stupidly high.

Hooked it at about the 1:00 position and it immediately made a run straight at, then past, me to the 6:00, couldn't reel it in fast enough or turn the yak at the same time, pulled taut all at once and over I went.

So yeah, 99-100% my fault. Hence the
>because I did basically everything wrong
line.
>>1014916
Bass aren't worth flyfishing for around here, too much shit in the water to run streamers and topwaters are good for about 1 hour a day 2 months out of the year due to very short springs and very hot summers driving them deep. I'll get one occasionally on a panfish popper but I don't target them specifically.

No pike or pickerel in any number here, and 1 lake stocked with muskies that always lurk around the brush piles. Also I don't have the right rod for muskie, it's a light trout/panfish rod.

I have no interest in catching carp on rod and reel, that's what bowfishing is for.

>>1014911
Why, for what purpose, there's a perfectly good boat right there, how do you even unhook the fish in the kayak, this makes me angry

>>1014926
Like most people that catch sharks, you get them close enough to grab/touch [part of shark well away from mouth], go "I caught this!" and cut the fucking line.

Smaller toothy fish you use a fish grabber or gaff. Smaller smooth-mouthed fish you lip 'em.

>>1014926
that guy is probably some tourist, who went on a kayaking trip once in his home state, then saw an advert for kayak shark fishing, thought "that sounds fun" so he called the number, and so they loaded the gear, the rod, and the kayak in to the boat, drove him out there, dropped the kayak off in the ocean, sat him down in it, and gave him a fish he couldnt handle, and they knew he couldnt handle, so they have to have the "support" boat there to baby sit him while he's being stupid. that being said, there are people who do this right, and they are bad ass, they get big sharks, tarpon, even bill fish from kayaks, and the way its usually done is in pairs. they both fish, one of them hooks a fish, the other reels in and paddles after them, then when the fish is tired the friend in the other boat gabs it, unhooks it, and then passes control to the guy who got it for pictures. it usually lasts hours and goes on for miles

>>1014926

Guy should have adjusted his drag if the thing kept pulling the rod out of his hands. He's just trying to horse it in.

Then again, it is a shark and if you play them too much, they'll pretty much exhaust themselves to death.

>>1014875
>>1014877
fricken cute >_<

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>>1014952
I am the king of dinks.

>>1014946
if he had gotten out of his seat, or even stood up entirely, and leaned back, he could have gotten away with it. the only reason he's falling over is because he's not leaning back
look at blacktip H (a guy who knows how to shark fish) handling a similar size shark, on what looks like a fairly similar kayak, with similar enough gear, sitting on the far side of the boat and leaning off, or even standing up. they do have a support boat, but i think that's more just for filming, and convenience, but realistically they could have used a second kayak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI3S6c--8Bk

>>1014922

Heh. After snagging on cover while trolling for the first time, I started setting my drag loose all the time.

>>1014954
that one's kinda ugly...

i like the ones with the bigger mouths...

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>>1014966
like this guy?

>>1014971
:3

Is fishing when it's windy a bad idea? Or post front?

>>1014978
Pre front is almost always better. Wind will fuck up topwater or shallow presentations but isn't necessarily bad fishing. If it was a really severe front or lasted a while it can be good fishing afterwards but there's usually a 12-24 hour lull after one.

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>>1014966

>>1014989
nice crankbait, what brand is it?

>>1014989
so cute >_<

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>>1014993
MegaTarget™

Made in Japan™

>>1014861
My kayak is 12ft and it goes on my rav

>>1014978
Windy is good for moving/bright lures

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>>1014999
Dink post bump

>>1014861
I put a 12 footer on a fiesta hatch

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>>1014736
its much different. redtail surfperch is the game in the surf. but dont discount the incredible fishery just right on the rocks and jetties.
in season offshore theres albacore which are lots of fun to catch on light tackle.

>>1014841
>didnt notice the $27 portable kayak racks two spaces over..

>>1014843
fill in space with pool noodles, my buddy has one and it works fine in salt.


>boys meet your new queen

>>1015017
>dat fisherman's tan line across half her hand
hnnng

>>1015017
my impreza lacks rails so it's kinda moot at this point

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>all this dink posting and no one invited me

Pic related almost fit on a us quarter
I've had smaller (caught on hook and line) but don't have pics