Fishing & or Tackle

>>1037063
700 hours in my phones version of MS paint.

>>1037062
Water temperature is the big one. Pickerel can spawn in warmer waters.

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bug season is upon us. Anybody here like dem bugs?

>>1037067
Lub me some mudbugs. Have 12 traps soaking right now.

>>1037067
My wee wee jumps a little every time y'all post pics of them. I have not been to a good boil in years.

>>1037068
You in LA?

>>1037066
I see, pike seem to hold over fine in warmth, they just cant spawn in hotter climates compared to colder ones? They seem to spawn right after ice melts, and we had that transition too

>>1037071
lolno. Missouri.

>>1037073
Ahh that sucks I might have made the trip to get down on some but that is too far of a drive.

>>1037074
sorry m8. My love of them was kindled as a wee lad living in Biloxi.

Fortunately I live within walking distance of a public access on a fairly major river. I can (in theory) take 150 mudbugs a day but average around 40 across my 12 traps.

>>1037072
Not sure if it's a matter of can't or won't, but yeah. They don't spawn in warmer waters. Might have something to do with survival rates of pike fry being higher in colder water or something.

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>>1037068
good luck gettin you some brother.

>>1037069
>wee_wee_jumping_intensifies.png

>>1037069
We had some at the last race I went to and it was very overdue. Shit was cash.

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>>1037083
>>1037087

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>>1037087
what do you race?

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I've been /out/ fishing 4 of the last 5 days. All by myself. The peace and tranquility of it all is so nice.

But tfw you get back to society and realize you're a loser with no gf or hopes of ever having one.

can anyone relate?

>>1037099
No not realy but if it makes you feel better I just got bite by a spider when I laid down to go to sleep.

>>1037099
Sorry dude. Retired young (legit retired, pension and all) from a fruitful career and been married 10 years. Cant' relate.

>>1037093
Endurance racing. I'm just on the pit crew tho and it's not a professional deal. Pretty fun tho.

>>1037099
Vaginas are overrated

>>1037110
I follow this girl on social media 8/10 would have redneck babies with

>>1037114
Vaginas are, in fact, quite underrated. What they're attached to is what's lacking.

>>1037099
>tfw said "bonjour" to 3 really cute girls and their dogs today
they said hi back but then they left i think i was kinda awkward...

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>>1037114
>follow this girl on social media 8/10 would have redneck babies with

she makes my wee wee jump but you know shes a trump voting redneck daddys girl and her bf is a chubby fuckn derpster that probably sells tractors at his dads used tractor lot. baka all that hnnggg and thats what she's into..desu

>>1037099
>can anyone relate?

no not really bruh.. but if it makes you feel better i'm an optimist, I predict you will eventually find someone that will like you just as much as you like them..be happy knowing it will eventually happen. Being depressed and desperate about it will be your downfall.

And wash your hands, comb your hair and brush your fucking teeth you fucking loser.
bitches like shit like that..

>>1037099
No because in Vet School and good Pussy is easy in College

>>1037142
>vet school
>pussy is easy
Stop fucking the cats mayne

>>1037139
>Implying she shouldn't have voted Trump
Things may be shit now, but every other choice was more shit brah

>>1037139
she probably has 4somes with her bf, dad and brother

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>>1037149
naw her dad dont look the type.

>>1037149
Sounds like just a threesome.

>>1037160
idgi

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>>1037149
>bf
>dad
>brother

all the same guy...kek
dat thikness doe...

HELP. MY baitcaster's spool won't spin, what's wrong? Pic Related, old Shakespeare reel.

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>>1037164
FUCK

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>>1037166
take the side plate off and take look. either a bad bearing or shit stopping it from rotating

>>1037063
i'm not sure how to phrase this without sounding retarded but how do i cast a catfish rig as far as possible? i have some big surf fishing rods, giant sinkers etc but i dont seem to get much farther than throwing a 1 oz on my little bass rod
catfishing a big lake soon. wanna get way out there

You guys should go to /r/fishing
they upvote any post with a girl in it

>>1037273
>going to plebbit on purpose ever

why would you do this, anon?

>>1037296
They post more fish than this place, although they are a train wreck at IDing fish and sometimes you see terrible CnR practice

I heard that once a soft plastic bait is torn up in one area, like a zoom fluke by the head, you can hit it with a lighter and melt it back firm. True?

>>1037164
>what's wrong?
You have a Sakespeare

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Been tearing them up on squarebill cranks this month guys. Bass absolutely BTFO

>>1037298
except most posts are

>long irrelevant title about their personal life for no reason

>my personal best largemouth!

>check out this 20 pound largemouth!


and then the comments are always:

>forced perspective much?

>shitty pun

>dude wtf learn how to handle a fish properly

>wow a woman, shitty pun!

>>1037300
Sounds like it would make a melted glob of plastic nightmare. Stop being poor and buy another bag of flukes for $2.50 holy shit

>>1037300
if you don't want to catch any fish, yeah this should work.

fish can smell/taste your bait so that burning plastic smell isn't going to be something a fish will want to eat

>>1037305
yep. it's pretty much full of novice anglers mixed in with long time anglers posting some good shit at times.

I just moved from Alberta, where I used to fish for trout and mountain whitefish, to southern Ontario. There seems to be lots of bass and catfish in my area. I heard bass go for just about anything, what do catfish like though???

>>1037312
The best for catfish is live (flatheads, big blues) or cut (everything) baitfish.

Punch/dip baits work for channels and blues and is convenient, but is messy and stinks horribly. They generally don't work for flatheads.

Nightcrawlers will catch pretty much any species of catfish, but you have to figure out a way to keep the bluegill/perch away from it.

>>1037312
channel catfish like cutbait and live crawdads/crayfish.

Bass will hit anything, just pick up any lure

>>1037310
Bass won't care

>>1037312

bass literally do not give a shit, ive had lots of success texas rigging soft crawfish in bright colours (chartreuse or sapphire), just fish slow especially on hotter days here

catfish will eat anything, live crawfish are good and chicken liver or anything organic that smells like shit

hi. i haven't fished much. went kayaking down a river saturday, and had a great time. my cousin let me use one of his poles, and i caught a 1lb perch. we cooked and ate it on the bank. it was a really interesting experience.

so can anybody so inclined point out some good beginner resources for light fishing? best equipment, how to clean a fish, what to do after you've caught a fish, how to properly cook a fish outdoors, etc.? any good advice you wish you would've gotten before you started?

i don't plan on going out and trying to catch 50 a t a time, but being able to go out to the woods and catch lunch or dinner would be awesome.

>>1037318

I like to use chicken gizzards for cats if fo some reason I'm not going to use live bait, it stays on the hook well.

>>1037339
Yeah those work pretty well (as do chicken livers), but they're fairly expensive (a quarter each) and sporadically available since I live somewhere predominantly white and white people really don't eat them so they have no other commercial usage.

Just moved to the Richmond, VA area from south Florida. Any recommendations on places to fish from the bank?

The James River is an obvious one but I've tried a couple spots and had zero luck so far trying for catfish. Pretty much the only fish I've caught since the move were sunfish on a handline

Also any tips for river fishing in general? I mostly fished small, slow flowing canals in south Florida so the river doesn't make any sense to me yet

>>1037336
Best to ask your cousin, like what lure/bait was used on what setup
Generally crappie fishing applies to any light fishing. Id just get a cheap rod+reel and spool it with 6 lb mono and tie some cheap lures at the end and get out there.
Crappie lures like a jig head with some plastic lure like a curly tail grub is cool.
Slapping a bobber on the line would allow that jig to just stay off the bottom.

>>1037344

would appreciate some river fishing tips too, especially deep ones fishing from shore.

i fish the rideau river in ottawa (normally below the black rapids lockstation for anyone in the area), never had any success fishing from the shore facing the river, but normally hitting weed beds and calmer backwaters gives me results, but i see plenty of dudes walking around with bucktail jigs and whatnot and the only thing open right now is pike

>>1037344
A river has spots to fish unlike a canal which is basically uniform. Focus on deep pools, where fast moving water flows and calms down, and/or cover.

IMO if you're not wading and moving around it's not river fishing. Unless you know one spot is good and just want to set up there. Spots like this are like at dams which are typically hot somewhere around it.

>>1037344
Shenandoah Park seems great if you want to get into trout

>>1037341
>white people really don't eat them

Dumass yankes.

>>1037166
its fucked you should buy an abu garcia silver max
>>1037200
try shortening the distance between your weight and your bait, if they are far apart they will waste energy spinning around eachother instead of flying. the other thing is, look up the pendulum cast.

>>1037351
Suppose you're gonna bitch that we don't eat chitlins, hogs feet, and grits too now.

>>1037348
80% plus of the rivers in North America cannot be waded along 99% of their length due to either current or depth.

For example I live within a reasonable drive of the Mississippi, Missouri, Big, and Meramec rivers. At no point within a reasonable drive are any of them wadeable. The Mississippi and Missouri both have current too strong to wade in the few spots that aren't 6' deep within 1 foot of the shore and all of them are primarily deep and steep-banked (for example the Meramec near me is between 5 and 25 feet deep within 18" of shore with a 40-60* slope or outright bluffs leading to the water)

>>1037358
Oh so you're talking about big rivers. I'm not familiar with those really. I fish one that is connected to a bay but it's pretty manageable up here. Fortunately not a muddy bottom either. In that case look for dams again and look for good spots on maps where it calms down on the side but stays deep

>>1037336
Might be a bit of an information overload but this site is pretty okay http://learninghowtofish.com/
Anything thats not there would be easy enough to find on youtube.

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Are bubba blades worth it? I need a new filet knife since I lost mine during a fishing trip.

>>1037373
I wouldn't know about bubba blades, I've never owned one, but the best fillet knife I've ever owned is the Helle Fiskekniv. Runs about $80-90 retail.

Can you use spinfishing rod also for float fishing or is that generally a bad idea?

>>1037373
The bigger ones are okay for catfish but they're all overpriced for what they are (basic-bitch chinese 420 stainless) and the handles can get in the way on smaller fish.

>>1037368
Yes, but the same applies to most creeks east of the Mississippi and almost all small rivers more than a dozen miles from their mouths/deltas anywhere in North America.
>tfw have one creek running through my farm property
>narrow enough to jump over without a running start
>sheer banks and it's 15' deep with strong current
>soft mud bottom
And by strong current I mean shit goes downstream faster than I can run at a dead sprint. I've lost quite a few wood ducks that way.

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>>1037373
Just get an electric one. Used mine for the first one on these gills and it took me a fraction of the time compaired to a normal fixed blade fillet knife

>>1037099
Are you ugly or just not outgoing?

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>>1037302
Pic related is the smallest crank I own, but I've caught more largemouths on this than anything else I've ever bought.
Bomber A square bill. It's less than $3 on Walmart's website, and can be found in store.

>>1037327
This is used lighters on countless Zoom finesse and trick worms and still nail bass.

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>>1037356
>not eating chitlins, hogs feet, and grits too now.

>>1037395
Those bomber lures are pretty good for being as cheap as they are

>>1037398
I should try it I have a whole bunch of plastics with torn noses I could use.

>>1037403
Definitely give it a shot. I mostly end up using a lighter on worms that I wacky rigged since the fuckers nearly rip them in half off the hook.
I will say it makes them move in the water differently with less or more tail action depending on where you have to melt them back together.
It's pretty unique really.

>>1037403
>intentionally eating the garbage parts of grains and animals, when they require extensive prepwork to be edible

>>1037346
I haven't tried the Rideau, but I've had some luck fishing the Ottawa river over in the West end. Good pike down by the water treatment plant, seen lots of small mouth bass near Brittania beach. Someone previously linked a good map with spots marked for fishing in the area, I'll see if I can find it.

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>>1037407
>not using all of the animal

Some of us ain't lucky enough to waste perfectly good food like you city folk

>>1037431
>pig intestines and hooves
>perfectly good
Pick one

I'll bet you don't eat the liver or kidneys out of game animals either, hypocrite.

>>1037434
This.

You'll spend more money on fuel boiling them for forever to make them edible than you would have just buying actual meat.

Which means if you eat it you're either mentally handicapped or are doing it ironically to act like a poor black person in the 30's.

FUCK. I lost my old mepps dinner with feathers on it. Got it stuck in a tree at a public park. I'm going Rio go back at night to get it.

What lures or fishing equipment have you guys lost?

>>1037449
never lost a rod or reel or any equipment but ive lost countless lures. I usually keep more than one of the same lure so loosing one isnt that big of a deal and should be somewhat expected when you fish structure

>>1037449
I most frequently lose lipless crankbaits.

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Who /Shimano/ here?

>>1037455
Too poor brah.
Are Curados really that good?

>>1037437
> not boiling them so they can be edible and also have the stock for soup and shit

>>1037449
Yeah, I lost countless of lures, mostly treble hook spinners, get caught on everything

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>>1037449
last week lost my best custom painted deps swimbait. almost cried. seriously thought about swimming for it. lost 2 huds a month prior didnt feel as bad.

>>1037465
>having stock for shit soup
FTFY

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>>1037467
>tfw you lose your grandfather's lure
I can still see it hanging in a tree. I'm thinking about cutting it down at night when no one's around.

>>1037099
The bad news
>TFW no GF
Iktf

The good news:
Getting a gf is a skill just like fishing is. You learned this; you can learn that.

The other good news is that you do something familiar that makes you happy. Women get that, respond to it, and are fine with it.
Women love to fish. Especially if you can help them out and get them catching something-it doesn't even matter if it's bluegill. Go easy mode, get some worms and get her catching stuff. Remember these key words:
>light
>easy
>fun
Don't go all day, don't do anything complicated, move if you're getting skunked, don't get mad if you don't catch stuff, and if she outcatches you be gracious and roll with it. Take pictures-she LOVES pictures. Bring baby wipes so she can get stinky fish slime off her hands, sunscreen so she doesn't get fried and beverages so she stays cool.
It isn't that hard. You can do this if you try.

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>deep fried eel

>>1037395
Those are great too. Lately I've been throwing Strike King KVD 2.5's. They have much better hooks than the Bombers and other cheaper brands. Bass hit them just the same, I just seem to miss far less strikes with the KVD's. Sometimes you get what you pay for.

i wanna go fishing but i think i got diarrhea from wading out into the river yesterday

:(

>>1037497
You aren't supposed to drink the river water

>>1037502
i didn't but idk what else it could be

maybe the tim hortons but i've never gotten the shits from them before

>>1037067

Last time we had a Crawfish boil at a family reunion, I was puking, swelling up, and had to go to the ER. I was 8. Scared the shit out of me.

I loved catching them and keeping them as pets and I still use them as bait, but a recent allergy tests still says I'm super allergic. Oysters, crabs and lobster are even worse.

But I outgrew my shrimp allergy
.. funny that.

>>1037112

Married 6 here years. Wife just got a Facebook memory from a fishing trip/picnic (outdoor sex session) we had a year ago so we're headed out today to repeat it.

>>1037520
Nice.

Planning on spawning any crotchfruit? Old lore in my family is children are easiest conceived when out from under a roof.
>tfw I was conceived on a wool blanket innascrub in AZ

>>1037457

Shimano IX reels are 15 bucks and last decades. They can even survive salt water use.

>>1037531

She doesnt want kids. She's really good with them though.

>>1037534
>and last decades
I've had really shit luck with the cheaper Shimano reels though, and I've had probably 20 of them.

Hell I killed 2 Saharas in one season of trout fishing even with routine maintenance, and had a Caenan fly apart on the first cast despite it being a $110 reel.

>>1037541
That's a shame imo. Kids are your legacy, not what you yourself do. But if you're cool with it, roll with it.

Be willing to bet she changes her mind tho. Women's biological clocks can really kick their ass.

>>1037505
Candiru

>>1037493
Oh definitely. I had to replace the bomber hooks after catching an aggressive 2 pounder. I replaced them with some mustad trebles and it was doing great.
Personally I'd rather use the bomber over any of the KVDs is because they are physically smaller, and you can run them more shallow.
I've had success cranking them around a foot deep over weed beds where even a KVD 1.0 would get snagged.

>>1037345
i was paying attention, he mentioned using minnow crank baits and rooster tails. thanks, cheap rod & reel seems ideal for getting into it.

>>1037372
thanks. i'll check it out.

>>1037542

I inherited one from my father in law after he passed. He had it since 2000 fishing the NC coast and it had spent another 5 sitting out in a shed. I've been using it the past 6. Recently landed a 19lbs carp on it.

>>1037554
Maybe some of their reels are better than others, but I'm not buying their bargain-basement reels ($35-110) and they're consistently failing on me. It's not me either, the ONLY other reel that's ever died in my possession was an antique spincast I inherited from my grandfather and it only failed because it was already damaged when I got it. Literally none of the HUNDREDS of other reels I've used have outright broken, I either lose a part during maintenance or upgrade and resell. And this includes some cheapo Shakespeares and Quantums.

Now, I have used some of their high-end reels and those are good, but I get the feeling they're taking the Abu Garcia approach to reels--IE, nothing under $100 is worth a shit.

>>1037544

Kind of. I've been doing the Ancestry.com thing and realized that after you get to your great grandkids or so, you become- at best- an idea of someone that once existed. None of them actually remember you as a person. My dad only remembers his own grandma as "the toughest and meanest bitch that ever lived."

Especially these days as families are smaller and more spread out. I have 15 aunts/uncles (before getting into their spouses) but only really deal with 5 to 6 of them.

The exception being if you did some great accomplishment, at which point someone's going to remember you anyway as a name on a plaque or something.

And I'll always remember my aunties, one of whom lost her only son and the other who never married/had kids as my second and third mothers.

So having kids as a means "to preserve my legacy" is not something I put much stock in. Frankly, I'm more concerned about having someone to take care of me in old age, but even that is a crapshoot. We're saving up for that reason.

She hits 28 tomorrow and hasn't shown signs of changing and has encouraged me to get snipped but has agreed to wait a couple more years. Her parents were older when they had her and she does not want to repeat that.

/end blogpost

>>1037566
I feel you on all those points. I never knew any of my great grandparents in person and all my grandparents were already geriatric by the time I came around, since my family tends to have kids later in life.

My family also tends to not have a lot of kids. I only have a grand total of 4 aunts/uncles and their spouses, 3 of my 4 grandparents were only children, and I'm an only child.

By preserving your legacy I meant "teach your kids cool shit so they teach their kids cool shit so it survives a few more generations and your descendants maintain a love of [whatever you love, I'm assuming /out/ shit]", not to be individually remembered.

I'm 33 and will never have kids of my own, got hit in the nuts too many times in the military. Wife and I are looking into adopting, but we'll see how that plays out. Anything much past 30 is really pushing it socially for starting to have kids, and anything past about 35 starts running health risks for both the chick and the kids.

>>1037574
On a side note, I don't understand how some families can consistently have children young.

I've got a coworker who's in his late 20's. His grandma is like 55, and all of his great-great grandparents are still alive. He's got 3 kids, the oldest of which is a tweenie. Odds are good his great-great grandparents will live long enough to be great-great-great-great grandparents assuming his kids keep up the family tradition.

Like, that averages out to every member of their family shitting out the first kid at 16.

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What's the best lure for surf fishing? I've heard gold or silver spoons are good.

>>1037608
Buck Tail Jigs
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>>1037542
What went wrong with your sahara reels?

I had 2 that I bought off craiglist that was "broken" but I opened them up and did some cleaning/messing with the gears and grease the reel and they both run well so far

I use them to fish on the surf too and that takes a lot of abuse with saltwater + sand.

>>1037608
Depend on region and species. In socal, lucky craft flashminnow is #1 but that's a $20 plug lure. We don't have nasty fishes here so people don't mind with that. Daiwa sp is a cheaper alternative as a diving plug

Spoon is definitely a must have because sometimes it's so windy, nothing can be casted except a spoon or bucktail. In my experience, spoon is lower on the "attraction" power compared to a crank or soft plastic. However, when fish is active and frenzy and don't give a shit, I prefer spoon since they are cheap and durable.

Other must have include gulp sandworm, soft plastic minnow swimbait/jerkbait with a light jig head or weighted swimbait hooks for shallow flats, and bucktail. If your area have fishes that hit topwater, maybe a popper or a spook might also be included

>>1037552
Good plan. Mann's 1-Minus is great for this job too. Sucks they only make the baby size these days.

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>>1037434
>he doesn't like menudo
>he doesn't like pork sausage

>>1037457
Yes they're very good.

>>1037621
The bail arm cracked on one of them and the spindle shaft cracked on the other. They were not abused. Shimano replaced both of them under warranty (I only bought the first one, the second was the replacement for the first, the third was ebay'd unopened because fuck that).

>>1037623
you have any issues with the brakes on the Curado making a loud ass sound as the spool starts to slow down on long casts? Shit pisses me off so much. I figured out that if I put that fine tune thing on 2-3 it stops it from doing that but I loose casting distance. Haven't found a solution other than that yet

>>1037623
In a hypothetical where I'm not poor, what is a Curado best used for? Retrieving spinners/cranks, jigging, finesse, etc.

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>>1037628
What does it sound like? All my shimanos have kind of a whine if I really sling a heavy lure. I kinda like it desu.

>>1037634
Whatever you want to do with it. Any decent baitcaster will be good for bass techniques imo, besides maybe big swim baits and A rigs. I worry much more about rod and line when setting up a rod for a dedicated technique.

I got mine for saltwater fishes and it will launch 3 inch paddle tails with a 1/8oz jig head.

>>1037660
Anywhere in particular you do inshore fishing in Texas?

>>1037660
Yeah it hasn't happened to you then. You would for sure know what I ment if it did. I believe what is happening is when I cast the brakes swing up as they should to slow down the spool but when I thumb it a little towards the end they stay stuck in the up position and make a really loud and obnoxious rubbing sound that I can't describe with words. It only started doing it after chucking baits for a little over a year. Maybe I should put the extra brakes that come in the box on and see what happens

How do you guys not lose your worm while wacky rigging?
Almost every time I hook a fish my worm comes off. I've gone through a pack of senkos in a week.

>>1037710
by using yum dingers instead of senkos

>>1037710
O-rings. Been using the same senko for the past few weeks

Anybody here use Google Maps to track their fishing spots and search for new ones to try?

Any tips?

I was thinking of labeling mine by places I take my boat, places I fish from the bank, places for both, and places I want to try. Then also put markers in the lake at spots I fish from the boat on maybe in a different layer.

>>1037356
All I'm going to say: You don't know what you're missing.

>>1037455
My nigga
Have two shimano UL reels and a shimano spinning reel from the early 90s
All of them are bulletproof as hell and last decades.

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>>1037143
You got me

>>1037341
nigga just go to your local Carniceria, those mexicans will have em.

>>1037608
Gotcha plugs

>>1037717
I just star them. Remember to look at state's tax maps for property, and street view if possible for "no parking" , "posted" , etc

Hot this evening and I got skunked on the river; couldnt get a smallie to budge, not even dinks, and I fished till dusk.

Water was pretty murky too despite there not being rain lately. What do in this situation?

>>1037470
climb up there you fat fuck

>>1037667
I've only gone a handful of times to Galveston and Corpus/Mustang Island.

>>1037685
Interesting. Is it still under warranty?

>>1037714
Never thought to use them. I thought that they had a bad fall rate? Either way, I bought a bag.
>>1037716
Okay. When you use the O-ring, do you use one, or do you cross two like I've seen some youtubers do?

>>1037732
I don't have a local carniceria or local mexicans because I live in a northern white state.

>>1037822
Just once.

>>1037822
Dingers aren't bad, but they're not as good as Senkos.

I really like the Zman Zinkers, pretty good action and fall rate (close to but not quite as good as senkos), and they're durable as fuck.

>>1037775
>what do in this situation?
Crack a beer and pick on sunfish.

>>1037858
The only correct answer.

Thankfully sunfish are like the no-self-esteem sluts in high school. Treat them to a cheap meal and they'll ride your rod all day and all night until it breaks.

Anyone got any advice on Lake Mead? I used to fish with my dad a bunch in upstate NY but since getting stationed here I haven't been out fishing in a year or so.

My plan is to fly my dad out to go fishing around LV or Arizona. Any good spots out here besides Lake Mead?

>>1037775
gear down, finesse small baits. Something dark to create a silhouette in the murky water and some kind of noise. Shaky heads are my go to on rocky or gravel terrains. The lead head of the bait makes the right amount of noise to allow fish to hone in on it. ball headed finese jigs work well. I would pair it with something like a small chatterbait or spinnerbait to cover water til you find where the fish are located then hit it with a bait you can work the area with slower.

>>1037879
I never fished them, but there's small ponds and shit all over AZ that I used to jump shoot ducks off. Can't imagine they don't have fish in them, and most of them are public access.

>>1037881
Is it also probably a better idea to hit colder parts of the river like up in the head waters instead of the main stem that is wider, unshaded, and getting more heated? Do smb hit fast moving water like trout when the temps go up or do they sit in pools?

>>1037822
idk about fall rates, but they worked for me

>>1037969
It would not hurt to try it.

>fucking around in walmart
>saw an ultralight srs rod/reel combo for $11 on clearance
>never used a spinning reel before (only baitcasters)
>why the fuck not
>bought some 6lb line
>have been jacking 3lb+ bass in ponds on the littlest goddamn beetle spins and this cicada crankbait i've had for ages


i'm starting to think i don't need any other gear/tackle i can't believe this shit came from walmart

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what size torpedo do you guys like the most? I have a baby-sized, which snags me a shit ton of bass when i fish in ponds, but do the smaller or larger ones work better?

>>1038034
Welcome to UL gear.
It's amazing what you can catch and how much fun it is to catch fish-even smaller stuff.
Most of my heavier gear now collects dust.

>>1038040
I've got small, regular, and magnum.

They all work, sometimes they'll all work at the same time in the same place but usually fish will prefer one size over the others and that's kinda random.

>>1038040
They all work equally well for me.
I've never caught anything on any of them.

Dick's currently has a sale on their cranks, jerkbaits, and poppers. Buy 3 get 3 free. Suggest you check it out.

What do you guys think is the best looking freshwater fish in North America? Worst looking? Why?

Personally I think a big ole rock bass is one of the prettiest fish. The worst looking is objectively the flathead catfish

>>1038141
Online too?

>>1038147
Not sure. Check it out though

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>>1038153
Boy

>>1038155
>>1038141
Shit sorry, their Jawbone brand baits. As in Dick's store brand.

>>1038145
Best looking IMO is the tiger muskie.

Worst looking would be either the sauger or the common carp.

Should I get a chatterbox or spinner? Or what moving bait should I get for bass?

If this helps I'm going to Saguaro Lake.

>>1038167
Chatterbait*

>>1038167
You should have chatterbaits, spinnerbaits, inline spinners, squarebills, buzzbaits, and jerkbaits at all times, in at least 2 different bright colors and black each.

Should be able to get all of it for about $35 if you go for the cheap-but-decent brands.

>>1038167
Newbie here. Chatterbaits definitely produce. Haven't had much luck on spinnerbaits or inline spinners except for dinks on real small inlines. From my personal experience, the 3/8 oz chatterbait in "Candy Craw" got me six fish in three trips, varying from 8" rock bass to 20" largemouths.

This guy >>1038171 is right though. However I prefer to have baits in a brighter color (chartreuse, white, red, pink) and a more natural color (black, brown, green, fish/frog patterns). Same with soft plastics.

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>>1038141
Kek, I wonder if they still have the BOGO on those Rapala Clackin Raps. I was in a Dick's earlier delivering, and now I'm parked right in front of a different Dick's waiting for coffee grill. I was here Friday and almost bought a few but found a pair of shoes I liked and ended up getting those instead.

>>1038167
Different applications kinda. But you should get some inline spinners (Mepps™) because they are one of the most versatile spinners.

But anyway, if the water is getting warm, just remember that sometimes smaller is better. I always do better with those smaller 1/8oz Mini Chatterbaits and smaller spinners like Booyah Pond Magics or any others 1/8oz-3/8oz compared to the big 1/2oz+ guys.

>>1038178
Silver, gold, and chartreuse will produce fish in any water on the planet. Black will produce fish at night or on overcast/rainy days in any water on the planet. Without getting specific info about where and for what he's fishing, those are the absolute unequivocal unanimous bests to recommend.

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>>1038145

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>>1038206

bottom guy doesn't pass the tissue test

>>1038145
Largies from clear water are the prettiest imo besides some sunfish hybrids. Some trouts are pretty too.

Uglyest is carp.

>>1038145
Nothing better than catching a trophy size trout in a stream on 7' UL gear. Nothing more boring than spending $2K on bass gear to catch little 2-3lb bass in a pond that charges $10 to catch and release.

Bias aside, all fish are pretty fun to catch. I just prefer trout fishing when I'm in the zone or catfishing when I feel like sitting out all night Friday or Saturday getting drunk and coming home smelling like rotten gizzard shad guts.

>>1038167
The Strike King Rage Blade is a very versatile lure to have. No other chatterbaits can compete with it because it's near impossible to get it hung up. I cast and retrieve mine but also bounce it on the bottom like a jig.

>>1038226
>a pond that charges $10 to catch and release
What?

>>1038231
90% of waters around here that actually have bass worth catching in it are usually private stocked waters that charge $5-10 or more to fish in for a day. All of the public waters around here are usually overfished and you hardly catch any bass over a pound.

Niggers don't help much either. Every day the waters are stocked with any sort of fish, you see niggers and spics walking out with a cooler full of fish even though the creel limit is 6.

>>1038233
Where the fuck do you live?
Shit tier public park ponds have bass here in Texas.

>>1038145
>Best looking
Bigass old alligator gar, battled scarred and torn up. Nothing beats a apex predator that has remained unchanged for millions of years.

>Worst looking.
Buffalo carp.

>>1038239
The nigger (and other minority) problem is fucking epidemic pretty much anywhere.

I've bitched about it before, but
>have stocked trout parks (rivers, 1 massive impoundment that's boat-required) with daily limit 4, niggers and asians will walk out with double-fistfuls of stringers with 7-10 fish per stringer and sneak in so they don't even pay the daily fee
>county park ponds are stocked with catfish, daily limit 4. Niggers, asians, and bosnians will take up entire shores with their dozens-of-poles spreads and catch 30-40 fish, which they either keep in massive wagon-mounted coolers or in giant homemade fish baskets, and get super asspained if anyone else tries to fish within 50m of them, and frequently have 2-3 poles on each end set up with 80lb braid cast at an angle as far as they can with 6-8oz sinkers and multiple floats to foul the lines of anyone fishing within 70m of them
I tried going yesterday and one guy had hogged the ENTIRE shore all the way around the smaller of the two lakes with over 200 poles, and had brought a baseball bat to chase people off. Called the cops on him and was told he'd actually run off the game warden twice already that day with threats of violence and they would not respond.
>niggers and bosnians gill-netting county park lakes with fine-mesh nets
One of the park lakes had to be shut down for an entire year to re-establish the fishery after a group of asians gill netted the thing overnight with rowboats they'd carried in, and another had to be shut down and filled in because someone had poisoned it with around 40 gallons of antifreeze to kill all the fish, which they took for a fish fry (estimated at over 100,000 fish in a ~50 acre lake). Poison guy was caught and convicted. Baptist deacon doing it for a megachurch fish fry.

What's the best commercial dough bait for catfish?

>>1038283
>another had to be shut down and filled in because someone had poisoned it with around 40 gallons of antifreeze to kill all the fish, which they took for a fish fry (estimated at over 100,000 fish in a ~50 acre lake). Poison guy was caught and convicted. Baptist deacon doing it for a megachurch fish fry.

You got some sauce for that. Not just because this is 4chan and I only believe about .5% of what I see here, but mainly because I want to read the whole story.

>>1038226
Tbh I've never really cared for the fight for the most part. Most of my enjoyment comes from actually finding the fish, getting it to bite a lure, and getting it unhooked and back into the water.

>>1038283
>Called the cops on him and was told he'd actually run off the game warden twice already that day with threats of violence and they would not respond.
Why didn't they shoot him?

BEST COMMERCIAL CATFISH BAIT WHAT IS IT

>>1038306
Game wardens don't carry guns here unless they're tromping through private land.

For that matter neither do the park rangers.

>>1038312
Johnson Beetle Spin to catch bluegill with.

Then use the bluegill as bait.

>>1038294
None. I've been fishing for catfish for 12 years and that shit has never worked.

>>1038327
What do you use?

>>1038145
>best
I'm partial to the Bowfin myself.
>worst
Fuck carp. Buffalo fish are cool-they're native-but carp need to fucking die.

>>1038328
Shad, sunfish, eel, and shrimp/squid whenever I'm fishing the back creeks of tidal saltwater mixed rivers such as the York

>>1038027
I went back on the main stem, different part though and the water was still a bit warm but damn a lot clearer. Oddly it just rained last night too.
Got some smb and my first channel cat, it took a pink rooster tail. Saw two dead trout (stockies are dying to the heat it seems)

>>1038332
'Sok. The catfish will clean it up.

>>1038306
>>1038325
Ssometimes I forget just how based Texas is.

>Sarge we trapped the guy whos was shooting officers but he is still armed and has a perfect shooting gallery if we go in.
>Do we still have that robot with the shape charge taped to the front?

>>1038334
I have so much trouble unhooking catfish. The trebel on the spinner didnt help either. Poor guy bled a bit swimming back.
The other time my friend caught a big bullhead with a lil jig hook and it took like a minute trying to take it out, still ended up ripping a barb-size chunk of flesh. but fortunately that time no blood.

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>>1038283
>fishing 200 poles at local lake
>dinksallday.jpg
>mayonnaise people get mad
>beta boi calls game warden
>warden never comes
>mysidesinorbit.png

>>1038304
http://www.walleyecentral.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-40427.html

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So I got a jerk bait that looks alot like a baby redfish and I was wondering do reds eat juveniles like Largemouths, since they're a bass? Do stripers do the same?

>>1038351
Nice cheap Chinese shit

>>1038034
UL is the shit. Love it for freshies

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>>1038352
Got that from a LTB, most of my lures are yo zuris and name brand lures, so hop off faggot, I'm sure your Mr.Catfish does you well
>>1038356 I use mine for puppy/slot reds and flounder and love it

>Order a new reel.
>Estimated delivery date is June 21-23
>Order ships sooner than expected.
>Delivery date revises to June 20.
>Fedex further revises delivery date to June 16.

Feels good man.

Nailed a bluefish on #2 (not 2/0) hook last night. Actually managed to get it to shore and lost it on the sand when it went into thrash mode after hitting air. Fun ass fight on my smallest salt rod/reel.

Can I use a bobber and hook for catfish? I'm too lazy right now to do anything else.

>>1038361
Yes, although you'll have better luck on the bottom.

>>1038358
>flounder
what size you hitting? Some of them bastards are like dragging up a tire.

>>1038360
What size blues do you have there? Mine are normally pretty small and don't get over a couple pounds. They make great bait though!
>>1038363 The biggest I've caught on it is a 15inch so far, they don't get doormat size unless I go to deeper water

Is 6lb moss green braid pretty much good for any freshwater fishing you could do on a light / ultralight rod?

Or do I need to consider some 4lb / 8lb?

>>1038364
>What size blues
They were over 30" about 3 weeks ago. This one was maybe 18-20, possibly bigger.

We had a lil fluke/flounder hanging off the rocks the other day. Nobody tried to catch it. Was about 12" Starting teasing it with a kastmaster with the eely trailer. Thing was sticking it's head out of the water trying to get to the lure. Never seen that. Funny as fuck.

>>1038366
I didnt know braid got that small. I dont use it though. Just mono. I figure if you're going that small with braid you should just go to mono?

>>1038366
personally I'd go lighter if you can. Not sure how low braid goes.
6# braid is probably the size equiv of about 2# mono so you'd be fine. Braid doesn't have the stretch factor mono does though.

>>1038366
For anything under 10lbs I try to find either a white braid or one of the fluoro coated braids. In clear water it WILL spook fish, and it will spook trout and walleye even in murky water.

I really don't see a reason to go lighter than 8lb, it's already the diameter of 2lb mono. Any lighter and it starts to become a real bitch to tie properly.

>>1038369
The major name brands go as small as 6lbs, and some specialty and asian-market brands go as light as 2lb. Although the 2lb is thinner than a pubescent girl's moundfuzz and is a royal pain in the ass to tie, and frays easily.

>>1038367
Damn, I wish they got that big here regularly because they put up a good fight, even as dinks
>>1038366 Personally I don't use less than 20# lb braid were I fish because of the oysters, also it'll slice into you when you tie a knot

>>1038363
Flounder are the most boring fish to catch ever.
>be vacationing in FL
>pier fishing on Clearwater Beach
>"fuck, I'm hung up on something"
>tug tug tug
>tug some more
>finally give up and back away from the edge give myself room to break the line without breaking the pole
>line tugs back
>dafuq?
>go back to just putting steady pressure on it
>like 10 minutes later it finally starts slowly coming up
>figure a hardhead catfish wrapped me around some junk and the junk is breaking loose of the sand, expecting to break off any second
>still not moving side to side at all
>sloooooooowwwwwwwwly coming up
>finally I can see it
>~24" flounder
>erryone else sees it too, and I get fucking swarmed by asians trying to take pics of it because it's abnormally huge for the area
>get it to the surface
>literally not able to get it out of the water without the line breaking, nobody has a net
>slowly start walking it to the shore side of the pier to do a beach landing, people pissy as I'm politely asking them to let me through
>horde of asians still following me, more flashes than a high-end fashion show
>get to end of pier, work my way down to beach, land it
>one ballsy fat asian woman asks if she could have it
>lolno, unhook it and push it back in the water
>collective "aww" as it swims away
literally like pulling an anvil off the bottom

>>1038369
6lb braid is the diameter equivalent to 2lb mono

>>1038378
Is it clear like mono though? I never seen 2lb test in person so im not sure if it's even noticeable.

>>1038370
8lb power pro is the same as 1lb mono.

>>1038366
I would use 10# and tie a leader on, but I'm probably in the minority.

>>1038380
It can be, although most manufacturers will offer it in either green (standard spiderwire, powerpro, etc) or black (the various fused lines). Only ones I know that are "clear" (actually an optical illusion from being coated in fluorocarbon) are Spiderwire Ultracast, P-Line TCB, and Spiderwire Stealth Braid. And when they're dry they're a pretty opaque white.

>>1038383
What are some of the advantages of braid at this diameter?

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>>1038377
fluke arent bad eatting tho'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtdaE_XFEW4

>>1037078
Here (Ireland) the pike tend to spawn in February, right before spring. I always assumed this was because of the increase in available food for the pike fry during the warmer months

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>>1038312
In Summer
>Big Bite
Cooked hot dog stays on better and in summer the animal fat spreads through the water easy. I fish it on a slip float to keep it above the grass.
Any cold time of year
>Magic Baits Whopper Shad
Use a glove when putting it on and keep it in a seperate ziplock bag. Shit is stinky.

Live and fresh cut bait is always better though.

>>1038390
Tons of line on your reel if you're trying for big fish on light tackle, shit's thin as fuck.

There's zero stretch to it, so it's super sensitive if you're fishing deep or around really picky fish.

>>1038399
I see, thanks.

>>1038394
More like they love COLD water for spawning, and that's when the water temp is right. Here in the American south it never gets cold enough for them to spawn even though the fish themselves can survive in the waters around here.

>>1038398
Are you in a skirt?

>>1038348
Well that was a disappointing story.

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Anyone else get this thing in their MTB box? Never in my life have I ever seen a lure quite like this. This has a electronics in it that make a chirping/subtle knocking sound when water completes the circuit between the two hook holders. Seems like an pretty extensive meme but maybe it will work. Might go and give it a shot this weekend

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>>1037063
Could I catch rainbows with one of these fuckers?

I'd imagine it'd have to be 1/8 oz or smaller though.

>>1038429
I doubt it but would the electricity in the water also effect the fish? I know fish studies use elector-seining for example. I guess it's not really enough voltage

>>1038431
Yes, ive seen it posted before. Id go with an underspin however, since it's a smaller profile. Id keep it small since we're not talking about big mouth billy bass here.
You could also try that spoon idea txliz posted, basically swap the hook of a spoon for a crappie lure like that

Well, found out today that my Pfleuger President fly reel doesn't have a drag worth mentioning.
>take my 8 weight out to pester bass at dusk with poppers
>first cast, max distance, bass inhales it pretty much the instant it hits the water
>cool!
>reel in slack line, proceed to fight fish
>actually a pretty decent one (~4lbs)
>bzzzzzzzzz.....clickclickclick...bzzzzzz
>holy fuck does this thing have like 1 ounce of drag pressure?
>palming reel face with my left hand to add pressure since lol6lb tippet ain't gonna break
>20 minutes later land the bass

For a reel marketed as specifically for an 8-9 weight rod....what the FUCK. My 3 weight reel has more drag pressure. And it's maxed out. I played with it after releasing the bass for about 20 minutes and couldn't get it to tighten up any.

>>1038377
>literally like pulling an anvil off the bottom
yep, they can kick up a bit but mostly like dragging dead weight.
>>1038391
>fluke arent bad eatting tho'
and this is why.... great flavored fish

Today a guy driving a pepsi truck gave me a quick honk as he passed by me while I had a lil dink bass hanging off my fly rod.

I wonder who that could have been?

>>1038417
Nope. Fat flaps pushed my previously tucked shirt out.

>>1038429
I got one awhile ago and have never used it. I feel like it's a pretty big meme or only really useful when the fish are feeding heavily (the noises that is I'm sure it works fine as a regular crank).

>>1038433
You actually use the reel to fight fish? I always just stripped the line back to me.

>>1038436
Has Bepis posted in this thread? I hope he didn't piss off coffee grill and she had he second cousin from Cuba murk him.

>>1038443
Also had frogg togg™ rain pants on and shed the jacket.

>>1038445
Depends on how much I have stripped out. Since it was at the beginning of a long cast I had maybe a foot stripped, so it was faster and easier to just quickly reel it in.

I also don't normally hook bass capable of pulling drag where I live, 3lb ones are rare.

Today I saw a lil sunnie fend off two dozen minnows from entering his bed.

Was like some fight movie with the hero beating up a gang

>>1037717
i have a zeemaps with hundreds ( 300something) posts of fishing spots, color cordinated by fresh, salt, productive, non productive, then notes of species, what works, access etc

>>1038429
caught a lot of fish on the croaker version. its now discontinued for some reason.

>>1038433
take your line and backing off of there, send the reel back and demand a refund, then get either a cabelas prestige plus or prestige premier fly reel, or reddington behemoth
>>1038452

10/10 story

>>1038487
It's already boxed up and ready to go out tomorrow.

I don't know why ya'll keep recommending Pfleuger, literally everything of theirs I've touched has been utter crap.

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Just a cheeky lil South Aussie brown trout to warm up my winter! Bring on trout season!

>>1038377
Flounder are shit fighter but taste great. That's why there's limit on them for keeping. One of the best tasting fish apparently and also have very high amount of flesh and very easy to clean/filet.

> fishing in the surf today
> light-moderate surf
> throw out my LC flasminnow memecrank
> fish on
> feel head shakes but feel kinda light
> no drag pull at all despite me leaving drag not too tight because braid and $20 lure with trebles
> must be a small halibut or a yellowfin croaker
> it's a 20 inches california halibut just 2 inches short of keeper
> fucker is so shit at swimming it literally body surf itself to the shore after getting hooked up

I've seen 13-15 inches croaker pulling drag when there's some surf that give them extra boost on the outgoing part if the surf. This flounder fatass can't do shit in water. He gives that extra effort flopping around on the sand when I tries to unhook him though. These guys aren't weak because they have serious muscle mass but their body isn't just aerodynamic for swimming. They are notorious for bending/breaking the free treble hooks on lure after being landed because they slam their body hard on them after being landed.

>>1037067
i can only find crawfish in this little creek close to me.

fuck there were a ton living under some rocks. i had to catch them with a cap because the claws from those faggots sting.

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>>1037472
>deep fried red snapper

>>1038507
ive never recomended them

>>1038518
Nice trout cunt

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>>1038541
>Steamed black sea bass

>water temp 68
yeee boiiii

what should i go for today (freshwater)

>>1037305
>tried fishing for the first time today! check out this 8 lb. largemouth!

fuck it just kill me now please

That Shimano Nexave reel thats always on sale is now $15...

I really dont think it's a $60 reel. Like every sale that Dicks has (which seems bi-weekly) that reel is at least $30.
Makes you think about how much some reels actually cost if they bring it down that low. (*cough* stay away from shimano *cough*)

>>1038682
run out to the fly shop and buy some size 22 hooks and some 6x tippet, then go micro fishing

>>1038452
I've seen a big ol Green Sunnie drag a toad into the abyss during the spawn last year. Those Greens are fucking ferocious. Any pond that gets them pretty much becomes infested

>>1038706
I'd much rather have green sunnies in a pond than any other panfish. They're aggressive enough they control their own populations decently well and they're super sporty.

>>1038726
i'd rather have huge bluegill, anyone who's ever gone out with a 3 or 4 weight fly rod an gotten slab bluegill knows why

>>1038736
They don't get that big where I live, and green sunnies get every bit as big as 'gills do here.

Pumpkinseeds would be my #2 choice since they get even bigger than 'gills in the right conditions, but again they don't get that big here.

Any anons here in the 717? Any tips on wading the Susquehanna near Falmouth/Wrightsville? Any good creeks for pickerel/pike/muskie?

>bass fishing at a pond on my university's campus
>hauling in some nice ones while a family with three young children (estimating ages 6, 9, 11 or 12) are fishing for bluegill and throwing aquarium tier babby fish into a bucket to eat
>releasing all my catches
>I hear the dad yelling to one of his kids "AY GO OVER THERE AND ASK HIM WHY HE THROWIN THEM FISH BACK IN THE WATER THEY GOOD EATIN AND IF HE DONT WANT EM I WANT EM"
>the middle kid sheepishly makes his way to the opposite side of the pond where I'm fishing and fishes near me without saying a word
>I know what's up but I'm not playing a long
>his dad yells "ASK HIM" after five minutes of silent fishing
>"Hey....uhhh..I saw that you caught some pretty big fish...my dad says if you were gonna let em go he'd like to eat em"
>"sorry man i just catch and release"
>poor kid goes back to his dad and his dad looks pissed but i can't hear anything and they pack up and leave

THE NEXT WEEK
>at a different pond, a few rednecks and a little kid are catfishing or some shit
>being obnoxious as fuck and cussing loudly and annoying everyone else in the area
>they see me releasing bass and yell from across the pond
>"HEY MAN DON'T BE THROWIN THEM BACK WE'LL TAKE EM"
>"Sorry I just catch and release"
>"JUST KEEP EM FOR US WE'LL BE RIGHT OVER THERE TO GET EM"
>"Sorry, no"
>"HEY FUCK YOU BITCH"
>they leave 30 minutes later and flip me off as they drive off in their trucks


jesus christ you cannot fucking catch and release in the south

>>1038804
And this is why all the good fisheries anywhere in the world are either private or 100% boat required. Stupid people clean out everything else.

>>1038804
these story's honestly piss me off so god damn much. Really need to start thinking of ways to educate these brain dead fucks on why conservation is a necessity

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>>1038804
Right now i have the opposite problem.
My local pond is so full of stockie panfish that everything is 5" long and nobody fishes for them. All they do is pull out the bass and nothing else.

It appears my choices are either:
>start keeping 5-10 gills per day every single day
Or
>put a bowfin or two into the lake at night when nobody's looking
Actually, I would love to do that second option. Not just because bowfin are natural predators for the small fish, but also because they fight like demons and it would be funny to watch the local bassholes try to land a fish that actually fights back.
Only problem is the idiots will probably think they're snakeheads and kill them. And that would make me sad.

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just caught this

what is it? a shad?

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Finally got my Muskie lures in. This buzz bait is comically large

>>1038843
Yup. Dats a shad.

>>1038848
I just saw a giant musky jump out of the water where I caught it

fucking again omg

How the hell do I fish with live crayfish? I got a cast net for like 5 bucks the other day and now I've got a shitload of crayfish but I don't know what to do with them

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can I eat these guys

>>1038912
Take a J hook and go through the bottom of the tail right in the middle and poke it out through the top of its shell and cast it out. you can either bounce it around to cover more water but usually just letting it sit and do its own thing works best. If nothing hits after a few minutes recast in a new spot

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>>1038922
just caught a third

Hey fags I'm trying to get into surf fishing in california. I really want to catch halibut.

So far I've only had luck with simple spoon lures but they don't seem to be working that well.

Should I use live bait? What kind of rig should I use?

>>1038936
Spend $20 on a lucky craft flashminnow 110. Find spot where there's a dip (trough) in the sand or uneven sands. Throw it along there and catch fish. It's a damn expensive lure so I recommend against using it for rock area where there's snag. Hope you have good lines and solid knot tying skill. Throw it out, twitch so that it dive, then do slow Steady retrieve with the minimum speed that you can still feel tension and the lure action working.

If you are a poorfag, you can use soft plastic minnow paddle tail on a light jig head or weighted swimbait hook around 1/8 -1/4 oz. Big hammer swimbait would go well with the jig head. Zoom super fluke split tail or paddle, doa cal shad, or strike king caffein shad would go well with the weighted swimbait hook for weedless rigging. Steady retrieve with pauses for the paddle tail. Twitch and pause for split tail.

don't keep shad if they're that small

brought this home to try and filled it and it's so hint it's impossible

>>1038948
bony

>>1038922
sure if you wanna eat baitfish

>>1038951
the little bit of meat I got off of it tasted like crap anyways

Can I use a trilene knot for bass and catfish?

>>1038962
Palomar is better

>>1038804
Is it odd that the poor families that fish in my area target nonnatives almost exclusively? I've seen them toss back bass even.

>>1038970
Yes. Extremely.

>>1038936
>>1038947
Also, I want to add that there's pro and cons of both. Generally, if you have spoons, some soft plastic minnow, and 1-2 lucky craft, you'll have everything covered for halibut fishing inshore

>>1038843
Could be a moon eye

>>1038804
Fuckin mouth breathers. I fucking hate entitlement complexes like this. Catch your own fucking fish if you want to keep some. Sorry you have deal with that shit.

>>1038992
holy shit yes

looks exactly like the ones I caught

I only brought one home because I hooked it through the eye

Should I get another Sedona? Dicks has them on sale for $35

>>1039059
Which ones do you have? Get one for an ultralight, light/medium light, medium, and medium heavy setups

>>1039067
I have the 1k and I'd probably get the 2.5k if I do buy another one. I don't really have a use for a MH spinning setup.

>>1039059
I have a feeling Shimano is remodeling that reel since I saw it on sale at Bass Pro for that same price. Guy working there said they sold over a hundred in 2 days since they started the sale. I dont really see why though, the thing is bullet proof

>>1039073
So get the 2500 for a medium light setup to crush some smallies on a drop shot or shakey head

>go fishing during the week to avoid normies
>dumb normies are there anyway blearing shitty music so loud I can here everything clearly across a 60 acre pond

At least I didn't get skunked, I guess.

>>1039113
I just turn my bluegrass up and sing along while swilling beer.
>tfw you out dick normies

>>1038804
these are why i hate people and one reason i love fly fishing
if you have a sharp hook whipping around in the air no one wants to get too close to you
>>1038843
its not a shad, shad have a dot on their back and are filter feeders. unless its american shad, which it could be
>>1038847
thats what it takes to get a 50 inch fish to eat sometimes
>>1038936
>Hey fags
sounds like its summer alright
>>1038962
yes but the palomar will serve you better

>>1038922
You can, but the bigger fish you catch with them are tastier.

>>1038970
Not if they like eating a LOT of fish regularly, and/or they're that poor.
Think about it:
>no closed seasons
>no bag limits
>no size requirements
>often with no permits required.
>and nobody reports you since you throw back all the fish that others like to catch.

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>be casting to a spot maybe 30 yards away from me
>boat is creeping up to me
>keep casting in the same general area
>boats keeps creeping
>creeps right over where I'm casting
>dude has the nerve to ask me how my luck has been
>tell him I haven't caught anything
>he drops his fucking trolling motor and starts fishing right there

What the fuck man

Also straight up broke a Gami

>>1039106
I think imma do it

>>1039160
I have people walk right up to me mid cast with my fly rod all the fucking time. In fact, I cant think of a single time someone has ever knowingly gotten or stayed out of my way. And then they have the gall to get asspained when a fly whips past them.
>>1039178
Theres a 50 per day aggregate limit in my state and all bordering states that includes nongame fish. Pretty high if you're catching asian carp or some shit but that's not a lot of sunfish meat.

>>1039160
i think it's the mooneye thing the other guy mentioned

but american shad do spawn nearby and run down to the ocean

usually they spawn in the other major river though maybe a school got lost here

>>1038832
Put catfish in there instead of bowfins.

>>1039171
sadly im not allowed to use live/dead baitfish here

some kinda massive fish, probably a musky or northern pike jumped out of the water 4 or 5 times right where i caught the 3 fish

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>>1039179
Managed to get this hook out without damaging this dudes eye thankfully. It was right behind it lil guy was lucky.

>>1039186
Not where I am.
The daily limit of 50 for all species only applies to game fish except catfish.
Catfish and "non game" species they don't care about at all, and you can go nuts.

>>1039196
Then people would fish them out tho. That defeats the purpose.

>>1039216
Might wanna re-read your regulations bro. It's a pretty standard one.

>>1039178
I once saw this one family with a few 2 foot coolers stuffed full of mayan cichlids and oscar.

>>1039179
We sometimes have surfers and paddleboarders swimming under our fishing pier, even though they aren't allowed within 100 feet of it.

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So I've been fishing about 6 months, my current setup is a shimano curado, and a Fenwick rod 7ft medium/heavy. It's my do it all rod

My girlfriend Got me a spinning cast penn fierce 2 4000, with a 7ft ugly stick. What kind of lures can I use with the new rod i just got? I normally use worms and shit with my , and a few cranks.

>>1039209
My first fishing trip, I hooked a blue gill and when I tried to get the hook out I liked his eyeball out. I felt so fucking bad

>>1037387
worse

5'6"

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My gf kicked my ass today, she caught a catfish and I caught a little bluegill

>>1039231
Return the ugly stil and pick up another Fenwick, 6' medium action. Throw some 8 pound mono on the spool. It will throw just about anything and the 6' size will set you carry and transport it more easily

>>1039231
>>1039244
Or if you're opposed to that, use the ugly stik for cranks since it's fiberglass and use your other rod for spinnerbaits/jigs/plastics/etc

>>1039231
Seconding
>>1039244
Return the ugly stik on the sly and buy something not-shit.

The only Ugly Stik worth even thinking about using is an Elite, and they're still $20 overpriced for what they are (which is a barely usable hybrid rod with half the durability of a GX2 and a third the sensitivity of a F&S Inferno, which is $10-15 cheaper).

>>1039244
>>1039254
So you guys think a 6ft fenwick fast action would be better, instead of the ugly stick?

>>1039233
i just take them home to eat if i hook them in the eye

they probably won't survive the infection they'll get anyways

>>1039244
+1

fenwicks are dope af

i've got a fenwick eagle and I can literally feel every single pebble my lure touches

i can't believe how sensitive they are and i've literally pulled a chunk of concrete out of the river with mine

>>1039257
any kind of fenwick would be better than any kind of ugly stik

>>1039257
Absolutely.

My only complaint with Fenwick is they're a little...optimistic...on their flex ratings. I'd say their fast is closer to a medium and their medium will bend all the way down to the reel seat.

>>1039160
>actually getting mad that someone said "fag" on 4chan
>using a trip

You are pure cancer

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About to filet and eat my first I caught, it's a skinny fuck

>>1038804
This is exactly why I hate bank fishing most of the time. I know there's asshole out on the water too but once you get off the ramp and into the water you're pretty much at your own tranquil unless of course you're at a really packed spot/peak summer time.

>>1038691
Yeah man. Comparing budget reels really makes for good reasons to avoid an entire brand. I bet those 500 dollar reels from all those companies are basically nicely painted spin cast button reels from zebco.

>>1037045
Could've been a striper.

>>1039288
>implying im mad
im not mad about fag, im disappointed by the normie

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>>1039351
>>1039351
>>1039351
>>1039351

>>1038533
>not pretending to be a largemouth
>not just sticking your face in the water and inhaling them
These threads are for fishermen only pal

>>1039217
Better than people killing bowfins for a mistaken identity. Anyways you'll need a lot of fingerlings to stock a pond

>>1037139
wtf are you doing here in a fishing threat on polout fantasizing about a non-fag chick?

>>1037149
annnd you wish you could join, instead you beat off alone. nerd.

>>1038828
that's just cruelty to animals at that point. wtf are you doing on a lake hurting fish just to release them? hypocrite. someone call PETA on this chode.

>>1037099
All of the fishing girls I have met at my new home have been mean Luke Bryan- listening fly- fishing elitists. They scoff at my aglias on spincaster trout set up. Joke's on them, I'm pulling trout like it's my job on a fraction of a fly- fisher's budget (even if I'm always alone).