Fishing & Tackle Thread

>>1039351
>Jewfish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ia376QKMHM

Who /zooming/ here?

Looking to buy some waders. was thinking of just getting some cheap nylon's with boots attached.
Is this a good idea or should I save up for some neoprene ones?

>>1039378
>>1039378
waders like anything else buy quality the first time that way they won't fail you and you won't need to upgrade as you WILL find yourself wanting to.
For example watch here: https://youtu.be/e6VuvMZlVNI
Could've never happened with something cheap. You would of gotten wet and cold and it would most likely ruined your day.

>>1039378
I know of some guys that wear the bootless waders and just wear separate wading shoes.

>cast into shallowish side pool of river.
>Bunch of sunnies stacked behind log just a 6 feet infront of me
>Between them and the bank is another 7 feet of some water with a log on the bank
>I toss a lil jig a bit past the sunnies
>A bass darts the fuck out of that log on the bank and tackles my jig as soon as it hits the bottom, dudnt even twitch it
>Realize I should set the hook now in awe, I get him and the sunnies scramble

A good example of how bass don't really go after anything, but see selectively target "weak" food. It could have chased those sunnies for hours but it choose to stay comfy and wait for something easy like some bug looking thing that just dropped in the water.

>>1039378
all waiders will leak at one point or another,
if your the type to thrash on your gear, just buy cheap stuff and dont expect much, if youre more likley to take care of it, buy something a bit nicer and baby it,
learn to patch either way

I'M HAVING A MORAL DILEMMA I CAUGHT MY FIRST FISH ON MY OWN (NOT WITH DAD'S BUDDIES) AND ITS MY FIRST CATFISH SHOULD I RELEASE IT OR NOT I ALREADY RELEASED A SMALL CATFISH AN ASIAN MAN HAVE TO ME AND I DON'T KNOW IF MY GOOD DEED COVERS THIS HELP

>>1039534
Follow your heart

>>1039541
THAT DOESN'T HELP

Ive been practicing in my yard trying to fly cast. I can get it out like 9 feet but anything more is tough and the line just hits the ground before I can do another stroke.

>>1039534
It's your catch to do with what you want. If it was gut hooked and legal or invasive I would have given it away.

I have it in a tub right now with an air filter, hooked on the lip, it's from a sticking of my public lake from 3 days ago.

>>1039575
ok i think i got the standard cast down, i wasnt keeping it straight. Just gotta figure out hauling

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>your hook is too small

Fuck off

>>1039606

too big rather

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>>1039605
I was just out in my yard practicing my casts and I can get a pretty good distance. A lot farther than I will need to for the rivers and creeks near me. My only is accuracy and for some reason I can't get the fly to go out straight at the end of the cast. It just hangs in the air after the main line lays down and flutters in any which way. Most of the time it makes a U shape with the fly curling back towards me. Don't know why

>>1039610
I havent fly fished in a while, but it sounds like you're flicking the rod tip back towards you when finishing your cast

>>1039237
same desu, although not ugly and am very outgoing
>>1039179
What is that a tat of?

>>1039378
As long as you pee in them you'll be gucci

Bout to head to Basspro's for some soft plastics Any recommendations or suggestions that you personally like?

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>>1039612
I experimented with how my rod tip was on the follow through. The way that worked best was slowly lowering as the line fell. The piece of yarn I was using as a fly still wouldn't go out straight. Maybe it was the wind? Idk

Anyone have experience with Kastking products? Are they quality?

>>1039616
It's a rose

>>1039626
V&M J-Bug if they have them

>>1039628
I've heard it's an all around decent brand. My buddy bought a memecaster from them and says it's nice for the price.

>>1039627
You could try tugging on your line a bit, just to get a snap as you're casting. Are you casting with your forearm or upper arm?

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>>1039626
Culprit Incredi-Slims

Help me F&T, I think I might be falling in love with this coffee girl and I'm going to regret it.

>>1039626
flukes and u-tail worms
all you need.

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who /pees in their waders/ here?

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>>1039642

I piss my pants when i'm in the surf throwing out a bait.

>>1039626
Robo Worm in Morning Dawn.

Zoom Super Fluke Jr in white ice

Z-man TRD's in PB&J and Junebug

Gambler floating worm in bubblegum

>>1039642
Trip on TxFag

>>1039630
upper arm is stationary and my forearm pivoting at my elbow.
>>1039647
>Robo Worm in Morning Dawn.

dis

>>1039646
I walk along behind all the people pissing their pants in the surf and piss on their tackle boxes they left unattended on the beach.

https://youtu.be/XVyvodTfL_U?t=18m16s

>>1039351
How the fuck could you even catch a spawning salmon or char or whatever the fuck that is?

Don't they stop eating the second they begin their run?

>>1039679
you drift the hook into their mouth

>>1039679
they bite out of aggression i thought, like shad.
Also with flies I hear they bite on flies out of natural tendencies, spit out the fly after the juices are eaten so they just get the good stuff.

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>>1039679
Im going to by an 8 weight fly rod for this falls run. From what I have read if you throw egg like flys the salmon will eat them out of aggression like the other anon said. it might take you all day to get one to do that though. The thought of hooking up to a 30+ pound king (average for the river close to me) sounds like it would be unreal and totally worth it.

pic related from that river

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>>1039351
>Spawning Sockeye

incredibly out of season but damn it's about time /out/ starts discussing fast/cold water migratory fish species. this "muh-9"-bass-next-to-muh-shoe" bullshit is getting old.

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>>1039718
What's a sockeye? That's a Jewfish

>>1039725
(((Sockeye)))

>>1039751
If you overfish them would it be annudah shoah?

>>1039378
get the cabelas brand neoprene stocking foot waders, then get some seperate wading boots. theyre actually really nice, even in cold as hell water
>>1039610
your leader isnt turning over properly, do you buy them or tie your own?
>>1039627
you're about half right, your want your rod to stop abruptly for a second, then lower it with the line
>>1039657
>upper arm is stationary and my forearm pivoting at my elbow
that sounds right, on your longer casts are you double hauling?
>>1039694
>8 weight fly rod
>30+ pound king
if you will be hooking a 30 pound fish in a river, i think you will want more than an 8 weight. if i was going after king salmon i would invest in a 10 weight and something like a reddington behemoth reel with 30 pound backing. then i would also use that fly rod for pike/muskie with huge streamers like pic related. i mean an 8 weight could probably work and handle it, but if i had to choose between having too much back bone in my rod or not enough . . .
but yeah, eggs are something they take out of agression, and same with leeches, they will eat leeches out of agression because they pose a threat to their own eggs

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>>1039771
forgot pic

>>1039771
Just watched the orvis video on double hauling and it apears I was forgetting to pull the line on the follow through. Ill give it a shot tomorrow.

As for the rod for salmon I just said 8 weight because I thought that was the general rod used for that. Im going to go up to that fly shop by the river and have the lady who runs it show me what I will need. Shes nerdy as fuck so I know she will point me in the right direction. I also think it will be sweet to pike fish with a big streamer like>>1039773. Really looking forward to this fall

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>tfw the majority of anons only fish in freshwater

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Hi I'm TXLizardFag and I buy meme lures

Didn't pay $25 though.

>>1039650
>he thinks I wear waders

>>1039806
Always wanted one of those but never have seen one on sale. Always wanted one of those savage duck top water lures too but like the rat, I haven't seen them on sale. Only lure in willing to pay $25 for is megabass jerbaits and that's only because they are hands down the GOAT suspending jerkbait ever to be assembled by far

>>1039351
Oy vey I'm gonna be lox by tommorrow!

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finally caught my first walleye hehe

i forgot to bring a plastic bag though so I didn't bring it home :(

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Just caught this bad boy

>>1039725

Go fuck yourself. Seriously. You are cancer to this forum and this thread.

>>1039824
damn that's a monster

>>1039818
I audibly laughed in public. Thank you, anon.

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>>1039771
Didn't even see that you responded to that other part about my leader not straightening out correctly. I bought them. I have the leader tied to those tinny rings you recommended months ago and have the tippet tied to that ring. I think I just need to spend more time practicing. I feel kinda stupid doing it thought because when I get to the creeks I go to a majority of the time I'm not even casting like I would in the yard. I just pull out 5-10 feet of line and kinda swing it to get the momentum going then lay it into the water since they are so narrow. Anything more and I'm snagging branches and shrubs on either side of the bank

>>1039821
Was there no way you could just throw it in the back of your car/truck as is and fillet it when you get home? I'd be hard pressed to let a top tier meal like that go back

>>1039835
its my sisters car I didn't want to make it stink lol

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my only fish that kept me from a skunk today

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>>1039836
Damn. That's rough.

>>1039837
That's the goofiest looking smallie I've ever seen. Kek. At least you didn't skunk

>>1039839
Actually its a rock bass, i was fishing for smallies in the best spot for them and came up short, but the rock bass was rad tho

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>>1039825
Hahahahahahahaha

(You)

Downside- got rained out within like 15min of getting on the water

Upside- I didn't get struck by lightning

All of these lakes are like 3' higher than normal water levels. I feel like sometimes it pays off because the predators can lurk closer to the cover where food is hiding, but most of the time it's more difficult since the bigger fish are even deeper.

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>>1039841
Never caught a rock bass that looked like that either. I couldn't tell if it was one or the other. Pic related is how almost all rock bass I catch look

>>1039777
really, an 8 weight probably could handle it, but only just, and an 8 weight probably could not cast flies much bigger an 6 or 7 inches very far. if you are going to go after pike/muskie and salmon more, id go for a 10
if you're not going to go for pike much and dont see a need to cast huge custom flies, and you want to get in to fly fishing for carp, an 8 weight will serve you better.
ideally you would just get both though, lol. and whatever you get, consider the cost of spare spools for your reel, because the line you use for pike in the summer will be different than the line you use for salmon in the fall, and make damn sure it has a good drag. i would probably reccomend the reddington behemoth as a reel, because it holds hella backing, and if you ever find yourself at the ocean it will handle stripers and blues just fine

>>1039849
Yeah the rock bass i catch at that river come with cleaner patterns than what i usually see, dont know why

>>1039835
>>1039852
shoot, didnt see that before i replied. but, practice for where you cast, if you cast 10-15 feet practice casting accurately at 10-15 feet. its a lot better for you to be able to flick a fly 10 feet and land it in a coffee cup than it is for you to be able to make a 95 foot cast if you never cast over 20 feet
but if you are willing you might try looking at some other leaders- see if you can find one with more belly and a more agressive taper, or even consider tyign your own, i just use that cheap zebco omniflex to tie leaders (25, 20, 15, 10, then finish with tippet, and that that will cost all of about $12 and its stiff so it turns over surprisingly nicely)
then just learn to tie a blood knot, which isnt very hard with a little practice.
>>1039825
gotta love the summer, huh anon?

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>>1039852
Ideally I would prefer both. I want to invest a good amount in this rod/reel though so that's not fianacially feesable for me right now. I'll have to think on it and decide what will suite my needs better
>>1039857
Ill through on my shorter leader tomorrow and see how I do. Thanks for the help skid. I appreciate it

Just got pic related this week in the mail. Hopefully it will teach me some things so I'm not so damn nooby

Dedicated rods for separate techniques? As in one rod for cranks, one for flipping, one for topwater, etc.

What do y'all think?

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I tried to skip a jig

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>>1039866
After I got that out I just kinda dropped the jig in front of me to make sure everything was good and then this dude slammed it.

Pretty sure it's my PB cat lol

>>1039862
its not so much the length of the leader, ive seen 15 foot leaders turn over, its all about the taper

>>1039849
>>1039854
>>1039837


I'm pretty sure that was not a rock bass. I reel in hundreds of rock bass a season, and that is almost definitely a juvie smallmouth. I used to pull out some smallmouth like that near the beginning of the season, they were always a light green on the top, and a bright white belly.

I don't think I have ever seen a rock bass that didn't have the dark red eyes and black diamond shapes on the dark green skin. They don't get the white bellies that bass do.

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>>1039867
I also caught a bass, but I think the catfish is more amusing

Fucking too many capaychas when I'm drunk

>>1039351
Has anyone experimented with using almost exclusively micro lures for bass? Living in New England I've started to think that this is the way to go because of the lack of big bass and the endless sea of dinks that are too small to hit alot of larger baits.

>>1039975
Micro is tough because it's so easy for bass to shake the small hooks. However, I have caught a lot of bass on lures that would be better suited for crappie and other panfish. One of my favorites is just a simple 1/8oz underspin or jighead with a curly tail grub or one of the Gulp curly tail minnows. Those 1/8oz jigheads are probably like a 1/0 or #1 size hook so they can still latch on. But the other thing is those smaller baits are good for picky bass in poor fishing conditions because they are too lazy to chase a big crankbait or spinner but will go for something small like that if it cruises by.

>>1039864
Sure. Whatever you want. But honestly, a regular "fast" rod is pretty good all around, otherwise running two rods- one "Moderate-Fast" and one "Fast" or "X-Fast" will do a lot. But then you get to line choices... a MH rod with heavy braid for topwater frogs n shit, a M rod with flouro for diving cranks, etc. The possibilities are endless depending how deep you want to get into it.

For freshwater fishermen, I normally reccommend 3 rods once they start getting into it- a UL with 4lb mono for panfish, a M with 8lb-10lb mono (or 10lb-20lb braid) for bass and stuff, and a MH with 12lb+ mono (or 20lb+ braid) for catfish and carp.

>>1039975
>>1039991
Also I would say, you can use a lot of hard baits like 2"-3" Rapalas and swap out the hooks for slightly larger ones and have good luck with bass.

>>1039975
That's what I use almost to the exclusion of everything else.
A 1/8 ounce rooster tail, a paddletail worm rigged with a 1/8oz jighead, and a 1/4oz silver and black rattletrap all work very well for me to catch bass on UL gear.

>>1039378
I'm going to go Contra and suggest bootfoot waders. Unless you are wading 7mph current over greasy bowling balls like the Yellowstone, the Madison or maybe the Muskegon stocking foot are overkill. They take 5x as long to put on, they take 3x as long to take.off. You may end up needing gravel gaiters. Don't even take stockingfoots into mud or muck. They DO offer better ankle support and are best if you need to hike far.
In my experience the bootfoot are warmer, more convenient, and adequate for most situations. Either way you'll want a belt.
I've had the following bootfoot
RedBall rubberized canvas, Hodgeman 5mm neoprene, gander mountain hippers.
Stocking foot - 2mm Cabela's, Sims G3
Worn with a tall Danner felt sole boot.

Neoprene are easily repaired, and most durable. Also too hot in summer.
I do love the breathable Sims, just wish they made the bootfoot model when I bought them.
The 5mm bootfoot lasted almost 20 years, many of those years I fished 2-3 times a week. I could have kept them servicable but threw them out during a move. There was a 4" rip from sliding down an icy riverbank. The 2mm Cabela's are still gtg after 20 years. They weren't used much, only in summer, because stockingfoots are a pain in the ass.
I'll buy another pair of bootfoot neoprenes this year for winter, spring trout and duck hunting.

>>1039610
Guessing you are stopping the power cast, letting the rod unload, then dropping the rod tip. Smooth out the forestroke, finish crisply pointing at the target, and watch a Lefty Kreh YouTube vid.

>>1040008
Seconding this.

First off, felt soled boots are illegal in a lot of places (pretty much everywhere east of North Platte, NE) due to the spread of Rock Snot and other nasty algae, so if you live in one of the ban areas you won't gain traction over a boot foot wader anyway.

Second off, stocking foot waders take 5x longer to put on, and won't be anywhere near as warm, are more prone to abrasion based leaks than boot-foot, and generally cost more money (the absolute cheapest wading boots are ~$40), and it's a bad idea to wear them anywhere there's mud/muck/aquatic vegetation.

Third off, boot foot waders are available in varying degrees of insulation from uninsulated to 1700g thinsulate and anywhere from 2-ply Goretex to 7mm neoprene to 1500d cordura with 2000d knee and crotch reinforcements.

Boot foot waders are also available with a zip fly for pissing convenience, and yes they're waterproof. They're also available as waist waders if you don't need to be in to your armpits.

>university's rodeo team has medium-sized pond in their pasture
>great for bass, crappie, even catfish
>they leave the gate dummy-locked so that the rodeo people can take their horses there
>don't mind the public fishing it
>people start bringing like eight rods and harvesting whatever they can catch (tiny baitfish or small cats)
>take like 30 fish per trip
>leave hot dog packages and other litter
>now no one is allowed to fish it


well fuck

>>1040019
>University's rodeo team

>>1039925
They definitely get the white belly that bass do... Not all but a large amount by me have the white belly

>>1040023
See you should have went to A&M.

today I caught:
walleye
mooneye
rockbass

the walleye was just barely too small though

36cm when the legal size is 37 :/

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>fishing at dam in town
>major event going on in town this weekend
>local paper taking a bunch of pictures for the
>reporters took a photo of me when I happened to be digging my way through a massive birdsnest in my memecaster
D-delet this!

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Not sure why but my fly casting this morning was on point. Got excelent distance and had no issues with the leader not unrolling correctly like yesterday. I don't know what the difference was but it felt good having what I would consider almost perfect casts every time.
>>1040037
:(
>>1040046
Kek

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Caught this yesterday

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>>1039351
Went fly fishing in still water for trout for the first time in forever. Is there any good way to fish a nymph without a tandem rig with a big dry? Ive fished prince nymphs below parachute Adams for years. Pic related, stocked brown I caught yesterday on a dry .

>>1039771
I've caught the biggest fish of my life on an eight weight. Massive salmon, you just gotta let them get tired.

>>1040070
Yep. Snagged a 28lb carp, that put up a decent fight, on 8lb with a 1/4oz Dardevle. It's possible to land them, but it's definitely a long, drawn out fight.

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at least barbara the barbarian is on our side

>>1040082
I would never want to do that noodling shit unless I really knew the lake. Even a 40lb-50lb catfish could take a strong swimming 200lb man underwater if he lost his footing.

>>1040061
>plastic still on the handle
Gross

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>>1040089
Yah I figure the plastic will keep it in better condition but I guess I should take it off

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mhmmmm

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>nom nom nom

>who eats whom is the question

Gonna try canoe fishing sometime soon, usually a bank fisher, I have a way to secure my rod to my belt in case I capsize like a bitch but I don't know how to handle tackle.

I've got a modest tacklebox.
https://www.amazon.ca/Plano-1354-Rack-System-Tackle/dp/B000E3C3LC
Small, but I doubt it would float, and I'm no diver. Should I look into floaters, try tying it on to the boat with rope or just go minimalist and only take a few lures in a vest or something.

>>1040101
That's a tasty piece of tail right there

>>1040115
Small piece of rope securing the handle to a crossbar, and make sure you always latch the box closed when you're not digging around in it.

>>1040118
>always latch the box closed
Good point, hate to lose all my line and tools.

>>1040115
As someone who fishes out of a canoe all the time, the only two things I can suggest are to not tip it (spend a bit of time on the water in a canoe getting comfortable in it), and to make sure your tackle box is always closed.

You can tether it to the canoe just incase though. You should also kneel in the centre of the canoe and learn to brace when a big wake is coming your way. One big fish could easily tip the canoe over if youre sitting high and it surprises you.

>>1040068
You can use an indicator and string two nymphs below it. Look for something like an airlock or thingamabob indicator. Nymphing in still water is something I've found difficult to enjoy.

>>1040070
>>1040074
the thing is, an important factor too many people neglect to consider is fight duration. ive seen a lot of people target huge fish on light tackle, and it winds up as a very long fight, and it literally works the fish to death. a trout fought for 3 minutes and caught on a barbless hook has something like a 95% chance of survival
a trout caught on a barbless hook with a 10 minute fight has something like a 40% chance of survival
for c&r too heavy is always better than too light
though salmon are going to be dying anyways
and with carp it really doesnt matter, theyre non-native
>>1040097
it will actually hold moisture under it and could make it prematurely decay
literally just put linseed oil on it now and then
>>1039862
try casting again today?
and remember, set out a pizza box at like 10 and 15 feet and practice landing your fly on it
once you can get your fly on there every time, get a smaller target

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>>1039827
IS THIS KOSHER?

>>1040140
This
If you're alone in a canoe, the regular seats are much too high to stabilize it without a lot of weight in the bottom.
If you're going solo, either sit in the front seat facing backwards and still put your shit in the middle, or kneel in the center if you're really going light.

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>>1040193
Yeah I posted earlier about it. Still don't know what I was doing differently but it was much better than yesterday.

As for the comment on fighting the fish too long it really doesn't matter with salmon since they will die after you catch them regardless.

>>1040230
Thats a really dark bass

>>1040101
That sideboob...HNNNNG

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>>1040239
They are all really dark from that pond. Tons of coverage for them to stay out of the sun

>>1040242
I would bet they're dark because the pond is shallow. A green bass is like a tan bass. I've also noticed a difference in clear vs muddy water. The muddy water bass are almost always paler especially once they move to deeper water.

Of course I could be completely wrong, but that's just what I've noticed.

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>>1040243
It is really pretty shallow where the pads grow up. The open water areas are pretty deep though. I can usually pull a few out from the open part but a majority of the time they are tucked up under the pads

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>That feel when new reel came in today.

Alright boys, getting there. Rod acquired, reel acquired, just need to get some line and tackle now and come the weekend of the 23rd I'll be fishing deep in Northern Arizona. One more week.

>>1040251
Is it pretty clear?
I wonder how the composition of the water makes a difference to how the bass are colored.

>>1040294
That reel is new? Pretty neat desu. The retro look is cool.

>>1040296

Yeah, brand new Daiwa SS700. 20 years of proven effectiveness, and it looks great with the Okuma SST rod I bought as a bonus.

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>>1040296
I'd describe it as stained. Not crystal clear but not murky and full of shit making it brown. This kind of gives you an idea of what I mean

Any niggas been to port hope lately?

Any fuckin salmon in there at this time of year? I am feeling like eating some goddamn salmon

>>1040230

No one wants to see your pathetic bass minnows. Please go away.

>tfw it's summer time and every public fishery is crowded with people trying to pull out every baitfish

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Late May laker, gonna try for them again this weekend. Wonder how deep they'll be.

>>1040326
>tfw it's summer and the DNR just closed half the public lakes to all access because jackasses keep intentionally letting invasive species out in them
Apparently some guy got ticketed by a park ranger for fishing without a license so he went and bought 500 pounds of live zebra mussels then dumped them in the county lake.

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>>1040325
Here's a walleye instead

>>1040333
I would take my time in prosecuting him to dig through the books and find every possible obscure law he's violated

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>>1040335
Nice

>>1040325
I missed this guy. He must have gotten a job for a few months, but he stayed just long enough to get that sweet unemployment and now he can saltpost and complain all day again while contributing absolutely nothing!

>>1040336
I just really wanna know who the fuck had 500 pounds of live zebra mussels (since they're illegal to do anything at all with while live in a 3-state radius in every direction of me and in most states in the US period), but they have him on camera doing it.

>>1040335
They are MUCH cuter that size.

Adult walleye are fugly. IMO the 3rd or 4th least aesthetic freshwater fish on the continent.

>>1040333
Checked

And that's so fucked up. Maybe this is how ISIS is getting at us now.

>>1040339
This is also true. I mean I know many invasives are sold as pets or food originally, but why zebra mussels?

>>1039867
how are those blackouts, I was lookin at getting me a medium or m/l spinning one but saw how many kept breaking them, either doing dumb shit or being slightly rough with them
specifically i was lookin for one for ned rig/drop shotting

>>1040341
Suspect they're bought alive for food just like the snakeheads and were released intentionally. Never heard of a pet store selling zebras mussels

>>1040340
What numbers 1, 2, and possibly 3?

>>1040376
Blue cat, lake sturgeon, sauger.

>>1040068
dont use one at all in still water. use a 10-14 foot leader/tippet with floating line and just a nymph.
cast it out, and pull it in painfully slow, and use your floating line as a 30 foot strike indicator
if the line twitches in a way it shouldnt, set the hook, you'll either pull out a leaf or a fish
in a river, use a strike indicator, any fly shop will have them, use the smallest you can get away with
>>1040230
nice dink
>>1040303
thats a pretty picture, you take it?

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Took some time in between our 3v3 basketball game at my buddy's house to catch this little rocky. I had a pickerel follow my chatter bait in 4 casts in a row but I couldn't get him to fully commit. I also had a really tiny one come flying up to the surface and side swiped my jerkbait when it was sitting stationary on the surface. Unfortunately he didn't get hooked :(

I also took a little time to show my friend how a baitcaster works. Fucking guy had it down after 4 casts. He hardly ever fishes. I was stunned

>>1040400
Yeah. It's a screen shot from a go pro video I took

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I caught a 2.5-3lber on the meme bait. When I was unhooking him I had the lure in my left hand and I had his body on the ground. When I had on treble left he started flopping and I wasn't tryna to get a trebel in my hand, so he managed to flop back in the water lol.

>>1040369
I love it. I have 3 of them and I wish I would've bought some more. I'm sure there are some legitimate cases of the rods outright breaking, but I would bet more on people's dumbassery putting hairline fractures in the rod then it breaking.

It handles like a $150 rod imo.

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>>1040413
Also, it has a crazy good action. I think I'm gonna get another one sometime and put single hooks on it.

>>1040411
>but I couldn't get him to fully commit
you should have figure eighted him, sometimes it will get a stubborn pike/pickerel/muskie to commit

>>1039824
You keep it? That's a good way to kill a flathead holding it like that. Nice one though.

>>1039837
>>1039925
It's a rock bass, at least definitely not a smb. I catch smaller smb all the time and they look nothing like that.
Big call is the black tip fins

Rock bass are known to differ in color by area too. A dink smb is very easy to recognize (cause i catch so many dinks lol)

>>1039835
Those tiny rings are not conducive to a strong turnover and transfer of energy. They literally create a hinge point. Sacrifice a leader or two and learn the nail knot. Your casts will improve.

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I can believe how birds can transport fish eggs from water body to body; the question however is how often it is. People are stating (on the internet) that newly dug farm ponds have sprung with fish life, with frequent waterfowl like geese visiting the water.

>pic related was my captcha

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>grandparents invited us to their cabin in Maine
>figure I can just catch worms there
>wait until nightime, head out
>find about 2 worms
>find about 10 Eastern Red-Backed salamanders (the tiny ones that are about 1-1.5 inches long)
>"well might as well use these"
>see a log as I'm walking back to the cabin
>see a big boy salamander

Now it's morning and I don't feel like using it as bait like the others since he's so cute and makes these cute noises. My questions are:
>what kind of salamander is it
>it's cute, right?
>what do i name it
>should I use it as bait
>if I use it as bait, what kind if fish would I catch with it

>>1040583
Just let it go back?

>>1040583
Youll catch bad juju using Frank for bait. Let frank and his brethren go.

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>>1040585
>>1040588
but it'll get eated by the chipmunks

>>1040568
I've seen shit on construction sites, where we would dig a barren mudhole and withen weeks there were fish swimming.

>>1040597
What do you think causes it? What fish were they too?

>>1040583
Don't you fucking dare use those slimebabies for bait!

whoops, saw an anime girl and posted in the wrong thread.

>>1040583
call him virgil and keep him as a pet, he is very cute

>>1040583
Hook it through the bottom of its mouth then out the top and cast it weightless any place you think would hold big bass.

>>1040619
>saw an anime girl
i thought sakura stayed on /a/

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>>1039725
Here's my dink trout from idaho

>>1040693
pls wet ur hands thx

>>1040697
>not having perpetually dry/cracked hands due to lifting, manual labor, and being /out/ all the time

>>1040708
This

>not being a MAN!

>>1040708
wet hands will
>make the photo look better since we wont be looking at that dirt
>make the fish look cleaner
>fish healthier since you're not rubbing off dat slime
It's as easy as dipping them right when you're bringing the fish out of the water. Consider it.

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>>1040708
My hands suck the moisture right out of the fish!

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dafuq is this

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forgot to wet my hand.

>>1040795
>>1040798
Looks like a mudskipper.

Where the fuck do you live?

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did some fly tying today.
#20 bunny midge, and #14 hares ear nymphs, i think these are my two favorite patterns to tie.
sorry about potato camera pic


>>1040795
thats either a sculpin or a goby, you can tell by looking at the pelvic fins. if its a goby, the pelvic fins are fused, and its invasive in the us and you should kill it
if its a sculpin, the pelvic fins will be seperate, in which case its probably native, and you should let it go

>>1040801
montreal

>>1040803
already let it go :/

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i heard you guys like worms

Well guys, I just smacked a little kid in the back with a green sunfish.
>be fishing county park pond
>dicking about with a 3/8oz jig in shallow water like 4' off the bank
>something absolutely SLAMS the jig
>drop rod tip
>haul back with whole body to set the hook like I would on a big bass in deep water cuz it surprised me
>launch a ~7" green sunfish out of the water at warp factor fuck
>"she's gone plaid!"
>sails off the hook
>30 yards behind me is a dad and his 2 boys soaking worms
>green sunfish smacks the younger of the two right between the shoulder blades and knocks him over forward
>he gets up, wide-eyed, here's this little greenie flopping about in the grass
>dad turns around, bewildered, sees me
>I'm horrified
>he busts out laughing and says something along the lines of "fish from God" to the boy
>phew
>wait til they've calmed down
>go over, ask them how they're doing, end up giving the 2 little boys like a double handful of cheapo bobbers I've been collecting and a new pack of #6 baitholder hooks
>quietly thank dad for not freaking out

>>1040803
>fused pelvic fins
It was a goby then.
Anon shoulda killed it.

>>1040806
well at least now you know what to look for. im going to tell myself its a sculpin even though i think it was a goby
>>1040813
10/10 story, i laughed, i hope its true

>>1040795
100% goby. hate those fucking things

>>1040824
I don't think it had any scales so it was probably a sculpin

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>>1040834
Look at the horizontal bars on its side. Definitely a goby. I've caught probably thousands of them on accident while perch fishing.
>>1040813
Reminds me of last week when I was frog fishing and kept having little tiny ones slurp it under the pads but not get hooked. I told myself the next one that hits I'm lighting it up. Sure enough I got a bite and heaved my rod back. It was a tiny dink and I sent him shooting out of the water a good 20 feet. I felt bad

>>1040795
>>1040836
>>1040832
Um anons, you do know that it's illegal to let Gobys back into the water after you've caught them, right?

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>>1040847
It's the same thing with snakeheads. You're supposed to kill everyone you catch but regardless if you do or not you're not going to have any effect on their population. Plus I'd rather not stench up the shore line with a rotting pile of fish.

>>1040854
>it doesn't make a difference
Oh, it does. If it didn't matter what people caught or not, you'd still be legally allowed to fish for sturgeon.

Reminder that a #2 mepps aglia is the most versatile fishing lure there is.
There isn't anything it can't catch
>bass
>musky
>pike
>trout
>walleye
>salmon
>crappie
>rockbass
>sunfish
>asian dudes
>Whitefish
>burbot
>snakehead
>seagulls
>qts

you name it, it can catch it.

>>1040882
You can say that with pretty much every lure that is small enough to fit into any mouth.
Actually you can't get carp on mepps, they don't really chase or bother with spinners. But for something like a lil jig they'll take a lil mouth of it.

>>1040882
you mean wooly bugger
>all the fish listed
>plus
>carp
>sucker
>chub
>redfish
>catfish
>snake head
>sea trout
>bluefish
>anything else that will eat a leech, minnow, aquatic insect, or crustacean

>>1040882
>asian dudes
This needs a story time. SKID make us a story time about this.

>Captcha bridges
Oh lord.

>>1040882
I lost my Mepps Aglia in a tree the other day. 10 years old. I feel bad :(

>>1040898
Go back and get it nigger

>>1040847
I don't know about that...

>>1040880
also I can still legally fish for surgeon here

>>1040882
To add to this list:
>small children
>large children
>geese
>clams
>great blue herons
>snowy egrets
>night herons
>eels
>pelicans
>bullfrogs and larger leopard frogs
>snapping turtles
>terrapins
>red-ear sliders
>loons
>diver ducks
>grebes
In one fishing trip my #4 Aglia caught me a loon, 2 grebes, a cormorant, a Canada goose, myself, a terrapin, several stickbass, a canoe yoke, and a great blue heron. And not a single fucking fish.

>>1040903
Going tonight with a flashlight, I though I saw it earlier, but when I got the suspected Aglia, it turned out to be a sun bleached panther Martin.

got a walleye on my first cast of a spinnerbait but I fumbled with my net and the line and it shook off :/

perfect eating size too

>>1040889
>Actually you can't get carp on mepps
Yes you can. I have caught multiple carp on mepps. The trick is to not fish it like a spinner, and to just let it drop into the sediment.

>>1040896
>9PM
>fishing at mouth of the rouge in Toronto
>river makes a 90deg bend before it goes into the lake
>fishing the bottom of the bend with #2 firetiger mepps with chartreuse fluff
>casting into the centre
>one cast goes rogue
>feel a massive tug
>set the hook like a pro
>reeling it in, drag starts screaming
>some voice also starts screaming
>"you caught me! you caught me!"
>thefishspeaktome.jpg
>realise i caught someone
>walk along the bank, reeling in as I go
>see small asian dude sitting there
>he looks half asleep
>maybe just slanty eyes?
>walk up and silently unhook him
>he laughs
>I laugh
>wave to him as I am leaving

#2 mepps catches every species.

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>>1040880

>sturgeon
>endangered
>not many in left in certain parts of the state
>not fishing for them to preserve those that are left

>gobies
>millions upon millions already in the lake
>kill 20-30 every time you go out
>still millions upon millions in the lake

im not seeing any correlation

>>1040907
they can be found in abundance in a lot of places. I know in the upper Midwest during the winter they chainsaw out huge sections of ice and use spears to catch and eat them

Pic related is from the lake down the road from me

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>>1040140
>buy fishing sit on top kayak for diving
>decide to test it out freshwater fishing before rigging it strictly for diving
>go to a small 100 acre lake with like 3 bass boats on it
>Paddle across lake and fish using makeshift anchor
>using brothers bass rod and memecaster
>crows nest memecaster on 1st cast and can't get it out
>see lots of bass and panfish in clear water
>won't hit anything I toss at them
>decide to anchor for lunch
>try to reach anchor (poorly placed behind me) and roll kayak
>recover and climb back on kayak
>sandals broke
>both rods and met in lake with no leash securing them
>take off life jacket and dive to bottom
>can't see shit in the mud and don't recover anything
>climb back on kayak
>remove leeches from legs
>paddle back to dock in shame

And that's why rod leashes are important. I still owe my brother a new rod.

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Nice ol bass caught yesterday. Pond in the adirondacks

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Meme baits are best baits

>>1040813
Kek

>>1040882
Put your trip back on Bepis

>>1040978
Should've nigger rigged a system with caribeaners that way you don't have to reach for anything.

>>1040978
sorry to hear anon. but i've spent hours swimming after lost gear before, once i wound up repeatedly diving under a dock for my dad's glasses, i pulled up 3 snails, a clam, several sticks, and then his glasses. its just a matter of feeling carefully, and taking whatever your hand wraps around up with you. and with every dive your chances improve, because there's one less thing surrounding what you're after

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>>1041004
I would probably say #3, but I'm a big fan of #2 as well.

>spend whole childhood hearing my dad meme about Mepps
>never catch anything on one
>come here
>more Mepps memeing
Reeeeeeee

>>1041014
youre doing it wrong then

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>>1041011
Pepsi pls.

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>>1041005
>and taking whatever your hand wraps around up with you

>>1040965
Why do sturgeon look like they ride the short bus? Are they easy as fuck to catch? Is that why they are endangered in some places?
>captch belts...what sturgeon are beat with because the do not live up to thier fathers standards.

>>1041030
I think it was specifically the eggs for caviar that people went for.

>>1039351
Jesus Christ is coming back soon, people. The day of judgement is drawing nigh...

>>1041038
>specifically the eggs for caviar
The sad thing is they realy are not that great. I believe people convince thier selves that it is good because of the price, but if you take that out of consideration caviar sucks.

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>>1041022
Why do you have that saved...

>>1041048
Lo there do I see my father; Lo there do I see my mother and my sisters and my brothers; Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning. Lo, they do call me, they bid me take my place among them, in the halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live forever.

>>1041051
A gift for Pepsi from /co/

>>1041030
I dont know about places where they are prevalent but here where they are rare its almost impossible to catch one even if you are trying. Every year or two someone will catch on on accident and it is almost always in the paper the next day.

>>1041069
Fancy

Is there anywhere in this godforsaken country where it's safe to eat the fish you catch?

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Should I do it? would it solidify me as a top tier meme lord?
>>1041085
Everything here is safe to eat (upstate NY). As long as you dont go to one specific smallish lake in the city. It used to be the most polluted lake in the entire country but its come a long way. They say you can safely eat a few fish a month from there but no one dares with the amount of mercury and other shit they pumped in there.

>>1041091
Cheers. I live in Staten Island and this place is one massive garbage dump floating in the Atlantic.

>>1041085
>pinchbridgebteweeneyes.jpeg
>God ficking danm it.

If you are taking about mercury then I am sick as shit with pointing out the faulty science behind the "studies" that say you can not eat the fish.

Look (you dumb fucking shits) your body produces selenium that counter acts the mercury in fish. So unless you are a fetus (that can not produce selenium) you are safe.

>>1041023
you know it
>>1041030
you be a bony fish from the time of dinosaurs and look smart then
>>1041051
why wouldn't he? look at that rack
>>1041085
you're gonna die some day of something, who really cares?

>>1041091
I would just get two 200 dollar bait casters honestly. Or one 200 dollar reel and one 200 dollar rod.

>>1041093
Ah well if you are worried about the pollution caused by your Democratic hell hole you call a state then yeah you might have an issue.

>>1041093
My aunt once ate a fish caught in Staten Island

>>1041098
>you be a bony fish from the time of dinosaurs and look smart then
Gar

>>1041103
>implying they look smart
they look like sturgeon with their defense mechanism pushed to their mouth instead of their back

>be me
>be dumbass
>think bite is just a bluegill nipping
>half ass set hook
>4lb on the line barely hooked
>get it about 20ft away
>lol head shake
>no more fish

This happens more often than I'd like to admit.

>>1041091
If you'll use it a lot then yes. I like my chronarch and all, but it's not really that much better than my $200+ reels.

>>1041097
I'm pretty sure those warnings are to keep retards from eating the fish everyday and feeding it to their children then suing the state if they get sick.

>>1041116
try always commiting to your hook sets even if it means you fling a bluegill 30 feet

>>1041116
>I'm pretty sure those warnings are to keep retards from eating the fish everyday and feeding it to their children then suing the state if they get sick.
The amout of people that take it as gods word sickens me.

>>1041030
They're endangered because:
>A) they have delicious caviar that people would harvest from pregnant females, and turn into one of the most valuable foods on earth. .
>B) the financial rewards led to massive overexploitation, wrecking populations and putting the species on the brink of extinction.
>C) sturgeon live in the ocean and spawn in the gravel beds of clear running rivers. Now that most rivers are dammed up, they can't reach their spawning grounds to lay eggs, development has silted the rivers and the dams have stopped flowing water across the gravel beds anyway.
They're more common in the (mostly undammed) Mississippi watershed, but nearly everywhere else populations have not bounced back like they need to, mostly because of habitat loss. What's worse is that there are no easy answers-to restore sturgeon habitat would involve destroying dams that provide millions of people with drinking water, electricity and fishing areas. People don't take kindly to being thrust back into the Stone Age for a fish's sake, and politicians know this.

>>1041052
Your family's not there.
They died of old age.

>>1041103
I think you mean bowfin, Zuriss

>>1041133
Hehe I know I watched.

>>1041117
I know I know.

On the note of bluegill hittin lures I had several try to eat the rat lure kek.

>>1041126
The government would never lie to you!

>>1041141
Watching some of the waters around here getting hit by that bullshit kind of hits close to home.

Opinions on Flooger baitcasters? Their spinning reels I like but I never hear anything about the baitcasters

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Susquehanna is now open for bass fishing.

>>1039351
Just now getting into fishing. Sorry if this is a dumbass question, but: how normal is it for me to fillet a fish right out on the docks? I basically want to make sure what I catch is as fresh as possible for eating purposes - so to start out I just want to go out, catch like 1x bass, stab it in the brain iki stick style, fillet it right there, throw it in a cooler with ice, chuck the garbage parts back in the lake, and head home. Maybe even catch a few and fillet them right there.

Is that a decent plan for my first time out? Is there anything wrong with any of that?

>>1041177
You're a big gui

>>1041205
As long as you're using legally caught, legally sized fish then I don't believe there'd be an issue... (Also your ass better have your fishing license on you)
Most people won't give a fuck, although most probably would prefer you throw the fish remains in a garbage bag. It's wasteful but most people don't enjoy seeing fish carcasses floating around their waters, man.

>>1041220
Yeah, I got my license a couple weeks ago and I've been looking over the regulations and holy shit they seem complicated (I'm in WV). It varies (and is contradictory) from lake to lake so I'll have to be really careful and plan my trips out with the size limits in mind. Thanks for the advice!

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I haven't been able to catch any fucking bass at this pond I'm going to. Everyone else seems to be able too. I'm thinking of hooking one of these dead shad, will this work? Any tips?

>>1041227
Just throw a spoon at their faces. Spoons will catch anything and bass bite anything that annoys them. Since spoons annoy /out/, I can imagine that they piss off bass.

>>1041157
I'm sure they're not bad since it's all Pure Fishing, but why not just buy a Revo?

>>1041223
Also a nice tip; leave a bit of skin on if you intend on filleting them on the spot. The skin can be used as a way to ID the fish if the DNR decides to hassle you.

>>1041254
Good idea. Apparently DNR around here are a bunch of fucking cunts, according to everyone I know.

I'll probably just do the garbage bag thing though. Let them sift through my dead fish shit if they really want to search me.

>>1041126
So when will we accidentally create Kosher 2.0?

>>1041205
>chuck the garbage parts back in the lake
Check your laws. This could be illegal.

>>1041227
Wacky rigged senkos mang

>>1041255
Game wardens everywhere tend to be a bunch of fucking cunts because they have to deal with all the minorities creating the stories we've told here.

>>1041340
In west Michigan I've only ever run into one guy. He was pretty cool. Some douchebag called the DNR on us for fishing in front of his house. The crappie were spawning and that's where they were. Had 4 of us in the boat and our limit would have been 100 fish. DNR officer dumped the fish out on the guy's lawn didn't even bother counting them because we didn't even have close to 100.

In the UP I've run into a guy a couple of times who is a complete asshole every time, but he wasn't DNR, it's the department of the interior there.

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>>1039351
Has any one ever tried Mister Twister's Poc'it plastics?

I have a bag of craws that have been sitting in my tackle bag for a few years and I've never actually put them on a hook.

>>1041348
The ones around here are total assholes, even when it isn't fishing related.
>one guy tried to straight-up arrest me because I was using factory tungsten shot (an approved nontoxic) while duck hunting because his magnet wouldn't stick to it
I argued with him until he pulled his sidearm and called for backup, a state trooper responded and called him a fucking idiot and let me go once he realized they were factory shells in their factory box and the box specifically stated nontoxic. Only good experience I've had with a state trooper too.
>one tried to ticket me for "too many poles in the water" one time at a county park despite I had ONE pole and was bass fishing
Apparently one of the regular catfishermen got pissed I was "crowding" his "spot" (the entire fucking north bank where he had dozens of poles and limb lines) and filed a false report with an accurate description of me. I had to walk the quarter mile back to my car with game warden in tow to prove that not only did I only have the one rod WITH me but I had fewer than the legal max in total. The then proceeded to completely ignore my counter-complaint about the guy with 30+ lines in the water we could clearly see from where we were.

>>1041349
I've genuinely never even heard of them before. I thought Mister Twister only made curlytail grubs.

>>1041348
>>1041359
Must be a Yankee thing for DNR to all be dicks. Where I live I haven't came across one that wasn't just doing their, probably because they know they can get canned easily and there's 1000s of people waiting for openings

>>1041373
I'm >>1041359
and this happened in South Carolina.

>>1041373
Their job*

>tfw I smashed a foot off the tip of my St. Croix Triumph Surf rod loading it into my car

God fucking damn it. St. Croix sells the upper half of the rod but it's suspiciously cheap, I still bought it anyways.

http://stcroixrods.com/shop/rod-repair-parts/triumph-surf-spinning-rod-replacement-top-rod-section/

>>1041377
St Croix has been slipping in quality in recent years, seemingly in line with their introduction of bass rods. I refuse to buy them any more.

>>1041374
No shit, I'm in the lowcountry and I've been stopped about 5 or 6 times in the past 10 years and its always pleasant, I've never had a warden be a dick, even when I talk to them in a store or something

>>1041380
It was 100% my fault, nothing to do with quality control.

>>1041205

Illegal where I live. Could be illegal species or undersized. DNR needs to be able to identify a legally obtained fish.

>>1041382
I wasn't saying it was defective, I'm just stating that I wouldn't buy a rod they've made in the last 10-15 years. They aren't what they used to be.

For that matter, 15 years ago they came with an unconditional lifetime guarantee, even if you outright told them you broke it through carelessness they'd replace it free. New rods come with a 1-year manufacturer defect warranty.

>>1041380
With this, I feel like it's the same across most industries. You are better off buying a higher end rod from a cheaper company than the lowest level rod from a good company. I have played with those Triumph rods, and any Abu or Fenwick rods in the same price range feel way better.

>>1041420
With the Triumphs still being around $90 in my opinion there's a ton of Abu, Shimano, and Fenwick rods that are categorically better for between $30 and $10 less. Hell an HMG is only around $80 and it's significantly better, and an Eagle is on par for $30-40 less.

>>1041381
I had the same warden "check on" me 9x in a 4 hour duck hunt. He was doing everything in his power to find something technically illegal with what I was doing, and when that failed he was trying to provoke me into a confrontation.

Northeastern tip of Lake Marion.

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Can anyone help me identify what species this is?

>>1041465
That's a Wojak.

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Who else going fishing today?

>>1041465
Where did you catch it?

>>1041473
>Yuma
Yo if you're fishing the Colorado just north of town and catch a 12ga BPS with an abnormally long stock I lost it there in 1985

>>1041465
Appears to be a large Black Bullhead being held by a Greater Suburban Lardass

>>1041177
A big guy and a big fish

>>1041373
The one I ran into in the UP was a federal guy. Not sure how much different that is from state DNR

An obese Hawaiian fellow at Turner's told me to buy the Luckcraft Flash Minnow and I caught a nice big barred surf perch on my third cast.

I caught several smaller ones too but that first one was almost 14" and probably weight like 4 pounds.

BASED FAT HAWAIIAN MAN

>>1041492
For you.

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>>1041501
Lucky Craft flashminnow is absolute best meme I've spent $20 for one on. Just wait till you get a big halibut on it. It convinces me that high price but high quality lure actually exist instead of being just a meme. Everything about it is top nip design.

I got a fat 15 inches yellowfin croaker on mine today.

You should also try to get one lucky craft surf pointer 115mr to be part of your kit. It is not as versatile as the flashminnow but it is a lot cheaper at $12. It dives 3-5 ft, slightly fatter, and cast farther than the flashminnow. Once in a while, you will find a spot that has deeper water and a surf pointer might be perfect for those deeper spot since flashminnow only dives 3 ft.

Pic related my main flashmminnow, back up flashminnow, and the surf pointer

>>1039637
These things make trailers for Chatterbaits

>>1041520
Or you could get a Rapala X-Rap that is just as good for $8.

>>1041537
Except an x rap doesn't cast as well and doesn't have as good tight wobble that gives good action on slow retrieve. The saltwater x rap also have shitty hook that rust very easily.

>>1041537
>>1041552

utterly BTFO

>>1041520
$20 is nothing for how well it works.

My other hobby is shooting guns and I burn through $20 in like 15 secs of shooting.

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>>1041348
not once in my entire life have I ever seen or been stopped by a game warden. Kinda strange now that I think about it. Only law enforcement I ever encounter is the boat police and they are always very nice and takes no more than a few minutes to pop open my storage compartment and show them what im required to have and they are on their way.

>>1041577
>boat police
Only times I've ever interacted with them was visiting my grandparents down in Florida. They lived on Clearwater Bay so 99% of their job was getting drunk partyers unstuck from the sandbars, and me tooling by in either my kayak or my grandpa's dinghy under paddle power would usually just get a big grin.

Hell one time I waited too long coming home and was having to paddle against the tide, and they offered me a ride. Wasn't in distress, just more work than I was expecting.

FL water cops are breddy cool imo.

>>1041520
>>1041537
How the fuck do you even fish jerkbaits?

I know literally nothing about them.

>>1041581
You jerk them. Duh.

What's the one lure you can't do without?

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>>1041580
I don't get stopped often. Maybe once or twice a year. I'm usually out on the water when the weekend faggots are home or working so I feel like they just stop because they have nothing else to do. Like I said they are always nice and often will give you recommendation on spots they learned about while talking to other boaters.
>>1041581
I like a twitch, twicth, pause presentation. If it doesn't work I will keep tweaking it untill one bites then I stick with that retrieve style the rest of the day. Usually a pretty productive strategy for me

>>1041603
wooly bugger, any fish will eat them. if you put the right size one in front of any fish, and move it properly, you will get a take.

What exactly is the difference between dip nets and scoop nets? Trying catch crawdads up here in northern Wisconsin and got a warning from DNR as I was heading out to the spot that I had the wrong net, so I had to catch all my bait by hand.

>>1041624
wikipedia says theyre the same thing

>>1041348
>the moment when you realize the DNR guy is a bro who just shit all over the guy who ruined your fishing day
I hope you bought that DNR guy a beer

>>1039351
Filthy casual spinnerfag here, I want to get into fly fishing. Am in Wanganui, New Zealand, any tips? Was thinking about picking up some no frills $300 airflo rod and reel combo.

>>1041473
>10% humidity
Come to Florida if you can't handle that.
It's only 93 here.
>with 75% humidity
>you will sweat like a slave
>and it won't do anything
>you can literally die of heatstroke if you spend too much time outside here.
>not so in Yuma. Just keep drinking water and you'll be fine.

>>1041618
Question for a newbie to wooly buggers:
How do you get them to move properly? What's your preferred retrieve.

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>>1041646
>upstate NY
>90 degrees
>60% humidity

My summer job is outdoors and nothing but lifting heavy shit. I wanted to fucking die

>>1041646
Am I the only person who feels like anything over 90 is basically the same with or without humidity?

>>1041663
Yes.
I was in Vegas when it was 108 with 40% humidity and it felt like 85 in Florida.
Everybody there was all like
>We're so sorry! It's not normally so humid!
Meanwhile I was
> I'm from Florida! This is nothing! It's glorious!

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>>1041670
Obviously I feel the humidity, but I don't feel like it really makes it "hotter". Guess I'm the weird one.

I will say cold and humid sucks a dick. I definitely feel a difference then.

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>>1041678
IMO it doesn't make it "hotter" just a lot more uncomfortable. Or at least for me... Just like how cold and rainy is shittier than just your basic cold dry winter day.

>>1041678
Out here in the Carolinas it's murder sometimes but if I wear something fairly moisture wicking and keep plenty of water on hand then I'm fine. Being hot in general gives me migraines at times. My favorite time of year is fall especially for fishing.

>>1041603
For normal fishing it's a 3" chartreuse curly tail grub on a 1/8oz ball jighead. Will catch literally anything that swims.

For fly I second the wooly bugger.

>>1041648
Buggers are versitile. You can use as slow or fast a retrieve as you want depending on what the fish like. I've found bass like it a bit faster. As you strip it you can try jiggling it a bit too.

Wooly Buggers are great. Look like nothing but resemble everything.

>>1041663
Yes.

I mean Christ I grew up in southern AZ, 130* days were common. They were tolerable because like -999% humidity.

Now I'm in Missouri, it'll hit 103* 45 days a year but stays 80%+ humidity February to November. Anything over 85 sucks the life out of you.

>>1041683
>my favorite time of year is fall
>lives somewhere that doesn't get fall
Also, how the fuck is the Columbia area 99% humidity year round?

>>1041603
Fly fishing it's clousers, decievers, and wooly buggers

Conventional surf fishing it's all about electric chickens and gotcha plugs.

>>1041690
I live in East NC. It damn sure gets fall. Even at its warmest it's still the best time of year for redfish.

I've only been to SC a few times and most times I was playing rugby and/or getting drunk. It is humid as Satan's taint.

>>1041635

Yeah, but the fishing regulations say I can use one and not the other. I should have asked the DNR officer to clarify but I try to stay away from them as much as possible.

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Just picked up this box of flies from Dad. I have a fly rod, but mostly fished with poppers for panfish from a boat. I have absolutely no idea how to fish them, or even what they are.
Can anybody help? I know the giant black fucker is a caterpillar, but beyond that I'm lost.

>>1041707
Look like mostly dry flies. I've caught bluegill on dry flies numerous times. If you live where there's trout then those will be splendid.

>>1041709
I don't. Live in the coastal Deep South.
Have plenty of access to panfish, bass and other warm water fish, but trout fishing is at least 5 hours away, and good trout fishing is more like 10.

>>1041712
I feel you. That's my region as well. You can hit bluegill with em but you might wanna make a trip to go for trout when you can.

>>1041177
Where at on the susky?

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>>1041682
Yeah my only complaint about humidity is that it makes me feel gross and I feel like I'm never dry after a shower.

>>1041683
Fall time is best time. Jerkbaits for days. I'm really disappointed we didn't get a real fall last year. It was pretty much spring, summer, summer, two days of winter, spring again lol.

>>1041688
To be fair I've never been in the desert so I don't really know if I've felt a completely dry heat. That may warp my perception a bit.

>>1041648
just about any way you move them will work given the right circumstances. literally just try different retrieves (including dead drifting and crawling it on the bottom) until fish start biting
>>1041702
call the dnr and ask
>>1041707
lets start on the top row and go down, ignoring the caterpillar
>top row, unknown dryflyx2, unknown wet fly/nymph x2, possible royal wulff variant?
>row 2, adams x2 (dry mayfly imitiation), no idea, possible midge dry fly, adams, unsure dryflies x5
>row 3, 2 unknown dry flies, royal wullf variant (attracter pattern, good when you see fish rising to bugs you cant identify), the unsure dry flies, another royal wulff variant, unsure dry fly
next row
>unsure dry fly, possible pheasant tail nymph (mayfly nymph wet fly), possible adams variant x2, unknown dry flies x x5, possible crackle back (attractor pattern, use at the same time the royal wullf would be used)
next row
>possible adams variants x3, unknown dry fly x4, possible adams, unknown dry flies x3
bottom row
>unknown dry fly, adams? x2, unsure dry fly x3, possible adams x3
to use dry flies, coat them in something called gink (it should be at the fly shop, if they dont have that any fly floatant will be better than none) and then either dead drift them or skitter them for trout
for bluegill it doesnt really matter, theyll eat a bare hook with a frayed pice of thread hanging off the back that was, at one point in time, a fly
>>1041712
literally just tie any one of those flies on and throw it anywhere there might be bluegill, youll catch plenty, dont worry about floatant, bluegill wont care

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2nd drum I've caught on a lizard.

>>1041738
That's a beauty

>>1041696
Lived at Ft. Bragg NC for 9 years, then Ft. Jackson SC for an additional 2. There is no fall. 95* one week, 35* the next.

>>1041747
Stationed at Camp Lejeune for 5 years minus deployment and some time at Quantico pushing candidates then got out and I'm sticking around for a bit. I've had plenty of falls out here but yeah it does tend to fluctuate. Youre crazy though if you don't think it's much more bearable around October-November.

>>1041747
Fayetteville is suprisingly shitty despite being bigger than Jacksonville btw.

>>1041752
It's the largest-by-population military base in the entire world, crammed into a cantonment area designed to hold half what it does, in the South, which amplifies the "camp followers" and other undesirables that accumulate around military bases naturally.

Why does it surprise you?

>>1041759
I just expected more from the city, I dunno. Jacksonville isn't much better but it's certainly improved over the years.

Sheeet, almost time for a new one!

>>1041732
This. Bluegill will eat any damn thing. I go to a local tying night and whenever somebody fucks up their fly we just tell em not to toss cuz you know a bluegill will hit it.

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>>1041773
>>1041773
>>1041773
>>1041773

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>>1041603
kastmaster or carrot

>>1041738
What color Lizard you throwing? Assuming it's Zoom and weightless.

>>1041646

Louisiana is even worse.

>93 with 85% humidity
>Literally sweat just from standing outside
>Doing any cardiovascular activity (i'm in the Army, lots of running) results in gasping for air like a fish out of water

I kick myself in the leg everyday for not going Navy or Air Force.
At least the Gulf is a 90 minute drive and Toledo Bend Reservoir is 35 minutes away.