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Fishing & Tackle Thread 2016-07-08 19:22:53 Post No. 810679
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#65-"Hot as Hell" Edition
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>>808502
>tfw made it to the weekend
I was pretty sure I would die of heat stroke before getting here. Taking Monday off so I have a 3-day weekend, but I'm going to have to get some 6am sessions in with this heat. At least it's starting to get dark earlier so I don't have to wait around quite as long for the largemouth to start biting.
Talk about fishin
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Hitting the beach Sunday to try for a legal halibut again. Caught my first one last weekend but it was only 14.5"
Going to Dick's tomorrow to look at some bass meme lures because fags online claim they work for halibut.
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2nd for skid we miss you
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>>810679
>attractive
>athletic figure
>looks like she actually caught that fish
>not some washed up PCB beach rat that's preserved herself with UV rays and cigs
>not a furry
U. Dun. Good
Also wtf is that fish? I'm gonna call it a tooth-nosed jewfish until someone corrects me
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>>810686
I think you got it, tooth nosed jewfish but I normally just call em Jeweys for short
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>>810684
XRAP!!!
They are a popular bass and saltwater lure. YuroSaintsFan loves em too and he does all saltwater.
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>>810686
>he can't see that it's clearly and obviously shopped
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>>810689
Idk. Just looks like it's in the shadow while she is in the light.
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>>810694
>Nah guys i didnt shoop this, its just the shadows!
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Anyone have a pasta or link to an article that explains rod action and size?
I've been using some old Zebco catfish rod spooled with 10lb mono forever, just now realized I've been doin' it wrong.
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>>810706
What are you fishing for, what reel and size, line weight, and price range? Maybe we could reccommend stuff.
It would be hard to generalize it because I have 3 different rods that are all 1pc 6'6" Medium Weight Fast Action and they all feel a bit different.
You really want to try a few rods in store before buyin.
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>>810706
I wouldn't say you've been doing it wrong, just been doing it in a way that isn't conductive to more fun. Exact reason why I bought another rod and reel. My 6000 and medium heavy are great for big fish (cat, etc) but boring as hell for bass.
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>>810694
>>810689
>>810705
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No more furries, please.
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>>810731
So, like no more furries, right guys?
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this fishing thread sure went to hell. Sure a qt 3.14 here & there is nice but this isn't a /b/ thread
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>>810713
The salt is real, go saltwater fishing
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I'm off to sweden for some canoeing for a week, leaving tonight.
Taking a rod/reel with a small selection of spoons spinners other random lure things. I've not caught a fish since I was 8 years old. Caught fuck all last time I was there. Wish me luck based fishing anons.
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>>810709
Fishing for black bass and panfish mostly, occasionally brookies or rainbows, honestly whatever the hell I can catch. As for line weight, IDK, whatever would be the most versatile, I guess 8-10lb mono. As for reels, I have some shitty Shakespeare spincaster on right now, but anything I'd buy would mostly likely be a spinning reel.
>>810710
Fun for me is catching fish, and I don't really catch dick right now. I think two of my biggest problems are lack of sensitivity and casting distance, and understanding rods a little better would help with that.
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>>810739
The spincaster is really messing with your distance. A good spinning reel will help immensely. Medium action would be the most I'd get.
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Some of yesterday's catch, ended with 190 or so
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>>810684
The biggest meme lure for legal halibut from the surf is the lucky craft flashminnow. You won't find it at Dick's but they will be at any tackle shop near you. Prepare to spend $20 for a lure.
If you don't want to spend that much then any minnow shape soft plastic or minnow shape crankbait/jerkbait that has max dive up to 3 to 5 ft will work. Halibut seems to like a really skinny long minnow profile
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>>810736
Is it legal to fish there? Be sure to clear it with the local Sharia council.
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>>810747
I tried some $18 lure that the local bait shop recommended and didn't get a hit.
I've only had luck with a simple spoon so far.
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>>810734
Saved me some work
>>810739
You should look into something lighter for what you are doing. Like a 2000 size reel with 6lb mono or 10lb braid if you want to go that route. Stick it on a 6' or 6'6" medium or medium-light possibly. Even 7' if you want. That will be a blast as long as you aren't constantly rip 5lb largemouth bass from weeds.
Keep that big catfish rod and get a cheap 4000 size reel with 12lb mono and use that for catfishing or anything heavy.
That's how I would do it.
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>>810769
yes the mosque sells licenses.
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>>810747
That is probably a lucky craft. That would be the first on anyone recommendation list, especially a tackle shop, for catching halibut from surf in socal. It usually does catch fish, make sure you don't retrieve it too fast, just enough to barely feel the vibration and tension from the lure.
I call it a meme lure because while it is a really easy to use and will catch fish in 70%-80% of the condition in the surf, it's not the end of all lure. It is definitely a high quality lure and cast really far for a minnow shape hard lure. However, it is still a crankbait so it has a very specific dive depth (up to 3 ft) and only work well within a specific range of retrieve speed. There are times when the area is too deep and halibut are not active enough to move from the bottom to take the lure. Lucky craft also suffer when there are too much weed floating since it will snag everything as a shallow diving crank with 3 hooks or the surf is too rough
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i'm amazed at how far we've gone to have future thread photos made this far in advance, given that we're only on #65 right now.
i'm not a furfag and i love my slutty 6's and sexy 7's as much as the next man whore, but i'm surprised how much hate the #64 pic got.
this is fucking 4chan, is it not?
dig that treble hook out of your ass anons.
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>>810791
#64 wasn't even furfaggotry. Idk why anon got so uppity. But at least I don't have to make any OP pics for a few weeks.
>>810786
I got a couple Lucky Crafts from MTB. They seem nice and all, but I know those things go for $15-$20 each. Not sure I would spend that money unless I really liked the color combo or had incredible luck with them somehow. I will spend $10-$12 on an X-Rap though...
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>get sick of having to walk through half a kilometer of rocks and river current to get to my spot
>drive 20 minutes out of the city to a small cement dock
>within 5 minutes we land a largemouth
>see some large snake looking thing jump out of the water across the river
>five guys in a boat come flying into the dock looking for a muskellunge jumping out of the water
>asian family shows up and starts going on a panfish genocide
>land another largemouth
thank you based zoom speed craws
black-red glitter is really nice looking in the water
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>>810805
>not furfaggotry
scalefagging lol
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>>810805
I have an x rap too but it is the 10xr one and dives pretty deep so I don't use it that much. However, there will be times when I need it though. It doesn't cast as good as the lucky craft flash minnow even when it is 3/4 and the lucky craft is 5/8.
I do have pretty good luck with the shadow rap too, which is pretty similiar to the x rap. It doesn't cast well neither but sometimes the fishes are just right near the shore so I don't need to.
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>>810811
Opps i mean xr12
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>>810811
I grabbed one of those Shadow Raps but haven't used it much. I like the regular suspending X-Raps. It is like a better Husky Jerk.
They make a handful of saltwater specific X-Raps that Yuro loves. One of them is the XXX-Rap, I think that one is made to cast really far and uses single hooks instead of trebles. The regular X-Raps are fairly light for the size.
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>>810791
>>810805
4chan has a long history or anti/pro-anthro/furry wars and that is why it is banned outside of /b/. It could be board-crushing at times back when 4chan was more of a wild west.
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Went to that lake with the monster bass and I think it has just been too warm for largemouth. Plus at that lake I have to park at this rec center and walk a little bit and the parking lot closes at 8pm so I can't even park anywhere close and stay for sunset. I probably should've stayed another 45min and ran back to my car at 7:55pm but as always the wind is comin from the east, sun is setting in the west, and it is hot as hell so it isn't the most pleasant condition for fishing. Especially after working 10hrs+ in this heat with a truck that has no AC.
I think I'm gonna drive up to Gander Mtn and browse. I haven't been there in months.
>>810821
I understand, but the one OP pic with the dog a month or two ago was furfaggotry, this was some comic.
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>>810733
Yes
No more of the furry shit we need to keep it out of this general
Also can I get that pic without the lettering on it?
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>>810859
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Survey tiem!
Post your favorite:
-Hard Bait (Crankbait, Jerkbait, etc)
-Soft Bait
-Topwater
-Spinner or Spoon
>Hard Bait
Rapala X-Rap (Gold)
>Soft Bait
Zoom 6" Lizards (Sprayed Grass)
>Topwater
Rapala Skitter Pop (Brown Frog)
>Spinner
Mepps Agila (Gold Blade/Brown Skirt)
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>>810884
>Hardbait
Tie between red eye shad or this one gander mountain jerk bait I have that works really well.
>soft bait
Zoom 6" Lizards in chartreuse obviously
>topwater
Whopper plopper
>spinner
One of the strike king ones in a blue and white color/silver blades
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>>810889
You really like that Whopper Plopper? I'm sure mine is still tangled in that grass at a lake down the street. I didn't love it enough to get it back or spend $18 on a new one.
I have an old Bass Pro store brand Rapala Original knockoff that I have caught so many fish on. I used to run it a lot in unfamiliar spots where I didn't want to lose a $9 Rapala but damn that thing worked well.
I think it's in this "Cheap vs Expensive" pic. The middle gold ones on the bottom, bottom is an Original Rapala and top is the Bass Pro.
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>>810816
I love the count down sinking raps but I'm mostly going off a yak. From shore I don't use them much.
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>>810897
The pink one here is one of the deep diving Rapalas with their "UV" paint job. They only make that one deep diving type with the UV finishes as far as I can tell and I would love to get some Husky Jerks with the 3 different UV paint jobs. I have 2 pink UV's, one green and orange UV, and then they make a yellow and orange too.
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>>810884
>Hard Bait
Yo-zuri crystal minnow
>Soft Bait
Yammamoto 5 inch senko (watermelon black/red flake)
>Topwater
Strike King bleeding bait elite buzz bait
>Spinner
Mepps giant killer (white skirt)
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>>810884
>hard bait
old rattle trap or zara spook
>soft bait
zoom trick worm, white, merthiolate, or chartreuse
>top water
see above
spinner
>classic beetle spin, yellow or green with black stripe
i don't fish much hard or top water due to moss and plants in my innawoods waterways, i'm more weedless.
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>>810907
Are you targeting largemouth with that buzzbait? Got a pic of the color scheme you like?
I never really had any luck with buzzbaits. But then again, topwater is rough here most of the time with the warm water. I hear snakeheads like topwater but I always just get them on inlines.
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Shore fishing a cove in a big lake today and caught a 1/2 pound smallmouth on a weightless 5" dark senko worm on a 4/0 hook. Wasn't a trophy but was still lots o' fun
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>>810913
Ive slaughted large mouth with this thing. It was a slight chirp to it that not only pisses me off but the bass as well. If i miss a bass i can usually reel right over it again and they cant resist not eating it.
https://www.amazon.com/Strike-King-Bleeding-Bait-Elite/dp/B0043F4UT0
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>>810914
Typical weedless rig with an offset worm hook? Or some wacky rigged deal?
I think I want to grab some of those goofy weights to do wacky rigs. I hear lots of good things but have never tried it. I'm gonna put it on my list for a Bass Pro or Gander Mtn adventure.
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>>810893
>You really like that Whopper Plopper?
Yee. I don't normally have luck with topwater lures, but I've caught a fish everytime I've thrown that one out. It's just a neat lure. Plus I really like the sound it makes when you rip it across the water.
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>-Hard Bait (Crankbait, Jerkbait, etc)
Rapala Original Balsa Minnow
>-Soft Bait
No.
>-Topwater
Jitterbug
>-Spinner or Spoon
Black-white Rooster Tail Spinner w/silver spinner
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>>810922
Yeah texas rigged. I wanna try wacky to make my expensive yamamoto's last longer (one of them fell apart on me today) but I'm too lazy to visit a hardware store to buy the little rubber o rings
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>>810922
do you ever do drop shotting? that's my next technique to play with after wacky rigging
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>>810927
how much better are o-rings for a wacky rig? i got a shitload of them of various sizes since when you buy vaping tanks they normally throw in a pack of them
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>>810922
Somebody enlighten me on the wacky rigs.
What hooks (type and size) do you use? Do you also use the funky weights? Does it need to be a fat Senko worm or could I run it on a Zoom Trick or Finesse worm?
And how do you fish them? What conditions do they work best in?
I get a lot of hits from big bass on soft plastics just after I cast them and they are falling to the bottom. I'd be down to try out the wacky rigs. Get some of those bright orange and pink Yum senkos and see if the peacocks would hit them. That's my project for tomorrow. Bass Pro really should open at 4:30am so I could stop there before I go fishing.
>>810923
Yeah, it's definitely something else compared to any of the typical prop lures. I wonder if the peacocks would like it. I should really go try and recover it one day.
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>>810931
I haven't tried it yet but all the youtube/online research I've done say it's the way to go if you wanna make plastic worms last longer
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>>810929
Nah, what's the deal with that?
>>810927
Just buy some Yum worms. I still don't know how Yamamotos are $8 for a few sticks of rubber.
>>810926
>no soft baits
I used to be like that too when I lived in IL and bass would hit spinners and cranks in July. Doesn't work like that here. Lizards and brush hogs have saved me from a really boring summer.
>>810931
Looking at the pics, I didn't know they were O-Rings. I thought they were some flexible lead weights or something. Makes sense. So wacky rigs are normally weightless?
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>>810932
>And how do you fish them? What conditions do they work best in?
they work anytime a texas rigged worm works which is always. and you can fish it the same way with the slight raise, let it sink back down, reel in slack, repeat
you know how stabbing an earth worm makes it go fucking nuts and writhe around? that's the action of a wacky worm at all times in the water. looks like it's injured and easy prey
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>>810936
I see. I'm anxious to try it out because picky fish really seem to like the finesse presentations. I can run a lizard on a 3/8oz bullet weight that pulls to the bottom pretty quick and they won't bite it. If I switch to a 1/8oz weight, it falls a little slower and they love it.
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>>810935
you don't *have* to use o rings for wacky rig, you can just stab it, but o rings make the bait last 10x longer. and yeah normally weightless AFAIK
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>>810935
I don't use soft baits because I'm not a litter bug.
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>>810935
>Just buy some Yum worms
The thicker ones right? I have some thin ones from Walmart and they suck for T-rigging
I've been wanting to get some zoom trick worms, you have any experience with those?
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>>810932
just tie on a octopus hook (what ever size you find acceptable) but be sure to leave a good 2 feet of line below the knot if you plan on not fishing weightless so you can add a sinker. tie on a drop shot sinker and hook your senko and your set. if you want to use an o-ring just put one on. as for condition and how to fish you just want to look for high visibility water and then cast out and let it sink all the way, once you know its on bottom just do gradual 1-2 foot lifts slowly pulling or popping it closer to the shore. as Im sure you know they eat it on the way down so when you lift up and lower back down make sure you real in the slack so you can set the hook.
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>>810936
>they work anytime a texas rigged worm works which is always
You know what's fucked up? One of my nearby lakes will have smaller largemouth (12"-14") cruising close to shore during the day and it is really hard getting their attention. Right at sunset, the bait fish start to go crazy towards the top of the water with the largemouth chasing them. If I throw a crank or fluke out by the baitfish to try and entice them with a larger meal, they rarely hit it. If I throw a Texas rigged lizard or worm right where the commotion is, the bass will always go for that instead of the baitfish.
I guess when they're chasing the baitfish, they must be in hunting mode. And if a slower, easier target appears a few feet below, they will grab it.
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>>810945
Yeah it's crazy how attractive the plastics are to them. I had about 3 feet visibility today so I was dropping and watching my senko, and it was amazoing how real it looked. Everytime you twitch it goes a different direction real fluidly and looks so damn real
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>>810942
If you throw them in the water, they break down pretty fast. Way quicker than that crankbait you snagged on a rock last summer.
And like 90% of the time, the worm or lizard stays on the hook but is too beat up to use again. So I just rip it off, throw it in my tackle bag, and toss it in the trash later. Or I throw them in some bushes.
>>810943
The Yum worms (I think they're called 'Dingers') are like the Yamamoto Senkos. They aren't super long, but they are fat and I think the body is almost symmetrical. Those are the ones you always see on Wacky rigs.
Zoom Trick Worms are different, they are long and thinner than the Dingers and Senkos. They have a little more presence for larger bass and the tail will stick up from the bottom and wiggle around a bit. I like Zoom Finesse Worms though, and some of the other thin ones. The smaller bass close to shore will eat those things up. Put them on a 2/0 EWG and catch one every other cast.
>>810944
There are specific sinkers called "drop shot sinkers"?
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>>810952
>There are specific sinkers called "drop shot sinkers"?
yeah drop shot weights, you just pinch the line up inside and it holds - no need for a knot
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>>810953
Intredasting. I was lookin and seems like some people use regular bell sinkers while others use these real long cylindrical ones.
My shoppig list is getting long. I need to stop getting new ideas. I need to grab some octopus hooks though. Most of my regular hooks (non-offset) are like panfish sized. I noticed that a few weeks ago when I got medium shiners and ended up using offset worm hooks because it was the best size I had for larger bass.
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>>810955
>I was lookin and seems like some people use regular bell sinkers while others use these real long cylindrical ones.
yeah I don't really know the conditions but it's like a long cylinder works best when there's a lot of rocks because it bounces off better, or something.
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Is there any functional difference between a three-way rig and a dropshot rig?
Just by looking at the picture, it appears the three-way would achieve the same goal of suspending bait off the bottom, but without having to tie a super pain in the ass knot.
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>>810952
I've never once lost a lure. I always get it unsnagged.
You can dredge up plastic worms all day long in the water ways around here. They don't degrade unless they are specifically biodegradable and state so on the label.
I actually dredge up stuff all the time just to collect old lures. I also don't like spending money on something that doesn't last.
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>>810959
With a 3-way like that, it looks like you would need current like a river to keep the bait off the bottom. The drop-shot seems like it would be better for a slow, stop and go retrieve in a lake from shore. Also wouldn't get tangled as easily.
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>>810961
>You can dredge up plastic worms all day long in the water ways around here. They don't degrade unless they are specifically biodegradable and state so on the label.
agreed, throwing plastics in the water is a big no-no, as a bass could get it, but they can't digest it and will get fucked up
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>>810961
You're missing out on a lot of fish.
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>>810959
>but without having to tie a super pain in the ass knot.
tying a palomar knot is good for you, chief. you'll be a better person afterwards
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Caught this guy in some warm water. 11in probably a holdover from this winters stocking
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Check out doggo
He's a lurcher
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>>810967
Cute bow! Should be great eatin!
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>>810745
What are these?
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>>810884
>hard bait
Original Rapala
>soft bait
Dark purple/black worms
>topwater
Yellow devil-horse
>spinner
beatlespin because I only ever fish for panfish with spinners
I've tried hundreds of lures but these are what my dad always used and they happen to be my favorite too
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>>810989
Maybe pic related?
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>>810994
Surely they didn't catch 150 bluefish, though.
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Took my girlfriend fishing with me today. It was eventful. This was probably the fifth or sixth time that I brought her. I was fly fishing for bass in a little area that went into a riffle to a pool to another rifle then a deep pool. I set her up to fish with carp with corn in the deep pool and I was going to fly fish the other ones. Anyways as soon as I get her set up I walk away probably 20 feet and then she starts screaming my name. I turn around and see my rod she was using fly into the water and into the abyss as I ran up..... good thing I only gave her the ugly stik and not one of my st croixs...
I did at least catch a few smallmouth.
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>>810884
>hard bait
Rebel tracdown, don't use cranks much.
>soft bait
Yum crawbug
>topwater
Never done it.
>spinner or spoon
K A S T M A S T E R
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>>811005
what kind of reel is that? ive seen those before and they look really comfy and neat
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>>810996
150 bluefish isnt out of the relm of possibilitys, Ive caught over 100 ( with a couple guys) in a matter of just an hour or so , smallest was 8 pounds
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>>811005
And that is exactly why I don't bring my girlfriend fishing or golfing or to the gym
Those are my 3 hobbies
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>>810679
Anybody else /spearfishingmasterrace/?
Yesterdays catch after ~2.5 hours in the water
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>>810686
It's a hogfish. Big wrasse species (for the Caribbean anyway) delicious and sustainable
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>>811086
spearfishing sounds fun as fuck, where do you do it?
im presuming water with nice visibility. low visibility water unsettles me for whatever reason, i really don't like swimming in lakes where i cant see my feet or even my stomach. id love to scuba dive my local river because i know its probably fucking loaded with free lures and phones, but the idea of not being able to see a foot in front of me does not sit well
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>>811005
Reminds me of way back in the day when I was a little shit...
>fishing with best friend at the pond 3 blocks from my house, right behind his house
>little man-made pond, about 300' long and 100' wide
>have a couple rods each out for carp because that's the most fun thing to catch in a little pond like that
>all of a sudden one of hist rods goes flying into the water, not even a warning or small bite first
>he is all pissed off
>about 15min later, one of my rods gets a bite
>reel in my line, and on the hook is his rod
>he grabs his rod off my hook, reels in the carp that pulled the rod in
>tfw fat carp still on the line
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>>811090
I do it in the ocean because its great visibility (right now its only 3-5 meters but thats because of algae). I do it without oxygen tanks so its pretty straight forward.
>probably fucking loaded with free lures and phones
Might have to do that one day! Could use some free lures etc
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>>810965
I'm really not. There's never been a time when I went home hungry. I always catch my creel limit, in short order, if it applies to what I'm fishing for and I feel I need that many. I don't catch and release; I catch and eat.
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>>811092
>tfw actually woke up early and made this post
I wanted to go sunrise fishin but passed back out. Fuck.
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>>811159
>always catch my creel limit, in short order
How lucky are we? The world's best angler, right here, in our thread.
This guy has NEVER been skunked, never had a NO-fer.
I want to be the first to shake your hand and congratulate you. It's an honor.
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>>811183
Kek, honestly. He's probably just fishing for bluegill.
There's a lot of days here where you will never catch bass on spinners and cranks. It has to be a worm or creature bait. They don't even like Texas-rigged flukes.
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>>811188
I've had days where I've literally caught 500 plus gills, perch, etc mixed other species in just a matter of hours when icefishing
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>>810933
Basically all the soft plastics i use get worn out after a day and they're either missing fins or torn up by the time im done for the day.
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>>811201
>Risking sounding like a shill
Check out zman soft plastics
Their elaztec material is incredible cut and tear resistant , stretchy as fuck
Only (possible) downside is that they are naturally buoyant
I personally like that but I'm convinced the material is magic
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>>811198
I can believe that. We've all had days where every cast was a winner.
Can you honestly say you've never been shut out before?
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MTBs shipped on Friday so early delivery this month.
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Anyone seen flukebuster lately? I heard they were pulling 7+ # doormats out south of Nantucket so I'm thinking CT coast should be pretty hot as well.
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>>811206
I haven't had a day this year where I haven't ever caught anyhting, I've had a few days where I'm not getting anything so I go and dig a few worms just because I refuse to be skunked
Last year, plenty of times
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>>811214
I will get skunked sometimes trying new lakes where I don't know the spots. But if I absolutely refuse to go home without catching something, I hit the lakes near my house where I can always get some bass no matter the conditions.
Sometimes I just don't care and just want to play with new lures so I don't even mind if I'm not catching shit.
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>>811086
>those baby halibut
Is that legal?
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>>811222
fluke have a smaller limit I think.
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>>811188
>>811183
There's no creel or possession limits for bluegill where I live. Only managed game fish have those.
I really don't get it though. When you go fishing, you catch fish, it is impossible not to catch fish unless everything is flooding and you're on a river/stream and everything looks like chocolate milk (just switch to live bait and a cane pole in that case). It literally has nothing at all to do with skill. Just cast, crank, catch fish, and repeat. Hence, the need for creel limits and possession limits.
If you can't catch fish, there must be some outrageous problem going on.
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I'm a huge dumbus, didn't realize old thread was ded.
Are there any Ontario/Manitoba canadabros able to recommend a rod for around 40-80 Trudeau fun bucks? Given that 90% of all fish are pikes, pickerel, bullhead or drums. I'm really ignorant on what I need, just starting out
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My friend wants to get a inflatable fishing boat, some shitty $100 one. What do I tell him to talk some sense into him? I only hear bad things about inflatables.
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>>811250
>My friend wants to get a inflatable fishing boat, some shitty $100 one. What do I tell him to talk some sense into him? I only hear bad things about inflatables.
Tell him to get a canoe.
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>>811235
>fishing has literally has nothing at all to do with skill
>says someone who only does panfish
It sounds like you're only able to handle panfish and yeah that doesn't take much skill. But saying "all fishing takes no skill" is a bit of a generalization.
I don't like thinking of fishing as a competition, but come on dude, some people are better at it than others. If you think you're as good as someone like Kevin Van Dam, then I'd say your ego is out of control.
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I get this every time I cast a jig at one spot. The entire area is filled with this. What should I use instead? Is it even worth fishing? Would bass be in this shit?
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>>811258
try a buzz bait or chatter bait
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>>811255
I beg to differ.. When you have 3 people in the same boat all fishing for the same species and one person out fishes the rest by two folds that should tell you something about their skill and knowledge of fishing
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>>811261
If you're saying you're as good at fishing as Kevin Van Dam, then your ego is out of control.
If you're saying you're not as good at fishing as
Kevin Van Dam, then you're admitting a skill disparity exists, therefore skill is involved.
So, are you as good a fisherman as the top ranked pros in the world? Interested to hear your answer.
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>>811258
try a boat
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>>811258
Just go with a weedless Texas rig. They normally don't get caught up on that and will still run on the bottom like your jigs. Also the shakey head rigs if you want. Pic related is the shakey head type.
>>811247
How big are the pikes and drum? Bullhead and pickerel would be fine on a M, but you may want a MH if you are catching larger drum and (northern) pike a lot.
You can always do Ugly Stiks, they are $40 US but I'm not a huge fan of them with lures because they aren't very sensitive or fast. Berkley Lightning Rods are my favorite cheaper rods at $40 US and they carry them at tons of places. Fenwick Eagle and Shimano Sellus rods are both decent too for around $60 US.
If you go to Bass Pro, Cabela's, or Gander Mtn, they will have their store brand rods and you can often get a lot for your money if you go that route. They are manufactured by larger companies anyway so they will be just like a name brand rod with a cheaper price tag. Dick's (if you have those in Canada) has the Field & Stream rods which is their store brand and I have heard good things about those.
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>>811255
I didn't say, what I fished.
I didn't say, fishing was a competition.
I didn't say, I was better than anyone else at anything.
I have no clue who Kevin Van Dam is, nor do I care, since that has nothing to do with anything I said.
This >>811261 is some other anon, not me.
If by skill you mean, "the ability to tie knots, select bait, cast into water, and reel in".....I guess so.
>I'd say your ego is out of control.
What does ego have to do with fishing? I'm not bragging here. There's literally nothing to brag about. You don't brag about fishing. That's retarded.
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Just ignore the obvious troll
Fishing is conditions, luck, skill, and knowledge
If the conditions are bad, you won't catch as many fish
If you aren't lucky, you won't get fish, I've seen it happen
If you aren't skillfully in hooksets or how you work the bait , you won't catch as much fish,
If you aren't knowledgeable on what the fish eat, how to mimic it or where the fish are holding , you won't catch as much fish
There's no arguing it
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>>811264
no my point wasnt specifically about me it was just a general statement about a situation that highlights how someone could most definantly out fish someone else thus proving that a skill gap exists
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God damn it. I lose a lure every time I go out by casting into trees or something. How do I get good?
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Just sitting around waiting for the late afternoon so I can go fishin. Finally getting around to putting a little more line on two of my reels. The one spinning reel lost a bunch of line like 2 months ago when that monster snek ran me out and wrapped it around something underwater and it has been casting like shit. The baitcaster, I caught a bad snag and it somehow broke off like 20yds of line instead of just snapping at the leader. That one still casts fine with a little less line but it has been bugging me.
Since they both have braid, I'm just pulling the braid off and tying on a slightly longer mono backing so I don't have a knot 20yds into the line that I have to cast through. Works well using an old reel to take the braid off quickly.
>>811288
Practice...
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>>811271
Thanks dude. I will look into those you have mentioned. Pikes and drums ive seen around here fishing with relatives have never been too massive, but I know big ones exist. Mostly just delicious walleye/pickerels though.
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>>811288
Tie a little weight on your line and practice in a field. Aim for little patches of grass and stuff and see how close you can flick it, you'll have pinpoint casting skills in no time.
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>>811295
If walleye and pickerel, just find yourself a nice medium weight rod. 6'6" is kinda the standard size for that. You could go 7' if you want a bit more casting distance.
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>spooled up first baitcaster
>1st cast
>birdsnest
>pull it out and reel in
>5 casts later
>unusable
At least I brought my spinning reel with me. Is it possible I spooled the line on wrong? I set it up how it is recommended for beginners. Max brake and drag to where the lure slowly falls.
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I'm so sick and tiered of these junk ass bait casters. Paid $80 for this reel and it's been shit almost every time I've used it. It doesn't usually fuck up when there is braid on it but as soon as I put mono or fluoro the line somehow manages to wrap itself inside the spool making it so my spool can't turn any more and I have to take off the side plate and remove the spool and untangle it every time. This happened about 3 times yesterday and I've had it. I'll just use it as a junk pond fishing reel I guess, they still sell it at gander you think I could somehow return it?
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>>811298
7 ft medium power fasr action
15 lb braid or 8 lb mono on a 2-3000 size spinning reel
Have caught anything from 4 inch fish to one 20+ pound carp
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>>811301
If not feel free to send it to me for free, maybe il try to put on one of my ice fishing rods to see how that goes
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>>811306
Lmao I have a Laguna that gunuenly doesn't work you could have
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>>811311
genuinely* idk what the fuck gunuenly is
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>>811315
its got some serious gear issues that ive tried to fix multiple times but cant figure out.
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>>811317
eh i hae enough unused reels and rods laying around, thanks though, if i were more comfortable taking apart memmecasters then maybe
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>>811300
You know you still need to stop the spool with your thumb when the lure lands in the water, right?
And if you are using braid, just make sure it isn't digging into itself. Could happen with mono too I guess. If you hit a snag, big fish, or just pull on the line hard against the drag, the line will bury itself down in the spool and kinda get caught up when you cast. That can fuck you up and cause nests. Just make sure the line is coming off smooth and not hanging up anywhere.
>>811301
Goddamn. I wonder if it's from the memory and stiffness of the heavier mono/braid. Once the line is on the spool, you could do the hot water trick so the line kinda shapes to the spool. It sounds like a problem with the line, not the reel.
Aside from that, how is the Gander Mtn reel?
>>811304
Sounds good. I would probably do the 3000 though, just because 8lb is getting close to the high end on a 2000. And you could still run 10lb-12lb on the 3000 if you really wanted to.
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>>811321
i ran 8 lb on a 2k size reel for like 5-8 years n and never had issues, if i got low i respooled, and i caught many 5plus pound bass like that
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>>811298
Cool. I will see which of those we have up here, probably most of them you mentioned. Looking on Canadian Amazon and those lightning are like a hundred bones, and that's without a reel too. Damn you Monopoly money.
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>>811300
the biggest thing for me when using a baitcaster is you have to remember to keep you casting arm elbow tucked in so you can make a smooth linear cast. I had a birds nest every other cast when i got mine a few years ago and i just kept using it and now ive practically mastered it. keep at it and youll get it in no time
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>>811326
I just watched a video of a guy saying to keep a wallet under your armpit when you cast a baitcaster. None of the other videos I watched mentioned anything about that.
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>get my gear all set
>walk out my door in the direction of the pond i fish down the road
>get to the end of the driveway
>huge thunder clap comes out of nowhere followed by intense gusts of wind
>turned around and put everything i just got out away
>mfw
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>>811276
>I have NEVER in my ENTIRE LIFE not caught a fish fishing
>Not bragging
>Fishing takes no skill
If you catch fish evey time you should enter tourneys and get paid to fish
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>>811329
Good way to lose your wallet.
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How the fuck do you fish at night? Or on rivers? I've only done ponds/lakes during the day.
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>>811325
Do you have a Walmart nearby? They carry the Lightning Rods for $39 in the US.
>>811322
I know, it will work. I like that size reel too but for 10lb braid or 6lb mono. Maybe 15lb braid but 10lb felt better. 3000 would be better for line capacity with the 8lb as well if it matters.
>>811331
I was thinking this same thing.
>>811330
I get that all the time because Florida afternoon thunderstorms, but I just wait them out for 20min or drive 10 minutes and it is sunny.
Two reels are all spooled up nice and full now, about time to get out of the house. I think I'm gonna stop at Bass Pro and grab some of that dropshot stuff and go to my peacock lake that always frustrates me.
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>>811343
If using lures, I'm a fan of spinners at night. Otherwise live bait works about the same. If anything you could go for catfish.
And river fishing, we always used the 3-way river rigs with minnows. Otherwise with lures, it is all about finding the right spots. Predator fish like to sit in slower or still water, right on the edge of faster moving water. You also always want to cast upstream and retrieve downstream since predator fish like to face upstream waiting for an easy meal to float down the river towards them.
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>>811348
So lures work fine, cast upstream and reel it back in right? Seems like it'd be moving pretty damn fast, at least in the nearby river.
Is the 3-way river rig any different from a normal 3-way rig? I don't plan on using live bait, I'm not confident in my ability to catch shit all with a fish already on the damn hook.
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>>811352
depends what you want to spend
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>>811352
Oh, you want a rod and reel?
Here's the copypasta for that. It will be in US$$ so probably add like $10 to the prices. If you have a Cabela's nearby, they will probably have a handful of them. Cabela's will also have their store brand rod and reel combos and they will probably have a couple in your budget.
For your fishing, look for something around the 30 or 3000 size (it will say it somewhere on the reel). The reel will also have line reccommendations and a 3000 will be somewhere around "Mono- 6lb-180yds, 8lb-150yds, 10lb-130yds" and then get a spool of monofilament line like Trilene to spool it up. 8lb is probably the way to go and will be versatile. Cabela's will spool line for you too if you don't want to deal with it.
And it should be matched up with a rod. A 30 or 3000 sized reel will probably be on a 6'6" medium weight rod.
>Rod/Reel Combos Under $100
Top to bottom, left to right.
1) Abu Garcia Ike 2- $39
2) Quantum Bill Dance- $39
3) Shakespeare Ugly Stik GX2- $49
4) Pflueger Trion- $59
5) Bass Pro Tourney Pro- $59
6) Lew's Laser Speed Spool- $59
7) Abu Garcia Cardinal SX- $69
8) Daiwa Revros- $69
9) Mitchell 300- $69
10) Pflueger President- $79
11) Shimano Sedona/Sellus- $89
12) Mitchell 300 Pro- $89
13) Abu Garcia Orra S- $99
On this list in your budget, I would say go for the Abu Garcia Cardinal SX, Pflueger Trion, or any of the Cabela's or Lew's ones you see at the store that you like. The Pflueger President combo is a great choice too but you may have to exceed your budget by $10-$20.
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>>811360
Probably about as much as the rod, I figured I'd be paying about 80~ dollars for something decent in canadacoins anyway. So like around 40 or so.
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>>811365az diawa legalis on sale for around that at cabellas, have used it a bunch and hae no complaints so far, Pus diawa has decent customer service if you need parts
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>>811367
apparently first section of message got deleted, i just recenty got a
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>>811365
Can't go wrong with a Daiwa combo like Hatchery Anon said.
But I think buying a rod and reel combo will be better for you. You normally save around $20 at that price range, maybe more, compared to buying the rod and reel separately. Plus they will already be matched up with the correct sizes.
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>>811380
see i would almost alwasy tell folks to spend a bit more and get what they like, if it means spending a lil more and buyguying sepperatley
though i know what i like in rods etc,
plus i normally run a slightly small reel for my rod size
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>>811385
Yeah if you have to get that 7' rod on the 2000 size reel, then you won't find that in a combo. But the difference between the quality of the combo for $70 and a separate rod and reel for $70 is normally going to be sizeable.
I don't think anon is going to be that picky. If there was an $80 reel on clearance for $40 in the right size and anon could grab that and a Lightning Rod, it might be nicer than most $80 combos.
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>>811331
I only fish to eat. That's a huge difference in winning tourneys where I'm quite sure the criteria for winning isn't just catching fish. Then again, I wouldn't know since I've never watched a fishing tourney.
You are making massive assumptions for no reason at all except that somehow I horrifically damaged your ego and you've gone into some tailspin.
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>>811395
the legalis is a 60 dollar reel on sale for 40, plus 10 percent off, so 36? and free shipping on it
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>>811396
He's only saying it because you are making some pretty bold claims.
But most of us also aren't content catching 5" bluegill all day on red worms. We enjoy a challenge and a fight to land something worthwhile.
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>>811398
That's not bad then. He could negate the ~$20 saving he would get on a combo. As long as he can get the sale price in Canada and still get a rod that isn't shit within his budget.
Getting the Legalis and slapping itnon whatever ~$40 store brand rod Cabela's sells would be a straight setup.
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>>811403
you like your abu vendetta? he could get one for $60 ish then a legalis or something similar ans only spend $100
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>>811409
That Vendetta isn't bad.
Remember though, he's in Canada so after tax and shipping if he orders online (plus for the rod) that is gonna be like $130-$140 CAD which is twice his budget.
Speaking of twice the budget, I'm pullin up to Bass Pro now...
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>>811401
What is bold about catching fish? Also, why is everyone talking about bluegill? I never said anything about bluegill at all. I talked about creel limit and possession limits. Where I live, bluegill don't have either so they don't apply to what I'm talking about. Why on earth I would need to spell that out is a real wonder.
Not only that, but we are talking about lures, not live bait. Specifically those in >>810926 and I only mentioned live bait once in >>811235 if it was flooding and there's 0 visibility. Then again this whole discussion makes 0 sense to me.
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>>811415
Fuckin Bass Pro. I just want an 8pk of 3/4oz or 1oz lead bullet weights for those windy days and real far casts. That size is hard to find other places.
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>>811343
>How the fuck do you fish at night? Or on rivers? I've only done ponds/lakes during the day.
Navigation lights and a headlamp.
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>>811343
We usually get some forked sticks, a soda can, cast, place the bent soda can under the line at the reel, and wait. If there's no soda can trash laying around I use a round bobber, on the line between eyelets, that is set to be loose and slide as the line Is taken out when a fish has it. Hearing a can fall or watching the bobber dance can be magical because you know there's a huge flathead swallowing the big goldfish..
For bass fishing we just underhand cast to make sure we don't hit limbs we can't see. Dark colored, noisy, slow, topwater baits are what I use for that.
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>no one to night kayak fish with
>Weather is shitty anyways
God damnit
I wanted to go try someplace new but I'm not going to go sit in the rain and dark
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Rate my popler
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>>811222
Where im from the need to be at least 22cm-28cm depending on species
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Any downsides to fishing a crankbait on a fast tip?
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>>811442
Popper
/slowfix
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>>811420
Today's Bass Pro adventure...
I bought that little tool for rigging the silicone bands because I'm a pussy. Anybody use one of those?
They fuck with you on terminal tackle though. $10 for a pack of 3/4oz bullet weights as seen above. Plus I was looking for the hooks for the wacky rigs, and they have the Bass Pro brand which were priced ok at $5 or $6 for a 25pk, but the largest size they had was 2/0 which would be a bit small for bass. Then right next to it, they have the Gamakatsus which are $4 for a 5pk but they had them in 3/0+. So I went to the saltwater section and just grabbed Mustad octopus hooks, $3 for an 8pk.
The drop shot weights were overpriced too, like $6 a pack. So I grabbed a pack of the 1/8oz ones, but then had to go to the saltwater section again for the bell weights.
They carry the Gremlin weights which are normally cheap and work fine, but they only have Gremlin split shots. Nothing else that you would want to use. I just need to find a Walmart with 3/4oz Gremlin bullet weights for 98¢ a pack instead of $10 at Bass Pro. If they were even a little above reasonably priced, I would just buy them while I'm at Bass Pro. But not $10 for some lead weights.
End rant.
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>>811288
If you are aiming at the water and hitting the trees try aiming for the trees.
jk, practice casting into circles rather than throwing wild. You can put light weights on your line and do it in your yard.
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Will it save me $6 worth of frustration?
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>>811417
so what do you catch then?
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Anyone know good baits for bass fishing in desert environments? A buddy and I went fishing for about 4 hours last night and about 4 hours this morning off our canoe for stripers, white bass, largemouths and sunfish, and we didn't catch a goddamn thing.
We were throwing out anchovies, hot dog, nightcrawlers, slim jim, chicken liver, and shad for bait, and we tried rooster tails, spoons, divers, and topwater plugs for lures. We saw the fuckers jumping out of the water literally 10 feet away from our boat, but got 0 bites. Are we just unlucky? This is Phoenix, AZ area btw, so any experience from Lake Pleasant, Saguaro Lake, or Lake Roosevelt would be useful.
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>>811457
yea it helps a bit id say its worth it
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>>811459
Was the water real warm? Might have to go with some soft plastics like Texas rigged brush hogs.
I mentioned it earlier, I will see the bait fish jumping at dusk when the bass are feeding and chasing them, but they won't hit any topwater, cranks, spinners, etc. but if I throw a Texas rigged worm or creature bait by the baitfish, the bass will grab it right away. Makes no sense but it works for me when the water is real warm.
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I've been fishing for a few years now and I'm beginning to notice that the amount of carp in the ponds I fish is growing at an alarming rate. I've heard that they are invasive and bad for ponds.
What should I do? I need some opinions from you guys.
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>>811468
Yeah water was like bathwater warm. Thanks man, I'll definitely have to give it a try
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>>811442
AYYY/10
i'd fish with it.
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>>811462
Yeah I was looking at the worms and the bands at the same time and was like "fuck it, this could be a pain in the ass".
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Well, I went fishing for the first time. I didn't catch anything, but it was fun to just explore the lake, practice different rigs/casting, and be outdoors and such. I do have slight agoraphobia so it was sort of an accomplishment just getting there and stuff. Aside from the hoards of teenage boys yelling cringey 4chan memes at eachother at one point it was relaxing. 10/10 will do again.
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>>811471
Bread balls or sweet corn. Just give em a good clunk on the head and leave em in a dumpster.
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>>811471
they will continue to grow and grow and slowly but surly they will be the only species left in that pond. Just kill the ones you catch and hope that is enough
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some shit i found on another fishing forum:
>I am originally from Ural Mountains (Western Siberia).
>We had had a sport that called light line fishing.
>What it was is fishing for carp with exceptionally light pound test lines (difficult to say, they were in mm, but I assume there were about 1.5 lbt)
>You can fish large carp 10+ kg carp at power-stations coolers all year around. Warm water creates plenty of vegetation and they grow very big.
>Anyway, what you need is enough water space, very long (4.5+ meters) sensitive rod and spinner to hold 300 meters of line.
>Takes skill, to get 10+ kg carp out you need at least 20 minutes working it. Success rate about 60% if you are good enough.
>Side note: you cant release a fish. It gets too tired, it kills it.
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>>811479
That's what it is all about. Mid-summer is also kinda shitty for bass fishing depending where you are. You will figure it out.
>>811472
Yeah that's what the South Florida lakes are like from April to November and it's really hard to get bass on anything besides soft plastics fished slow during that time. January and February, the bass love crankbaits and spinners and will hit poppers right at sunrise and sunset.
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>>811471
I just kill them and throw them back into the river. Usually the crawdads will finish them in a day
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We had a really bad rains storm last night and I think it washed all the chemicals they put on the golf course grass into the ponds killing almost all the fish.. My heart sank like a relative died when I walked up on it today.. Very sad day
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>>811512
RIP my fishy friends :'(
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>>811514
F to pay respects
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>>811514
†ƒâ€
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>>811458
Black Bass
Musky (rare and awesome)
Trout (brown, rainbow, golden, and brook).
Chain Pickerel (kinda rare)
Channel Catfish (best for eating and extremely consistent)
Blue Catfish
Walleye/Saugeye/Sauger
Yellow Perch
Striped Bass (also Hybrid and White).
Shovelhead Catfish (no creel limit for this, but they are a blast to catch I only fish with these with friends).
I once hooked a paddlenose (looked about 16") in the 80s. I thought it was a catfish until it surfaced and I had to cut the line immediately. You should have seen my face. They are amazing creatures.
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oh shieet the Diawa Zillion TWS is 40% off rn. might have to jump on that
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>>811541
I just googles what a paddle nose is.. it looks like the Loch Nesss monster kinda
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Do I need to do a mono backing for a spinning reel or just a memecaster?
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>>810739
>Shimano Convergence 6'6+ MH Fast
>Okuma Avenger Baitfeeder 30
>20-30lbs braid
>$100 all together
This should cover any fish under 40lbs the bait feeder option paid for itself 100 times over already.
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>>811543
This was a "Polyodon spathula" Paddlefish. Who knows, it may actually be still alive out there somewhere.
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>>811549
For braid? It depends. Braid is more slippery than mono so sometimes on an all metal spool, it will slip and the whole coil of line can spin around the spool. A lot of companies put little rubber strips on the spools so you can tie braid straight to it. Just make sure the knot is tight and you spool the line on tight and you should be fine. My President spinning reels have the rubber strips, and a couple others might as well.
Otherwise you can put a strip of electrical tape or duct tape around the spool before you tie the braid on and that will grip it better with no mono backing.
On my Abu memecasters, they have these holes drilled into the spool so sometimes I just thread it through the holes and there's no possible way to slip.
So mono backing is for both spinning reels and memecasters.
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Canada Rod guy, think I'm gonna pull the trigger on the pfleuder trion combo which is ten bucks off at cabela's. Appreciate all the help, I don't know why I don't come to /out/ more often.
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>>811549
you need backing for any reel/spool that doesn't have rubber grippy stuff and you are running braid.
You can also use tape BUT mono is cheaper than braid so I always back larger reels.
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Bought a new $6 chatterbait at Walmart today and 10th cast got a 2lb-3lb smallmouth and my fucking knot slipped as I was pulling it out the water lost my lure god damn itttttt
I was fishing from a rock and the water level was about 4 feet below me, so I had to pull the thing 4 feet straight up to get it. Felt my 8lb mono stretching in my hand and ga-doosh it fell off. Time to switch to braid and learn the palomar knot
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>>811597
also time to buy a net, probably
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>>811580
>I don't come to /out/ more often
Because there wasn't anything but knife, gearfag, and /x/ threads until we got a consistent fishing general. Props to KVD for keepin the threads going.
And you won't be disappointed with the Trion. Miami anon's boyfriend grabbed one of those and they seem nice. She was jealous when he got it because she liked it more than her Shimano Sienna.
>>811597
Are you the same anon who that happened to a couple days ago? Learn to tie knots for fucks sake. Palaomars can pull through as well if you tie them wrong, but they are easy enough if you aren't retarded.
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>>811599
No this is the first time I've had a knot slip. I tied the improved clinch knot same as I always do but I must've fucked it up somehow.
I'm gonna start fishing closing to water level so I don't have to lift the fish 4 feet vertical to reach it, that probably isn't doing my knot/line any favors anyways.
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>>811599
no i had one slip the other day because i was using flouro and didnt ever set the knot properly, i knew it was shitty, but didnt want to cut and retie because im a lazy fuck
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>>811599
>Props to KVD for keepin the threads going.
You=schizophrenic
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>>811613
Multiple personality disorder*
And it was a joke. Thank god this board doesn't move too fast and not a lot of people here post at 3am so it is easy to keep up with them.
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>>811625
Honestly there's no need to make new ones as soon as the current one autosages because of how slow the board is but if you want to that's fine and it is good to have uniformity in the OPs to help maintain the general
Threads will stay in the catalog for a weak without a post before they get bumped off
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>>811643
Yeah that's the good thing because I can let is slide a few hours. But I like making a new one at the bump limit because if it gets to Page 7, we will end up with 5 different "I'm thinking about starting to fish, wat do?" threads. Or else somebody like Skid makes a new one and it doesn't have a link to the old one or anything.
YuroSaintsFan was the one person I could trust to make a good thread if I'm not around to do it, but he hasn't been around as much lately.
All I ask for is a link to the last thread and maybe the number of the thread. Also "Fishing" in the title so people can search for it, that helps. I know Skid is lurking, is that so hard to ask?
I would like to have some links in the OP so we can have a page with the rod and reel copypastas and beginner tips, but I can't into computers. So instead I just copy and paste 3 or 4 posts when somebody asks. Maybe I will work on that, I always see links for "pastebin" in the OPs of other generals but never looked into it.
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>>811650
i could have done it ( minus the picture qith number probaby ) i used to do it all the time on /o/ thogh im just lazy and if someone else wanted to make it thatsine with me
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>Sir Nibblesworth is getting big
>no longer a baby
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>>811666
Post new pics
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>>811062
Okuma SLV fly reel
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GetJiggyWithIt (ID: !!5zUZb2mRQFL)
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>>811203
>zman
I threw a zman stick today
Thanks for the rec
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You can't upload images to Pastebin, can you? I would love to post a pic along with some of the text, as well as posting some pics and infographics by themselves. Maybe I need to make an imgur too.
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>>811667
During next tank cleaning I will. He's around a foot long now.
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>>811673
How big is your tank? Foot long fish in 10 gallons is just sad
They recommend putting little tiny cory cats in 30 gallons minimum
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>>811671
>get a mepps he said
>they're GOAT he said
Thanks pepsi, all I got today was two bluegill. Four hours of mepps and only two bluegill to show.
Though to be honest I was going to the two lakes where EVERYONE fishes so I'm honestly surprised I got anything. Plus the kind of mepps might have been a problem, used #2 Black Fury. All they had at walmart was black fury in different sizes. I did feel sorry for one bluegill, somehow the little guy got two of the hooks right through the top of his mouth. Bitch to get out, don't know how the hell he got that much of the lure in his mouth.
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>>811676
30g tank. Right now he's going crazy while feeding, he's spinning like a tornado to unsurface the worms that buried themselves underneath the gravel. Truly a top tier fish.
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>>811678
>I'm honestly suprised I got anything
That's the magic of Mepps!
You also gotta remember it's mid-July, so most places the water is getting warm and if you expect to catch bass on spinners, it's going to be dawn or dusk. And even then it may be rough if it is really warm.
Black Furies are especially good for night time or dark and murky water but they will work any time.
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http://pastebin.com/u/fishingandtackle
Wut do I add?
Also, infographic requests if I do an imgur?
>>811680
You gonna have to get rid of him soon. I got a baby bullhead or channel cat with some minnows from the bait shop once. Dropped him in my 75gal, he was maybe 1.5" long. Didn't take long for the fucker to get 10" long and I was worried about him eating everything else so I took him to the local pond.
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>>811688
Checked
Most of the water is murky around here. And the warmth/timing is part of why I didn't expect to catch anything. I was just trying out the mepps to see how I like it and maybe catch some bass for supper tomorrow. If I was really trying I'd go with my trusty berkley powerbait tequila sunrise. They always work for me. Pic related
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>>811696
http://imgur.com/gallery/GO7QD
Here's the imgur so far. I'm open to requests for more. I would like to put the two links into the OP.
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>>811666
satanic full house
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>>811680
set him free and then cast for him. If he let's you catch him then you can keep.
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>>811705
Now I'm confused, I can't figure out how to add shit to that gallery if I want to upload future pics to it. I'm using the imgur app btw.
>tfw 1 comment already!
>"this post is nothing but clickbait"
Ok...
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>>811713
Use a real computer?
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>>811716
Maybe...
I'm always on my phone though and most of the pics are saved on there. Maybe I can get to the desktop page from the phone and see if I can do shit from there.
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>>811718
Catfish grow for years. He's probably already physically mature.
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>>811724
Who will watch me until I fall asleep at night if he's gone? Certainly not Mr. Bluegillington.
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>>811727
Frame a picture? Or a lifesize model?
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Just picked up some new rigs..
Haven't had luck with plastics lately.
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sup /out/ caught my first calicos on the iron on the 27th last month, hoping to get out on monday to go chase yellows at the islands, anyone down in San Diego with a passport want to come with? also hoping for a good tuna bite next new moon, and dorado.
any other socal saltwater fags here?
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What plugs do you use for saltwater in northern florida (Steinhatchee area)?
I've never used anything other than devil horses but they're becomming exceedingly hard to find and I want to try some other things.
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Got-Cha plug with a red head and silver or white body
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I will never understand why people feel the need to go into nature and kill wild animals for enjoyment.
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Hey bass people, can you recommend a braid?
I am getting a HPC Salmon Edition 12' 15-65gr w/trigger and Abu Garcia Ambassadeur 7000I Salmon Special and I need a braid to put into it. Whats good?
And yes I am gonna go fish for salmon if nobody guessed.
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>>811670
>literally standing in poo
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>>811804
>walk outside
>step on some ants on the sidewalk
>never go outside again
Also some fishers release back. If they take the bait your technical technically feeding them too.
If you think eating them is evil then you should witness how evil nature is with its food cycle.
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>>811673
Oh my what a cutie
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>>811866
It's just duck/geese poop
All they eat is duckweed, watermeal and grass anyway.
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>>811827
PowerPro is pretty much the gold standard.
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>>811985
I do now
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>>811772
looks short. i paddle my yak out of la jolla shores to the kelp beds there. was wide open yellows for a bit but its slowed down. bluefin are showing up
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>>811928
suffix 832 is superior to power pro but its right below it in my experience
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>>811985
I have since I saw it on the arbor knot. Just makes sense.
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>>811999
is short, one of 3, only the first one was legal, 2lb or so, bluefin showing up in LJ? Cause they've been offshore for a while
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>>811928
Thanks, will check out.
Was trout fishing today, didn't get a damn thing. Two were following the bit to store but didn't bite, and that was it.
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Is there a knot-tying inforgraphic or guide?
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>>812048
animatedknots.com is pretty good
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hey /ftt/ - I am doing my own research on the side but was hoping you guys could pitch your 2 cents too.
what kind of lures do you guys prefer when fishing for stuff like brown or rainbow trout?
Spinners, rooster tails, spoons?
what kind of line would you use for your line and leader?
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Show me the gear you take /out/
Pic related, my 9' jigstick, my 7' 40#, my 8' bass rod/30#, and my 8' 20#
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>>811876
And insects/larva, fish, frogs, and anything else they can catch.
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>>812057
Close up
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>>812056
>hops
HOPS AIN'T THE ONLY CANNABACEAE CASCADIA REGION MAKES THE BEST
HURRHURRHURR
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*smooch*
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>>812056
mono or flouro and mepps type spinners with flair (possibly what you're calling rooster tail. Mepps and Wordens are pretty much the same) or bait, salmon eggs, power bait, worms.
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>>812056
the goe tos are spoons and spinners, anything shiny, though wooly buggers under a float or run with a splitshot neverfail
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>>811772
Socal saltwater inshore pleb here.
21" halibut from the surf today with a LC flash minnow. My personal best and just 2" short of a legal.
Also caught the smallest halibut today, probably around 8-9 inches. Idk why it would go for a 5 inch super fluke.
One day, I'll get myself a kayak to go offshore.
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>>812069
Protip, get 5/8 oz and 1 oz Krocodile spoons, cheaper, more versatile, casts farther, catches halibuts just as well and will even get you big ass perch
Colors, the regular chrome, the holographic pattern one, or anything with green and blue.
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>>812075
when i fish for trout i run light, normally 4 pound mono all the way through but if they are being finikey il add a 3 ft , 2 pound leader
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>>812048
You need the imgur!
>>812000
As long as we can agree that SpiderWire sucks
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>>812096
Forgot the link.
Palomar is my go-to for tying hooks, swivels, lures or anything like that and I do the Double Uni for tying leaders.
http://m.imgur.com/gallery/GO7QD
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>>812077
I do have the 5/8 and 3/4 kroc. They are okay but the lc seems to produce better though it is 4x more expensive.
Though bucktail + super fluke flounder jig seems to work well for halibut too and that's my go to for cheaper alternative and when I want to fish deeper/rougher areas.
I'll try the kroc again someday though. I also use kroc for bonito or barracuda because I'm not going to throw my $20 lure at those things.
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>>812107
Throw them small irons like 7x jrs and tady c's, they're big enough so that you don't have to use wire for the cudas, and those things catch everything thats near the surface
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So I bought all that shit for wacky rigs and drop shot rigs yesterday. Tried out the wacky rigs last night but didn't have shit for luck. Just ran them weightless. But to be fair, I was at the peacock lake with incredibly clear water. 80% of the time I'm there I get skunked, 15% of the time the largemouth are biting good, and 5% of the time the peacocks are biting.
I want to tie up some drop shot rigs to try out and I got some 1/8oz finesse weights like pic related. Do I really just slide the line up in it? It doesn't seem like it would hold without a knot.
How far from the bait should I run the weight? 12"? 18"? And what do you guys like to run on drop shots? I see pics of wacky rigged senkos and flukes but I'm thinking an offset worm hook with a lizard might work well.
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>>812111
depends, when im running something ike a brushhog or something like a crawfish on dropshot i keep it 3-10 inches from bottom , with worms and minnow immitations anything from 10-30 inches up
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>>812111
Yeah you just slide the line in - it pinches inside and doesn't come out unless you pull straight down on it with some force.
You choose the bait to weight length based on how deep you think the fish are, which is a trial and error guessing game. Luckily because the weight doesn't require a knot, you just can slide it up and down until you find the fishes depth.
A lot of people just nose hook a plastic worm. Also it's good to have an octopus hook for dropshots. And you wanna fish a dropshot as vertical as possible (e.g. from a boat) and just drop it straight down in the water ("dropshot")
If you're fishing from shore it will still work but dropshot won't be as successful as from a boat.
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>>812111
i tie a few overhand knots in the very end of the line to prevent slipping
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>>812113
I was just tying one with an offset worm hook and then kinda realized the weedless aspect probably isn't necessary. I will tie a couple and try them out. The offsets may be good for the flukes and lizards. I did grab some circle hooks for the wacky rigs and these drop shots. They looked like they would be the best bet without spending $5 for a 5pk of the Gamakatsu drop-shot hooks at Bass Pro.
>>812113
The weights were another thing where Bass Pro tries to get you. Huge selection of tungsten weights that cost $10 for a 3pk, so I grabbed the 1/8oz drop shot specific weights and then for heavier ones I'm just going to run the bell weights.
That still pissed me off that Bass Pro has their store brand hooks for a reasonable price but the largest they had for drop shot hooks was 2/0 and that would be useless for fat senkos and largemouths. I hate how they try and rape you on terminal tackle in the stores. If Dick's had anywhere near the selection of Bass Pro, I would barely ever shop at BPS.
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>>812118
I got some 3/16 dropshot weights at Walmart the other day - I think 10 pk for $2 or $3. They're lead of course but oh well.
And octopus hook is recommended because of the way the bend in the hook eye is - it makes the hook/bait be naturally horizontal in the water. Don't quote me but I don't think circle hooks work well with the dropshot
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>>812118
do you ever fish a chatterbait? I've been killing with it lately, both in clear and murky water.
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>>812119
As long as I tie it the right way with the Palomar, it seems like those circle hooks are sitting the right way with the point up. And they were working fine on the wacky rigs. I will buy some of those wide gap wacky rig/ drop shot specific hooks one day. I can probably pick up a handful when Dick's has one of their sales on Gamakatsus. I think I will be straight with those circle hooks for now.
And the drop-shot weights, I gotta look at some local Walmarts. They all have a slightly different selection but a lot of it is saltwater. I may just use the bell weights. I need to play with them a bit and see what I like.
>>812121
Nah you have mentioned them and I thought about grabbing one or two at Bass Pro yesterday but passed. I have a chartruese one but haven't used it yet.
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>those days when sunfish are extra aggressive
4 casts, 4 sunfish. At least they are tasty.
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>>812137
*wiggle wiggle*
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>>812137
I need to find out what the deal is with the Mayans around here when I want to do some panfishing. There are bluegill, but the Mayans are more plentiful in lots of places. Plus they get larger and fight harder.
Problem is they are a bit more picky than your average sunfish. Some days they love Mepps and small Rapalas, other days they just don't care. And they don't hit nightcrawlers like bluegill do.
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>>812145
Sometimes I'm lucky and when a sunfish is on the hook a big bass will strike it and get hooked.
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>>812148
Most of the time I hook the Mayans, they would be way too large for anything but a fuckhueg largemouth. I have gotten a couple of younger Mayans that were like average bluegill size (5"-6") but the majority of the time I hook them, they are 8"-10" or like medium crappie size. Those are a blast though because they fight so hard. Maybe I could get more small ones if I did a Mepps #0 or #1 or a tiny Rapala, but I'm normally running a Mepps #2 or #3 going for sneks or whatever when I get the big Mayans.
There are bluegill here too, but I think in my 3 years of living here I have gotten maybe 5 of them. They were all pretty good size, but they look nothing like the sunfish up north.
Pic was one of the smallest Mayans I have gotten. They don't have the sweet color of the big ones.
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im a bit new and just read my states catalog. What do you do with species that are wanted dead by your state, like green sunnies and flathead catfish are a few listen in my state. (realistically speaking) Are those good to eat? Is it worth calling up the department and reporting in?
I never heard of fish being hunted just cause they're invasive, but it seems like an extra bit of ambition if it's fun.
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>>812150
>do they like crawfishes?
Not sure. I actually grabbed some tiny jigs and those Net Bait Mini Pac Chunk or whatever they are called when I saw them in the clearance bin at Gander Mtn and thought about running that or just doing them with a small Texas rig. Haven't gotten around to it yet.
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>>812155
Don't waste the time calling it in unless they offer a bounty. Green sunfish will be tasty if they are big enough for you. And I've eaten channel cars a bit so I'm sure flatheads are good.
You could also catch the sunfish and use them as bait for the flatheads...
Otherwise give em a good clunk on the head and leave em for the birds. Or give em a slice and leave them for the crayfish and other scavengers in the water.
Pic related is my favorite invaisive species to target.
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>>812157
i think you may need to downsize even more, lighter line, smaller baits
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>>812159
thanks for the help. No bounties on the ones but thats what i was thinking.
also what species is that? (probably not on my state's list but interested)
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>>812172
Bullseye Snakehead. They are native to parts of SE Asia I believe and are invaisive in a small area of South Florida.
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>>812165
That Okuma Stratus V 25 with 10lb braid is bretty gud for casting lighter stuff and hauling those Mayans in. That's normally the lightest setup I have with me unless I'm specifically going after those guys. Like I said, I'm normally hitting them on #2 or #3 Agilas or ~2.5" Rapalas while searching for sneks or small bass.
The small jig I posted in that pic earlier could def get the larger Mayans. Their mouths are pretty small, but I can normally just barely lip them with my fat thumbs.
I think those Pac Chunks on a Texas rig with a 2/0 or 1/0 offset worm hook (non-EWG) with a 1/8oz bullet could get their attention. They will sometimes nip at larger brush hogs and crawdads.
Otherwise I could just break out the UL with 6lb braid and get a 1/8oz or 1/16oz underspin with a 1.5" curly tail grub or Gulp minnow on there.
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>>812194
lighter leader, try 6 pound mono, as long as you dont have too many weeds
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>>812200
That moss green 6lb braid is so damn thin already, I don't think that would be an issue. I have 8lb flouro too.
Bout time for a new thread
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NEW THREAD
>>812206
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>>812176
Pepsi I know they're an invasive species but if you're gonna kill all the snakes you catch you should atleast try eating them. They're very popular fish in Asia and actually taste good, it breaks my heart to see so much fish going to waste after you needlessly take their life for a picture on 4chan.
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How do you guys gauge how deep the lure/line is going when you troll for fish during dawn/dusk hours?
anyone have a recommended set up for line/weights? I currently run an inline spinner for my lure - not too sure about it's weight though.
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>>812140
disgustingly cute
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