Fishing & Tackle Thread

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mods are asleep post feesh

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>>981548
That's a nice pound and a half feesh

>>981510
We need pics of redhead grills holding redfins.

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18-19" actually

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Feeesh

>>981545
Wanna hit the west coast for rockfish.

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>>981551
I wanna marry this girl

>>981587
>not a single dead toof
straight into the bin bebzy

Lost a 5-6 lb bass yesterday
Memebait fishing
Though half the time I was working it like a jig, since I never run into white jigs

Been practicing spinning reel casting in my backyard, I'm getting backlash about once an hour. I'm trying to do it like this guy https://youtu.be/hUurIgE2H8U but I'm pretty sure most of my problems are from trying to stop the line with my finger before closing the bail. Can I just skip it and close the bail to avoid shit-tons of line fiddling?

Why can't I find more soft plastics in white ?
Easily my most productive color

Though I am mostly just looking at one manufacturer who's lures I like

>>981607
Backlash on spinning reels?! You either have some really shitty line or the spool has too much line on it. You want ~1/8" of space left on the spool otherwise it will coil off like that.

Also I wouldn't recommend closing the bail mid-flight. You shouldn't be getting backlashed on a spinning reel anyway, but if you flip the bail closed with a heavier weight or lure, you risk snapping the line from the shock.

>>981616
Look online. Flukes are pretty easy to find in white but not so much worms and other creature baits. But the companies might make them and just not sell them at your local Cabela's because it isn't super popular.

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>>981623
Didn't think I'd over-fed it, you tell me, and the line is low-vis green 8lb mono Trilene.

Guess I just need to Git Gud.

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>>981467
Onna little jig head

>>981635
That spool doesn't look overfilled. Give braid a shot, mono his high memory and doesn't work well with spinning rods that have micro guides.

>>981641
>ned rig memeshroom head

>>981635
That looks about right. The other trick people will do with mono is to run hot water over the spool and it will help the line form to it a bit better. Never done it myself but I'm sure you could Youtube it.

Braid is def better with the memory and won't jump off like that but as much as I would like to shill for it, you need to solve the problem with mono first.

>implying skid doesn't use fish like a living fleshlight

Semi-noob here, what in the fuck was I supposed to do in this situation?

>fishing a size 3 circle hook with a big piece of hotdog rigged up
>feel something huge bite
>set the hook like i got moby dick on the other end
>keep reelin'
>huge fucking turtle on the end
>hook lodged into the roof out of its mouth or something, almost hooked through the entire head


I pulled him out the water but the fucker kept kicking and squirming (understandably) and tucking his head back in/nipping at me and I couldn't get the hook out to save my life, so I thought it would be better to cut the line instead of putting more stress on the guy. I feel bad though.

>>981652
Kek. You did the right thing anon.

>>981644
I actually like these more for hopping it on the bottom, but any jig head would work

>>981652
Believe it or not everything I've read says that if a hook gets swallowed or the thing fights you too hard it is actually better to just leave it in when it comes to survivability.

Seems like a dick move but apparently they either wiggle out eventually or just rust to nothing.

>>981652
Fuck turtles. I normally try and rip the hooks out with pliers but sometimes you just gotta cut the line.

>reason #52 why Pepsi doesn't like soaking bait

Who here /FishingTomorrow/?

Going to Dockweiler (South Bay LA). Going for fucking anything: Perch, Corbina, Halibut, Sharks, Rays etc.

Weather is gonna be nice (70s & clear).

Anybody else going out tomorrow? Whatcha gonna catch? How much ya drink?

>>981652
that's all you can do. same thing when you catch a ray out here... if you can get the hook out, cool, if not, cut it as close as your can to the mouth. It'll fall out eventually.

>>981676
California Scum

>>981678
Bite me. It's nice in the South Bay and OC.

LA blows. I don't go west of the 405 anymore.

>>981680
SCUM I SAY

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>working night shift
>adjusting to new sleep pattern, get fuck all sleep, sleep deprived in morning obviously
>taking rod out of car, left other one in
>rod sits on the outer side of passenger seat
>didn't notice it move as I took other rod out and slam door
>SNAP
>oh fuck
>open door and see I snapped the handle off my Pfleuger Asaro reel

How much is it a pain to get a replacement handle for it? Could I use a generic rod handle if it has the same type of thread? Fucker has lasted me 7 years despite never oiling it and at one point it got so clogged with sand it wouldn't turn, yet it literally still feels like it spun the day I bought it, I don't wont to throw it away.

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Decided to return that Lews spinning combo I got last fall. Ended up exchanging it for this new setup I figured would make a good crankbiat/jerkbiat setup. Dumb fuck Gander mtn fishing section employee once again didn't know dogshit. I asked him if he had any low gear Shimano™ baitcasters and he said no. I found 2 after walking around for an hour and both were that caenen in pic related. Feels pretty good and it is a Shimano™ so it should be better then anything else I could have found

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>>981688
its fixable. what part is broken? post pic of damage.

>>981676
I wish I can. I live in North OC and these 3 days have godly condition for fishing but I have work on all 3

I might be greedy and try to sneak in 2 hours of fishing tmr right before work though.

>>981692
>Shimano™

It's weird to me that you guys love Shimano so much and yet keep trying to take the piss.

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>>981694
Pretty much all of the handle.

>>981720
I made one shitty joke picture of the woke shit and some autistic spastic replaced it all with Shimano and decided to spam it in every thread henceforth.

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>>981191
Hope your dad went better than mine, it was windy as fuck the whole day and there were foot high waves knocking me around everywhere I went with some little storms thrown in.

I caught a ton of schooling specks in the 12-14 inch range and a couple 18 or so inch redfish.
I've gotta stop sitting on small fish and actually move around to find bigger ones but its just too much fun when every cast gets you a fish lol

>>981727
Jesus you must've slammed that bitch to snap through solid metal like that.

You can probably get a replacement handle but the tools to remove the existing piece are probably exclusive to the manufacturer themselves so it'll be expensive service.

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>>981720
>>981727
>they don't enjoy using the best the industry has to offer

Kek

>>981730
Uh you know how easy spin handles are to remove right? You literally just unscrew the cap on the other side off to switch it from right to left handed. The bitch is finding the part online, ebay doesn't even have results for the reel now and the Pfleuger website says to consult your local Pfleuger dealership, which I'm yet to find anywhere here since I got it from an independent fishing shop.

>>981720
>>888888
>tfw Mepps™ is the TRUE BEST!

>>981737
I was just talking about replacing the handle and sparing the crank-shaft but I guess it is easier to do the whole thing.

>>981727
Still under warranty? They'd probably replace it. Just say you dropped it on a rock lol.

>>981744
Unless I'm missing something here, why would the crank shaft need replacing?

>>981745
>reel bought 7 years ago

>>981729
Still haven't gone out. Woke up this morning and said fuck that imma sleep. I'm gonn go out this evening and hopefully catch em right before the front moves in.

>>981747
by crank-shaft I mean the whole assembly that comes out when you try to swap your retrieve dexterity. It's easier to remove that than just the one part of the handle. Seems like you'll have to find a specialist or just replace the reel anyways though.

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>>981729
>I've gotta stop sitting on small fish and actually move around to find bigger ones but its just too much fun when every cast gets you a fish lol

Yeah I probably would've done the same thing. Most days I'd take 20 little fish over one big one.

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What are your guy's opinion on trophy fishing? Seems like Anglers are a lot more against it compared to hunters.

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Alright y'all, I've got bird blue skies and it's about 80 degrees. What would you use in this situation? I'm thinking I'm gonna flip wood and maybe toss around a chatter bait or something.

>>981790
What do you mean by trophy fishing in particular? Large fish, rare fish or just specifically catching and killing for a taxidermy or reproduction?

A hunter who doesn't kill his prey is more or less a photographer, but a catch and release fisherman is still a fisherman and he functions in a virtually identical fashion. It doesn't really take fun out of fishing to let it go as long as you take a good picture.

>>981806
>What do you mean by trophy fishing?

Like catching a massive fish.

>>981790
Like tarpon, sharks and marlin? It's mostly catch and release but I've seen people keep a big shark. Some people actually eat them

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>>981790
you cant compare hunting with fishing. most trophy fish get released to fight another day. doesnt work like that for hunting.

>>981814
Why wouldn't someone like that? I think it'd be kinda shitty to keep it just to get it taxidermied when you can take a picture and measurements.

>>981816
Have you ever had shark? It's really damn good.

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>>981816
certain sharks and all marlin varieties are actually great eating bruh. swordfish is also great eating.

>>981820
ugh, had a coworker bisect a dungeness crab that had been dead in the tank for a day. I swear I could smell it on him for a month.

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Fuck, that contest for 600pts starts tomorrow, April 1. I wish that started today because I will probably be at 30k by the end of tonight.

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>>981819
Yeah i had shark but im talking about big 400lb+ ones
>>981820
Swordfish is bretty gud, marlin i wouldn't eat too much mercury and is a slow grower. I've heard of people eating tarpon and bonefish.

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>>981832
big sharks are eaten all over the world commonly in asia and iceland. biggest shark Ive eaten was a 8' mako which was one of the coolest fish to catch (who wouldve thought a shark can jump like that?) and it was delicious grilled.

bonefish is really good, its a delicacy in hawaii

I ate tarpon at a fish camp in costa rica. It was made into a stew with yucca and tomatoes. very tasty.

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>>981731
>dem shimanos
Good taste anon. Landed this one a few days ago with my Curado. They are in prespawn stage here. Water temp was 56.

>>981510
Would eat that sashimi.

>>981878
Das otoro

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Literally my first time out fishing by myself tomorrow.


Running a Texas rig thru some canals in SW FL.


I have a very old rod and reel and over the summer I want to get a good quality setup.

I'm a college student so a takedown rod is important.

What are your favorite rods and reels?

I'd prefer spinning reel for teaching my GF how to fish.

>>981941
Important tip: stay the fuck away from trees.

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Everytime I take the yak out I remember why I don't like fishing in them. Wind sucks.

What's that TexasLizardFag? You want to fish this spot? Okay. I'll wait until you cast then blow like hell and make whatever you did pointless. Or maybe I'll blow you into these trees.

Fuck you wind.
Paddling around is still fun though

>>981941
Just go with a spinning reel. You can get a decent spinning combo for <$100. If you buy a baitcast combo in the same price range, it's going to be a beginner setup.

Plus spinning combos are more versatile. If you're running braid, I recommend setting something up like my President LE combo. In that 30 size, 15lb braid works perfect. Put it on a M rod with fast action and you can cast light little 1/8oz stuff for panfish or finesse bass presentations or toss a big 3/4oz+ jig or spinnerbait on it too and the 15lb will still rip through some weeds.

If you try and drop $70-$80 on a baitcast combo, even with lighter line, you will probably have a hard time casting <1/4oz baits, especially if you want to throw a smaller crank or popper on a windy day.

If I were to recommend an order of purchasing rods for a freshwater fisherman like me who is working from shore, it would probably be:

1- M Spinning combo with 8lb-10lb mono or 15lb-20lb braid
2- UL/L Spinning Combo with 4lb mono or 10lb or less braid
3- MH Spinning Combo with 12lb-17lb mono or 20lb-30lb braid (good for soaking baits, catfish, carp, or heavy bass stuff)
4- M or MH Memecaster Combo with 10lb-17lb mono or 15lb-30lb braid

Just my 2¢

>>981959
I wanted to go to Canyon Lack for the weekend or maybe Indianola beach, but no we have to have a storm moving in.

Oh well at least there is a party to go to this Saturday.

>>981978
Lake*

>>981959
Hey how do you like that No8 Blackout rod? I ordered one on a whim at TW because they're marked down to like $40 right now. It'll be here next week.

>>981983
Lel talk to anon who just bought the one. I played with it a lil bit and it felt nice, especially at that sale price. But people bitch about durability issues and anon said today that he noticed a busted guide

>>981959
Get a pole, you can anchor yourself instantly for a few casts and quickly pull it up when youre ready to move

>>981983
I have 3. This is the newest one lol. They're pretty good. You can't beat it for $40. Today i was pitching into some pretty thick stuff with a 3/4oz weight (which also cast a fucking mile with a 7' 6" pole kek) and ripping the fuck out of it. They may have some QC issues, but all of mine have been fantastic.

>>981999
I'd have to nigger rig something up, but I might look into it.

>>982009
mine is just a loop of rope with a piece of pvc running through it tied off to the side. I've got a ball of tape at the top end so it wont slide off the rope.

Nigger rigged for sure but it works damn well when you don't want to bother with dropping and pulling an anchor every five seconds.

what tackle is cheaper on amazon

need to fill this free shipping nigguhs

>>982009
>possible QC issues
So they're the Remington of fishing rods. Got it.
Ordered the 7' MH version. Gonna put a Tatula on it and use it for cranks/spinner/swimbaits. Hope it's a good one!

>>982021
banjo minnows

>>982025
Kek I guess so. Like I said I haven't had any problems with them, and they are very sensitive.

And if you use it for cranks I'd back off the drag a little since the action is pretty fast.

>>982012
Haha neat. I'll have to give it a shot.

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>be me
>try to go trout fishing
>half way there
>exhaust is suddenly crazy loud and something is rattling
>pull over
>my exhaust exploded
>pic related
>go home
>no fishing
Ive got a new pipe on but im havibg a hard time tracking down a 140 jet (literally the only jet the shop was sold out of)

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>>981607
>trying to stop the line with my finger before closing the bail.
That's a good way to bugger your line up. If you wanna stop your lure short carefully cup the bail with your off hand. Or even close the bail with your off hand. Just don't do it really early into a cast. Stopping the line while the lure is still flying fast could cause the line to snap provided there is sufficient speed and lure weight. It's better you continue to get your practice in working on accuracy so you don't have to worry about over-shooting your target.

>>981941
>What are your favorite rods and reels?
Can't speak for takedowns though I should probably start looking. In the market for a dual sport and wanna be able to pack a small tackle box and rod or two. One of my favorite setups is a 7' Abu Veritas 2.0 M/F paired with a Revo S. It's the first time I've put over $200 into a combo and it was my first purchase from the Revo series of reels. The difference between the Max series reels is night and day. I use it with 12# mono for my heavier topwater poppers and spooks/walk-the-dog baits. It even can cast some of my lighter poppers (Pop-X, Rapala SP-7's, etc) that'd I'd usually use on spinning tackle at the cost of some casting range. I run an identical setup with 12# Fluoro for jerkbaits and medium suspending swimbaits. Those tend to benefit from the same slack-line technique used for "walking the dog." It's wild to watch shadow raps flicker a full 180 with the pop of a rod tip.

'course all that said pic related is my number one choice. I've an old Quantum (Array?) rod from a $20 combo whose reel long since bit the dust. Put another $30'ish into an Abu Cardinal SX10 and some 6# mono. I'll throw jig spinners all day long and have rarely had them fail me.

>>982067
No one cares. Stop posting this you fat fox fucking fur fag.

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First Japanese meme lure came in. Should work great in stained water.

>>982073
Looks good desu senpai

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>>981959
>tfw bought a bow mounted trolling motor
>if there is even the slightest trace of wind you will be sitting there the entire time either tapping the foot pedal or playing with the remote to readjust the motor

Should have bought a tiller steer t b h

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>fishing camo

Good Kek do people actually use this?

>>982089
I knew a guy who used them. As an under layer, like under armour with a light t shirt

>>982086
Tiller steer isn't gonna save you from the wind and it's gonna tie up a hand that could be on your reel. I'd know, I've a transom mount trolling motor and wind is still a hassle. You could rig up an anchor trolley like the yakkers do. The downsides of course are still the same, you've gotta raise and lower an anchor, and there is always the chance a fish is gonna wrap the line around the anchor line. Better yet steal another idea from the yakkers. If you're fishing shallows maybe get some sort of pole you can stick into the ground to tie the boat to. I'd go so far as to make some kind of sliding clamp with a peg that'll fit into the oar-holes (if your boat has'em). No need to tie and untie that way.

>>982086
I could deal with using my foot to steer and fish at the same time. The issue is trying to fish while I have no easy way to keep me relatively in one spot and keep both hands available.

>>982093
The river here varies from 6+ metres to 20+ so a pole isn't an option, the trolling motor is just for trolling otherwise I use some rope to tie me up to a tree or snag.

>>982099
I'm still new to using it but it seems like you're concentrating more on controlling it in windy conditions than fishing.

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>>982086
gps trolling setup would save you..no steering for you at all even in wind. game changer investment.

>>982089
Most people don't fall for the "camo= invisible" shit but those shirts are designed to be breathable and stop your ass getting burned red raw fishing in the summer all day, if I fished the sea I'd wear one of those and one of those face wraps too, Sunburn fucking sucks.

>>982125
Cool, if only I could justify a setup that costs more than my boat alone. I already looked into it, iPilot and all.

>>982125
Also that looks comfy as fuck.

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>>982127
yeah ipilot is the shizzle but cost.
you got to hustle bruh..

>>982089
I actually thought about this and would like to experiment. Especially when fishing for sneks, they are so easily spooked and will sometimes come to the top for a gulp of air and see me. Somebody mentioned that bright colored clothes could scare fish away and I could understand it at those clear water lakes if a fish is hesitant to bite when they see a giant bright red blob right on the shoreline.

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>>981840
How did the tarpon and bonefish taste?
I bet bonefish is like milkfish

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>>982161
>fishing for snakes

man you southerners will fish for anything huh? I was under the impression if you wanted snake you just got your shotgun. Unless you mean snakeheads.

I'm of the opinion that as long as you wear neutral colors it won't make much of a difference. Kinda embarrassed though because I got a rod holder for cheap from bass pro but they only had it in "Fishouflage" which looks real try-hard.

>>982252
Don't let paramedic hear you're eating anything but calorie mate. frigid bitch.

>>982255
I've caught a snake before. For some reason he was swimming around in the water under water (i live in upst8 NY and this was a garter snake) so I jigged a worm and he took it. Then he went absolute bananas and this was a big snake.

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>>982267
I've caught Nerodia sipedon before. They put up a better fight than most fish, though they don't have the body width to pull water very hard. They do like to tangle themselves around structure, which is a serious problem. If one gets around a limb, there's no pulling it free.

>>982067
That sucks, hope that's an easy fix and you get back on the water soon

Can fish see in stained water better than we can? I feel like I shouldn't be worried when I can only see my lure in the water when it's 6 inches or less from the surface

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>>981510
Trout season opens today. Tomorrow is gonna be 50. I want to fly fish a small stream. Any tips. Probably going to run a tandem prince nymph with a big stimulator as an indicator.

>>982255
>frigid bitch
LOL paramedic is still my waifu tho.
I thought fishoflauge and kryptek was for spearfishing use. I don't know how well camo works underwater

>>982280
They still attack brightly color baits in murky water. They can also feel smell and hear lures being retrieved.

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>>982255
>snek
Welcome newfriend

>>982280
Reading about bass and vision, they see contrasting colors and movement more than anything. So even in murky water, a dark and sparkly junebug color will really stand out against the brown and green background.

Also they feel the vibrations and hear the baits. Some fish rely on that more than others.

>>982441
Was watching a video of a guy fishing snakeheads, he'd club them before landing them and then throw them back, then talked about how he knew there was a "kill-on-catch" requirement but preferred catch and release.

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>>982464
I release pretty much everything else but I just can't do it with the snakeheads. After you catch a few and see how agressive they are and how they hunt, it's easy to see why they are bad for an ecosystem like in the US where the larger predators (bass and gar around here) are sort of lazy and stupid.

>>982441
Y u kill bowfin?
>>982464
Wtf?

Went fishing today for the first time in ~4 years. Small pay-lake/ pond. Maybe a dozen other guys there. I took out two poles. Use a pink powerbait worm, floated ~8" from bottom. Then powerbait trout dough About 12" from bottom. #6 hook and #10 hook for the worm. Not a single bite.

Hard to pick where to fish. It's about 75 degrees here, super warm for trout right? They stocked the pond March 22nd.

Saw some crawdads. Took the dog walking that was fun. But bummed about getting skunked. Havn't caught a fish in maybe 10 years.

>>982471
They are more fun to catch imo but you will never kill enough to get rid of them so whatever. They guard their fry into juvenile adulthood. Most fish don't do that. They aren't going anywhere.

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>>982481
Even if it's 75F, the water might still be a lot cooler. But I hate fishing spots like that. Look around for a good little pond or lake that people wouldn't think to fish. Highly pressured lakes are a bitch to fish so I try and go to little lakes in industrial and commercial areas that may or may not have "No Trespassing" signs.

>>982497
This is why I just release them.
They're here to stay, there is no reason to needlessly take somethings life for no reason. They're invasive but fishermen killing their catches isn't going to do fuck all for the problem.

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>>982497
If everybody who fishes the area does the right thing and kills them, it's possible to slow them down or keep them in check. The one local lake where I used to get a lot of them, I got rid of a bunch of adults and I know other people are doing the same and there are definitely less of them now than there were a year or two ago.

The one shoreline I normally fish used to have a handful of big adults and lots of juveniles that would always chase my baits. You could see them any time you were there. Now I rarely even see the things in that area.

I know it will be hard to eradicate them but there are enough anglers around here and if we actually educate them and teach them to keep the sneks and release the bass, it will help a ton.

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>>982500
I disagree. If you really think about how long it takes most fish to reach adult breeding size, there is a good chance they will get caught by somebody before they have thousands of fry in populated areas with lots of fisherman like South Florida.

I've seen fisherman destroy bass populations in places and I have seen the sneks slow down in some areas just over a couple years of me and some other people targeting them. Never going to completely get rid of them but we can definitely keep them in check.

>>982500
Well I hope you don't club them before you land them then.

>>982505
Meh, they're more fun to target than bass are anyways. I welcome our snek overlords.

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>>982507
Yeah part of me is sad I killed so many sneks at those couple lakes because it's hard to catch them now. They hit really hard and bite good and they are fun to target on hot days when the bass aren't really biting.

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>>982500
Invasive apologist pls go

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>>982519
Just like the pussy liberals defending the mudslimes

>tfw all these boards getting combined today
/pol/, /k/, and /out/ got merged, right?

>>982524
Do peacocks target juvie sneks?

>>982539
Probably. I mean any predator fish will go for smaller fish. IIRC, the peacocks were introduced to help with the booming cichlid population (or at least that was part of the reason). But the younger sneks are good at hiding and they love to go in rocks and grass and shit which is part of the reason they are able to take over new ecosystems.

Also the sneks are limited to a smaller area and the peacocks aren't as widespread as largemouth or other natives and established invasives so they aren't always in the same bodies of water. I have only caught sneks and peacocks in the same body of water one time.

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>>982559
Neat, does florida stock peacocks yearly or was that a one time deal? Would like to see big agua boa peacocks in florida

>>982072
>Hurr hurr check out my fucking edge.

This is what you sound like. Skid hasn't brought up being a furry for around 100 threads. Fuck off with this shit.

>>982610
This. There is literally nothing wrong with being a furry.

>>982595
Not sure if they stock them in certain places but they are established. Most of the bodies of water are all connected by canals and other drainage so it's not hard for a new species to spread over time.

>>982611
But there is. It is not normal.

>>982619
Neither is giving KVD half your paycheck

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>>982622
...but on BASS it is!

>>982611
>There is literally nothing wrong with being a furry
Wow kill yourself you subhuman garbage

>>982611
If there ever was bait posted it would be this and always this.

>>981635
Trilene, at least in my experience, has really high memory and will backlash on spinning reels. Happened on mine regularly until I switched to normal mono.

what size circle hooks would you guys use from crappie?

i know they arent ideal but i tend to gut hook the little fuckers and it makes me sad

>>982706
Circle hooks won't help with crappie unless you use no hook setting method at all. If you use circle hooks right, you just just wait until the fish catches itself, then fight it with the assumption he's hooked up good, and concentrate on other variables.

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My buddy and I fished some ponds today and this is all I got. Had one other bite, but didn't set the hook good. Taught my buddy how to use a memecaster and he didn't fuck up, so it was a good day.

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>>982706
Gamakatsu Octopus Circle Offset size 8 or 6. You'll be glad you did.

>>982728
Damn! It's as big as from your knee to your titties. I'd say perfect eatin size.

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>>982728
I imagine TXfag looking like Morgan Wade when he had the long hair a few years back. He a good ol' Texas boy too.

>Due to cuts in government funding for the arts and our spring break trip to mootxico, we've had to combine a few boards. Try and make some new friends!

I swear to God if mook puts us back with /k/ I'm going for the high score.

Didn't get to fish this weekend, instead I caught the shows at the party tonight and got chocolate wasted ( and lonestar wasted).

Going to pack my gear to go on a 3 day 2 night camp fishing trip next weekend. So cast your votes for fresh or salt water ( dubs is 2 votes trips 3 and so on).

Pics well be had with whatever I wind up fishing in.

>>982744
I think a bunch of them are April Fools jokes like /pol/ and /mlp/. Not sure if they are all changing back. /o/ got combined with something else and it made it too fast, and now /an/- animals & nature- is full of anime.

>>982500
>there is no reason to needlessly take somethings life for no reason.

There is always a reason.

>>982751
I figured as much but the threat still stands.

>>982744
Google synonymous phrases:
"with bated breath".

Can anyone explain a "high pressured" water body? I know it means that a place is fished often, but what does it mean about the fish there? Do they wise up and hit more natural baits?

>>982757
I think so. Definitely seems like artificial baits can be tricky at places that are fished often, especially when you are going for larger and larger fish. And if the fish know your there, they won't bite for shut.

>>982757
Just the big ones.

>>982759
>>982757
>larger and larger
Meant larger and older

The lunker bass can be real hard to get in pressured spots.

>>982755
Again this is Mook we are talking about, he just might do it.

>>982669
>>982696
>liking talking animal people is the worst thing on earth

>>982735
Kek

But srsly

Pls don't eat big/preggers bass

>>982736
You know, I might actually kind of look like him. I'm bad at comparing myself to people so idk. Blond hair and blue eyes at least.

>>982772
The only thing worse is being a Democrat but all fur fags are so...

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Would carrying pic related on public transit trigger a bunch of leftist who might think it's a gun case? I live in a liberal shithole and because of my eyes I'm not allowed to drive so my only way around for now either walking or taking the bus.

>>982795
It'd take a special breed of moron. The kind that if you refused to even acknowledge their "IS THAT A GUN!? HE HAS A GUN!" nonsense they might go so far as to accost you or attempt to take the case from you. Provided you involved the authorities following such an event you might get some rabid hoplophobe thrown in the county slammer for at least a few hours, maybe even shacked up with some truly unsavory characters if individual cells aren't available. It could only end badly for them.

Of course odds are none of that would happen. Even if they went full "CONDUCTOR WE HAVE A PROBLEM!" and called for the cops themselves you'd just end up handing the case over to a cop (if they even bothered to take it) and they'd open it and go "Yeah, that's a fishing rod. Go catch the big one." and you'd be on your merry way. If you even bothered to wait for the cops to show. I sure wouldn't stick around if nobody there has the legal authority to detain me.

>>982810
Alright thanks man. Before I had to carry a tool box before for work, it was a silver/metal color and a women asked me if I was carrying a gun in it because it looked like an "assassin's" type gun case. whatever the fuck that means.

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Wew lad, no more of that /soc/ bs and they didn't bring my pics back to the blue board

>>982787
furfags are typically libertarians

>>982762
So are the older bass just smarter? They tend to remember what looks like that thing they bit that resulted in them getting pulled out of the water?
Seems like with all the different lures out there this doesn't apply.

Maybe older bass just learn what's a healthy food source, like bait fish, and stock to it. Meaning they just prefer other food against a random one they never saw before. But if course when they're hungry they'd go after whatever they find

>>982999
Something like that. They have seen the tricks. In the north, a 5lb bass could be 10yrs old or more. They had to do a lot of things right to survive that long.

>>982999
Alot of the time, bass strike artifical defensively. Regardless of hunger, you can, at times, get bass to strike just by aggravating them.

What are your favorite jerkbaits guys?

>>983046
Really fond of the original Shadow Raps (haven't used a SR Shad yet) but they're pretty much the only jerkbaits in my tackle bag. I picked up a couple when Dick's had them on sale a year or so ago. After a couple wildly successful days on two different bodies of water I was hooked. Dick's ran another sale for Buy-One-Get-One on all Rapala lures so I turned around and filled out two 3600's, one with standard SR's and another with the deep running model.

I think the only oddball in my jerkbait boxes is a Megabass Ito Vision 110 FX. I absolutely love the thing but, like the handful of Pop Max lures I have, there's this looming terror of losing it. Every time I tie it on it's like throwing a $20 bill on a hook out into the water.

>>983046
X-raps are dope

what color jerks would you guys use on really stained water?

>>983104
Would be interested to hear peoples opinions on this too. I really wanted to find black or purple jerkbaits for that murky water since those colored soft baits kill it in low visibility. But gold is always my favorite color for hard baits all around.

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Caught this pound and half hybrid on a rooster tail.

>>981961
What rod is your Pres LE paired with?

>>983133
Abu Vendetta. No real complaints, nothing incredible but it's a good all around M-Fast rod.

>>983104
I feel like white is good for good and bad visibility.

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>>983148
Mine had the end tip eyelet fall out the other day but I popped it back in and super glued it and kept a q tip in it to stop glue from getting on the inside of the eyelet. They missed added epoxy to that one it looks like. My spinning rod has epoxy on the end eyelet. Good ol chink manufacturing.

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Went and opened the fishin season for the year with a gilthead seabream. Exactly what i was targeting.
It wasn't big, but im happy.

>censorship to make the fish look bigger

Soon to be moving to the Johnson City TN area. Anyone got regional trout tips for the Blue Ridge Mountains?

>>983104
White or silver and hope it's sunny

>>983216
This nigga...

Where u been?

>>983104
>>983108
"Bright days, bright colors."
Whites, Neon greens or chartreuse with a lot of reflective fleck, silvers. If you're not working with any sunlight to help it pop, the water is particularly murky, and/or you're running deep consider darker colors. Black, black and blue, purple. Maybe go with something that rattles to ping the lateral line when visibility is really bad.

>>983270
I find that when it's bright AND clear, reflexive shiny stuff is too much and actually turns fish off. When it's bright and murky, shiny stuffs work the best for me.

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I finally managed to go trout fishing. 4x leader, #10 white crystal bugger, 15 inches of 4x line, then a size 12 pheasant tail. It was a textbook catch, my flies landed 4 feet infront of a boulder, and just as they passed the boulder my line stopped moving and I had a fish. He's about 14 inches and has been eating midge larvae(I pumped his stomach gently)
Look at the colours on him

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>>983111
I can't tell the difference between hybrids, white bass, yellow bass, and baby stripers.

I caught a bunch of these fuckers on lipless cranks the last time I was at my uncle's house, and I have no idea what they are.

>>983280
"pumped his stomach"
What the fuck I have never heard of that. Did you just grab it with your retard strength? That poor fish.

>>983283
There's a common tool that looks like a little turkey baster that doesn't hurt the fish and lets you examine the stomach contents to find what they've been eating.

>>983283
>>983290
I've never done that, but I caught a channel cat once that barfed up a minnow when I grabbed it to get the hook out.

>>983282
The only reason I know it was a hybrid was because the Asians near me started saying nice hybrid and also asked for it since I was about to put in back in.

>>983300
You can tell by the broken stripes on the belly and body shape and mouth.

>>983257
I get too lazy to read through a thread which im not engaged in, which makes me go on a 4chan hiatus every so often. I am that lazy... Plus fishing aint been all that much in the time i was gone

Hows things around here

>>983327
They have been fantastically gay

are barracudas a meme catch?

>>983335
ISNT EVERYTHING?

>>983335
No? They fight hard. Why would they be a meme?

>>983335
No they're really fun to catch.

>>983335
PSA the only meme catch is no catch. They're all good fish

>>983341
>>983364
>>983415

just wondering, don't live near an ocean so didn't know what they were like

>>983418
If it can be caught you bet people target them.

>>983415
I disagree. Butterfish or skipjack that sting bad are a fucking meme.

>>983415
>PSA the only meme catch is no catch
Eh, rock bass are little fuckers. When I'm standing in the river hoping for muskies, smallies or even just some perch or bluegill the rock bass have a way about them. They'll smack the snot out of a lure making you think you've got something great until half a blink later when they roll over on their side and you bring them in skipping along the surface. Still I'd honestly be disappointed if I ever stopped hooking into them. They're always there for me when nothing else is biting.

>>983418
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxuTeBgkcz4

watch and be amazed

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Pretty good day.

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>>983495
I love fried bowfin.

>>983335
Barracuda meat is excellent. The chances of Ciguatera poisoning diminish the farther away you are from coral reefs.

SOMEONE KEEPS STEALING MY SHINER TRAPS!!!!!!!! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

my next one I'm gonna "thread in" a bunch of tiny ass hooks into my 50/50 that attaches it to the banks, and fucking leave a little glass jar inside it calling this asshole out, seriously I move my traps around and check them daily, but there's this ONE area, some asshole keeps stealing my cages!! if I wasn't broke as fuck, I'd buy and put up a trailcam.

>>983510
You're retarded. Barracuda migrate to and from reefs

>>983513
You sure they are legal? Game and fish may be taking them

Recommend me a cheap telescopic rod.

Yeah yeah, I know, I have a proper rod, but I'm going on a campervan trip in a month and I want to bring something small for the lakes out in the mountains.

>>983524

you'd think after the xth time the warden would leave a note. "If you want your traps back come pay the fine". Thats what my buddy had to do for his raccoon traps

>>983533
What areas? Just a 4lb trout pole or what?

>>983563

In the Eastern Sierras. As I understand it, it's rare for anything over 10lbs to be in those mountain lakes.

>>983516
Yeah. I've only eaten them a couple times. Just wanted to make sure everyone was aware of the risk.

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What's everybody's favorite discontinued fishing lure? And related - anybody have a good guide on cloning soft plastics? I've seven left of pic related which went out of production in the late 90's. They essentially don't exist online save for a few pictures found from a japanese angler's blog entry from 2010. They apparently picked them up at a "Tackle Berry" somewhere that seems to be a used/out-of-production/etc lures chain in the land of moon runes.

>>983533
Never owned one but Kastking rods turn up in a lot of vids searching YouTube for telescopics. A lot of them seem like blatant adverts but a couple reviews seem legit. I think I'd personally rather have a 2-Piece rod and just carry it in a rod tube/bag or make a tube from some PVC and a couple end caps.

>>983568
Clackin raps by rapala.

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>>982471
>>982441
They seem like Carp here in 'Straya, noxious pest not to be returned to the water alive. Are they at least edible?

>>983593
>carp ruin waters everywhere

Am not surprised

>>983568
You can make a mold out of those by pouring silicone around them or have a CNC shop mill you a mold out of aluminum for a 150 bucks or so.

If you go the silicone route let it cure in a pressure pot to remove bubbles. It's gotta be a high temp silicone though for the plastisol pour as its hot.

Look up make lure. Make lure on YouTube sells an alumalite trademark product that cures hard. It would work better than silicone probably. YouTube them and Paul Adams or another lure making channel.

>>983594
It amazes me their fry don't get destroyed by predatory fish. Flatheads love them

>>981587
>holding a beer as a prop not the proper headgear 2/10 would wumbo,not for my pleasure this woman is dishonest and cannot do that for my jumbo 12inch penis

>>983601
Well they lay like 300,000 eggs and spawn a couple times a year. Really a shame that people release them into waterways.

>>983594
I'm just thankful we don't have Asian Carp here....yet.

>>983599
I completely forgot about MakeLure's vid on production molds. Might have to squirrel away some dosh and give it a try. I know I've some other discontinued soft baits floating around that I'd like to bring back from the grave. I'm banking the real hard part will be matching things like the color, softness, and such of the originals.

>>983333
Splendid

>>983568
Sooo, I'm drunk, the board is slow, and I've another question so why not? Last time I asked I think I was accused of Monica (Friends) level of anal retentiveness but...

Anybody else keep inventory on their tackle? I know the pros and people heavily invested do it for insurance purposes in case of theft, capsizes, or whatever... but I'm just genuinely anal/OCD. I'm slowly working on this half-assed spreadsheet with various fields like the company's product code/stock number, the damned UPC, and even whether or not something in my collection is discontinued because god forbid I run out... but I'd really to see if anybody else has a solution.

If I had the know-how I'd love to have some sort of in-house version of Fishidy/Fishbrain where I could log all my tackle, the catches on said tackle, the weather conditions, and so-on so I could keep track of what works when and if I'm running out of said what... but that'd be a project months or years in the making considering my /g/-fu is weak these days.

>>983649
What is excel?

>>983657
>I'm slowly working on this half-assed spreadsheet

...but thank you for your invaluable input. I'm actually using LibreOffice Calc for the moment because cheap fucker. I guess if nobody has a solution and I make some actual progress I'll share what I've got.

Anyone in the SoCal/orange county area? Looking for a decent fishing spot but all I really want are baitfish like smelt/mackeral.

Are piers my best bet? Jetties and etc aren't deep enough out, right?

>>983533
Plusinno, goture and kastking make good telescopic rods but you have to be gentle with the guides. If you smack them too much they will fall off. I recommend the plusinno since the guides lasted longer.

>>983680

By lasted longer, I'm guessing you've had experience with them? Just how durable are the things?

>>983661
If you are not retarded you should easily be able to whip up a spreadsheet with a couple of variables for fishing in like 2 hours tops.
Not like you need advanced algorithms to organise your data.

>>983649
So why not use an app? I like anglers log.

>>983594
Even in Europe.
Carphantas are a burden to all fishermen.

>>983649
I at least do this in my head a lot. Atm I've only caught a lot of fish on crappie jigs, pink one normally bombs em.
And I know that I haven't caught much on other lures.
I'm hesitant to buy new lures since I haven't even caught fish on most of the lures I have. I do plan on buying things I'm interested in once I visit a new tackle shop.

>>983682
Not that guy. I "tested" one by seeing if it could support its own weight when holding it between the second and third guides from the tip. It snapped.

>>983673
I live in Riverside, just got into fishing. I plan on going with my dad to Diamond Valley, and lake Skinner.

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What size rod, reel, line#, and what type of bait or lure's for pier fishing? I have no idea what's in my area, or what to catch. Only have ultralights for freshwater.

>>981652

Bash the turtle with a big rock. Then remove the hook.

Fuck turtles.

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As if the first 30 minutes of fights to get to a single save point weren't enough to make me nearly cum buckets you can fucking fish in this game? This better be good.

why arent there more turtle lures?

do bass not eat turtles?

>>983855
DO NOT EAT THE FISH.

>>983860
Is the upgrade even worth it?

>>983844
14# is the lightest you want to go unless you're casing a Sabino rig or something for baitfish. 14# Will land specks, white trout, and flounder. With that light a setup, you might as well just cut your line if you hook a big red or black drum. The big problem with using lighter tackle off of piers is getting the fish from the surface to the pier deck.

Most people where I go use 30-40# test on spinning reels rated for that weight, pole rated likewise. Some folks use crab nets or gator trebles to get the fish fully landed. One of the most common ways people lose fish off of piers is when the fish runs for cover and wraps around a piling. You have to have your drag set pretty tight to avoid this. People around you will reel in and get out of your way if it's obvious you've hooked a big one. As a last resort, you may have to walk a big, tired out fish to shore in order to lay hands on it.

People going for blacktip or bonnethead shark use at least a 60# setup. Sharks a the only thing folks go for off of pier near me where a wire leader is most always essential.

You can usually find decent, usable combos in the 35# range at Walmarts and Academys near saltwater in the $50 - $100 range.

>>983844
Live bait is the goto if you have the means to keep it alive long enough. Live shrimp, cigar minnows, pogeys, croaker, and gamefish fingerings work good. Take your ultralight setup to catch live baitfish on little pieces of cutbait. Set your drag very loose and use a weak hook, or the occasional big fish will wreck your pole.

Cutbait and dead shrimp are low investment, and what is most often used. You get more catfish and stingrays though. Usually, you can start with a half pound of fresh, dead shrimp, and catch enough fish that aren't usually worth eating to use as cut/live bait.

A few people use strictly artificial bait. The only time that I do is when I'm either out of natural bait, or the fish are biting so good and often that using a spoon or a jig is actually faster than rebaiting.

>>983682
In terms of strength, I'd say the goture is far better it can land 14" Jacks and held it self to 20" snook but it only about 7 months and a tarpon to snap it in 3 parts. Now the plusinno lasted more than a year with the guides intact until a barracuda snapped it in half. The kastking was my dad's and I think he still has it but the guides were shit.

>just get into fishing by myself
>told this story here before but fuck it, why not
>surf fishing, up to my upper waist in water
>catch a whiting
>dolphins hanging out right behind the schools of fish, probably picking off the stragglers
>one cheeky cunt comes in pretty close
>i swear to god this fucking porpoise is looking at me
>want to dick around a bit
>fucking throw that fish as close to dolphin as I can
>he sumberges and i later get a tail flap

I like to think mr dolphin got a nice snack from me

>>983855
What's this

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>>983862
if there's water, you can fish.

Honestly, the only thing from fishing worth getting, to my knowledge, is from an out-cropping in the ocean.

>>983934
Nier: Automata, it has a very basic "sit and wait" fishing minigame. Unlike FFXV which is tortuously in-depth and also a little unfair.

How many of you guys have fished for 20 minutes straight on a single fish in freshwater?

>>983844
Bring your ultralight to practice your casting during lulls on the big pole. Lulls usually end with a bigass fish, so don't set the big pole out of reach.

>>983945
>How many of you guys have fished for 20 minutes straight on a single fish in freshwater?
Like fought? Or just tried to get that one fish to bite?

>>983954
fought

>>983673
Pier is the easiest since you can drop sabiki rig and hook up bait fishes

Smelts and grunions do come near the jetties sometimes, even in bay as well since they are shallow water bait species. They will come to really shallow water especially during their spawn season

>>983945
>>983956
I did not time it but I did have a very long ass fight with a 5' gar that hit on my lighter set up.

>>983931
Wait until one takes your fish as you are reeling it in.

>>983945
>How many of you guys have fished for 20 minutes straight on a single fish in freshwater?

Tons of times. With either big pike or big salmon

>>983612
Take a picture of it and eye drop tool the color in paint or photoshop. Fill a page with it. Email that cilor filled page to make lure and ask what dye and concentration will make it.

You can add glass bead medial and salt to alter softness mixed with different levels of plastisol hardenr or softener. They have tables to guide you to your desired pliability.

I would personally go with a hard make lure allumalite mold over silicone

>>983496
>>983495
I'm jealous

>>982069
where do you get those blades from? I only find silver and gold ones at Wal-Mart but would love some variety.

>>984097
Tackle warehouse online and bass pro carries them as well in their stores.

Not that guy but I see them at bass pro in the lure making or spinner bait skit and parts section. Sometimes they are with fly stuff or in the trout and walleye spot

>>984056
I've had an alligator do that before, is that anything

>>983931
Reminds me of this heron that the fishermen on a crappie dock adopted.

https://youtu.be/2cB-Mjh0YG4?t=499

>>984141
For da homies

Why cant it be summer I wanna be on the river.

Going to lakes/ponds is fine but something about getting some trunks and wading out is just too good.

>>984141
>Ya'll tell Fred he's been holding that reel upside down for 30 years?

>>984150
yeah seriously from the looks of it he casts right side up with his hand half-way down the rod, then inverts it at some point.

but hey, whatever works, especially with panfish.

>>984156
>>984150
That's niggers and baby boomers for you. Only two groups of people who use a spinning reel upside down.

Well....trash Mexicans do but most of the time they are Asian tier obsessed fishermen.

>>983649
I keep track of my valuable lures just for shits and giggles.

Do I really have to pay just to fish in CA? Ugh.

What's the fishing equivalent of torrents?

Please help me. I've been skunked every day since opening of trout season. I've tried inline spinners in streams and lakes, floating power bait below a few split shots, dropshot trout worms, i've caught nothing despite fishing all day for the past 3 days. meanwhile everywhere i go i see people catching their limit in a few hours.
i'm using 6 lb mono on a light spinning rod if that matters.

>>984181
grenades/dynamite.

>>984183
Switch to fluorocarbon and try small kastmaster spoons in silver and blue and gold and yellow.

Have you tried pink wacky trout worms like 2 to 3 inches long?

Try live minnows. Try worms. Try different powers it nuggets and balls. Ask local tackleshops what works.

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>>984185
6lb fluro good?
these are the worms i've got. not really sure how to rig or fish them though.
we dont have any tackle shops around here unfortunately, can't find minnows anywhere.

what weight would you use with powerbait? everything i've looked up said go as light as possible but i keep seeing people launching 1oz sinkers way out into the resovoir, and still catching fish. not sure if they're running slip sinker rigs or something.

>>982267
Because garter snakes eat a lot of small fish and worms. That's primarily what they eat, also why they spend time in water.

Do you guys eat what you catch? Is it any better than supermarket fish?

>>984188
Those worms need to be actively worked. Have one pole soaking bait and one for lures like the pink worm, spoon, or spinner. Try points and areas with features or where current meets still water.

Ask someone local who is catching them. Just lie and say you want to try one trout because you have never caught one. Most people will help unless they are fags.

>>984201
Also yes 6lb pure fluorocarbon is fine. If it's super clear water go 5 or 4lb test.

I recommend P Lines new fluorocarbon line. Learn to tie knots for it. Fluorocarbon ties different than mono.

>>984200
I swear you'll never hear a fisherman say that a breed of fish tastes bad. I've heard people say bluegill taste good...

I sell fish in a grocery store fish department. You will be lied to if you ask if the fish just came in today, but to be fair people are so obnoxiously picky about only ever eating things that just came off the skid it's kinda justified. Any grocery store will also be following FIFO "First In First Out" basically ensuring that you never get the freshest fish.

If you want fish straight from the boat either buy it direct from the fisherman or catch it yourself because you're not getting it from a middleman.

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>>981510
What kind of paint should I use for jig heads?

>>984205
None.

>inb4 trolling
unpainted jigheads won't look like shit after a single use.

>>984203
Ehhhh. Most fish is good but some are objectively bad. You wouldn't eat bullhead catfish or blue catfish.

But yeah. Most fish are decent. If you're frying or smoking it almost anything is good minus stuff loaded with ciguatera poison or whatever.

I will say.....carp can be gross. I have had some that are great and some taste like rotten shit with mushy flesh. Silver carp are actually good. The ones that jump.

>>984200
Yeah man. If it's not largemouth or too small I will eat it if I want fish. I'd rather eat something I caught myself. Fish I catch usually stays frozen for a while since I get home late and I want to save it for special fry up or recipe.

>>984201
do i do a little mini texas rig with a split shot above it? jig it around?
i have never caught a trout.
do they hang out in deep water or shallow?

>>984203
carps pretty bad

>>984183
Where you fish is important too. Be it about where the fish find comfort or where other anglers have already fished them out

>>984210
It depends on the body of water man. I would work the pink worm on a drop shot or wacky rigged oder a slip bobber with a bobber stop.

Kastmaster and blue fox spinners and mepps spinners kill trput. Gold or silver almost always work.

Just ask a guy you see catching one or ask if he can help you. Find an old guy and just be humble. If he's a grump ask the next dude.

A resovoir with stocked trout is odd. Stocked fish act differently than wild ones and resovoirs cause strange behaviors sometimes.

Read on a local forum or watch a YouTube video with the ody of water you're in.

Spawn sacs work good too usually.

>>984188
Where I live, people fish for reservoir trout with a sliding sinker rig (usually 1/2 or 1/4 oz), 18" leader, and a hook with either powerbait dough, powerbait eggs, or mice tails which is an artificial foam egg with a worm attached. What those three have in common is that they float up off the bottom so the fish see them better. I don't think those worms float though.

>>984205
I notice no difference in effectiveness between painted and unpainted heads. Plus paint looks like trash when it chips.

>>984223
They do and power bait has a "mouse tail" version as well.

>>984228
I agree for the most part. I've noticed different catch rates on a day with a dark vs a bright color though. Especially on small ass jigs like ice fishing jigs or crappie jigs.

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>>983708
I'll look at Angler's Log. I've been using Fishbrain and my only real complaint is that they don't have a majority of my lures available to add in their "My Tacklebox" section of the app. But how could they? The amount of tackle out there would be impossible to keep updated on their end. That leads to my biggest gripe with apps which is not being in complete control of the data and being limited to the available fields of the app.

Right now I use a combination of a weatherproof fishing journal and my cell phone's camera/GPS/EXIF/etc capabilities to log time, weather conditions, location and such. I think with enough time I'll be able to come up with a pretty solid system. The outline is already in my head, putting it to practice is the hard part. A plain old spreadsheet is working and helps get the idea out but is kind of ugly.

I'm gonna start looking at Codecademy's revamped HTML/CSS course and probably PHP... then see if I can make some kind of WebUI with fancy buttons, images, and all that nifty shit. Maybe get more advanced and be able to identify what works when and why, or at least theorize about it with actual data.

>>983874
We used to use one of those collapsible crab baskets on a rope to bring heavier fish up when pier fishing. Pic related.

>>984075
>I would personally go with a hard make lure allumalite mold over silicone
Yeah, If I bite the bullet I'm going all in. Definitely want as close as I can get to metal production molds. Something I can use for years to come without fear of heat sensitivity, accidental tearing or such.

>>984097
The bulk, along with the jig spinner wire frames, came from Rock Island Custom Rigs & Jigs on ebay. Some I picked up at a Gander Mountain in Pennsylvania and they're Northland brand hex colorado blades, but those are expensive even online. The split rings I forget the brand of but they also came from ebay along with the AFW Mighty-Mini crane swivels (size 12).

>>984234
Your going to like that app. You can add any lure you want by taking a pic of it.

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>>984106
Bass Pro charges too much IMO. Same for Gander Mountain with the Northland brand and they're not even listed on their website so far as I can tell. As mentioned I picked them up in store when I was up in PA.

Ebay wasn't a bad way to go and my math says I'm making #3 and #4 jig spinners at about $0.50 USD each but you can easily cut it down to $0.25 by going through dedicated lure parts suppliers. The downside is you'll often be buying in bulk and end up with more than one person would ever need even if they ran their own guide service.

Off the top of my head Jann's Netcraft and Lure Parts Online are two of the bigger sellers of components. BarbsTackle.com caters to Walleye anglers but if you want some truly unique colorado blades they're the place to go if you don't mind paying $1.50 per blade. They also sell beads, weights, and even pre-rigged crawler harnesses. Really nice stuff but I've never gone bottom-bouncing for walleye and couldn't justify the price for the blades myself.

>>984200
I'm catch-and-release 99% of the time but I do love crappie and perch and you won't find either in the supermarkets around here even though there are plenty to be had. Big chain supermarkets can only order what they can order and that leaves a lot of great tasting species off the menu unless you're an angler or buying from one. But also this >>984203 - Most folks who catch and eat fish aren't likely to have found one they don't like.

>>984205
Powder-coating. The anon that mentioned Paul Adams YT channel earlier reminded me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGZiKo5CZQ4

Jar of powdercoat and a heat gun.

>>984223
alright im gonna try this tomorrow, 3 rods sliding sinker+ floating powerbait.
does it matter what size sinker? one thing i noticed was people casting way farther than me so i think they were using heavy.
do i keep the line tight or let it loose while it sits?
think it might thunderstorm tonight and rain all tomorrow morning. will they still bite in the afternoon after all that?
>>984218
where im at there are a ton of snags. not sure if even throwing a weedless sinko i still get hung up a decent amount.
i did a lot of youtubing before the opening, they seem to just be able to chuck a ball of powerbait out under a split shot and instantly pull in a fish..

>>984234
If you wanted to you could look into getting an anglr labs tracker. Pretty expensive, but kind of neat.

>Catch a fish, throw it back
>At the end of the day go home hungry and a bunch of fish have holes in their mouths for your pleasure

Is there anything more pointless than sport fishing?

>>984263
living

>>984263
>Is there anything more pointless than sport fishing?

Being a whiny faggot on the Internet

>>984263
Shitposting?

>>984263
>Catch a fish
>Just enjoyed most of what fishing offers
>Throw fish back
>Typically they live since you don't handle them like a cunt, use trebels, etc
>Go home and eat the leftovers from a few nights ago, going in the trash if you didnt
>That fish you caught goes on to benefit the water bodies' fishery

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>catch a fish
>Hold fish in hand, wading in water hip high
>Put dick inside its mouth
>Thrust
>Don't worry fish is getting water through gills as you thrust waves across it
>Change hand
>With previous hand sniff and rub fish slime up nose
>Ejaculation
>Release fish

And the best part
>Non CnR angler eats a fish full of cum

>>984278
Well, water is a fair portion fish jizz anyways...

>>984086
Thanks man. Take me back to Sunday work fucking sucks.

>>984283
I hear you dude. I haven't caught a mess of crappie in so long it hurts.

>>984263
Living a bland, meaningless existence with no way to measure your skills against a hard standard and know that you have succeeded.

IOW, NOT engaging in sport fishing.

>>984263
It's just a good way to spend time with friends or to spend a day where you have nothing better to do. Just standing there with my line in the water on a beautiful lake is miles better than sitting at home on 4chan.

>>983524
1 inch opening, all you need is a fishing license, and to have a tag on your traps with your name + phone number. I follow these rules.. and where I'm leaving them, no way in hell fish and wildlife are out there checking for traps, its some asshole who probably lives around there, or some assholes kids.

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>it's another everyone hates furries episode

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>>984303
I'm a card carrying weeaboo but I still hate furfags. Nothing personal against that tripfag though.

>>984307
>>984303
Kill all furfags

>>984254
Since there is not much current in lakes, your weight should be: Heavy enough to keep your line somewhat tight while the rod is propped up, heavy enough to cast a reasonable distance, but if you make the weight too heavy it might make it harder to get a good hookset. What weight of rod are you using?

anyone use a 13 fishing creed k spinning reel?

comes free at cabelas if i buy an omen black rod...

thats a $50 value!

>>984327
Those omen rods look decent. Worst case you get a free backup reel.

where's the new thread you fucks

>>984338
310 nigga

>>984339

ree

>>984341
Well 309 is the last one that bumps it

Testy

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>>984343
Welp, I must just be b& from /o/
>tfw some permavirgin anon gets upset whenever somebody asks me about coffee grill and reports it as "Off-Topic"
Niggas, I met her at work while driving the truck! And I only ever bring it up when somebody else asks. But I have gotten a bunch of warnings so...

>>984347
just change your IP. an ID if you use one there...

Random generate new MAC address
Unplug modem power. leave router plugged in
access router, and go to the mac address, choose "use this address" enter random generate mac address.
click apply while its loading.
open CMD as admin, enter; ipconfig /flushdns , ipconfig /release
wait for the loading to stop, now plug power back into modem. type ipconfig /renew as it boots up.

>>984347
Did you put some creamer in her coffee if you know what I mean?

>>984350
It's ok. It's 24hrs. Plus I have two different iPhones and I'm not even sure if it was b& on wifi or cellular.

I just don't wanna get b& from /out/ because y'all niggas know what time it is.

310!!!
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>>984354
disgusting phoneposter

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>>984353
Not yet. Idk if or when that will habben. She's like so afraid to actually commit after she married her HS sweetheart, he treated her like shit, she left him a couple years ago, and the couple other dudes she has gone on dates with ended up being scumbags within a week.

Pretty much talked about it in the trucker thread with a longpost before the one fag reported it. I asked her some shit about what's going on when I try to go in, and her answer was basically "I don't want to make it a relationship so fast" because she so scared of shitty dudes so I backed off and didn't talk to her much for a few days and didn't see her for like a week and then when I finally stopped in for coffee last week she was so excited that I came around again after her basically saying I'm not getting pussy just yet and she didn't want me to leave.

Idk, there's more to it. With the typical girl it would feel like I'm getting friendzoned and I thought about it myself which was why I brought the shit up to her a couple weeks ago but then we go out like Friday night and after dinner just walking around the waterfront and she's leanin into me a bunch.

I'm just tryin not to fall in love or anything until I see where this is actually going.

>NEW!
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>>981544

>>982795
I doubt it, I took my fly rod case to the local park when I first got it. My family lives in Minneapolis so I was a little nervous that people might think I was carrying a gun, but even when I did move a real gun (in the case) into my parents house, no one flipped.

>>984209
Largemouth tastes Bretty gud imho.
>hurry durr yur takin out da game fish.
You take and cook walleyes too

God this megabass 110 looks amazing in the water. It's super responsive and stops instantly when you want it to. Can't wait to try it out on some feesh.

>>984417
Walleye tastes good. It's probably one of the best eating fish on the planet.

Kys

>>984209
Meant to say *bullhead catfish OVER blue catfish

>>981959
Honestly, you can make a legit anchor pretty easily.
I always had wind problems, but then I took my brother's workout dumbbell, wrapped a nylon rope around it, and wrapped it in ducktape.

No joke, its been working for 2 years. I haven't even put new tape on it.