ITT: We love to fish

[MrSilverback]

Out on a jetty - Jigging for Mackerel, the toss em out for stripers

Which jetty? That looks like NJ

[nugget5]

Which jetty? That looks like NJ

Up in Wells Maine

[MrSilverback]

Up in Wells Maine

Gotcha. Looked like NJ but the mack jigging threw me off.

[sloop]

Al Pflueger

Look at you. Mister Big shot name dropper.

[VPX_Sports]

Look at you. Mister Big shot name dropper.

Figured you might buy more product if you knew I was a big deal

[LiftBig315]

Went out and caught 25 little sunnies with my two nephews today...fished for around a half hour, had a blast

[Chairman7w]

Went out and caught 25 little sunnies with my two nephews today...fished for around a half hour, had a blast

Couldfishforsunniesandbluegillallday/10

[MasterYomega]

I fukn loved boat fishing as a kid but I have no idea how to set anything up myself now as an adult away from home. Anyone have advice?

[LiftBig315]

I fukn loved boat fishing as a kid but I have no idea how to set anything up myself now as an adult away from home. Anyone have advice?

Hook n worm, sinker, bobber, dock......success?

[xxDirtMcGirtxx]

Hnnnggg went on a canoe trip yesterday in the creek we always use to fish. It was always good fishing but yesterday was insane. Caught literally 60-70 small mouth, average size was around 2 lbs. Caught 6 over 3 lbs with the biggest being 3.7. I'll get some pics up tomorrow.

[fishnbrah]

went out this morning for largemouth, spanked em. my homie got a 7lber. sickening fight.

[plsbh]

[Nawmsayin]

Went kayaking for my first time on the upper Mississippi just had to bring a rod with, couldn't resist. Just tossed a popper around some laydowns and caught a handful of smallies and a pike. It sure is fun catching them from a kayak. You're right down there at eye level with them and bigger ones can pull you a bit. I'm glad I pinched all the barbs down on the trebles they are harder to tame from the kayak.

[yalldunnosquats]

Salmon season opens next week. You bet your ass ill be on the river every chance i get.

**** yah! I'm heading out there too!

California Sheephead I caught off San Clemente Island last weekend.

[bbowsh54]

I guess it all makes a bit more sense now. I was self taught and learned on lakes and ponds here in chicagoland IL (suburbs surrounding chicago). Unlike the central and southern parts of the state, chicagoland has limited access to lakes and rivers and with such a high population density what we have here is a new definition for highly pressured fisheries. For example, we have Lake Busse in the heart of chicagoland and the DNR recently did a survey and found the average bass to be 3+lbs except hardly ANYONE catches fish at Busse because those fish have seen EVERYTHING. Lake Michigan is the clear exception of course but that requires quite a bit of money and quite a bit of experience. So for me, with relatively cheap gear and lacking a boat, I had to make due with lakes and ponds here and the best advice I've heard for chicagoland fishing is to fish the areas that have been fished the least.
My best day number wise to date was at a small pond in a currently being constructed financial district. Caught 50 1 to 2lb bass in 30min. I've never had that good of a day at any highly acclaimed lake.

So for me river fishing is hard because after looking up and reading up on rigs and location, it's hard to get information about the river itself (you can just get a map of lakes with underwater structures shown on map) and any river close to me will be packed. In general I have no idea what I'm doing due to lack of experience (some things you can't just read about) and the fact that out of pure habit, I only use bait for catfish, otherwise it's all artificial. And artificial lures in unfamiliar waters with no idea what the structures are like is asking for a bad time IMO.

That being said, river fishing on a good day would definitely beat a good day of lake fishing because there's just so many more (and stronger) fish to catch which is why I am really trying to improve. I've been fishing for 4 years now and have made exponential progress annually, but in that time only fished a river twice. I'm currently trying to change that up, in fact, I may be hitting up a river this Saturday for night fishing during a full moon for catfish and fishing my favorite spot with some buddies that morning, will report back.

Since you shared your rig I guess I'll share some knowledge to be fair. I love catfish, even talk to them as I catch and release them (I blame watching steve irwin and jeff corwin growing up) and as such took the time to really learn about them. They are the bodybuilders of the fish world because their whiskers literally detect sources of protein. It's no secret catfish love smelly stuff, but you're far better off if that smelly stuff actually has protein in it. At my favorite lake to fish, since I prefer to only catch catfish on the rod best suited for them, I'll sink shrimp and they'll go for it. Shrimp is so much easier to keep on a hook too vs worms or hotdogs or what have you and is far more odorous than a worm or hotdog.

Excellent post, thanks for sharing! I think I've only used shrimp as catfish bait twice in my life, but I did land a decent 5.5-pound channel cat... Makes sense that they would work so well! I suppose it would be worth trying a bag of frozen shrimp the next time I hit the river...

will be bringing my Cabela's King Kat and Zebco Hawg Seeker.. :P

Have a good one!

[LiftBig315]

We use cut bait for cats. You'll catch then on shrimp, but size comes most often on cut

[jj00ee]

Went kayaking for my first time on the upper Mississippi just had to bring a rod with, couldn't resist. Just tossed a popper around some laydowns and caught a handful of smallies and a pike. It sure is fun catching them from a kayak. You're right down there at eye level with them and bigger ones can pull you a bit. I'm glad I pinched all the barbs down on the trebles they are harder to tame from the kayak.

awesome brah. i will be doing a solo musky trip once i get my kayak. i can't even imagine how interesting that would be from a 'yak...

[Nawmsayin]

awesome brah. i will be doing a solo musky trip once i get my kayak. i can't even imagine how interesting that would be from a 'yak...

That would be quite the battle. At this point I don't think I'd want to hook into a big 'ski unless I had a place to beach the kayak and properly unhook it. The smallies were trouble enough for me at first.

I can see kayak fishing being addicting. Also just found out a friend of mine bought two recently which I'm stoked about.

[freuddcoco]

This was caught at the beachside of Matagorda Bay

[All-Star11]

[Mafiafolife77]

Finally was able to catch some bass at the lake I frequent (Lake Lopez, CA). Caught 5 of them, all little fukkers but was happy as fukk that I finally caught largemouth out there. Trout seem to be all in deeper water, so I'm still striking out there but I know there's fukking tons there. TFW no boat .

Went a week later and caught a pretty big bluegill randomly. Thought it was funny, put up a pretty good fight actually.

[bbowsh54]

Took my little brother fishing out on the Big Sioux River...


We had some pretty decent luck... We caught about 5 channel catfish and five carp on our "Cabela's King Kat" poles. My little brother caught two walleye. We also caught a couple shortnose redhorse (those sucker fish) and gar. The carp were quite big, even for a junk fish, fun to reel in...

As the sun started to go down, I felt a nibble on my line. On the second bite, I yanked back to set the hook. Ended up landing this beauty, with my little brother netting it for me:




It was a fun experience!

[fishnbrah]

Took my little brother fishing out on the Big Sioux River...


We had some pretty decent luck... We caught about 5 channel catfish and five carp on our "Cabela's King Kat" poles. My little brother caught two walleye. We also caught a couple shortnose redhorse (those sucker fish) and gar. The carp were quite big, even for a junk fish, fun to reel in...

As the sun started to go down, I felt a nibble on my line. On the second bite, I yanked back to set the hook. Ended up landing this beauty, with my little brother netting it for me:




It was a fun experience!

Hell ya dude, my parents are on their way to lake poinsett right now

[jj00ee]

I'm not terribly familiar with OC boats but I know one REALLY good one:

OC: Restless Lady Charters http://www.restlesslady.com/

Cape May NJ (Probably about an hour from OC): Island Girl Charters, Capt Scott.

Book soon, I am hearing rumblings of the inshore YFT bite at the hotdog.

brb Running 15 miles out
brb Limiting out on 80 lb yellowfin

LOL

fuk those are expensive lmao. id have to have 5 bros that were down really which would be difficult at $300 a pop. i'd do it in a heartbeat though.

[Ownejj]

smiled wide at poverty american fish in this thread. brb catching reef fish in aus.

[43Steelers]

beau brochet ca mon chum!

nice pike bud!

[pwoL]

~ sorry for tl;dr post

This whole kayak purchase went so shietty... I would have gladly paid an extra $1-200 to purchase it locally and avoid this headache (but the local selection here is kind of crappy)

These motherfcukers made me pay $80 return shipping on the first kayak that came damaged (plastic chair hinge split in two, scratches all over the place). I had to wait another 2 weeks for the replacement kayak which came in yesterday, and this one came fcuked up as well. The plastic bag was all torn up and there are a ton of scratches/nicks all over the place. Nothing serious, but it sucks paying $500 + $80 shipping to have it come in such poor condition. I got on the phone with a manager there, and expressed that I was pissed about the condition it came in, that I have already been waiting over a month, I would have to wait another 2+ weeks to exchange it again, pay another $80 return shipping, and another 80 to get the next one shipped... so he offered 50% off this one and just wanted me to email him some pics. So I kept it instead of having the delivery guy take it back. I emailed them the pics and havent heard from them in 3 days.... ugghhhhhhhh

If youre gonna buy a kayak, just buy one locally. Fcuk the online sales/lower prices. (especially academy)

Pics of how it was shipped / cut that's like 2 feet long.. (+ there were tons of other cuts/ nicks not pictured)








On a positive note, I grabbed my poverty pole and took the yak out on her maiden voyage... wow was it a good time. It was a bit odd because I'm so used to having the fish finder on the boat, it sucked trying to navigate the lake without knowing the depth, dropoff locations, structure, etc. Im kinda obsessed with kayak fishing now, cant wait to go out again.

[ShagsJX]

Ill share a pew pics!


Not sure his weight.


Different flounder then above


Do a little fishin from the back of my truck!


how bout some fishing from the back of my samurai!

Snows Cut, Home of the record largest flounder caught on the east coast!




I sometimes do a little lake fishing with this bad ass setup!

[jj00ee]

~ sorry for tl;dr post

sucks to hear about your bad experiences brah. i heard good things about austin kayak though, i may give them a shot even though you say not to order online. there are no Feelfree dealers around me so i dont have much of a choice since i want to buy the Lure 11.5.

[All-Star11]

so pumped to go fishing tonight once I get to the cottage...
Got some nice new minnow lures and some new 10-12 lbs line (after a monster broke my line last time)

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