Searched around & only found the video fishing & BassMasters threads, i know their are plenty of outdoorsman here, so i figured it'd be cool to draw upon the Planets vast experience in all things fishing.
I only use spincast reels & fish mostly large/smallmouth bass & cats. My choice of reels is quite the source of derision from many people i know 'duffer gear', but i haul in my share of 6 pound bass & 10-20 pound cats on that gear no problem. With a little know-how you can use just about any technique you want to on 'duffer gear'.
Berkley Powerbaits are a big part of my trick bag, the difference between those & regular stuff is night & day. My best action last summer came on Mister Twister scented white curly tail grubs, on one day fishing from shore to a bridge pier, i caught smallies, bigmouths, perch & even 1 carp believe it or not... great day. But my bread & butter is a texas rigged Berkley worm, it'll wiggle through any kind of cover without getting hung up.
With cats i strictly bottom fish, no bobber & bait is just as basic... but its always in 2's to give'em a real treat... a shrimp/with a nightcrawler, liver/chunk of cheese etc. Cats are mostly for night sport to me, time to kick back a lil...
So thats me style, how do the rest of you guys get your fish on? What do you fish for, what do you use? IIRC Missouri's trout season just kicked off, anyone getting anything? [Reply]
Originally Posted by KC Tattoo:
I relocated and transferred to osowatamy but now got to find me new fishing spots. I moved to Fort Scott.
Scouting out new spots is one of my favorite things about fishing, just love finding those little used places that others don't even consider
I get soooooo bored going to the same places all the time
Been watching a ton of youtube guerrilla fishermen lately, they'll go to these weird places hidden in plain sight like a drainage pond behind Walmart that got flooded by a nearby creek a few years ago and got stocked that way
Or some tiny little ditch that holds water year round, and they'll come out of places like that having absolutely slayed them... I'm excited about getting creative like that this year [Reply]
Originally Posted by Easy 6:
Outstanding, what is it?
Gag Grouper. Caught last summer in the gulf out of apalachicola FL. We ended up with 100 lbs of fish to split between 6. My son won the pot with most caught on his 1st trip w/us. [Reply]
Originally Posted by stumppy:
Damn nice. I've caught a lot of Northern but none that big. Was lucky enough to spend a spring, summer, and fall living in upstate Vermont with Lake Champlain as my backyard. Also spent a week in Ontario on Lac Seul catching the hell out of Northern and Walleye. JFC that walleye shore lunch was the best I ever had.
I'll defer to the experts , but I think that is a muskie or a hybrid? [Reply]
Originally Posted by stumppy:
Looking at it again, yea, I think you're right. Looks a bit too big bodied to be a Northern.
I was looking at the markings. I believe northerns to be more spots on the side. Muskies have more stripes like the picture shows. It's been a long time since I was fishing in Canada and back then I had never heard of tiger muskies, which I think are a northern/muskie cross? [Reply]
