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 Hog's Gone Fishin:
Maybe all the rain and flooding making fishing hard. Texoma was 9 feet over normal and most of the secondary boat ramps were closed. I was there 9 days and was only able to get out to the main lake 2 days due to wind. My little 18 ft Bass boat isn't made for 4 and 5 foot swells. we set 26 jug lines and caught 4 catfish but lost 4 lines because they were drug out to sea by some huge creature.
Had to do a lot of dock fishing and caught a lot of 3-8 pound cats but didn't capture any pic's. The dock there where all the guides come in and clean the fish produces a LOT of 30-60 pound Blue Cats but we didn't get one.
I did hook a gar about 6 feet long but lost him at the boat. He's lucky because I was gonna beat the hell out of him with my ball bat.
Yeah all the rain, wind and muddied water certainly isn’t helping anything up here
Sounds like the guides put out a daily blue cat buffet with all the scraps they chuck in the water... always wanted to catch a big ol gar, they’re supposedly excellent eating [Reply]
Originally Posted by Dartgod:
That's just nuts. Are there any ramps open anywhere?
Shawnee bend high water was but last time I was there was Thursday and no rigs in the lot. That's by the beach. It's under. The water is to the parking lot.
I saw a couple jet skis off the mile long bridge today, which seemed crazy. They aren't running water so there's whole trees just floating around randomly. [Reply]
Originally Posted by HonestChieffan:
anybody farm pond bassin they are tearing a wacky worm up
I wish, farm ponds around here have stricter security than Ft Knox, you better be a son or direct cousin... they are jealously guarded secrets
And as luck would have it, most of the farmers I know dont have any decent ponds on any of their various properties... at least none that they'll tell me about
One guy will let me in on a decent pond, but its almost a mile walk back to it... no thanks [Reply]