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 Pablo:
That sucks. I've got one in MO and one in KS. Only used the one in KS once this year but I don't mind throwing money to their conservation dept, they do a good job, compared to MO at least.
I never renewed it after the 12 months expired. I have a 5 month old so it's hard to fish right now. Eventually I'll get back on the water. [Reply]
Originally Posted by loochy:
Please say no (unless you grab a very obvious stocker rainbow)
Because you’re strictly a catch and release guy, or because they’re not actually that great to eat, as I’ve heard is true?
I’m always seeing some cool picture in outdoor magazines and on websites of people doing the foil packet or cast iron thing with some lemon, butter and fresh herbs or whatever, and it looks amazing… but yeah I’ve heard they’re usually not the best eating [Reply]
Originally Posted by Easy 6:
Because you’re strictly a catch and release guy, or because they’re not actually that great to eat, as I’ve heard is true?
I’m always seeing some cool picture in outdoor magazines and on websites of people doing the foil packet or cast iron thing with some lemon, butter and fresh herbs or whatever, and it looks amazing… but yeah I’ve heard they’re usually not the best eating
It's because browns and quality brown fisheries are becoming more and more rare. I'm all for eating the stocker put-and-take 12 inch rainbows, but I really hate to see wild trout (or at least semi-wild) get taken from the stream.
I know people obey the legal limits and whatnot, but even those limits are often too high to maintain a quality river. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Graystoke:
Megatron with the fish porn!
Looking like a great outing. Has the drought made it easier to target runs, holes and hides?
Or is water level normal?
I’ve been stuck near my home waters mostly fly roding for Smallies. With the low water they have been holing up and behaving very predictable.
Present fly, look for the take, set, fish on.
I can get on the water in 10 minutes for Smallmouth compared to driving 45 for trout.
And IMO a 19” Smallie fights more and goes airborne more then any 19” Trout.
Water's low everywhere out West.
We got lucky, I think, because the Gunn was running enough water t allow fish to still take cover beneath the undercuts, and they must've been pretty hungry, because there wasn't much of a salmonfly hatch this year, and the fish were skinnier than usual. So they were shallow and aggressive.
But our last day they dropped the flows again, and you could tell the fish were beginning to leave the banks/shallows. My guess is that by now most of the fish are heading for the deepest pools they can find. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Megatron96:
Water's low everywhere out West.
We got lucky, I think, because the Gunn was running enough water t allow fish to still take cover beneath the undercuts, and they must've been pretty hungry, because there wasn't much of a salmonfly hatch this year, and the fish were skinnier than usual. So they were shallow and aggressive.
But our last day they dropped the flows again, and you could tell the fish were beginning to leave the banks/shallows. My guess is that by now most of the fish are heading for the deepest pools they can find.
I heard that in Idaho they were going to take away limits because the water levels are so low they think most of the trout are going to die anyway. I friend I talked to said it was some of the best fishing he's seen in a while with fish concentrated in deep in pools to stay in cooler water. [Reply]
Originally Posted by A8bil:
I heard that in Idaho they were going to take away limits because the water levels are so low they think most of the trout are going to die anyway. I friend I talked to said it was some of the best fishing he's seen in a while with fish concentrated in deep in pools to stay in cooler water.
I heard that they're dropping the flow on the Dolores to less than 1 CFS. As far as the fish are concerned, that river is dead. 99% of the fish in that river will be dead before the end of the summer. And it will take more than a decade to recover, if it ever does. And a major side effect will the be loss of millions in revenue/local businesses as well as countless jobs. Some of thos small towns are pretty reliant on the river as well, so I won't be surprised to see several of them become ghost towns when i drie thru that area next year. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rasputin:
God ****ing damn another nice ****er but the cat whore ****ing spit it out when I got it in just reach ****ing ****s. ****.
