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 Easy 6:
Thats not so, according to everything I've read
A fish' metabolism is higher when its hot, the hotter it is, the hungrier they are
No, it sucks beacsue
1) it's hot AF outside and not enjoyable
2) they head deep to seek the cooler water and that makes them harder to access
3) they come up at dawn and dusk, but who wants to get up at dawn?
Fish are catchable in any season, but some times are much more enjoyable than others [Reply]
This really blew up on social media. Tiktok even blew it up in a non fishing type of trend and a lot of people who know nothing about fishing tournaments got exposed to the bad side of the sport.
There are several other social media pictures where, with hindsight, you can clearly see odd lumps in the bellies of other fish they claimed unusually heavy weights on. [Reply]
Just because they had the fish doesn't mean they caught them that day, or that they even caught them at all. Cheating doesn't have to stop with weights. They could have other people drop fish off to them, catch them days early, etc. You see it in bass tournaments some times where they have bass in a box with a bobber on it and they pull the pre-caught bass out. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hog's Gone Fishin:
Why they don't run a metal detector across all the fish baskets is beyond me.
At first blush that seems terribly obvious. The problem is reality. Fish eat all sorts of things, and it's not that unusual to find old hooks/metal beads/etc. inside a fish's guts.
And also I think a big party of it is just that fishing tournaments to a large extent operate on the honor system. At least they used to 30 years ago when I used to enter them. [Reply]
