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:
Truly amazing array of fish caught off a fly, even got a channel cat to bite I mean wtf... thats some wizardry right there
For some reason during run-off all these fish like clown clousers more than any other fly pattern. I've tried maybe a hundred different patterns over the years when the AF was running properly, and many catch fish, but if I had to bet money on the catch rate, the clown would probably out-fish everything else as much as 10:1.
Even that silly shad ate one, and shad are plankton feeders. That thing's mouth would barely fit the eraser of a No. 2 pencil, but somehow he got his mouth around that clouser. And why would he try and eat a minnow imitation? Fish are funny creatures sometimes. Probably has something to do with having a brain the size of a pea. [Reply]
Because Vrach never called me for my opinion on who to draft yesterday I went fishing. I just had to go. It was windy as fuck so I had to move sides of the lake to have the wind behind my back. Finally as it got dusk the wind died down and recasted my lines as I was casting my second line I caught this one on my first line. Love it when that happens. I expected a catfish but was pleasantly surprised it was a LM Bass. So that tickled me fancy. Fishing therapy is the best therapy.
That wind kicked my ass though I'm not a young whipper snapper anymore. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rasputin:
Holy shit it was cold last night droped 42 degrees. 82-42 = fucking cold.
Yeah man really sick of these cool springs, if the recent past is any gauge its gonna jack around like this until June then go straight into the 90s :-) [Reply]
