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Nzoner's Game Room>The Fishing Thread
Easy 6 07:58 PM 02-19-2010
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?
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Donger 10:22 AM 07-27-2012
Originally Posted by The Ultimate Warrior:
Wow, I'm fucked. I only know how to tie one type of fishing knot.

Originally Posted by The Ultimate Warrior:
It depends what and where you are fishing. Sometimes you will just let it sit and drift, sometimes you will kind of swing it in the current, sometimes you'll use a herky jerky retrieve. FYI - in fly fishing you usually retrieve line by just stripping it in with your hands. The reel is mainly used for fighting larger fish and holding line.
It's a lake, not a stream.
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loochy 10:22 AM 07-27-2012
Originally Posted by Radar Chief:
Yes, if you snap the end of the line without leader you’ll fray out the end of your fly line making it worthless.
plus you need to learn how to turn over the leader properly.
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loochy 10:23 AM 07-27-2012
Originally Posted by Donger:
Wow, I'm fucked. I only know how to tie one type of fishing knot.
Don't worry, they are super easy. The surgeon's knot is probably the easiest.


Originally Posted by Donger:
It's a lake, not a stream.
My above statement still applies. Sometimes you let it sit, sometimes you strip it in fast, sometimes you creep it in.
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Ace Gunner 10:24 AM 07-27-2012
Originally Posted by Donger:
Oh, and with fly fishing, do you just let the fly sit there and do you reel it in slowly?
I've tried a billion moves with flies and don't recall any of them ever really working, although it does work with wet flies. Hits come with the right choice in fly and being sneaky imo:-)
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loochy 10:24 AM 07-27-2012
Donger, go to the library and check out a book on fly fishing basics.
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Donger 10:25 AM 07-27-2012
Originally Posted by The Ultimate Warrior:
Don't worry, they are super easy. The surgeon's knot is probably the easiest.
Perhaps, but I don't even know the name of the knot I know how to use. It's the one where you make a loop, wrap the line around itself eight times or so and then back through the loop.

Originally Posted by The Ultimate Warrior:
My above statement still applies. Sometimes you let it sit, sometimes you strip it in fast, sometimes you creep it in.
Thanks.
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Radar Chief 10:25 AM 07-27-2012
Originally Posted by Donger:
Oh, and with fly fishing, do you just let the fly sit there and do you reel it in slowly?
Originally Posted by The Ultimate Warrior:




It depends what and where you are fishing. Sometimes you will just let it sit and drift, sometimes you will kind of swing it in the current, sometimes you'll use a herky jerky retrieve. FYI - in fly fishing you usually retrieve line by just stripping it in with your hands. The reel is mainly used for fighting larger fish and holding line.
What TUW said.
If you’re using poppers, small jig, wooly worm or something similar you want to give it some action but something like dry flies you let sit and drift.
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loochy 10:26 AM 07-27-2012
Originally Posted by Donger:
Perhaps, but I don't even know the name of the knot I know how to use. It's the one where you make a loop, wrap the line around itself eight times or so and then back through the loop.
That sounds like a clinch knot. It is used for attaching hooks and lures to standing line.
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Radar Chief 10:26 AM 07-27-2012
Originally Posted by Donger:
Perhaps, but I don't even know the name of the knot I know how to use. It's the one where you make a loop, wrap the line around itself eight times or so and then back through the loop.
Cinch knot.
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Radar Chief 10:28 AM 07-27-2012
Originally Posted by The Ultimate Warrior:
That sounds like a clinch knot. It is used for attaching hooks and lures to standing line.
Heh, clinch cinch. Tomayto tomahto.
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Donger 10:29 AM 07-27-2012
Great, so I have to learn a new knot?
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Ace Gunner 10:29 AM 07-27-2012
I only know/use cinch knot & nail knot. The fucking fish don't give a shit what knot is on that fly, they only care about what fly is on the knot:-)
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loochy 10:31 AM 07-27-2012
Originally Posted by chiefsfootballfan:
I only know/use cinch knot & nail knot. The fucking fish don't give a shit what knot is on that fly, they only care about what fly is on the knot:-)
The knots aren't hard to learn at all and they may offer increased line strength and ease of tying. I'd rather fiddle with a surgeon's knot than a blood knot while standing in the middle of a river in low light conditions.
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Donger 10:32 AM 07-27-2012
Does this look correct?


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Radar Chief 10:32 AM 07-27-2012
Originally Posted by chiefsfootballfan:
I only know/use cinch knot & nail knot. The ****ing fish don't give a shit what knot is on that fly, they only care about what fly is on the knot:-)
The biggest difference between knots is how much strength they cause your line to lose. As the knot is being cinched down it rubs against itself flattening, fray, even slightly cutting the line. Some knots are worse about this than others. Seems like the cinch knot retains around 80% line strength but I’m pulling that from memory.
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