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Please for the love of goon, give me fishnuts sinkers
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Jun 29, 2021 18:51
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I want the smallest possible size of nutsack sinker to attach to my tow hitch.
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Jun 29, 2021 19:02
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highme posted:I want the smallest possible size of nutsack sinker to attach to my tow hitch. 1/64 oz. flappin in the breeze
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Jun 29, 2021 19:44
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therunningman posted:Thanks! A 9" brown is amazing for a first catch. Brown trout is an introduced species in a few streams around here, I'd love to catch one some time. You had the right idea the first time. The net used properly allows you to keep the fish in the water while you prepare to remove the hook, and is all over a lot easier on them. If you are intending to practice catch and release, the fish surviving your encounter is pretty essential to the concept.
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Jun 29, 2021 20:39
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is there a standardized size for the loops/bails on sinkers? or at least a minimum size that's practical? if i use prefab hooks/hardware as with jig heads it works itself out, but not w most sinker styles
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Jun 30, 2021 00:29
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Ambrose Burnside posted:is there a standardized size for the loops/bails on sinkers? or at least a minimum size that's practical? if i use prefab hooks/hardware as with jig heads it works itself out, but not w most sinker styles lol loving nothing is standardized. Most kinds of sinkers have loops/holes integrated into the mold so they will come out as one piece. There are also several sizes of brass wire eyes that are used for heavier or premium sinkers. Consult the Do-It Corp. catalog for more information of the best molds to rip off.
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Jun 30, 2021 00:47
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Finally met my neighbor to the north and discovered he has 5 pay-to-fish/aquaculture ponds that I'm allowed to fish. My son and I went out for two hours and I caught more bluegill than I have in my entire life combined. But I can only keep the green sunfish
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Jun 30, 2021 01:17
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Yooper posted:Finally met my neighbor to the north and discovered he has 5 pay-to-fish/aquaculture ponds that I'm allowed to fish. My son and I went out for two hours and I caught more bluegill than I have in my entire life combined. I.... what? Why would someone outlaw keeping bluegill?
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Jun 30, 2021 01:30
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Sickening posted:I.... what? Why would someone outlaw keeping bluegill? They want to keep them all for themselves probably.
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Jun 30, 2021 01:35
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crazypeltast52 posted:They want to keep them all for themselves probably. This. They sell them to restaurants and such. Fine by me though, I'll catch mondo bluegills all day.
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Jun 30, 2021 12:15
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Yooper posted:This. They sell them to restaurants and such. Fine by me though, I'll catch mondo bluegills all day. I wonder why. I've eaten a lot of panfish and if you were to give me filets of bluegill, pumpkinseed, and sunfish i would never be able to tell the difference.
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Jun 30, 2021 15:10
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Yooper posted:Finally met my neighbor to the north and discovered he has 5 pay-to-fish/aquaculture ponds that I'm allowed to fish. My son and I went out for two hours and I caught more bluegill than I have in my entire life combined.
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Jun 30, 2021 21:08
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i saw these sinkers  and i got an idea  Ambrose Burnside fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Jul 7, 2021 |
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Jul 4, 2021 19:59
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Finally went up to the cottage and put in a good 5-6 hour fishing, I'm half convinced there's no more fish in those waters. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
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Jul 4, 2021 20:46
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Today I found out what a The Bassin’ Bathyscope is. You northerners are hilarious.
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Jul 4, 2021 20:52
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Slotducks posted:Finally went up to the cottage and put in a good 5-6 hour fishing, a buddy of mine bought a cottage on a very small lake (call it a pond) adjoining a much larger lake with lots of boat traffic, jet skis etc. first time he went fishing he caught the mother of all lake trout + bigass bass, much bigger than you'd ever expect to see in such a small lake. then for the next several years he'd be lucky to get a sunfish or similar trash fish. then all of a sudden he has an amazing weekend like the first time, the luck doesn't last til sunday. eventually he put together that his tiny lake is connected to the larger lake + regional waterways by a submerged culvert, and every so often the big daddy fish from the deep lake find a reason to shelter in his little pond. he can't figure out the pattern behind this, but as soon as he does he'll be the most blessed fisherman in the region. my guess is some combination of seasonal lake turnover, weather, and particularly-irritating human lake activities (jetskis, fishfinders pingin away, etc) drives the big fish to temporarily shelter in the small lake via the culvert, but idk, none of those individual factors seem to strongly correlate with good fishing phases. man was not meant to know the motivations and inner life of fishes
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Jul 4, 2021 21:25
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Spent much of the evening fishing and getting more familiar with my new baitcaster (Daiwa Tatula CT). Didn't catch anything; mainly thinking all the boat traffic caused the fish to hide. Did catch this beautiful view though, so there's that. For getting farther casts with a baitcaster, should I loosen my tension knob more, or decrease the number of brakes I'm using? I've been keeping my brakes on max and loosening my tension knob and have seen some results, but should I be doing something different? Still getting used to having my thumb on the spool (feathering I think it's called).
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Jul 5, 2021 07:18
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Ventus posted:Spent much of the evening fishing and getting more familiar with my new baitcaster (Daiwa Tatula CT). Didn't catch anything; mainly thinking all the boat traffic caused the fish to hide. Did catch this beautiful view though, so there's that. Yes, using smaller brake settings will enable you to cast farther.
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Jul 5, 2021 16:00
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Sickening posted:Today I found out what a The Bassin’ Bathyscope is. You northerners are hilarious. I just had to look up what that was. I don't give a single gently caress about tournament bass fishing but I do think that any device that lets you see what's going on underwater is pretty cool. Is this a jab at northerners because our water has visibility such that you can actually see or is this a dumb yankees don't know poo poo about bass *spittoon chime* VVV Sucks about the lingcod yet I remain extremely jealous. Hopefully August will be better! A Pack of Kobolds fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Jul 5, 2021 |
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Jul 5, 2021 16:10
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I went fishing on the coast the other day and got beat the gently caress up by the swell. The skipper couldn’t get us on big lingcods either but the pacific rockfish were healthy sized guys. Spent a day flash freezing and packing up the meat from two limits. So tired.
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Jul 5, 2021 17:26
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Ventus posted:For getting farther casts with a baitcaster, should I loosen my tension knob more, or decrease the number of brakes I'm using? I've been keeping my brakes on max and loosening my tension knob and have seen some results, but should I be doing something different? Still getting used to having my thumb on the spool (feathering I think it's called). Spool tension is the key, yeah. If there's too much resistance at the spool you're never going to get maximum distance. You've got to use good casting technique and trust your thumb more than the brakes so they don't steal your distance either.
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Jul 5, 2021 18:54
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:I just had to look up what that was. I don't give a single gently caress about tournament bass fishing but I do think that any device that lets you see what's going on underwater is pretty cool. Is this a jab at northerners because our water has visibility such that you can actually see or is this a dumb yankees don't know poo poo about bass *spittoon chime* i dont know the fishing terminology but i studied polynesian history in school, and remember it mentioned that, from about ~ww2 onwards when the materials became widely-available on remote islands, simple looking-boxes with glass bottoms became popular aids for spearfishing in wading-depth water, probably spread first by GIs looking to improve on k-rations, and was rapidly adopted by locals. it strikes me as something that gets re-invented anywhere it would be genuinely helpful, this is just a particularly long-looking version that's suited to deeper water the spearfishing practice of putting just the tip of the spear in the water before striking, so you have a point of reference that is free of refraction-caused error, seems analogous to a looking-box, sort of, if you think about it. it's letting you look beneath the choppy surface one way or another.
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Jul 6, 2021 08:49
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Sometimes I get a little savage about big sharks or dolphins messing around in my fishing holes. [video type=""]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwP-zbzm4-g It apparently worked  These microskiffs were made for low tide. This is a tiny little passage through a mile long oyster bar to get to an area that most would need an airboat to access. It's 6" deep and the only way in our out of the creek mouth I was fishing in the back of a bay.  
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Jul 6, 2021 17:12
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Miniskiffs are a lot of fun.
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Jul 6, 2021 17:18
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Maybe NWS renderings of dicksinkers and scrotumweights.
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Jul 6, 2021 22:05
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Safety Dance posted:Maybe NWS renderings of dicksinkers and scrotumweights. What about dickspoons and lipped diving cockbaits?
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Jul 6, 2021 22:10
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I'll be honest, I don't fish. I was just thinking "what would I want to see if I opened this thread at work"? A lovingly rendered 3D glans? Maybe not. I'm happy to let y'all set the tone for this thread.
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Jul 6, 2021 22:16
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Safety Dance posted:I'll be honest, I don't fish. I was just thinking "what would I want to see if I opened this thread at work"? A lovingly rendered 3D glans? Maybe not. I'm happy to let y'all set the tone for this thread. We go out together on boats, clutching our rods. 
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Jul 6, 2021 22:53
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Safety Dance posted:Maybe NWS renderings of dicksinkers and scrotumweights. yeah fair enough, sorry
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Jul 7, 2021 13:26
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e: whoops using the double post to make a general offer: i will make and send someone itt a 3d printed jig/lure casting mold of their choice, plus a little bit of the low-melt alloy required to cast the parts, for free. PMs are open. well, mostly, all they have to do is pick the design (sth from the do-it catalog is fine, or something custom if you've got a particular thing in mind) and pay for shipping, plus say. idk. $10 CAD for the resin/metal materials. and give me feedback, that's really what i'm after- if it works well, your complaints and thoughts, etc (this is *excepting* the dick balls and so on sinkers, sorry- those are detailed enough that making up the molds is actually a big pain in the rear end and is taking forever) Ambrose Burnside fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Jul 7, 2021 |
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Jul 7, 2021 13:26
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Ran out to my buddy's neighborhood this morning for a few hours of poo poo talking and fishing. Tried a few new things out here and there. Usually I'm just texas-rigged bouncing worms off the bottom. I've had much more success with purple- and purple-adjacent baits, I guess because our water is pretty stained here for the most part. After about an hour with no success and lots of top feeding I decided to tie on a splash popper in Black Lab and throw it around some culverts. Got my first topwater catch ever!  Learned pretty quickly that treble hooks--even with crushed barbs--are loving stupid since he was hooked in several places and it took some careful in-water removal time with hemostats. I think I'm probably going to remove the front one and put a single trailing hook on it moving forward. Seems a little too medieval for me. After about an hour with no real success, I wandered from the Texas rig and just put together a little carolina rig with 5/8 bullet and a trailing 5" Yum Morning Dawn floating behind. Got a couple of good fights, but only managed to get this fella in to shore.  Anyway, a nice day of fishing. Any good tips for switching out hooks on my topwaters? Those little rings look to be a loving nightmare.
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Jul 7, 2021 19:10
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Split ring pliers my dude. Made specifically for that.
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Jul 7, 2021 19:47
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Syano posted:Split ring pliers my dude. Made specifically for that. I've got a garage full of tools and never had a need for these. Sweet. What size and type of hook is best to switch out on those? Like a 4/0 circle?
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Jul 7, 2021 21:14
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Syano posted:Split ring pliers my dude. Made specifically for that. Holy crap I have been trying to figure this out for months.
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Jul 7, 2021 22:11
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LeeMajors posted:I've got a garage full of tools and never had a need for these. Sweet. Circle hooks are for bait that gets swallowed. If you are using a lure you want something you can “set”. Personally, on my rapala floating lures I take off the forward hook and then cut off one hook on the treble to make it a double.
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Jul 7, 2021 22:14
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Crab Dad posted:Circle hooks are for bait that gets swallowed. If you are using a lure you want something you can “set”. Gotcha I just have a few octopus circles floating around in my surf tackle box I thought I may be able to repurpose. That’s a pretty good idea about just trimming it down. Are there balance issues with a popper I should be concerned about?
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Jul 7, 2021 22:27
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I caught the biggest smallmouth in my life on a tiny torp topwater. I've since removed all front treble hooks on any rapalas or torps that I use. Also - I fished the Beaver Kill river up in the Catskills over the holiday break. Went with a guide and had the time of my life. Learned a lot about fly fishing and caught some beautiful rainbows and browns.
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Jul 7, 2021 23:00
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LeeMajors posted:I've got a garage full of tools and never had a need for these. Sweet. Don't get me lying to you. I imagine that would be fine but I dunno for certain
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Jul 8, 2021 01:12
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LeeMajors posted:I've got a garage full of tools and never had a need for these. Sweet. You want inline singles, something like these: https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Owner_Single_Replacement_Hook_X_Strong/descpage-OSRH.html
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Jul 8, 2021 03:16
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Just found a penn 209 real in excellent mechanical condition but a bit dirty for $25. Always nice to have a few spare reels. Load it up with different line than my other 209s.
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Jul 8, 2021 05:28
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