gamera009 posted:

I've caught 22-24" browns and rainbows pretty easily in gold medal waters using small rapalas (floating and countdown both) where I only use the back hook. Treble or a single is fine.

Usually with small rapalas, you're really provoking an aggression response more so than feeding in my experience.

Picnic Princess posted:

If you're interested in decimating invasive fish, you should kill and eat as much lionfish as you can if you're on vacation in the Caribbean. There was a restaurant in Belize I would frequent who would buy lionfish off a volunteer group who did reef studies and would catch every lionfish they encountered. Super tasty, too.

bongwizzard posted:

Its almost like different species will interact with an ecosystem in different ways?

Should we kill all the bass too?

bongwizzard posted:

Completely incorrect, the bass pro shop in Maryland sells ready-made generator boats with huge banks of lights on the front specifically to bow hunt for snakehead at night. There also at least a couple charter captains that do snakeheads specific charters in the tidal Potomac. And as I said before bass are not native to the tidal Potomac, they were introduced at some point in the late 1800s.

TheDon01 posted:

TheDon01 posted:

Went out for a quick afternoon trip with the wife and friend who's a much better photographer than I. It was real slow for the whole trip but I hooked an 80 lb halibut after an hour or so.

bongwizzard posted:

There is a guy in the TFR hiking thread who is a big tenkara nut and super nice and helpful.

joem83 posted:

Does this get thine wild blood flowing!?

joem83 posted:

Crab is hella delicious. You are a good man.

Cumslut1895 posted:

speaking of, will fabric bird netting be string enough to catch swimming (paddle) crabs?

Picnic Princess posted:

We're working on it!

joem83 posted:

Went to the SD bay for a family function. Lost the tails of 3 swimbaits but no spotties! Next time :-D

sirr0bin posted:

Did some fishing on the Red River today, caught two master anglers!

41" channel cat on a 10lb test line





Wee itty bitty cat



Master angler white bass



And another decent sized cat



Had two others break my line 10' from the dock so that sucked, but all in all a productive 90 minutes of fishing. Caught my smallest and biggest cats ever!

bongwizzard posted:

The generic term is "bladed jig". It is less of a jig and more of a spinnerbait/squarebill crank hybrid and and can take the place of both. Z-Man invented them and holds the patent, but there are a ton of other versions out there, many better than the original.

I, being old and out of touch, did not know about the porn site of almost the same name until last winter when I first got interested in the lure. That was a real interesting typo.

A Pack of Kobolds posted:

I caught this 11" son of a bitch on a Ned Rig in a park in the middle of Seattle, and I can finally post in this thread! I am very proud, and very grateful to Mssr. Bongwizzard for turning me on to the Ned Rig. It catches hella bass and the occasional trout, too!

On Saturday I'm going to the coast to stand in the surf to fish for Red Tails. I am so loving excited to get back in my waders.

A Pack of Kobolds posted:

I am ordering squid jigs today! I'm considering picking up a spotlight or something at Harbor Freight as well. In addition to being delicious, squid are good surfperch bait. As are razor clam feet. gently caress I want razor clams now.

gay picnic defence posted:

I'd take a squid jig in the thumb over treble hooks any day of the week

What brand of jigs are popular in the states?

Trauma Dog 3000 posted:

the downside is that you have to eat squid

A Pack of Kobolds posted:

I got skunked surf fishing on Saturday, but it was nice to get out in the waves. I need to get better at reading the water; I don't think I'm finding the troughs between the breakers where they like to hang out. I'm going razor clamming next weekend and my buddy and I are going to try again to get some red tails. This is quickly becoming obsession for me: they're delicious, the season is year round, and the limit is ten per day. The day I limit I will open some nice whiskey or something.

So to cleanse the bad taste of getting skunked on Saturday, on Sunday morning I went back to my pier at Green Lake and caught hella bass again. It was wet but not cold, and I caught so many small bass that I didn't bother recording most of them.


This smallmouth fought really hard. It was barely dawn so the pic sucks, but the fish was gorgeous.


This motherfucker. This motherfucker here. 11.5", 22oz. Washington has a cutoff where you're allowed 5 to keep bass per day, but only if under 12" except one of them (and only one) can be over 17". This one just barely counted, and I'm eating this motherfucker for dinner tonight.

I totally understand Bongwizzard's disinclination toward eating bass, but my lake is lousy with them and I fish to fill the freezer as much as I fish for sport. The little ones go back to get big, and the big ones come home with me. Also speaking of freshwater fish to eat, what kind of rig setup does one use to catch trout in a lake? I've only done so by accident, but I'd love to make city trout a regular part of my diet.

bongwizzard posted:

If there is a management plan in place then just do what they say, most spots around me are managed to remove small/medium bass, your lake seems to be all about that trout;

If they are managing for trout then getting rid of bigger bass makes sense.