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Went to gently caress around at a local lake with a couple buddies and some tiny ugly stik dock runner combos. Caught zero crappie or blue gill, but a 5lb catfish, two 5lb bowfins, and an unending tide of 2lb large mouth bass made the day exciting as hell. That 4lb test those rods come with can take a beating before it snaps. I also caught a literal half pound bass on a 1/4 ounce spoon I found in the road. Great day, we're going back in less than a week. Regardless of groupthink, hot pink rooster tails can absolutely annihilate bowfin. Good god.
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We're going back tomorrow and I have procured about 30 bucks in spoons and rooster tails. I'm coming out with a ten pound bowfin I swear to god
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titties posted:So like 3 roster tails and 2 spoons A half dozen rooster tails and 3 spoons, but yeah. poo poo is way more expensive than I remember it being. Nailed another 5lb bowfin, somehow got a lot of 1-2lb catfish, and my buddy nailed a 6lb bass on a weird spinner bait looking thing. It looked absolutely wild in the water. Action shots from Monday and wednesday:    
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Jun 15, 2023 20:32
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titties posted:I had never even seen a bowfin until a couple years ago when i found 2 of them left on the rocks, holed by spear or arrows and left to die. I'd really like to catch one, if only for the novelty. A jackhammer chatter bait in nuclear orange.  I hope you find a good sized bowfin, they fight like fish twice their size. On a three foot rod it is a thrill unlike any other.
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Jun 16, 2023 21:33
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Ghostnuke posted:more like updogg The ones that taste like updogg have a lot of ligma to them too
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Jun 21, 2023 20:48
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I am the bowfin king of Virginia Beach
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Jun 22, 2023 00:21
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Sarah Cenia posted:eyyyyy nice Right off the causeway in stumpy lake, I'm there with a friend or two twice a week. That one was a gold 1/4oz spoon on the tiny rod.
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Jun 22, 2023 14:55
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I may or may not have been presented with the opportunity to go offshore fishing with the tiny rods. I now have 30lb test and a 4000 series reel on them. poo poo is gonna get real come September. E: I also got handed a rainbow spinning reel and dick spoons off of temu. Look at this poo poo. 
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Jun 23, 2023 01:47
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Sarah Cenia posted:oh, cool. i used to live around pembroke and tried fishing lake smith a few times, but only ever caught a baby bass. I don't know how people catch stuff from the shore there. Always meant to check out stumpy lake tho Shore fishing lake Smith is awful, I believe you when you say you got skunked outside of a baby bass. The only good shore fishing at stumpy is off the causeway on the left hand side halfway down. It's on the backside with no boat access and it gets 12-14ft deep in the center channel. Pretty easy to pull in decent sized fish as long as you are persistent with what you throw. I've managed to get catfish off of baby spinners there, even. If you've got the time and are still close enough, run on down with the micro rod and some active baits. You'll catch something, even if it's not what you want to catch. I've somehow lucked into three free kayaks though so I will soon not be on the shore. I am excited.
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Jun 27, 2023 03:17
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titties posted:My dad had 2 two-seat and 2 single sit-ins. He developed a frozen shoulder which he wouldn't go to the doctor for, decided he was never kayaking again, and gave all 4 of them away for free to one of the old rummies that are always orbiting around him. The old rummy has never used them. Your dad seems highly inconsiderate to me, like if it's time to get rid of something because you can't use it, it is always best to talk to the gift giver and see if they want it back. Have you tried talking to the old friend and asking for a kayak? If that doesn't work, and you still live near Vb/Norfolk I'd be more than happy to let you borrow a yak any time you want to blow up a river. This offer applies to all local goons, I have 3 yaks but only 2 feet, ya know?
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Jun 28, 2023 16:00
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A buddy and I took the ten foot and twelve foot fishing kayaks out today. After not going for a decade, kayaking is kind of hard. drat my arms hurt but I had a good time and caught a truckload of perch on a red and white crappie setup. 10/10 would go again
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Jul 4, 2023 01:05
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Pitre posted:Woo! Caught me a new rig at the bottom of the lake. That's one of the best catches I've ever seen, what is that, a six footer from a kayak?
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Jul 14, 2023 15:47
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Yet another evening fishing, yet another evening where I'm the only one that caught a drat thing. Everything was flooded and extra murky, so I went for hot pink and silver. Immediately started pulling in 1lb bass and bowfin, then I found some schools of white crappie and perch. There were four other people with me. It was wonderful.
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Jul 16, 2023 14:51
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I've been using a 4000 series reel on an ugly stik dock runner for a while, but the size of the thing is rubbing the gently caress out of my line guides and introducing a lot of twist to the line. Does anyone have a recommendation under 50 bucks for a reasonably sized reel with a max drag around 15lbs?
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Jul 17, 2023 21:43
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joem83 posted:That rod appears to be rated for 4-8 lb line, why do you need 15 lbs of drag? Maybe your money would be better spent on a new rod instead? There is nothing more thrilling on this planet than wrestling in a fish larger than your rod. I refuse to compromise on my 3 foot nothing indestructible stupid rod DoctaFun posted:What type of fish are you catching? 15 pounds of drag is like so infrequently needed unless you are ocean fishing, so I wouldn’t get caught up on drag numbers too much. There’s a guy on YouTube who does like in depth reel reviews and tear downs, and he always says something like ‘20# of drag will turn a tuna around’, not sure if that’s true, but he always downplays the ‘max drag’ advertising and warns people against tightening your drag all the way. Every fish possible. Largest I've seen on these tiny rods in person is a 12lb catfish and it looked absolutely wild. This fall I'm chartering a boat with some buddies and we will all be using dock runners in various configurations, with actually reasonable rods as backups if (when) we manage to snap one. I said 15lbs drag as a ballpark, most of the reasonable sized reels I can find for this thing top out at 6lbs of drag, which is a good recipe for binding the reel and snapping the 10lb mono I'm running if I actually try to crank it down to keep a fish from running back into cover. I'll check the smaller size daiwa reels, thanks for the recommendations.
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Jul 18, 2023 02:19
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DoctaFun posted:Catching fish on underpowered gear is a blast, so definitely get that. This is a very valid critique, I appreciate it. The great thing is that the fights don't last any longer than with reasonable sized gear with the fish we have available, everything just feels like Nessie when it hits. I'd be highly pissed to see someone hook into an 80 lb catfish or something with these things, because the reels 100% would extend the fight dramatically with such a large fish. Which is bad. Catch and release should be done as fast as feasible, otherwise the resource gets depleted. That guy that caught the sturgeon is an rear end, full stop. It's not about dick measuring, it's about extracting all the fun you can while being sustainable.
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Jul 22, 2023 02:47
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I went crappie fishing
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Charliegrs posted:If you caught that on a crappy rod it must have been a lot of fun. Technically a kiddie pole, it was wonderful and wholly unexpected, because I did indeed just want crappie for dinner. Blew up a pink paddletail crappie jig 2ft from shore, then sent my drag screaming into some lily pads. Less than a minute later I got that 3-4ish pounder in my hands. 10/10, would do again. i caught nothing else though
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Jul 25, 2023 01:30
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i went bass fishing i don't think im good at targeting fish
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Jul 26, 2023 02:07
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Charliegrs posted:Channel cats are like the bass of catfish Yeah I'm too impatient to leave a rod in the water with something rigged up for them, so it's always a nice surprise when I pull one in. They really seem to like white, every single one I've pulled in this summer has been on something white/silver. That one legit pulled me in the water a couple steps, it was a fight and a half on the tiny rod. It also hit my buddy in the balls on the grab, it was wonderful but it meant I didn't get my own picture with it.
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Jul 26, 2023 07:06
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Fish aren't real Wake up sheeple
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Sarah Cenia posted:thought I was the only one in this thread. feels like the past 6 times fishing I haven't even gotten a nibble. Decided to throw a frog into some pads since they were moving like the grass in Jurassic Park, got the only bite of the day but I didn't get a good hook set out of it. Sweated my balls off the rest of the day, now I'm convinced it was a game Warden with a snorkel loving with me. First time I've been skunked in a decade, felt bad man
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Jul 31, 2023 22:09
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 breaking news, i am a fish
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I hate trees, that was a 1/4 oz jig head traveling fast enough to whistle on it's way through my skull
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Well it looks like I'm getting a reel upgrade from a buddy. I got him a Lew's carbon fire 2000 reel for his birthday to put on his tiny rod, and he's giving me some sort of weird reel from a brand I've never heard of. I think he called it a "favorite fishing phantom" spinning reel. Y'all ever heard of it?
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Took my partner fishing for the first time in her life, and I'm so proud of her. She ended up nailing a baby large mouth, a channel cat, and the first pumpkinseed I've ever seen come out of this lake in less than 2 hours. She had the fight of her life on her hands with that channel cat on an ultralight crappie setup with 4lb line. She is excited to go again. She brought a book and never opened it.
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murk posted:Just getting started again after like 20+ years. Previous experience was basically only catching pan fish. I don't really remember any of the details lol. I currently have 2 x Zebco 33 spincasters from a previous single attempt at fishing about 5 - 7 years ago. That line is probably in the 6lb test region. Age has probably not been kind to it. Walmart sells a decent ugly stik gx2 combo in the size you are looking for for 50 bucks or so, I'd recommend that if you don't want to get weird with it. If you do want to get weird with it, an ugly stik dock runner rod is hilarious fun when pond hopping. Put 10lb mono on it and let it rip.
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I traded one of my kayaks for a 10ft pond prowler, 40lb minnkota, and frankly giant deep cycle marine battery. I think I did pretty good. Inaugural trip is scheduled for tomorrow. I am wildly excited.
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Sickening posted:The weaknesses of those kind of boats are mostly that they are hard to transport because they are heavy af and they do even worse in the wind than kayaks. Otherwise, its a great platform. It feels way lighter than the 12 foot kayak that I traded for it. It's also only for when I've got another person with me, otherwise I'm taking out the 10 foot fishing kayak. Wind is gonna suck, but that's what anchors are for. Going to burn up stumpy lake all day tomorrow. I'm gonna need more beer.
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Sickening posted:The weaknesses of those kind of boats are mostly that they are hard to transport because they are heavy af and they do even worse in the wind than kayaks. Otherwise, its a great platform. Basically no wind all day, I really felt the 105 degree heart index. Boat went amazingly well even when towing two idiots in kayaks. With the heat the way it was I came prepared for the poo poo bite, I was the only one to catch anything until the evening because of the much looked down upon secret technique of "nightcrawlers and a bobber" All I caught all day was 2lb catfish, but I caught a bunch of em. Bringing a cooler full of ice next time drat
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Captain Toasted posted:Is there an actual reason why people look down on this? It catches fish, I'm there to catch fish, why would I not use the technique that catches fish? The most stated reason is "bass fishing takes skill unlike what you are doing" Can't get it through their tough rear end heads that with it being so abysmally hot anything you throw that's large or moves too much is unlikely to get a hit in a lake that maxes out at 7ft deep. The nightcrawler is catching literally everything in the lake from 5lb channel cats to 4lb bass. They just don't like putting away the knowledge that googan squad has imparted upon them from *checks notes* fishing stocked ponds in Florida or whatever
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Sarah Cenia posted:what is it like to be able to see a fish in the water you're fishing?
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My buddy lucked into another boat, this time it's a small Jon boat with a decent outboard on it. Help me convince him we need to put the motor on the pond prowler.
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Ambassadorofsodomy posted:More details. It's a 6hp mercury outboard, and it's options are a tippy 14ft Jon boat or a super stable 10ft pond prowler. By itself the motor cost more than we paid for the whole boat, including a nice net and like 5 decent knives we found with the life vests. The pond prowler already has a nice 40lb trolling motor and marine battery, so putting the outboard on it feels like a no brainer for being able to jet around lakes like big boys while still having the ability to slide through areas quietly. He wants to have two separate boats though, for no stated reason, because between the two of us we only have one vehicle that can tow. I want to make wakes with a pond prowler
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Southern Cassowary posted:nieces went out on the dock fishing tonight and the four year old hooked into a legit 3-4 pound bass on one of those little 10 dollar 3 foot pink walmart jobs we put a speed worm on. she cast like three feet from the dock and says "i think i'm hooked on something" then her rod twitches. her sister helped her reel it in and everyone ran down to look and we took pictures, was awesome. Those things are solid fiberglass and will put up with a lot more than you'd think, I exclusively use a dock runner to fish freshwater and it hasn't failed me yet. My partner has recently boat flipped a 3lber with one, it's great.
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Rated PG-34 posted:Anyone buy tackle on Temu? Seems like I could save a decent chunk of change by ordering from there. Everything is cheap but works. I'd avoid the rods and reels, but the line is Good Enough even though it's dirt cheap. I bought jig heads in bulk from temu, which means any time I hook into a bass with one I get to add to the collection of hooks that have been bent straight lol The soft plastics, the chatterbaits, and the frogs are an incredible value though. Would recommend.
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A big ole warm front came through a couple days ago, so I decided to spend the afternoon bank fishing around the points of some inlets I absolutely destroyed bass and somehow a crappie with a big rear end rattletrap Why did you hit that, crappie It's half the size of you
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Sarah Cenia posted:I got an ugly stik dock runner and a 14' cane pole yessssss another one joins the flock Dockrunner Uber alles
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Also: it was way too cold to throw on the waders today Did it anyway My balls have receded and a carp hit me in the chest
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