fishing

Brett · Post by **Brett** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 1:30 pm

Just thought id start a thread to see how many of us go fishing n what type of fishing do u all do.

Me i fish all ways but mostly i love to fly fish and only on running waters, cant beat the country air a smallish shallow bubbling stream or river n wild brownies

KatoFong · Post by **KatoFong** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 1:37 pm

When I'm home, I've been known to go fishing in the back bay with my mom's husband. Caught a flounder last year, which became a lovely dinner the next day.

Billy Joe Jim Bob · Post by **Billy Joe Jim Bob** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 3:05 pm

Back in the day it was all about trout, now I'm hooked (pun intended) on Big Game fishing. Ain't nothin like a Blue Marlin to start your morning. Problem is time and $ to chase the big guys. More often than not, me and the youngin's chase Bass and panfish around in local lakes...BJJB

Virginia Gentleman · Post by **Virginia Gentleman** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 3:48 pm

All kinds of fishing for me, from taking the kids to a farm pond to catch sunnies to serious fly fishing for trout and smallies on the streams and rivers of the Appalachians. Got into fly fishing about 4 years ago, and am still a beginner, but I love it. Love salt water fishing too, but mainly light tackle and surf casting. Personal trophy was the 8 lb. rainbow I caught in Ga. a few years ago on Duke's Creek, a tributary of the Chattahoochee.

Post by **Tater** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:13 pm

mt trout and deep sea fishing are my favorites. like catfishin as well either by pole or jug fishin

Post by **Grayson_Stewart** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:22 pm

I'm all about bass fishing....largemouth and spotted bass on the Coosa River chain.....so much so, I bought a bass boat for my midlife crisis

rectifier · Post by **rectifier** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:28 pm

I troll for things... Cod and salmon on the sea, mainly lake trout inland.

The fish in the sea are a lot better prizes, but I much prefer lazy trout fishing with a few friends and beer.

Always wanted to get into fly fishing but no good streams nearby

Billy Joe Jim Bob · Post by **Billy Joe Jim Bob** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:31 pm

Here is a thought I found on line. The author is Larry L "A marriage license should be like a fishing license - it expires every year and if you go out of state, you can get a 3 day license. If you think about it, girls and fish have a lot in commom. They are fun to catch, and if you clean and prep them right, most are good to eat. Also, if you decide to mount one, you know it's going to cost you plenty! If you bring one home (no matter how well you treat them) they start going bad and fresh ones are always better. Practice catch and release."...BJJB

bama · Post by **bama** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:09 pm

i like all types of fishin. i have a good sized river in my backyard so ive caught my share of bream crappie and bass. just recently went deep sea fishing. didnt catch anything worthy but it was fun anyway. wouldve been more fun with some shine though.

Josesillo · Post by **Josesillo** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:51 pm

I like all kinds of fishing but mainly do speargun fishing
nothing like going 10 meters under the sea with nothing but your lungs and get a 5 Kg fish (don´t know the names), i spend about 8 hours on the water almost every sunday, i have the advantage of 2 seasons a year so i can go diving even on december.

Virginia Gentleman · Post by **Virginia Gentleman** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 3:58 am

Damn spearfishing, now that I gotta try. Closest I've come, I guess, is "rifle fishing"

It's suprisingly hard to hit a fish, and is actually legal in Va. and a few other states.

Post by **Grayson_Stewart** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 6:52 am

Bow fishing from a boat is alot of fun and a challenge too, but I don't have to hold my breath to do that. Haven't done it in a while.

Spent the night on the lake jig fishing piers and submerged tops and just got back in and about to head to bed. Its way too hot to fish during the day right now, shades trees are hard to find in the middle of the lake.

Virginia Gentleman · Post by **Virginia Gentleman** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 1:21 am

I bet that's a blast, Grayson.

Were you Bass fishing on the lake?

I'm at the beach for a few days, doing a little surf fishing when I can. No luck yest. evening, but the beers were cold and by 7pm the temp was finally bearable. Spot, Spanish, Flounder are hitting so maybe today.

Post by **Grayson_Stewart** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 3:39 am

I'll fish for anything biting, but for enjoyment only. I hate cleaning fish. I really enjoy bass fishing the most. Usually spots and largemouths. I will chase stripes around the dams whenever they are biting good. I'll post a couple pics later this evening.

Post by **Fourway** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 7:50 am

Virginia Gentleman wrote:Closest I've come, I guess, is "rifle fishing" It's suprisingly hard to hit a fish

its hard because of refraction showing you the fish in a different position than it actually is, but it's also hard because bullets (even from extremely high powered weapons) lose lethal velocity and often start to break up after traveling through just a few inches of water.
at three feet or so, shooting at an underwater target is about as effective as dropping gravel on it.

Post by **Grayson_Stewart** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 4:45 pm

My partner and I kept some on this particular day but there's now way I was gonna be bent over cleaning all those fish, I gave them away to a friend who doesn't mind doing that kind of thing. We caught all these and alot more in only 3 hours. We lost count of how many we had in the livewell and started tossing them back, good thing too cause we were only four fish shy of the limit.

For size comparisons, thats a concrete cinder block in the forground of the first pic, don't remember the size of the cooler. The truck is a full sized Ford Lariot.

Virginia Gentleman · Post by **Virginia Gentleman** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:22 am

Grayson, that's a nice haul of stripers there. So those are the land-locked, hybrid stripers right (half striper, half white bass, sterile)? I caught a 12 pound hybrid on a fly rod in a stocked lake once, and it was the ride of a lifetime. Stripers are maybe my favorite eating fish, nice flakey white meat. I also fish for the salt water variety in the Chesapeake Bay and tributaries. In the Spring they run up the rivers here, right after the shad run, and you can fish them in wading in fresh water, which is a blast.

I'm with you on the cleaning, that's why I've been teaching my 2 boys how to do it

Fourway, yup you have to shoot in the shallows and compensate for refraction (depending on the angle you're viewing from), sort of like leading a bird. Polarized glasses help big time. I've only done it a few times, just for the challenge and fun of it along the lines of frog gigging.

Virginia Gentleman · Post by **Virginia Gentleman** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:19 am

If ya'll do any surf casting you've got to check out http://www.fishbites.com/. Their bloodworm imitation is great (just came out this year), caught 20+ fish on them yesterday (spot, flounder, mullet). When bloodworms are in high demand here (like now) they're $10/bag (ridiculous), and are small, poor quality--I won't buy them. Bait shop I go to reccomended the fish bites, and they worked as good or better than bloodworms. $7 a bag, and they last much longer and stay on the hook better. They can't keep them in stock down here. I imagine the guy will become (or already is) a millionaire from this product. He's got lots of other imitations for shore and surf fishing too.

Post by **Grayson_Stewart** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:59 pm

Some are hybrid ( have broken lateral stripes ) and some are true stocked salt water ( have solid lateral lines ). I only do good with the stripes when I'm fishing within a half mile of the dam. Other folks seem to be able to catch them all over the lake but it never seems to work for me.

rectifier · Post by **rectifier** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 8:15 pm

My dad is out buying himself a new electric motor (he's out buying it right now actually...) which should increase the amount of fish we catch and the enjoyment of fishin'... goodbye noisy, stanky old outboard!

there are a few lakes around here where only electric is allowed, so we can check them out now

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 6:54 pm

Virginia Gentleman wrote:All kinds of fishing for me, from taking the kids to a farm pond to catch sunnies to serious fly fishing for trout and smallies on the streams and rivers of the Appalachians.

interesting

Hillbilly Rebel · Post by **Hillbilly Rebel** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 7:34 pm

My grandfather raised 9 kids on a 7 acre pay lake. I don't fish very much anymore. I have a pond in my front yard that I let kids fish in. I occassionally catch a few, not often. I still trout fish once or twice a year. I enjoy frog hunting, but prefer to shoot them rather than gig, but do both. I like to hunt, geese and turkey in that order.

possum · Post by **possum** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 8:20 pm

Catfishing in the susquehannah and juniatia rivers just tickles me fine, but smallmouth in season are fun. I go to(smaller) lakes sometimes and get the largemouth and sunfish.I mostly use bait, and enjoy the occasional troutstream, but my attempts at flyfishing looks like an old lady fighting off a bumble bee with a broomstick.

DBM · Post by **DBM** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 2:13 pm

I fish the gulf of mexico three or four times a month. Between me and my fishing buddy we keep three boats, one for inshore trout, redfish, and castnetting mullet. Another for flats fishing out to 10 or fifteen miles for trout (spotted sea trout) redfish, blackbass, and grouper in cool weather. And the bigist boat for offshore, anywhere from twenty to 100 miles,grouper, snapper, pinkmouth you never know what your gonna catch in the 100+ feet water. We also fish the local lakes and rivers for bream and crappie. I usually make a trip or two to N. Alabama (sipsey river area) and over in the smokies a coupla times a year (usually during hot weather) and last but not least, I have a daughter and sun-in-law that live in Key West, Fla. They have a house there with an extra bedroom that I occupy frequently. Down there I can walk right out the back door and start fishing. One of my other hobbies is making bamboo rods so a lot of my fishing is with a bamboo fly rod (not the offshore fishing though).
I fish a lot.

Post by **Grayson_Stewart** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 3:17 pm

DBM,
Are you fishing for the stocked trout below Smith Lake on those Sipsey area trips? I was raised all along that area but haven't been there since I moved about an hour from home. I hit Logan Martin, Guntersville, Neely Henry, Lay, Wheeler, and Pickwick all the time now. I didn't know you were from around these parts.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 6:52 pm

Perch, Bass, occasional trout here. Got a little 15 footer with a mercury 80hp and a 7hp merc troller. It does a wonderfull job getting about a mile out on the lake to where the water starts clearing to catch some good perch. I like hooking the backs of crayfish and letting them crawl around on the bottoms of the creek mouths that enter Lake Erie (great for Bass). Lots of Rainbow Trout around here too. I usually only use live bait.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 6:55 pm

That was me...

~pothead

Brewmeister · Post by **Brewmeister** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:23 pm

Just been reading through some posts trying to learn a bit more and found this thread - a bit old but thought I would add to it.

I LOVE my fishing - have a 20' boat that I go offshore in chasing the bigguns and try to go as often as I can.

Here is a pic of one of my outings :-

For the uninitiated these fish are called snapper and are excellent eating. They were caught by me and my mate only about 2 miles offfshore.

I love any type of fishing and every year go to Fraser Island (for you non Aussies it is a world heritage listed island off the Queensland sunshinecoast and is sooo close to paradise it's not funny

) I go there for an annual fishing comp and fish off the beach.

Every Xmas I take the family to a terrific spot where we camp and fish every day for 3 weeks (weather permitting that is) and just live off the ocean.

Now I have me still made my holidays will be 'just that much' better for sure

Watershed · Post by **Watershed** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:12 am

I've been taking 6-7lb chub all summer but nothing edible since the brown trout in July. I'm switching rivers this weekend in hope of perch and if that doesn't work I know where I can catch a load of crayfish, should be mushroom season there too.

Most fishing in the Uk these days is dragging an obese ( 30lb or more ) carp out of the water and putting it back again. I've never seen the point

Rebel_Yell · Post by **Rebel_Yell** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:57 am

The striped bass have moved into their fall pattern on the Coosa River...

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