speaking of fishing

“From what I read on Central PA. stream reports, the Green Drake hatch on Penn's creek is over. At least it wasn't mentioned from what I saw so I'm assuming it's over. I did notice that the limestone streams out there (Penn's and Elk Creek) are low as well.”

“the green drakes should be starting in the southern adks soon”

“There's a smaller catch and release stream around here that has small green drake hatch each year, but it's so low now it's hopeless fishing it. I tried it and the fish scatter when you a approach each pool. They can see and detect movement from long distances with the water this low. I knew it would be bad, but gave it try anyway.”

“the fishing this year reminds me of the dry year we had about 5 years ago.

better than average fishing in april (we open april 1) and first half of may, but then pretty rotten through most of the summer.”

“I'm having a hard time catching keeper bream. They're all small. But I guess I just gotta keep tryin'!”

“Hey yall, whats the length of your poles?

I am looking at em online (i used to do a lot of fly fishing back in CA) andI am wondering what sized pole most people get.
last edited: 6/10/05 9:50:51 AM”

“9' foot is probably the most common.

depends on what you wanna do though.”

“Oh great, now everyone's gonna be bragging about how long their poles are...”

“nothing to brag about when it's only about 1/2" diameter”

“Quite the opposite here in the west. Most streams in S. Utah are so swollen with record snowmelt that streams are dark brown and over thier banks. Not the greatest for flyfishing but I hear the kayaking is awesome.”

“...yeah but ultimately there's a lot to be said for the flexability...a flexible rod allows you to get into really tight places....”

“SC..
Length and wt of a pole really depends on the type of fish you want to catch.

For trout or panfish. A 3wt thru a 5 wt are your best bet, length is generally an 8'6" thru a 9' 2"

Bass, Northern or Walleye's is a 6wt thru a 9wt, generally anything close to 9' is good.

Check out Orvis or G Loomis web sites. Lots of good info to read thru.”

“sure thing pakratz, I will :)”

“i think the best site out there is www.flyanglersonline.com

you could spend months navigating and reading everything on it.

use the menu's on the left side”

“I see they have a good section on knots :) I remember having trouble with those~”

“for fly fishing

they are also having a grand opening of their new museum this month.

I have caught 3 missouri rainbows, all keepers and eaters...had the last one the other evening. Heading out to hopefully catch more this weekend.

Trout have been awsome this year.”

“come on over skik and I'll throw wm on the grill! (drooling) I havent had trout since I moved out here lol”

“The length of fly rod I use is based on the type of stream I'm trout fishing in. For small grown in streams I use a 6.5 foot rod. For streams that aren't as grown in and a little larger and 8 foot and larger water a 9 foot rod.”

“7 nice rainbows...4 on the mini caster that I have, and 3 on the fly rod at camp on Sat evening, 1 small mouth bass on the caster. I used the casting rod as I floated...now that was FUN!!! new meaning to "lolligagging".
last edited: 6/12/05 9:43:26 PM”

“great haul!

Too rainy for fishing here this weekend. Dammit.”

“Sounds like a good day of fishing. I had a pretty good day Saturday and managed to catch and release a bunch of brook trout on dry flies in a backcountry stream. The action tailed off about 11 AM as it got hot out, but in the morning they were rising well enough in some of the deeper pools. The water was low everywhere else though. Warm too, with the water temp at 68, I was surprised I caught anything on top.
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“but that takes time. and so does canoeing, so, I've got a bit of a conflict. take less gear, set up and tear down will be less time consuming so that I can fly fish more, or leave it like it is and have less time to fly fish, but have a wickedly cool camp site and do minimal fly fishing and more casting from the canoe while floating...

such ponderous problems should plague us all.”

“over the last couple years i've done a complete turn around. i used be 80% canoe fishing for bass, 20% flyfishing for trout.

now i'm nearly all flyfishing.

i don't catch as many fish, but the scenery is so much nicer. the saying is absolutely true "trout live in beautiful places"”

“but, since I'm new at fishing and the river is abundant with trout, I can catch em while I float. Lots of people use corn, I caught mine on an orange "rooster tail". The largest trout of the day was a 15"er. It was a great haul. That one I caught on the fly rod whilst at sunset time after setting up camp. I was slow cooking some ribs at the time over the camp fire and I waded out to the center of the chute I was camping at the began the process and landed it within 15 minutes. I got it on a nymph with a gold bead head.”

“that's cool that you've got a river to float with good trout fishin.

the trout river near me can be floated too, but it's not as productive that way. sometimes i do it with my little old town otter kayak.

the other river is great fishing for bass, panfish, walleye, and tigermuskie and it's perfect for floatfishing but the scenery along it is just not as nice.”

“No fish tale: Thais catch 646-pound fish "... believed to have been the world's largest freshwater fish ever recorded."”

“and how funny is it that it died while environmentalists were "negotiating" is release. freaking envirinmentalists...they butt their heads in and things get wrapped up in red tape.”

“

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fishermen in northern Thailand have caught the biggest catfish on record -- a 646-pound (293-kg) giant the size of a grizzly bear -- and eaten it, the WWF and the National Geographic Society said on Wednesday.

The giant catfish, believed to be the largest freshwater fish ever found, was caught along the Mekong River, home to more species of massive fish than any river on Earth.

"We've now confirmed that this catfish is the current record holder, an astonishing find," Dr Zeb Hogan, a WWF Conservation Science Fellow, said in the joint statement.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&e=2&u=/nm/20050629/sc_nm/environment_fish_dc”

“Set your date range to 2days V. You've been scooped.”

“I don't see it. Not that damn bitpusher again?”

“MMMMM catfish steaks!

This is awesome. I've heard of divers seeing fish like while diving around dams.
There is so much that we as mankind have no clue about. I'd really like to know what secrets our oceans truely hold.”

“I didn't post the picture because of the copyrights on it.”

“does anyone know what the law is for fishing in New York State?
kids?
adults?”

“You are not allowed to chum with kids. Dynamite is still ok.”

“What about hand grenades?”

“Expensive. You have to have a Federal permit to own a hand grenade. Dynamite is still a lot easier to get.”

“thank you bit!!
thats what i thought
for our vacation on the island in the Daks next week”

“yw. At least I am good for something.”

“Mapleleaf, I believe the law is that anyone under the age of 14 does not need a license.


This site should answer all your questions.
http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/fish/fishregs/fishlicense.html

oops didn't see bits link.
last edited: 8/12/05 11:48:18 AM”

“Who Needs a License?
Everyone must have a valid fishing license in their possession while fishing, except:

Persons under 16 years of age.

works for me. heck we will be on an island. we will see them before they see us
LOL”

“Caught 8 yesterday, kept 3. Biggest was a nice fat shellcracker. The bite seems to be picking up a little, and from what I've heard, it's even better if you can get in a boat and out over deep water.”

“Geezr just posted a few fishing photos. He seems strangely proud of his catch:









OK, OK. The real photo is here: http://community.webshots.com/photo/331899001/420572500gINPgd”

“Some blues and Spanish mackerel?

Hey, the little ones are really hard to catch because they can't take the whole hook in their mouths.”

“In 5 days I will be deep in the bighorns catching 24 inch cutthroats....”

“Muskie record smells fishy, group says Would a fisherman lie?”

“Ok soo the records stands ,no problem until after the guys is dead and then everybody starts questioning the record?!By the way they are calling him a liar and all that,it sounds like somebody is trying to get back at him for something in the past. Sounds like a hollow revenge to me! I dont think its the record that sounds fishy!LOL”

“Double-Mouthed Fish Pulled From Neb. Lake
By Associated Press
2 hours ago

LINCOLN, Neb. - This fish didn't have a chance. A rainbow trout pulled out of Holmes Lake last weekend had double the chance to get hooked: It had two mouths.

Clarence Olberding, 57, wasn't just telling a fisherman's fib when he called over another angler to look at the two-mouthed trout. It weighed in at about a pound.

"I reached down and grabbed it to take the hook out, and that's when I noticed that the hook was in the upper mouth and there was another jaw protruding out below," said Olberding.

He said in his 40 years of fishing, he's never seen anything like it.

Don Gabelhouse, head of the fisheries division of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, said a two-mouthed fish was new to him, too.

"It's probably a genetic deformity," he said. "I don't think there's anything wrong with it."

The second mouth didn't appear to be functional, Olberding said. He has plans for the fish, which don't included mounting.

"I'm going to smoke it up and eat it," he said.”

“Is that a sign of too much pollution?”

“No, but it's a definite sign that it was a female fish.”