speaking of fishing

“Easiest fishing I've ever seen. Better than fishing with explosives.

Worksafe vid”

“Only 23 days until trout season starts!”

“Last Saturday in April for us---although there are a few streams that stay open all year.”

“I'm getting a license tomorrow and hitting some catch and release streams this weekend. The official trout season opens in mid April, but these waters are open all year. I don't think the fishing will be that great, but I'll try it and combine it with a hike just in case the fishing is really off.”

“Man, they won't be stocking a lot of the High Sierra lakes this year. They eat endangered tadpoles.”

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This is what it's all about!


Yea Baby!
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These were the biggest trout we caught last year. This year I'm catching the big Brown dammit!
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“Roseymonster,

They quit stocking most High Sierra lakes a few years ago. I heard it was a combination of endangering other species as well as restoring the lakes to their original being (those that had fish will and those that were sterile will not). : (

Once you find the good fishing lakes you should keep it to yourself.”

“Those photos spilled the beans.”

“At least you have high altitude lakes that support trout. Almost all of the lakes in the Adirondacks above 3500' are too acidic to support trout thanks to being down wind of the Midwest. Most of these lakes will never support trout again in my lifetime because there are little or no minerals that will neutralize the acids naturally.”

“On the plus side there are still a few lakes that contain strands of trout that are native to the Adirondacks only. They have not crossed with any fish that were stocked. Catching stocked fish is fun, but there is something about reeling in a native trout.”

“Sorry to hear that news about the Dacks. I just figured the east was far better off than the west. I'm originally from the Ozarks and really miss the fishing there.

I would rather not catch planters. There is nothing like native trout, but they are getting harder and harder to consistently find. My 2nd favorite fly-fishing stream was contaminated when a railroad car tipped over spilling Round-Up in the river and killing ALL LIFE for 20 miles all the way to the lake.”

“One of the good things about fly fishing in PA. is the the abundant wild trout here. There are so many streams that hold wild trout that I don't even bother fishing for stocked fish. There's just nothing like catching a wild trout in a backcountry stream to me. This year the fish commission has started a program designed to even enhance the wild brook trout fishing by designating some streams and entire watersheds to catch and release fishing of wild brook trout. Other species aren't on the list, but only brown trout will reproduce naturally in PA. and we have some nice wild browns too. They are harder to catch and if I do nab a nice one I really enjoy it before I let him go for someone else to catch.”

“Check out the pics!!!!!!



World-record bass boated in California
Largemouth tips scale to 25.1 pounds, then is released back into Dixon Lake
By Brett Pauly
ESPNOutdoors.com senior editor — March 20, 2006


He may have released her, but his intentions were good. Now the question beckons: Will Mac Weakley be rewarded with a world record for this 25.1-pound largemouth bass he boated early Monday in southern California.CARLSBAD, Calif. — "Chaos has broken out."

Well, what do you expect when you notify the media that you boated a potential world-record bass?

That was the story at the home of Mac Weakley, who early Monday caught a largemouth on tiny Dixon Lake in southern California that he and his long-time fishing partner Jed Dickerson weighed out at 25.1 pounds on a hand-held digital scale.

If that weight stands up it would shatter what is considered to be the granddaddy of angling records — the 22¼-pound largemouth bass taken in 1932 at Georgia's Montgomery Lake by George Washington Perry.

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/fishing/news/story?page=f_fea_bass_world-record_Weakley_25.1”

“OMG....that is one big fish!!!!!!!!...I'm gonna need a bigger hook!!!!”

“Possibly pen raised.

Reminds me of a photo I saw awhile back of an 11' long, 120 pound rattlesnake discovered here in WNC, it had been pen raised having been fed an entire chicken each day for years.
last edited: 3/21/06 6:29:42 AM”

“That fish looked like it was loaded with eggs.”

“I got in the freezer the other day (it's a big freezer) and saw some year and half old stinky shrimp and thought it's almost time for the cat fish to start going crazy. Can't wait!”

“11 days until trout season starts.”

“Now the real chalenge would have been if he caught it on a size 22 Adams with a 6X tippet.”

“Can someone translate what Outamatches just posted? 8D”

“Translation: a teeny tiny floating insect pattern thingy tied to a teeny tiny diameter fishing line thingy.”

“Hooked to a fly rod.
Good description nonconformist. Lol.”

“speaking of fishing there is a backpacking and fishing trip scheduled for the first weekend in May for Cranberry Wilderness, West Virginia





sigh - I got to do something to stir up interest in this trip”

“While everyone was sitting at home eating dinner, I was out putting my time in and it paid off.

I caught this little guy from a local stream that’s open to trout fishing all year. I also caught another about the same size as well as a 16” sucker (garbage). Just thought I’d share the picture with you.”

“Nice catch lz!”

“send pic of Sucker

Must be the Kayderoseseseseseseseseses


But seriously if you get to visit a Gander Mountain (Utica, Syracuse, Watertown Platts Burgh, Middletown)

You will fall in love with their Pack Rod I think what makes it so good is that the tip is lite but the lowerhalf is doesnt have so much flex”

“Ditto what nimrod said.


One of the things I like about mine (assuming nimrod and I have the same one) is that the butt section of each end is rubber tipped so it stays together when assembled and the pieces don't twist so you have one eye facing north while another eye faces south.
I took a trip to Canada one year with my dad after he bought a new pack rod.....I forget the manufacturer....he assembled it and then did a little false casting motion to show me what the action was like....the end section came flying off and landed somewhere in the woods never to be seen again. I laughed my arse off!
last edited: 3/30/06 7:05:14 PM”

“nimrod are you local?

Sorry no pic of the sucker. It did put up a pretty good fight though. It jumped out of the water at least once and had my rod doubled over as I reeled it in. Although so did the little brown.

If I make it up to Plattsburgh, I'll have to make a stop in Gander Mountain. I wish they still did mail order.
last edited: 3/30/06 7:04:55 PM”

“yummilicious!”

“Nice trout and I caught a few about that size a couple of weeks ago on a local creek, but they were brook trout. I'm expecting the fishing to get much better now with the warmer temps we have and especially when the mayflies start hatching. My guess is that they have started to hatch and I'll find out for sure when I go out and fish this weekend. Last time I fished there were some little brown stoneflies in the air, but I didn't see any fish picking them off the water when they flew into the surface film. I think at that time the water was still too cold.”

“Just got back from fishing today. I caught 11, with 3 keepers, and my stepfather caught 2, both keepers. A couple of nice big black crappie, couple of good-sized bream, and a largemouth bass. It was a good day.”

“WTF is a bream? a sunfish? crappie? rock bass? anything that's not a trout?”

“"Bream" is a generic term for any small sunfish. To be more specific, I caught a bluegill and a shellcracker (also known as the redear sunfish).”

“bah!
then call it a bluegill ya darn rednecks”

“The real question is, does he pronounce it "bream" or "brim"?”

“After 5 or 6 shots the 7th is a Jim Bream.”

“Those are some funny looking trout Bit.”

“largemouth-crappie-crappie-pumpkinseed- sunfish


joker joker joker”

“so if someone wanted to go fishing in the ocean, is the morning or afternoon better?
Do you think a half a day would be long enough?”

“Next week I'm going paddling on a lake that has rainbow stocked in it but am not sure which bait would work best this time of year? I'm wanting to go with a Lindy Rig and some type of live bait. Worms? Minnows? Berk Powerbait? What do you use?”

“I suggest that you ask at a local bait shop in the area. But better, would be a barbershop nearby. Then, for a second opinion, there may be a fire station, a police station, a drug store or a town square. Don't ask any fishermen at the lake, although they never lie.

Good luck.
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“trolling a lake clear wobbler and worm is pretty tried and true”

“Speaking of fishing. Two of my buds and myself headed out to the salt marshes of Louisiana this morning way before daylight. We launched under the light of the moon and headed to the cuts and reefs that we knew would fish. We caught 54 speckled trout and 10 white trout. It was a great day to be on the water, shirt sleeve weather and overcast sky. Pelicans and gulls swarmed us like dive bombers all day. They were after the same thing the fish were after to gorge themselves with shrimp. Where you see birds there is shrimp, where there is shrimp there are trout. After cleaning my share of the catch a while ago I battered and fried a few. Oh my god!!! Nothing beats fresh trout! Chased with 4 mugs of Shiner Bock they are now swimming in beer! Wish you guys were here.”

“Sounds great, I wish I were there too! We are impatiently waiting for the local area lakes to turn over. Once that happens, it's toplining baby!”

“Trout season opened 2 weeks ago, but I got out for the first time over the weekend Saturday and Sunday. So far the water is still cold (49 degrees) and while mayflies were out, not many on the small mountain stream I was on. I saw a few rises here and there and caught some fish, but until the water warms up they aren't really feeding in numbers yet on the surface. I was using dry flies in early season patterns, Adams, pheasant tails and blue wing olives, etc. Anyone else out there catching trout?”

“I might get out this coming weekend. I'm hoping ice out has happened on most of the ponds by then. I'd like to put the canoe in the water and do some trolling.”

“hendricksons will start around here in a couple weeks. then it's go time!”