Yup

I grew up in Eastern KS. We used to sein crawdads out of a couple of very select farm ponds. Those big ,soft, green hawger crawdads were like candy to big catfish in the river and big ponds.

It better be ****ing nice this weekend :cuss:


I don't care if it rains i just want it over 60 degrees

Same in western kansas, I've caught many catfish with crawdaddies



**** yeah.

I have two tournaments this weekend - and haven't even tested the boat yet! Time to get rigging!

A fishing thread, on a football forum . . . who'da thought?

Anyway, I was a conventional bass fisherman for about three decades, even fished a few pro-am bass tourneys back when I lived in STL. Biggest bass I ever caught was out of Grand Lake in OK, oh, had to be in '91 or '92. She was caught on a red crawfish Bomber A off a floating dock during a full moon. She ended up weighing 10 lbs. 8 oz.

About 15 years ago, whenI moved to AZ, I took the leap into fly-fishing, and really haven't looked back. Mostly I fish for trout:

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Nicely done !

I admire fly-fisherman its a true art. Me I like to night fish and early dawn get what i can get but other than last year in New Mexico i don't do much of trout fishing and Kansas can kiss my ass to buy a trout stamp so I don't in Kansas.

Thanks. The hard part is learning how to cast. The arm mechanics are so different from conventional casting it took me months to teach myself to cast acceptably, and a few years before I was considered an expert.

Fortunately, I found that gamefish behavior is fairly similar, regardless of species. So trout behavior isn't that different from bass behavior; they're just more choosy and spook easier.

Damned hobby is expensive though. I fish in WY, MT, AZ, CO, UT, and NM. That's about $500 in annual fishing licenses every year.

You're the Man, Mr Megatron... thanks for sharing those pics

Welcome to the board!

Yes indeed. He really is. Beautiful fish and I'm happy it's Spring! Love to browse this thread and see what everyone's catching. Hoping I'll get a chance to get down to the White River and get a big 'ol brown trout here soon.

Would love to fish the White. Take some pics please. Shoulda fished it when I still lived back there.

It's a great spot. And the next lunker I hook is gonna be put up in this thread.

Been watching this dude on youtube called Creek Fishing Adventures, 80% of what he does is try to find the biggest fish in the tiniest bodies of water... you look where he is casting and are just going WTF no way anything worth catching is in that puddle

Couple casts later and he is pulling beautiful 2-3 pound bass out it... so I went to the tiny town creek inspired by that and caught my first creek chub

It was huge for the species, big around as a full size cigar, not a sexy fish but just to see such a great example of one in that shallow, dirty creek was awesome

I still wanna hunt those 5 pound bass, but it's fun as hell to see what's possible in the smallest of streams...

Thanks Easy. With any luck I'll post a few pics here regularly. Should be going fishing next week.