I've never thought of that, but I bet it helps keep it on the hook

You don't really put the hook through their eyeballs, basically it goes behind their eyeballs and around the nasal cavity.

Think of it like a bridge piercing, but for bait.

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Ok I know this isn't much of a bragging sizable skillet fish but I was just glad to get out there for a couple hours anyways. The funny part of this is this ****er took off with my pole off the deck and my son was close by but he didn't get to it in time. He grabbed a net but the pole quickly got out of reach so guess who jumped in the lake after my pole? Me that's who. I took off my shoes and pants and got in about waist high . Freaking water was cold . So I got my pole and reeled in this ****er. I was actually pleased with myself for not being out there very long and catch something. I let him go back in the water.


Did I mention the water was cold?

Tattoo - 1

Catfish - 0

It will have plenty of time to ponder its mistake as it frys to a nice golden brown :D

Reminds me of a few months ago. Took my three year fishing. She hooked a largemouth, maybe close to a pound. It jumped out of the water and scared the Shit out of her. She let go of the pole and off it went into the water. Luckily, the pole floated long enough and was close enough to the shore that I was able to reach in and get it. Cut my hands up on a bunch of rocks reaching for it though.

I'll never forget that trip.

It's time for me to learn jerk baits and plastics. Wacky rigged and what not. Haven't been having much success with my normal tactics.

Wacky rigs are dirt simple

Used it a number of times and have yet to have any luck, but a lot of people swear by it

I havent been out in over a month, but there are a dozen nightcrawlers in the fridge that need to go soon

Speaking of nightcrawlers. Bought some to take my three year old daughter fishing and forgot to take them out of the Jeep when we done. I spent a couple days wondering why my Jeep smelled so bad before I found them.

Been fishing a private lake. Tons of 3 pound channel. Crazy fast fishing. Its hard to keep poles baited. My 8 year old boy got the permission to fish. We went to an estate sale and he was talking to one of the old ladies running the sale. Asked her how much for the pond as we were looking from the house at the lake. She laughed and one thing led to another we are fishing a private lake on an 80 acre lot. The home is a listed at a $900,000 super nice spread. The lake is supreme. Wish we had found it earlier in the season. But wth it's going to be a blast until the cold sets in.

We are taking the fish and stocking our 7 ponds.

HAHA, yeah that'll do it

Thats the fishermans equivelant of finding a classic muscle car in a barn and the old lady is willing to sell it dirt cheap

I went fishing today on my fil's dock.

Caught a crappie limit in 22 minutes.

Fished for two hours yesterday and didn't catch one though. They were deeper than I figured I guess.

Best part is there are only two people fishing it. My son and I. Would it be bad to take him out of school for a week to slay these cats? lol

I caught a 3 3/4 lb largemouth out of Shawnee Mission Park over the weekend from my kayak. There aren't huge fish in there but there is a good population of nice sized bass.

Same here man. I get to get out of my comfort zone.

Plastics are where it's at this time of the year. A slower retrieve and more time in the strike zone is generally better. You can actually even have good luck with jigs under a cork. Bass are still oriented somewhat to shore but not right on it super shallow so if you throw it out there at 3-4 foot deep and let it float near structure and jig it slowly you have a great chance.

Bass are just now starting to bite again down here.

Summertime sucks so bad for catching bass.

Same here. I have yet to catch a fish wacky rigged.

Snapper!

Girlfriend ordered my Christmas present today.


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Plus i picked up some Whisker Seeker 50lb mono line to throw on it.

I'm not ****ing around next summer.

A baitcaster eh? you my friend are more advanced than myself... never had the guts to try one, too much potential for ruined excursions due to birdsnests

Though I did finally get around to learning open faced reels, and like yourself... I'm not jacking around next year either, except what I mean by that is going much further afield looking for out of the way spots

If that means less trips but better fishing when I do go... so be it

I think I'm going to try the dock in the am. See what's up.

I used one when i was young, but it's probably been 18 years since I've cast one.

It's a similar setup to all of my serious catfisher friends. They swear by it.

Baitcasters are all I use. Every now and again I'll use my spinning real.

Didn't catch anything yesterday. Probably my last trip for the year. Water was down to 56 in the main lake, 60 closer to the power plant discharge. I worked spinnerbaits and cranks mainly. I'm trying to expand my lure selection. Worms are next.

I've always been mainly a crankbaits and shad softbait kind of guy.

Much rep to Mike for this monster... just look at that big mfer!

Thats what I call fishing, its hard to imagine just how good that meal was... fresh as monkey breath!

Parents surprised me with an Abu Garcia c6500 for Christmas too.

Put it on a Rippin Lips 7'5 medium heavy rod.

Spring needs to get here.

I've STILL got a dozen worms in the fridge that need to go, decent weather this weekend would be a good excuse to go drown them

Only problem is I will have to go buy new line and restring my rigs were I to be smart about it, they got left on my covered back porch during the deep freeze of last week... my line is probably brittle as glass

One thing about jerk baits is you got to have plenty of lube.

We're not talking about hog dicks here you heathen!

:hmmm: but now that I think about it, I bet castrated pig nuts would make for excellent catfish bait

Would you look at the size of that butt?
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Gunther Hansel landed this 482 lb 13 oz 8' 2" World Record Halibut after a almost 3hr battle off the Western Fjords Iceland this Monster was big enough to serve up almost 1000 individual fillets


I'm sharing this guys trophy butt Holy shit it's huge. I could only dream of catching something like this. My cousin has gone halibut fishing in Alaska and caught a 60lber but that's a dwarf compared to this thang.

Bump fishing thread I'm jonesing to go fishing

1000 individual fillets of heavy metal poisoning? What a way to go, though.

When buying Abu's make sure you only get the Swedish made ones. Not all of them are produced in Sweden any more. Big difference in quality.

Damn Mexico

Oh man, just looking at that makes my mouth water for a huge plateful of fried halibut chunks, some cole slaw and hushpuppies... you know what? I'm gonna make that happen this weekend

Snow white and dense as a ribeye steak, its the best eating fish on the planet

It's winter time...go hit up some trout.

Man... i want to go fishing. My poles are all rigged up and collecting dust.

8/0 circle hooks are expensive. Have a tackle box full of em now. Got about $100 worth of gear that will all end up at the bottom of the Kansas river by October.

Just need to stock up on weights from 6oz to 16oz.

Also need to pick up nice scale.

Go big or go home.

My c6500 is Swedish, the 7000 is unfortunately made in China.

I like the cut of your jib

Funny thing is, I've always loved fishing, but for whatever reason, quit going a few years ago and took up golf.

Golf got frustrating and expensive. So a started fishing again.

After buying quality gear from hook to rod and everything in between, I've spent more money than on my golf clubs.

Fishing is a lot more satisfying anyway.

Speaking of money spent, I've got to basically start over with a bunch of gear

Let things dwindle down too far last season, its gonna cost a pretty penny to restock

I had a bunch of cheaper catfish gear that i had been using, but it failed too many times and i lost too many good fish. Last summer was so god damn frustrating. I joined a Facebook group with some serious fishermen in it, and have learned a lot since. Re-tooled my hole approach to catfish. If i don't pull at least one 50lb+ Blue or Flathead this summer I'm going to be severely disappointed.

Just got back from fishing. Caught a limit of crappie in an hour and twenty seven minutes in the dead water side just below Truman dam

Man, it's been too many years since I made it up there. Seen a lot of guys using home made remote control boats to run their lines across the current and drop them in the whirlpool on the other side. A lot of big cats pulled out of there. Blues, channels, and albinos. Pretty sweet setups for fisjing that particular spot.

First saw the remote control boat thing in action on the show Bizarre Foods of all things, some old Vietnamese guy here in America had one rigged up to tow his line where he wanted

Had a little mechanism that released the line etc, thought that was one of the coolest ideas I'd ever seen

It's been a LONG time then. They haven't allowed that for almost 30 years.

There's a gold fish that feeds up there with the big cats that's over 50 lbs.

:eek: thats awesome

Yup, it was around 25 to 3O years ago. It was a pretty cool setup that eliminated having to cast the 5O or so yards across the current. They were using a bow trigger hooked up to a servo to release the line and big surf casting R&R's with one quart oil bottles for bobbers. I remember seeing one stringer that had 6 cats on it. The smallest was around 2Olbs, biggest was around 5O lbs. All of the boats were home made out of thick styrofoam.
I've thought about throwing together something like that every now and then just for those spots you can never quite get to.

They don't even let you cast up there anymore.

****ing idiots were breaking the Windows out of the powerhouse with their big weights.

There are all colors there. My boy likes to feed them, next time we go ill shoot a pic

I remember being there in the late 8O's one spring after record rainfalls. The flooding was bad all over the state but really bad in that area. The power of all that water being released from the damn was just ****ing awesome. The stream coming out was rolling and cresting and just brioling up all over as it went by. Some of the rollers were at least 25 foot high. Quite a sight.

I hate seeing people pull stringers of huge catfish out of lakes. It can take 20 years for a flathead to grow to that size.

You can catch 10lb channel cat til your heart is content out at lone star like south of Lawrence if you want catfish to eat. Let the monsters go and grow into record fish.

That is my preference too. Hell, I don't really even like fish. Once in a while I have some if it's right out of the creek and cooked for shore lunch but thats about it. All I want is to go to battle against those sneaky, bait stealing, hook throwing, line snapping mofo's. Keep what you would like to eat but put the old big SOBs back in the water.

DAMNIT, all this talking about fishing has got my fever up bad. Worse than any drug I've ever done thats for sure.

I WISH fishing was my vice. My father in law fished like crazy and loved working with the grandkids at it. He's got this ****ing awesome house, fancy everything, and he's had my daughter practicing casting with jigs all over that house. Just tells her to hit spots on the walls, he's that into fishing (imagine the walls and my mil is very particular, they have a housekeeper come in a couple times a week and it started over that) he had a stroke the month before my son was born and lost his left side (dominant) so he can't really take them anymore, if he's going it's with helpand I dont think he likes the kids to see him that way.

So I take them and he tells me what to tell them to do. He watches them cast in the house though.

I do everything else with it. For him and them. It's not really my thing, although it's starting to grow on me. And it's free. He has so many bags from bass pro in his building that it's gotten to be many thousands of dollars.

He's got this dock spot that he's owned for over 30 years and has built beds under it since he bought it. My brother in law dives down and works on it several times a year.

They are always there.

Damn man, that really sucks for your FIL and for the kids. Although there were enjoyable things about taking my kids when they were young, fishing was not what I enjoyed about it. Too much shit to do for the kids. lol As they got older it got better. I however have always been a fishing junky.
Having a 'spot' for them to fish and catch at is 3/4 of the battle in keeping them interested. Good on you for helping the old guy keep being that part of there lives. I'd have gave anything to have someone to take me fishing when i was young.
Had an aunt that got me started at about 3 yrs old. She unfortunately died when I was 5...I had the fever,..dad was already dead so I used to drop a line in any place that held water. lmao, fished in a goldfish ponds in parks, any running water i could find, anywhere that had a fish in it. lmao

I rarely eat fish either, catfish is alright but not good enough for me to put in the effort to clean a bunch of them.

If I'm eating anything, it's Walleye, but i don't fish for Walleye. When i catch those, it's by accident.

Also, I'm all for softshell turtle genocide. Once the current goes down on the Kaw, those cock suckers are everywhere.

AMEN

**** turtles :cuss:

Currently in the process of planning a trip to Croatia and Montenegro.

Better believe I'm going fishing when I'm over there.

Say what, why those two places?

Gotta be one of two things IMO... either your ancestry is from that region, or you're Chiefplanets own Jeremy Wade crisscrossing the globe in search of rare, maneating fish

Been talking a lot of fishing with my son. He is ready to quit shooting geese and ducks and start slinging his rod. Thinking about a trout trip to start us off.

Gonna admit something right here, right now... I've never had trout of any kind

What other kinda fish would you compare it to eating wise?

Always found it strange that my state is so close to Missouri and Kansas, yet we do not have that species of fish in abundance anywhere near me... what is so different east of the Mississippi?

My girlfriend originally wanted to go to Mexico for a vacation. I had been trying to convince her to go to Italy. I have a few friends that have been all over Europe and they said Croatia is one or the most beautiful places in the world, so we looked it up and decided this was a place for an unforgettable experience. We are going to fly into Split (croatia) and going to travel down to podgorica (montenegro). figure i can find a fishing charter along the way.

I'm no travel agent, but if I had to guess... I'd bet you get a good return on your investment over there, it isnt a huge tourist hot spot is it?

Again, not knocking you... just stands to reason that maybe some of the lesser advertised countries over there could offer great value compared to the usual suspects

This thread has me wanting to go fishing. My dad and I are looking at a trout trip. A small lake near me stocks them this time of year. I've never been. What tackle should I be using?

Tourism in Croatia has been growing over the years. I've heard it's starting to get pretty big.

Side note... used to work with a chick from Croatia, and she was haaawt

Oh man, tell me about it. We are using Airbnb for our lodging... some of the hosts are total babes.

Stocked trout are pretty easy actually. I fish for them frequently at a small lake in the SOCAL mountains where we have a cabin. Here are some tips:

Use spinning gear, with a Light or Ultra-Light Rod, between 6 or 7 feet long. I use monofilament line or fluro line, between 4 and 6 pound test. Don't go over 6 pound test with trout, they actually have fairly decent eyesight and they get spooked easily.

Small egg type hooks will suffice #4 to #8 size. Now, if you are using dough style baits, the trout will always swallow the hook...so I usually rig up several leaders using monofiliment, ranging anywhere from 3 to 5 feet long, with a hook on one end and a snap on the other. Then just tie on a swivel or another snap to your combo and when you get a fish, it's as simple as unsnapping the leader and throwing the fish on the stringer, then you just snap on another leader and bait and you are good to go.

I just use a simple split shot rig and a bell, you don't really need much of a weight, a few split shots on the line will work. DO NOT USE A FLOAT IF YOU ARE USING FLOATING DOUGH BAIT. It defeats the purpose.

I usually use Rainbow Colored Berkley Power Bait, the one with Garlic. It works great. I have also used Berkley floating corn nuggets (garlic flavored) and the floating Dough Bait that simulates hatchery pellets (it's brown) with good success.

You can use small worms such as meal worms and regular earthworms, but you will need a float to determine where in the water column the fish are...but again, I have such great luck with the floating dough style baits, that I rarely do it that way. I just stick to my split shot rig and leader method with a bell.

I have also used Mepps or Panther Martin inline Spinners, Kastmasters, Phoebes, with success if you want to go the lure route.

As for cleaning the fish, I usually just gut and scale them, fry 'em up with the skin on, but you can filet the bigger ones. Pretty dang tasty. :)

2 things....

Yesterday, Jan 21, It was 60 degrees while felling trees and cutting firewood. As I tractored across the pond dam, I saw turtles sunning on a tree that lays in the pond. Nor sure if turtles in MO know ther is a January.

Second...just scored a 3 wt, old school, fiberglass fly rod. Bluegills on a 3 wt will be wonderful fun.

Thats all

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When I'm at work I've go fishing in my head.

ROFL

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I'm going on my annual trout trip to the White River in Ar pretty soon. Been going for many years. We go last week of Feb, which is sort of a mixed bag weather wise, but there aren't many fishermen out, so that is nice. I use a gold Poebe from Acme lure company and pretty much outfish everyone else out there. Most guys use cleos or jigs. Some guys use corn or powerbait, but that's a pain in the ass if you ask me.

dude you are obsessed!

Wile Coyote approved. What could possibly go wrong?
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Good luck I haven't Trout fish in long time mostly rather go to CO than here in Kansas and pay another 14.50 just to fish for fish when why wouldn't a damn fishing license be good enough? I know it would cost more out of state but IDC.

Although trout fishing does sound fun I may cave in.

Went lake trout fishing today. I caught my first trout and only one. Weighed in at 1.27lbs. We catch and release everything so she got to live.

What kind, brook, rainbow?

I've never went trout fishing, its something I'd really like to try... are they good fighters?

Um...Yeah. my grandpa says Brown are stocked but I sure didn't see any brown on that trout. I'll upload a pic when my dad sends texts me it.

Used a spinning rod/reel with four pound mono. It felt like a much bigger fish so it did fight some. Didn't notice any difference from other lake fish.

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