This should teach a lesson to all you kids​ and young fishermen out there​. Life isn't fair. Life isn't fair.

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After this day I'm boycotting anything from Eagle Claw from my arsinal. Well after I use up what I got.

Holy shit balls. This must only happen to me. I take back those kind words I said about loving you big guy in the sky. I hate you.

Same shit must be same fish cuz it was same spot but I had him on there good 15 twenty minutes idk. Maybe he wedges in rocks but my shit shouldn't​be bending out of place like that. ****s.



Oh hello toad do you want to be my friend?

We had a massive storm come through about 8pm last night. A lot of rain, sirens even if went off.

On my way to fish. Not feeling good about fishing morning after a storm.

I don't know if these posts should be hilarious or sad.

Both or pathetic like getting screwed out of a gorgeous sunrise because ****ing clouds.



Oh well got good breakfast going bacon potatoes and eggs and cheddar cheese. I made it through the night. Been up since 2am Monday and I work tonight so

And there was a fish jumping and giving me the finger.

Then it happens mother ****ing cock sucking whore boaters hoard into my spot ****ing assholes.

ROFL

We have to go fishing together sometime. You sound just like me. :D

Do you cry when you lose a fish? How do you cope with it? I feel like going into morning. The enitial shock where's off but you never lose it in your gut.

****ing fish and their mind tricks. They go and jump so you hurry up and take your pole to that spot then once you cast it's jumping right where you were before. That's why I use thee poles **** you fish I'm on to you.


They still find other places to jump. :huh:

I cry, I scream, I cuss, I say hurtful things about that fish and it's entire species. And then I tell them what I'm going to do to them when I finally catch them.

Are you my twin?

Well shit I hate leaving especially nuthooks I've been up well over 30 hours and I have to drive home and work tonight to start 6 night 12 hour shifts or however much they work me.

I don't get it everything that worked last year and everything else I can think isn't doing it this year. I have to reevaluate my life and maybe become a monk and get monk tattoos. The only thing worse not catching anything is leaving the lake knowing the next cast could be the one.

You sound like you need to sleep...

If it makes you feel any better, I got a limit of walleyes last night and am well on my way this morning. Damn drum about ripped my pole in the water just now. Easy fishin here.

I am poking needles in my sofa King.




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Oh I'm sorry what I meant to say was I hope you don't choke on any of theme drummer bones

Idk I've only been up since 02:00 Monday Yes I'm tired and need something to eata and ready to crash anytime

Just tie your line around your big toe and take a nap.

OH I'm home not sure if it was safe for e to drive nearly hour and half but i made it and need rest before work tongight but I'm still pissed not catchign anying and tired ready to doze off any time

Looks like it

I would have already been on the call in sick plan

Got my limit of good sized walleyes. Bonus smallmouth bass, drum and carp. Can you call a drum and carp "bonus"?

Nope. Drum put up a good fight for the first few seconds but give up quickly. That moment when you realize the fish is giving up is always frustrating because you know before even seeing it that it's not a more desirable fish such as walleye.

What is the limit there? And how big are the average ones you kept?

Better than the one hybrid striper I caught today.

I knew last night's storm would screw fishing up.

Depends, what's your ethnicity?

Smoked carp is actually pretty good. Just bony as hell

Can you fillet a carp to escape the bones ?

My brother used to live in the Chec Republic where his girlfriends dad would cook Carp and he said it was awesome.

Between 16-19 inches. I was kidding on the bonus part for the drum and carp.

Great day on the water! 8 year old caught 3 kelp bass, once was good enough size to get some good eating meat out of it. 5 year old got shut out but had a blast feeding bait fish to sea gulls. Got two new fishing fanatics on my hands.

I haven't had my own line in the water since Feb.

Time has been scarce for such things and when it has been available, I've spent it putting worms on and taking fish off. Bought the youngest a full size rod in June and it's still got the tags on it.

I'm re-evaluating and reprioritizing things and I'm going to start correcting the above issues much more often.

If I had a dollar for everyone who told me 'nah dont worry about the bones, I know EXACTLY how to fillet carp!'... I'd have a good twenty dollars

And every. single. time. I ended up with multiple needle sharp bones jammed into my gums and the roof of my mouth... the only way I've ever had carp that worked, is when they boiled the shit out of it to soften the bones and then made fried cakes akin to salmon patties


Sounds like a great day of memories made, they'll thank you later Dad

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I just re-strung my abu garcia c7000 for the 3rd time this summer. :/

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75 degrees and I got to work tonight and go in early fml

I caught a limit of crappie in a little over an hour this morning, GOD DAMN what a beautiful day.

Been a while since this has been bumped, I did the least amount of fishing this year that I've done in at least 15 years for a variety of reasons... it should ensure that plenty of it is done next year

That looks like a little slice of heaven right there, Inmem... catch anything besides a buzz?

Yeah, its 70 here... can hardly believe it

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Yeah it was a decent day. I caught 4 (threw 1 back), Pops caught 3 (biggest fish of the day) and my bro got himself 1.

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Here fishy fishy fishy

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Post up anything you haul in :thumb:

I was day dreaming about fishing and the outdoors just yesterday, barely got out at all last year and thats going to change in a big way next time around

Plan to be outdoors more this summer than ever before, even planning a 'bushcraft' weekend where I go out, build a primitive shelter, practice making fire with sticks, use my Sawyer water filter for something besides monkeying with vodka etc, make a 3 day weekend out of it... really looking forward to it

Baby striper, pretty quiet out here. Didn’t get skunked though.


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Right on bud!

Looks like a beautiful day in NorCal, and it also looks like that one fish has two dinner sized filets on him... maybe they're starting to bite, dont quit now!

What kind of man made canal are you on there, used for irrigation maybe?

I’m at the California Aqueduct (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Aqueduct). I think she was pregnant, definitely had a nice pot belly. I tossed it back, wasn’t long enough to keep.

Thanks for that link, and good call on following the law and letting her go make more fun catches

I notice you went to a place where ther's not a damn thing that can catch fire :D

Going to Texoma next week to look at a cabin(mobile home) for sale. $31,500 . Can't beat that. 3 minutes from boat ramp.

I fly fish pretty much exclusively. Summers in Alaska, I fly fish up here for trout, char and grayling. And in the winter, I try to do some saltwater fly fishing.

This is a 35-40 pound tarpon I got a few days ago in Belize. Caught it on a Deceiver using a 9' 10# rod (Loomis NRX, if you're interested. Great casting rod). Water was clear so I could see him take the fly about 15 feet away from me. Fought him for about 15 minutes. He made several good runs and leaps. Great fish.

I didn't know you were Brian Daboll.

Thats incredible, what a great looking fish

You're apparently quite the globetrotter

Tarpon fishing is on my bucket list.That's awesome!

Okay guys. Serious question here. I think a lot of my problems i had last year with losing big fish was my knot slipping.

What knot do you use and where can i find an instructional video of it?

The circle hooks i normally use i connect with a snell to the leader, but i need a knot from the leader to the swivel and swivel to my weight.

Even though I am an avid fly fisherman, I don’t know knots like I should. A good website to learn knots is:

http://www.animatedknots.com

A really handy book for knots is:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/159228311X...4M4290WM&psc=0

My copy of Lefty’s knot book is ruined because of water. The pages stick together after I used the book in the rain by a trout stream. So I’m buying two copies, one for the house where I can use it to make leaders and tie flies, the other to cut out some pages, laminate them and make a knot notebook I can put in my fly gear case.

These two should get you started.

Generally, with larger "normal" hooks I just use a trilene knot. It's like an improved clinch but you make a double loop through the hook eye.

For fly fishing and tiny hooks, I use a double davy knot. It's fast and easy to tie with freezing fingers.
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I know exactly ONE good knot, never had a slip, the line has popped several times, but the knot has never slipped... unfortunately, I'm not even sure how to explain how to make it

But I'll try...

Make a full loop through the hook eye, using thumb to preserve that loop, make another full loop through hook eye... using thumb to preserve/squeeze both roughly equal size loops together

Take the extra 4-5 inches of loose line and wrap 5-6 times around your line 'stem' above both loops, then bring remaining line down through BOTH loops

Spit on both loops and line end coming through them, grab line coming through loops with teeth while holding top of line with other hand and cinch down as tightly as possible

Trim off line end but leave an inch or so coming out of your knot, to allow room for a bigger fish to cinch knot down even tighter without pulling line end out of knot and unraveling your work

Hope that makes sense, thats as good as I can explain it

That's a trilene knot.

And you are smart for lubing the line with spit (or water). Monofilament can burn itself when you tighten down the knot. ALWAYS lube your knots with mono.

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Thats exactly it, loochy... I've had more lines pop from big fish and from trying to yank free from snags than I can remember, but that knot ALWAYS holds

Word. Thanks

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I had been using this one, and it works fine on my lighter gear and with narrow diameter braided lines. But it's hard to tie right with 50lb mono and it seems to slip on my every once in a while.

50lb mono to hook, use a snell.

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Good stuff Chiefnj, gonna give that a try this spring... it'd be nice to have more than one knot in my tool kit

Been working my ass off this winter got me a new home and just been paying on things. Got back tires but still needing front tires and alignment it would suck getting to the lake and have a flat.


Next week I'll have four nights off and bet your ass I'll be at the lake getting my fish on.

It's been depressing not going but I've been determined to set myself up for a good year of catching Biggins.

Thinking about a kayak or an inflatable pontoon boat that maybe easy to take to the lake.


**** **** **** can't wait to go fishing. Nights are still cold but another week should be nice enough fish start biting.

Yep, heading to Texoma around April 1 for a week.

Grove, Oklahoma April 2nd paddlefishing

Cant wait to get going soon, got the fever BAD this year

Snaggers are after them

Same here


When I'm at work and and idiot starts talking to me I go to my place in my head fishing and thinking every detail I need to do to get out there and catch Biggins. They think I'm listening because I go yeah huh huh yep oh really ok yeah huh huh I hear that yep huh huh, they just ramble on anyways.


I gotta get my fish on. Hopefully it rains this week so I can have an open fire keep warm at night with next week. Kansas has a fire ban I think still it's been dry but cold.

Oh yeah, nothing completes the fishing big picture quite like having a nice little fire going...

Caught a nice rainbow on a jerkbait at the Mountain Lake last weekend, first fish of the year, but I turned it loose. Hard to catch them up there this time of year, if I would have had a few more bites I may have tried to make a meal, but I had to work for that one fish. Still fun though. :)

:thumb: glad to hear it, and props for throwing it back if it wasnt enough to bother eating

Pretty sure thats racist

Hoping to get out this week for spring break. Maybe hook into some big blues. Hoping for a giant so I can watch my son land a monster

I have two fishing days scheduled for next weekend. We fish for anything that grabs our lures. It has been probably 6-7 months.

Kind of useless to just keep one, it was keeping size, but I would have needed two or three of the same size to make a decent meal. Big Trout in that little lake though, somebody caught a 13 pounder over the Summer...

Lake gets stocked over the Summer as well, so they are a lot easier to catch on dough baits...especially after they stock it. Using dough bait they always swallow it, and Trout being somewhat delicate, you have to keep those fish or they would die otherwise. Kind of mindless fishing if you ask me, it's much more challenging catching them on lures, and you have the option of releasing them. I do eat them from time to time, they are pretty dang good. :)

I usually target Bass up there, and that was what I was actually going for when I landed that Rainbow, but being an Alpine lake at high elevation, the Largemouth stay relatively small, I always release those...I just like catching them.

If it warms up a bit more by the weekend, I just might have to join you guys in the great outdoors

Yep, bass are a ton of fun... they're great athletes

I'm surprised the bass don't turn into monsters from feeding on the soft stocker trout. That's how those LA area lakes produce those monster bass.
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I went yesterday. Skunked! Not even a bite. I can't remember the last time I got skunked. It's been years ago. It was, however, a great day. Got out of the house and on the water and did some fishing. There was a front moving in yesterday and I think that had a lot to do with it.
Oh well, I'll be back at it as soon as I can.

Lakes like Castaic and Piru produce enormous Bass, and it's true that they gorge themselves on the stocked trout. Thats how some of those big Swimbaits came into existence...they are also Florida strain Bass, which are naturally larger than the Northern Strain Largemouth. Castaic and Piru are also very large reservoirs.

Lake where we have our Cabin is a high altitude alpine lake that freezes over in the winter, so the climate is different and it's also not very big...roughly 10 acres. Also, I believe the Bass in the lake are Northern Strain, so they are naturally pre-dispositioned to be smaller. It stays fairly cold up there until early May. I've actually been on my boat, in May, fishing while it was snowing.

That said, there are some 5-6 pound bass in the lake, I've seen them caught, but I haven't caught one yet myself. Maybe about a 3 pounder at best for me. Good thing is, the lake doesn't see a lot of pressure from Bass fisherman, as it's primarily a Trout lake.

Slow bite but big bass are starting to be active. I caught a 23 inch bass yesterday on a black and blue jig with a motoroil lizard

Went into work the other day and my buddy had a 5 gallon bucket full of 7-9oz bank sinkers. Gave me a handful of em.

I feel kinda bad now. I finally caved in a deactivated my Facebook, so I'll miss out on a lot of fishing stuff this summer (until i turn into a pussy and bring it back) so now this thread is my only source of fishing talk.

After St. Patricks day and liberals bitching about people drinking irish car bombs and that being offensive, i have had enough.

Facebook sucks bravo

People wait too long to start fishing. Pre spawn can be some of the best for all species. I have been doing great on crappie from the shore for over two weeks now. Even ran into a few nice bass though I haven’t targeted them specifically yet. After this little cold spell ends with a nice few days I will plan to get the kayak out and target those active bass.

I took home six this day but could have had way more. I left because I planned to go back with my dad and sure enough that day we took home 16. Really good size ones too. Most about 12 inches with a few 13s and only a couple under 12 inches. I love those isolated spots on the rivers above reservoirs.

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