My Daughter caught the whopper this time. Lake Texoma is the real deal if you want to have a great day. The guide I use didn't even charge me this time.

Whoa, that had to have been a great fight

She was yelling for help thinking it was going to pull her in. I told her to man up! :D

Looks like a bow or a lake trout.

Great fishing thread! I took my girls on their first inshore trip late Dec out of Mayport. They had a blast, and want to do it again. I'll take them offshore soon.

Cap'n Kris at the helm:
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Baby black seabass - released:
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Fished last hour in the St. John's inlet. Caught silver seatrout and whiting:
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Customer of mine. They're catching a lot of these below the dam right now.

Look at the head on that sucker, wow!

That thing could grab your foot and drown you if you weren’t paying attention

Damnit, of course they are. I can't get away.

Next time I go back to Texoma that's my goal . 50+ pound Blue Cat.

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First fish is a rainbow.

Some new fishing gadgets you guys might like:

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The Barbie swimbait just might work!

I guess plastic worms and spinner baits are really not necessary.

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Damn that looks like a blast

That's hilarious. Probably looks like a crawdad to them.

My grandpa made a "spoon" out of a hamms church key back in the 50's to prove to somebody he could catch a northern on it. And he did.

Lulz that’s great, even better than using soap to catch catfish

It IS funny but on the other hand we as fisherman go to great lengths to find just the right bait every time which makes this seem like the world just isn't right.

After watching this Video I immediately went on Amazon and got some life vests ordered and am putting my old ones in storage.


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This has been a shitty year to get to go fishing and more ****ing rain.

July and August just suck . It's been too hot. Looking forward to the 2nd half Sept thru Nov.

I hear ya brah, life has REALLY gotten in the way of my fishing adventures this summer, it’s been pitiful... come to think of it, no one has really checked into this thread with pics from a great day of fishing in a looong time

The tough luck must be going around... hopefully things get better around September/fall, as Hog Farmer says

Late September and October usually good for us settling limb lines for flatheads,spring and early summer damn sure wasn’t. Way to much water for to damn long

September is best fishing weather in my neck of the woods. I already have a trip planned to SW for some good rainbow fishing. We've had a horrible summer, though. Very hot and dry, which has limited the rain. This means that many rivers are quite low, so getting to good spots will be difficult. But after this summer, time on the water will be much enjoyed.

Same here, all of spring and much of summer was a flooded mess... spent many weekends at home or somewhere else, when I’d planned on being out fishing

Yeah as I recall, Alaska had record setting heatwaves

The permafrost was melting causing all kinds of problems etc

So I got back from fishing the Gunn near Pleasure Park, CO a couple weeks ago and finally getting around to posting a couple pics. Only a couple actual fish pics right now, but I'll see about posting more from the trip when I get a chance.

This is a pic of the Smith Fork/Gunnison confluence; my buddy Mac and I are standing on the bank of the Smith Fork, and the Gunn is there off to the left:
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A pic of me in my new frameless pontoon on the lower stretch of the Gunn:
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Doing some wading on the Lower Gunn:
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A nice Smith Fork 15-inch Brown:
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A snarly lower Gunn brown, 17-inches:

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Fantastic shots, you’re truly living the dream... I could set up camp at that deep pool in the first shot, walk the bank around that bend a little ways all day and be perfectly content

Actually, my buddy Leo took that first pic from the "Bat Cave," which we've camped in before.

About 40 yards to the right of me and Mac the Smith is a small series of waterfalls. I have pics of those falls somewhere from a previous trip. I'll try to find them this weekend.

Great pics and great fish.

Just got back from Lake Texoma 20 striper,19 Sand bass, 1 crappie and a 15 pound Blue Cat

my Brother with the Blue Cat

Nice stringer hog. How was the cat caught?

Using the rib cage off a striper. Another guy there had one twice as big.

Edit. Caught on a rod and reel if that's what you were asking.

Does anybody have an idea for making a bait bucket for shad. I made a cooler with bubble boxes but it won't keep them alive long. I'm told the bait box has to be round and have a filter because the shad continually shit and it fills the water and the shad drive their noses into the corners of a rectangular box and beat themselves to death.
I went into a cove with a throw net and caught tons of shad for bait but they just die off.

Yea, that's what i was aking. Nice one. I've had to spend this entire fishing year on the sidelines and I got the fever bad.

November is a good time to fish as water temp drops, especially for catfish.

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I want this for Christmas it's badass

WTF?

Killin the crappie at Smithville right now. Even from the bank where there are brush piles evident

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Two of my favorite things Fishing and Chiefs football

Also the two things that make me cuss the most

Where is this????? I gotta have one. My two favorite things in life, Chiefs and Fishing.

Idk i saw it on facebook and tagged my kids so they buy it for me :evil:

I did a google image search and came up empty. If you find out let me know.

Everyone gets a limit around here right now too

You need to take up golf for the trifecta.

Just wrapped up a day of fishing in the Bayou. Great fishing! Both of my boys landed huge redfish and we all took our share of sheepshead, drum and catfish. Great eating! If y’all never have, you gotta fish the Bayou at least once. So cool. Saw gators, bald eagles and all sorts of other critters. Just a wonderful experience.

Took the plunge on a pretty high end JonBoat for pond fishing. Wife saw the typical Jons I was looking at and sold me on stability and safety with young folks in boat. Got a year old model so saved about $600. Found an awesome used Trailer that was used to haul a Champion 17 foot Bass Boat and scored it for $400 bucks. Now Im on to fabricating a lift mechanism of sorts so I can leave it by the dock but hold it up out of the water...will have a foot control bow mount MinnKota

Boat:
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trailer

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May add a depth finder if I think it could help find brush piles and structure

Have to figure out seats and all that as well


Now I need warm weather

Someday I was to do a Redfish trip for big Bulls in shallows

I thought about it before but how are the mosquitoes? I mean how big do they get?

I'm guessing you chartered a boat?

Now here’s a thread I haven’t seen in a while, I’m so ready for some decent weather and start getting some lines in the water

I can only imagine the joys of fishing the bayou, the sheer variety must be mind blowing

Good looking boat, F150 :thumb:

I upgraded my depth finders to the Garmin echomap 93sv on the front and the console and added the livescope system to the front. Fish won't stand a chance now.

Removed the Garmin 93 SV chirp and the panoptix live forward system which was good but I wanted the latest version so I have it for sale if anyone is interested. I paid $2000 or $2500 for it two years ago.

Whats something like that worth? I have what's called a "flasher" portable that I used many years ago, I think it's an antique. Maybe we could trade?

When I take a long nap I will get out to the MO river and fish a worm and pretend I am fishing

later on he took a picture with his sharktooth chiefs hat in his overalls at the chiefsgame.gif

What the hell would you even do with a fish this big?

Anyone ever try pickling them?

Bump for my last post's question

The chunks of meat behind their eyes is pretty good.
Like round steaks, only fish
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Just watched a video on that. I don't catch a lot of big catfish so i didn't really realize people did that. I've heard about "cheek meat" on walleye's etc but I've never messed with it.

Noodle flathead
Just heard about it
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I've seen quite a bit on noodling flathead. I know the second I try I'll end up with a handful of snapping turtle.

Ive pickled Northern Pike but cant think catfish would be as good

I got scars on the back of both of my hands and wrists
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It’d take some work, but you could fry it up

Get the mudlines and fat off those giant filets, chop into chunks, soak in your choice of buttermilk, citrus soda, or saltwater overnight... then eat like a king

No mosquitoes. It never got above 58 degrees.

Yeah. Captain Jason Shilling at neworleanstylefishingcharters.com


I highly recommend him.

I always do saltwater.

Nothing to it filet them big flat heads up then cut pieces to size you want to fry up.trim the red meat and throw away.cant beat flat head nice white meat,quite a bit of waste on the big ones as in picture above

Well, I went fly fishing last weekend at Lower Mountain Fork in Oklahoma. I didn't do especially well (3 fish on the first day, 1 on the second), so instead I'll post some old pictures from a trip that I never reported on here.

Last October, I hit up Taneycomo one morning. We floated in a Mackenzie drift boat from the dam all the way down to near Lilley's Landing. We got into quite a few decent sized fish. All fish on the day came on a #14 pink San Juan Worm. They were running 2 units at the time.
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Pretty fish.

What was the depth? Were you fishing under an indicator or just tight lining?

It was about 4 to 5 feet under an indicator....sometimes deeper and sometimes shallower. We fished some on the drift and we stopped to thoroughly cover a few holes, shelves, and cuts.

Fished Taney dozens of times as a kid with my dad and brother growing up. We'd rent a cabin there at i believe it was called the Del Mar Resort. We'd always rent a boat for the day and drive up almost to the dam and drift fish our way back. Never fly fished it though, so I was wondering how shallow it could get. Shallow enough to dry fly it I guess. Might have to consider making a trip back someday.

In general, Taneycomo is not an especially good place for fly fishing, especially dries. If they aren't running any water, the area below the dam is wadeable most of the way across for about a mile. This area could be worked with dries if the water is off. If 1 or 2 units are running, you can wade just a little bit along the north shore by the hatchery.

Thats beautiful, bud... thanks for posting

Gonna be warm here all week, so I’m getting out this weekend to see if everything’s waking up

As a kid I remember a cove or two where I saw risers occasionally. The main channel would probably be a terrible place to try and dry fly, I agree. You'd need to find some kind of current break or something to draw risers.

Went fishing on Lake Meredith Sunday. Nothing. Water temp was 40 degrees. Mostly wanted to test my Livescope system anyway.

Fished Bennett Sunday and Monday. There were 2500 anglers there Sunday and the fish were ultra stressed. At whistle I eventually just got out and watched until some people limited out and left. I ended up catching 8 for the whole day (releasing them all), but really they were all in the span of about 30 minutes when the sun first hit the water (I think around 9-10 for it to get that high over the bluff) and I happened to have something on that they were absolutely hammering.

Caught about 20 Monday just fishing up until noon. There were less than a quarter of the people on the water and the fish were a lot more receptive.

Heading to grand lake of the Cherokee for Paddlefish the 30th