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Here's a video at that lake. I don't know what he's using. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRkmdW6Evn8 I have a basic fishing pole. I have been trying trout eggs and powerbait worms (they really do look like real worms!). I have no idea what I should be using or how to be using it! |
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urban lakes typically only get about 200 trout per stocking (sometimes quite a bit less). By the time casual anglers get there, most if not all have already been fished out by those fellas you see sitting around the ponds sitting on their buckets with multiple poles in the water. I would head up to Dead Horse State park in Cottonwood if you want to catch fish. 3 'lagoons' about 2-4 acres each. They get stocked every week during the winter, couple thousand fish at a time. Powerbait is the standard bait there. Basic set up is light/ultralight rod and reel, 6-lb. test nylon/fluorocarbon, 1/8th-oz. splitshot or lead weight (egg-style) about 12-16 inches above the hook (sz16). I'm sending you a pm in case you want more info. I'll ask a couple of my urban lakes buddies if there's one that's getting more fish than the others. |
Find a decent fishing store, ask where to learn to fly fish. Dad and I learned from a co-worker of Dad's who owned a little motel in Colorado and spent the winters working in KC, FWIW, you can take the fly off the flyrod and just practice working the flyline in the street or your front yard. Good way to get accurate/learn to handle the flyline. Good trout flyrods are pretty spendy BUT for KC Metro a pretty basic panfish setup won't break the bank. You'll be happier with a $70 rig you get to use than a $350 rig that always stays in the closet unless you drive to CO/Utah. A bunch of 'popping bugs' and a 6' leader, get a canoe or rowboat and work the shoreline from 20' offshore and bring 2 stringers. Bass, perch and bluegill are pretty tasty and you can always fillet 'em, can them like you can green beans and mix the canned 'wild fish' with store bought canned salmon and make salmon patties galore. He'll grow up big and strong with that much protein.
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Amazing how much these guys are spending on electronics!
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Finally caught our first fish. Bunch of Bluegill today to get my son a taste of catching something.
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He's got the fever but wants to try catching "other fish" now. I saw some small mouth bass jumping a bit, what's the technique for those? I am assuming baits/jigs/spinners with lots of casting and reeling? I also heard they stock these urban ponds with Catfish soon because they are about the only fish that can make it through the Phoenix summers without dying. Hotdogs and shrimp off the bottom is what I am told catches catfish which is again, something I've never fished for. Those lunkers could be really fun I bet! |
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And thats where youngsters can run into trouble, because their chances of getting snagged/stuck in rocks etc goes way up... as for the catfish what you've been told is fine for channel cat, but blues and flatheads prefer live bait or cut bait (fish head or chunk of meat) |
Here are a few vids to help you out, Lew
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Lews newfound family bonding has me reminiscing about back when I took my two fishing when they were young
You get them all set up with a simple bobber and bait, but YOU wanna cast lures and try different things... well if the bluegill aren't biting, suddenly they wanna do what you're doing because it looks fun So you finally relent and set them up to cast lures, big mistake... because the next thing you know, the only thing you're going to be doing is trying unstick your lures from bushes, trees, rocks and logs for the next hour And at that point you're just ready to go home LMAO If I could go back in time, I wouldn't go casting about and trying to be the Big Kahuna when I took them out... instead I'd bobber fish just like them the entire time, teaching them to crawl before they walk so to speak No one ever said you have to let that bobber just sit in one place the whole time, slowly trawl that bait under your bobber around different kinds of cover |
New world record paddlefish came out of the Lake of the Ozarks yesterday. The angler from always sunny and 75 Olathe, KS
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We think Chad Williams is done fishing for the year. Maybe for life ��<br><br>Williams made history this weekend after snagging a world record 164-pound, 13-ounce paddlefish at Lake of the Ozarks! And did we mention he'd never been snagging before??<br><br>More at <a href="https://t.co/gz0DuVQfvR">https://t.co/gz0DuVQfvR</a> <a href="https://t.co/BVjUYDPSSe">pic.twitter.com/BVjUYDPSSe</a></p>— MO Conservation (@MDC_online) <a href="https://twitter.com/MDC_online/status/1769764375424807313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
My new tattoo
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Nice catch. Though I've never been able to wrap my mind around purposefully snagging fish before. Doesn't seem like fishing to me personally. Would love to see one of those things in person someday though. Wild looking fish. |
For the small mouths nothing is more fun than popper flies on the surface in still water. With a kid setup you would just attach a casting bubble to the line to give it enough weight to cast. You make a very short quick retrieve to pop the face of the fly on the surface and create a disturbance. Wait for the wave rings to die before the next retrieve. Fantastic surface action for bass and bluegill, if he doesn't get too tired casting. Man I miss it.
Oh and of course bring your fly rod to do the same without the bubble! |
When I was a teenager Iowa PBS had some outdoors shows.
I remember one in particular of the host being in a belly boat on a small farm pond fly fishing for bluegill. Poppers, flies. Man that looked like a blast. |
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Life kept getting in the way the past several weeks, but I'm finally getting some fishing in later this afternoon... can't wait!
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I need a new basic rod and reel for fishing bass/catfish here.
All I have been using is a micro lite rod, 5'6", that I used 20 years ago for trout in Montana, and it's not handling the setups I am using down here. I think it's max 6lb line. I bought a cheap prespooled reel and it's been nothing but loops and tangles too. Not sure what's causing that here but that was never a problem decades ago? Give me some guidance on rod/reel combo that won't break the bank! |
The Taylor and Gunnison Rivers are my home waters in the summer months. I mainly fish the Arkansas near Buena Vista during the winter.
Here's the first trout I pulled in during my 40th birthday trip earlier this month. Click on it to watch the video. I'm heading up to Kalispell in July to float the Flathead and do some alpine fishing through Glacier. <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/197346106@N04/53765197561/in/dateposted-public" title="Taylor River early May"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/31337/53765197561_453b146a36_z.jpg" width="360" height="640" alt="Taylor River early May"/></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
Really beautiful colors on that Rainbow!!!!
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Spring Creek and the Upper Taylor are awesome on the Taylor. Cochetopa Creek and Tomichi Creek are dry fly paradises during the summer that feed into the Gunnison not too far from town. We will usually pull the camper up around mile marker 8 on the Buena Vista side of Cottonwood Pass during the summer. It's pretty easy to pop into BV to restock food and it's about a 35 minutes drive over the pass from there to the C&R on the Taylor. |
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I grew up on Abu Garcia reels. They have very smooth reels for flipping jigs and heavier more rugged reels for catfish. They have more budget friendly options, but the C3 reel is a very proven system and it can be found in both a bass and mid sized catfish rig. I have a box of them that have been beat all to hell and drug all over the place with several trips to Canada and they just keep going. Have several 7000c reels set up for heavier missouri river fishing and snagging, but I don't know if you have a need to go that heavy as they can be quite cumbersome if you're staying on the smaller end of catfish. They also make spinning reels if that's more your thing, but I don't have any experience AB spinning reels. |
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Saw on the news this morning it's national fishing day - so git yerself out there and git ya some!
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Just got back from a fly-in trip up in Canada with my old man, lots of Walleye and a few decent Pike! Going Yellow Fin fishing this wknd around Catalina Island in SoCal! |
Well I just bought plane tickets to Montana for the 2nd week of October. I'll be fishing the Bitterroot near Hamilton and I'm sooo excited! I'll have a ton of fishing time - I'm going by myself Wednesday though Sunday. Yeeeah! Maybe I can get into some big pre-spawn browns.
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Any recommendations for someone interested in fishing again but hasn't cast a line in two decades?
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That's about as simple as it gets and it's bound to get you some summer action. |
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I did a little fishing around Mammoth Lakes and Lake Tahoe. Only caught one small brook trout. But it really was just a little as it wasn’t really a fishing trip. The streams and rivers were great but just couldn’t get anything going. Of course I’m not all that experienced in trout fishing out west.
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Get either a spinning reel or a spincast (zebco-type) reel and appropriate med.-fast action rod. 6-10-lb. test mono line. Like E6 said, start with a bobber-type set up. I'd grab a half dozen spinners as well, like Rooster tails, Mepps, Blue Fox, etc. And/or spoons, such as Kastmasters and L. Jensen's Super Dupers. Stay under 1/4 oz. Any color as long as they're silver or gold, maybe with a blue or red stripe across one side of them. Get a pack of split-shot lead weights. Do not get the tin ones. They're crap. Find your needlenose pliers and nail clippers. Have fun. |
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As far as I know, outside of locally here in Kansas City area, I’ve never fished for stocked trout. So I guess next time I go out, (I’ll be in Estes Park with the family in fall) even though it’s not a fishing trip per se, I’ll still take the bait selection and presentation a little more seriously. Recommend any resource that sort of does the work for you to help make your fly choice based on season, species, and area? |
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Iirc, there's several flyshops in that area; just walk in and start a conversation. Plan to buy a half dozen or so flies to loosen their tongues a little. You can also take a look at either Fishbrain.com or troutroutes.com. Should be some good info in there. For that area though, you're usually talking mayflies and caddis imitations. just got to get the sizes right for the time of year. |
I'm heading up to Glacier for a week on Wednesday. We have a cabin near Pinnacle, Montana 500 feet from the Middle Fork of the Flathead and wee a float trip planned for Sunday. Taking my 3 wt and plan to fish my way through a good number of trails the other days.
Last week I trekked a few miles up Cottonwood Pass west of Buena Vista and stalked brookies and cutties for a couple days. My last day I went solo and spent most my time sifting through game trails and up some side channels to chase some of the bigger spookier guys in the pass. Here's a couple Youtube videos...one setting up my approach and the other with my catch. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/T55mt5dWkXY?si=uKuwl46MUguFiS8-" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe> <iframe width="344" height="611" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DXwJFGCdtRI" title="Landing spooky trout in the bush" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe> |
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That definitely seems like the best bet to just go ask at the shop. I’ve driven by at least one I recall right away dozens of times. I don’t have a huge selection of them so I’d likely need some anyways. |
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That is some real bushwhacking! That type of fishing is not for me. It's way too frustrating with losing flies and getting the tip of my rod stuck in bushes. Or a missed hook set slinging my fly and leader up and into a bush and I lose the entire end of my setup. |
I know we discussed getting kids into fishing several months ago, but I'm now thinking my son may have the attention span and interest to actually go now (4 year old).
I haven't fished in 30 years and do not have any equipment. Anyone who's been through this with kids, is a simple cheap kids starter set like this sufficient or is something better preferable? https://a.co/d/0SC44xk While we are at it, any advice on a budget friendly rod/reel for myself? **I should add, at this point probably fishing at a small lake or river at a nearby park. |
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Get yourself a $40-50 Zebco, and a slightly bigger starter kit Watch some of the many starter tips fishing vids in the last few pages of this thread, then go have an adventure together |
Just got back from my (usually) annual trip to SW Alaska. Got several nice 'bows but I'm really proud of this personal best lake trout. I usually go after lakers in mid June just after ice out at an Interior lake where a buddy has a cabin. I've got numerous 2-5 lb lakers but this one would likely be 9+ lb. We measured it at 34". Didn't fight as well as the rainbows. Certainly didn't jump. But it was still a great fish.
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Frozen is just out there casually living the dream.
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Kinda have to brag since with my brother. https://thumbnails-photos.amazon.com...=A7POPJY9GD6KWhttps://thumbnails-photos.amazon.com/v1/thumbnail/RxywwQDrTEyC4qXqH1WUlQ?viewBox=780%2C1040&ownerId=A7POPJY9GD6KW
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Nice fish. Never caught a laker, not yet anyway. Caught a bunch of splake. I think they probably fight about the same; just kind of pull and roll around. |
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I'm currently in Hamilton, Montana fishing the Bitterroot River.
I got some nice rainbows yesterday, including an 18 and 20 incher https://i.imgur.com/swMECtI.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/oEPsrLr.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/ReLQqiG.jpeg Today I went upstream and got into some nice sized cutties. https://i.imgur.com/7H24hJN.jpeg I have 2 more days of fishing. Let's see what else I get into |
Nice! Keep em coming looch!
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Day 3 - I found some nice cutties and a large brown.
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Yeah, I figured out the first one from the pic when I looked again. Been through there before. That east fork bit, you have to park near a small overpass? Walk upstream maybe be 2-3 miles to a private property fence strung across the stream? |
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Glad to see you killing it up there Looch!
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On my list as well. Good friend of mine has extended a permanent invitation to come down to FL to go tarpon and bonefish flyfishing. Seriously thinking next year will be the year. |
The neighbor lady was out in the backyard trying to get her dogs to go in and of all things she finds a fish. She's like what in the world! Then as she disposes of the fish she looks up one of her dogs as another fish in his mouth. Before it's over she finds 4 dead fish with the heads eaten off in her backyard. I looked around my back yard and found no fish and our backyards are almost the same backyard. They have an iron fence a small dog can squeeze through so it's not much of a barrier but the fish were only in her yard. There is no real body of water close to our houses so this is a weird mystery of where the fish came from. ?
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Tornado nearby maybe? When I was really little, maybe only 5-6, there was a tornado that picked up some small fish off of a lake then dumped them across parts of SE Tulsa, miles from where the tornado actually tracked. My buddy told me they were still flopping when they landed in his grandmother's backyard. |
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