The Fishing Thread

[Easy 6]

Searched around & only found the video fishing & BassMasters threads, i know their are plenty of outdoorsman here, so i figured it'd be cool to draw upon the Planets vast experience in all things fishing.

I only use spincast reels & fish mostly large/smallmouth bass & cats. My choice of reels is quite the source of derision from many people i know 'duffer gear', but i haul in my share of 6 pound bass & 10-20 pound cats on that gear no problem. With a little know-how you can use just about any technique you want to on 'duffer gear'.

Berkley Powerbaits are a big part of my trick bag, the difference between those & regular stuff is night & day. My best action last summer came on Mister Twister scented white curly tail grubs, on one day fishing from shore to a bridge pier, i caught smallies, bigmouths, perch & even 1 carp believe it or not... great day. But my bread & butter is a texas rigged Berkley worm, it'll wiggle through any kind of cover without getting hung up.

With cats i strictly bottom fish, no bobber & bait is just as basic... but its always in 2's to give'em a real treat... a shrimp/with a nightcrawler, liver/chunk of cheese etc. Cats are mostly for night sport to me, time to kick back a lil...

So thats me style, how do the rest of you guys get your fish on? What do you fish for, what do you use? IIRC Missouri's trout season just kicked off, anyone getting anything?

[Rasputin]

Originally Posted by stumppy

51lbs, helluva catch. W. Virginia state record.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ca...?ocid=msedgntp

That's what ****ing A dude looks like! ****ing A

[ntexascardfan]

I'm planning a trip to Slovenia this summer. Plan on hitting the Soca River and it's tributaries for a week.

Spring fly fishing is starting to pick up in Colorado. Smashed 13 on the Arkansas out near Salida on Saturday.

Assuming the weather stays consistent, I'll likely start thinking about the Taylor for a few days in early April.

[Graystoke]

Originally Posted by ntexascardfan

I'm planning a trip to Slovenia this summer. Plan on hitting the Soca River and it's tributaries for a week.

Spring fly fishing is starting to pick up in Colorado. Smashed 13 on the Arkansas out near Salida on Saturday.

Assuming the weather stays consistent, I'll likely start thinking about the Taylor for a few days in early April.

Taylor is a nice river. Where about on the Taylor you go?

[ntexascardfan]

Originally Posted by Graystoke

Taylor is a nice river. Where about on the Taylor you go?

The Taylor/Gunnison is pretty much my home from springs through October.

I used to spend quite a bit of time at the C&R. Now I mostly explore the few miles of open water south of the C&R + the few miles from Almont north to where the private property picks up.

If you fish immediately south of the private property immediately adjacent to the C&R, you can sometimes spot a palomino that matriculated out of the private waters down into the public water.

The upper Taylor is a lot of fun too if you like smaller creek fishing. It's a completely different system with lots of oxbows. Not many big guys, but easy to pull in 100 fish/day if you get on 'em.

[Graystoke]

Originally Posted by ntexascardfan

The Taylor/Gunnison is pretty much my home from springs through October.

I used to spend quite a bit of time at the C&R. Now I mostly explore the few miles of open water south of the C&R + the few miles from Almont north to where the private property picks up.

If you fish immediately south of the private property immediately adjacent to the C&R, you can sometimes spot a palomino that matriculated out of the private waters down into the public water.

The upper Taylor is a lot of fun too if you like smaller creek fishing. It's a completely different system with lots of oxbows. Not many big guys, but easy to pull in 100 fish/day if you get on 'em.

Thanks for the tip. We have been going to Gunison the past couple of years and camping on the Taylor at Rosies campground.
The fishing is great and the motorcycling is fantastic.

[ntexascardfan]

Originally Posted by Graystoke

Thanks for the tip. We have been going to Gunison the past couple of years and camping on the Taylor at Rosies campground.
The fishing is great and the motorcycling is fantastic.

Lemme know the next time you make a trip out and I'll drop a few pins on a map for you.

Some pretty cool holes to hit that most folks pass over racing for the C&R.

If you're willing to walk a bit, there's some great stuff about 3/4 of a mile in at the "Never Sink" pull off on the Gunnison that I can share too.

[displacedinMN]

Thousands of invasive carp swim the channel of Ramsey County's Rice Creek and its connected lakes, rooting along the bottom and setting off a cascade of damaging effects that harm native fish, birds and plants.

Now University of Minnesota ecologists, who have spent years studying the life cycle of this unwanted fish in the Rice Creek system, are using that research coupled with new technology including "an electric fence for fish" to remove thousands of carp each spring.

"We will not meet our water-quality goals for these lakes without managing carp," said Matt Kocian, lake and stream specialist for the the Rice Creek Watershed District, which is managing the carp removal program.

The goal is to remove the carp, which will improve water clarity, lower algae blooms and support native species.

"There is a huge biomass of carp in that system," explained University of Minnesota assistant research professor Przemek Bajer, who is part of the U's Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center. "To restore that system you need to remove 80 percent of those carp."

Last year, was their first full season of operation on Rice Creek in New Brighton. Bolstered by those promising results, they're back again this year for the spring spawn.

"It went well. We captured two-thirds of the spawning run. That's a little over 10,000 carp," said Bajer, who started the company Carp Solutions to develop technology and handle the removal.

Last summer, they removed an additional 6,000 carp with baited traps. The Rice Creek watershed includes Long Lake in New Brighton and the Lino Lakes chain of lakes in Anoka County.

"I think we put a big dent in the population last year," Kocian said. He said the watershed has invested about $200,000 in the equipment and installation. A state Clean Water, Land and Legacy Grant helped to kick-start the program. It will take several years to see results, they said.

Scientists have spent decades trying to remove invasive carp from American lakes and streams, often relying on seine fishing, which involves dragging a net across the bottom of a lake usually below the ice in the winter when the carp school.

"This method, it's difficult because a lot of the lakes have snags on the bottom. The nets get caught, allowing fish to escape," Bajer said.

Carp Solutions' new method traps and removes the invasive fish in the creek during spring spawning season.

The common carp found in Rice Creek and lakes and streams across the country came from Eastern Europe in the late 1800s.

"They were introduced purposefully by the U.S. Fisheries Commission. The settlers from Europe, they were requesting them," Bajer said.

Common carp were brought from Germany, bred in ponds in Washington, D.C., and then transported across the country in specially designed railcars. By the early 1900s, it started to become clear that introducing carp to American waters was a mistake.

"Within 20 years, people realized what had happened. They dig around in the bottom looking for food," said Bajer, citing a 1912 research paper on the plight of a Pike Lake in Wisconsin. "The vegetation was disappearing. The waters were turning muddy, and the ducks were not using the lake anymore."

Bajer said he began studying carp in the Twin Cities in about 2006. In 2013, scientists attached radio transmitters to adult carp in Long Lake and started tracking their movement. In the spring more than 90% of Long Lake's carp population left and swam up Rice Creek to spawn in the the Lino Lakes chain of lakes.

It was a eureka moment.

"If you have a big migration, that is very tempting to design something to remove them," he said.

Scientists installed a low-voltage electric guidance system in Rice Creek made by a Polish company, which funnels the fish into underwater traps. They had a conveyer belt specially designed to remove the live carp from the water.

They monitor the traps daily during the spring spawning season and regularly run the belt to remove the fish. Native fish caught including bass and bluegills are returned to the creek.

During the crush of migration, 95 to 99% of the fish caught in the trap are carp, Kocian said. An individual carp can weigh between 5 and 15 pounds. Smaller panfish can easily swim through the trap.

The carp are immediately euthanized with a natural fish anesthetic, Bajer said.

The carp are buried on farmland in northern Minnesota. That's because Carp Solutions is not licensed as a commercial fishing operation.

They hope their work at Rice Creek can serve as a model for carp removal in other water systems.

"Labor is the major cost in carp management," Bajer said. "We want to create something that is as automated and autonomous as we can."

[Rasputin]

I hate carp stupid ****ing fish



I'm just wishing you all good angling with lots of big fights and big catches.

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

Originally Posted by Rasputin

I hate carp stupid ****ing fish



I'm just wishing you all good angling with lots of big fights and big catches.

I'm chomping at the bit. Waiting for a day the wind is under 15 mph. Lake Meredith is unforgiving. May have a shot Wednesday. The next 45 days are the best days to fish all year long.

[Rasputin]

Originally Posted by Hog's Gone Fishin

I'm chomping at the bit. Waiting for a day the wind is under 15 mph. Lake Meredith is unforgiving. May have a shot Wednesday. The next 45 days are the best days to fish all year long.

I think it's been average 50mph winds all week. Today maybe nice but i'm not getting to go for now unfortunately that why I was wishing all good angling and big fish.

I tell you a story about fishing in 50+ mph winds and I had a plastic lizard lure and went out about where i could be little over waist deep without having to tip toe. But the waves were angry and I did abit struggle keeping above water at times. Anyways I'd cast and reel cast and reel cast and reel and bam fish on. **** yeah a nice size wiper. So I was so stoked and kept fishing me against Gods weather and I got another hit tip toeing reeling in another nice size wiper at times at neck high and holding onto the pole and got back to where I could reel him in. BAMF. Yeah maybe it was only two but hell even on a nice day catching one you might get skunked. I'd do it again if I could.


This was me that day

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by Rasputin

I think it's been average 50mph winds all week. Today maybe nice but i'm not getting to go for now unfortunately that why I was wishing all good angling and big fish.

I tell you a story about fishing in 50+ mph winds and I had a plastic lizard lure and went out about where i could be little over waist deep without having to tip toe. But the waves were angry and I did abit struggle keeping above water at times. Anyways I'd cast and reel cast and reel cast and reel and bam fish on. **** yeah a nice size wiper. So I was so stoked and kept fishing me against Gods weather and I got another hit tip toeing reeling in another nice size wiper at times at neck high and holding onto the pole and got back to where I could reel him in. BAMF. Yeah maybe it was only two but hell even on a nice day catching one you might get skunked. I'd do it again if I could.


This was me that day

cant WAIT to get back out on summer waters, hauling in whales... and if not that, at least a buzz will be caught

[threebag]

It’s time.

[HonestChieffan]

Fish on beds in farm ponds

[Dartgod]

Weather permitting, we'll be down at Truman the first week of May fishing for crappie and bass. I have a lot of fishing to do this year to make up for never wetting a line last year.

[Stewie]

With that many carp being caught in Minnesota, you'd think the price of a Filet-O-Fish would come down.