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

It’s time.

Fish on beds in farm ponds

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.

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

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Here's a 34" steelhead that I caught this last weekend on the Situk:

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Look at this little fisherman go

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On this Day a fishing legend was born. This Grandpa will teach him the ways but he will be greater than I.
He will be greatest fisherman as it was prophesied in ancient carvings.

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Not much but at least I got on the lake

3 walleye
2 white bass
1 crappie

Fishing is what indians did for food. Now its what white men pay a licensing fee to do. It gone commercial. Now you gotta hire guides. It just isnt natural.

The Fishing Thread
 

Went out last night on Smithville lake with a couple friends Caught a couple 3lb channels and a couple snapping turtles. Got a good shot of one of those bait stealing bastards.

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Those cock suckers. I got a turtle buster knife like Crocodile Dundee for those bastard snappers


I have PTSD with Snappers because a while back at Pratt Lake I had a great day fishing 3 nice large mouth and two probably 7 lbs cats. I had them on a stringer for the night. In the morning I pull up my fish all excited but when I pulled them up out of the water they were lite **** they were all gutted what in the **** . Then I seen him, a massive shell just enough to see the up out of the water. I was so pissed I started throwing rocks at the son of a bitch and I've never gotten over it and never will. Snappers are my nemesis.

Well since I'm not up to par to go fishing I've just watch some vids of others being happy in life while I suffer and not going fishing is depressing.

So here is a vid i think you all would enjoy a dude goes fishing in Guyana with a guide.

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Heading to Destin this weekend for a few days of fishing.

Big trip this year is to Bovec, Slovenia to fly fish the Soca River for a few days. Definite bucket list trip getting checked off this year.

Any tips for someone interested in getting back into the hobby?

I have been out of it for nearly 15 years.

Holy shit! That should be a great trip. Provide photos when you return.

Beautiful morning rolling in on the lake. One decent channel and a drum.

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Depends on whether you're talking about gear fishing or fly fishing or whatever. Also warmwater species or cold or saltwater.

If it's gear fishing I've been out of the game too long to give accurate advice about gear, brands/models, but if it's fly fishing let me know.

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In Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick,'' the antagonist, Ahab, is so fixated with pursuing the great white whale of the book's title that Ahab's obsession results in his demise, and not in a pleasant way.

Though invoking timeless questions about man's futile attempt to conquer nature, the tale, on its face, is simple enough, and — to this day — is often repeated.

Sometimes the fish wins.

But not always.

Paul Schiller and his wife, Rachel Daly, of Minneapolis were on Lake Minnetonka last Saturday, and can attest to it.

Unlike many weekend recreationists on that 14,000-acre lake, they were not astraddle Jet Skis or at the wheel of a wake boat. Instead, they were in their 16-foot Crestliner, fishing rods in hand, dragging nightcrawlers.

"I fish every weekend,'' said Schiller, 52, an engineer. "If I'm not in my boat, I like to fish from shore, beneath dams. I'm almost always looking for walleyes. Never for muskies.''

Yet when Schiller and Daly departed the metro's largest lake a week ago, it wasn't the three keeper walleyes they caught that memorialized the excursion.

Rather it was a 52-inch muskie they also landed that rendered the outing unforgettable — a trophy of a lifetime they boated after catching a 21-inch walleye affixed to another hook on the same nightcrawler harness.

Muskie guide Josh Stevenson of the Twin Cities pursues Minnesota's toothiest fish 120 days or more a year. He's never heard of such a thing.

"First, to get a muskie to eat a worm almost never happens,'' Stevenson said. "Second, to land a walleye on a separate hook on the same harness, that doesn't happen, either. Ever.''

Schiller and Daly already had two Minnetonka walleyes in their live well when Schiller's line drew tight about 2 p.m. last Saturday. He didn't know what he had hooked. But it was hefty, and it stayed deep.

"Five minutes or so passed before I got the fish close enough to the surface to see it was a muskie,'' Schiller said. "I had only 8-pound-test line, so I loosened the drag on my reel. I didn't want to put too much pressure on her.''

The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has monitored Lake Minnetonka's fish populations since 1949. Muskies were first stocked in the lake in 1974, and in the years since, a reasonably good population of Esox masquinongy has flourished in Minnetonka — a word that, translated from the original Dakota, means "great water.''

For anglers, Minnetonka is just that — great. One of the best largemouth bass lakes in the state, Minnetonka also holds healthy panfish populations. Additionally, its walleyes are often pursued successfully by those who know the lake and how to fish its milfoil, particularly in spring and early summer, and in fall.

The muskie caught by Paul Schiller.


Rachel Daly held the walleye caught on the same harness, nabbed by the muskie.
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That said, many anglers who regularly cast for muskies in Minnetonka believe their numbers have fallen in the lake over the past decade or so.

It's possible also that 'Tonka's muskies have become increasingly close-mouthed due to heavy angler pressure.

Either way, a DNR gill net survey in 2019 yielded only two muskies with an average weight of 23 pounds, a sizable difference from the estimated 45 pounds Schiller's 52-incher weighed.

"When we saw the muskie near the surface we didn't realize it had a walleye in its mouth,'' Schiller said. "We didn't see the walleye until we got the muskie close enough to the boat and my wife tried to get its head into our walleye net. As she did, the walleye, which had one of the harness's hooks in its mouth, dropped into the net, breaking the hook as it did. Amazingly, for being in the muskie's mouth, the walleye had only a little scuffing on its sides, but no lacerations.''

Added Schiller: "When the walleye dropped into the net, Rachel was like, 'Where did that come from?''

Attempting again to escape, and diving, the muskie was tethered to Schiller by the third hook on the harness — two back from the hook that snared the walleye.

Hoping to maneuver the big fish alongside the boat, Schiller believed he might be able to reach beneath it, cradle it in his arms, and lift it over the Crestliner's gunwale.

"When we finally got the muskie next to the boat, we could see she had the bottom hook of the nightcrawler harness in the corner of her mouth,'' Schiller said. "I couldn't get the hook out while the muskie was in the water, so Rachel supported its head in the net while I got one hand under its belly and the other under its tail and lifted it into the boat.''

Their intent with the muskie was far more benevolent than Ahab's was with Moby-Dick.

Ahab, Melville wrote in 1851, wanted to chase "that white whale on both sides of land . . . . till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out.''

Said Schiller, "We just wanted to get the muskie unhooked and release her. Which we did. I revived her for a bit when we got her back into the water, and she swam away strongly.''

Asked if anyone from Minnetonka's Saturday afternoon Jet Ski and wakeboard crowd gathered to watch the struggle that produced such a magnificent fish, and memory, Schiller said no.

"They didn't seem to notice,'' he said.

Hell of a catch there displacedinMN holy shit ****ing awesomeness. How long was the battle to reel that sombitch in on 8lb test line?

not me. But I love dropping fishing stories. We have a lot here.

I kinda wondered that but I thought you were sharing a local news paper I know I'd be a braggart if it were me :D

I love fishing stories too.

What I also thought was impressive it that it came from Minnetonka. It is a very busy, high traffic lake. It has been cold/below average, so maybe not as many boats as a typical warmer spring and Memorial day.

It is damn impressive considering almost every bit of shoreline has a house and dock on it.

It was damn impressive considering the rarity of a Muskie that size. I’d like to get a Muskie on the fly but it’s way down my list of fish to get. That, though, is a very impressive fish.

Minnows ready for duty tomorrow

I've been hammering the smallmouth on a feeder creek about 1/2 mile from my lake home. I throw a floating frog pattern made out of deer hair. These Smallmouth group up in the head waters and just slash the shit out of it.
So much fun on a fly rod.

Sounds awesome man, topwater fishing is sooo much fun... and smallies fight even harder than largemouth in my experience

Lefty Karen’s favorite freshwater fish was the smallmouth. Maybe because living in MD, those were quite plentiful near him. I understand that smallmouth are a tremendous freshwater fish. If I had them in my neighborhood I would certainly target them.

That is really cool. I’ve tried to get trout on a mouse pattern and it really depends on time of year. Early in the year I can do it. But after about July 1, won’t happen. And I fish a lot in September, which is late season for us, so I’m using eggs and flesh flies.

If you’re going to talk about fly fishing, you need to talk about the rod - brand, length, weight, etc.

I fish with the fly rod exclusively. Not because it’s some elite way to fish, because it’s not. I flyfish because it’s more productive.
For Trout in NE Iowa I use a 9’ St Croix Legend 4Wt with WF floating line. Here you use the same tactics as you would employ anywhere where you are targeting trout. If they are on dry flys that’s what I throw. Around here that means caddis and blue wing olives 18-22. Most of the time I’m rigging nymphs, bead headed in double rig fashion.

If it’s a super small stream with Brookies I will use my St Croix Legend 7.5 ft 3wt.
This rods a blast in tight spaces and with a big one on it’s a great.

St Croix makes good rods but what I really like is their warranties. When I break a tip it’s $20 with lighting fast turnaround.

For Bass, Large Mouth and Smallies, I employ a close-out Scott fly rod that is 9’ 5wt. This is my work rod and it’s durable enough for the kayak. Sometimes I will overload it with WF 6wt. I primarily use top water patterns like foam hoppers, frogs and large poppers. If I can see the bass I will target them with large streamers.

Finally I have a St.Croix Imperial 9’ft 8wt with WF floating line that I use for carp.
Every late May-August my home river has pools behind wing dams that hold hundreds of carp. When it gets hot, and the river is stable, these carp rise and slurp scum cottonwood seeds and large insects. I tie a simple cottonwood pattern in size 12 and it’s game on. Floating crabapple patterns work as well.
If you’ve never caught a huge carp on the fly you are missing out. They run and fight till the last. We call them the cheap bonefish.

So I just got back from the annual "There's no Fish in Wyoming" July fishing trip. I couldn't go last year, and the year before no one could go. So, I haven't been in nearly three years.

Needless to say, I've been looking forward to this trip for a looooong time. And it didn't disappoint. Late season thunderstorms filled the reservoir up, giving us plenty of water below the dam, and consequently lots of great fishing, though we missed the stonefly hatch by a couple days.

No matter, plenty of toads were hooked, and many were landed. Well, enough words, on to the fish porn.

The "There's no Fish in WY" 2022 crew:

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First cutt of the trip for moi:
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Basecamp 2022:
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Rod's world-famous breakfast burros:
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Revenge is mine on this Ham bow that kicked my ass the night before:
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End of Part I

Part II:

Steve-O showing us how it's done:
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Another 20+ inch Ham Bow:
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After dinner smoking of the feet, waiting for the evening bite:
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Rod with the rare pug-nosed beergut bow:
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The Obligatory post-T-storm Rainbow:
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There's a hilarious story to this pic, but I've been forbidden to even think about it:
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WY skies never disappoint:
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My PB SR cutt, 25-26 inches:
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Big, bad, Leroy:
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So cool Megatron96.
You on the North Platte?

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This looks like Pickaroon

On the Green, below Fontenelle.

Last week I was in the Aspen area, so I hit up the Frying Pan one day and did the Roaring Fork three other days. Everything was taken on a #20 gray RS2. I saw lots of stonefly nymphs on the rocks, but they didn't want anything to do with those. Everything came on the trailing RS2.


Here is a nice rainbow from the Frying Pan:


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I caught a lot of long skinny browns on the Roaring Fork in the 14-15 inch range:


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Also, I stumbled on a rock while wading upstream. My phone was in my upper wader pocket. It is a Samsung S8 Active, which is a beefed up version of a Galaxy, so it's supposed to be waterproof and dropproof. Well it's sure as hell not even the least bit water resistant. It got maybe 3 inches deep in the water for about 5 seconds and it was dead. I eventually revived it by prying off the back cover and putting it in rice for three days and it powered on once the insides were dry. In the meantime, I bought a cheap $70 prepaid phone from Walmart, and it worked quite well for me.

Nice loochy

This is the longest stretch in my life since 5yo fishing creeks. This year just has been brutal on me however I'm feeling good and putting in way extra overtime I'll have 96 hours overtime for two weeks at the end of this pay period. Then I'm going continue the grind but I got a three day weekend in September 2nd 3rd and 4th and them bastards better be biting.

I was catfishing at my parent's pond, using chicken liver as bait.

Hooked into this guy. Didn't know that grass carp bit on chicken liver, but what a fight.

Dad says he's around 17 years old. Our guess was around 3 feet long and 20-25 pounds.

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Middle of summer sucks for fishing anyway. Wait until fall. It's better

The beer and just being “away” makes it worth it. Hitting up Taneycomo Wednesday.

Love Taneycomo one of my favorite places on this earth.

Also damn those guns on Looch, you didn't get those by reeling in brownies.

Love fishing the Frying Pan.
How were the water levels?
Last time I was there we were hammering them on #20 BWO.

Water was fine...steady flow out of the dam and the guide said the temperatures were staying nice and cold. While I was there we had no hatch action. He said green drakes had been hatching in the evenings but not much happened for us that day. Most of the day I used a rig of 3 gray rs2s with splitshot to get it deep.


The Colorado River was closed to fishing, though, because it was up over 70 degrees.

Thats not so, according to everything I've read

A fish' metabolism is higher when its hot, the hotter it is, the hungrier they are

:thumb:
Love catching Bass in the early morning and evening during the summer.

Yep they bite just fine in the dog days of summer, just gotta fish the right spots and times

No, it sucks beacsue

1) it's hot AF outside and not enjoyable
2) they head deep to seek the cooler water and that makes them harder to access
3) they come up at dawn and dusk, but who wants to get up at dawn?

Fish are catchable in any season, but some times are much more enjoyable than others

Check this shit out. Busted for shoving 8 pounds of led balls down his catch to win tournament.

NSFW because you can vaguely hear one guy cussing in the background

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A couple of scumbag, cheating, low down, piece of shit mother****ers.

I'm surprised they were even allowed in the tournament considering one of the failed polygraph for a tourny and disqualified in 2021.

Just think , he had to go home and tell the wife :

Hi Honey , how was your tournament, Did you win again ?

Well the good news is , yeah we won.

The bad news is they found out how!

This really blew up on social media. Tiktok even blew it up in a non fishing type of trend and a lot of people who know nothing about fishing tournaments got exposed to the bad side of the sport.

There are several other social media pictures where, with hindsight, you can clearly see odd lumps in the bellies of other fish they claimed unusually heavy weights on.

From the size of those fish it looks like they may have had enough to win anyways.LMAO

There's a bunch of pissed off mofos who been taking 2cnd place to those two. That's a helluva a lot of money to get cheated out of.

That's what I thought. They weighed 33 pounds with the 8 pounds of led and the 2nd place was 16 pounds. They ****ed themselves.

Heard today those guys have raked in over 3 million the last few years.

Watched all about it this morning over coffee

Worst thing I've ever seen, fishing wise... those guys should've gotten their ass beat right then and there

Just because they had the fish doesn't mean they caught them that day, or that they even caught them at all. Cheating doesn't have to stop with weights. They could have other people drop fish off to them, catch them days early, etc. You see it in bass tournaments some times where they have bass in a box with a bobber on it and they pull the pre-caught bass out.

Those turds apparently also won six other recent tourneys, almost certainly using the same methods

You'd think it would be easier to spot, you pick up an obvious three pounder that feels more like five?

Why they don't run a metal detector across all the fish baskets is beyond me.

At first blush that seems terribly obvious. The problem is reality. Fish eat all sorts of things, and it's not that unusual to find old hooks/metal beads/etc. inside a fish's guts.

And also I think a big party of it is just that fishing tournaments to a large extent operate on the honor system. At least they used to 30 years ago when I used to enter them.

If there's anything I hate, it's people that don't follow the rules. Rules were made to be followed.

:LOL:

Oh yeah, **** Tom Brady!

Alaska Fly Fishing Trip

For the past several years, I've traveled to southwest Alaska in mid September to fly fish for rainbow trout, Arctic char, and grayling. There are usually about 8-12 of us and because we have so many people, we get a good discount on the trip - about ⅓ off. The trip is not cheap in the absolute sense but the discount is substantial.

We are planning the 2023 trip (spots fill quickly) and a few people who usually go cannot make it. The dates are September 9 - 16. So I have spots for at least 2 people if anybody is interested. I will not disclose the lodge name except to interested parties. Generally we fly out on a Saturday. We have enough people we charter a flight, which sounds really impressive but it's routine practice out here. There are a lot of 'airlines' that are one or two planes that fly between Anchorage and different parts of this state. The lodge has waders and gear if you don't want to bring your own or if you don't have your own gear. Our group generally brings their own gear but we've had guests in the past who have never fly fished before and used the lodge's gear and had a great time.

The stay is from Saturday to Saturday. The day's schedule is generally as follows: breakfast around 7:15. It's made fresh at the lodge. Past breakfasts have included waffles, bacon and eggs, biscuits and gravy, salmon hash, etc. Around 8:00-8:30 you depart for where you are scheduled. Some people go up local rivers accessed by boat. Some are flown out to remote Alaska rivers. Trips are guided and for the fly-outs, the guides are usually flown out first so they can inflate the self-bailing catarafts. It's a drift float down the river aiming for rainbows and sometimes char. Shore lunch is provided. Specialty fly-outs include a fly out for grayling or a fly out for silver (coho) salmon. Salmon are the only fish kept because of state regs. At the end of the day (around 4:00 or so), head back to the lodge, shower and get ready for dinner. Appetizers/snacks are usually put out for guests. Beer and wine is provided although most people will bring a bottle or two of bourbon so there are a lot of bottles on the bar. Dinner is about 6:30 and it is good. Past dinners include rack of lamb, prime rib, Alaska crab and shrimp broil, wood smoked salmon while desserts frequently utilize local berries picked by the chef from right around the lodge. Guides take pictures and they are posted on a TV behind the bar. After dinner people chill or watch some football or drink.

Price breakdown:

$6700 for the lodge for the week - includes guides, food, beer/wine, lodging, and at least 3 fly outs if the weather is good. One reason we keep getting invited back is because we don't bitch if the weather is bad and the pilot says, "Not flying today." There have been 2 days when the weather was bad enough we just did not go out at all. That is out of 7 years. I tell my wife that going out there for a week is cheaper than therapy and far more effective. I think she's just glad I'm out of the house for a week no matter the cost.
$575 flight from Anchorage to lodge and back
tip - usually 10% to the staff and any extra to a guide or staff member that went above and beyond the call of duty.
Waders are for rent. I think its $100 per week but the 2 people that have come with us who rented waders never discussed getting a bill so I don't know how that works. Rods and gear are available and I don't think there's a cost for them.
$45 - 1 week non-resident fishing license.

As I said, I know it's not cheap. But I also know what it costs to get all of the food and fuel and equipment transported out to these lodges and the cost to run those planes. For comparison, a do-it-yourself trip to Western Alaska, staying in a wall tent, is about $5000. Full price, this trip is about $10,000. But if you fly fish, you'll have the trip of a lifetime. You'll fish rivers like the Iliamna, the Copper, the Gibraltar, the Moraine, Battle Creek, the Kvichak (pronounced 'kwee-jack') and others. You can reasonably expect, depending on weather, numerous rainbow trout over 20" and likely over 25". Depending on where you can get to, you can have a shot at a rainbow over 30". You can spend a week outside of cell phone range, although there is WiFi at the lodge. You will see bears - about 20-50 per week is what we average. Sometimes you will see them quite, quite close, as in a few feet away. Guides and some guests (like yours truly) will have guns. I've never had to shoot at a bear but I have thought I might need to fire a round in the air to scare away an overly curious bear.

I keep saying this is a fly fishing trip because the regs for that area prohibit the use of any bait, alive or dead, and require a single-hook fly to catch fish and non-salmon must be released. So no, you won't eat any rainbow or grayling or char that you catch. And with the regs written as they are, spin casting or bait casting is really impractical. Hence a fly fishing trip.

If you're interested, drop me a DM and I can give you some more details or answer any other questions you might have. We have a group of regulars who in the past have invited guests and every person that has come on this trip has enjoyed it immensely.

Tiss the season




I was knocked out of the game last year didn't even get to go once. This year I'm making a comeback and have a trip down to the Bayou and catch some big Cat and I'm going alligator hunting. This trip could cost an arm and a leg when I'm done.

You want to go spend some stupid money, go GT fishing in the Seychelles. A week is about $50,000, no airfare.

Oh yeah I'm with you there, last year was one of my worst... circumstances conspired to really limit things

But thats being fixed this summer, with much more catch n cook as well

We'll be needing pics of that gator hunt!

We loaded back up some Abu Garcia rods and reels, 12 of them. Hopefully going to throw some braid on them this weekend.

Hitting the farm ponds tomorrow. Supposed to be rainy. Will see how it goes.

going fly-fishing Sunday for wipers, stripers, carp and LMs!!! Whoo-hoo!!! Just bought some hooks, so tying up some big-eye clousers and carp bugs tomorrow. Going to be a really good day.

Where ya fishing at, as I recall you're in the southwest... any place special?

The Agua Fria mouth at Lake Pleasant north of Phoenix. Shhh, it's a secret.:p

Seriously, the AF rarely runs enough water in the spring to get the fish to move up into it, but this year is one of those years, and it's a lot of fun. Several bottlenecks only a dozen yards wide, and the channel is pretty obvious most of the way, so the casting/fishing is pretty easy. Sunday the water will actually probably be a little too high and definitely pretty muddy, but that's like a dinner bell. They'll be in there, and hungry. I just have to size up a little, put heavier eyes on my flies to get them down in that fast water. The fish will do the rest.

I went a couple weeks ago when there was just enough flow, and stuck at least 30 fish, landed 16? 6-8 white bass/wipers, two small stripers, one 2.5-lb. LMB, one 5-lb. cat, and three common carp. Four break-offs using 12-lb. test, so a couple lunkers in there I didn't see.

Wow, really sounds like they're bunched up in in that thing... thats krazy action

Love fishing small waters like that, the fish are so much easier to locate

Just find those deep pools and hit' em hard

Yeah, we're really targeting the whites and stripers, and they tend to stay in the channel, and the channel is usually no more than 3 feet deep and about 6-10 feet wide max, so it's pretty easy.

The carp/Cats/LMBs will be in the shallower spots, flats, sunken bars ahead of and behind the bends/pools. It's a lot of fun, and there's always the chance to stick a 40-lb. carp or a 20-lb. striper.

Well shit. Looks like my Louisiana gator hunting trip is officially a bust. I haven't heard back from my friend in two weeks he must have got ate by a gator I'm assuming. ****er invites me out then ghost me. WTF ??


That's ok today I spent a half million dollars on fishing gear i needed anyways, including a new Abu Garcia that'l be my main kayaking pole. I'm ready to go ****ing fishing I'm off 11 days. I'm not as rich as threebag to buy 12 Abu Garcia of them but I stocked up on hooks and leads and anything else i could think of I was low on.


Not going fishing for a year is like not getting laid for a year. Got to get my fishing on.

That's too bad... Is his name Robert or Dennis?

Headed to Taneycomo to slay Rainbows in 2 weeks. CAN. NOT. WAIT!