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Interests => Hobbies => Topic started by: Gina on February 14, 2011, 12:06:54 PM
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Anyone fish? I am self employed and fish every day I can and on weekends with my son. Wanted to know if there were any fisherpeople out here.
Here is me catching a spotted bass on the Caney Fork River in TN. My baby was a month old. I left for a week long fishing trip (that is supposed to show you my dedication) :p
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My son catching some (same trip)
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Early morning
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hubby and son at Falls River
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My son winning 1st place at the fishing tournament
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Very cool. Not a fisher-person here, but I love to eat em. In the Hobbies thread, I think, catsmnrods posted pics of some rods he makes. You might want to take a look.
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Very cool. Not a fisher-person here, but I love to eat em. In the Hobbies thread, I think, catsmnrods posted pics of some rods he makes. You might want to take a look.
I rarely eat them. Mostly catch and release.
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I'm a fisherperson. :yahoo: And live with a di-hard fishingperson. We have 6 feet of filled upright rod holders in the garage....I have no idea how many boxes of tackle we moved over here back in the fall, I just remember it took him forever to pack it! :thatsright:
I've been primarily flats fishing off of Key West. Though I am getting a TN license in two weeks. :-)
I prefer catching baracudas, have caught permit, and a monster tarpon (abt 6', 120lb - on 10 pound test... :yahoo: ), but have never been able to catch a bonefish.
Did fish in The Mercury S.L.A.M. celebrity pro-am tournament for Cystic Fibrosis several years ago. Didn't come close to winning but did get to sit next to Jose Wejebe at the banquet dinner. OH. MY. :drool: M was sitting next to his totally gorgeous blonde centerfold-type wife. :bawl:
:lmao:
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I'm a fisherperson. :yahoo: And live with a di-hard fishingperson. We have 6 feet of filled upright rod holders in the garage....I have no idea how many boxes of tackle we moved over here back in the fall, I just remember it took him forever to pack it! :thatsright:
I've been primarily flats fishing off of Key West. Though I am getting a TN license in two weeks. :-)
I prefer catching baracudas, have caught permit, and a monster tarpon (abt 6', 120lb - on 10 pound test... :yahoo: ), but have never been able to catch a bonefish.
Did fish in The Mercury S.L.A.M. celebrity pro-am tournament for Cystic Fibrosis several years ago. Didn't come close to winning but did get to sit next to Jose Wejebe at the banquet dinner. OH. MY. :drool: M was sitting next to his totally gorgeous blonde centerfold-type wife. :bawl:
:lmao:
Hmmmmmm might have just found my new bff :naughty:
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Hubby fishes and he loves it, this is the 1st year in a long time where he didn't feel like ice fishing though.
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Beautiful spot, and yeah, I love to fish. I don't get out nearly as often as I'd like to, due to lots of other irons in the fire. I mostly catch and release too, cleaning fish has gone from being cool blood-and-guts man-vs.-wild stuff to being just kind of a pain-in-the-ass as I've gotten older.
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Hubby fishes and he loves it, this is the 1st year in a long time where he didn't feel like ice fishing though.
He found better things to do at home on those cold days? :naughty:
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He found better things to do at home on those cold days? :naughty:
Are you fishing for something? :naughty:
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I have caught just about every major freshwater game fish in OK and TX.
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He found better things to do at home on those cold days? :naughty:
:lmao:
:whistling:
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Are you fishing for something? :naughty:
Nah. I've always thought that whoever invented ice fishing must not have liked their wife much.
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Nah. I've always thought that whoever invented ice fishing must not have liked their wife much.
GOOD POINT :lmao:
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Nah. I've always thought that whoever invented ice fishing must not have liked their wife much.
No way the fish huts here on the Lampery river catching smelts were not fun back a time ago. Say 30 years ago.
I remember packing my year old baby on my back through a path of snow to the river and heading out for an ice hut. Lots of them out there and someone saw me coming and the fisherman came and led us to his Smelt Shack.
Nice these tiny huts , Colman lanterns and actually warm inside. A rectangle had been cut in the ice and a board with hooks atop them.
A bag of blood worms ready to go , sandwiches and drinks handy, we just had to wait for the tide and hear the call---They are Running.
The fisherman then grabbed the worms and skewered them to the hooks, dropped the board, pulled it up and removed the fish. No need to use more worms, or the board, the blood was on the hooks and just dropping them in the water caused the Smelts to attack.
We would come home with bushel baskets of those fish, head for the local fish market and make enough money to pay for heating oil.
This can be fun and profitable to those that enjoy it, I did this only 3 times and it was fun.
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I'm strictly an offshore saltwater fisherman. A friend of mine has a boat he keeps in San Diego and we will go out 60 to 80 miles in search of tuna, dorado, sharks, marlin and swordfish. I have slowed down in the past few years and haven't gone on as many trips since Im juggling 2 jobs and getting older. 12 -16 hours on the ocean plus fighting big gamefish can wreck havoc on an aging person.
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Does anyone else think Vesta's husband may have invented ice fishing?
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Does anyone else think Vesta's husband may have invented ice fishing?
:lol:
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I have caught just about every major freshwater game fish in OK and TX.
Catfish AND turtles?!? Wow!
:-)
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I practically live to fish. I flyfish mostly but will do anything to catch a fish. I make bamboo rods and tie flies too.
This is me with a nice catch of brown trout.
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Nice Browns!
I'm a fly/spin trout fisherman also.
Some Rainbows I caught last year:
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And , yes I was trolling out of a raft. :-)
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Catfish AND turtles?!? Wow!
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Well, there are a lot of them, but, throw in LM bass, B and W crappie, gar, striped bass and bluegill/red ear, too.
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I practically live to fish. I flyfish mostly but will do anything to catch a fish. I make bamboo rods and tie flies too.
This is me with a nice catch of brown trout.
(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p52/catsmtrods/Bobtrout.jpg)
Nice!!!! :naughty:
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If I get up to one of my favorite lakes this year (and I DO plan on going) I'll get some pics of the 5-10 lb Trout I usually catch there. :hyper:
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I get up to a Catskill Mtn. pond every year first thing after ice out. It is loaded with big brook trout. I generally get a few in the 17-20 inch range. About 17 years ago I had one that went 24. It had to weigh over 5 lbs and at that time it would have been the NYS record but it is wilderness camping and I ate it!
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I do a little bit of fishing now and again.
Freshwater light line (4-6lb) with hard plastic lures in the far upstream reaches of creeks.
Medium line (30-40lb) with hard or soft plastic lures in dams and rivers and estuaries.
Offshore reef fishing with 100lb bait or lure.
Offshore open water with 80+lb trolled lure.
Pretty much everything caught in the salt - goes to the table if it's legal size and species.
Everything caught in the freshwater is catch'n'release.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41692545/ns/us_news-environment/
Anyone have a problem with Rock Snot ?????
Years ago the wonderful lake I spent my summers on became a night mare. Seems that after a million years of being pure, people were infesting the lake with blood suckers that hitch hiked on the bottoms of boats as they were hauled from lake to lake.
Never forget the horror of pushing our boat off the sand to find a pile of those varmints. Half a box of Morton salt did a job on them but I never felt safe again going into the water without wondering if one of those nastys would clomp down on me.
How does a teenage female pull one of those nastys off her back -- how does anyone touch those things in the first place.?
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41692545/ns/us_news-environment/
Anyone have a problem with Rock Snot ?????
Years ago the wonderful lake I spent my summers on became a night mare. Seems that after a million years of being pure, people were infesting the lake with blood suckers that hitch hiked on the bottoms of boats as they were hauled from lake to lake.
Never forget the horror of pushing our boat off the sand to find a pile of those varmints. Half a box of Morton salt did a job on them but I never felt safe again going into the water without wondering if one of those nastys would clomp down on me.
How does a teenage female pull one of those nastys off her back -- how does anyone touch those things in the first place.?
WTF? The article is about algae, but it sounds like you're talking about leeches.
(http://www.theharteofmarketing.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/leech.jpg)
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just got back from fishing all day at the Loosahatchie river, SUCKED! water temp was 67 degrees and nothing was biting
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WTF? The article is about algae, but it sounds like you're talking about leeches.
(http://www.theharteofmarketing.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/leech.jpg)
I believe I was speaking of most any kind of invasive species that travel or are carried to a place that is foreign to them.
Fresh water lakes are undergoing all kind of threats from pollution to foreign critters with no natural enemies.
It is not just for fisherman to fight to keep our natural beauty pure, the cycle of life depends on clean lakes and streams.
Example---If an invasive species came in and destroyed the underwater plants and natural algae to our wild rice, we would have allot of starving Moose up here. All our wild life would be in trouble from the fish to the birds.
Few really take this seriously until the process cannot be stopped. Check out our great lakes that now have a problem with this foreign fish that grows to 3-4 feet long and has no natural enemy. FOX News tried to gather some top notch Chiefs that are known to make a SEA GULL tasty and challenged them to make this fish palatable. Very difficult, they fried them, steamed them, boiled them roasted them but the results were very mixed. This fish will never become a staple on anyones plate here in the USA, perhaps they can be sold in Asia as that is where I believe they came from in the first place.
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Some that I stabbed early in the mornin
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Some dolphin, a small wahoo and king
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just got back from fishing all day at the Loosahatchie river, SUCKED! water temp was 67 degrees and nothing was biting
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH how I HATE the Loosahatchie!!! When I was in Millington, a classmate of mine & I decided to raft down the Loosahatchie. Damned Water Moccasins were trying to get in the raft by dropping off of trees or trying to slither into the raft!! We couldn't get of of that river quick enough. WE put in just outside of Millington and rafted about an hour and a half downstream.
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Didn't see any snakes, the water levels went down pretty bad this past summer and are just getting back to normal.
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Didn't see any snakes, the water levels went down pretty bad this past summer and are just getting back to normal.
They might still be hibernating this time of year.