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2022 Fishing Thread

GCTerpfan said:
Absolutely, they were one of my favorite fish.

Unfortunately, this past year I developed an allergy to fish. Still trying to figure out exactly what sets it off/causes it but, the few times I've tried to eat striper in the past year has ended pretty miserably for me.
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We have them in some lakes down here where I’m at now but I haven’t fished for them yet. They look like a ton of fun. That sucks about the allergy to fish.
 
gcr0003 said:
Y’all ain’t told me how to catch em yet
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We catch almost all of ours on top water. It's not the most efficient way to catch them but, it is by far the most fun.

We throw a walking bait like a Heddon Super spook one knocker or a Tekel Kicknocker over shallow points and flats that have bait near deep water right at first light. You've got about 1 hour after first light for that pattern to work. After that first hour the Stripers move out to deeper water. If you can find them with your electronics and stay over them you can get a few to come up after a top water bait for a little while longer. A really overcast day can make the top water bite last a little longer but usually it's done by 8:30am. At that point you can drop live bait to the school or troll for them but, I personally find both of those methods boring and usually head back to the cabin to spend the rest of the day with the family (or take a nap).
 
gcr0003 said:
Y’all ain’t told me how to catch em yet
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Like he said above, top water walking baits are great. We also catch them on buzzbaits, pop-r's, crazy shads too if they are on top. If a school goes down, we switch to little george's, rattle traps or 3-4" curly tail grubs on a jig head, usually like half ounce or bigger so you can sling it. Use the jigs below dams too. I have only caught them on the rivers here, never fished the big lakes that have them. Not really into the whole trolling bait, downrigger stuff.
 
If they are surface feeding, they will hit just about anything and a lot of action and fun. Check your local fish consumption advisory before eating often.
 
BTaylor said:
Like he said above, top water walking baits are great. We also catch them on buzzbaits, pop-r's, crazy shads too if they are on top. If a school goes down, we switch to little george's, rattle traps or 3-4" curly tail grubs on a jig head, usually like half ounce or bigger so you can sling it. Use the jigs below dams too. I have only caught them on the rivers here, never fished the big lakes that have them. Not really into the whole trolling bait, downrigger stuff.
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I'll add the whopper plopper to the list of top water baits above that will catch stripers. It's my 13 yr olds favorite bait mostly because he likes saying the name. :)
 
Alright guys, looking for advice. I want to try to get my yak and line wet this weekend or next. There is an area of creek at the headwaters of the lake that is said to have large-mouth and spotted bass, as well as crappie. I really want to target crappie, but I don't know if this is the time of year for that, or anything for that matter(I've never fished for them before). Pretty muddy water with lots of flooded trees.
Any tips on getting on crappie...rigs, tackle, methods?
I've fished for bass in conditions like this before, but I'll take any pointers anyone wants to throw my way on them too. And are they good eating? Never tried any kind of bass before.
 
Went on vacation last week and took a little inshore fishing trip with my buddy. Captain warned us that the fishing had been tough lately and the first 2 hours certainly were. Tiny nibbles eating bait and all we had to show for it was a skate at our first stop. The 2nd and 3rd spots were empty. At one of those spots I lost a 10ish pound sheepshead right at the boat. Didn't cut the line, didn't bend the hook, didn't do anything wrong, just popped off after a few minute fight. Real kick in the pants after how the morning had started.

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Headed to our 4th spot and it did not disappoint as we spent the rest of our time there. 5 mins after arriving I was hooked into a good black drum.

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About 23" and most importantly within the slot limit to bring home

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My buddy caught a couple smaller keepers and then the real fun began. Hooked into a big one that made several drag ripping runs. Took 10 or 15 minutes to get him to the boat. He was about 30" and over slot so back to the water he went after a few pics. Note the tail on him. That thing sure could provide some power.

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Bite slowed for a little while but we caught a few more keeper drum, a couple toadfish that went back, and a pigfish that we were able to keep. We got back on them shortly before we needed to leave and my buddy was able to get into a stud too.

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All-in-all we caught the 2 big ones, 6 keepers between 15 and 23 inches, 2 toadfish, the skate, and a pigfish. The drum were a ton of fun, especially the bigger ones, and they were delicious. The pigfish was on the smaller end but the meat was fantastic. We chose to go the blackening route for dinner for all 7 fish and man was it fantastic! I should have taken more pics of the finished product but these will have to do.

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hokiehunter373 said:
Took the kids out last night for bluegills. We lasted an hour before we were all ready to pack it in because of how gross it was. Caught 4 bluegills worth keeping.

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Filleting the bluegills at home I found one of them looking like this

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I immediately tossed it and am assuming it's parasites but do any of you know for sure?
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They are fine to eat. The hot grease kills them. I always just pick em out with my fillet knife as I'm cleaning.
 
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Fished for a couple hours right at daylight Saturday and caught 14 white bass destined for some hot grease.


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Went on vacation to fenwick island, DE this week, wasn't in a great fishing spot where we were staying but I caught a baby spinner shark (pretty sure on ID but perhaps there's a more knowledgeable surf fisherman on here) yesterday AM. First shark I've caught ever so that was cool, even if it was less than half the legal keeping size!
 

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