My buddy has a 70 with local shiners, mosquitofish, a newt, a crawfish, and 2 green sunfish. It's planted with whatever he dug up from the ditch behind his house.
Cool little thing to have with small kids.
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2023 Fishing Thread
- Thread starter Nutterbuster
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Cool little thing to have with small kids.
Spent the morning testing the new tanago hooks that came in yesterday. They're incredible pieces of work. Eyeless and barbed, but it literally takes a magnifying glass for me to see the barb. I actually managed to inadvertently gut-hook the first couple of Gambusia I caught. They make the size 30 trout hook look like a big ole catfish hook.
Turned a half dozen crawlers into a full cooler. Goal this summer is 500 bluegill. 93 plus whatever is in this box so far!
Now this is a "contest" I could get into! Typically I sell them at a local seafood market...but since the ice season was non-existent this year my freezer is pretty bare.
Do they have to be Bluegill, or do other species like Pumpkinseed or Rock Bass count?
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It's not panfish season yet for me so trolled for Northerns today. Turned several gallons of gas into 8 catches, 4 keepers, and a gallon of pike fillets. Beautiful day on Champlain. Probably should be Walleye fishing, but I don't really know what I'm doing with that.
Did catch one perch. Can't wait to get after the sunnies.
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I kept a 40 gallon tank with small bass in for years. Would catch them as fry and keep them until the next summer, they would be about 6-7 inches and I’d swap them out for new fry. It was wild to watch them eat. I would drop a dozen Rosey’s in there and they would go crazy. The smallmouth were more aggressive than the large mouth. Sometimes they would be swimming around with the tails of 4 or5 minnows sticking out of their mouths. It was pretty wild.
I got into some black crappie on Saturday in my new kayak until I was putting a fish in the cooler and knocked my favorite ultralight into the water. Couldn't find it and catching non-fighting crappie on my bass rod would be completely boring so I went home. Caught one nice bluegill like Kyler always has pics of that made my little bream buster pole scream for a while. Wish I could find a bed of those!
I gotta tell ya…even with having a one month old daughter as a handicap, I can’t see losing this contest, unless some drastic life change occurred.
I’m 7-10 minutes from my driveway to boat in water, and within 0-5 minutes of endless bluegill beds and catching 15-20 fish an hour. Every cast. And an initiative from my wife to replace the freezer deer meat we’ve eaten with fish.
Someone might be able to catch more numbers than me, maybe, but measured in inches or pounds of bluegill, ain’t no way.
Wait, do we have any Texas members without jobs or kids? Or members near lake Havasu? They might kick my butt
I could compete on numbers, but not on size/ability to eat them. Seems like the gills in my local lake top out at like 3.5 inches but there's tons of em. Now that I've said that they will stop biting lol
- Oct 15, 2018
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I've never tried eating northerns, its walleye season here now but I was catching some good northerns in Feb/March. Is there a good way to deal with the bones? What's the meat like?
Same, I got a killer pumpkinseed lake (somewhat 'difficult' access relatively) I can hit 3x a day. Before work, lunch time. and after work.
I’ve eaten northerns from cold and warm water. I think the ones from cold water were better but I’m still not a fan. I can’t describe the taste other than “very fishy”.
I got my portable livescope setup done. Everything but the battery and it will be here this week. I hate to say it but I can foresee this cutting into my bow hunting time. We crappie fished this past winter and I’m pretty hooked on fall and winter fishing now.
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- Oct 15, 2018
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Last nights catch for dinner tonight. (2) largemouth and (1) walleye (17.5") for the evening. Bass went back, walleye went home with me.
Didn’t count. Scouted for an hour and picked up some new beds and a dozen or so. Catfish are showing up too. Ate 3 of those for dinner Sunday night. Have a dozen 1lb bags of fish in the freezer now. 18 to go!
Walleye are my favorite. I caught a 17” last time out. We can keep them year round and usually catch a few while crappie fishing.
- Oct 15, 2018
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- Warren County, PA
