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2023 Fishing Thread

Nutterbuster said:
Messing around with some little bitty Bobby Garland jigs on a roadside ditch creek. 1.25" instead of the usual 2".

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Anybody mess around with Tenkara rods/flys? Been eyeballing them for a couple of years. I think it'd be fun to have something you could stick in a pack for little duck ponds and deer woods creeks. And since I can't for the life of me work a western style fly rod it may be my only shot for trying out a local fellas mayfly imitation when they swarm the rivers every summer.
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That's almost the exact little grub I use in the early season too. 1/32 or 1/16 oz head and drop it into any bush or dock you find. Last monday it was crappie in the local lake marina area.
 
Ckwilli said:
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First batch of crappie this year. It’s been pretty good fishing so far.


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I ate my first batch last tuesday. I went for cajun seasoning with butter and skipped the breading this time. delicious.
 
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casts_by_fly said:
I ate my first batch last tuesday. I went for cajun seasoning with butter and skipped the breading this time. delicious.
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I’m letting my fish “marinate” in a healthy amount of yellow mustard in the fridge for an hour or so. I typically use Old Bay and flour to fry it in.
 
Ckwilli said:
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I’m letting my fish “marinate” in a healthy amount of yellow mustard in the fridge for an hour or so. I typically use Old Bay and flour to fry it in.
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What does the mustard do? I've used mustard for my bbq adventures but never on fish
 
I'm always switching up my breading, gotta keep everyone on their toes. Hundreds of combos you can come up with. I would say my favorite go-to components, other than regular old flour which is usually the foundation, are crushed ritz crackers, saltines, and PAN which is a pre-cooked cornmeal used in latin american cooking mostly for arepas.
 
Mustard as a "wash" is my favorite way to go. And I've made/tried a lot of breading. My personal favorite is this stuff:


And if I don't have peanut oil I just ain't frying fish. End of discussion. You want fried fish? Go get me some peanut oil then.

The other go-to is a dusting of Tony Chachere's low-sodium, a hot skillet, and a lot of butter.
 
Nutterbuster said:
Mustard as a "wash" is my favorite way to go. And I've made/tried a lot of breading. My personal favorite is this stuff:


And if I don't have peanut oil I just ain't frying fish. End of discussion. You want fried fish? Go get me some peanut oil then.

The other go-to is a dusting of Tony Chachere's low-sodium, a hot skillet, and a lot of butter.
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Agreed on the Zatarain's. Great stuff. I found a spicy version I'm about to try next.

I've used canola due to cost mostly. Aware that peanut fries better...may have to break down and splurge for it.

Never tried mustard. Always use egg/milk wash.

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Nutterbuster said:
Mustard as a "wash" is my favorite way to go. And I've made/tried a lot of breading. My personal favorite is this stuff:


And if I don't have peanut oil I just ain't frying fish. End of discussion. You want fried fish? Go get me some peanut oil then.

The other go-to is a dusting of Tony Chachere's low-sodium, a hot skillet, and a lot of butter.
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I used that Zatarins on my last batch. I shallow fried it with peanut oil because I didn't want to use a whole jug of it. I think I'm still partial to beer batter. Maybe its 12 years in the UK where you get the best fried fish on earth. if I'm going to the trouble to fry it, I'm going whole hog with beer batter.

Man, you guys have me wanting to go catch a few more crappie for dinner this weekend.

thanks,
rick
 
Nutterbuster said:
Confession time...

I grew up with a spinning rod inshore and surf fishing the gulf coast, and didn't learn to throw a baitcaster until a couple of years ago. I now own 3 swedish ambassadeurs and a tatula...and they're all left handed models. I can't understand for the life of me why you'd cast and then swap hands to reel, especially if you're actively fishing and are gonna do it thousands of times in a day.

Sucks they're not reversable. That changes my whole outlook. How good/bad are the new upper-end zebcos? The omegas and the bullets and the platinum model 33?
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When I was fishing bass tournament alot I used left hand bait casters exclusively. Alot of the guys in my club gave me grief for it. I had the same philosophy as you. WHY would you switch hands everything time you cast.

I have owned all kinds reels and use them all, including some 33s. They are great to introduce newbies to fishing and work great if you want to skip jigs or worms up under docks. Like everything else. Get the right tool for the job makes the job doable and does it better. Same with reels.
 
Sziggy2.0 said:
When I was fishing bass tournament alot I used left hand bait casters exclusively. Alot of the guys in my club gave me grief for it. I had the same philosophy as you. WHY would you switch hands everything time you cast.

I have owned all kinds reels and use them all, including some 33s. They are great to introduce newbies to fishing and work great if you want to skip jigs or worms up under docks. Like everything else. Get the right tool for the job makes the job doable and does it better. Same with reels.
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I always use left hand spinning reels but right handed bait casters. I figure the switching of hands on bait casters gave me opportunity to pick out backlashes.
 
Ckwilli said:
Good one! Have you tried using a Ned rig? I’ve started using it and really like the results.
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I was fishing a Ned rig way before they were a "thing." As a kid I was broke and fishing for small bass in the creek behind my house so I'd cut a YUM dinger in half and rig it on a crappie jig head.

My only beef with them is down here there's a lot of junk on the river/creek bottom and they get hung something terrible. But I just bought the little z-man value pack that has 3 different soft baits and some 1/10 and 1/6 heads. I like that elaztech plastic they use.
 
Nutterbuster said:
I was fishing a Ned rig way before they were a "thing." As a kid I was broke and fishing for small bass in the creek behind my house so I'd cut a YUM dinger in half and rig it on a crappie jig head.

My only beef with them is down here there's a lot of junk on the river/creek bottom and they get hung something terrible. But I just bought the little z-man value pack that has 3 different soft baits and some 1/10 and 1/6 heads. I like that elaztech plastic they use.
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On real snaggy creeks I use a 1/32 or 1/16 bullet weight pegged with a rubber band piece and a #1 owner widegap worm hook for a texas rigged ned. The ned bullets from zman are nice too.

As broke kids we would take a 1/16 crappie jig and file the top of the head flat, cut the lead neck/collar on the head and use super glue to hold the plastic.
 
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