hokiehunter373
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Some bass bycatch is never anything to complain about either. 2 on a rooster tail and 1 on a jerkbait. This one was the prettiest.
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2023 Fishing Thread
- Thread starter Nutterbuster
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i just got back from a long weekend visiting my parents in St Pete. it's not great fishing right now (and to be honest, they don't have the right gear/spots nailed down yet, i'm trying to make suggestions on rigs, lures, and terminal tackle etc. but my dad prefers to use what his friends suggest since they're locals.) but i learned to throw a 10' cast net for pinfish, and we had some success catching black sea bass, spot, and porgies on them and shrimp. it was a fun trip, we never got skunked, though i only caught a few each day. They said i pulled more fish into the boat this weekend than they have total in the last few years lol so perhaps my tackle/rigs/location suggestions will gain a bit more traction now even though by my standards our "success" was marginal at best and we didn't keep anything to eat.
hoping to make it out to Alaska to visit my brother in July and chase some Halibut and Salmon again, if i do i'll report back with photos. Not sure if that will happen or not, as i have tickets booked for a week of deer/bear hunting with him on Admiralty Island this September, so two trips in a year may be stretching the budget a bit, but that's a trip for a different thread.
hoping to make it out to Alaska to visit my brother in July and chase some Halibut and Salmon again, if i do i'll report back with photos. Not sure if that will happen or not, as i have tickets booked for a week of deer/bear hunting with him on Admiralty Island this September, so two trips in a year may be stretching the budget a bit, but that's a trip for a different thread.
After a 25+ year hiatus from attempting to eat trout, I tried some fresh caught from one of our local rivers a couple weeks back. Gag a freakin maggot nasty just like every other time or way I have tried it. Makes fine coon bait though. Nail a metal stringer to a tree, hang your trouts on there with a little jingle bell or empty rink can. In town you may draw as many cats as you do coons but they are fine practice too. If you get a banded one, dont call in about it. Dont work the same way duck bands do.
You’re eating the wrong trout. Specks are way better than rainbows.
Fine eatin right there, no doubt!! Sardines in hot sauce with a sleeve of crackers are monumentally better than fresh water trout.
Mmmmmm sardines, saltines, and hot sauce……
Caught a few of these in the local river. Some kind of bluegill I guess?
Pumpkin Seed! Super pretty fish. One of the earliest spawning "bream."
As far as trout gagging maggots...I have a buddy who just straight up doesn't like fish. I've cooked fish for a lot of people and always got praised...except from him. He'll eat catfish he catches off of juglines, but he throws about half of the meat out "trimming" it and then washes the filets until they're dang-near translucent.
Some folks are just weird.
What else...sardines in mustard are the best sardines...thumbs up to all the pretty fish pics...
Wife and I have been hitting it hard. Crappie are moving up shallow here. Been tearing up little underspin jigs in the creeks. About to go hit them again once I finish digesting dinner.
hokiehunter373
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Tear um up, man! I wish I had crappie more readily available in the waters I fish around here but they're mostly in spots farther away that I'm unfamiliar with. I'll get after them one day
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casts_by_fly
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Pretty good day of fishing. Caught about 10 or so bass and 2 bluegill on the bank with a weight less worm and a fluke. Hopped in the kayak this afternoon after dropping those others off to the neighbor. Ended up with 3 or 4 more bass and 15-20 hand sized bluegill on a little 4 ft ultra lite. Got all those on ice for me and will clean them up tomorrow after hopefully putting a turkey down for the opener.
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I love when bluegill are bit enough to lip. That's an eating size.
casts_by_fly
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Pretty sure that's a long ear sunfish. the black 'ear' on the gill plate is the key there. Could be a redbreast but I think the trim on the edge of the 'ear' if the giveaway.
Man, the water is just hitting 40 here. Maybe I'll go fishin for lunch, my walleye/bass stuff is in the car. I have 5 small lakes within 10 minutes of work.
casts_by_fly
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We're at 44 or so. I went out 3 weeks ago at 41 degrees. The bass and pike weren't cooperating but the crappies were in shallow. There were still a few more shallow on Sunday but they have started to move back out from that spot. You should be in a good place if you have some crappie lakes with backwaters.
Hall17
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I’m with you! Stocked trout are simply nasty. I love fish but but not those
We have quite a few, pymatuning, wilhelm, chautauqua are all close.
Waters a balmy 65-70 here...
i agree with the trout haters somewhat- stocked trout around me taste like mud. ill still go fish for them if the kids want to come along but don't target them like i used to. wild trout, however, are pretty decent, but harder to find, and brownies and brookies are definitely tastier than rainbows. as far as the stocked rainbows, they're pretty good smoked. i keep telling myself year after year that this is the year i'm going to figure out snakehead, still haven't given it enough effort.
51-52 is what I am hearing around here.
casts_by_fly
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I didn't realize that's where you were. I grew up fishing a lot of those. I'm from south of Pittsburgh. Plenty of crappies up your way. The walleye should be moving on Pymatuning too.