Small red ear from this weekend. Caught a mix of bluegill, green sunfish and red ears. Wife prolly caught 35-40. I tried to get the bass to play but they were not interested.
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2023 Fishing Thread
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Small red ear from this weekend. Caught a mix of bluegill, green sunfish and red ears. Wife prolly caught 35-40. I tried to get the bass to play but they were not interested.
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hokiehunter373
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2nd ever smallmouth, PB bluegill (which the pic doesn't do justice), 2nd ever pike. Fun weekend with the kiddos.
First weekend I’ve had to get down to the lake. Took my son, 16yr old nephew and my dad. My son had a killer morning. Two 28” stripers and a 4lb LM. All together we have 4 keepers and several shorts, all on top water.
hokiehunter373
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Got out Friday evening for a mixed bag of bass and bluegills and had a lot of fun catching everything from 6 inchers to 2 pounders on the light rod and inline spinner. Took the kids back on Sunday morning and they cleaned up on some big gills with some meal worms.
Stopped at spot that caught my eye on the run back to the truck from scouting and caught a dink on the first cast. Hit three little brush piles right in that one little spot and didn’t get another hit. Went on to the truck after that. Water was pretty muddy and I was hit and hungry because some moron forgot to put the little cooler with drinks and food in the boat. It was 93 when I trailered the boat so I was ready for a cold bottle of water.
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michigandrake
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It's the start of the dog days of summer for salmon fishing. The water has warmed near shore and the fish have scattered a little. Picked up 4 on our last trip. Managed to release 2 hen steelhead .... keeping those egg factories producing. Put 2 eater kings in the cooler. Grilled them with vermouth, butter, rosemary and soy, butter, brown sugar. My whole family loves the soy/brown sugar recipe but I am not a fan. The vermouth and rosemary grill recipe is my favorite.
Finally got a chance last night to start catching my own walleye bait. Second ever cast with a tanago hook. No idea what to actually call it, a minnow/shiner of some sort (was targeting creek chubs), about 3" long.
I think @Nutterbuster calls all of them little fish Leotis. The one you caught really looks more like a Steve to me.
Lol. That looks like some species of shiner to me. Way too many to narrow down for me.
Facebook has an Any Fish Identication Group. If you show it to those guys and provide a location they'll at least be able to narrow it down to the 3-4 most likely suspects.
Empostarr
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Man I just had one on the hook a little smaller than that yesterday. What a fight!It was a 1-fish night, but the one was worth it! 2nd best northern for me at 34". So excited I forgot to weigh it before releasing, but she was extra girthy. I'm guessing 10 lbs+. I know they get a lot bigger, but...for me, this rocks!
Best fight I've ever had with a pike as she made several drag stripping runs from the boat. Every time I got her back to the boat I couldn't believe how big she looked in the water.
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Fishing with my wife on our kayak's yesterday, and I casted near a downed tree. I could see my swimbait coming through some vegetation when all of a sudden a monster pike hit it. It didn't get hooked, and I immediately tried to cast in front of it and caused my baitcaster to get a nice birdnest going on. I sat there for a couple of minutes fixing that issue and then re-casted near where it had been. Almost immediately I could feel weight on the line, I set the hook and the fight was on. Took a while to get it to the kayak, and at first my wife didn't believe me that I had seen the fish let alone hooked it on the next cast. But once it surfaced near her, she saw it and laughed saying my net wasn't big enough! I had it next to my kayak and was trying to remove the hook before lifting it for a pic and when it thrashed around, bent the hook, and got free. It would have easily been a new personal record for me.
It feels like a good day to leave work early, ride the fatbike into the hike in lake and catch some panfish. Hopefully the crappie want to play.
I'm going to hopefully catch a half dozen of those things little things later on tonight and chase some walleye in the AM before I get back to garage renovations.
I'm going to hopefully catch a half dozen of those things little things later on tonight and chase some walleye in the AM before I get back to garage renovations.
hokiehunter373
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Man, that sounds good
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Great story! Thanks for sharing it. Sorry you didn't get a pic, but glad you had a great fight. Nice job focusing in a tight moment and creating a second chance. That's great stuff!
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Great day on Champlain. Varied strategies (live bait on a bobber, casting to bass, trolling), and multi species. Summer is finally coming.
"Master Angler" Pumpkinseed (9" qualifies for VT's program).
5 lb Northern.
Had a fun battle with a jumping Walleye but lost it at the boat.
Got a lot of catching up to do with our southern friends who've been at it with the panfish awhile. 500 will be a fun target.
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"Master Angler" Pumpkinseed (9" qualifies for VT's program).
5 lb Northern.
Had a fun battle with a jumping Walleye but lost it at the boat.
Got a lot of catching up to do with our southern friends who've been at it with the panfish awhile. 500 will be a fun target.
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My granddaughter caught her very first fish today. It's a whopper! 
She was sad to have to let it go but we told her it wanted to go back to its mommy and that made it all better. She was pretty stoked though.
She was sad to have to let it go but we told her it wanted to go back to its mommy and that made it all better. She was pretty stoked though. 
A few from my Memorial trip. 80 deg everyday in the UP. You couldn't beat it. We had good weather and caught some fish. Nothing super huge. But lots of fun. Warm enough to tow the kids around on the tube in the afternoon. 
hokiehunter373
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Took the "boat" out for its maiden voyage yesterday morning with my dad. We caught a dozen or so bass on it in about 2 hours to break her in.
Recap, Caught a dozen bluegills, kept the biggest 6 to fillet and add to my bag of BG fillets in the freezer. Saw a few largemouth swimming around shallow by some riprap and tossed a mini rebel pop-r on my UL rod and caught 5 largemouth on UL topwater. That was fun, no big ones but still a good time.
Any of you watch the 'fish anything' youtube channel and tried his mule jigs and plastics? They're nice quality, obviously a premium product for fishing for panfish but I can enjoy nice stuff designed by a niche, small time guy running his own side hustle. I've purchased a couple rods/reels off his UL tests on his youtube channel. My 5'6" 13 fishing defy silver with a daiwa revros 1000 is one of them and has become my go-to UL.
That's just wrong.