Any Fishermen On Here ?

[n2ize]

In my past life as a surf fisherman this was my baby. Cast further ad faster than any other spoon without added weights, even against strong onshore winds. also caught more fish than any other that I tried. Brings backk memories.

[KG4CGC]

That's really great. I use chicken liver and aerosol cheese.

[n2ize]

That's really great. I use chicken liver and aerosol cheese.

Well, in the fishing "business" what works for you works for you. I used to use heavy sinkers and multihook rigs, often baited with sandworms or squid. Matter of fact even after I got into casting lures that setup was my favorite for flounder. Mostly used sandworms for flounder fishing. For surf casting I started with a "Rebel" minnow. Not bad but very light and hard to cast without adding significant weight. Impossible to cast against wind. But the spoon above gave me the best results. No other spoon offered me the casting distance by itself. It also gave me the best yield.

[KA9MOT]

That's really great. I use chicken liver and aerosol cheese.

Catfish!

Well, in the fishing "business" what works for you works for you. I used to use heavy sinkers and multihook rigs, often baited with sandworms or squid. Matter of fact even after I got into casting lures that setup was my favorite for flounder. Mostly used sandworms for flounder fishing. For surf casting I started with a "Rebel" minnow. Not bad but very light and hard to cast without adding significant weight. Impossible to cast against wind. But the spoon above gave me the best results. No other spoon offered me the casting distance by itself. It also gave me the best yield.

Not Catfish! Salt Water!

I've fished in the Gulf of Mexico years ago, but prefer Freshwater.

I've fished all over the country. For me, the most notable fishery was Northern Minnesota's World Class Fishery (Rainey River and Lake and Boundry Waters). I've caught trophy Walleye (12 pounds), Northern Pike (23 pounds), Musky (39 pounds), Small Mouth Bass (6.5 pounds) and Black Crappie (2.5 pounds) there. I've also managed to land a Lake Sturgeon out of season that was as long as me on 17 pound test. We fought for almost 2 hours.

I prefer live bait and have been known to do very well with a Chub (Large Minnow) dorsal hooked under a bobber. Worms for bottom fishing, and jigging small minnows for Walleye and Crappie.

We used to watch fisherman from all over the country line up for miles and wait for hours to cross the border into Canada, so they could fish in the same lake we were fishing in Minnesota.... maybe they thought those Canadian Walleyes were bigger somehow. In Minnesota they could use live bait (not in Ontario) and could keep 3 fish per person per day vs. Canada's 1 fish per day per person......

Dumbasses....

[n2ize]

I never tried freshwater. Only saltwater. And that was decades ago.

[KA9MOT]

I'm going through my pictures to see what I still have.

[n2ize]

I'm going through my pictures to see what I still have.

Very interesting stories about the guys who went into Canada versus the guys who fished the same lake from the American side. Also interesting on some of the types of fish. Sounds exciting. It would have been interesting to try some freshwater lake fishing. If I ever do decide to get back into the sport/hobby maybe I'll give it a go.

[KA9MOT]

Lake or River, it is fun. When you set the hook into something so large that it feels like a snag, only somehow different, and you're not sure until you feel him turn......man, what a feeling!
I looked (manually searched) all my folder on all my drives and no pictures. I lost a drive in 2004 and lost thousands of pictures, and almost 100G of music. :( I've only been fishing once this year... :(

[N8YX]

#8-#10 hook - bare - with no more than 10lb test on the reel. No leader.

A single BB-size split shot crimped on the line about 18" from the hook - just enough weight to impart a slight negative buoyancy.

A very large bait box filled with properly maintained nightcrawlers - this implies a chiller and enriched peat moss as bedding. You'll want several dozen crawlers at least; at one time I had a refrigerator dedicated to live bait. Probably more than a hundred dozen in there at any one moment; no more than a hundred or so worms per largish Styrofoam container.

Hook the crawler right through the tip of its nose and cast towards the edges of lily pad fields, shore drop-off points and other structure. If a panfish nibbles at the worm, immediately discard it for another fresh one.

I've caught a royal shit-load of game fish - especially bass - using this method. Even during times when you couldn't buy a bite with a fancy artificial.

[KK4AMI]

In my past life as a surf fisherman this was my baby. Cast further ad faster than any other spoon without added weights, even against strong onshore winds. also caught more fish than any other that I tried. Brings backk memories.

Great lure for Blues and Spanish Mackerel. I fish in the Chesapeake Bay on a regular basis. Squid is my preferred bottom bait for Flounder. The Fall Striped Bass season starts on Oct 4th. I troll artificials deep for those suckers. Anybody want to do some ocean fishing, boat leaves weekly from Deltaville, Virginia!