Fishing: What are using to catch what?

[hardline]

i have been having really good luck for the last two years using the mid sized mepps spinners for small mouth. this is normally fishing boat to shore, around dusk.

What are you using?
What are you catching?

 

[deadheadskier]

I don't fish too often these days, but when I do it is for small mouth bass. I think pound for pound, smallies are the best fighting fresh water fish. I have used crawdads with some success, but typically I like to use top water lures. Not only do I find them more effective, but it is also much more fun to be casting continously than just sitting there with live bait on a hook waiting for a strike. Jitterbugs and Poppers are good, but I think Torpedoes are the best.

I recommend fishing for smallies this time of year from about 6PM until 8:30-9:00PM....similar hours in the morning. I usually follow the window and fish the side of the lake that the wind is blowing the towards and creating a current to. This usually flushes the natural food towards that shore and fish tend to congregate there, though not always. For both large and small mouth bass, the presence of lily pads is a real plus. I'd probably fish more these days if I had a canoe or boat to work out of as its much better to cast in from deep water to shallow and retrieve out than trying to work from shore.

 

[hardline]

these have been working really well

the stocked our lakewith these hybrid striper bass a few years ago. they eat everything. it is getting tougher and tougher to catch smallmouth because the hybrids are eating all the young smallmouths. caught a Pickerel last weekend must ahve been 8 pounds but it bit the line just as i was about to land it. i wasn't using leaders.

 

[deadheadskier]

The Lake I used to do a ton of small mouth fishing in was also full of trophy pickerel. Those were the two dominant species. If anyone's ever looking for a great fishing weekend, I highly recommend the Green River Resevoir north of Morrisville, VT. There are no power engines allowed, except for trolling motors and no real launch so it's all basically canoes. There are great campsites that you can only access via the water. When I lived in Stowe we'd go all the time and land up to 5lb smallies and similar or larger sized Pickerel.

 

[hardline]

never did any fishing around stowe. i would always go meet my pops down by stratton and we would fish around somerset. we used to go up to quebec a lot. most of the time i just fish on the lake where my house is.

 

[JimG.]

Been out 4x this year so far for smallmouth.

Had a good day last Sunday, today was almost as good.

No real big ones yet...mostly pissed off 1-2 year old males who don't have mates yet.

14-16" is big right now. Largemouths are starting to roam now too.

My favorite smallmouth lure is a diving plug called the Big-O.

 

[bill2ski]

Mackerel on a Jig and Stipers on a Mackerel
If the macks are slow, I have an eel trap in the river that always has a dozen or so. Troll over the under water sandbars on the incoming tide and there is usually a hog laying on the backside waiting for dinner to swim by.

Schoolies have been hitting on 5-7 in. split back diving lures in herring patterns. Sometimes they nail it as soon as it hits the water.

 

[drjeff]

No matter whether I'm on a pond/lake/river/ocean, it seems the only thing that I can consistantly catch is the bottom Nowadays, when I go, I find it much more satisfying just to sit by/on the cooler, doing some "quality control testing" of cold, frosty, malted beverages :beer: and enjoying my time near/on the water.

 

[deadheadskier]

No matter whether I'm on a pond/lake/river/ocean, it seems the only thing that I can consistantly catch is the bottom Nowadays, when I go, I find it much more satisfying just to sit by/on the cooler, doing some "quality control testing" of cold, frosty, malted beverages :beer: and enjoying my time near/on the water.

agreed.....catching a buzz is goal #1, catching fish is an added bonus.

 

[bill2ski]

agreed.....catching a buzz is goal #1, catching fish is an added bonus.

That's why it's called fishing instead of catching

 

[hardline]

No matter whether I'm on a pond/lake/river/ocean, it seems the only thing that I can consistantly catch is the bottom Nowadays, when I go, I find it much more satisfying just to sit by/on the cooler, doing some "quality control testing" of cold, frosty, malted beverages :beer: and enjoying my time near/on the water.

i sometimes get the same stare's from people when i tell people about fishing that i get when i tell the about snowboarding. catching fish is great and all but it really an excuss to sit around all day be lazy and drink. you can at least say i was fishing all day, not say i was drinking all day.i do think there is a level of skill needed,but its not much. i just try to think like i fish when i open my tackle box. what ever is see is shiny and gets me excited i put on the end of my line.

 

[bill2ski]

i just try to think like i fish when i open my tackle box. what ever is see is shiny and gets me excited i put on the end of my line.

That's why they sell all those shiney ,brightly colored lures,... to catch fisherman.

Ya jus gotta be shmarta dan da fish.

 

[Johnskiismore]

My girlfriend caught her record Saturday, a five pound, eighteen inch long trout!

Oh, this is going to be tasty!!

 

[hardline]

My girlfriend caught her record Saturday, a five pound, eighteen inch long trout!

Oh, this is going to be tasty!!

i have not gone fishing for trout in a long time. i should drive to the delaware sometime but i just end up sitting by the lake drinking.