Good job R8R

Yea the smallest was 9 1/2 ... They used to have an 8 inch minimum on that lake but it produced too fast and they have too many smaller fish... They want you to take the small ones out... They eat good as long as you are good with the electric knife

Just funnin ya anway :)

Found this site and I'm going to start working some fishing around peak lunar days to see how much the lunar influence affects fishing. Type in your zipcode to get your specific location. In the upper left hand corner "Location"

https://www.usprimetimes.com/solunargraph.html


Looks like some really good fishing coming up Dec 22nd/23rd

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Looky what i just got an early Christmas gift from a gf traveling nurse from Alabama.

She is the one i went to New Mexico and stayed a week with her while she was on assignment and that I took my kayak for a spin on the Rio Grande. I lost my kayak and about got killed but such fun!!


This one has fishing pole holders I like that.

That's a good woman. How heavy is it? Is it small enough to put on top of your car / in the pickup bed or do you need a trailer?
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It fits perfect on top of my Chevy HHR with straps. That's how i took my other kayak. She felt bad i wrecked it in the rocks and almost died. It was literally wrapped around a rock people told me it was folded in half :eek: That's when i knew i was ****ed hanging onto the kayak but i couldn't get it to budge so I said to myself "I can always get a new kayak but i can't buy me a new me" Then i let go and the current thrust me down the river and i was like a human pinball.


Can't wait to get back out on the water again :D

I picked up a couple of those fishing kayaks if you years ago for my son and I. Built a rack in the garage so they are easy to get to and load and unload out of the truck. They are awesome. You can get to places you can’t otherwise get to and that a lot of bigger boats are unable to get to. We use them on a lot a little lakes around Kansas City

YES

I found me some honey spots this year that i knew i could never get too otherwise! But i only had it for two weeks but it was awesome two weeks.

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I’ve had my kayak for years now. At this point I’ve got all sorts of great attachments like a fish finder, anchor, etc. I still just have a sedan but using the inflatable roof rack works great. There are newer options out now as well. At this point there is really no barrier to having one.

Basically a fishing kayak is the cheapest and easiest way to get in a boat on the water. As long as you have room to store it I’d really recommend any longtime fisherman or a person just getting into it to get one.

Get a small fish finder and put on that .... Looks nice

Wow, that woman did you right... what a sweet gift, she is a keeper

OR, he didn't kill himself the first time sooo.......

My lunar table shows today as a 93% good day to fish. Must be the front coming. Next good time frame is Dec 23rd

... :hmmm:

Yea, I'm thinking that paperwork she had him sign wasn't for the kayak. Probably a nice sized life ins. policy.

Hey KC, you got any pics of this chick?

You know what I got me a new chick I love that I've been going out with since November and she is way better looking and I'm much happier and she is another nurse but she has the cutest dimples ever! I liked the other one but wasn't in like with her and I love this one and I'm I'm going be moving to eastern Kansas because we are both transferring to Osawatomie . Yes the other one bought me a Kayak but i think that was out of desperation because i told her I found someone else and i was going go out with . Well I love this chick and going move to Fort Scott where she has a home and all i have to do is help with some bills and I'm gold to go fishing all i want and switching jobs out there my work schedule will give me more time to fish and do "honey do list" but she also is a Royals fan and goes to Royals games so I'm hooked up to go to Royals games so those Hone do list will just have to get done I'll be good for her because I know she is good for me. :)


I've never fallen in love before like this I've been a bachelor for ten years I don't know what i'm doing but it feels right !


She could be the best catch i've ever had so I'm not going let her go .

Wait, all you have to do to get a new kayak is threaten to dump some broad? Dude, I need to try this ASAP!

i didn't tell her to buy me a Kayak but it was very nice of her :D

Caught today!

Dude, Sounds like you just won the lottery. Now send pics so we can make it official.

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One word of advice. Don't let the new one find out the old one bought you the kayak. At one point in time you'll go fishing before, during, or after an argument with her..........need I say more.:D

I only caught one fish last year, but it was a new personal best.

Auuuurgh. I'm dying here. Somebody has to have been fishing lately. Tell us a story.

Okay. Wish I knew how to embed pics. Took my boys(9 and 7)out two weeks ago when we went to visit my buddy in NOLA. Went out of Jean Lafitte, LA on a 5 hour Bayou charter. No sooner had my 9 year old cast out, he had a huge black drum on the line. That set the tone for the rest of the day. Both kids caught some big drum and a few redfish. All told, we caught 19 fish. Got em cleaned, and took em to a little place up the road that blackened some and made nuggets out of some more. Great eating! Holy hell, redfish is delicious. And I didn’t know but it goes for about $50 a plate at the nicer places in NO. Great time had by all. If you guys get a chance, I highly recommend fishing there

It's not going to be long and crappie will be spawning. Ice tore the dock up a little this winter. Gang plank got a little twisted. Not much a guy can do though. Just gotta go fix it.

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Nice fish and looks like a medium weight rod/reel combo.

Killer. Never been fishing anywhere that far south but have wanted to. Nowadays I do almost all my fishing on creeks and rivers in the Ozarks for bass and catfish with the exception for lakes during crappie season.
I've been cooped up too long this year and the fishing bug has hit me pretty hard lately.

Damn nice. I've caught a lot of Northern but none that big. Was lucky enough to spend a spring, summer, and fall living in upstate Vermont with Lake Champlain as my backyard. Also spent a week in Ontario on Lac Seul catching the hell out of Northern and Walleye. JFC that walleye shore lunch was the best I ever had.

It's funny to see this thread bumped, was planning to prep my gear this afternoon... re-string'em, oil' em, inventory the tackle box etc

Supposed to be in the 50s all next week and I've got the jones BAD

Here's hoping for an early spring...

Ive been to a lodge in Manitoba over 12 times, have 6 Master Angler Northerns and 3 MA Walleyes. And you are right, shore lunch is awesome!! Cobham River Lodge

I really don't like fish that much. I'll eat it from time to time but not that often.
The walleye was so damn good up there that the first day I ate so much I spent the next hour or two laying on the deck of the boat and moaning about my way overstuffed gut. I was in some serious pain.ROFL

Windy as shit here today. Planting seeds and getting the garden ready as much as I can. Hoping the cold is done so I can keep the green house warm but I will lose if it falls below 0. Unless I haul into the shed or barn. Just always seems like a ton of extra work, never easy street. Weather cooperates I will definitely be getting a line wet. I can’t wait.

I need to go blow to dust off my gear and re-activate my Facebook.

Well maybe not Facebook...

Ha yeah don't alert the Facebook crowd to your plans this year...

I relocated and transferred to osowatamy but now got to find me new fishing spots. I moved to Fort Scott.

Scouting out new spots is one of my favorite things about fishing, just love finding those little used places that others don't even consider

I get soooooo bored going to the same places all the time

Been watching a ton of youtube guerrilla fishermen lately, they'll go to these weird places hidden in plain sight like a drainage pond behind Walmart that got flooded by a nearby creek a few years ago and got stocked that way

Or some tiny little ditch that holds water year round, and they'll come out of places like that having absolutely slayed them... I'm excited about getting creative like that this year

Before and After...last bag of this gag - stuffed w/crab...mmm...mmm

Outstanding, what is it?

Gag Grouper. Caught last summer in the gulf out of apalachicola FL. We ended up with 100 lbs of fish to split between 6. My son won the pot with most caught on his 1st trip w/us.

I'm heading out to 11 Mile Canyon this morning for some fly fishing.

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Lucky bastard. :D
I could just melt into that picture.

Damn that’s sexy!

That's too close to Bronco country. You could get an STD in that water!

That’s my old stomping grounds! Miss it so much. I use to work at the boyscout camp there. Hope you get some nice trout!

It was a good day. Not many fish, but the one I got in was a 20 inch rainbow. Caught him about a 1/2 mile up from the dam.

I'll sometimes fish the area that butts right against the Boy Scouts property. Some good little pools in there.

No picture of the fish, because i was up to my belly in the water, but this should do.

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God damn that looks miserable lol. I never wanna see snow again.

I'll defer to the experts , but I think that is a muskie or a hybrid?

Looking at it again, yea, I think you're right. Looks a bit too big bodied to be a Northern.

I was looking at the markings. I believe northerns to be more spots on the side. Muskies have more stripes like the picture shows. It's been a long time since I was fishing in Canada and back then I had never heard of tiger muskies, which I think are a northern/muskie cross?

Yup

I grew up in Eastern KS. We used to sein crawdads out of a couple of very select farm ponds. Those big ,soft, green hawger crawdads were like candy to big catfish in the river and big ponds.

It better be ****ing nice this weekend :cuss:


I don't care if it rains i just want it over 60 degrees

Same in western kansas, I've caught many catfish with crawdaddies



**** yeah.

I have two tournaments this weekend - and haven't even tested the boat yet! Time to get rigging!

A fishing thread, on a football forum . . . who'da thought?

Anyway, I was a conventional bass fisherman for about three decades, even fished a few pro-am bass tourneys back when I lived in STL. Biggest bass I ever caught was out of Grand Lake in OK, oh, had to be in '91 or '92. She was caught on a red crawfish Bomber A off a floating dock during a full moon. She ended up weighing 10 lbs. 8 oz.

About 15 years ago, whenI moved to AZ, I took the leap into fly-fishing, and really haven't looked back. Mostly I fish for trout:

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Nicely done !

I admire fly-fisherman its a true art. Me I like to night fish and early dawn get what i can get but other than last year in New Mexico i don't do much of trout fishing and Kansas can kiss my ass to buy a trout stamp so I don't in Kansas.

Thanks. The hard part is learning how to cast. The arm mechanics are so different from conventional casting it took me months to teach myself to cast acceptably, and a few years before I was considered an expert.

Fortunately, I found that gamefish behavior is fairly similar, regardless of species. So trout behavior isn't that different from bass behavior; they're just more choosy and spook easier.

Damned hobby is expensive though. I fish in WY, MT, AZ, CO, UT, and NM. That's about $500 in annual fishing licenses every year.

You're the Man, Mr Megatron... thanks for sharing those pics

Welcome to the board!

Yes indeed. He really is. Beautiful fish and I'm happy it's Spring! Love to browse this thread and see what everyone's catching. Hoping I'll get a chance to get down to the White River and get a big 'ol brown trout here soon.

Would love to fish the White. Take some pics please. Shoulda fished it when I still lived back there.

It's a great spot. And the next lunker I hook is gonna be put up in this thread.

Been watching this dude on youtube called Creek Fishing Adventures, 80% of what he does is try to find the biggest fish in the tiniest bodies of water... you look where he is casting and are just going WTF no way anything worth catching is in that puddle

Couple casts later and he is pulling beautiful 2-3 pound bass out it... so I went to the tiny town creek inspired by that and caught my first creek chub

It was huge for the species, big around as a full size cigar, not a sexy fish but just to see such a great example of one in that shallow, dirty creek was awesome

I still wanna hunt those 5 pound bass, but it's fun as hell to see what's possible in the smallest of streams...

Thanks Easy. With any luck I'll post a few pics here regularly. Should be going fishing next week.

Nice. I'll check it out.

There are nice fish everywhere. If you keep an open mind you'll have fun fishing a lot of places.

This is the other reason I fly-fish: the scenery

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The scenery and really being part of the nature with the wading is really what makes fly fishing special, especially in the shallow water areas.

Unfortunately there isn’t much opportunity for it here in Kansas so it’s hard to really get those experiences. I know some people like to fly fish creeks and small ponds around here for small species like blue gill but it’s definitely not the same.

I feel like singing a John Denver song right now

A couple channels I subscribe to:

"Tactical Bassin"
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"Fish the Moment"

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"Richard Gene the fishing machine"

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Headed to Lake Okeechobee Tuesday with my son. One of my bucket list items.

Welp, there is hardly a cloud in the sky here and it's 50 degrees... time to take a shower and go hit some fishing holes

Gonna slay'em I can just feel it...

I've watched several from Tactical Bassin, he definitely knows his stuff

About time for the dock to be popping.

One of the guides on the radio said fishing were biting. Can't remember which species he said.

They are almost always biting at my spot lol.

The national crappie champ was crying about my spot last night.

But that water's going to warm up quick and the spawn will be on us.

Nabbed 6 more fat creek chubs and had a genuine hard strike from something that got off, probably a baby bass or good size bluegill... all in all it was 2 or so hours well spent

Should have the boy and I sitting on a bank with a fire rolling... instead I am at the house cleaning the damn garage :cuss::cuss::cuss:





Holiday shit strung all over, toys that have been outgrown, couple tables and chairs and shit rolling to the dump on Monday

It will still be there to deal with tomorrow, not too late to go get a fire going...

I'm out furniture shopping with the GF. Can't complain cuz I got laid today but still rather be fishing.