Here are the boys and dad's. Not great photo..but you get the idea
some pixels have been modified to protect the innocent

Good looking pond. I need one of those in my back yard.

An interesting story:

I went out to a nearby pond the other night. I threw a rubber minnow a few times and nothing. There were a few things hitting the top so I threw a pop-r and caught a few decent bass.

The funny part is that the first fish I caught was about 14-15 in. long, and when I removed the hook from his mouth I notice a tail fin sticking out of his throat. I had to see what he had eaten so I gently pulled it out with my needle nose. I was expecting to find a bluegill, but to my surprise it was a bass. Its head was digested already and the only scales left on it were on the last inch or so of the tail. The most surprising thing was that without a head the damn thing was at least 5 in. long. The bass that I caught had a belly full for sure and was still trying to eat my lure! And on a day after a cold front went through when I never would have expected something to hit a top water bait.

I gently shoved the "meal" back in the fish's throat, I figured he deserved it, and threw him back.

So, anyone got a good recipe for fish batter?
I’ve got just a little to cook up now. ;)

where,when & what?

Wilson Co. Lake (Buffalo Lake for the locals)

Friday night. Caught’im on rod & reel fish’n with a perch.

Flat head. He weighed 43# on one scale and 44# on another.

bullshiiiiiiiiiit.

Radar's been noodlin.

ROFL Naw, it’s too hard to drink beer while noodle’n.
Besides, there’s a hayseed run’n round C-Town minus the first two digits of’is right hand from stick’n them in a beavers mouth noodle’n. I’ll let those a little crazier than me do that kinda chit. I’ll drink beer and watch.

In college once stuck a couple of fingers in a beaver from chanute....suprised I didn't get bitten.

I've got family in the Harrisonville area that catch alot of big flatheads....Its a different kind of fishin' but definitely a skill to be able to get them regularly.

ROFL Me too, there’s some angry beaver ‘round these parts. ;)

Got that right. They don’t really hit like other fish do, they kinda just pick up your bait and start swim’n ‘round with it.
I won’t try and claim there was any “skill” involved here, it was pure luck be’n in right place at the right time.

So, any luck out there? Lets hear some fishing lies!!

Goin to the KEYS Sunday for 1 week!!!! Gonna catch me some Dolphin, snapper, tarpon and anything else that bites my line.

They don't call me "Mahi" Mike for nuttin'.!

Fish’n has almost completely fall’n off since I caught “the monster”.
Course that’s probably also related to the fact that I’ve been fish’n exclusively for the big’ns. :redface:
Gonna give it a shot this weekend though. Take’n some friends to my uncles place on Grand Lake O the Cherokee’s where my uncle says they’re still catch’n the big cats.
One of my wife’s friends is come’n along and bring’n her little boy, 5 y.o., so I’m gonna try’n get him into some perch. If I can at least accomplish that, it’ll be a good weekend of fish’n.

The "monster" is one hell of a fish RC!! That "thing" looks like it could eat not only small yard dogs, but mid size children. :eek: On a side note, hows the old jeep running?

Not bad. I did an electronic ignition conversion to the stock distributor, a Petronix Igniter, and the engine has been run’n great. Doubled my gas mileage too.
But, like I was tell’n Hemi Ed, I was chase’n down a driveline vibration and found that the endplay on the transfer case rear output was a little loose. So I tightened it up, removed shims increasing bearing preload. Thing is, I set it too tight and now I’ve killed the output bearing. :doh!:
Cheap enough to fix but a hassle to get too. At least I’m off all next week, so I may tackle it then.
Jeep.
Just
Empty
Every
Pocket. ;)

Ouch, if it's not one thing..............

Good luck with that bud!

Don’t feel bad for me, I’m sure I’ll squeeze in some beer drink’n and fish’n also. ;)

Oh, I have no doubt!! :thumb:

I'm kind of kicking the can around today...

I drug my boat out for the first time last night...I know.....to get it going, to loan to a buddy this weekend. That should get me in gear to hit the lake in a week or so.

I did hit a pond the last hour before dark and did nothing worth telling.

I'll hit some honeyholes down in God's country this weekend.

Unless you're using a fly rod Mike...you're a "worm dunker".

:D

Give 'em hell.

The Dangers of Fishin....

A FISHERMAN is recovering after being impaled on the bill of a 14ft blue marlin that leapt over his boat during an international angling tournament off Bermuda.

The 800lb (360kg) fish hit Ian Card with such force that its 3ft spear went through his chest just below his collarbone and knocked him into the sea.

As the fish dived, forcing Mr Card under water, he was able to push himself off the razor-sharp bill and swim to the surface.

His father Alan, 58, the skipper of the commercial angling boat Challenger, said: “The fish was airborne going across the full width of the boat and my son was standing about 8ft from the stern.

“It impaled him with its bill. In one motion, the fish flew across the cockpit and took him out of the boat. He landed about 15ft away. He was under water and had his arms wrapped round the fish as it was pushing him under.

“I lost sight of him for a few seconds. As a father looking at a son who has just been impaled, that is a sight I will never forget.” Mr Card, 32, surfaced 50ft behind the boat with blood pouring from a “fist-sized” wound in his chest. Dennis Benevides, a family friend who was on the boat, called the emergency services and stuffed a towel into the wound to stem the flow of blood.

Mr Card was operated on at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital in Bermuda, where doctors said he would have died had the bill struck him a few centimetres on either side.

The Cards had been taking part in the Sea Horse Anglers’ Club Bill Fish Tournament and were in calm waters about 15 miles south of Bermuda. Leslie Spanswick, strapped into a fishing chair at the stern of the boat, hooked the fish at 11am on Saturday.

A 14ft fish would normally take up to two hours to reel in, but this marlin leapt over the boat after just ten minutes, while it was still strong.

After it impaled Mr Card, the line was cut, allowing the fish to escape.

The surgeon who treated Mr Card, Christian Wilmsmeier, arrived on the island from Germany only three weeks earlier. He said: “My home town is far away from the sea and normally I do not operate on such injuries. I was impressed by the dangerousness of such a fish.”

Dan Jacobs, the organiser of the tournament, said: “People have been hurt dealing with marlin, but it is very unusual for a fish to leap completely out of the water from behind the boat and come right across it. Ian is very lucky to be alive.”

The Cards are among the most experienced marlin fishermen in the world.

They were the first to hook a marlin weighing more than 1,000lb in Bermudian waters. Alan Card has hooked six of the ten largest blue marlin caught off the island.

The blue marlin, Makaira nigricans, is a huge commercial game fish that can weigh up to 1,800lb and grow to a length of 16ft (5m).


Linktastic

I thought I'd posted a pic here.....I got this bass a couple of weeks ago....its closer to 23" than 22.

In other news, I just finished rebuilding the inside of my boat(new deck, new carpet, 3rd fishing seat, new seats) and bought a couple of nice baitcasters at Cabelas. Time to hit the lake soon. One last flurry before bow season.

Just got back from Destin. Fishing the surf completely sucked. Zero schools in close and way too much seaweed. 1 bluefish, 1 ladyfish. Suckage.

Alright, time for a bump. I'll give an update to my lame adventures soon, but for all the anglers out there (fly or otherwise) the Drake Magazine is having their Best 5 Minute Fly Fishing Movies contest. All the entries are up here:
http://www.drakemag.com/pages/film_2006.shtml

There are some awesome clips on there. I especially recommend "Running Down the Man."

Bump for the day crew. This is a great time waster at work. There's profanity in the clips, though, so be sure to keep the volume down.

Im jumping into this conversation like 3 years late but oh well. I have taken two charters up at Lake Erie this past summer and did real well. I went on a perch charter with my buddy and his grandpa and brother and we caught 28lbs worth of perch, cleaned it was like 15lbs, I maxed out 2 hours into the trip they were hitting like crazy we were fishing in 30-35 feet of water, it was a blast. Then my brother and I took my dad on a walleye charter up at Lake Erie again, weather was terrible 7-8 foot waves were freakin crazy, I caught three walleye biggest was only 17inches there were no big ones on the boat at all but it was fun, my brother caught 2, my dad caught 1. The biggest fish of my summer was when I was on the perch charter we were around Kellys Island in Lake Erie and while perch fishing I caught a ten pound sheephead, thing fought like the Dickens.

Posted before here but up-dating I guess..hoping for a fall/winter crappie run this year, so far low water and fish with lock-jaw has me depressed..maybe they'll pick it up later..good fishing to all....

Too cold where I am for crappie anymore. But I like fishing for them they are a blast. I use a Zebco Rod/Reel combo its called a slab finder made just for schools of crappie light test 3lb is what I have on it, its about 8 feet long super sensitive. I use it all the time for bluegill its a blast.

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stuff

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Im going up to Bull Shoals and the White River in a week. Going to do some trout fishing up there, I heard its pretty good on the white and I might see if the crappie are decent on Bull Shoals. I usually bass fish here in Texas or Trout Fish on the Little Red in Arkansas.

Fly or spin fishing for trout? If you've fished the LR, you know the issue with tailwater generation. They've been gunning water like crazy lately, so a boat might be necessary for the White. Good luck, there are some monsters in the White (much like the Little Red).

Spin, thanks that good to know about the water. Im hoping the State Park has some better access than below the Greers ferry dam on the Little Red. If it does I should be better off, I managed to almost catch my limit every day on the little red. Id like to actually catch for once. I've heard from people who say its impossible not to catch your limit on the white.

Now, you got me going!

8 lbs 7 oz bass in my pond last night


I was feeding my catfish and he was caught on the spinnerbait that I have been making over the last 14 years.

i caught a stergin in the missouri today. I sat out there with nightcrawlers all day and that was all i caught it grossed me out. It was pretty big though.

Whats the best bait for farm pond catfish?

antifreeze

This comes from another board, but it's a cool pictures series of a trout rising to take a dry fly. Pretty amazing photography:
http://www.sexyloops.co.uk/cgi-bin/t...=3726;hl=suess

I went out today to the Lake of blue springs. Used some plastic bates and had real worms rigged like you would the fake ones I had no luck I was out there from 5-7:30.

Well on my weekly outing fishing for Catfish I had a vision that a caught an elusive new breed of catfish. It was a cat fish that was bread by the warm waters of el nino.
The mexicans nicknamed it El Gato Diablo.... Or "Devil Cat" The cat would have a long tail and small horns and when you flip it over it would have a tatoo. It's real hard to catch these fish because they are ususally in Bars underwater drinking tequilla getting into fights and wearing sunglasses. If you are real quiet you can hear them right now riding their motorcycles up the missouri river

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i wonder why when i uploaded that video it made it upside down

took a trip down to the lake of the ozarks. It was horrible weather but had some fun

I have been loading up on tackle and anxious to hit the water, but its still too cold up here. For pond catfish I use everything stinkbaits, crawlers, dead minnies, catfish soap, crankbaits can catch em sometimes, we used deer bologna at my buddies house and slayed them. This is for blues and channel cats, never really fished for flatheads, if you do you can use all types of stuff make sure its big. Like live creek chubs, big shiners, all kinds of cutbaits.

I went down to LOZ also, fished Friday and Saturday. I thougth I was a pretty good fisherman, but I caught 11 crappie the whole 2 days. We kept marking fish over brush piles, but just had a hard time getting them to bite unless it was real soft. Caught all on a blue and white crappie jig. My buddy caught a few on minnows, but it was just plain hard fishing. I did however manage to catch a huge buzz and had a giant fish (assume it was a catfish) pull one of my rods right off the dock, guess I need a new fathers day present. Anyhow, dod you catch much?

Heres one I caught. 43 lb lake trout that was a hell of a battle on 8 lb test.

Dave

My Lord, that is one massive fish. What did you use to catch him. I have never fished for any kind of trout.

I was just casting off the docks, and just walking around. In 2 days fishing about 4 hours a day I caught a blue gill, that crappie and a couple bass. It wasn't very good, but atleast I caught something. I used a white grub with spinner for the bass, with a bobber to keep from getting snagged, that 1 crappie I caught was on a mettle spoon just tied to the line. Caught a couple fish on night crawlers. It was too cold for good fishing especially since we were ghetto and just fish off the side

Nice. :thumb:

Went last nite..fishing off a bridge over the Verdigris River..we caught 5 channel-cats biggest about 7 lbs.. others from 3 to 5 lbs.. using shad-sides and bass-guts for bait ....

This 40 lb flathead was caught on Saturday on a goldfish out of a farm pond in Howard Co, MO.

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...2/DSC00668.jpg

Speaking of goldfish:

http://www.recycledfish.org/site/ima...ghwaycone1.jpg

Here's the saga of the guy catching it... on the fly, btw:
http://carponthefly.blogspot.com/200...1_archive.html

I love any of the dip/jab baits....HogWild is tops on my list

Its easy, fairly clean....the wife is not a big fan of the smell of shad sides


Throw it out and let it sit.....wont take long


Been slaughtering the crappie and bluegill with jigs, small spoons and even rapala stick baits.....biggest crappie was just a lil over 1.5 lbs..

I don't know if any of you guys plan on any Canada fishing trips. If you are, here is a place that we went to 5-6 years ago. The five of us in our party caught big hog Northerns and good walleyes. We're planning on going back to this place next
June.

www.yourwilderness.com

This is not a fly in out post cabin. You can drive to it and fish several lakes that are very secluded.
Its about a 15 hour drive from DSM, Iowa. Its NW of Thunder Bay, Ontario CN.

Just a little information for you. I'm already excited about going and its a year away.

Someone in Canada has evidently broken the rainbow trout world record.
http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/f...ory?id=2901070


http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2007..._trout_275.jpg
That fish is disgusting, btw.

Just got back from a day at Truman Lake. It was a little slow, but we managed to bring home 10 keeper sized crappie. Largest one was just over 11", the rest between 9" and 10.5". It made for a nice bag of filets.

:clap:

Hard to beat crappie.

I'm headed out to Santa Fe, NM on Tuesday for a little mini-vacation with the wife. I get one day of fishing during that time. As with most of my hyped-up, overly-anticipated fishing trips, I imagine this one will be a disappointment as far as numbers of fish caught are concerned. That being said, it's always fun to fish in northern NM, regardless of numbers of fish caught.

Well; I haven't had alot of time to go fishing in my farm pond due to working late hours and having to get things done on the farm... However; I know there's some largemouth's in there that's got to be getting pretty close to 8-9-10 pound's by now... Both me and my brother have caught this catfish while bass fishing... It's got to be close to 20 maybe even alittle bigger... Just about the time we get it close to the bank, it will start rolling and then break the 8lb line...

Funny thing is; I usually have a hard time catching them early in the year, and have better luck after it warm's up... I'll have to find time one of these nights and go after work... It's not a big pond, but I know there's some monster bass in there...

I try to go fishing every couple of weeks, no fancy gear or $100 dollar poles. I've never spent more than $35 on a rod & reel combo & they always do just fine.

I had a great day of fishing on Friday, i was at the local lake fishing off the bank at my fave spot & was just killin' large & smallmouth bass, bluegill & even caught a carp. Caught a huge buzzfish too, heh.

15 fish in all.

The only thing i used all day was a white grub with a squiggle tail, which i had taken a red permanent marker to in places, to simulate injury. This thing was freakin magic.

I'm getting ready to move back to my hometown, Jacksonville Ill, and Field & Stream put Lake Jville in its top 50 in the nation for bass, i'm looking forward to tearin' it up over there.

Heres my best catfishing tip - Instead of using the little devices they sell to cram dough bait onto (most of which SUCK cause all of the bait falls off), i use cotton balls that have been mashed thru with bait. You can wrap those things on your treble hook so good that NOTHING will tear it off & you wont have to be constantly jacking with your rig all day.

My son and his buddy have been catching nice 4 to 20 lb. channel-cats at a small state lake here in Se Kansas..my neighbors have been setting limb-lines in the Verdigris River so far their biggest flathead-catfish weighed in at 79 lbs. lucky bastards....

Just back from Canada 7 Days in Northern Manitoba....AWESOME

I got this one at savannah public pond. I pulled it through some grass so the poor thing has dirt on it and I look like i am taking a shit. It is hard to hold a cell phone and take a picture of mah piggy

I hit a Stone fly and a Caddis hatch going on at the same time on the Madison last week.....Unreal. Great day of fishing and landed a 7 1/2 pound brown on a salmon fly.

Thirty Four inch snook on a 10 wt with a streamer that looks like white bait last Saturday.

68lb Tarpon a week ago last Tuesday.

I live and Charter in SW Florida on the very north edge of Charlotte Harbor, I fish gasparilla sound and more specifically , catfish creek, bull bay, and turtle bay with the occasional spring early summer Tarpon trip to Pine Island sound to try to catch one laying up. (that's where I stuck the Poon just insied of Redfish Pass.

I've fished up your way in Montana and Wyoming, Maddison, Platt, Snake and Yellow Stone, I've got a killer slough creek story.

Best brown and bow fishing I've ever done was White and North fork of white in Arkansas, and S. Missouri. at Tanycomo (sp?)

I'll stick more snook this week and maybe a Permit and Tarpon to boot.

Just got back from Santa Fe, NM. Fished the Jemez one day and caught a ton of small wild browns and rainbows on dries. Nothing huge, but it was very pretty and a lot of fun.

I think I am having fishing withdrawals, I went almost every day as soon as the weather was nice enough. I havent been fishing for about a month, I just dpnt have the time and Im always so tried after work. Plus we have two 9 week old puppies and my parents stick me with the duties even though the schnauzer puppy is theirs. I have put up some big numbers this year so far, but I gotta get back out there soon. I have caugh 2 fish Ohio Bluegill, one I didnt feel like submitting because I didnt feel like running over to my house to get pictures, I waslk to our neighbors pond and its probably a good 2 miles from my house.

Well, I took the plunge and bought my dream fly rod today. It's an R. L. Winston Boron llx 5 weight, with a life time unconditional warranty. My stop by the factory last week was a big mistake. I tried this rod out in their casting yard. Super light with incredible action. I figured I would give it a week and if I still wanted it, I would buy the damn thing. I am going to go make some "Sales Calls" tomorrow up near Ennis, MT by the Madison river where I cleaned house last week. When I'm done with that (2PM?) I will break this bad boy in. I am going to see If I can tie into that monster again. Anyone else own a Winston Rod?

Hey Otter, wish you were here. :evil:


http://www.winstonrods.com/boronIIx.html

I graduated last year from an Orvis to a Sage. Maybe in a few years I can get me a Winston, and arn't you old enough to know better than to stop by their factory unless your flat broke?

G Loomis

The one I have cost over $2k for

I have a sweet G. Loomis 6 WT myself, nice rod as well.

You didn't get the Winston boo?

I'd love a Winston. My most expensive rod is a St. Croix Avid 6wt., and it isn't very costly. Also have a TFO professional 8wt. and a White River 4wt.

I tried the boo and didn't care for it. The Boron llx had a feel like nothing I have ever used. I should have stayed the hell away from the factory last week. :cuss: I can't wait to put my galvin torque T5 reel on that bad boy. The was my big treat to myself last year. Should be one a hell of a rig.

http://www.galvanflyreels.com/torque.html

You suck. :cuss:

Why did you go so light on the rod having to pull them out of that current? What flies you using?

I ****ing hate PA sometimes.

Because I like the feel of this one. I just got off the river after 8 hours and cleaned house. I used caddis, march browns, and Adams. I am headed off to the Long Branch Saloon for a thick steak and some cold brews, after 8 hours in the hot sun, I'm parched. :toast: The work week is over other than driving the 200 miles back to Billing when I get up. Once again Joe, I wish you were here, now I will have to abuse this town by myself. :shake:

Here is little fish a caught in La Paz Mexico..


http://www.bajapapas.com/wallof2.php?offset=40#


The 54 pd Dorado!!!!!!

Where did you go ? What Lake and What charter service ?

Cabo Fishing !!! I used a service www.gotcaughtincabo.com


They were honest guys with a good clean boat. The guy had two cute Retrievers that he took every where. My biggest fish that trip was a
40lb Dorado. I would love to go back and catch a Marlin...someday !

Dorado a type of tuna? Kinda looks like it.