The Fishing Thread

[penguinz]

I took my 3 year old daughter fishing at my parents pond. She has one of those little Scooby Doo kiddie fishing poles.

I put a worm on the hook and cast it out for her. Within about 5 minutes she had a bite. The real started screaming as I was helping her real it in. She freaked out and ran to mommy while I finished reeling it to shore.

Ended up being a channel cat that was about 3 lbs. I have no idea how the real did not explode while trying to get that thing to shore.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by penguinz

I took my 3 year old daughter fishing at my parents pond. She has one of those little Scooby Doo kiddie fishing poles.

I put a worm on the hook and cast it out for her. Within about 5 minutes she had a bite. The real started screaming as I was helping her real it in. She freaked out and ran to mommy while I finished reeling it to shore.

Ended up being a channel cat that was about 3 lbs. I have no idea how the real did not explode while trying to get that thing to shore.

Never doubt the power of the Snoopy pole!

[NewChief]

G'night hos. I'm going fishing in the morning and can't stay up any longer. Will hopefully be telling you about many smallmouth caught later in the week.

[Bwana]

Originally Posted by NewChief

G'night hos. I'm going fishing in the morning and can't stay up any longer. Will hopefully be telling you about many smallmouth caught later in the week.

Good Luck to you. I slayed NUMEROUS trout myself last weekend.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by Bwana

Good Luck to you. I slayed NUMEROUS trout myself last weekend.

Alright, I'm still up and checking the board. Congrats on the good trip. I also had a good trip recently with a guide friend. We let a newspaper reporter tag along, and I made the cover of our outdoors section two weeks running from the trip. I'm famous and shit around here now. Pretty funny...at least to the guys at the fly shop.

[Otter]

Caught this puppy yesterday at Penns Creek up by State College on a flashback pheasent tail. If you're familar with fishing PA (let alone in the winter) this is a nice catch. Almost had frostbite by the time I finally got him in.

[oats self on back]

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by Otter

Caught this puppy yesterday at Penns Creek up by State College on a flashback pheasent tail. If you're familar with fishing PA (let alone in the winter) this is a nice catch. Almost had frostbite by the time I finally got him in.

[oats self on back]

Very nice fish anywhere, not just in PA. What did it go? 16-18"? Very fat and healthy, that's for sure. I'm headed to the Little Red this weekend (current home to the world record brown trout).

[Extra Point]

Although it's shooting fish out of a barrel, I like Bennett Spring. Caught a 4.5 lb/19.5 in. Rainbow a few years ago off Whistle Bridge before they ruined it by widening it and installing the rails. Didn't keep it. Just wanted the lunker patch.

Black and yellow maribou jig first thing in the morning in zone 2 will get you your limit, if you want the Readers Digest version.......

[Radar Chief]

Originally Posted by Extra Point

Although it's shooting fish out of a barrel, I like Bennett Spring. Caught a 4.5 lb/19.5 in. Rainbow a few years ago off Whistle Bridge before they ruined it by widening it and installing the rails. Didn't keep it. Just wanted the lunker patch.

Black and yellow maribou jig first thing in the morning in zone 2 will get you your limit, if you want the Readers Digest version.......

Bennett Springs is fun. My dad and I used to go there when I was a grade schooler, though we started go’n to Roaring Rivers instead ‘cause he had polio as a kid and a bad left leg from it that doesn’t go well with waders.
Still, I miss our yearly trips to Mizzu (Bennett Springs or Roaring Rivers) and hope we can go some time this summer.

My favorite at either is dry fly fish’n. I make a mosquito nymph that, although hard to keep dry, seems irresistible to rainbows.
I used to make a black and yellow marabou for dad that he could really work and literally pull fish out of holes with. We even expanded this technique to crappie, white bass and some smaller big mouths also. It’s fun catch’n just ‘bout anything on a fly rod.

[kcfanXIII]

Originally Posted by Extra Point

Although it's shooting fish out of a barrel, I like Bennett Spring. Caught a 4.5 lb/19.5 in. Rainbow a few years ago off Whistle Bridge before they ruined it by widening it and installing the rails. Didn't keep it. Just wanted the lunker patch.

Black and yellow maribou jig first thing in the morning in zone 2 will get you your limit, if you want the Readers Digest version.......

brown raoches work really good too just up stream from whistle bridge, at the hatchery outlet, and around the bend a ways up at the CCC bridge.

Edit: love bennet spring, been going there as long as i can remember. but the one thing that always pisses me off, is the big one that always swims through your legs, but can never catch.

[picasso]

I got a fishing story for ya.
I went bass fishing on a small lake one night 2 hours before dusk. The only people on the water were myself, one other boat and a fly fisherman that put in the same time I did. He was fly fishing for bass with a mouse fly in a float tube around the pads. After an hour I worked my way down the outside of the pads around half the small lake while the fly fisherman moved out into deeper water crossing in front of me to hit the other shore. He was casting while he was crossing the lake. It was right at dusk when on his back cast his fly hit the water and BAM he hooked one behind him. As he reeled in excited as hell he started screaming at the top of his lungs. Flailing around, smacking his rod in the water and totally flippin out.
He caught a BAT on the back cast!!! It swooped down and snatched it out of the air.
I was laughin my ass off.
Then as I was going into the ramp the other boat that was on the water said that they spotted a 7lber next to the ramp. The fly guy was right next to me as I was loading up so he decided to cast up on the ramp and drag that mouse down into the water where they said that bass was at. On his third cast he threw the damn mouse 15 feet up the ramp and worked it down and before that mouse hit the water a damn racoon came out of the trees down to the bank and ran off into the woods with it. I started crying I was laughing so hard!!
God that was the funniest thing I ever saw.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by picasso

I got a fishing story for ya.
I went bass fishing on a small lake one night 2 hours before dusk. The only people on the water were myself, one other boat and a fly fisherman that put in the same time I did. He was fly fishing for bass with a mouse fly in a float tube around the pads. After an hour I worked my way down the outside of the pads around half the small lake while the fly fisherman moved out into deeper water crossing in front of me to hit the other shore. He was casting while he was crossing the lake. It was right at dusk when on his back cast his fly hit the water and BAM he hooked one behind him. As he reeled in excited as hell he started screaming at the top of his lungs. Flailing around, smacking his rod in the water and totally flippin out.
He caught a BAT on the back cast!!! It swooped down and snatched it out of the air.
I was laughin my ass off.
Then as I was going into the ramp the other boat that was on the water said that they spotted a 7lber next to the ramp. The fly guy was right next to me as I was loading up so he decided to cast up on the ramp and drag that mouse down into the water where they said that bass was at. On his third cast he threw the damn mouse 15 feet up the ramp and worked it down and before that mouse hit the water a damn racoon came out of the trees down to the bank and ran off into the woods with it. I started crying I was laughing so hard!!
God that was the funniest thing I ever saw.

That's awesome. Bats are a well-known hazard while you're fly fishing. The flyline absolutely freaks them out when you're casting. I think there's a video out there of a guy catching a bat while casting. Here's a parody of it:
http://www.getlostmagazine.com/featu...fish/bats.html

[kcfanXIII]

Originally Posted by picasso

I got a fishing story for ya.
I went bass fishing on a small lake one night 2 hours before dusk. The only people on the water were myself, one other boat and a fly fisherman that put in the same time I did. He was fly fishing for bass with a mouse fly in a float tube around the pads. After an hour I worked my way down the outside of the pads around half the small lake while the fly fisherman moved out into deeper water crossing in front of me to hit the other shore. He was casting while he was crossing the lake. It was right at dusk when on his back cast his fly hit the water and BAM he hooked one behind him. As he reeled in excited as hell he started screaming at the top of his lungs. Flailing around, smacking his rod in the water and totally flippin out.
He caught a BAT on the back cast!!! It swooped down and snatched it out of the air.
I was laughin my ass off.
Then as I was going into the ramp the other boat that was on the water said that they spotted a 7lber next to the ramp. The fly guy was right next to me as I was loading up so he decided to cast up on the ramp and drag that mouse down into the water where they said that bass was at. On his third cast he threw the damn mouse 15 feet up the ramp and worked it down and before that mouse hit the water a damn racoon came out of the trees down to the bank and ran off into the woods with it. I started crying I was laughing so hard!!
God that was the funniest thing I ever saw.

two wildlife, on the same trip? man thats some luck. i'd be freakin out. closest i ever came to something like that, was fishin on the lake i grew up on. a mink or muskrat, got me cornered on a dock. they crawled up through the cat walk while i was out on it fishin. now understand, my parents, for some reason, had instilled a morbid fear of these things in me. not so much with any other hazard that comes with a lake such as water moccasins, or drowning. so i bout shit my pants, yelled at my brother, who was just up the sea wall, and that noise scared them away. i can remember thinking, "that wasn't so bad."

[picasso]

Originally Posted by kcfanXIII

two wildlife, on the same trip? man thats some luck. i'd be freakin out. closest i ever came to something like that, was fishin on the lake i grew up on. a mink or muskrat, got me cornered on a dock. they crawled up through the cat walk while i was out on it fishin. now understand, my parents, for some reason, had instilled a morbid fear of these things in me. not so much with any other hazard that comes with a lake such as water moccasins, or drowning. so i bout shit my pants, yelled at my brother, who was just up the sea wall, and that noise scared them away. i can remember thinking, "that wasn't so bad."

He was freakin out man, screaming like a little girl.
LOL
Then just the look on the guys face when that racoon came down and took his mouse. Priceless.

[kcfanXIII]

Originally Posted by picasso

He was freakin out man, screaming like a little girl.
LOL
Then just the look on the guys face when that racoon came down and took his mouse. Priceless.

you talkin about me, or the guy i quoted? cause i wasn't screamin.