Isn't this a sad time of year? Here in Missouri, the rivers are strong and hard to fish. The stocked lakes have been fished to very low populations. Some people come right after stocking and catch the fish that still are used to fisheries and easy to catch. I don't think there's much challenge in that. Mostly I'm just gabbing.
I actually flatten out the barbs on my hooks on stocked lakes. Can just flip caught fish off line that way.
Anybody still troll on small lakes?
I got a nice stripped bass on a small lake in Michigan when my line was all tangled on the oars of the row boat. Made dinner for 6 or 8 of us. We were young and believe it or not, trolling in the boat.
Keep the faith, brothers and sisters.
2007-02-02 01:29:53 · 7 answers · asked by peter s 3 in Sports ➔ Outdoor Recreation ➔ Fishing
my son also caught a duck the first time i took him fishing. we were fishing on Encanto lake in Phoenix AZ.. A duck about 20 yards away started squacking , flapping its wings, and splashing. Son kep pulling in line, I gotta fish, I gotta fish. Duck went under, popped up at boat. Real indignant. I unhooked it, it squacked some more, and TOOK off. Thanks for answers so far. Don't fall in dirty water.
2007-02-02 02:28:58 · update #1
My wife landed this one. I was scraping the farm dam with a 10 ton front end loader. We were in drought and I had it in the dam on the rocky bottom scooping up all the fine sediments and cleaning up the reeds. My wife said "I'll have a load of that for the garden".... So I drove a good bucket full of slurry up to the kitchen garden for her and she directed me to where it was needed. She was standing there with her shovel with a mesh fence behind her when all of a sudden she starts screaming and hitting the mud, (mud going everywhere). I got down and she had landed a 4 foot long about 7inch wide eel. The dam is miles from the nearest river.
She thought it was a BIG SNAKE when it came out of the bucket. I had to end up spreading the mud....
2007-02-03 18:42:55 · answer #1 · answered by roger a 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was around eight years old, we'd gone camping with the Boy Scouts to a pond nearby. I'd had bad luck all day and not caught a thing. When we were walking back to the trucks I had my hook (empty) just dragging in the water as I walked. Wouldn't you know it, but a fish bit it and just about yanked the pole out of my hand. My memory is hazy about what kind of fish it was but I know it wasn't a catfish. It wasn't enormous by any means but still impressive. The best part of it was that I had given up and got my fish when I wasn't even trying.
2007-02-02 09:36:07 · answer #2 · answered by brian m 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I remember going fishing with my father once when I was about eight or nine and walking down to the water and nearly stepping on a six foot alligator. Didn't catch anything that day, but I didn't get caught either. I wasn't paying attention, and I think he was taking a nap. He thrashed around, I swung wildly with my pole, it was all good.
Gotta be careful walking up to a pond here in Florida....
2007-02-04 00:40:30 · answer #3 · answered by gimmenamenow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 2 years ago I was spinnerbait fishing for bass in an old gravel pit.It was sweltering hot and I was ready to quit for the day.And of course I said to myself one more cast.I wish I woulve just left.I had a very hard hit,set the hook,and it was on.After about 2-3 minutes I wore out what I thought was a bass.It didnt jump or fight like one.It got up under some dead weeds and I had to go in after it.I got the surprise of my life.It was the ugliest fish I had ever seen.Not to mention I didnt know what it was untill I asked around.It was a dogfish,also called bowfin.They are ugly,evil looking and eel shaped.If you have never seen one check out pictures on the net.
2007-02-03 19:03:38 · answer #4 · answered by rockman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every suprise catch I've made usually came on my last cast. You know, that cast when you've given up. ...reeling in, then... WHAMO! Always keeps me there another hour... lol... Either that or catching some oddball fish. I grew up on the Miss. Gulf Coast and live in Louisiana so I fish alot of salt water. You never know what you're going to get. I've caught stingrays, sharks, oysterfish, eels, some funky lookin' crabs, and some things that I had no idea what they were. I've even caught a seagull or two (fishing w/ a shallow-diving silver shad-not on purpose). That's always a suprise. Thanks man. That was fun.
2007-02-02 09:46:16 · answer #5 · answered by lkrhtr70 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was slow rolling a spinner bait in a pond at a campground in Va. when it just stopped. I thought I was hung up on the bottom and tried to break the line. Finally it came loose and I started to reel in what I thought was a stick since it felt like dead weight. When I got it to the bank I saw it was a turtle. I fish with a rep. from Hawg Caller and told him they work great for bass but I'd prefer a turtle free model.
2007-02-03 06:51:53 · answer #6 · answered by geobert24 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my brother and i routinely catch gar over 6 ft long that weigh between 100 - 150 lbs we sell them whole for 75 cents a pound and we catch them jug fishing. with huge live bream at night or big chunks of cut shad.
2007-02-05 00:16:35 · answer #7 · answered by roger c 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋