Fishin' with your Traditional Knives

I took my kayak to the river today. I caught my first brown, so that was pretty cool.
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That's a beautiful brown Erik. It has beautiful colors. I plan to do some kayak fishing this weekend. As hot as it is I plan to fish Friday night, I am rigged with navigation lights, and early Saturday morning. When I kayak fish I try to carry one of my stainless knives. I will probably have my Gary Crowder trapper in CPM154CM with bone covers. If I catch anything I will share the results.

Chris
 
Thanks guys! Chris, that sounds like a blast.
I typically throw caution to the wind and carry carbon steel of some sort. So far I've only had my sodbuster rust on me once, but that was after having it in my pocket while wading in the river for a couple hours.
I plan on heading back out tomorrow morning one more time before the rain sets in.
 
GREAT Brown Erik!!! I've yet to fish this summer, going to try and change that over the 4th:thumbup:
 
Were going tomorrow can wait to break in my 73 horse cut and maybe get a couple of browns and cuts

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Good luck Erik, hope you catch some.

Pual, I really hope you get out my friend. You deserve some time on the water.

Chris
 
combatjiujitsu said:
Just cuttin line and such. Slow morning but I'm not complaining
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This is great pic, but........It gives me so much anxiety! I have lost too many knives in the water that seeing one just laying on the bow of a canoe(?) scares me. I just had to say it....
Bruce
 
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. But teach a man to fish, and he will buy an ugly hat and vest. And possibly a new knife....
 
More from Blighty on the morn of are own independence day. A good catch of mainly bream and crucian carp, but also this nice common carp. Tackle includes my small Leatherman, with it's scissors for trimming line, and my Rough Rider dirt buster with which I cleared the bank of obtrusive reeds. Cannot think of a better day to go fishing. :victorious:

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Nice tackle Blake, I use floats quite a bit. Mick Thill's articles in our In Fisherman magazine got me interested in the English style of coarse fishing. Very specialized but a lot of fun.
 
JB in SC said:
Nice tackle Blake, I use floats quite a bit. Mick Thill's articles in our In Fisherman magazine got me interested in the English style of coarse fishing. Very specialized but a lot of fun.
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That's great Jerry. I enjoy float fishing and know that you use a 'Bobber' a lot for fishing in America. But leger and feeder fishing, used in conjunction with a quiver rod tip, are by far my favourate methods. Don't know if you do much of this type of fishing over there but it's great fun and very effective. You should definitely give it a go. :thumbup:
 
Blake the Blade said:
That's great Jerry. I enjoy float fishing and know that you use a 'Bobber' a lot for fishing in America. But leger and feeder fishing, used in conjunction with a quiver rod tip, are by far my favourate methods. Don't know if you do much of this type of fishing over there but it's great fun and very effective. You should definitely give it a go. :thumbup:
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Thill floats are all I've used for my live bait fishing over twenty years, small streams and ponds. Some of my friends couldn't figure out how I can see the float tip when it's set. A big bluegill can inhale a cricket or worm and you'd never know it with our conventional "bobbers",a smaller (#12 to #14) hook usually gets them in the lip.
 
I've spent the last 4 out of 5 mornings sitting in this thing.
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I have had a blast getting into into trout fishing this past month or two! I feel like this is the start of another very unhealthy obsession.
This guy has seen a ton of pocket time lately.
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I sure hope Primble didn't fall into the lake wrestling in one of those little guppies, I mean super huge ginormous 18.2648 lb large mouth basseses!
 
Nice catch Blake!

Blake the Blade said:
That's great Jerry. I enjoy float fishing and know that you use a 'Bobber' a lot for fishing in America. But leger and feeder fishing, used in conjunction with a quiver rod tip, are by far my favourate methods. Don't know if you do much of this type of fishing over there but it's great fun and very effective. You should definitely give it a go. :thumbup:
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You might as well be speaking Greek...:confused:
Can you expand a bit on your method?
 
Erik, I know ledger fishing is where you use a weight to keep the bait toward the bottom of the water column (bait can sometimes float up depending on the amount of line you have between bait and the weight and also some weights can slide on the line to allow this as well). Then, to detect the bite, you can use sticks to brace the rod in a way that the tip of the rod will indicate the bite by moving a certain way.

I think feeder fishing is clumping bait around a hook, essentially hiding the hook from view. I've seen this done to catch carp and catfish.

As far as knives to use in these setups, well a traditional is a must of course! I'm actually curious as to the GEC fish knife. I don't think I've ever seen anyone post one on the forum.
 
SadSappySucker said:
Nice catch Blake!



You might as well be speaking Greek...:confused:
Can you expand a bit on your method?
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Okay Erik its actually quite a simple method. You have a weight (a leger) instead of a float, which sinks to the bed of the river/lake. About 12 inches from the hook you have a stop or split shot which stops the leger moving any closer to the hook and bait. When the fish takes the bait the line moves freely through the eye of the leger through which the line is threaded and causes the tip of the rod, set at an angle from the direction that the line has been cast to jolt to one side. This indicates the bite. You can use a feeder instead of a leger (see top compartment of my tackle box) which deposits loose bait in the area of the hook bait to attract the fish. It's great to watch those subtle movements of the tip as the fish inspects the bait, but you must wait for it to jolt right around before you strike. Hope that's clear.:thumbup:
 
Thanks guys. I gues the terminology just through me off a bit. I fish in a slightly similar manner when bottom fishing from the beach except I usually have the sinker fixed to the line where the leader can not move freely. I might try that method next time I'm bottom fishing.
I've been itching to go cat fishing lately. After reading all that I want to go even more!

As far as the fish knife goes, I already carry a leatherman everywhere especially when fishing, so I prefer my carry knife to be just a knife. I spend a lot of money on my dedicated cutters. I don't need another one that is so task specific. This is obviously my own opinion, but it's kind of the same reason I don't carry a tl 29 to work. I'm always well equipped with the tools I need for any particular job especially when it comes to things as basic as a flat head screw driver or fish scaler.
But I will admit that the click point profile used on the GEC fish knife is SEXY!
 
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