Fishing 2018

[dipbait]

I finally got out twice this past week , caught a couple of nice little limits of bass and for the third straight year hooked myself . I pushed the barb through and snipped it off .

 

[Rose and Thistle Custom]

Ice finally broke up here in Wasilla AK, been getting out a bit.
First fish of the season was a 21" hatchery rainbow

Caught several more in the 18-19" range and a bunch of little 11"ers. Crazy thing is I was fishing for pike using a 5" rubber pike when the little ones hammered it!

Knife is a Mini Grip with Deathofallthings grips. Oh, and today the wife outfished me 2 to 0.

 

[M. Johnwell]

Chunkiest bass so far this year:

 

[fishiker]

For me this year is all about teaching my 4 year old as much as he will absorb. Last trip he caught his first "solo" fish. It was a small bass on a spinner and I couldn't have been happier.

 

[WinchesteRalox]

I have to shamefully admit I have not been out fishing at all so far this year The ice was always too thin or when it was thick it was a blizzard!

 

[Rose and Thistle Custom]

I just hit a catch and release only lake and caught 6 rainbow trout in the 18" range on wooly-buggers and prince nymphs. Lots of fun....

 

[Rose and Thistle Custom]

Hiked 3.25 miles in to Red Shirt Lake and caught my first pike! ( a 20 incher) Used a Rapala Original floating minnow Rainbow trout pattern.

 

[Scott Hanson]

Fished out of Racine Wisconsin this morning with a friend of mine and caught our limit of coho salmon in an hour and 20 minutes, lake was nice and calm, great morning to be out on the water.

 

[ac700wildcat]

Just a little bluegill I caught this winter and really liked the colors on it. Hoping the picture works. If it does, I have quite a few more pictures from ice fishing that I can post. This past ice season was the best one I've ever had.

 

[Rose and Thistle Custom]

I LOVE bluegill, miss fishing for them.

 

[DB731]

 

[Rose and Thistle Custom]

hand-lining for pike! now that is cool.

 

[DB731]

hand-lining for pike! now that is cool.

Took me couple of weeks to get OK with it. Tons of fun. Those are called "Cuban yo-yos", and there is at least one other fella here that does it, Plumber Roy (plumberroy).

 

[DB731]

 

[bralexander]

Haven't posted here in a while, but we just moved really close to the beach and I caught this guy today, along with some others. Really diggin' surf fishing!

 

[DB731]

Very nice fish. And even without the fish, that's a billion-dollar view, as far as I am concerned. Blue water, blue horizon, it doesn't get any better than that.

 

[bralexander]

I squeezed in a few minutes of fishing before the thunderstorms and caught this thick beast. I believe this is a Warmouth (so many bream/sunfish look the same to me) and he is the widest one I've ever seen in person. The pic doesn't do it justice, it had to be 2"+ at it's widest point. This was in a small retention pond in the tiny subdivision we are in now. I have caught a few other small bream in there a week or so ago, but definitely didn't think there would be anything this big roaming around!

 

[mewolf1]

Got my dad out a couple of weeks ago. 9"s

 

[mewolf1]

and a couple Rainbows last Saturday

 

[bralexander]

This guy was real hungry... he already had a live crawfish and still went for my wacky rigged dinger!