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halo2

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It's a solid wilderness skill. It's a hobby. For some, it's an obsession.

What sort of fishing do you like?

I've gone for panfish with worms, hooked bass and pickerel on lures, caught flounder, cod and tautog with handlines and razor clams for bait and even tied my own flies for trout. Lately, I'm back to simple fresh water fishing with bait, sort of the survival bent.
 
Snook and Redfish while wade fishing in the warm Florida sun, water temperature around 76 degrees. I cast net my live bait and fish around mangroves; sometimes I use a canoe to get to honey holes. Very plain and simple way to fish, very exciting at times, like hooking a 23 lb. snook on 12 lb. test fishing line!
I have also hooked into 6-foot long sharks (Black-tip, Lemon and Bulls) while fishing out of a canoe. I have a small kicker that I use to get to the nearest sandbar and then fight the shark from the sandbar; I have 400 yrd's. of line on my 4/0 reel to give me time to get to the sandbar. I release more fish than I keep...
 
I guess you could say I'm obsessed with fishing. My main obsession has always been trout. Lures, bait, trolling, fly rod, name a time and place and I'll be there.

I'll also take the opportunity at Bass here and there. Usually lures, fished a lot of ponds when I lived in Ohio. Now and again I'll hit some of the smaller local lakes here in Cali.

I've also caught carp, catfish, crappy, bluegills, stripers, tuna, and rock fish. Hell I even caught a bird once, no, twice.

Wanna go fishing? I DO!
 
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I've got a disease that causes the most uncontrollable shaking if I don't fish with some regularity. Mostly for various species of Bass, but I'll go to the gulf or just about anywhere a good opportunity presents it's self. I love fishing from my kayaks the most though. The rivers in Georgia present a great fishing adventure with the Shoal Bass population. I love the Smallie rivers too. The 10,000 Islands area of the Glades is a paradise for kayak fishing. If this goes on a while I might post a few pictures.
 
halo2 said:
What sort of fishing do you like?
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I've fished for trout in the Virginias, catfish in the south, pier and surf fishing off the Outer Banks, and big lake fishing for Pike, Walleye, Perch and Smallies. The Thousand Islands are one of my favorite spots for just about any type of freshwater fishing.

If I can wet a line, I'm in. Stingray, you're on!

My favorite still has to be Panfish. Especially Crappie.

It seems that everywhere I fish here in Michigan and in New York I'm plagued with catching Rock Bass. So much so that it influenced my screen name (Ambloplites rupestris = Rock Bass). Fun to catch on ultra light gear but usually not what I'm fishing for :p.

I'm not too big on live bait. I usually head out without it. If I use any its wax worms or crickets under a slip bobber early in the season for Crappie but do just as well throwing 1.5" tubes on 1/32 - 1/16oz jigs. Silver flake or white seem to work well. Chicken liver for catfish is a must.

Temps should get close to 60°F by Friday. C'mon ice! MELT!!!

Chris
 
My passion is largemouth fishing. I'm particularly fond of anything freshwater. IMO saltwater is too much like work :)
 
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IMO saltwater is too much like work :)
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Bite your tounge. When the family wants to spend a week on the coast, you'll take your fishing gear. Even if its just pier fishing for Pompano, its still fishing.;)

Isn't any more work. Just a bigger weight on the end of the line :p
 
Redfish, Speckled trout for saltwater and Largemouth Bass in the Rio Grande River or Falcon Resivoir.

-frank
 
Rupestris said:
Bite your tounge. When the family wants to spend a week on the coast, you'll take your fishing gear. Even if its just pier fishing for Pompano, its still fishing.;)

Isn't any more work. Just a bigger weight on the end of the line :p
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LOL

Don't get me wrong - I still salt water fish pretty regularly, I just prefer freshwater.

I live on the east coast a mile from the coast line so I surf fish a lot as well as pier fish.
 
I am definitely obsessed. Luckily where I live I have offshore, inshore, and freshwater rivers and lakes including some of the best catfish lakes anywhere. And I do it all too. Favorite would have to be offshore. I was the mate on our 47' Buddy Davis for a few years during college and wouldn't trade it for the world.
 
Bass fishing is definately my passion. I never use bait, only artificials. I go for trout in the early spring, or when I want it for the plate.

In the heat of Summer I'll go Saltwater for Stripers and Blues.

I am not crazy about using bait unless I am saltwater fishing.

Ofcourse if I am survival fishing with a handline, live bait would be my first choice.
 
I love to go fishing. My dad/grandma own some property right on Lake Erie and I go there and catch all kinds of Channel Catfish. Also catch Sheepshead, but those are released, as well as all the white perch and white bass that I catch out there. I will occasionally catch Yellow Perch there as well. Very rarely I catch Flathead catfish or Blue Catfish as well.

Every year I go to the Maumee River for the Walleye run, which I limit out on Walleye everytime out. Throughout the year I will go with my buddy out on Lake Erie and catch Yellow Perch and Walleye. In addition to Lake Erie, I go fishing ater the Walleye run for Flathead Catfish and Crappie in the Maumee river. When I go for only crappie, I usually get a good amount of them along with Bluegill. When I go for Crappie/Flatheads I catch quite a few Crappie and a couple Flatheads.
 
I like it, and will take what I can get. Even my wife loves to fish!

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Fly fishing for trout, smallmouth bass, pike, panfish, carp ... pretty much anything that'll take a fly, but above all, steelhead.
 
I trout fish primarily. Since leaving my home state many years ago, I have had few opportunities to fish for trout other than when I visited home. But in the last couple of years, I have been enjoying trout fishing again on fairly big water here in Tennessee with primarily spinners. It is not nearly as productive as I was used to. It was not uncommon to catch 40-50 trout in a day then, and it is an absolute rarity to catch more than 20 now in a day. I wade, but I keep threatening to take my kayak out and float the rivers and fish. Problem is simple; if I go by myself, then I am potentially miles from the car if I float in a yak. The walk back is a bugger and the water is fast enough to make going upstream for any significant distance a pain. Plus there are enough fast water (ie rapids) to make it troublesome for me with equipment in the yak. I don't want to get dunked and loose a lot of my stuff. I throw back all the trout I catch. So daily creel limits don't really apply. I'm there for the fun of catching them and enjoying the scenery. It is actually wonderful to get away from work and just fish.

Since I live in primarily a southern state where trout fishing is more difficult, I have been trying my hand at fishing the local lakes for whatever I can catch primarily with artificials (usually bass and crappie). Been using the kayak for this as I don't own a "bass boat". I fish the back areas that aren't hit as much and avoid the middle of the lake where the speed boats and jet skiers roam. This is a bit of a learning experience for me, so it is certainly challenging to bass fish (large and smallmouth) from a kayak. And I'm spending $100's to get my new equipment base up to speed for the different environment. That also makes it fun.
 
Big Cats on the Red River in the spring and some annually stocked trout ponds have become my favorite places to be.
 
Anything that swims I love to catch. Most of my fishing is saltwater for any of Hawaii's gamefish. I also like to fish light tackle for largemouth and peacock bass. Kayak fishing 2+ miles from sure also floats my boat.

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I flyfish for Rainbow trout, Lake trout (char) and Eastern Brook trout.

I do my own fly tying which is a big part of the fun, and something to do in the long Northern winters.
 
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