I'm going fishing...

Someone just caught a 873 LB blue fin tuna off the coast of Delaware !!! That will keep you in tuna fish sandwiches for many, many years.
 
I live on a small man-made lake that is both spring and creek fed and was created by building an earthen dam in the 1960's when the land was subdivided for development. It's a catch-and-release lake that has mostly smallmouth bass and channel cat. I've heard people claim to have caught a perch but I have never seen one come out of our lake.

My backyard abuts one of the channels that leads into the main body of the lake so I do my fishing right in my own backyard. A couple of winters ago we had a real deep freeze and the lake froze enough for me to walk out on the ice - unusual in Virginia - so, being a transplanted New Englander, I went out there with a lawn chair, an axe, my fishing pole, and a six pack and proceeded to chop a hole and drop my line. Didn't catch anything but a buzz. The neighbors are still talking about it.

When I want to do some "real" fishing, I'll go on a party boat in Chesapeake Bay. Depending on the time of year and the conditions we might go for game fish - striped bass (known around here as "rockfish"), bluefish, spanish mackerel, or maybe bottom fish - croakers, sea bass, weakfish, drum, lots of others. One time we got into a school of croaker while fishing an undersea ledge in the middle of the bay after midnight and we were pulling them up 2, 3, 4 at a time on spreader rigs using sliced squid. I was eating croaker all summer :)

There's good fishing in the bay off the piers and jetties too - spot, drum, flounder, even sheepshead, but these days I tend to do my fishing from land right in my backyard and I only fish the bay from a boat.
 
I fish two or three days a week. Usually for smallmouth bass or rock bass in the river near me. I hit a stream around there for smallies and trout sometimes and a resevior that is a bit farther away for largemouth. I get bluegills everywhere. I am looking to try for walleye and muskie in the river. I see a lot guys getting large channel catfish out of there, but that does not really interest me. I just went out for fluke in a bay last weekend. I love fishing. Good luck, I hope you get some good ones.
 
We had two ponds where I grew up (where my parents live) and we used to go fishing a lot when I was a kid. One (small one) is down a long path through our woods and the other (larger one) is across the street. There are mostly perch and catfish in the larger one. I used make my sister catch catfish for me to put into my horses' water tank! I had one for a few years that I named "fluffy". :cool: Eventually, Fluffy disappeared. We figured some animal must have gotten her.

In the smaller pond were mostly cute little colorful "sunnies" (?) That's what my parents called them anyway when I was little, so I don't know what they are really called...? I used to go out there with my mom and sister a lot when I was a kid and I'd go off with a net and try to catch frogs and salamanders while they fished. Sometimes I'd luck out and find a snake or something that I could scare my sister with. ;)

I couldn't stand to even watch them put the worms on the hooks, lol. And then my mom would catch little fish and slice them up to use as bait. I remember crying the first time I saw her do it because I didn't want her to hurt the fish! I've always been dumb like that about animals, lol. I still can't fish though. :o

That's just my own personal problem though! I am grateful to other people who catch fish and sell them in fish stores where they don't look so much like fish. So, KEEP ON FISHIN'! :D

~ashes
 
To me, theres nothing better than sitting on the back of a boat, rocking up and down, with my line in the water and a drink in my hand. When I go fishing either by myself, or with family, I don't have to catch anything to be happy.

When I plunk money down on a charter or the headboat, yeah, I'd like to catch something!
 
Blue Ribben trout streams of Montana. :D
Fly fishing every evening.Ahhhh
 
Lots of small and large mouth Bass and huge Walleye up here. Fish about daily in our short summers. :)
 
It is a very good year for salmon this year.I am getting ready to go dip netting red salmon in the Cooper River.It is not much sport but These fish my favorite for eating. State residents are allowed to get 30 per family.We have five kinds of salmon and my preference in order are,reds,kings,silvers,chums and pinks.The taste can really very according to where they spawn.They predict 20,000,000 pinks will be coming into Valdez this summer .They are not the best eating but it is sure fun to take the kids down and catch a 5 or 6 pound fish every cast.
 
just got back from two days in the hills on a smallish lake; wife, me, and two grandkids knocked the heck out of the trout, 18 in all from 10 to 15 inches.... yum :D
 
Fish for fun?
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Oh yeah :D
Some guys have a tackle box or 3. Before we moved I had a tackle room!

Darn night job really cut into my fishing though.
I did get out a couple weeks ago and put my Godson on 2 16-18" largemouth. The biggest he'd ever caught.
The look on his face when the first one jumped was pricless.
Almost as good as catching them myself :D
 
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