Stocked my pond today.

The race is on to the 8lb bass.

We're booked for my buddies cottage up on Lake Muskoka for next weekend. Beers, golf, BBQ, swmming and fishing.

45.0333° N, 79.6000° W

Plenty of small and large mouth Bass, Walleye, Trout, Northern Pike and Musky. I have yet to land a Musky bu I'm not sure I'm prepared for one of those monsters.

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Sweet. Good job Iowa

8lbs would be a nice lunker.

This little movie will put a smile on your face:

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Feeding? I have bass that were stocked on June 22 3years ago at 4-5 inches that are running a solid 17-18 in with a couple 22 inch plus. Granted thats exceptional but they had massive amounts of forage with Bluegills that had not been fed on for probably two prior years. Pond is 3.5 acres, max depth 26 feet

Im seeing a real benefit in the bluegills from feeding. Cant say bass pay any attention to the feed but the will bust hell out of a BG when ty are on the feed plus its a rush to see the catfish.

My son and I caught about 20 Rainbows this last weekend. It was great. Fought like Hell.

I've only been once in my life, this past opening weekend. Want to get back out in the water, was really fun fishing.

With what, fly rod, ultra light?
Rainbows are scrappy little fish, fun to catch on light gear.

Just a spinning reel and whatever that rod is called. Crazy stick?

Just a bobber, weight, hook and bait.

Hey Donger, I have heard you like to fish for brown snub nose sewer trout. Could you verify the validity of this for me?

sounds just like my situation. I feed the fish 5-6 times a week, and the 'gills and cats come up for it. The bass sit below and wait to pick of one of the unsuspecting 'gills. Pretty cool to watch. I throw 10lbs of minnows in about every other year also, but the 'gills are getting huge and there are several 7ish lb bass in there now. I'll post a pic of the one my son caught last summer.

here's one. water is way up from where it was last year

Damn, look at the mouth on that!

Awesome!!! Thats what kids should do! look at that expression!

I built a lot of structure. I'd been wanting to do this for a long time and had looked at a lot of stuff on the internet.

Here are some samples of some of the items I made, in addition to rock piles, ledges, drop offs and a large dirt ridge in the water....and a garden of cement lawn deer and large tile piles around my island and other strategic locations.....I have enough time invested in them I hope it pays off.

It was funny listening to some of the old timers talk about it when they didn't know I was in a store or who had done it.

I have a smaller pond I drained that would run directly into this one with a pipe and I plan to fix it and put a 6" pipe running into the pond I can with a valve...and stock the small pond with minnows and crawfish and twice per year open the gate for a while to flood food.

Also, I'm tinkering with an natural fish feeder idea.
I want to hang a battery powered bug zapper over the water with a shepherd's hook....put a solar panel on a battery with a timer....even if it runs a couple of hours/night, it'll work.

You probably already know about pondboss.com.


Great resource...

Read up on crayfish, you may find thats a bad idea. Can reallymess up habitat, many are invasive/non native, and can brutalize spawn.

heading out this weekend for river week, down on the current and jacks fork.
me, son, grandson, big brother, brother in law, nephew and 2 cousins.

got a cabin from next Monday thru Friday, but since mrs. sec is painting this weekend, me, son and grandson are heading out tomorrow. we'll camp out sat and sun night before the rest of the crew come in.

thinking about hitting up Clearwater lake and lake wappapello this year...haven't fished there for years.

float, relax, drink and tell lies. no women allowed. always a good time.
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LMAO

love the woman w/all my heart, but once she starts painting, she doesn't stop. piss on that...we're going to the river.
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Pretty awesome thinking a fish could be caught on rod/reel that was born around the same time as Abraham Lincoln.

Centuries-old rockfish believed to have been caught off Alaska’s coast
Published July 02, 2013

An insurance adjustor from Seattle caught a rockfish outside Juneau, Alaska, last week that weighed 39.08 pounds and believed to be around 200 years old, The Sitka Sentinel reported.

Henry Liebman, the adjustor, told the paper that he was fishing in 900 feet of water at the time and was about 10 miles off the coast of Sitka. Rockfish, the paper said. These fish have been known to live as far down as 4,000 feet.

“I knew it was abnormally big (but I) didn’t know it was a record until on the way back we looked in the Alaska guide book that was on the boat,” Liebman told the paper.

The fish was certified and a sample was sent to a lab in Juneau where the fish’s age will be officially determined. Liebman, for his part, plans having the fish mounted. If this fish was indeed born 200 year ago, it would have been born around the same time the U.S. entered the War of 1812, James Madison was president and the German composer Richard Wagner was born.

Troy Tidingco, the Sitka area manager from the state Department of Fish and Game, told the paper that the previous record fish was 205 years old and that fish was "quite a bit smaller" than the one Liebman caught, the paper reported.

Rockfish have a high release mortality because they are caught in such deep waters. They often suffer from an inflated swim bladder after reaching the boat.

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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/02...#ixzz2XvvsNzzh

Heading to the Miracle Mile in Wyoming.
We go every year.
Gonna catch some Porn Trout Bitches!

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Looks great. The guy I fish with at Bennett was just talking this past weekend about needing to plan a trip to Wyoming sometime.

Here's some fun fishing pics from our trip to Florida. A little background: we were doing our family beach picture night, which is always a fiasco. We do it at "magic hour" (shortly before dusk). Well, we're doing our pictures, and a school of lady fish start busting bait like freaking crazy behind us. Just a massive school. I'm dying as the pictures are taking forever. Finally, the pics are over, I run and grab my rod.. and me and the boys proceeded to have a grand time:

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Here's what a clouser minnow looks like after catching a ton of lady fish (bottom fly vs. unused top fly):
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We finally got enough rain this year that the local lakes have filled back up. I'm hoping to get back out there next year and Fish On. This sucks not having a water hole & not go all year but looks like I'm going gear up for next year.



Awesome pics dads fishing with their kids in this thread :thumb:

Awesome, looks like a beautiful place to spend time with the kids and teach them to love the outdoors... i am moving to an oceanfront town just as soon as humanly possible, cant imagine how much fun ocean fishing must be, a lunker from the local river or lake has nothing on what you might pull out of the ocean on a given day.

That said, i've had my best all around fishing year this summer... the first flathead and blue cats of my life, all between 15-25 pounds, several 5-7 pound bass, a HUGE drum about 15 pounds that fought like hell, several crappie caught while not even fishing for them and i've found some absolutely killer creeks chock full of fish that i bet no one has fished in ten years, they're waaay out in the boonies and worth every gallon of gas it takes to get there.

Looks incredible, primeval... best of luck.

My son continues to outfish me dammit. Caught this nice crappie on a jig at a nearby pond.

Criminy, tooge... that's a huge crappie, both sides of him will make a fat sammich.

believe it or not, we let him go. I've got a freezer full of em and like the taste better from spring fish anyhow. Thanks tho.

What did junior catch that on?

I have let buckets full of big ones go. It's all just in finding the right spot, but going for crappie can be a blast. Big ass fish though.

What happened to the hook you had for a hand on Kingpin?

ROFL no lie!

Did your dad really help kill Kennedy, NewChief?

That's actually my first Woody Harrelson comparison. I used to get the John Malkovich comparison because I wore overalls and a conductor hat during my Dead Head days and looked like him in "Of Mice and Men."


Bald mother****ers. We all look alike.

He caught that on a yellow ( not chartreuse) curly tail jig about 1.5 inches long. I was using a two Inch blue and white jig that we always slay em on. So was he. For some reason he changes to the yellow curly tail, and bam!
Then he caught about a 3/4 lb redear, which is a huge redear. **** me! Little man pretty much out fishes me now.

He just has that "it" factor with fishin

This has got to be the coolest trout video I have ever seen.

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Heading to the Missouri River in an hour or so to get the lines wet. Hope there's a catfish or two that are hungry

I'm taking off thursday and friday for some fly fishing

the weather is supposed to be perfect - but hopefully the river won't be crowded.

I haven't been this ready to get back outside in a looong time, but its gonna have to warm up a bit still.

In the meantime, check out this little gizmo I just found out about, I'll be putting one of these in my bugout bag very soon, a perfect survival type tool...

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those yo yos are used for ice fishing. On another note, I'm heading to the White river in AR pretty soon for some spring fly fishin. cant wait.

Its handy looking little sucker, set it and forget, freeing you up to do other things.

Good luck on your trip!

I am going to be heading to the local pier on Saturday evening for some squid jigging. I've had pretty good luck so far, have about 8 or 9 lbs of cleaned and ready to cook calamari in the freezer but can always use more.

It'll be a good time. I booked a Striper guide out on Beaver for my Dad and Father-in-law as their Christmas gifts. March 15th can't get here soon enough...

Damn, it's a beautiful day out right now.

I'm going to re-dedicate myself to bass/crappie fishing and golf this spring. That ought to be a nice time.

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The wind laid down about 4:30 and it was just beautiful outside. I had 3 bites and caught 1 little channel cat

March 16 Redfish and Sea Trout off Hilton Head S Carolina
Headed to British Columbia in July for King Salmon. Cant wait to start fishing plastic worms in farm pond for some hungry bigmouth bass.

cant wait to slaughter some crappie this year...

should already be getting out there but been too busy, crappie out of the cold ****ing water is awesome.

You must want to be like me, The Crappie King
And yes, I caught those

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Never been the fishing type, but I think that's pretty cool.

I'm ready for some crappie fishing too.

Also, I was planning on heading to Bennett Springs in couple of weeks for some trout fishing. The guy who organizes this trip had something come up so he had to move us out one week. Of course, I have something going on that weekend and can't make it now. :cuss:

Me and my buddy fishing... He never says he can't go like all the rest of your buddys... (Those buddies do the laundry at home)

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Here's a pic of the size of crappie my wife catches...

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Nice!
What is the length of that?

Oh , this woman can even drive the boat onto the boat trailer...

Oh the Humanity, Making the wife trailer the boat AND do the laundry

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If I remember, I think it was 18 inches

She kicks my ass at crappie fishing

You posted that shit last year. C'mon man.

Thats a nice size crappie.
Fishing for Crappie is nice in my backyard lake, but I would be lucky to ever see one above 14 inches.
Still, when the Crappies are on, Morels are out and Wild Asparagus is ready, its a great time of year.

my father in law would put you to shame lol. I think he can hear them swimming.

That was the best big fish day I ever had crappie fishing... it's actually a few years old.... Still like to look at it again though

They are biting good now here, our saying is if the dogwoods are blooming it's time for crappie

Here are some fried up mmmmm mmmm good

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Here is my boat some of you have seen , I have since added a second GPS + Fish finder, the one on front of the boat is the hockey puck type on the trolling motor



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One of the lakes I fish

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Couple of nice ones with my old boat... Wish I would have kept that boat, I had it set up nice... 15 HP Nissan engine, 14 ft live well and remote controlled Minn Kota.. had a remote the size of a car door opener... cool as hell , no foot pedal needed but it had one of those too

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Had the front of that boat custom made with an am/fm with cd player and perfect carpeting

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That is a nice day of fishing. It made me jealous, that's why I lashed out. The fishing fever is getting to me...

That day was incredible, I was culling 10 and 11 inch fish because I felt guilty keeping so many but we ate them and I have invested alot of dollars in that lake.

I haven't had a day close to that since...:deevee:

Weekend is looking good here...

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LOL that looks like a damn bass it's so big

That is your best? Weak. Maybe if you held your rods in your hands instead of letting your dog watch them on the stands you would catch more.

Damn thats nice crappie .. Ill sure be glad when they start up here .. havent fished since fall of 2012 .. was in hospital in 2013 8 months .. finally gettin my legs bak to workin right .. gonna try to hitt em hard this spring .....

iT WAS A NICE ONE
i KNOW MAN, i KNOW
Good luck man... Invest in a good lightweight life jacket to wear the whole time you are on the water to be safe. Especially with leg or balance problems... Hope you get a mess of them

The south has it so much better with fishing, warmer weather means a longer season to grow big and fat.

I bet R8ers folded laundry while she cleaned and cooked all those bad boys.

I beat her ass first

Here is a fantastic online fishing magazine…if for no other reason the photography is amazing. Interesting startup Reel Company from Bozeman is written up…reel will run 400 to 800 bucks a throw.

http://www.montanaflyfishingmagazine.com

I'm thinking about another 3 weeks oughta do it, if its not warm enough to start fishing in April around here then somethings wrong.

I signed up for it. I'm very into fly fishing. I've never been to Montana though. The magazine should be interesting.

got the cabin reserved for "men's river week". last week in june. big brother and I started it several years ago. this year it's me, him, his son, my 2 sons and grandson, brother in law and his son, and 2 cousins we pretty much grew up with. camp on current river the first and last night...stay at the cabin sunday through Thursday. always a blast. float, fish, and hit old stomping grounds.

picked up a new kayak last week. 10 ft sit on top. if the ice ever melts, i'll start taking it to a few lakes around here and start breaking it in.
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Sounds like a great time... MAN RULES.