Fishing

[tch]

^^^ Nice pics! I would have never thought of fishing from an SUP.
Whattya do with that big carp after you catch it?

 

[Dr.T]

Fishing.....I love fishing! Here's some pics from North Central Washington. Mackinaw, Kokanee and Chinook (both from the Columbia River and from Lake Chelan.

 

[Tex]

Cooked these crappie last night, so delicious... This little fish fryer I love...it sure is nice to set the temperature and not worry about it....

 

[Uncle-A]

Cooked these crappie last night, so delicious... This little fish fryer I love...it sure is nice to set the temperature and not worry about it....

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Looks delicious.

 

[chris_the_wrench]

Cooked these crappie last night, so delicious... This little fish fryer I love...it sure is nice to set the temperature and not worry about it....

Oh my! a cold beer and a plate of those would be hard to beat!!

 

[Tex]

Oh my! a cold beer and a plate of those would be hard to beat!!

With some homemade tarter sauce....Did not have dill, so I used cilantro instead... That spice on the right is a 50/50 mix of black pepper and Tony's (seasoned salt). Kinda hard to mess up tarter sauce.

 

[Plai]

Went on a backpacking trip to Humphrey's Basin (near Bishop CA) chasing Golden Trout

Goethe Lake -- The highest elevation lake (11.7K ft) visited on this trip

Desolation Lake Golden Trout

Wild flowers on the trail

A little adversity (hail) during the trip

 

[chris_the_wrench]

@Tex what is your fishing crappie technique? I remember as a kid visiting a family friend in Illinois, we used tiny minnows and slayed them. Seriously 30-40 an hour, took longer to pull’em off the hook and rebait compared to how long the bait soaked. Out west in Oregon, Western Montana, Washington minnows arent allowed, states dont want them in the water systems. I get it!! Theres a few crappie in a lake near my folks house in Oregon, but the freaking carp have taken over that lake in the past five years. Soaking a worm yields a carp. I havent tried any of the artificial baits like power baits aimed for crappie yet, not sure if the carp would gulp those or not.

 

[Tex]

@Tex what is your fishing crappie technique? I remember as a kid visiting a family friend in Illinois, we used tiny minnows and slayed them. Seriously 30-40 an hour, took longer to pull’em off the hook and rebait compared to how long the bait soaked. Out west in Oregon, Western Montana, Washington minnows arent allowed, states dont want them in the water systems. I get it!! Theres a few crappie in a lake near my folks house in Oregon, but the freaking carp have taken over that lake in the past five years. Soaking a worm yields a carp. I havent tried any of the artificial baits like power baits aimed for crappie yet, not sure if the carp would gulp those or not.

I like to use jigs, 1) it is more of a challenging using a jig and 2) minnows are a hassle. I like to fish flooded timber. I'll fish brush piles other fisherman put out, but flooded timber is my favorite.

During spring/early summer, the crappie are aggressive, and I like to use a big jig, 1/4oz jig head on #4 J hook. Like the pic below, this is a hand tied jig, I have them custom made. I like these big jigs they drop really fast, and if you do a quick stop in front of the crappie's face, they instinctively bite it.

Late summer, like now, they become less aggressive, and it gets hard to catch them on big jigs, so I go to a smaller one, 1/16oz jig head, #4 J hook still, but the bait is only 1 inch to 1.25 inch long, like pic below.. It looks a lot like the small shade they like to chase late summer..

I'll crappie fish through August, then I will be done with crappie fishing till next spring. Come September 1, I'll be focus on migratory bird hunting. I'm ADD, so I can only focus one hobby at a time!!

 

[martyg]

Good info on releasing fish.

https://www.keepfishwet.org/

 

[Wilhelmson]

Sorry about the blood here. This guy just inhaled my spinner.

 

[Tex]

Sorry about the blood here. This guy just inhaled my spinner.

I hate it when they do that, especially when they are too small to keep.

 

[Tex]

This guy had to be stoned.

 

[Wilhelmson]

This guy had to be stoned.

This could have been titled I Know About You and My Wife

 

[Guy in Shorts]

Spent a few hours on the ice after morning skiing yesterday. Kept a dozen perch but we released this large mouthed snow bass.

 

[dbostedo]

we released this large mouthed snow bass.

why?

 

[Uncle-A]

why?

Why. Not???

 

[dbostedo]

Why. Not???

Let me be more specific... why keep perch and not a bass? Why not either catch and release all, or keep all?

 

[Uncle-A]

Let me be more specific... why keep perch and not a bass? Why not either catch and release all, or keep all?

It may be the fish and game laws. Some states have closed season on some fish at different times of the year for one reason. Second, some fish are better eating than others. Third you may keep males and release females to increase the fish population. Do I need to go on?

 

[dbostedo]

Do I need to go on?

Nope... just curious which of those it may be from @Guy in Shorts's point of view.