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The Fishing Thread!
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31. May 2006 @ 11:32 |
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Nope! If it did,and I waited long enough-it would have died of lead poisoning, >LOL>
I thought someone would post that.
Think real hard. Think like a catfisherman.
Hint: Think about the equipment used for catfish like hooks.
Nice boat JVC. I got a pic of mine in my user profile page. A 2000 Lowe seanymph fishing machine. 16 ft, 5 inches in length. It's got a 50 hp johnson,6 hp nissan 4 stroke kicker,and a 36 #s thrust evinrude elec motor. It's set up just like a bassboat.It's very dirty.It needs a good carpet cleaning and a coat of wax.
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31. May 2006 @ 12:12 |
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Ok..........he swallowed the cork, or bobber, or whatever you call it, in your part of the country?
Nothing wrong with that boat! I had a 17 ft. aluminum Bass Tracker for years. Served me very well. I put more fish in it, than I ever have my Ranger. The Tracker would go in shallower water.
I especially like the dining room table, with the Mercury mounted on it. Good casting deck on it! :o)
Cute kitten. Too bad they grow up. I love cats, but they're cuter as kittens. Here a cat pic, you cat lovers should like.
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31. May 2006 @ 12:52 |
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31. May 2006 @ 13:03 |
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Still wrong!
The fish did not touch any part of the line/hooks/or sinker-but I caught it with a hook.
I just thought of another scenario,and no-I did not snag a stringer that got away from somebody that had a catfish on it. Pretty close!
Cute cats. You should see some of catfreak's kittys. He pays $500 and higher for them, UGGH!
It's hotter than hell right now.I'll let the saugeye get a couple days of rest before I tear into them on friday evening,saturday am and sunday am. The great heat and humidity of Ohio!
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31. May 2006 @ 14:34 |
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You caught somebody else's hook, that the fish had in his mouth, when he broke their line?
You caught a line that was still attatched to a rod and reel, as well as to the fish?
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31. May 2006 @ 15:05 |
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Bingo on the first one!
When I got a bite,I jerked real hard and it turned out to be a little yellowbelly catfish. When I tried to get him off the hook,that's when I notice I snagged the loop of a snelled leader that some cut off their line.That yellowbelly swallowed it bigtime,so they cut off the line at the leader and let him go.Those hooks should rust and fall out of a fish after a week or so.
I happened to snag that little loop in that snelled leader. What's the odds of that happening? A very funny-true fishing story.
I've caught rods and reels before,but never a fish still on them.
Come on folks, Lets here some more!
I use to go up to Ontario canada bluegill fishing with my dad and his buddy bob. We hit Rice lake two years and Buckhorn 2 years. The last year we went there, 9-11. We were fishing and someone had a radio blaring out on the bank. So I turned my radio on and listened after the first plane struck the world trade center..We then stopped fishing and headed back to the cabin to listen to the rest of the ordeal. Boy did we dread crossing the border 5 days after that happened.The eerie part,bob was visiting his daughter in new jersey. He went to the trade center to purchase theater tickets a week before they came down. A very sad vacation that time. I never been to canada since.
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31. May 2006 @ 19:35 |
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now i gotta take offense to that last comment
"Think real hard. Think like a catfisherman."
i love my catfish. best fishin in the world.....!!!!!!which would ya rather do catch a littleole bass/crappie etc... that might weigh 7lbs if ya get lucky or catch a 78lbs blue cat???????
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just horsen around guys...but catfishinn is where its at.....
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31. May 2006 @ 20:11 |
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I'd love to fish for blue cat some day. We have flatheads here in AZ but the truly big ones are hard to find. I think the state record was a 74 pounder.
Some other AZ state records for the heck of it,
Largemouth - 16 lb. 7.68 oz 28.0 in.
Striper - 23 lb. 8.32 oz. 39.25 in.
Channel cat - 32 lb. 4.0 oz. 38.75 in
Walleye - 16 lb. 1.76 oz. 31 in.
Northern Pike - 32 lb. 5.6 oz. 49 in.
White crappie - 3 lb. 5.28 oz. 16.75 in.
Brown trout - 22 lb. 14.5 oz. 36.0 in.
My cousin has a pontoon boat on Lake Powell and God willing I'd like to get up there one of these summers to fish for stripers with her. I've never been bass fishing but she says setting up a lawn chair right by a cooler full of beer (gotta love pontoons) and catching some striper may make me a convert. I think she might be right.
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31. May 2006 @ 20:21 |
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yea thats what i like about catfishin set right on the river bank throw you a couple of lines out sit back crack open a ice cold budweiser and enjoy the day. catch ya few bluecat or shovelhead if night fishin drink ya some more of them budweisers, catch a few more blues,a few more bud's you get the picture....lmao. man im thirsty.....tomorrow opps later this morning for me.i'll talk about some of the tackle and type of gear ya need for them big ole cats i love to catch...but im sure everyone knows the only thing ya really need to catfish is a good rod and real and about 30 budwieser's and time
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1. June 2006 @ 01:05 |
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BlueCats: A few years ago,they were on the protective list.You weren't allowed to keep them in ohio. I don't know how many ohioans knew about that,because it was in very fine print in the regulation book.
Stripers: Not many of them around me,anymore. Grand Lake St.Marys use to have them. Every couple years you'd hear someone catching a monster. They never really took to that lake. Again,shallow-avg 6 ft deep,muddy and very windy lake. The land over on that side of the state is flat as a pancake. They can't stock saugeye in that lake because it actally feeds into Lake erie,going through indiana and then back up to the maumee river.
Down in tennessee,they call stripers: RockFish! Every state seems to have their own names for fish.
Cincyrob:
I got a buddy at work who fishes the Ohio River.He said you'll be fishing the bank,and then you'll see a refrigerator/washer/dryer/or even a hot water heater float by you, LOL. He catches some big cats,but he won't eat them.
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1. June 2006 @ 01:15 |
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Yeah, I was looking at a newspaper from my former state. A kid caught a,"I think," 47 pound, 46 inch long flathead. This is in the deep south, somewhere between noahs ark, and kansas. I remember running trot lines, jugs, and yo yo's. Got plenty of rope burns and got pulled out of the boat a couple of times. But it was a lot of fun. I was pulling a line up one day and there was a fresh water river eel on the hook. I damn near walked on water, that is the strangest looking thing. Snake head eel body. Sound like you guys like the blues, hauled plenty of them in. But there is a mercury problem in the ouachita mountains. People are starting to catch and release, which is fine in my book. They can only get bigger.
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1. June 2006 @ 01:31 |
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Water pollution is tragedy. We have PVC's/lead/ethyl mercury/pesticides. You'd think Michigan would be cleaner,but it's the opposite.
Heck,you even read about those salmon farms out west that the fish are contaminated with lead and mercury.
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Snake head eel body
How about those chinese snakehead fish? I haven't heard much about them lately.
We catch water dogs at a river I fish at.Also called salamanders. These are creepy,especially when caught at night and you hear their yelping.Some of them go almost 2 ft.
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1. June 2006 @ 01:36 |
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I haven't seen them that big. But anything that looks like a snake is wise to be out of my site. I'll try to find a pix of a river eel. I gave it to an old man, he said it tastes like catfish. I took his word for it.
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1. June 2006 @ 01:43 |
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1. June 2006 @ 02:02 |
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That critter looks creepy! I think I'd cut my line if I had something like that at the end, LOL
Here's one:
This town has a lake in which all the townspeople get their fish,so they can eat.
An eel gets into the lake and starts eating all the fish.So all the villagers went out fishing for it. One of them caught it.
So the entire town gathered around the man with that eel. They had a decision to make. How to kill that eel?
One villager said "throw it in fire",and another said to "cut it up into pcs". The mayor said that was too inhumane. Then another villager yells out: THROW HIM BACK INTO THE LAKE AND DROWN HIS SORRY ASS! So the mayor threw it back into the lake to drown, LOL
It's an old one.
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1. June 2006 @ 02:16 |
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Yeah, I saw a lot of interesting things in arkansas. Alligators, alligator gar the lenght of the boat "nearly," too big for me. THe funniest thing that happened was we were floating down river, and saw a cotton mouth with a bull frog in it's mouth. My brother paddled up to the bank and wacked the snake with the paddle. Then he put it in the bottom of the minnow bucket, under the oxygen bag. Well, after about 30 minutes the snake woke up, "i imafgine with a bad headache, not that a cotton mouth needs anything to be pissed about." But it starts to crawl out of the bucket. It was at least 5 foot long, and I didn't really want to mess with it so I bailed into the water and to the bank. Did I mention,I don't like snakes?
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1. June 2006 @ 04:52 |
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Here's a cool video clip, of a guy catching a bass, in an unusual way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UQQBW1vozo
We call stripers...........rockfish, striper, or striped bass. Depends on who you're talking to. I call them rockfish most of the time. They are actually saltwater fish, that don't mind freshwater. You can catch huge ones in our rivers. Striper fishing and bass fishing are two totally different things. They (the fish) aren't even related, in any way. As I said.....stripers are saltwater fish, and a bass is a sunfish. When you hook a big bass, he/she will give up, before you get them in, a lot of times. A striper don't give up. Even after you get him in the boat. :o) A 3 lb. striper will out pull a 6 lb. bass. Most folks here prefer a striper for making a fish stew.
I won't eat a catfish either, because of where I used to catch them. I know it's in my head, but I can't help it. I don't care how clean the water is, he comes out of. When I was a kid, the sewage dumped into the river. You could stand where it dumped in, and catch 4-5 lb. catfish, all day long. A friend has tried to get me to eat some, and I told him........no way! He said he'd sneak some on me sometime, saying it was a different kind of fish. I told him that he'd better hope that I never find out, cause I'd hurt him.............BAD! I mean it too.
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1. June 2006 @ 05:12 |
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hows it going my fishin buddies.
eating the fish is kinda like any other meat you just have to clean it right and cook it at the right temp and make sure its done..dont get me wrong i wont eat anything out of the OHIO river either but we have the little miami here by me and it runs into the Ohio. some of the best fishing around in the right spots.
we can go early in the morning and catch alot of 10-12lbs blue cats on a regular basis those put up a good fight.every now and then at taht spot you will land a big 40 or 50lb..... the biggest i have ever caught out of that spot was a 41lbs bluecat.... a buddy of mine has caught a 68 shovelhead.... that was a monster. the bluw i caught he just came on in faught for like a minute and thats it....
but for those big ones ya gotta have the right gear.....
myself i have 2 shimano 6500 baitrunners those are the best for the river i think. just like a bait caster but openreel.and on one of them i have a Master 12ft graphite pole and the other i have my fav, a 10ft shimano GRAPHITEcompsite with the florecent tip. you can pull in a small car and not worry bout breaking it. plus on those to reels i have 30lbs and 50lbs test. the 50lbs test is the spiderwire =15lbstest microfillament just like a steel line..
plus i have my handy zebco33 to catch my bait. chubbs chad small bluegill etc... well guess im done ranting here..lol gotta get them poles out and getem ready for some big boys
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1. June 2006 @ 05:32 |
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@cincyrob..........
I posted something in your shoutbox. If you're like most people, you don't check your shoutbox very often, so I thought I'd let you know, just in case. Leave some catfish for others..........
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1. June 2006 @ 05:48 |
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thanks for the info JVC. i will start and check it more often..lol i out a reply in there for ya.
this is my baby here. its the 3500a i have the 6500a 2 of them
and this is the gran dad of them all.. 108lbs bluecat from catfish paradise in belpre ohio
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1. June 2006 @ 06:52 |
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@saugmon
i dont know exactlly what part of ohio you are. but i have been looking around online here and have found out that catfish paradise which is in belpre ohio, has just bought a bunch of land(with lakes)and has opened a second spot catfishermans paradiseII just outside of middletown ohio. now thats close to me i might have to check it out they have been open since last may.
i have a website for it if anyone is curious. i know they say not to post websites directly in here i hope im not breaking any rules seeing this is a safteyvalve if this gets taken off here just post somethuing in my shoutbox i am checking it now..thanks JVC..lol
heres the site
http://www.catfishermansparadise.com/new_lake_opening.htm
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1. June 2006 @ 07:58 |
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1. June 2006 @ 08:27 |
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A striper don't give up. Even after you get him in the boat. :o)
That really makes me want to go asap.
Mercury is a problem in the lakes here too but I don't mind much. As strange as it may sound as much as I like catching crappie I just don't care for eating them. I loves my catfish though but since Alamo lake is a 2.5 hour drive me and pop don't have the time to go very often so I don't think my mercury intake even counts.
Your link is fine cincyrob. We don't have a fishing forum here so there's no direct competition :)
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1. June 2006 @ 08:34 |
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Those are some awesome pics ispy.
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"And there we saw the giants, and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight" - Numbers 13:33
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1. June 2006 @ 09:23 |
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Thanks,My next trip is to Venezuala in October for Tarpon on the fly
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