Thanks for the tidbits. I'm on my way out the door right now to grab some minnies. Found this last night, lol, it's from Boys Life, man does that bring back memories. Gonna make a couple (dozen, lol) and try 'em out. http://sne.tripod.com/minnows.pdf Anyways, wish me luck!
We got hammered by another storm an hour and a half ago. 50 mph wind gusts,and about an inch of rain in 20 mins. Tore off vinyl siding off 2 of the 11 buildings in my apartment complex. Just what we needed to interrupt my vacation of saugeye fishing- UGGH! TomMelee: Goodluck on what appeared to be a minnow trap? Adobe reader wouldn't work for me.Told me I needed an update,and it would take almost 2 hrs with my dial-up ISP. It looked very similar to the ones you buy at wally world.I set one of those walmart traps in a ditch near my dads. Got a few minnys,but first flood-the trap was gone. When I was younger,we'd use minnow seines to get minnows and crawdads.Sometimes get creek chubs,tadpoles,and polywags. Then unpeel the crawdad tails for some very good bluegill and catfish bait.
I don't think so neph! LOL I went with the gf to walmart yesterday.They had steamed crawdads in there, UGGH! I was trying to see how much walleye was going for a pound. Those crawdad tails are pretty good fish bait! I got some new baits today to try out tomorrow-weather pending!. Dad lost a nice saugeye on a shad colored bomber this morning. Picked up another one of them,and some smaller Fat A's. Try to get my game plan set!
@saugmon Neph was right about them crawfish. 10lbs boiled crawfish, potatoes, corn and 6pack of beer. Be sure to suck the heads to get all the spices. A feast where I am. And this year was the worst season in many years. Katrina and Rita ruined the crop this winter-spring. They started off $3.59 @lb boiled, normally around $1.89 and hardly went down.
Hells yea on the crawfish...I personally ate 4 lbs at one sitting last year, lol. Oh, and acrobat reader suxx. Use this instead (actually it's got an AD listing somewhere around here): http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php We caught crap tonight. They barely had the gate open, I caught one sauger, missed probably 3-5 more, and I got a striper. My bud caught a prolly 2lb flathead catfish, but as he was reeling it up the wall his line broke. Interesting thing though, we were surrounded, and I mean SURROUNDED by some weird ass fish tonight...Gar. Biggest one was probably 48-50 inches long, HUGE, but so skinny! They wouldn't swallow our minnies either, they'd just take 'em in their little skinny mouths and swim away. I think they like slackwater, and the lee area by the closed gate closest to the walkway was very slack...they were everywhere...dozens of 'em. They shredded our minnows but wouldn't catch!
Darn. I'll have to toss up some deep sea pics. My favorite is going out and running dolphin. I don't mean the mammal either, I mean Mahi-Mahi. We tend to errantly catch Wahoo and King Mackeral when we are hitting phin. We go 2 or three times a year off Hatteras Island. Here's our best of this spring. I have the big dolphin (I am the white guy), the guy to the left of me has a king, and his biggest dolphin, and the dude next to him has a nice wahoo. http://www.imageweb.info/viewimage.php?file=/2/YrU25946.jpg Outside the big ones you see in the pic, this was our haul for 12 hours out... http://www.imageweb.info/viewimage.php?file=/2/pw426103.jpg We wound up with over 100# of Mahi-Mahi this spring. Not bad. **edit, img tags not working right now, so I simply linked them beneath.
Some nice catches there. My favorite fish, to eat, is dolphin. They are sooooooooo good! I don't really like to eat fish much, but can't pass up on a dolphin. Cobia is pretty good too. I don't eat croaker, spot, mullet,etc.... at all. I [bold]will not[/bold] deal with the small bones. Every time I've tried to eat the small fish, I get a bone caught in my throat. End up eating almost a whole loaf of bread, before the bone finally goes down. So, I won't even attempt to eat small boned fish anymore. Bring me some dolphin............... )
Carp are yummy! NOT! All they do is suck mud. SandT38: I couldn't get your first pic.See if this is it: 2nd pic was sweet. Nice haul! Dad and I limited out today. Even after that storm yesterday,and not marking 1 fish on the graph all day-still got 12 saugeye and an 11" crappie. Dad got all but 2, uggh! Pics are on his camera,but no adapter.Big one was 19.5" His freezer is getting very full!
saugmon, try this: http://www.imageweb.info/2/YrU25946.jpg That sucker took me 45 minutes and a ton of energy to bring in. I ran it deep (hoping for Wahoo) and out a long ways, I'd guess 75 yards. We had really high seas too, so we were all green around the gills that day. It made it even more draining. I miss being up there (the Lakes, I'm from Buffalo). We'd go to Canada and fish Northern, Yellow, and Musky. Salmon runs were nice too. Tiring to fish so late, but fun still.
That link took me to the main page of your host site. The gf and I only got 2 this morning. A very unpleasant east wind.Pretty nice ones, an 18" and fat 16.5" and will make a fine meal. Edit: Pic was way too big.
Nice fish sandt38. I've only fished the ocean once,and that was on a large head boat out of daytona beach. Another boat broke down,so they had 2 loads of people on our boat-elbow to elbow fishing. I was only about 13 or so. Seemed like it took 4+ hrs to get to the fishing area,an hour of fishing,and 4+ hrs to go home. Only got a couple dozen small red snapper. Also caught a bunch of grunts-which looked just like our sheephead-freshwater drum. Not a very pleasurable trip. Now getting on one of the smaller boats with 4 people,that would be sweet! Sailfish,Marlin,Baricuda,Mahi-Mahi: Would be a very sweet trip indeed. I'm getting my regular ritual. Dad's going this morning and hopefully he can lay into those eyes again in a short bit, LOL.
Went fishing this last weekend here in the white mountains of Arizona and found 47 trout. 23 the first day and 24 the second between two of us. Threw back 17 the second because we only wanted the big ones.
I never caught a trout. There's a trout stream within 15 mins-Mad River- of my place,but very narrow. Looks more like a creek than a river, LOL
