Gramps and I would fish off the banks of the mighty red river,his favorite bait was chicken livers or hearts,once we ran out so he used some blongna and a couple of nugets of corn in the can.All worked really well,been a long time since I went fishing.

*Raising hand*

I'm a Femme who loves to fish.

Jack and I are actually going on a camping/fishing trip next weekend! We fish off of our bass boat and are going to a lake that is rich with white bass, stripers, walleye, brown trout, crappie, and catfish. Yes, there is a little bit of everything on this lake because of its size!

Very excited! I have my own poles and we kinda troll back and forth in the channels that my family has been fishing for as long as I can remember and we always seem to have great luck.

Last year, something hit one of our poles so hard that it snapped 27-pound lead core. That is a BIG ASS FISH.

Needless to say, going to look for Big Bertha next weekend!

i was reading Field and Stream at Jiffy Lube today and read that muskie eat ducklings. There are these little duckling lures that people buy to catch muskie. God. i suppose there are many more ducklings than large muskie, but honestly i am not too happy with the Muskellunges.

DUCKLINGS??? Nature is too gross sometimes.

Fished for many years, but only with my dad. I never learned much and still can't clean a fish. I did it just to be outside and hang out with my dad. It's sad that he is too old to go out now. i miss it.

Can I just tell you how darn jealous I am of the two of you.
I wish you the best of luck catching Big Bertha, though.

I'm guessing there are other fish with teeth that do the same thing.
We catch fish and bring them home, so Muskie catch there dinner and eat it right away.
It's part of nature taking care of nature. Like humans, we hunt (ok, some of us don't).

Wish you were going with us, Brother Wolfy!

Several years ago my son bought a bass boat,he used my suv to pull it to the lake,so you would think he would take his mom fishing once and a while??
Nope, never happened a he always went with heis buddies the fue times he went.Thats ok cause he and the wild bunch went to toledo bend to fish but didnt catch a thing..I on the other hand went pole fishing on the river bank and caught a ice chest full of brem and chanel cat..they still havent lived that one down.

I so enjoy fishing, I was born and raised in Florida so I have fished in Oceans as well as Lakes. My very favorite place to fish is right in my own back yard. I can remember getting up earling as a kid going out there fishing and having my mom yelling out the door to get my but inside and cleaned up for school. I have caught everything in that lake from brim, catfish, bass, cottenmouth snakes to Gators. It was a time to sit and think and just relax. I don't get to do it as much now but I am always ready to get up and head out. *smiles :)

Tennessee/Arkansas
 

Good Morning.

Anyone interested in a camping/fishing trip in the Heber Springs area in September and/or October?

I love that area and have been there lots, but my girl has never been.

We fish all over TN, but want to get away for a long weekend in Arkansas.

We like to fish from our kayaks and have an extra one if anyone is interested...

Love fishin'...and today was such a beautiful day... and i had to work.
Still thinkin' i should get my ass out there and catch me some bass.
I look forward to reading the other stories in this thread.

I caught me my very own walter too...but, he was a giant catfish...
had to get him at night with a lit up bobber and a doughball at the
bottom of the lake.
He was huge and snorted...huge
He was a crafty ole son of a bitch....just like norman says in this clip.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/an-7i_...ing_for_trout/


http://www.metacafe.com/watch/an-7i_...atches_walter/

Gonna Need a Bigger Boat...Nah
 

I am SO wanting to learn to fly fish before I die....there is something truly elegant about it...and the peace of standing thigh high in the water...feeling nature all around me....it's just a perfect match for me.... :)

Whatta they feed the fish in Bama? Roll Tide
 

http://static.grindtv.com/images/1/0.../05/414405.jpg

DUDE...now that is a bass!


Wednesday, March 6, 2013 2:07pm PST


By: Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com

An Alabama resident has reeled in a 70-pound striped bass that shattered a 34-year-old state record and could land the angler in the book of world records for the heaviest striper ever caught in a landlocked fishery.

James R. Bramlet, 65, reeled in the behemoth on the Black Warrior River on Feb. 28. The catch, weighed on a certified scale, exceeds the previous record, set in 1959, by 15 pounds. (Bramlet and his catch are pictured at right.)

"It's definitely uncommon," Heath Haley, a biologist for Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division, told Field & Stream. "This fish certainly, in my opinion, was an anomaly. It's a very fat, chunky fish.

"The previous record being 55 pounds, the fact that it hasn't been broken since the 1950s, it's just incredible that not only he broke it, but he shattered it. You just don't see them that big that often."

The striper measured 45.5 inches long and boasted a girth of 37.75.

According to Joe Songer of AL.com, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has already approved the catch as a state record. If approved by the International Game Fish Association it'll become a new world record (this process can take weeks or months).

The current IGFA record for landlocked stripers is a 67-pound, 8-ounce specimen landed in 1992 in Los Banos, California.


Bramlet credits his wife, Janice, for urging him to go fishing on Feb. 28. She was scheduled to undergo a hospital procedure in a few days and would need him to be around and take care of her.

Bramlet told Songer that the fish rolled on the surface, showing itself, so he tossed a bait and soon hooked up. The battle lasted 20 minutes and as soon as Bramlet could secure the catch, he telephoned his wife to share the news about the memorable catch--and, presumably, to thank her for persuading him to go fishing.

--Image showing James Bramlet and his record striped bass is courtesy of AL.com/Joe Songer

This is cool. Casting for recovery
 

http://castingforrecovery.org/

And oooohhhhh so jealous of Hollylane catchin trout! And that is a kickass story too!

I was told, by a local, that I caught myself a river slam.
Not a grand slam though.
The species i caught on that river in a few hours were: smallmouth bass, redhorse (Cherokee fish), sculpin, hornyhead and a rainbow trout. I think that was all of them. hard to believe that river has so many species of fish in it.

To get a grand slam, I would have had to catch a brown and brook trout, along with the rainbow.

Today is a good day to fish! It is overcast and cool