Lets talk about fishing

sharkchomp · 04-02-2010, 06:25 PM

congrats on your catches guys!!!!!!!!!!!!

~~~shark~~~~~~~~

Cowboi · 04-02-2010, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by sharkchomp

congrats on your catches guys!!!!!!!!!!!!

~~~shark~~~~~~~~

Thanks Shark.....

PearlsNLace · 04-02-2010, 06:37 PM

Must. Camp. Soon.

You fish. I sun bathe. We're both happy. Ill be happier if it happens by this time next week.

That is all.

Miami · 04-02-2010, 06:39 PM

Hi everyone, glad to see I'm not the only fishing freak on the site, although I prefer salt to fresh water fishing (the stuff ppl throw in the canals and lakes here in Miami will probably end up giving us mutated, bubble gum chewing, cross eyed fish! lol) Anyhoo, last time I went fishing, I hooked a small cubera snapper, and as I was reeling him in, ho-hum, I looked down to see how much more I had to reel. The fish was about four feet away, when out of the deep came a snook bigger around than my thigh with it's mouth open and thinking "cubera hordevours" to itself, when it chomped on the little cubera. Ho-hum became YEEEEHAAAAA as the line stripped from my reel (lucky for me I had twenty five pound test line on there!). I fought that sucker for about fifteeen minutes, finally landed him, and when I got home and gutted the snook, there was the little cubera, half torn up, the hook that had hooked HIM was imbedded in the SNOOKS gut. Almost a twofer. lol I gave the cubera to my cat and ate the snook myself.
We've been having a real good run of Spanish Mackarel, Red Snapper and Spotted Sea Trout for these past few months. I missed all of last month because of surgery, but hope to be out and catching my limit again soon. Good luck to all you happy anglers out there!

hippieflowergirl · 04-02-2010, 08:49 PM

i need to get out...camping...fishing...hiking...anything.

trees i understand. people, not so much.

Blade · 04-02-2010, 09:01 PM

Someone mentioned honing their casting skills. When the kiddies were coming along and started wanting to go fishing with me I'd buy them a rod and reel show them how to use it and put an old tire in the yard and tell them when you can hit the tire every time you cast THEN you can go fishing.

I have little patience for getting hung up in trees and brush. However I do have some funny fishing stories with the kiddies.

Anyway I guess what I'm saying is whoever was wanting to hone their casting skills should get a old tire and start casting casting casting.

hippieflowergirl · 04-02-2010, 09:03 PM

cool idea! thank you!

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Originally Posted by Blade

Someone mentioned honing their casting skills. When the kiddies were coming along and started wanting to go fishing with me I'd buy them a rod and reel show them how to use it and put an old tire in the yard and tell them when you can hit the tire every time you cast THEN you can go fishing.

I have little patience for getting hung up in trees and brush. However I do have some funny fishing stories with the kiddies.

Anyway I guess what I'm saying is whoever was wanting to hone their casting skills should get a old tire and start casting casting casting.

WolfyOne · 04-03-2010, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Blade

Someone mentioned honing their casting skills. When the kiddies were coming along and started wanting to go fishing with me I'd buy them a rod and reel show them how to use it and put an old tire in the yard and tell them when you can hit the tire every time you cast THEN you can go fishing.

I have little patience for getting hung up in trees and brush. However I do have some funny fishing stories with the kiddies.

Anyway I guess what I'm saying is whoever was wanting to hone their casting skills should get a old tire and start casting casting casting.

Blade I think this is a great idea for anyone unsure of their casting skills.

I like you have little patience when someone gets hung up in anything and I have to stop what I'm doing to help. The easiest thing to do is cut the line, reset and don't bother the others your fishing with. You can always go back later and tug away, if you lost a good lure.

sharkchomp · 04-03-2010, 04:46 PM

Good idea Blade! Also good practise if you use a baitcaster so as to avoid birdnesting while on the water and basic embarrassment in front of pals lol

I try not to get upset when myself or someone with me hangs up. Often the best spots to cast to are under that tree limb or next to that fall down. Fishing is the same as realestate - it's all about the location location location!

I bought some lure retrievers which are basically a piece of lead with a paperclip attached to it. You thread the paperclip around your line then just let the lead fall, the weight of the lead hit the lure, hopefully dislodging it. It saves tons of time and actually works!!! You can buy them at walmart.

One last tip, my favorite lures are rapalas. Go to www.rapala.com and they have video tips for their lures to best utilize them. I learned alot!!! The videos are about 15 minutes long and have no commercials cause, really, the whole video is a commercial. But the information is really good.

They also have a tshirt I HAVE to buy!! It shows a rapala lure and it say - take a fish boating! lmao!!!!!!! I think I'll put that as my sig line

~~~shark~~~~~~~

Sachita · 04-04-2010, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by sharkchomp

Good idea Blade! Also good practise if you use a baitcaster so as to avoid birdnesting while on the water and basic embarrassment in front of pals lol

I try not to get upset when myself or someone with me hangs up. Often the best spots to cast to are under that tree limb or next to that fall down. Fishing is the same as realestate - it's all about the location location location!

I bought some lure retrievers which are basically a piece of lead with a paperclip attached to it. You thread the paperclip around your line then just let the lead fall, the weight of the lead hit the lure, hopefully dislodging it. It saves tons of time and actually works!!! You can buy them at walmart.

One last tip, my favorite lures are rapalas. Go to www.rapala.com and they have video tips for their lures to best utilize them. I learned alot!!! The videos are about 15 minutes long and have no commercials cause, really, the whole video is a commercial. But the information is really good.

They also have a tshirt I HAVE to buy!! It shows a rapala lure and it say - take a fish boating! lmao!!!!!!! I think I'll put that as my sig line

~~~shark~~~~~~~

OMG I have had to cut so many nice lures from getting hung up and I'm very good at casting. Sometimes the wind grabs it, the drag is loose or you just miss your swing. OR you snap something under water.

Does anyone have Ollies close? I was there the other day and picked up some nice lures. They also had nice rods and reels for 20 bucks. A lot of nice stuff cheap and if it gets caught or breaks you're not out a bunch of money.

Sachita · 04-04-2010, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Blade

Someone mentioned honing their casting skills. When the kiddies were coming along and started wanting to go fishing with me I'd buy them a rod and reel show them how to use it and put an old tire in the yard and tell them when you can hit the tire every time you cast THEN you can go fishing.

I have little patience for getting hung up in trees and brush. However I do have some funny fishing stories with the kiddies.

Anyway I guess what I'm saying is whoever was wanting to hone their casting skills should get a old tire and start casting casting casting.

Thats how my daddy taught me.

04-02-2010, 06:25 PM	#1
sharkchomp Member How Do You Identify?: TG/stone butch Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Knoxville Posts: 426 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 419 Thanked 1,343 Times in 309 Posts Rep Power: 9701638	congrats on your catches guys!!!!!!!!!!!! ~~~shark~~~~~~~~ __________________ take a fish boating

04-02-2010, 06:39 PM	#4
Miami Member How Do You Identify?: Gentlemyn Butch Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Miami, Florida DUH! Posts: 135 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 8 Thanked 79 Times in 45 Posts Rep Power: 876	Oxymoron... A TRUE fishing tale. lol Hi everyone, glad to see I'm not the only fishing freak on the site, although I prefer salt to fresh water fishing (the stuff ppl throw in the canals and lakes here in Miami will probably end up giving us mutated, bubble gum chewing, cross eyed fish! lol) Anyhoo, last time I went fishing, I hooked a small cubera snapper, and as I was reeling him in, ho-hum, I looked down to see how much more I had to reel. The fish was about four feet away, when out of the deep came a snook bigger around than my thigh with it's mouth open and thinking "cubera hordevours" to itself, when it chomped on the little cubera. Ho-hum became YEEEEHAAAAA as the line stripped from my reel (lucky for me I had twenty five pound test line on there!). I fought that sucker for about fifteeen minutes, finally landed him, and when I got home and gutted the snook, there was the little cubera, half torn up, the hook that had hooked HIM was imbedded in the SNOOKS gut. Almost a twofer. lol I gave the cubera to my cat and ate the snook myself. We've been having a real good run of Spanish Mackarel, Red Snapper and Spotted Sea Trout for these past few months. I missed all of last month because of surgery, but hope to be out and catching my limit again soon. Good luck to all you happy anglers out there! __________________ To be broken hearted does NOT mean to be broken, simply to be prepared for the healing.

04-03-2010, 04:46 PM	#9
sharkchomp Member How Do You Identify?: TG/stone butch Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Knoxville Posts: 426 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 419 Thanked 1,343 Times in 309 Posts Rep Power: 9701638	Good idea Blade! Also good practise if you use a baitcaster so as to avoid birdnesting while on the water and basic embarrassment in front of pals lol I try not to get upset when myself or someone with me hangs up. Often the best spots to cast to are under that tree limb or next to that fall down. Fishing is the same as realestate - it's all about the location location location! I bought some lure retrievers which are basically a piece of lead with a paperclip attached to it. You thread the paperclip around your line then just let the lead fall, the weight of the lead hit the lure, hopefully dislodging it. It saves tons of time and actually works!!! You can buy them at walmart. One last tip, my favorite lures are rapalas. Go to www.rapala.com and they have video tips for their lures to best utilize them. I learned alot!!! The videos are about 15 minutes long and have no commercials cause, really, the whole video is a commercial. But the information is really good. They also have a tshirt I HAVE to buy!! It shows a rapala lure and it say - take a fish boating! lmao!!!!!!! I think I'll put that as my sig line ~~~shark~~~~~~~ __________________ take a fish boating

04-02-2010, 06:37 PM	#3
PearlsNLace Member How Do You Identify?: queer Preferred Pronoun?: They/Them & her/she Relationship Status: Lucky, very lucky Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Portlandia, Oregon Posts: 427 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 875 Thanked 1,284 Times in 315 Posts Rep Power: 6505517	Must. Camp. Soon. You fish. I sun bathe. We're both happy. Ill be happier if it happens by this time next week. That is all.

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hippieflowergirl Member How Do You Identify?: ~ Preferred Pronoun?: ~ Relationship Status: ~ Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: ~ Posts: 424 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 461 Thanked 467 Times in 176 Posts Rep Power: 274206	i need to get out...camping...fishing...hiking...anything. trees i understand. people, not so much.

04-02-2010, 09:01 PM	#6
Blade Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: TG Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: once in a while someone amazing comes along...and here I am! Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Down on the farm Posts: 5,501 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,855 Thanked 14,413 Times in 4,058 Posts Rep Power: 21474857	Someone mentioned honing their casting skills. When the kiddies were coming along and started wanting to go fishing with me I'd buy them a rod and reel show them how to use it and put an old tire in the yard and tell them when you can hit the tire every time you cast THEN you can go fishing. I have little patience for getting hung up in trees and brush. However I do have some funny fishing stories with the kiddies. Anyway I guess what I'm saying is whoever was wanting to hone their casting skills should get a old tire and start casting casting casting.