We need more fishing threads...

[guppy3488]

Made an offer on a house with a gear restricted stream running through the back yard this morning. We'll see how this goes, luckily the fiancee fell in love with the place.

[Laser04]

Made an offer on a house with a gear restricted stream running through the back yard this morning. We'll see how this goes, luckily the fiancee fell in love with the place.

nice man

[MXTHOR3]

Vortex fly fishing GTG? LOL!!

[Shawn B]

So I'm up at the cottage. I don't target the bass here anymore as they bore me and I can catch all the bass I want and big ones too at that. The last few years I only bring musky tackle to target the pike in the lake. All fish today were on a custom wood glider that's hand made by an Illinois guide, St.Croix Legend Tournament 7'6" split grip "The Jerk", Abu Garcia Revo Toro 61 High Speed, Huskie Muskie single strand Jerk bait leader with no swivel or snap and Suffix 832 line 65lb.

First fish of the day, a largemouth!


Next up was this little pike.


And this afternoon this solid high 30's pike.

[Shawn B]

Last quick trip out onto the lake before heading home and I got probably the biggest pike I've ever caught, the one I missed yesterday was in the same spot and it was bigger.

[MXTHOR3]

Hit Gloucestor Pool today, boated one pike around 36in or so, and about 12-15 smallies, largies and snot rockets. Good day, lots and lots of traffic though.. GF wanted to sun bath, I can't complain.

[Shawn B]

Hit Gloucestor Pool today,

I gotta go back there one day. What's with the Beverly Hillbillies place on the island?

[MXTHOR3]

I gotta go back there one day. What's with the Beverly Hillbillies place on the island?

Which island are you talking about? There are a lot of them

[Shawn B]

The big island (don't know what it's called off the top of my head). There's this little run down shack with junk EVERYWHERE! Lol

[kanukVariant]

I thought Gloucester Pool sounded familiar, so I Googled it... Familiar indeed as I spent my High School career in Midland, and a couple of summers working on Beausoleil Island (off Honey Harbour). Small world.

Fishing is improving, as water levels are returning to a semblance of normalcy after weeks of flooding. On our last outing my sons decided to go after perch with small pieces of worm, while I targeted pike with some sizable crank baits. I caught one tiny perch after another on 5" Rapalas ...the lure was barely bigger than the fish!

To add insult to injury the boys caught some nice pike on their chunks of worm and ultra light tackle. Apparently "Rhyme and Reason" has no place in fishing.

kaNUK

[MXTHOR3]

Boat traffic was crazy on Monday.. Luckily for me there was a decent wind that made for some bass/pike fishing against the wayward shore. Not so fun in the new Lund with the ****ty 65lb Minn Kota (I've got a 80lb Terrova on the way), but it's always fun tossing spinnerbaits and ripping them back under the surface.

August 3rd can't come quick enough! Back up on Nip hunting brookies, lakers and big snakes with the old man.

[Laser04]

[Dreizehn]

Close to 40 lbs. Nothing like the salt water.

[deletedo1m]

Nice striper. Where abouts was that caught?

[Dreizehn]

Long Island Sound, off the coast of Westbrook, Connecticut.

Like clockwork, we nail Stripers when the sun starts to set. We get 'em with live eels. Even the Bluefish go after the eels at night, just not as often as the Stripers. You know it's a Striper when you hear your line screaming as if a freight train were on the other end of it.

Love that sound.

[MXTHOR3]

I like the thought of 50lb largemouth bass, lol!

[Dreizehn]

[Dreizehn]

On the lake in Maine. We catch small Brookies (Brook Trout) here along with Perch.



A remote stream I fish in Maine. I caught about 14 Perch...Caught one on practically each cast the first day I fished this stream.




Saltwater time - The Machine


This is the biggest Bluefish I've ever caught. Thing was huge and very wide.


Another beast. I love these fish. They are warriors.

[Laser04]

Just picked up some clam necks for some saltwater fishinng. Can't fish until after 6pm from the beach/pier. But it's all set and ready to go. Brought my 12 foot pole as well to get some shore casting in. That thing is a b**** to cast.

[Dreizehn]

Just picked up some clam necks for some saltwater fishinng. Can't fish until after 6pm from the beach/pier. But it's all set and ready to go. Brought my 12 foot pole as well to get some shore casting in. That thing is a b**** to cast.

Where do you fish out of? I'm usually off of Westbrook, sometimes Westport.

[kanukVariant]

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Some NICE fish Mr Thirteen! (or should I ask "Is this dog?") My boys caught about 50 perch between them this evening, not a single eating size

This while targeting walleye. I upsized my tackle and ended up finding a 2 pound walleye (pickerel to me) for dinner. It was the most lethargic bite I've ever felt. I thought I had a small piece of plant matter caught on the drop shot hook

kaNUK

[Dreizehn]

I don't eat fish. But that Perch was legal (9"). I caught 3-4 more that were bigger than the one in the picture. They're really fun to catch with a light setup. I usually get some [small] Perch inside of my crayfish trap. They swim in sometimes (for whatever reason) and cannot get back out. I usually get crayfish in there soon after.

Here's one of the bigger guys:

[Dreizehn]

Eels = Striper Candy


This was one of the first ones of the night. 37", 20 lbs.

We hammered blues earlier that evening. Even caught an 19" Fluke using bunker as we were anchored-up. That was a surprise.

It was a beautiful night for Striper fishing. We fished until 11:30 p.m.

[kanukVariant]

Whoa dog! You're posting up some impressive stripers there! (I've never seen one in person, but apparently they get to over 6' and 125 pounds?! )

I'm eating smallmouth bass tonight. We fished a new-to-us lake with really clear water yesterday. It's known for lake trout and used to have a decent walleye fishery as well. Before heading out I memorized the lake contours and the location of promising rocky points and drop-offs.

When we got there it was one smallie after another! It looks as though the walleye population has been displaced My sons were looking forward to a fresh fish dinner and these bass averaged around 3 pounds. I'm usually not a big fan of eating harmless black-spot parasite infested bass ...but these were clean! Most bass around here are infested, so we kept four.

Fishing was excellent. We were able see the bass follow lure due to the very clear water. A tube tossed at submerged wood proving to be a sure bet. Yes, I had a camera but was having too much fun fishing. ...well, make that "boating my son's fish" mainly.

kaNUK

[Dreizehn]

Stripers love live eels. The bluefish were attacking the eels all night, too.

These stripers I've posted are not on the bigger side. Some of these suckers get over 50 lbs. I believe the world record striper was 88 lbs. and was caught out of my marina. Google it. The guy played HS football with one of my friends.

[Old school]

Forgot to take pictures but I bought my fiancee her first fishing rod and we went to a little stocked lake and pulled in a pair of fat 1-lb rainbows. Had 'em for supper with a nice salad, yum.

[Dreizehn]

Nice!!!

I have been fishing with my new St. Croix rod ($102, 20% off)...

[MXTHOR3]

Caught about 2 dozen smallies yesterday evening with the oldman, also scared up a mid 40inch muskie... Fishing really deep for the middle of July, pretty much August patterns already...

[Shawn B]

also scared up a mid 40inch muskie... Fishing really deep for the middle of July, pretty much August patterns already...

I don't remember ever seeing as many musky as we did Saturday! Think we could put any in the boat though? No. Closest thing to a strike was a mid 40'" fish that rolled on my Hellhound but totally missed. All follows, we even had the same fish up 3 times.

Looking forward to getting back up to the cottage and targeting the pike!

[Shawn B]

Here's another pic of the same pike I posted a pic of above and here's the release pic:

[MXTHOR3]

I'd love to go back and actually try to catch it, but with the low 80 degree water, I'd probably kill the poor thing.. I'll wait until Sept, lol.

[Shawn B]

Good plan, lots of guys are seeing the above 80 water temps and fishing for something else.

[kanukVariant]

Thinking of taking a canoe in here in the next couple of days... Hopefully the water isn't too warm yet. Disclaimer: While the footage is good, the host does get on my nerves a little with the forced enthusiasm on camera.

Part 1


Part 2
http://youtu.be/rSeqMOkFUI8

kaNUK

[Laser04]

Been killing it salt water fishing. Loving the variety of fish I've been catching. Second season using my 12 foot saltwater pole with 20lb line and its not even a nice pole/reel but it's gotten the job done every time. Squid and clam necks are hot right now

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Some Porgies





And the best for last, One of two Dogfish Sharks I caught... My iPhone was dead by the time I caught the second one and no one else was around to snap a pic

[Laser04]

Where do you fish out of? I'm usually off of Westbrook, sometimes Westport.

I fish in the Black Point/Niantic Bay area, near New London and Groton.