The fishing thread

Fish tacos!

 

Those who fish from the bank. Ever get poison ivy? I get it on a weekly basis the whole season. I'm not phased by it and I forget it's there. Luckily it's only localized.

 

Went out this morning fishing a neighborhood pond. Lost a big girl. But at least these 2 will do.

 

lmao

 

Will be taking the wife to my hidden fishing spot that is filled with the big girls today. Oh she'll have a blast

 

Didn't go to my hidden spot yesterday. Went to a road side pond. Caught a couple and these 2 are the biggest so far. I am on a hunt for bigger ones.

This is my favorite shirt lol

 

Not any big ones, but I love when I pop one after another!

 

Went out fly fishing yesterday for Bass. No panfish this time. Thank goodness. Didn't want them anyway. Out of 10 I caught. 1 3 pounder broke off at the bank. This is the biggest one I landed yesterday on the fly. So much fun on the fly rod.

 

My first ever catfish. Not huge, but then again I was on a small shallow lake with hardly any catfish in it. Caught a couple nice walleye too. Old-timer came by, gave him my walleyes, told him the exact spot and how to catch them, then i moved on to find new spots.

One more outing locally to take my niece out who has down syndrome (it's an annual thing, her favorite day of the year), then I'll be getting everything ready for a week long trip on a big lake at a resort with family and relatives.

 

Planned on some pics of my yearly trip down the Copper River dip netting for reds but once out there found my battery in the camera was dead. My son and me left with 57 nice 5-7 lb red Salmon. Freezers food for the year.

 

I am surprised I don't run into snakes when I go fishing. It's rare that I see one.

 

Went out with the wife fishing today.

Black Crappie.

Bass with a full belly.

 

living closer to the left coast of the u.s., the contact skin irritant plant local to me was poison oak rather then ivy. same general concept with similar if not identical chemistry.
learning to recognize and avoid such contact was a basic skill growing up. still happened from time to time anyway.

seen lots of kinds of snakes where i grew up, all but one of them harmless, none of them aquatic though. this is not a fish. the meat of some of them is apparently edible. our cats seemed to like catching and eating them. probably reminded them of chasing string, or the other way around.

bass were not a common fish, every kind of trout were. salmon historically might have been, but none reached where i was living at the time i was living there. we also had catfish that were to tame for their own good, you could catch them with your hands, that tasted good but it seemed like a sin to eat them, they're being that easy to catch and all. but maybe that's how everything is supposed to fit together too. sometimes i'm not to judge.

 

I'm getting to his level lol

 

Black Crappie.

 

Nice size blue gill I caught today