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Gvac

02-02-2008, 04:40 AM

I used to be a freshwater fishing fanatic, and I loved going for bass (large and smallmouth) and trout. For some reason I haven't gone in a few years and I really can't give a good excuse as to why.

My boat and trailer have been sitting in my buddy's back yard for years and my tackle box and rods must have an inch and a half of dust on them at this point down in my basement.

I think I should make a real effort to get back into it this Spring. Nothing in the world clears my mind more than sitting on a peaceful lake and casting. It's better than meditation.

Good luck tomorrow TeeBone!

Tallman388

02-02-2008, 04:52 AM

My in laws' neighborhood has a bunch of large stocked ponds (mostly bass and one fairly large catfish), so I have a couple of rods I keep at their house. I fish once or twice a week from spring to fall. I've also done a little bit of saltwater fishing down in Sarasota, which I thought was boring, until I caught a battenhead shark about 3-4 feet long. I also caught a nice Redfish later on the same day, that was a nice little battle. Have a good time tomorrow!

Marc with a c

02-02-2008, 04:54 AM

i went fishing for the first time in my life two summers ago. i didn't catch anything, and it was terribly boring, then some freak cut his hand on a glass bottle he tried to break on a tree.

Jughead

02-02-2008, 04:55 AM

I wish i could show you some pictures from last summer of the large mouth me and my son's caught..My uncle has a pond that is the best..about 6 acres only about 5 feet deep except for one big hole about 80'x80'.The big crappies hang around the edges of that hole..Around the main lake are a bunch of little lakes where he raises Koi......In 2000 he started with 7 pair about 13 inches long each fish was $600.00..Something to do with the color they were as breeders....He sells alot to people for there home ponds..Anyway It is a great fishing spot in the main lake... Ive been blessed to be able to go out there the last 20-30 years

RAAMONE

02-02-2008, 04:55 AM

i go to assateague(or however you spell it) every year with my dad, brother, and uncles...nothing better than eating flounder an hour after you catch it over an open flame

TeeBone

02-02-2008, 05:14 AM

Good luck tomorrow TeeBone!

Thanks...

joethebartender

02-02-2008, 05:26 AM

I used to go freshwater fishing in the lakes and ponds around here, but for the last 6 or 7 years I've only been saltwater fishing either on party boats or surfcasting for flounder, striped bass, sea bass, bluefish, and weakfish (sea trout).

I ran a couple of fluke (flounder) trips from the bar with about 50 people each time. I hired the boat, the bus, packed "coffin sized coolers with beer, a thousand mini bags of chips from costco, and my friend in Hackensack has a pizza parlour...he made up a shitload of sammiches each time for me. Good times. Here's the boat:

http://www.njcharterboat.com/images/atlantis.jpg

TeeBone

02-02-2008, 05:45 AM

Whereabouts in Jersey?

I fish with the in-laws on the jetties/sodbanks at Barnegat Bay for stripers, weakies and taug.
I never knew Jersey had such great fishing.

joethebartender

02-02-2008, 05:52 AM

That boat's out of Brielle. But I go to Point Pleasant or to Atlantic highlands...sometimes I even catch a boat out of Sheepshead bay in Brooklyn.

Ritalin

02-02-2008, 09:52 AM

Whereabouts in Jersey?

I fish with the in-laws on the jetties/sodbanks at Barnegat Bay for stripers, weakies and taug.
I never knew Jersey had such great fishing.

Funny, people never thing of New York/New Jersey and fishing, but the whole area - from Montauk on the end of Long Island all the way down to the Jersey shore is a huge fishing area.

Snoogans

02-02-2008, 09:58 AM

Is there anyone out there that enjoys fishing?

I'm always curious to see if internet people like to go fishing. So, does anyone fish?

Fresh/Salt?
Favorite fish to catch?
Favorite spot?

I'll be heading to Ft. Desoto in Tampa Bay on Sunday morning for some flats fishing for the Grand Slam (Snook, Redfish and Trout) if anyone wants to go.

Fresh water, usually off the bank of a lake or something, rarely on a boat
Heineken bottles. I have fished around 30 total hours in my life and caught 4 fish, only 1 bigger then 6 inches. Therefore I concentrate more on drinkin
Peter's Pond in Stillwater, NJ. My uncle has a camping trailer on the pond, so thats basically most of my fishing

weekapaugjz

02-02-2008, 10:28 AM

I used to go fishing all the time with my grandfather. We would go for walleye on lake erie and walleye, perch, and bass on chautauqua lake (a small lake in WNY I currently live on. I haven't been in years but now that I live right on the lake and have 2 full months off in the summer, I'm probably going to pick it up again.

Nothing like fresh walleye IMO.

TeeBone

02-02-2008, 10:37 AM

Funny, people never thing of New York/New Jersey and fishing, but the whole area - from Montauk on the end of Long Island all the way down to the Jersey shore is a huge fishing area.

I am planning a trip this year to Montauk during the prime striper run. The first time I caught a striper I wanted to find THE PLACE where I could catch more of them on a consistent basis. Every source tells me Montauk is that place. I can't wait.

Sarge

02-02-2008, 11:41 AM

I love to go salt water fishing any chance I get. Any offshore fishing is great, whether it is for fluke, sea bass, or blues. I've never surf fished, I want to try it this year.

bigredd

02-02-2008, 12:29 PM

I enjoy it but I don't do it as much as I'd like to. I'm going trout fishing in a couple weeks though. I go with a group of buddies every year to a lil fishing resort on the White River in Northern Arkansas. We do a little fishing, a lot of drinking and eat like kings. There were actually three years in a row I went and didn't even wet a hook. I will say there's something about being in the cold river catchign trout. We use barbless hooks to catch and release. www.stetsons-resort.com

I also went dea see fishing last year in Cabo. Got two marlin and a nice tuna. A friend of friend's cook that lives down there fired up the tuna and some fresh mahi mahi and it was one of the best meals of my life.

joethebartender

02-02-2008, 08:27 PM

I am planning a trip this year to Montauk during the prime striper run. The first time I caught a striper I wanted to find THE PLACE where I could catch more of them on a consistent basis. Every source tells me Montauk is that place. I can't wait.

Montauk has the records. Captree is nearby with great results too!

kdubya

02-02-2008, 09:06 PM

Do you have the big fishing pole holder rig on the front of your truck?

I went out to Assateague with my bro-in law and we went fishing it was pretty cool. I used to fly fish in Northern Wisconsin when I lived in Minneapolis. Fishing on the beach is very different, but it's much easier grabbing a beer out of the truck than having to haul it upstream in a pack.

We were fishing when the salmon were spwaning one year, it was great but you really had to be on the look out for bears.

i go to assateague(or however you spell it) every year with my dad, brother, and uncles...nothing better than eating flounder an hour after you catch it over an open flame

PapaBear

02-02-2008, 09:12 PM

I like fishing, but I never do it anymore. I started fishing some again about five years ago, to have something to get my son out of the house. He lost interest in it, so I haven't gone since. Both the poles and gear have been sitting in my car's trunk ever since then.

Dad caught a hundred pound sturgeon
On twenty-pound test.

eeroomnhoj

02-03-2008, 03:08 AM

Is there anyone out there that enjoys fishing?

I'm always curious to see if internet people like to go fishing. So, does anyone fish?

Fresh/Salt?
Favorite fish to catch?
Favorite spot?

I'll be heading to Ft. Desoto in Tampa Bay on Sunday morning for some flats fishing for the Grand Slam (Snook, Redfish and Trout) if anyone wants to go.

I have love fishing my entire life. When I was a kid we would fish in the harbors on the north shore of Long Island and catch all sorts of things (snappes, blues, flounders, assorted odd bottom fish). Now that I am older I live in Virginia and still enjoy fishing in lakes. I enjoy fishing with my kids and fishing with my friends. When I fish with my kids its just the two of us doing this together, when I'm with my friends its nice to get away from everything and just sit there.

What I catch or where I fish is irrelevant to me. I just want to be on the water fishing.

sailor

02-03-2008, 04:09 AM

i went fishing for the first time in my life two summers ago. i didn't catch anything, and it was terribly boring, then some freak cut his hand on a glass bottle he tried to break on a tree.

i hope your hand didn't get infected.

TeeBone

02-03-2008, 06:22 PM

Today was perfect.
78 degrees, no wind, no clouds, calm-clear flats fishing at its best where you could spot your catch all morning.
I bought 2 dozen select shrimp this morning at 8:30 in the local bait store; the Bait Bucket. By 10:15, I had already caught 2 small reds and SIX 20+" Trout. I took the last one I caught, a 23", 5 lbs Trout home with me. I had 4 shrimp left that I threw back into the bay.

(SIDE NOTE)----The Trout Was Delicious

A picture of the fish now sits on the wall of fame board at the Bait Bucket near the entrance to Ft. Desoto State Park.

A great day fishing, indeed. I am planning to go again on Sunday the 17th if anyone in the Tampa area wants to go.

TeeBone

04-25-2008, 03:27 AM

REDFISH are huge right now in Tampa Bay. Anyone in the area tomorrow morning, go to the NE side of Skyway and wade out. I predict a huge bite in the morning between 6-10.

Its on.

joethebartender

04-25-2008, 06:39 AM

REDFISH are huge right now in Tampa Bay. Anyone in the area tomorrow morning, go to the NE side of Skyway and wade out. I predict a huge bite in the morning between 6-10.

Its on.

Lucky man! We only have some winter flounder still running in local salt here. (sea bass, fluke and stripers due up soon).

RhinoinMN

04-25-2008, 06:42 AM

REDFISH are huge right now in Tampa Bay. Anyone in the area tomorrow morning, go to the NE side of Skyway and wade out. I predict a huge bite in the morning between 6-10.

Its on.

Luck bastard! I love redfishing, but never get the chance for obvious reasons.

Furtherman

04-25-2008, 07:09 AM

Love fishing, always have. Was fishing in Florida last month... lots of grouper, but nothing keepable. I grew up between a river, the Schuykill, and a crick, the Wissahickon. Days like today would be perfect for trout after school. On the weekends it was down to the river for catfish, bass and the occasional monster carp.

It's shark fishing this summer once again. Last year I, and two other friends, took turns landing a nice thresher.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Furtherman/thresher07.jpg

Here's an idea... what about a Ronfez.net fishing trip? Would there be enough interest?

joethebartender

04-25-2008, 07:44 AM

Love fishing, always have.
Here's an idea... what about a Ronfez.net fishing trip? Would there be enough interest?

Even if there wasn't a huge list of people, why not hit a party boat (not a charter) as a small group. Maybe in Atlantic Highlands, NJ or Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn? I'm down for that.:thumbup:

TeeBone

04-25-2008, 03:36 PM

I'm at Barnegat Bay in 3 weeks.
I think fishing for blues and bass is where its at up there.

TeeBone

04-27-2008, 11:53 AM

Luck bastard! I love redfishing, but never get the chance for obvious reasons.

GREAT SUCCESS!!!
I landed a 31-inch redfish yesterday. Its the biggest I've landed since I've been wading.

Chigworthy

04-29-2008, 05:12 AM

My wife and I love fishing, mostly saltwater. Out here we catch King Salmon and the all-encompassing "Rockfish", or "Rockcod". King Salmon season was cancelled this year and probably next year, which completely sucks, but the population is way down, so something has to be done. King Salmon is to the Pacific Northwest what Blue Crab is to New England. There is nothing like it.

We also fish for leopard shark off the shore in brackish bays. It's fun fishing, but the meat is high in mercury and other bio-magnificates, as well as ammonia, so we haven't done that in a while.

I've never understood sport fishing or hunting, but nothing beats having a freezer full of pristine, wild protein that hasn't been blasphemed too much by agricultural rape.

bobsnin

04-29-2008, 05:19 AM

I fish at least once a week. Mostly salt water, but some fresh. I caught a roughly 5 foot shart 3 weekends ago. It took about 40 minutes to pull in. It was the biggest thing I've ever caught. I mostly catch mangrove snapper, red fish and jack. The occasional snook and lady fish.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/56126935@N00/2418749919/" title="shark 004 by bobsnin, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2107/2418749919_0337b22476_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="shark 004" /></a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/56126935@N00/2419565000/" title="shark 007 by bobsnin, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2176/2419565000_be6ecf8b49_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="shark 007" /></a>

bobsnin

04-29-2008, 05:20 AM

GREAT SUCCESS!!!
I landed a 31-inch redfish yesterday. Its the biggest I've landed since I've been wading.

Where are you located TeeBone?

RAAMONE

04-29-2008, 05:24 AM

bobsnin

04-29-2008, 05:50 AM

i've heard of trying to fart and accidentally shitting your pants...but 5 feet long...thats no accident

freudian slip

ANC

04-29-2008, 06:11 AM

I always loved fishing. I used to always be at Jack's Pond or Miles Pond as a kid in Staten Island. Now if I fish in Staten Island, I usually go to Wolf's Pond, Gateway Beach, the pier at Hylan Blvd. and Sharrotts Road, or just hit up a charter boat out of Great Kills Harbor.

I haven't gone in a while though. I gotta get out this year.

RhinoinMN

04-29-2008, 06:13 AM

GREAT SUCCESS!!!
I landed a 31-inch redfish yesterday. Its the biggest I've landed since I've been wading.

Wow! Congrats!

jauble

04-29-2008, 06:20 AM

I miss fishing. I used to go all the time as a kid but havent gone in two years since I was in New Hampshire for an internship. If I lived somewhere where the fishing might be better I think I would take it back up.

weslank

04-29-2008, 06:31 AM

Love to fish. Plenty of good farm ponds around here. Smallmouth and largemouth Bass, Catfish, crappie, blue gills. Good pay lakes to take the kids to as well. Do alot of fishing whenever I'm in Sarasota or Ft. Myers, still like the fresh water over the salt though.

bobsnin

04-29-2008, 06:42 AM

jauble

04-29-2008, 06:57 AM

They're are plenty of good places in Springfield.

Im moving soon and I dont have any of my stuff here.

TeeBone

04-29-2008, 07:02 AM

Where are you located TeeBone?

Tampa Bay.

FUNKMAN

04-29-2008, 07:58 AM

been fishing in the keys for bonita and off mexico for barracuda, both gave a nice fight. for the past 4 years I've been taking my daughters fluke and blues fishing on the party boats out of Belmar. won the fluke pool once with the last fish caught. my daughters love the blues fishing, they compete with each other for the most caught. i don't take e'm home so we give e'm away afterwards

johnniehardrock

04-29-2008, 08:44 AM

I love fishing. I have a house on the water in South Jersey and fish in my backyard for Snappers which is good fun and nice eating.
I go out for blues out of Belmar during the summer all the time. I do not eat the fish I give them to the crew. I just love the fight that blues put up.
My buddie and I went out on a Tuna trip on 9/17/02. We went 8 hours straight out into the Atlantic and I did not catch a thing but after all the 9/11 covereage and work it was the best trip I had ever been on.
I would love to go out on a RonFez.net fishing trip.

TeeBone

04-29-2008, 03:18 PM

Mother's Day weekend-----South Jetty of Barnegat Bay. I can't wait and maybe if I'm lucky, I'll get that damn legal Striper I've been trying for the last 2 seasons. Blues will be there and from what I've heard, are being caught HUGE. It sucks about the tautog(Black fish) closing tomorrow. Usually, the season stays open through May during the spawn but New Jersey closed it this year when the Federal Government cracked down on the poor fish population. Is this because of all the illegal catches? and New Jersey fisherman info would be great.

Furtherman

04-30-2008, 09:22 AM

Gentlemen, the sharks are making their move.

First that guy in California. Now this...

American Surfer Killed in Mexico Shark Attack (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353350,00.html)

The San Francisco man bled to death on Monday after a gray shark bit his right thigh, leaving a 15-inch (38-centimeter) wound,

Furtherman

04-30-2008, 09:59 AM

AGAIN!

There have been three shark attacks in as many days in the Atlantic Ocean off New Smyrna Beach. (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353051,00.html)

TeeBone

04-30-2008, 05:12 PM

They keep showing camera shots from new choppers where sharks are just a few feet from surfers, swimmers, etc... It is dominating the local news right now in Central Florida and its great.

Fuck these sharks!!!!

joethebartender

09-11-2008, 03:43 PM

I caught me a bucket full of porgies and a few big sea bass today. Dinner was deelicious! Handed out a few "care packages" to some friends and have a bag o' filets left over for the freezer.

(I'm such a provider.):tongue:

postin' this in "what's for dinner" too

Holes

09-11-2008, 04:28 PM

joethebartender

09-11-2008, 04:58 PM

Where were you fishing out of? If NJ, what boat were you on?

Atlantic Highlands. Aboard the Angler.

hunnerbun

09-11-2008, 08:29 PM

Oh I love fishing especially since we moved to the lake and have a dock right in the back yard. I came home from work the other night and the lake was like glass so I went down for a while. Caught 1 keeper, 2lb Walleye

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/Hunnerbun/IMG_0317.jpg

The "dogfish" is Squirt, he was chasing the hook as I cast and took a header in the lake. Shelties are NOT water dogs! He's a bit puny, maybe I should have thrown him back...LOL.

Along with the lone walleye I also caught 3 fair sized Northern Pike (over 12") but here they are considered garbage fish so they went back, great fighters though.

razorboy

09-11-2008, 09:09 PM

I love fishing. Fresh and salt (more often salt because I'm closer to the beach than any lake or fishable river). I go fly fishing on occasion, but most of my time is spent flats fishing for Snook, Redfish, Sea Trout and Bonefish.

redbri

09-11-2008, 09:36 PM

flyfishing for trout, been to Montana, Wyoming and Utah for trout fishing, Will occasionally hit the Jersey shore and hope to one day land that striper on a fly.

Holes

09-13-2008, 04:17 AM

I went Striper Fishing for the first time this summer. It was awesome!

http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr27/iamholes/64040006.jpg

joethebartender

09-13-2008, 04:37 AM

I went Striper Fishing for the first time this summer. It was awesome!

http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr27/iamholes/64040006.jpg

I would have been on the phone a second after catching that one!

"We're gonna need lemons, tartar sauce, and some rice pilaf...STAT!!!

OK... you asked me where I went out of...
Where did you pick up that monster? Your boat or was it a charter?

Holes

09-13-2008, 04:48 AM

I would have been on the phone a second after catching that one!

"We're gonna need lemons, tartar sauce, and some rice pilaf...STAT!!!

OK... you asked me where I went out of...
Where did you pick up that monster? Your boat or was it a charter?

It was off Manasquan. Boat was a 35' Contender-Friend of a friend's boat. I'll post another of the Stripers we kept that day.

We had a feast that night. It was delicious!

Holes

09-13-2008, 04:54 AM

Now I cannot get the photo to upload? WTF! What am I doing wrong?

Holes

09-13-2008, 05:07 AM

Joe,
Here are two we caught that tipped the scales at 40 and 39.

The 40lb was caught live-lining. The 39lb was caught on snagged bunker.

http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr27/iamholes/2stripers.jpg

For some reason, I cannot get the picture to rotate.

Holes

09-13-2008, 05:08 AM

Here is what we kept of the catch:

http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr27/iamholes/6striper.jpg

joethebartender

09-14-2008, 10:50 PM

It looks like it was a great day...I'm very jealous. I had a good trip but didn't see the action that you did with those big stripers!
Wishing you tight lines!

Snoogans

09-14-2008, 10:57 PM

i would be open to fishing, except brett favre lives in NJ and fishes here now

I cant even take that remote chance that i might have to see him when im tryin to relax

Furtherman

07-16-2009, 07:09 AM

Schoolgirl nets 9ft monster fish (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5834754/Schoolgirl-nets-9ft-monster-fish.html)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01444/bigfish_1444019c.jpg

Jessica was nearly dragged into the water when the catfish weighing nearly 200lbs took her bait.

The plucky youngster spent 20 minutes fighting the beast and needed a helping hand from dad Mark to heave it out of the water.

She is now broken the record for the biggest freshwater fish caught by a child in Europe

That's the catfish I always wished for when fishing on the Schuylkill!

RhinoinMN

07-16-2009, 07:15 AM

Furtherman

08-11-2009, 07:10 AM

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beachbum

08-11-2009, 01:06 PM

I'm going out in the morning for the last snapper trip of the season.14 hours aboard the Blue Dolphin with my man Capt.Mitch.Red snapper season in the Gulf of Mexico closes on Sat.

08-11-2009, 01:57 PM

RhinoinMN

08-11-2009, 02:00 PM

NIce.

are any of you non-new yorkers seeing a downturn in fish population?
they have been upping the regulations the last few years to crazy low limits here on Long Island, especially for Summer fluke.

Native American's netting habits have put a hurt on the fishing around here, but the DNR has put more strict regulations on the the us so the fishing has gotten better.

Chigworthy

07-09-2010, 08:27 PM

N. California fishing report:

Went out for Salmon with an early start. 4 fishermen, 4 18-25 pounders in 2 hours, nothing for the next 4 hours. Went north for rock cod and lings. I hooked a ling that was one inch shy. We all pulled in some rock cod minnows and called it a day after 11 hours. At least we each got a nice salmon, the rest of the fleet seemed to be doing a lot shittier. The party boats didn't boat any fish today. Fish and Game has effectively used their propaganda-justified management to cripple sport and commercial fishing out here. This could have realistically been my last fishing trip in my neck of the woods.