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The Fishing Thread
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buellistic
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Sharxfan
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If you want to catch some big bass try using a baby duck lure. Found out they love baby ducks when my ducks hatched a bunch and then the big hawgs in my pond decided it was breakfast time. Pretty lucky as Louisiana has a lot of water so you can fish pretty much anywhere anytime. Even luckier that I have my own ~1.5 acre pond that I have stocked with bass, catfish and various panfish species. If you can't catch a fish in my pond it means you haven't put a hook in the water. I debarb all my hooks as I like to fish I don't like to eat them. If I want to eat fish we have a 5 star sushi place that I go to. 
I would love to go one year and hit the salmon run but not sure when/if that would happen.
I would love to go one year and hit the salmon run but not sure when/if that would happen.
SVsick50
Deep in the Heart of Texas
Ya know... being mostly a salt water guy, I never got creative with fun stuff like fake baby ducks and such. Salt is like rigs/squid/sardines and heavy ass jigs. I mean, I messed around in fresh water with Lunker Hunter spiders, and various plastics, but now that I'm stuck to freshwater, I think it'd be fun to try all this goofy stuff 
stangmx13
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I’ve tried some freshwater bass stuff for saltwater bass - crankbaits and dropshot stuff. Cranks catch way too many rocks and weed and not enough fish. But dropshot works amazing. It’s my go-to rig.
Freshwater powerbait minnows and such will catch millions of rockfish… but they’ll be small. It’s a fun fish finder rig.
Freshwater powerbait minnows and such will catch millions of rockfish… but they’ll be small. It’s a fun fish finder rig.
Sharxfan
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They sell baby duck lures and frog lures you should try them both. When the weather warms up try going out closer to dusk when the water is calm and hit the water with a hulu popper and see how much fun you have with that, nothing beats seeing a top water strike from a bass then hooking it and bringing it in. I mostly use spinners in my pond as I have always had luck with them even in the overfished dams in Cali, always caught something. I usually put half a powerbait worm on the spinner hook to give it some more motion right on the hook.Ya know... being mostly a salt water guy, I never got creative with fun stuff like fake baby ducks and such. Salt is like rigs/squid/sardines and heavy ass jigs. I mean, I messed around in fresh water with Lunker Hunter spiders, and various plastics, but now that I'm stuck to freshwater, I think it'd be fun to try all this goofy stuff
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Love to fish, love to eat fish. Nothing like slapping a fresh caught King on the BBQ or steaming a bucket of California mussels or beer batter fried rock fish tacos. Monday's dinner was a couple of chunks of yellow tail that I pulled out of the freezer, marinated them in soy, ginger, honey, garlic, oil, salt, pepper and grilled. Harvest my 10 dungees, pick'em clean and make a mound of crab salad or cakes Yum.
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dravnx
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dravnx
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Sharxfan
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going to make me dig up some old pictures and post them aren't you. I think I still have one of the 36" long catfish we pulled out of the pond. it was so strong I had to wrap the line around my hand to get it on shore as the drag on the reel we were using wasn't strong enough to hold it. I will have to look and see what I have but I lost a ton of pictures when my laptop got folded over in a car crash I was in many years ago.
SVsick50
Deep in the Heart of Texas
Went to the pond today with fake stuff and got nothing. It was middle of the day and about 88°, so fish were lazy (you could literally see them just chillin’ high in the water). Lots of bluegill nibbling, but nothing hooked.
Speaking of bluegill - for being such a little fish they sure fight hard and are super aggressive.
Speaking of bluegill - for being such a little fish they sure fight hard and are super aggressive.
tzrider
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My brother in law with a stringer of trout:
Sharxfan
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absolutely. I have hooked some big old bass and after about 5 seconds those fat bastards just give up. blue/channel cat also like to fight and will go under logs and branches to foul up your line so they can get away.
