#530- "fall turnover" EditionPrevious Thread:>>2841879janny pls…Thinking about picking up a new hobby? Want to get a memecaster? Haven't mastered the Palomar knot? Click here!http://www.pastebin.com/u/fishingandtacklehttps://imgur.com/a/1Xw3NNew Bong Fishin Guidehttps://pastebin.com/sDB5SQTqFirst for best telescopic rod is the one you exchanged for a 3pc.Talk about fishin
What are the best places to get bulk cheap lures? Asking for a friend
>>2846105Depends on the lures. I like ebay for soft plastics and i split between amazon and ebay for jig heads, spoons i usually get off amazon, and for crank/jerkbaits i usually prefer to spend the money and get a "real" one from rapala or similar.
>new thread just as the other reach bump limit, still at page 1>on a board where threads take weeks to die>fuck up the subject field AGAINSkid you fat fucking retard what the fuck are you doingdelete and redo at least
>>2846115We'll get it next time
>>2846115I made the last thread, and I for one like the pic.
THE MOTHERFUCKING THIRD THREAD IN A ROW THAT'S FUCKED UPAt this point the fucked up version is the normal one I suppose you FUCKING retard >>2846103Spend like 2 minutes before posting your slop, please. You had another few days until it'd be deep down enough on the catalogue.
usually they're spread out pretty well but last night these fags just kept making a giant ball of niggas
an little snack perhaps
>>2846170Hope you gave that cutie a kiss>>2846142Thats pretty sweet. Do they just hit the bait when you drop it or does it spook them for a second?
These weird little fucks get pretty big, this one was at least 12 inches.
>>2846183Normally I spit in their mouths if they're too small to keep but I want a bigger one to bite. I like to think they get thrown back and tell their big bro some asshole spit in their mouth, a kiss is too delicate.The ones in the video are like an inch or two at best, but they still absolutely go for the bait near instantly when dropped. They honestly seem pretty fuckin blind and go more off smell + whatever their lateral line system tells them, quick movements or an aggressive drop make them get distance but even those tiny fuckers go try and eat whateve I have on the line. It isn't until like four inches or so that i actually have to worry about. I've caught them with an underwater camera + a few in shallow enough water to see, they're often pretty clumsy and need 2+ runs at a bait before actually getting a hook-up. Sometimes a quick up+down maneuver really makes them lock in as I assume it helps spread scent while also giving them good direction to go to via lateral line input. I straight up think the lateral line system is like the coolest shit and it sucks we cant ask fish how it works in detailCaught another of the normal bullhead size I keep so I figure I might as well attach a pic of the smallest one I've got this year to show what is essentially the lower limit for the size of bullhead i can reasonably hook
>>2846235Why are you so into bullheads? They are a species very tolerant of pollution, which you admitted to in your area, and they are not a preferred species to fish for. Catch some bluegill instead sometime.
>>2846237They bite the most from my dock and it’s hard to not just throw a line in and check it once an hour. It’s pretty wild in that during the winter the same areas I get pike in don’t produce that much during the summer. While there’s a historic pollution issue since it’s a mining town, I’ve seen a lot of other species in the lake that signal decent ecosystem health. Otters, sum water bugs, frogs of various types, beaversmuskrats and mink, other misc animals not so tolerant of pollution that it’s hard to make a determination for sure as to whether or not these are for real cancer fish. goddamn government says I can have 30 fish meals a month (most species combined) from this body of water so I while im not one to trust the government I feel like some fish in the freezer isn’t that big a deal.Pretty hard to catch catfish and not also be catching panfish. They just aren’t that big of a proportion of the population in my lake + don’t become hand size pan size easily. Apparently bass are in the lake too but they’re rare, lots of big pike and walleye in the lake I just need to take the boat out to reliably get them
>>2846240>I’ve seen a lot of other species in the lake that signal decent ecosystem healthIt doesn't work for every kind of pollution, most animals don't have a lifespawn long enough for some chemicals to affect them, or doesn't react the same to heavy metals
>>2846240Why not fish more actively? Checking once every hour is slow even by catfishing standards. You could jig a nightcrawler or fish artificial lures. Active fishing is the best.
>>2846244I have trouble believing the catfish I eat infrequently from this lake are worse than say eating a can or two of albacore tuna infrequently. I also in general have a hard time dismissing any indicators of a good waterway as "yeah well its complicated!" Yes, it is complicated, but I'm the one here at this lake with the most information. My local government says 32 fish meals a month for the consumption advisory for the lake. I don't hit anywhere near 32 in the average month, probably half that in a good month.Until I actually get fillets tested from various bodies of water around me, I have a laundry list of indicators the lake is as healthy as one might reasonably expect, with next to no indicators of poor health in the lake beyond some small patches of algae during the hottest months of the year.Of course, if there's anything you know of that I can do as an individual without highly specialized equipment to get more/better information on the lake, I'd be more than willing to try it out. A doctor on my street had the water tested and it's safe enough to swim in at least.If I was to play it safe, I wouldn't eat any fish from any lake ever.>>2846246I fish all day every day. After moving in around December, I have fished every day. Since I work from home I often just cast out my lines and check them between the individual tasks I do. An hour has proven to be the sweet spot in that 30-45mins often enough I didn't get a bite at all while over an hour there's a good chance my bait got stolen or there's a fish on the line. I fish actively enough about 2-3 times during the day where I'll jig around the dock or cast a rapala a few times over 30min-1hr, altho the weediness makes hard lures a bit of a pain to repeatedly cast out and work. Most of my perch are from active fishing. It has been raining for five days straight making standing outside on the dock less appealing.I guess in short what I'm saying is that I do both active and passive fishing.
>>2846277You're not the guy living in Wisconsin, are you? Anyway, I totally would get out on a boat if I had one and were you. I would try to find less weedy places to fish or use weedless techniques. Another thing you could do when it warms up again is remove weeds / add structure to the area around your dock.
>>2846286naw im not wisconsinbro, am from ontario canada. Today was a high of 6 and a low of 3, probably time to take the boat and dock out soon desu. but you are dead right that the boat is sick, last time I went for a proper run I got this fella. sucks my slot size is none over 18.1 inches though.
>>2846277don't get me wrong, i would do the same as youbut "yeah well it's complicated" do apply, my region have a lot of agriculture so there's a hight pesticide pollution, but on the other hand water is extra clean and have a lot of health indicators like some fragile plants and indigenous crayfishes, because they arn't affected by pesticidesmy neighbour and farmer use the local pond as a water reserve to water crops, so he empty it and fill it up with water pumped deep underground and get the pond tested regularly, so i know the water is clean, i would be a lot more carefull otherwise
>>2846105Flea markets
>>2846292>>2846105Flea markets are decent but my best deals have been from estate sales and auctions where you purchase old tackle boxes full of tackle
>>2846293Yea, my neighbor dropped me a tackle bag with a dozen of surface / yoyo iron, couple of trolling lure, and hooks for $5 on his garage sale when he was moving out
>>2846288Good. I am glad that you aren't just eating and catching bullheads. A life of only bullheads is like only drinking powdered lemonade, watching Bollywood instead of Hollywood, or exclusively eating hamburgers and never steak. That is a nice walleye
>>2846307>watching Bollywood instead of HollywoodEating shit instead of Shit™ 3: the prequel to the sequel is bad?
>>2846103>Op's pictureI think this is a shame. How long did it take for that catfish(?) to grow to that size? Many years I know.The older I get the more I think fishing is for people who actually dislike fish. You stick a hook through its lips, drag it into an alien world where the air burns its skin, and then you just throw it back even though it might die of stress from the whole ordeal. What a wholesome thing to do with the kids! Oops didn't tie the hook properly and now that one lives with a chunk of metal stuck in its head that will slowly kill it. Ah well son, out of sight out of mind haha! But who cares, because APPARENTLY (from what dad mumbled into my ear once) fish don't "have any feelings" so who even cares?
>>2846331How can you say a squadron of gyrating indians is... anything good? Imagine the smell. Imagine how fucking annoying that music would be by the end of the film - I would rather poke a corkscrew into my ears.
>>2846336NTA..... I don't disagree. But the other anon isn't wrong either. It's a choice between a turd and a shit sandwich. Have you seen what Hollywood has been putting out lately? I just don't watch movies anymore.
>>2846290its so hard for me to resist retaining at least a handful of bullheads each week, whenever it rains my backyard becomes filthy with nightcrawlers which I collect and slap on a jig I cast out into the water. In very simple terms its a renewable edible resource that needed nothing beyond what I already had laying around.>>2846307yeah bro only reason bullheads are so over represented is that I often just post w/e the fuck I catch as I catch them to abuse the fact I live on the water for the first time in my life. It's like being able to post your guns on /k/ and style on nogunz. All summer dudes went past my dock like 20ftish beyond what I could cast to and a lot of them caught walleye and pike doing that, so I've been trying fairly hard to figure out what I can do to make my odds better just off the dock. Probably need better rods meant for big time casting at least during summer. Fall appears to be bringing more interesting fish closer to shore more often.pic is the last nice pike i brought out, p sure my best is like 30 inches but this 1 is just a nice average specimen
>>2846331>>2846336>>2846339I'm the anon who posted the original Bollywood comment. I rarely watch any contemporary movies. Think of it as Bollywood throughout the ages vs American cinema throughout the ages.
