If you can get to San Felipe, Baja Mexico by next Saturday and have $1500 there are a couple spots that opened up on a 6 day mothership trip that I go on every year. It is hardcore fishing in the Sea of Cortez at its best.
I just got back from the Boundary Waters yesterday and we caught quite a few bass and pike with a few surprise walleye too. We ate well, to say the least. My canoe partner for the trip was fishing almost exclusively with a fly rod and olive wooly bugger for big pre-spawn smallmouths in shallow bays. He caught dozens with a couple near 20" and it was spectacular to watch. I caught some nice 30"+ pike on topwater buzzbaits in shallow grassy water (fun!) but my best for the trip was this walleye. Wood Lake is awesome.
How are you able to fish all day without sunglasses? My eyes would be destroyed. Looks like a good time, thanks for sharing
I wear polarized sunglasses whenever I'm on the water (and a bandanna under the hat, etc to cover up), but took them off at the campsite.
My family and I took a trip to Disney World last week and were able to do some largemouth bass fishing on their lakes. My brother in law caught a 9lb 2oz bass and I ended up catching a 6lb 8oz bass. These were the biggest bass we have ever caught and it was a lot of fun.
So aside from getting beat up by a hurricane for 24 hours, in which we used the time to play poker and consume large amounts of alcohol due to our impending deaths the fishing was pretty good last week in the Sea of Cortez, these are pics from a guy who came with us who had never fished in ocean before, he did very well.
Here is a better pick of the broomtail, very unusual catch for the area we were but this guy came out of 300 feet of water and weighed in at 26 pounds.
If you care to read about some fishing exploits that were had last week. http://www.bdoutdoors.com/forums/threads/tony-reyes-hurricanes-and-fish-stories.589360/
Got my deer head back from the pond. Worked out well but smells like gross pond muck. Ill have to boil it with some hydrogen peroxide too.
I took a trip to South Florida to hang out with a buddy from college and do a bit of kayak fishing. I didn't want to go really far from the beach, so we did a bit of snapper fishing on top of a wreck. We were there for a couple hours and had constant action. The fish weren't the largest, but it was a great experience since I had never been in blue water in the kayak before. I did live line a blue runner that was about 10" on my rod. I hooked into something that would not budge at all. I ended up popping the line, but we figured it was a shark that chomped down. There ended up being a scuba diving tourist boat come through and start diving where we were fishing. I was clearing a knot in my rig when I looked over the side of my kayak to see divers directly under my boat. I'm not sure how it would have worked out if I had a treble hook floating around down there. Once the divers came we picked up the chum bag and decided to go to the second reef a bit further from the beach. We caught a couple more including an undersized trigger fish that I had to throw back. We planned on going a bit further, but the weather turned and a small shower with lightning started coming, so we turned tail and paddled back to shore. Overall the trip was awesome and I had a great time. I plan on going back next summer if my buddy is still living there and fish for King Mackerel and Amberjack. I'll be more comfortable and have some idea of what I'm doing.
So after my wife's family reunion at the largest VFW in the US we went up to Maine to check it out and did some fishing out of York beach. My brother in law and I took his kids with us and we woke them up early to get on the Nordeste from G-Cove Charters. As you can see I am a bad influence on her, she has learned the fisherman's salute and her mother was not amused, I was. We ran out about 26 miles for some ground fish and we were not disappointed. Sea Pollack, Cod fish (all released), Hake, dog fish, mackerel ,Haddock and almost a blue shark. My niece stuck the biggest fish of the day with a 19 pound sea Pollack, we had over 100 fish for the day with most being released but we went home with 50 pounds of filets . We fished in 200 feet of water with a chrome jig and teaser about 2 feet up on the line which gave us lots of doubles. Very cool spot to fish with tons of whales around. This lighthouse is 15 miles offshore, the captain said there were a lot of ship wrecks around it prior to the lighthouse being there. No shit.
Last weekend I was in Illinois and spent a morning fishing around a beautiful little farm pond with my brother and a couple cousins. Despite some extreme hangovers, we still had fun catching bass after bass in the 12-16" range and some monster bluegill decided to join in the fun too. My cousin pulled in one the biggest I've seen in a long time:
Looking for recommendations on a fishing kayak. Fishing on mainly lakes for bass, crappie, catfish. There's a river that runs through our property (no white water) which I'll use it on heavily, and occasionally take it down to the beach. Price point is about $400. I'd like to go entry-level on the first one, because later I want to get a double for the wife and I. If it matters, I have plenty of experience with sea kayaks and canoes (have a 17' wooden sea kayak that I built). Balance is cool and all but I feel very comfortable in one regardless.
Thanks to the asshole that put bluegill in the mountain trout lakes, thanks for ruining it for everyone.
http://www.westmarine.com/buy/pelic...zouTvy1N1sb-CbojLEswrmGHZQjHh8a43UaAjkc8P8HAQ A cheaper one but looks good for a bang for the buck. Consider some run into the $500 to well into nearly $2000 USD range.
Caught this monster yesterday at 7:15 pm on a wacky rigged 7" worm from shore. Unfortunately when he tried to shake free he threw the bait and swallowed the hook so all I could do was cut the line. My shoe is a size 11.5 for reference
If you have ever wanted a shot at 100 plus pound Bluefin tuna head over to southern California this summer, the fish are close and there is a lot of them and you can catch them on an overnight trip which is less than $300. It is the best reported fishing in 50 years and there are dorado, yellowfin, and yellowtail mixed in. We are headed out Monday to target the bigger fish and get our asses handed to us.