The most fun you have ever had fishing!?!
dreher
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Many, many years ago I had an ultra light spinning rod.
A person I knew told me to try fishing over his maggot set at his pond. A maggot set is finding a piece of road kill, a ground hog is perfect, suspending it over the water, waiting for the flies to go to work. When the maggots hatch they crawl to the bottom of the ground hog then fall into the water. The only down side of this is if you have a breezy day that keeps coming from different directions. The aroma can get intense!!😂
Within a short period of time every BIG bull blue gill is beneath that maggot set in a 18 inch circle waiting for the next maggot to drop.
You use a little white popper for your bait. OMG, every cast has fish hitting your bait. They hit the popper so fast and hard you have to recast as they pop the popper out of the water!
You can judge your casting skills, dead in the center, below the maggot set, a big bull. The gills get smaller the further from the center you are.
It takes much more time to take the fish off the hook then it does to catch them!! Big bulls, an ultra light rig and catching as fast as you can get them off your hook.
That is as good as it gets!!!!!
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A can of cheap cat food works too, poke holes in it and wait a day.
i have never heard of this but I think it would work very well, if you could stand the smell
Rice Lake in Canada back before the zebra mussels and bag limits.
Night crawlers and cane poles. We would boat over 700 fish a day for a four man group. Gills bigger than your hand all day every day.
I have some pictures of us in the cleaning shack somewhere around here with hundreds spread out on the bench before we started working on them.
By the fourth day my hands were too sore to bait the hook or take a fish off. We would typically bring home between 5-6 thousand fish.
Nothing but a memory now, as the mussels destroyed the habitat and the gills migrated to a non friendly lake.
good and bad happened same weekend
about 40 years ago I was invited to go the lake Erie on a fishing trip by a co worker he had a real nice lake boat maybe 24 feet or so
it my first time to out on a boat and first time walleye fishing
a nasty storm came up I got sea sick and could not do nothing but chum the lake and hug the bottom of the boat no need to mention th eribbing I got from the rest of the gang over it
did I mention I can not swim and even with a life jacket it was a bit unnerving I felt Like i was on the ss minnow with the skipper and Gilligan as the boat was tossed like a toy
worst day ever fishing next day weather broke and we caught fish and had a great time so thet week end was my best and worst fishing day
That's a tough question to answer because there's been so many! One that sticks in my mind was bobber fishing for silver salmon off the Grays Harbor jetty back in the '70's.
Crappie fishing with grandad 50+ years ago.
Would catch half a gunny-sack full and spend the evening scaling, cleaning and smoking them.
Brad Steele
Ohh yea with Deanna on the bank of Lake Johnsonville with one pole!
To quote a TV bass angler I watch, "I really enjoy fishing - but I like catching a lot more."
Just got back from a trip to Florida where two of us and a guide lost count of the big gag grouper we caught in half a day. I also caught a huge ray, a shark, and a cobia. Couldn't connect with a snook, sadly. That would have truly made my all-time list.
Sitting in a 16' Mirrocraft Deep Fisherman with Grandpa, trolling color-coded leaded line and Ford Fenders, Cowbells, and Wedding Rings, in the middle of Clark Canyon Reservoir, south of Dillon, MT. Springtime was the best fishing. Summer was good too, but you sure had to dodge a lot of weed beds. 5lb rainbows and browns were average, but 10lb'ers weren't uncommon. Next year will be 30 years since the last trip over there. I'd swear it was last week.
A close second was again with him, at another lake. I was 8 years old, and managed to tie into a 13lb rainbow. He had to grab the back of my shirt to keep it from pulling me over the side.
Back in the mid-80's, I was invited to fish a small private lake near Jacksboro, Texas.
I had been into bass fishing, out of my tube setup, for many years. That day I was tossing a natural shad spinner bait.......and landed 17 largemouths in 17 casts......in a row. The only reason I didn't catch 18 in a row.......was that she pulled off.
BTW........the largest was about 4 pounds.🤥
Great times.......and memories.😎
Fishing on Cedar Lake at night in my deck boat with my wife during a Lunar Eclipse. The cooler was full of cold beer, the fish quit biting soon into the trip.
The rest I will leave up to your imagination. It WAS the most fun fishing I ever had!! 😁
Dry flies with nymph droppers on the Rio San Juan.
Too many to mention just one….
A day I remember well was in the late summer of 1982. There was a lake near the university I attended that I fished in often. It was a weird day, the temps were in the low/mid 60's all day as opposed to the usual 90's.
Two of my buddies and I climbed into a boat and fished the far end of the lake where there was a pump that pumped water out of the a nearby river into the lake. On days when the pump was running, the shad would move to that area and the game fish followed. We used a net to catch small shad and baited our hooks with them.
The Channel Catfish would hit the bait almost as fast as it hit the water. We ended up with over 100 channel cats that day, most in the 3 to 4 pound range. We caught a few over 10 lbs. Twice we hooked flatheads that basically stripped our line out to the end and broke it off.
The most fun started when my friend bought a boat…
Twelve miles off the Costa Rican coast. Caught a marlin. Thought I was gonna die! Those things have stamina! Got him close enough after an hour for the the captain to let him loose. They don't call it a fighting chair for nothing.
That day it was an education chair.
From then on the most fun I had fishing was watching.
Stolen line: There's a fine line between fishing and standing by the water looking like an idiot.😉
We used to drive up from Georgia to Quetico Park, Ontario. This is a "canoes only" park, just beautiful, you paddle 3 miles across the lake, and carry the canoe on your shoulders 1/4 mile to the next lake. No cars, no motorboats, all that hard work keeps the riffraf out.
We were catching 4 pound walleye left and right. We didn't have walleye in Georgia and we thought this Yankee fish was delicious.
As you can see above, we drove through Garrison Minnesota and saw this huge Walleye statue, it is about 30 feet long. Evidently these Yankees regard the Walleye as a deity.
Spring of 1986 fishing just below the hatchery in Bowden, WV. There was a massive flood in November of 1985 that also flooded the hatchery. Trout all over, as soon as your bait hit the water you had a fish.
Every time I take a kid out and he/she catches fish for the first time makes my day.
many memorable trips for many species, but top of the list is Grandson was 6 or 8, he’s almost 22 now and we rode my mules into a high country lake that I’ve fished for nearly 50 years and this was his second trip in there. He caught a 4lb Brook trout on his first trip.
We caught and released well over 200 Cutthroat and Brook trout that day, only keeping four for lakeside lunch. I lost count after 39 times that we had fish on at the same time. Definitely memorable and likely never will duplicate it. Even we been back in there many times since. One things for sure, it helped solidify his future as a diehard fisherman.
And to add, he went to school the following Monday and one of his classmates mentioned that his family had been on a local lake in their boat the same day and fished all day and caught 6 and said they done real good.
he never breathed a word about his trip because one, he’s very humble and not the least boastful and as he’d be told “no one outside the family gets to hear about this lake”
When Riley told me this he said “ Grandpa, they just don’t know what good fishin is.”
Mule