Quote from: kit saginaw on May 30, 2014, 04:49:08 AM
They're called a 'rig'... a proper-noun.. It's one of those words that are a verb and a noun.  I've never had an abundance of luck, using one.  I may attach one now-and-then if the fish aren't biting and nothing's happening, just to change the mood of the moment. 

I've had better luck in a rowboat, saltwater-fishing, than surf...  In a boat, I'm better at focusing my attention on my line.

Dynamite, the bored fishermans friend....

Quote from: Solar on May 30, 2014, 05:26:48 PM
Dynamite, the bored fishermans friend....

First I'll try jumpin' in, gabbing 'em, and puttin' them on the hook. 

Quote from: Solar on May 30, 2014, 05:26:48 PM
Dynamite, the bored fishermans friend....

As kids we used M80's when mom wanted to have fish for dinner. 

Quote from: walkstall on May 31, 2014, 03:00:25 PM
As kids we used M80's when mom wanted to have fish for dinner. 

Same here, though my grand pa showed me how much better dynamite worked.
And to think, he actually bought it over the counter back in his day.

Now they don't trust us with strike anywhere matches.

Quote from: walkstall on May 31, 2014, 03:00:25 PM
As kids we used M80's when mom wanted to have fish for dinner. 

Those things were only good for stunning bloated-and-too-ponderous-to-be-tasty carp and catfish.

Quote from: kit saginaw on May 31, 2014, 03:39:03 PM
Those things were only good for stunning bloated-and-too-ponderous-to-be-tasty carp and catfish.

  Don't tell the Trout and Salmon.

Quote from: kit saginaw on May 31, 2014, 03:39:03 PM
Those things were only good for stunning bloated-and-too-ponderous-to-be-tasty carp and catfish.

Come to think of it, that's all we used to see, that and perch floating.

Watch-out for those occasional  fizz-flare 'short'-fuses.  It's like laying your hand a board; palm-up... then whapping it with a paddle. 

Any Coastal Marylanders/Virginians here out there?

Quote from: JTA on May 30, 2014, 02:57:28 PM
You got a picture you can post? What kind of fish do you usually fish for? Got any fishing pics?

We'd fish mainly for weakfish, flounder and striped bass. Usually we'd use some sort of rig like Kit said, then attach a hunk of squid and crab on it for bait. It seems like the best rigs for flounder and weakfish were the green fluke rigs you could buy at almost any shop that had a green "furry" skirt thing over the hook.  Others usually had a shiny spinner thing with some beads, multiple hooks. Just generic rigs I guess.

For perch we'd catch some grass shrimp, stick one on the hook and usually you'd have one in no time at all. You could catch some beast catfish with the same thing if you knew where to go.

Man I've barely even been fishing yet this year what the hell is wrong with me? I'm jonesin' for a fishing trip. Freshwater fishing kind of sucks around here unless you live near a bigger lake or know people who own a farm, which lucky for me I've got several friends with farm ponds. Almost feels like cheating when you pull 20+ good size bass in one fishing trip... or maybe I'm just that damn good 

I got many pictures, but none that I want to share on an open forum lol maybe if we had a closed thread for conservatives only, but I don't trust the lurkers.

Fresh water fishing is relaxing but I never get as many fish, and you don't have the option to put out lobster and crab traps. If I thought war was imminent I would definitely settle down near the ocean instead of the mountains just for the easier food options.

Quote from: Mountainshield on June 12, 2014, 08:13:53 AM
I got many pictures, but none that I want to share on an open forum lol maybe if we had a closed thread for conservatives only, but I don't trust the lurkers.

Fresh water fishing is relaxing but I never get as many fish, and you don't have the option to put out lobster and crab traps. If I thought war was imminent I would definitely settle down near the ocean instead of the mountains just for the easier food options.

What kind of crabs? I used to be an avid crabber back in the day. Piece of chicken + kite string + piece of pipe or whatever you have lying around that's heavy, drop it in the water, wait, pull it up slowly and scoop up your supper.

Each type of fishing has it's perks I suppose. The town I grew up in was on the coast so we had a little bit of both, mostly partook in salt-water though. Unfortunately now I live about 3 hours from the coast so I don't do as much of that as I used to.

I did catch a beast (for me anyway) of a bass this past weekend that I'm mighty proud of. No luck was involved in this catch. It was pure skill  .

Quote from: JTA on June 12, 2014, 03:56:55 PM
What kind of crabs? I used to be an avid crabber back in the day. Piece of chicken + kite string + piece of pipe or whatever you have lying around that's heavy, drop it in the water, wait, pull it up slowly and scoop up your supper.

Each type of fishing has it's perks I suppose. The town I grew up in was on the coast so we had a little bit of both, mostly partook in salt-water though. Unfortunately now I live about 3 hours from the coast so I don't do as much of that as I used to.

I did catch a beast (for me anyway) of a bass this past weekend that I'm mighty proud of. No luck was involved in this catch. It was pure skill  .

Nice, bass is havabbor in norwegian, shamed to say I have never catched one, are they tasty?
Hehe never used that technique to trap crabs nice alternative but what depth do you lower it too?
I usually tie a dead small or medium pollock (not sure if this is the real english name for the fish) inside a "krabbeteine" google translate translates it as "scrambled cue"  Anyway it looks like this


This is for catching "taskekrabbe" or "Cancer pagurus". I don't like crab myself, but my wife and grandmother loves it. I'm always hoping for a lobster, but that has only happened 3 times in my life so far 

Quote from: Mountainshield on June 13, 2014, 02:15:16 AM
Nice, bass is havabbor in norwegian, shamed to say I have never catched one, are they tasty?
Hehe never used that technique to trap crabs nice alternative but what depth do you lower it too?
I usually tie a dead small or medium pollock (not sure if this is the real english name for the fish) inside a "krabbeteine" google translate translates it as "scrambled cue"  Anyway it looks like this


This is for catching "taskekrabbe" or "Cancer pagurus". I don't like crab myself, but my wife and grandmother loves it. I'm always hoping for a lobster, but that has only happened 3 times in my life so far 

Cool!

I don't usually eat the bass I catch. I grew up in the North East and it's generally advised to not eat the freshwater fish where I lived. I'm in SC now, and I've eaten bass a couple times. I normally release them but if they swallow the hook and die I take them home and eat them so they don't go to waste. The taste is ok. The stuff I buy in the grocery store tasted better.

I do however eat fish I catch out of the ocean. One type of fish was a striped bass which can grow to be pretty large. We'd eat those. They tasted alright. Usually though we'd catch flounder or weakfish and cook them up right when we got home. I've never had a great taste for fish, they normally taste mostly the same to me. Maybe it's the way I cook them.

When we'd crab we'd usually do so off of banks or in a boat in a boat. The water we'd crab in wouldn't be too deep.I'd say max about 10 feet or so. We had a lot of salt marsh where I grew up, so we'd take boats in the small creeks that snaked their way through the marsh. The commercial crabbers had big metal traps sort of like yours that you'd leave out for a while and collect later they would drop out in more open water. I think you needed a license to have those though, so we always used hand lines, nets, or small metal traps that would close up when you pulled them up, but I always preferred handlines. Seems like we always got more crabs that way. The best bait from my experience was chicken necks and other chicken parts. Some people would use bunker, but chicken is where it's at. The ones we would catch were blue crabs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callinectes_sapidus which I must say taste 100 times better than those shitty snow crabs and king crabs everyone goes crazy over.

I can cook those m*f*rs up like no one else. Not even gonna be humble about it. People usually eat blue crabs "Maryland style" which is totally wrong and nasty. You need to clean those sumbitches before you cook them up. Way tastier this way.

How do you cook those crabs you catch?

Quote from: walkstall on May 30, 2014, 03:23:25 PM
For us that don't know what weakfish look like.  I have not heard that term used before.

Here's a new one for you (maybe). Caught a bunch of these guys last week in surf fishing the Delaware Bay:

Croaker:


A few of these (Kingfish):



and some of these ugly guys (Toadfish):



Blood worms and grass shrimp are where it's at. 2oz sinker pyramid sinker, small to medium hook, blood-worm and or grass shrimp.




Bliss.

Mountainshield, Hooked any Midgard serpents up there in the Nordland?

Quote from: JTA on July 15, 2014, 04:03:37 PM
Mountainshield, Hooked any Midgard serpents up there in the Nordland?

hehe nope but I have been chased by killerwhales, you just reminded me of a very nice and family friendly comic about norse mythology I used to read as a kid, have to buy these again.