The fishing thread ( not about fish fertilizer)

[Aeroknow]

@Jigg

Yep we get the skinny long ones too. Sca...something I forget now. They're fucking nuts! Nice orange egg too

the way i look at it is this.

down here, our rivers are a put and take system for salmon nowadays because of all the Dams. No more coho, just chinook now(sacramento river and its tributaries) the hatcheries around here also have to make bows and help with the steelhead stock to be released.
The hatcheries do their best to only use wild kings for stock to be released.
They reproduce bows seperately, mostly, from steelhead broodstock. The bows are released into the lakes. Sometimes triploid.

if you’ve ever seen the “bows” that they’ll stock here that are from steelhead stock, you would know what i’m saying. They are way more stout than the regular stockers they throw in lakes.

 

[Unga Bunga]

With stocked fish it didn’t matter to me as they went home . Circle hooks are the way for releasing no doubt but it took me awhile to stop setting the hook and just reel down on fish. Little different than my usual bass eyecrosser set lol

It's a learning experience for sure . I use them for almost everything now . Love them for sea bass , they hook thes

 

[PadawanWarrior]

It's a learning experience for sure . I use them for almost everything now . Love them for sea bass , they hook thes

Seabass and all the bottom fish in the ocean are bomb. That's my favorite fish. Walleye is the closest thing in fresh water.

We'd go on Charter Boats for both Salmon and Bottom Fish. But I've always loved bottom fishing better. Back in the days it was $25 and we'd all fish until everyone caught their limit. Same with Salmon, but your Kings and any Lingcod you caught were your own. Salmon fishing was $50.

It was a blast for me. I was catching mine and eveyone else's fish until we got the limit for the boat, lol.

You guys close to the ocean are lucky,

 

[StonedGardener]

I love fishing but as luck would have it I've just replaced my phone and 2/3 years of fishing photos are in it, I forgot to charge it, when I plugged it in it wouldn't/didn't take a charge
I'm absolutely sick about losing them.

I do a lot of brown trout, sea trout and salmon fishing, sea trout fishing through the night is truly magical idk what the X factor is but it's really special, I hate to see daylight creeping over the horizon lol.

So true..." Dread the milky coming of the day . ".......out on the water at night is a rush !

 

[PadawanWarrior]

So true..." Dread the milky coming of the day . ".......out on the water at night is a rush !

Ice fishing's fun as hell too at night. With a big sack of weed and some beers in a shack with a heater,

 

[ANC]

I still get disappointed every time I read the title to the thread without my glasses and have to remind myself this is not the fisting thread.

 

[Jjgrow420]

Lol just realized a 'silver Salmon' is a coho. We don't call it that. Just more nicknames. Ya we have coho. No those weren't coho I posted.

 

[bam0813]

We dont have a salmon program anymore unfortunately. They used to stock Atlantic broodstock but hatcheries are only trout now
Not big by mosts standards think one went 10 ish
But was good here and a blast through the ice

 

[bam0813]

Wow getting old , the baby in pic is heading for 22 yrs old

 

[Jjgrow420]

Wow getting old , the baby in pic is heading for 22 yrs old

Ya man. Looking through photos finding pics of friends kids fishing with us when they were just little. Too funny

 

[PioneerValleyOG]

Trout, bottom one is a Tiger Trout. Shad are running Here in Mass. CT. River.

 

[fishwhistle1]

Time definitely flies. The little guy in the picture just turned 18 the other day. And catching steelhead is easy there’s nothing to it. It’s just like catching fish off the dock when your a kid. We used to call them bobbers but now that we spend big money on our set ups we call them floats

 

[Jjgrow420]

Time definitely flies. The little guy in the picture just turned 18 the other day. And catching steelhead is easy there’s nothing to it. It’s just like catching fish off the dock when your a kid. We used to call them bobbers but now that we spend big money on our set ups we call them floatsView attachment 5124956

Pad will call that a silver salmon.
Nice creek run bow

 

[fishwhistle1]

Pad will call that a silver salmon.
Nice creek run bow

That bright pink cheek tells you everything you need to know

 

[Jjgrow420]

That bright pink cheek tells you everything you need to know

They always blush when they see me

 

[bam0813]

@PioneerValleyOG i used to love catching the shad run down in the hadley area but I was there again a few back and it was definitely not the run it used to be. Has it come back any?

 

[PioneerValleyOG]

@PioneerValleyOG i used to love catching the shad run down in the hadley area but I was there again a few back and it was definitely not the run it used to be. Has it come back any?

To be truthful, I only started a few years ago, so I don't remember back when. I fish the Turners Falls Rock Dam, and with a pink [ best ] or chartreuse shad dart, can pull a fish up every two ta five mins.

 

[bam0813]

Hmm sounds about right. We used to fish just under the dam in hadley was even a lady that used to have a van filled with darts and weights etc right there caused we’d lose darts at an even higher rate lol. Maybe ill take a spin down that way again sometime thx

 

[bam0813]

I also agree with your color choices. White with red front was always a killer too

 

[Star Dog]

I don't catch many big fish my biggest Atlantic salmon is only 12lb I catch a lot between 5 and 8lb mabay a bit more but they're all caught with light gear it's either a 9ft 5/20g cw Wychwood truespin with a selection of rapalas or a 9.6 loop multi 6# and a selection of silver stoats tails...


The one above was the 1st salmon I landed unfortunately its not a great specimen but its a fish...
The tug is the drug!