Fishing Thread

[ledhedsymbols]

If you want to try it without a whole bunch of money or time invested in equipment. Cabela's has a number of kits covering all types of rods. Pretty much everything is included. I've never built one myself but methinks I should try sometime.

Mike- Are those walleye?

Micah

[JeremyD]

Originally posted by Eric Pickering
Anyone every build a rod? Tying flies has never really appealed to me (I enjoy going and buying them like a kid in a candy shop too much) but building a rod would be great. I met this salty old retired police officer who builds rods once. His basement was a labrynth of crap but he had his "shop" down there and had some amazing rods that he built (quite cheaply I might add). They were beautiful, wonderfully balanced, just perfect.

Bass Pro Shops and cabelas both have rod buidling catalogs - can;t tell you how many guides I have replaced over the years.

Here's my son and his first redfish (from our dock)



Running to the fishing grounds at sunrise


I have more pictures somewhere -

[charleskieffner]

bugs![img] sorry about the other 2 pics. thats the way they were scanned. top is rod halls dodge coming by our pit after we broke. 2nd pic is ME, over the mint 400 race course. back then(in the old days) this is how we made sure our pits were secure from spectator hassles on race day. we never pitted where there were people. smooth ingress/smooth egress. bottom is one night dives haul of bugs, south of ensenada a few 100 klicks in the middle of nowhere!http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads9/chucks+life+1+0741161434807.jpg[/img]

[billyboy]

The commercial fisherman devastated the stock

Typical BS from uniformed sporties. How about destroyed habitat such as dams on rivers, water flows diverted for farms in arid lands, logging destruction of streams causing silting. Sewage, industrial chemicals, and agricultural runoff. What about exploding populations of marine mammals? Parasitic sea lice from fish farms (aquaculture)? Everyting is not as though it appears at first glance or through the eyes of those who have agendas.

[Carrera3.5L]

sorry, couldn't help it...dinner last night...




Ralph

[targa911S]

In Florida we used to call that bait!

[targa911S]

Nice red Jeremy ..too bad he ain't proud or nothing.

[POPS]

I got this big boy last time I was in the Florida Keys ....John

[wcc]

Me and my son. His first time fishing....

We used the same fishing pole I used as a kid. I had it all this time and we took it apart, lubed it all up, and put on new line. That little fish was a big fighter for him!

[Carrera3.5L]

That is completely awesome!...

I still have my old rods/reels from when I was young, and my son (he's 7) is catching fish with them as well. His first time (when he was 4) he caught a 2.5 lb. rainbow (amongst others), and I loosened the drag so the fish could strip line (and my son wouldn't break him off) and he was reeling as fast as he could (nothing was happening on his end) while the fish was going the other direction and peeling line from the reel. I gradually tightened the drag (my son just kept reeling the whole time non-stop like a robot) and after 10 minutes the poor rainbow came in the last 20 yards on its side, completely spent! I'm glad we kept that one, as it would have taken some time to properly revive him for release...

Ralph

[nostatic]

The Calvinator's first time fishing, this past August at Big Bear Lake:

[BillyIdaho]

S.F. Boise river last month. Going again tomorrow!

[widgeon13]

[JeremyD]

I found a few

Trevor with a sheepshead

This red was yummy! need to catch another!