Fishing

[WhiteAceofSPades]

Post your catch, or share techniques and recipes! Haven't been on the water myself this year but this hobby deserves a place here.

[Samsqwantch]

Bass- rooster tail.
Catfish- chicken liver.

[WhiteAceofSPades]

havent tried the rooster tail... yet. I usually use chicken hearts for cats but liver makes sense too since it stinks more.

[Samsqwantch]

Cats like the liver better because they like to play with their food a little when they scavange and the smell. They tend to lay on the bottom with their mouth open in a rock face on a river bend, if you're fishing a river. Liver is just more difficult to keep on a hook. You kind of have to thread it onto a single hook. Treble hooks tear the liver too much.

Rooster tail is the cheapest thing I've found for bass. Take any dark colored ones and paint them fluorescent so they can see it better. Never caught one with a dark lure.

[USMCvet]

Agree with the rooster tail for bass. Also use a Zara Spook for top water bass action, but usually when it's a little warmer outside.
Crappie tend to spawn in middle to late March/April in my former region, and I've slayed them using the cheapie plastic grubs and jigs from any outdoor store. The plastic kind you can buy for $4.00 in some mass produced kit, or the kind that comes in a kids "first fishing pole assortment."
Spend a lot of time in Arkansas and Wyoming, and when I do, I typically trout fish. In Arkansas I use power bait, and gold rooster tails, gets them every time. In Wyoming I was introduced to casting bubbles for the first time, and had moderate success using them and homemade flies.
In regards to catfish, using any sort of German cheese, mixed with calf/squirrel/rabbit brains, and soaked in liver blood and dipped onto a sponge after turned into a liquid and placed in a treble hook works wonders. Cut a sponge into a square a couple sizes bigger than a lump of sugar, put it on the treble hook, dip in cheese/brains/liver blood mixture, and tie a panty hose over it all. Drives them crazy.

[USMCvet]

This Zara Spook mimics a wounded bait, and I've always had good success with it. Had a couple nice largemouth out of the water strikes on them.

Any sort of spoon like this works well for trout, in the early season April/May/June. Especially in Northern Arkansas on the White River around Bull Shoals Lake. It again mimics a wounded bait, and the silver/gold spoons do really well mid morning if the sun is shining before it gets really hot outside.

[3rdRicht]

Lug worm for fishing at the rocks and harbour.

[Panzer_Moose]

Ah, fishin'... got my tag for the year but haven't been out yet. A good bait is (uncooked) shrimp. I'll cut off a chunk and use minimal weight, or none if i can. A touch of cod liver oil is an effective attractant! I'll have to get a new fly line sometime too for tasty white bass on a streamer fly, and yes, I tie my own. I use lures for pike mostly, although almost anything will hit a spinner!

[Hangman]

Little bream has a visitor in his head. Caught this one a month ago.

[WhiteAceofSPades]

Im going to try the sponge dip technique next time i go, that sounds great not to mention cost effective! This has me thinking that a trot line is feasible this year.

[USMCvet]

Yeah they panty hose helps keep the sponge in place, and they typically start to crumbled or fall apart. Good luck.

[UnCL3]

Forever Trout.
Usually drifting Power Eggs or night crawlers in streams. In lakes, depending on where I am, I'll use spinners or trout worms on a Carolina rig setup, or regular Power Bait for nigger fishing. Ultra Light spinning tackle (not a fly snob).
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I taught my wife how to trout fish in one trip to Mammoth Lakes in the Sierras when we first got married.
She's pretty good.
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[WhiteAceofSPades]

THose are beautiful trout, nice catch! I bet them were good eatin!

[UnCL3]

Best way to cook trout:

Season the cavity with butter, salt, pepper, and a pinch of granulated garlic (I like to also add orange slices, or my FAVORITE, pineapple rings).

Wrap in heavy duty aluminum foil, and seal it up like a burrito.

Place directly on to hot coals or wood fire. Don't cover.

Depending on size, cook each side 4-6 minutes.

Remove from coals, unwrap, and enjoy. The skin will stick to the foil, and after cutting the tail off with a fork, the bones will pull out cleanly.

[Panzer_Moose]

nigger fishing

...and what, pray tell, is that? The old red and white bobber staring technique with the three-hour-dead worm and an empty frying pan back at the shack?
Nice trout, btw!

[UnCL3]

...and what, pray tell, is that?

eh?
I usually set a small sliding sinker 12-18 inches below a small treble hook baited up with Power Bait, cast it out, put the rod in a holder, and wait for a strike...while sitting in a beach chair smoking and drinking beer.

Pretty lazy, hence "nigger fishing".