What’s up ladies and gentlemen? I have 2 boys and a daughter that love fishing. For the past few years they would always go with their aunts, uncles, cousins and friends while I would stay home because it wasn’t my thing. Well, this past summer I finally gave in and decided to give it a try. It was another activity I could do with my kids and family so that already made it worth it. After a few times out I was hooked. We mainly fish for bass but we’ll catch anything. Catch and release all day, rarely do we keep anything to eat. I know there has to be people in here who like fishing so lets here about it.
Things I would like to hear about-
What set up do you use? What rod, reel and line do you use?
What are your go to lures?
Do you fish from the shore or have access to a boat?
Biggest catch
Favorite brands and least favorite
Pretty much anything fishing related
I’m still new to the fishing game and have a lot to learn. Thanks for your time and can’t wait to hear about your fishing experiences.
One question, will this also be able to include funny stories that occurred on fishing trips not directly related to fishing? Had I known this thread was gonna pop up I would’ve recorded my family’s stories told over Christmas to transcribe.
I used to go fishing as a kid with my dad and brother. There was this little lake buy our house and we always caught something. I will say though, I never liked taking the hooks out of the fish. As a kid I guess, I was paranoid about causing the fish needless pain. Haven’t gone fishing in over ten years…
I’m going to preface this post that I am not a fisher. But I have a handful of stories.
My cousins are big fishers and our family had always had a cabin near a lake. My sisters loved fishing with our cousin ‘B’. Just off our dock for little blue gill, nothing major. You could get carp and bass (I think) in that lake too but my sisters were content putting a wad of bread on a hook and dropping it right in the water. My sisters were little at the time so the older one at the time was using a mickey mouse fishing rod, like 3.5 feet long this thing is handle included. My sisters never liked to take the fish off the hook after they caught them. So one day the older sister caught a blue gill while the younger one was having B take the fish she had just caught off the hook… Meanwhile this poor trapped-on-a-line blue gill gets Jaws’d by a muskellunge and now my (probably 6 year old sister) has this semi-rare fish on her line that is essentially the same length as her pole. B damn near drops the rod hes fiddling with and walks the muskie up the dock until he can grab it. My sister got featured in the newspaper. B was holding her in one arm and the fish in the other and my sister was just barely bigger than it. I’m pretty sure they quit swimming in the lake for a couple of years. *Funny note my sisters both graduated high school where their mascot was a muskie.
Went deep sea fishing last summer with some extended family. I won the first fish caught, heaviest and most fish caught bet. Which pissed my younger sisters bf off because he is a fisherman. None of this was the memorable shit that happened to me on that outing. We went over some train graveyard, I think a bunch of old rail cars were put on the ocean floor to simulate a reef. So I snag something SUPER heavy, I was jacked. This fuckin thing was fighting back like crazy. I am not a fisher. The captain came over and started yelling at me to keep reeling. Which I’m doing. Cranking that motherfucker. This shitdick kept yelling at me, fucknut was ignoring me in favor of all the lady guests on his boat until Exodus. has himself a seamonster. “REEL. KEEP REELING!!”. I am not a strong guy, about 180 pounds so I’m not fat but I haven’t kept myself in very good shape since high school (shouts out to new years resolutions am I right guys?!?). I’m yelling back like, “I AM REELING!! DAMMIT!”. Look into the water, oh shit I see something…
So that happened. Totally furious. Arms are sore, but I was like fuck it: its a beautiful day, I’ve got some shitty light beer and tomorrow I’m gonna rest my arm on the beach. So I cast back out… I went with a streak of disappointing efforts. Maybe I got a fish or two in between w/e nothing to speak about… Then. Feel a tug… Ohhh shit another biggie. But I just got burned so I was weary this time. Same shit with Captain Shit Sparrow telling me to reel. I didn’t want to quit because I just read Old Man and the Sea like 2 months before so I was like fuck it this is my marlin. Nah brah, 2 foot by 2 foot piece of sheet metal.
I’ve got another one about going out with coworkers and falling asleep. I worked at a bar so we didn’t go until after closing, like 2 am. I was asleep while my friends were fishing. They woke me up to have me reel in some catfish. They thought it was funny, but since I was unconscious for most of it I think the other two stories are better.
I go deep sea fishing with my pops on a yearly basis. We usually take a charter boat of Newport Beach or Long Beach, CA and fish in either local waters of at Catalina Island.
In local areas I’ve caught bass, barracuda and bonito. I have caught yellowfin tuna and mahi mahi while fishing a little closer to the Mexican border as well as a chinook salmon while fishing in Alaska.
I regret not going out hunting/fishing at least once with my non-biological grandpa before he suddenly passed. Then again I was like 5 years old distracted by vider gamez and didn’t understand real life loss of life before that…
Damn, this was the last place I ever expected to trade fishing stories…
I’m an avid fisherman, have been since childhood. Mostly largemouth bass, but a little catfish, panfish, and inshore saltwater mixed in. Sadly my rods collect dust right now because the town I live in doesn’t have much accessible water. Imma go off in this thread tomorrow, I’ve got a couple good stories to share.
I used to fish a whole lot at this retention pond behind my house when I was in elementary school and I’ve still only caught a fish like twice ever in my life
Been working on itemization recently. Map is finishing up. Need to get with you on races and classes. Then a magic system and that’s about it.
Fishing game could be fun. I have some rules for game hunting, but I need to find them again on the internet. The copy I have is printed out, and I ain’t scanning it.
Round here there is a pond in the middle of a golf course where sneaky dudes go to fish (maybe its more accurately poaching?) cause of the ease of it. Anyways me and my buddy went to this pond when we were lil kids intent of getting a fish for dinner and all that stupid kid bullshit and this turned into one of my most favorite childhood memories. We chipped in for one of those cheap ass rods, we had crappy fly bait and it took us like an hr to get set up cause we had no idea what we were doing. Anyways my friend steps up for the first cast and boom. Some old nigga sniped him in the back of the head with a golf ball lol. My buddy falls down the embankment ass first into the pond and I start screaming like a lil bitch cause I think the old dudes are comming to beat our ass. Had to jump in the water and drag my buddy out then carry his ass half way across the 12th tee until he came too, all crying n shit. Then we leg it. Never saw the rod again but it was garbage, we didnt go back fishing again either.
So far top water fishing is my favorite. Right now my main set up is a Cabela’s Tournament ZX casting “frog rod” with an Abu Garcia Revo Rocket and 30 lb power pro braid. I have a cheap Diawa spinning rod and reel combo I use for crank baits. Looking to pick up a few more rod and reel setups for this up coming summer.
Looking for a shallow crank set up. What would you recommend? 15-20 feet would probably be the deepest. Looking at a Lews BB1 pro casting reel, anyone have any experience with these?
And the cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little Boy Blue and the man in the moon
When you coming home, dad?
I don’t know when
But we’ll get together then
You know we’ll have a good time then
