uncadonego on 11/8/2009 at 01:42
If she's willing to go fishing with you, she probably doesn't want to break up. I can't see a girl learning how to fish and spending that time with you if she wants to break up. Just my opinion. Glad she's got the hang of it at any rate.
Tocky on 11/8/2009 at 01:56
I was so into the fishing stories I held off making the joke Shug did, which could also be done with the second sentence. It's about like watching a fishing show. There I am not thinking about fishing and then I want to.
I'm not sure I can add much except that when you fish catfish with liver get a dozen treble hooks the night before and a ladies stocking. Sounds painfully kinky right? Cut the stocking in 2 inch squares or so. Place liver in middle and treble atop then pull the ends up to the hook eye and tie off with thread. put them back in the bloody container and you have an unstealable bait. You can catch a forty pound spoonbill at a spillway with it.
I've tried all sorts of bait on bass but I keep coming back to a black and yellow H&H. If no luck then a black worm. Still no luck a hula popper. They have to be at some depth afterall. For bluegill I use a chartruse or black beetle spin. Crappie like a minnow but I've seen them hit an H&H come twilight where the Yocona river meets Enid lake like crazy till the last rays die out.
As far as taste goes, a bluefin tuna steak seared with the middle still the color of a swollen cli... lip and that little rind of fat is heaven. I love the way Zekes at Orange beach does them. You can bring your catch in and they will put the sizzle on it. Just can't get any fresher.
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One last advice- never take two women in an aluminum skiff under a bridge to fish. When a moccasin decides to mosey over they take to screaming and standing on the highest points rocking shit like crazy till you point out it's better not to be in the lake with it and then just take a paddle and nudge it away.
uncadonego on 11/8/2009 at 02:14
Man I just love barbequed tuna. It is so good. I agree with you unquestionably that catching fish and cooking it right after coming in and cleaning it is the best. Doesn't get any better.
I've never used a girlie stocking (sounds like making a roe sack), but a strip of liver all the way up the shank and past the knot is pretty hard for a cat to steal.
Hey, I've never tried canned corn soaked in vanilla extract for cats and carp. Anybody ever try it? I'm going to give it a shot for the quarter it's going to cost, why not. Read about it last week.
My buddy went fishing off LaSalle in the Detroit River and caught muskie, walleye, smallmouth, largemouth, and perch. Species crazy. Threw them all back though. He's used to the smell of Erie fish, not the river.
Tocky on 11/8/2009 at 02:25
Unsweetened vanilla is nasty enough for certain. You aint using beef livers are you? Chicken is best but fragile and damned if they don't know it has been left in the sun to toughen up and won't bite it.
Never tried barbeque tuna. Zekes uses the same herbs they do on thier carribean shrimp which is also delicious but I haven't figured just what they are yet. I don't live close enough to the ocean for it to matter much.
gunsmoke on 11/8/2009 at 11:40
Any tips on catching Gar? Jesus, they are around here, but no one can catch one. The ONLY time I have even seen one caught, it was just a baby.
Tocky on 11/8/2009 at 12:10
Why would anyone want to catch a gar? Best I can tell you is go to some lower lake of a reservior where they have overrun everything worth catching like Sardis. You must remember my story about the boatsize gar that slowly rose, looked at me, and then with a bending snap of it's jaws bit my line into and simultaneously spit a jet of water in my eye as if it meant to do just that. Do you want to stick your finger near that? Nevermind. The snapper was worse. Better tasting too I hear. Can you even eat a gar?
D'Juhn Keep on 11/8/2009 at 15:40
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2 girls, one carp
Superb
Turtle on 11/8/2009 at 16:06
I just wish someone would change this thread title so I'm not constantly reminded of the Bosnians that used to live down the hall from us, and what came to be known as 'Stank-ass Sunday'.
uncadonego on 11/8/2009 at 16:46
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Any tips on catching Gar? Jesus, they are around here, but no one can catch one. The ONLY time I have even seen one caught, it was just a baby.
Get a baitfish trap and leave it overnight so you know what the gar are eating. Use treble hooks to give yourself a better chance of hooking it, and be patient and let it swallow the bait and move around with it. Let it drop right in front of them and w...a....i.....t..... for them to really swallow it, then take up the slack and set it hard. They are hard to catch because you do the opposite of what you do with so many other fish. Slack? What? Try that with a steelhead. Ha! So just be patient. They inhale whatever is around them, but most fishermen just end up pulling the bait right out of their mouth!
EDIT: Just did a search and some guys say they catch them with a nylon rope rig? Just fray the end of nylon rope skewered through the bait. There's some rigging to it, but I didn't see any pics. Anyway, they say the gar can't get his teeth unstuck from the nylon, don't even need hooks! Huh. Never heard of that one. Bowhunting them I've heard of.....but lassoeing them? Fishing is weird. If it's in the water, somebody will find a way to pull it out!
