I catch 'em when I go ....

[Edisto_Tiger]

What do you use? Worms? Jigs?

Jigs, this time. After about March the bait stores quit carrying minnows.

 

[beardown07]

17 days until I go on a 5 day, 4 night float trip. 60 miles in the middle of Montana back-country.

Spoiler

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

Got a couple more this morning

 

[Bridgeburner]

Finally got something to post here. Went bank fishing over the weekend, caught a pretty nice smallmouth out of the Huron River:

Caught it on a 5'' Senko, about 5 feet from the shore; felt like I was snagged on something. Great fighter. Also caught a few 1.5 pound largies but not worth a picture.

White dudes in black face isn't cool anymore man. Just sayin...

Seriously though. Nice fish!

 

[beardown07]

Ok, got home Tuesday nite. Trip was amazing. I want to go back. After 5 days in the wilderness, completely detached from civilization...coming back to all this was a bit depressing , to say the least.

Fishing was tough. Water was chocolate milk and raging. We caught some, including one lunker brown, but I don't have everyone's pics yet. Here's some of what I have...

 

[Bridgeburner]

My family has been ruining my kayak fishing this year so far.

Added four more kayaks because the wife thought it would be great to get the whole family on the water. Fishing with six total kayaks... I've been chasing kids and watching rapids and hazards... ugh.

Going Saturday early though. Just me and the boy. 8.5 miles on the Kiski.

 

[Bridgeburner]

Ok, got home Tuesday nite. Trip was amazing. I want to go back. After 5 days in the wilderness, completely detached from civilization...coming back to all this was a bit depressing , to say the least.

Fishing was tough. Water was chocolate milk and raging. We caught some, including one lunker brown, but I don't have everyone's pics yet. Here's some of what I have...

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I wanna be you.

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

Ok, got home Tuesday nite. Trip was amazing. I want to go back. After 5 days in the wilderness, completely detached from civilization...coming back to all this was a bit depressing , to say the least.

Fishing was tough. Water was chocolate milk and raging. We caught some, including one lunker brown, but I don't have everyone's pics yet. Here's some of what I have...

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Nice! Just bought my first tent; Coleman elite weathermaster 6. Going to try and get my family into camping. I haven't been true camping (outside a rustic cabin) since I was in HS. I want to get them out to a spot just like your pics. I'm thinking of taking them up to the UP to pictured rocks this summer, there's a nice river you can stay on right where it connects to lake superior in the national park. And if they like it, I'm planning on going full rustic. For like $5 you can just go camp on some boat-in spots up in northern Michigan.

 

[beardown07]

Nice! Just bought my first tent; Coleman elite weathermaster 6. Going to try and get my family into camping. I haven't been true camping (outside a rustic cabin) since I was in HS. I want to get them out to a spot just like your pics. I'm thinking of taking them up to the UP to pictured rocks this summer, there's a nice river you can stay on right where it connects to lake superior in the national park. And if they like it, I'm planning on going full rustic. For like $5 you can just go camp on some boat-in spots up in northern Michigan.

Nice. Good for you.

This was a 60 mile stretch, with one put-in and one takeout. You are committed once on it. I left the kids and wife behind, and I'm kinda glad I did. Being a Spring float (which is kinda necessary, as once the water drops, it would be very difficult to float, especially needing gear/weight, and that it would take twice as long), but being that it's in Spring in Central Montana, the weather is violently erratic. It went from pushing 80 to pushing 50 in less than 24 hours. Saturday nite, it freaking POURED for like 4 hours, and was windy as hell.. Last nite there, it dipped into the high 30's and was pissing rain, and then it rained the last day out and was windy and cold.

Canyon was stunning tho.

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

Nice. Good for you.

This was a 60 mile stretch, with one put-in and one takeout. You are committed once on it. I left the kids and wife behind, and I'm kinda glad I did. Being a Spring float (which is kinda necessary, as once the water drops, it would be very difficult to float, especially needing gear/weight, and that it would take twice as long), but being that it's in Spring in Central Montana, the weather is violently erratic. It went from pushing 80 to pushing 50 in less than 24 hours. Saturday nite, it freaking POURED for like 4 hours, and was windy as hell.. Last nite there, it dipped into the high 30's and was pissing rain, and then it rained the last day out and was windy and cold.

Canyon was stunning tho.

I'm thinking of watching the weather this summer and picking a weekend with little threat of bad weather. Trying to make it as close to glamping as possible while also trying to find some rustic spots to put it up.

 

[FaCe-LeE-uS]

Went out fishin for Cats this past weekend... We caught about 10 in all. Most were around 5-8 lbs channel cats. Granted I was using this crusty old spring-loaded weight scale that is probably garbage in terms of accuracy lol.

 

[Bridgeburner]

Went out fishin for Cats this past weekend... We caught about 10 in all. Most were around 5-8 lbs channel cats. Granted I was using this crusty old spring-loaded weight scale that is probably garbage in terms of accuracy lol.

Catfish creak me out man. I don't know what it is. yes I do. It's the whiskers. They creep me out. I catch a catfish I'm just shooting it haha.

 

[Bridgeburner]

So Saturday. Went out with my buddy and our sons. Just the four of us. Hit the water around 5:30AM. Planned on an 8.5 mile trip but we took so long on the first leg that we cut it short at 4 miles.

We all got skunked. I thought I had a good plan. Figured I knew where to find them during the spawn. I saw 4 fish the entire trip. And that's LOW. Water is crystal clear so I can see 20 feet in every direction. And the yaks usually don't spook the fish if you're careful. I don't know where they all went. Everywhere I thought they'd be and everywhere in between is exactly where they weren't.

Fuck me. That sucked.

 

[beardown07]

Catfish creak me out man. I don't know what it is. yes I do. It's the whiskers. They creep me out. I catch a catfish I'm just shooting it haha.

We used to let noobs just grab em en shit, and not tell about their fins.

Shit fucking hurts.


Man, I was a dick. lulz

 

[Bridgeburner]

Largemouth in lakes are easy for me. I can put together a plan and find them. Every time it seems. River systems... they aren't kidding when they say a man never steps into the same river twice. It's a different ballgame. Feast or famine.

I'm gonna learn it though.

 

[Bridgeburner]

We used to let noobs just grab em en shit, and not tell about their fins.

Shit fucking hurts.


Man, I was a dick. lulz

Hahaha. I can't remember ever taking one off the hook. I'm sure I have but I don't really know how to do it. I should YouTube that shit. There's catfish everywhere I fish. Last thing I need is to explain to the wife why I shot a hole in my boat...

 

[beardown07]

Hahaha. I can't remember ever taking one off the hook. I'm sure I have but I don't really know how to do it. I should YouTube that shit. There's catfish everywhere I fish. Last thing I need is to explain to the wife why I shot a hole in my boat...

Their dorsal and pectoral fins will sting the fuck out of ya.

Grab from the top, with the palm of yer hand in front of the dorsal fin, but your fingers behind the pectoral fins.

Fuckers hurt when they get ya.

 

[FaCe-LeE-uS]

Catfish creak me out man. I don't know what it is. yes I do. It's the whiskers. They creep me out. I catch a catfish I'm just shooting it haha.

It's the fin spines that freak me out. Hard to keep those bastards from wounding you if you aren't careful. I'm always afraid that I'm going to get barbed & get some sort of infection because of it.

 

[FaCe-LeE-uS]

Their dorsal and pectoral fins will sting the fuck out of ya.

Grab from the top, with the palm of yer hand in front of the dorsal fin, but your fingers behind the pectoral fins.

Fuckers hurt when they get ya.

The big ones don't move as fast and are easier to handle. The smaller, squirrely bastards are the ones that scare me the most. Won't stop flippin around when you're trying to get your hook out.

 

[FaCe-LeE-uS]

Horror story from 10-12 years ago... A buddy of mine was too afraid to grab the catfish but had it raised up off the ground with the pole. Barb let go of the fish as it was floppin around in the air and the fish landed on his foot. He was wearing flip flops... Barb lodged itself right into 1 of his toes...

That wasn't even the worst part...

The barb snapped off the fin into his foot. Had to get it removed by a doctor.

Makes my stomach churn just thinking about it.