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Harry Potter on Ice posted:Very fishy is a great line It's a good term to describe a boat you can fish around 100% Stripers 200 Walk Around? Strangely enough not fishy. Nobodys gonna go on the bow to play a fish and not be worried about falling over. Get rid of the cuddy cabin and you got your self an open console fishing beast. But there's a boat for every person and every style so they all have a point to someone. Also still waiting for my invite to come check out your reef.
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LingcodKilla posted:Get rid of the cuddy cabin and you got your self an open console fishing beast. Cuddy cabins seems to be the ultimate junk storage spot. Seat cushions? Toss em down below. Extra fishing pole? Jam that fucker in there. Lunch? God no, it's so hot down there you could roast a chicken. For some reason on the Great Lakes a cabin cruiser style of boat is popular for anything over 18'. Which means 3/4 of the boat is useless and you've got 4 people bumping elbows in a tiny rear end transom area. Last time I fished on Puget Sound was on a North River and it was amazingly open.  vs.  My father had almost that exact Proline. The inside was too small to do anything with, the back was too small for more than 2 people, and you sat up too high. I don't understand why that North River style of boat (not sure the proper term) hasn't gotten more popular in freshwater.
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May 12, 2020 18:12
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Yooper posted:Cuddy cabins seems to be the ultimate junk storage spot. Seat cushions? Toss em down below. Extra fishing pole? Jam that fucker in there. Lunch? God no, it's so hot down there you could roast a chicken. Those North Rivers are hot.
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May 12, 2020 18:23
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Yooper posted:I'd like to hear more about this. Mostly it is the same problem you'll find in any manufacturing job (or the military), your expensive boat is being built by inept and disgruntled stoners who resent the fact that they will never be able to buy the boats they produce. They are loaded with features but cost as much as a modest McMansion or twice as much as a new RV. The most expensive hulls that I personally worked on had a sticker price of somewhere around $650,000. I'm not saying the product is bad, the boats I've seen are cool and good. However, I've bottomed out my boat and / or bumped the dock enough that if I had a fiberglass hull it would have needed multiple repairs by now and I've probably only had it out a dozen times in the last 2 years. Also, if you're a fan of worker's rights then the company I worked for is not good.
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May 13, 2020 01:19
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Going out Saturday to look at a few Lowe brand aluminum boats and I'm excited, $10k seems like a good buy in price for everything. Got a local place that has a crap ton of boats in stock. Looking at a Lowe 648 MV with a 25 hp outboard motor.
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May 13, 2020 03:07
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I went out for a couple hours last weekend in the aforementioned cold and got nothin; I'll type up something a little about where I was at when I have time, but in the meantime, poll: Does crappie rhyme with scrappy or poppy?
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May 13, 2020 03:29
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+1 for poppy
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May 13, 2020 08:44
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Poppy, but crappy is more fun to say.
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May 13, 2020 13:54
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I feel disingenuous saying croppy. It's Crappy. Gotta get me up another mess of white crappy
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May 13, 2020 14:20
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Weather's warming up so I'm hoping to get some catfishing in soon. Hard to find chicken livers at the moment though. I found a nice spot on the river a few years ago where you were guaranteed three or four between two and four pounds. Channel or blues, I didn't know how to tell the difference until recently. I took my brother there once and he caught a monster (for us anyway). We didn't have a scale, but it was a little over 36" and fat. If I can't find bait, I'm going to explore new locations this weekend because my current one is a lot of walking, rock hopping and a little swimming.
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May 13, 2020 18:11
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Have you tried a chunk of the cheapest hot dog you can find (for catfish bait)?
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May 13, 2020 18:23
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King of Bees posted:Have you tried a chunk of the cheapest hot dog you can find (for catfish bait)? I really hadn't considered it before for snobbish reasons. Which is weird because rummaging through my wife's drawers looking for old hose and cursing myself for failing to stain the livers with Kool-aid AGAIN are not A River Runs Through It material. I'll give them a go.
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May 13, 2020 18:33
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Custom hand tied hot dog flies
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May 13, 2020 18:45
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King of Bees posted:Custom hand tied hot dog flies I want to see this happen so badly.
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May 13, 2020 18:48
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King of Bees posted:Custom hand tied hot dog flies So good.
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:I want to see this happen so badly. Cut a doggy longways into strips and jam a chicken feather on it.
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May 13, 2020 19:08
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Rythe posted:^^^^^ So would I. Go find an old Carolina skiff j16 with at least a 25hp on the back for 4-5k. My buddy sold one last year with a 2016 yamaha 25hp for 4K. Basically the fiberglass version of a jon boat, super tough, drafts nothing, floats an insane amount of weight, it will pound on a chop but gotta compromise somewhere.
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May 13, 2020 22:43
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The used boat market out here is terrible, due to the location near the ocean it's big rear end boats. Very little in the used, light weight boats. We found a few brands new boats for $10k, I prefer used over new but if you can't find them...
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May 13, 2020 23:12
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Woodpile posted:Weather's warming up so I'm hoping to get some catfishing in soon. Hard to find chicken livers at the moment though. If you have access to bait shrimp (like legit fresh-frozen head-on shrimp, not the dried out grocery store poo poo), channel cats flip their poo poo over it. I pulled a 10lb blue out of the Tar River with a piece last December. Stays on the hook better than livers or hot dogs too. I buy mine at Academy Sports (who also have frozen livers and shad)
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May 14, 2020 05:25
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:If you have access to bait shrimp (like legit fresh-frozen head-on shrimp, not the dried out grocery store poo poo), channel cats flip their poo poo over it. I pulled a 10lb blue out of the Tar River with a piece last December. Stays on the hook better than livers or hot dogs too. I buy mine at Academy Sports (who also have frozen livers and shad) We use food grade prawns from the supermarket a lot. Absolute fish candy.
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May 14, 2020 05:49
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Struck out with the bespoke hotdog fly. Probably because I used goose instead of chicken feather. Also struck out with Rapala plugs and inline spinners. Wrong time of day and I got spooked from good spots because of the number of people out.
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May 15, 2020 20:18
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I hate fishing around other people when there isn't a plague happening, so that's bonus lovely.
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May 15, 2020 21:03
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the yeti posted:I went out for a couple hours last weekend in the aforementioned cold and got nothin; I'll type up something a little about where I was at when I have time, but in the meantime, poll: Okay so--the TLDR is: 37F and windy, I only lasted about an hour, and in that time I broke off a jig on some sunken garbage, drowned some hotdog bits and had a lot of trouble both casting where I wanted and figuring out anything like feel of the line with the wind going like it was. Oh well. There were other people out, I counted about 6 other angling popsicles. This is where I was at if anyone wants to have a look https://goo.gl/maps/WRRKbXjwCzuqSSnX7 I set out to check out the bottommost finger but it was shallow and full of snags on the side i was on so I moved aorund a bit til I got too cold For next trip I'm thinking based on the number of people I've seen on the lakeshore proper that I might be better off taking a look the two creeks that feed into the lake as well as the outflow. I could see from driving around there that the inlet creeks at least have a nice amount of water in them and a few pools. Or I call it an overpressured mess and find someplace not in the middle of an enormous public park 
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:I hate fishing around other people when there isn't a plague happening, so that's bonus lovely. I love fishing with / around other people unless they are catching fish and I am not
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I should maybe ask in the other thread but does anyone have any words about building a rod from mudhole? Thinking about doing a 6wt 4 piece fly rod or a lil semi light spinner kit
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titties posted:I love fishing with / around other people unless they are catching fish and I am not Fishing with friends and family is fantastic. Fishing on party boats is usually cool. Meeting people when fishing is often cool, too. Fishing from piers can make you some fishing buddies. I loving hate combat fishing, when everybody is shoulder to shoulder on a river and grumpy because there aren't enough salmon.
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Ghostnuke posted:Got the boat out for her maiden voyage this morning, it was a perfect day. Water was calm, not too cold. Fish were jumping all over the ramp. Take two this morning went slightly better. Something is still screwy electrically somewhere, the low voltage alarm goes off if I get my motor above 50%. I wonder if this battery is trash... I checked the weather and saw the winds were 12-15 which I knew was too much, but gently caress it I went anyway. Turned out I was right, it was pretty bad. I stayed out for about 45 minutes and then went back to the ramp and threw up a little, lol.
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TS Arthur was directly offshore yesterday evening so we went to the surf and threw some lines out until sunset. The surf was pounding but the bite was on. Got a.cooler full of blues and the biggest whiting I've ever caught. I honestly thought it was a smaller red fish for a second when it came out of the water. Went back this morning to walk the dogs and the storm waves have definitely passed. It looked like any other day. Also threw the crab traps out when we started fishing with some fresh dead and chopped up finger mullets. Picked them up a few hours later and they were empty with bait untouched. Oh well, still learning. It seems like they really prefer something a little stinkier so I'll save these carcasses today when I finally get motivated to fillet them.
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King of Bees posted:TS Arthur was directly offshore yesterday evening so we went to the surf and threw some lines out until sunset. The surf was pounding but the bite was on. Got a.cooler full of blues and the biggest whiting I've ever caught. I honestly thought it was a smaller red fish for a second when it came out of the water. Went back this morning to walk the dogs and the storm waves have definitely passed. It looked like any other day. It’s by species. Some crabs are active predators and will ignore truly rotten stuff for the snails. I always catch more with fresh raw chicken.
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May 17, 2020 18:15
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Local Publix usually has chicken backs pretty cheap so I'll try those next
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King of Bees posted:Local Publix usually has chicken backs pretty cheap so I'll try those next I like chicken legs because the bone holds the meat fairly well.
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Yesterday marks the third straight weekend of being fuckin skunked. Of course I had to use Killer Bee brined poo poo because Academy was suddenly and inexplicably sold out of every frozen bait except a single bag of chicken hearts, and worms ain't really appropriate for the bit of estuary I went to (which didn't stop the idiot who occupied "my" spot on the pier right as I got out of the car, and spent half an hour taking selfies while ignoring his line, forcing me to cast into the wind until he went away) So hooks and lines yielded nothing. But.... LingcodKilla posted:I like chicken legs because the bone holds the meat fairly well. I have yet to catch a crab in my crab trap. However I somehow caught this 1.6lb dumbshit yesterday  fat idiot was so busy chowing down on that drumstick he didn't even try to swim away
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Woodpile posted:Weather's warming up so I'm hoping to get some catfishing in soon. Hard to find chicken livers at the moment though. Best bait for catfish is almost always cut bait. If you are going the grocery store route, marinate cut chicken (I use gizzards and hearts but some people use breasts) with garlic and oil. Professional catfishers in my state (NC) swear by it. Livers are overrated. Too many small fish.
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Mulaney Power Move posted:Best bait for catfish is almost always cut bait. If you are going the grocery store route, marinate cut chicken (I use gizzards and hearts but some people use breasts) with garlic and oil. Professional catfishers in my state (NC) swear by it. Down east they swear by clam juice marinade for their chicken chunks. Minus a couple of fatties out of the Roanoke, it wasn't all that great for me.
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May 18, 2020 03:25
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On west cost people claim smashed clams work well for red rocks but I’ve never bothered to collect clams to try it out. Makes sense though, after barnacles clams are the next most popular food for them.
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May 18, 2020 07:35
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Can someone link the tackle making thread I just spent half a G at mudhole you know... to save money.. in the long run... 
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:Can someone link the tackle making thread I just spent half a G at mudhole you know... to save money.. in the long run... Oh hell yes. Tell us your plans.
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King of Bees posted:TS Arthur was directly offshore yesterday evening so we went to the surf and threw some lines out until sunset.
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This may be an impossibly broad question but what are folks doing when I see them reach up and manually strip line off the reel with bait in the water? Fiddling with line tension I assume but with what intent?
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