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We live and work near the Susquehanna River and have Penns Creek to the rear of the shop, we have a small jon boat and get out whenever we can. Great small mouth and walleye fishing. Love the trout fishing too. A few streams not far from home and sometimes along the way to or from a job site. When we lived on the west coast striper fishing on the Sacramento River was where I was more often than not. My son and his buddies are planning a pike trip to Canada this spring.
Dave
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Ice fishin fer perch right now.Perch from ice cold water are some of the tastiest fish available. The spring run of steelhead will start soon. We have freshwater steelheads and salmon that have been stocked and are thriving in Lake Ontario.There are fish in the rivers all winter but the smaller ones freeze over and are hard and dangerous to fish. My favorite fish of all is the beautiful lil Brook Trout native to the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.They take a fly greedily as a rule altough they have a finicky streak in em sometimes.They are as feisty as they come and a taste treat as well.We usually stop at noon after a long morning and cook some Brookies on willow sticks.We have some streams we fish and know where springs are located so we can have a fresh drink of mountain spring water with a fish dinner. I like to do fly-ins to remote lakes in Canada for Walleyes n Brook Trout. Had some great charters around Block Island with a charter boat from Old Saybrook on the Connecticut River.We fished for Pollack and Cod...... Bass fishin here for largemouth is best in September around midnite!
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Mr. boone, My hats off to you !!! Love those trout, love those steelies. Though I'm not complainin, just havn't had time yet to try out those "giant Marlin" here on the big island, some of em go 1500 lbs.(Just can't fathom that in my mind) But anxious to give em a go !! will let you all know how I do ! Roger
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Living in Newfoundland & Labrador.... well lets just say there is no other fishing equal to it in the world. I'll get some photos to show you some day. Neil
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Northern lake MIchigan checking in here. Way too much water in the area to cover it all. We're on Grand Traverse Bay here, looks like it's not freezing over this winter so I should be out in the boat soon chasing whitefish and perch or deepwater trolling for lake trout or running the planer boards for browns. Lakes here are full of smallmouths, walleye, pike, perch, gills and trout in some. Right now there gettting some nice smelt throught the ice at night, hoping to give it a shot this weekend. So much water,...so little time.....
------------------ Bill Modzel Mod-Zel screen Printing Traverse city, MI modz@traverse.com
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aint nothin beats SNOOK FISHIN......i have fished from the meramashe in N.B. to ft myers fla. and PENNA, OHIO, W.VA....and aint nothin better then then hangin into a 20lb. speedster of the deep blue....they have been know to destroy fishin reels....also have had tarpon, wahoo, jack, blues , grouper but snook pound for pound are the ultimate fight, in oz they call em barimundi.....
------------------ joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-944-5060 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND
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I caught my first fish when I was 5. That was pretty amazing for a city kid! Grandpa would take us to a lake, that is now just around the corner from my house now, and roust our sleepy butts out of the tent to go fishin' !!!
When the first fish bit, I was so excited about actually having something on the other end of my line, besides the worm, that I turned tail and ran all the way up the bank with poll and fish in tow.
I grew up and learned the art of NOT ripping their lips off as I plucked the wee fish from their watery homes only to pass the torch to my children... Jake, my step-son, caught three perch on his first expidition with me and only one fish made it to the frying pan WITH his lips!
Jackie, my oldest daughter, tried her luck at the mere age of two. Armed with her Mickey Mouse pole and a worm she liked to eat herself, she hooked her first fish. Yanking the pole back in excitement she knocked the fish out cold on the rock laying on the bank. Seeing the wiggle and flop in the rocks she spent the next few minutes in a serious two year old squat observing the catch.
At five my Katie has more interest in the trees, water, and rocks. Can't win 'em all!
At 33 I look back at the times I had with my Grandpa and the long "boring" times fishing in the boat with no way to get back to shore... and I'd give anything to have just one more. Fishing to me is Grandpa and when I go fishing... I get to be near him, again.
(And back to the lighter side of things... oh this tag line could get really baaaad- LOL, no suggestions please...)
The little (fish) tale side of the Moon
------------------ The Moon aka: Stefenie Harris Moonlight Designs Pollock Pines, CA learnin' somethin' new every day!
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I like hiking arround isolated ponds fishing for bass. It is refreshing even if I dont catch anything. Listening to the different birds singing, watching the wildlife in their own habitat, learning how they live. a few years ago I caught a 7 pound largemouth, thats pretty big for Ohio waters. Warning- if you fish from a small blow up raft, dont smoke while your in it. I was out in the middle of this huge pond once with my brother, I had a lit cig in my mouth, the fireball fell off and burned a hole in the biggest chamber, we were definately going to sink. I stuck a pencil bobber on the hole, it held air all weekend long.
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I was raised next to a lake near Tuckers Knob where all I ever did was ride bikes or go fishin'.
One day I was at Ol' Man Jims pond catchin' fish as fast as I could, pullen' em in one right after the other. After a while they quit bitin' and I started stringin' em up.
All of them had done died, lyin there in the hot sun, except one ol' Catfish. He was goin SWISH-OO WHISH-OO still a breathin'. Well I hung him on my stringing line and went on to the house.
I started to clean them fish, But I tossed the ol' fish that was still breathin' over in the grass. The next morning that old fish was still a-livin'. You know, I struck up an idea. I will just start training that ol' fish.
I fixed him up a bucket of water, and I took him out of the water for 2 hours the first day and about 3 hours the second day, and about 4 hours the third day, and I kept workin' with him and a workin' with him until I left him out all morning.
Finaly, I left him out all day long. It wasn't long before that fish had learned to stay out of the water completely and never went near the water at all.
That ol' fish was the best pet a boy could ever have. I named him Homer. I put a little string around him and led him around like a little dog and taught him to follow me.
He just wiggled thru the gravel and dirt and followed me wherever I went. Homer followed me everywhere.
I kept ol' Homer round all summer long until school took up in the fall. And when I left the house each morning, ol' Homer followed me right down the road, just a-waggin in the dirt. I would throw rocks at him to try to get him to go back to the house, but he wouldn't go.
One day I was walkin' to school, I kept lookin' over my shoulder, and he was still a-waggin in the dirt followin' me down the road.
I got up almost to the school house, and as I crossed over a little wooden bridge over a little creek, I looked back, and ol' Homer was nowhere in sight.
I could'nt see him anywhere. I went back and began lookin' around that bridge, and there was a board that was broken and rotted and had fallen off the bridge. I looked down there through that hole, and there ol' Homer lay in the water, Drowned.
------------------ Mike Duncan Lettercraft Signs Alexandria VA
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This was the biggest Chinook Salmon I have ever caught. It weighed about 28 pounds and took a full 45 minutes to get it into the boat. My arms never felt so tired. I thought I would loose grip of the rod each time it made a run and stripped off another 200 yards of line.
My dream fishing trip is to fish the Kenai River in Alaska for Salmon.
When I visit mt brother and sister in law in Florida there's nothing I love more than fishing the canals and small lakes with fake worms, for largemouth bass. My favorite colors would have to be the pumpkinseed and the purple/red. It's been awhile since I've been to FLA.. about time for a recharge!
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Been fishing since 3 years old in Wisconsin. Sunfishing with my dad and the sun was up and sparkling. I kept catching and catching. I felt lucky in that rowboat. Down in the Fla. Keys 14 years old caught a barracuda!! We were troll fishing and my dad had to hold on to me and someone on to him or we'd all be in deep you know, over the back of the boat! My arms were so tired and my sisters didn't want to fish, so we steered the boat and ate chips ahoy cookies. I steered it into Cuban waters and my parents and crew were soooooooo hot at me. I told them I wanted to see "real" communists. The boats were circling ours and then they left. Later I got sooo seasick I thought I was going to die. But went out the next day and sure enough the dramamine didn't work and I knew I was begging to die! I had to stay out all day for the rest of the paying customers. Whew. But that was a gorgeous huge barracuda, as big as Empy's, not as fun as his story probably though! Now, I'm just looking for someone to bass fish with on a quiet lake, (or maybe I might try muskies). Oh there, I go again.
------------------ Deb Creative Signs
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Been kind of avoiding this topic as the warmer weather here has only got my blood flowing even further.
My wife swears the only thing I like better than Bass fishing is sex, and usually that is too close a race to call.
My best friend is retired and we try to go as often as the wives let us. He has a small boat that we like to call the guppy. If we left some of our tackle at home we might have some room in the boat.
Last year was a terrible year, we didn't hardly catch anything and luck other wise was not with us at all. If it could go wrong it did go wrong, even damn near sunk the boat once.
We figure this will be a great year as in we used up all our "Bad" luck last season.
Better close for now as a tear is forming in the corner of my eye longing to get some line wet.....
------------------ Troy Haas "Metal_Leg" on mIRC
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