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Re: What is your favorite type of fishing [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7646988
08/10/22 08:56 PM
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Jigging for walleyes hands down, followed by casting for Muskies.

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7647021
08/10/22 09:25 PM
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Eastern Shore, MD
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Jigging for big flounder on ocean shipwrecks/structure in deep water. 70-110 ft. Fairly light tackle, Daiwa Lexa 300 on a Tsunami MH jigging rod. 30 lb braid. 3-6 oz bucktails, depending on current. Drifting, bouncing the jig over the bottom until you feel him grab it. Set the hook and hold on, head shakes galore. Man that’s fun!

Also catching Mahi on pot gear with light tackle is fun. 15-20 miles off the coast. Stick baits, topwater, or chunks on a bare hook. Get some gaffers doing this too, but mostly 5-10 lb mahi.

Chunking for tuna, casting for speckled trout with artificials, redfish on spinnerbaits. Striped bass/rockfish. These coastal bays and inshore ocean have a lot to offer to the avid angler!

Going tomorrow for Mahi, I’ll post pics.

John

By the way, we charter too. Bad Wind Charters.

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Re: What is your favorite type of fishing [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7647025
08/10/22 09:29 PM
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Smallmouth for the sheer joy of the fight. Pike and big perch in that order for the table. Slob bluegills for the hunt. The St Lawrence River is my favorite fishery.

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7647039
08/10/22 09:48 PM
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For fun; cutthroat trout in small creeks.
For eating; halibut in water less than 120 deep.
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Re: What is your favorite type of fishing [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7647042
08/10/22 09:53 PM
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Fingerlakes New York
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I really enjoy bass fishing in the summer where there’s chance of fish over 6lbs. Once things freeze, perch and walleye are tough to beat


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Re: What is your favorite type of fishing [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7647043
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I was a very avid largemouth bass fisherman in the 70s and 80s. I was good too. Marriage and kids changed that and I sold my bass boat. Now I am in my 70s and I miss it, but I would rather catch panfish on a flyrod than baitcast for largemouth.

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7647061
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Billfish. 800 lb black marlin on Hannibal Bank, Panama

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Re: What is your favorite type of fishing [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7647070
08/10/22 10:32 PM
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Re: What is your favorite type of fishing [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7647072
08/10/22 10:35 PM
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Rainbows and Cutthroat with the fly rod.


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Re: What is your favorite type of fishing [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7647080
08/10/22 10:44 PM
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Jigging for halibut while drifting.

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7647081
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Backpacking into high lakes to fly fish for cutthroats is always a blast. It’s how I like to fill my weekends during the summer.

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7647082
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wantage n.j.
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Bow fishing for big carp

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7647091
08/10/22 10:58 PM
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I enjoy large mouth bass on top water from a kayak. It never gets old.


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Re: What is your favorite type of fishing [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7647094
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Fishing is for the weak-minded and otherwise feeble.
I go catching. smile
But then again, there is a fine line between fishing, and standing on the river bank like an idiot. (Normally I would take the time to apologize, with all due respect, to the idiots, weak-minded, and otherwise feeble, but they won't know either way. (The feeble might, so, I hereby offer my apologies to the otherwise feeble.)

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7647171
08/11/22 12:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Grandpa Trapper
Mine is small stream trout fishing with lures or flies followed by bass fishing.

The "step across streams" frustrate me a litle - - But i love fishing for brookies in the high lakes of the wallowas.

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7647295
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I notice no one said trolling crankbaits with trolling rods and planer boards for walleye. Only thing a lot of people wanna do around here and it is BORING. Favorite depends on weather and time of year.

Slip bobber fishing for almost almost anything, anytime, especially when the water is kind of clear and you can see it going sideways three feet deep.

Jigging for light biting perch late summer.

All-nighter on a river for catfish during the dog days. Waking up to a bait clicker screaming is a rush.

Spring ice-out walleye and catfish below a dam on a river.

Feeling that very light “thump” from casting a beetle spin for crappie in the early fall.

And one thing I am going to spend more time trying to figure out with the jet prop, finding walleye on the small rivers well into fall. Flannel shirt weather. Middle of no where, awesome colors and the only sound is a combine somewhere.

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7647319
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Re: What is your favorite type of fishing [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7647335
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Re: What is your favorite type of fishing [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7647358
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Fishing for big Lake sturgeon in the James Bay watershed rivers.
No other freshwater fish fights like a sturgeon.

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Re: What is your favorite type of fishing [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7647360
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