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What is your favorite type of fishing

Posted By: Grandpa Trapper

What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 08:10 PM

Mine is small stream trout fishing with lures or flies followed by bass fishing.
Posted By: Trapper Dahlgren

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 08:13 PM

panfish with my wife
Posted By: imissed

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 08:17 PM

Any type of fishing as long as their biting!

Honestly any type of fishing I like. Biting or not.
Posted By: Bob

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 08:25 PM

Sitting on the bank of a river or lake bottom fishing for big catfish. Or whatever decides to bite. I do love fishing teeny tiny creeks for little brookies and rainbows.
Posted By: bblwi

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 08:31 PM

Canoeing and wading rivers for smallies and the eyes and muskies that come with that. Second is bass from the boat. Used to do a lot of muskies but I fish alone a lot more now and I just found muskie fishing alone to be a bit more risky than I wanted to as I aged. Big lures with big hooks flying by when hook sets fail, releasing active large fish with large treble hooks etc. just wasn't as fun as it was with my son with me.

Bryce
Posted By: Wanna Be

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 08:34 PM

Fishing for anything edible.
Posted By: bwtrapper

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 08:35 PM

Fishing below dams on rivers. You never know what you'll catch.
Posted By: jbyrd63

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 09:04 PM

night time small mouth fishing. Dog days of summer and home made jig.
Posted By: Osagian

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 09:12 PM

Catfish
Posted By: Cragar

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 09:12 PM

Fishing with high explosives grin
Posted By: Turd Furgeson

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 09:19 PM

Lot of good memories of creek fishing for smallmouth in the Ozarks growing up.
Posted By: Osagian

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 09:21 PM

Originally Posted by Cragar
Fishing with high explosives grin


Yes. An M26 will bring them right to the top. Just gotta wade out and gather em' up. All you can eat.
Posted By: Turtledale

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 09:25 PM

Walleye in the weeds in the summer
Jigging walleye through the ice in winter
Posted By: 330-Trapper

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 09:25 PM

Originally Posted by Trapper Dahlgren
panfish with my wife

Mine too

Big Gills or Sunfish
Posted By: corky

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 09:29 PM

Jigging for walleyes
Posted By: mississippiposse

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 09:30 PM

Like all freshwater and saltwater fishing but if I had to pick one it would be fly fishing for trout or bluegill
Posted By: MJM

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 09:32 PM

Dark house spear fishing. You hunt fish. Decoy them in.
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Posted By: steeltraps

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 09:37 PM

Originally Posted by Cragar
Fishing with high explosives grin

Or telephone! LoL !
Posted By: garymc

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 09:39 PM

Alaska Salmon fishing on the rivers with friends. I only get to do it 1 week out of the year, but I look forward to it and cherish that time very much.
Posted By: ~ADC~

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 09:47 PM

Big flatheads on ditty poles with the kids, followed by casting spoons for big northern pike. I don't get enough of either. frown
Posted By: BigBob

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 10:10 PM

Big Cat in the big rivers, Gillies on fly rod or super light rods.
Posted By: D.T.

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 10:25 PM

Fly fishing of course! Have caught a lot of interior monsters here in montana. 40” pike. 16# laker. Bass and trout for days. But there is nothing like stalking 10# bones in HI. Unparalleled sportfish IMO.

If i could teleport id be fishing somewhere in the ocean weekly. I miss bluewater
Posted By: arcticotter

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 10:35 PM

Pitching jigs and minnows for walleyes
Posted By: Nsheeh

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 10:59 PM

Trolling for native maine brook trout
Posted By: white marlin

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 11:02 PM

well....I'm kinda partial to offshore fishing.

just can't afford it too very often.
Posted By: upstateNY

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 11:10 PM

Jigging Walleyes with my homemade jigs,and schooled up 10"-13" yellow perch in the spring that are biting so fast you have to hide behind a tree to bait your hook !!! smile
Posted By: grumley701

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 11:14 PM

I enjoy just about any kind of fishing but if I had to pick a favorite it would be either Lake Michigan or Lake Huron pulling silver streaks 55' or so deep, 20-25' off the ball at 2.8 to 3 mph..... with a cold one.
Posted By: biotrapper

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 11:15 PM

crappie year round Best in the spring and fall
Posted By: il.trapper

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 11:23 PM

Most enjoyable was fishing with my dad for big gills or redear. And fishing the spring fed creeks of Tn with him.

My passion is bass fishing followed real close by really big catfish. Hoping to be on the Cumberland and TN rivers soon for both.
Posted By: AntiGov

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/22 11:52 PM

Catching , otherwise I've got no patience for fishing
Posted By: warrior

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 12:00 AM

Ultralight anything. First love ultralight panfish in wadeable creeks. Trotline catfishing.
Posted By: Rat_Pack

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 12:02 AM

Trolling for brook trout and landlocks on ponds from a canoe
Posted By: Nessmuck

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 12:05 AM

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Posted By: wetdog

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 12:06 AM

Any and All types of fish and fishing
I couldn't pick just 1, heck I still enjoy catching creek chubs for bait.
Posted By: Nessmuck

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 12:07 AM

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And ice fishing for trout is a close 2nd
Posted By: SJA

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 12:21 AM

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Posted By: Gene Dziza

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 12:22 AM

The most fun I've ever had is ice fshing wilderness lakes in Montana. Snowmobile to the wilderness boundary and snowshoing into a lake for cutthroats. Sometimes we'd snowshoe for a few hours. I was martin trapping in those days by the same method of transportation, so I was in great shape. I couldn't make some of those trips today.

I love the little creeks for brookies and I like smallmouth bass in the rivers. I'm also real good with bluegills with flys or even crickets on a bobber, so I'm all over the place. Love catching those big, I call them Bullgills.
Posted By: Dana I

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 12:44 AM

The kind where I catch fish. Being that I am the worlds second worst fisherman, I usually settle for my second favorite kind of fishing. The kind where I try unsuccessfully to catch fish.
Posted By: MNTrapper21

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 12:52 AM

Ice fishing for crappie or walleye
Posted By: Eagleye

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 12:54 AM

Barbie & Cars poles bent on the end of my dock with the grandkids
Posted By: hippie

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 12:56 AM

Jigging for walleyes hands down, followed by casting for Muskies.
Posted By: JoMiBru

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 01:25 AM

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.
Posted By: Paul D. Heppner

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 01:29 AM

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.
Posted By: waggler

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 01:48 AM

For fun; cutthroat trout in small creeks.
For eating; halibut in water less than 120 deep.
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Posted By: robert.d12

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 01:53 AM

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
Posted By: charles

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 01:54 AM

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.
Posted By: WhiteCliffs

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 02:19 AM

Billfish. 800 lb black marlin on Hannibal Bank, Panama

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Posted By: Gary Benson

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 02:32 AM

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Big rainbows in Wyoming.
Posted By: mad_mike

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 02:35 AM

Rainbows and Cutthroat with the fly rod.
Posted By: Bigbrownie

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 02:44 AM

Jigging for halibut while drifting.
Posted By: TEpnw

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 02:48 AM

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.
Posted By: eric space

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 02:48 AM

Bow fishing for big carp
Posted By: Leftlane

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 02:58 AM

I enjoy large mouth bass on top water from a kayak. It never gets old.
Posted By: 52Carl

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 02:59 AM

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.)
Posted By: H2ORat

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 04:57 AM

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.
Posted By: DWC

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 12:10 PM

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.
Posted By: coondagger2

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 12:45 PM

I like fishing for MONEY grin

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Posted By: coop

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 01:06 PM

Fishing jetty's and rock walls at night, preferably midnight to dawn, w/ eels... for stripers (rock). Headlight, rain gear, and cleats are a necessity.[Linked Image]
Posted By: Boco

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 01:39 PM

Fishing for big Lake sturgeon in the James Bay watershed rivers.
No other freshwater fish fights like a sturgeon.

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Posted By: Squash

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 01:43 PM

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Brook Trout in remote lakes and ponds of the Adirondack Wilderness.
Posted By: Nessmuck

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 01:44 PM

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Love them square tails
Posted By: Boco

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 01:58 PM

Nice one Nessy-looks like november-full of eggs?
That sure is a dark colour.
Posted By: Lufkin Trapper

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 07:53 PM

Originally Posted by SJA
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OMG, you caught AOC!!!
Posted By: Lance Squires

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 07:59 PM

Fly fishing bluegills in the spring, fishing native brook trout in the streams and walleyes in the weeds.
Posted By: Castormound

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 08:57 PM

Gimme a farm pond full of slab bluegills and a fly rod, I'm in Heaven!!!!
Posted By: ~ADC~

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 09:59 PM

Originally Posted by ~ADC~
Big flatheads on ditty poles with the kids, followed by casting spoons for big northern pike. I don't get enough of either. frown


Posted By: Fisher Man

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 10:05 PM

I love them all, from fishing bullheads and bluegills to trolling for marlin off of Kona, to trolling for those big kings in Lake Ontario, Smallmouths in Canada, brookies in Quebec, or surf fishing for stripers or bluefish. Watching a trout take my fly is exciting, and I love ice fishing as well.
Posted By: Ridge Runner1960

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 11:21 PM

Pier fishing with the gang at avon pier in avon NC, don't catch much but cherished memories
fish for cobia and kings but mostly catch sharks, but the friendships I have made there are priceless.
my results from 2022
this one was 5'
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Posted By: GWGjr

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/22 11:31 PM

Icefishing for panfish, lakers, walleye, and add in several sits per season in the pike spearing shanty to hunt big northern's.
Posted By: rick olson

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/22 12:03 AM

Musky casting,walleye jigging and smallmouth fishing are hard to beat,as for a strong fight lake sturgeon anything over 50" is a good workout.
Posted By: poconobear

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/22 12:21 AM

I’m a trout guy, with flies and spinning tackle. Just got home from FL where I was fly fishing for snook. That’s a whole lot of fun
Posted By: Nessmuck

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/22 01:05 AM

Originally Posted by Boco
Nice one Nessy-looks like november-full of eggs?
That sure is a dark colour.


Caught that through the ice ..First couple weeks of January
Posted By: Boco

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/22 01:22 AM

Oh,I thought that was your canoe in the background.
I caught a big fatty like that in november one year in an otter trap.
Posted By: Nessmuck

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/22 01:24 AM

Originally Posted by Boco
Oh,I thought that was your canoe in the background.
I caught a big fatty like that in november one year in an otter trap.



You right …that is my Freighter…all put away for the Wintah.
Posted By: JoMiBru

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/22 01:40 AM

Today’s catch. All jigging and casting

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Posted By: Bigbrownie

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/22 01:51 AM

Anybody here ever gig flounders at night? I guess you could call it fishing. I did it a couple summers near Gulfport, Mississippi back in the late 1960s. They were great outings.
Posted By: Boco

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/22 01:55 AM

Originally Posted by Nessmuck
Originally Posted by Boco
Oh,I thought that was your canoe in the background.
I caught a big fatty like that in november one year in an otter trap.



You right …that is my Freighter…all put away for the Wintah.

Dont you mean freightah ?
Posted By: Nessmuck

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/22 02:00 AM

^^^^^^^^^^ Yes…I messed up ….lol
Posted By: Scott__aR

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/22 02:11 AM

Give me a bobber, split shot, hook and worm on ultralight tackle for bluegill, perch and/or bass and I'm happy, shore or boat don't matter.
Posted By: 52Carl

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/22 02:52 AM

Originally Posted by Lufkin Trapper
Originally Posted by SJA
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OMG, you caught AOC!!!

Best tasting fish on the planet right there. Only thing is, you have to set the hook before you feel the bite. smile
Posted By: yotetrapper30

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/22 02:56 AM

Nowadays? Brim (aka panfish) and crappie.

Back in the day.... stalking up a little crick in April to toss a trout egg sac in front of the nose of a rainbow trout. I can still smell those days. Nothing better.
Posted By: DWC

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/22 04:53 AM

I can see where trout fishing in a crick would be a blast. I usually spend way too much time fishing creek chubs before going catfishing simply because im having too much fun.
Posted By: Muddyrat

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/22 11:49 AM

Casting paddle tails against a salt marsh sod bank for striped bass and speckled trout
Posted By: Willy Firewood

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/22 12:02 PM

52 - that looks like one of our neighbors.
Posted By: Joe1

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/22 01:43 PM

like all fishing best time is first 2 hours of day light watching sun come up and last to 2 hours watching sun go down most peacefull times of the day most of the time
Posted By: Mainelogger

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/22 01:45 PM

Brook trout fishing remote streams and ponds. And lake trolling leadline for salmon and trout.
Posted By: Oh Snap

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/22 03:13 PM

Jet boat up river to salmon spawning area in the deep pools and use a single gold hook and salmon egg and catch and release greyling one after another on ultra light fly rod until your arms hurt!
Posted By: Crortvedt05

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/22 03:24 PM

Anything to fill the freezer or carp fishing for me. Easy, fun, cheap, put up a good fight, and I get trapping bait as a bonus.
Posted By: Gulo

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/22 04:02 PM

It would take up several pages to list my favorites. I'll put together an abbreviated list, with ranking number.

1. mountain whitefish on wet flies; 4-weight rod. St. Joe River headwaters, ID
1. halibut long-lining; Prince William Sound, AK
1. catfish at night on Snake River, ID
1. sand sharks off the jetty at La Push, WA
1. Yelloweye Rockfish, Sitka Sound, AK
1. Cutthroat on 4-wt. rod, Panther Creek, ID
1. mud-bug traps, Lower Coeur d'Alene River, ID
1. Rod-and-reel monster burbot, Tanana River, AK
1. Dip-netting Copper River sockeye, Chitina, AK
1. winter perch, Cascade Reservoir, ID
1. 24" grayling on dry flies, Gulkana River, AK
Posted By: trapdog1

Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/22 04:23 PM

Originally Posted by Joe1
like all fishing best time is first 2 hours of day light watching sun come up and last to 2 hours watching sun go down most peacefull times of the day most of the time

Agreed! Especially the sunrise.
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