Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/2208:25 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.
Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/2208:31 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.
Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/2209:39 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.
Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/2210:25 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
Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/2211:10 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 !!!
Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/10/2211:14 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.
Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/2212:05 AM
Iam a Trout Snob…..trolling for Trout & Salmon..with flies. Early May ..it’s a 4w with sinking line…and as the water warms up,I go to the 7w with lead core line.
Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/2212:22 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.
Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/2212:44 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.
Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/2201:25 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!
Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/2201:29 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.
Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/2201:54 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.
Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/2202:59 AM
Fishing is for the weak-minded and otherwise feeble. I go catching. 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 - 08/11/2212:10 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.
Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/2201:06 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.
Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/2210:05 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.
Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/11/2211:21 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'
Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/2201:51 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.
Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/2202:56 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.
Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/2204:53 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.
Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/2201:43 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
Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/2203:13 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!
Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/2204:02 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
Re: What is your favorite type of fishing - 08/12/2204:23 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