Bluelighters and Fishing?

[CloudyHazeD]

crayfish roach clip.....fucking awesome!

 

[JerryBlunted]

I love fishing. When I lived on Long Island I used to go once or twice a year on a deep sea charter expedition. Upstate NY I go freshwater and try to land rainbowhead trout and the like.

Since I moved I haven't found anyone to go with, but there is nothing more fun than fishing with a case of brew and two or three buddies who are respectful and conservation-minded of the environment.

 

[Arnold]

I want to move into swff(salt water fly fishing) and fly fishing for pike.
Do the trout on the fly. Have done all types of canal fishing, pole etc...and fished for pike perch roach eel bream.carp.

 

[egor]

I am a huge fisherman. I make my living making custom tackle. I flyfish for rainbows, browns, brookies, cutthrouts, cutbows, smallmouth, and walleye (there are very few of us who flyfish for walleye so far, sinktip 6 weight line with a silver custom tied clouser can work wonders on lakes with a large shad population). I also do a ton of walleye fishing and bass fishing with spinning tackle as well. I go back to far eastern WI every year in time for the king salmon run in mid september, they are the most fun when they are fresh and silver, and at the same time a few early browns and cohos come into the harbor as well.

 

[papa]

I am a huge fisherman. I make my living making custom tackle..

Egor,....that's very interesting. I've tried my hand at some hand carved wooden fishing lures. nothing earth shatering, just something that I could say that I made myself and actually caught fish on. PM me with a web site link or something so I can see your stuff. I'd like to target white bass because the spawn will be starting soon here in south texas and I'd like to throw something that they haven't seen yet.

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[CloudyHazeD]

Egor, how the hell do you fly fish for walleye???

Sounds very challenging.

 

[Animal Mother]

I like to drink beer and go fishing alot as well.
Salt water fishing is great fun.

 

[Yippee Skippy]

I enjoys teh fishing very much. Reds, trout, snook - all the good flats species the Gulf of Mexico has to offer!

Not that it's freezing here (Central Florida) now, I can't wait for it to start warming up and then it'll be ON!

 

[papa]

Egor, how the hell do you fly fish for walleye???

Sounds very challenging.

I could see how he could do that .....if the weather is warm and the shad are running at the surface like they do, the walleye will come up to take shad from the surface. Just throw your fly in the middle of the boil and they'll jump on it. Same thing with white bass. You could throw anything in the middle of a shad surface boil and the white bass will hit it.

 

[egor]

Egor, how the hell do you fly fish for walleye???

Sounds very challenging.

The reseviors where I live are all fed by an artificial canal system; when they are being filled after the water level is dropped to keep farmers east of here in suffecient water to sustain their cows and crops, the current draws insane ammounts of forage fish and game fish. The trick is to figure out the size of the shad and the depth they are holding at. From there it is just matter of tying up a silver clouser in the right dimensions (I use a cast net to gather a few shad to check the size of the shad) and present the fly in the propper depth. In the spring when there is no current , the walleye spawn on the rocky shores, a small perch fly worked down the windblown side can work wonders. Midsummer, crayfish patterns in shallow gravel bays can be very effective as well; it takes some trial and error to get the feel for the waters you work, but it is well worth it, and the looks you get when you outfish everyone else 6 to 1 are priceless

 

[egor]

Egor,....that's very interesting. I've tried my hand at some hand carved wooden fishing lures. nothing earth shatering, just something that I could say that I made myself and actually caught fish on. PM me with a web site link or something so I can see your stuff. I'd like to target white bass because the spawn will be starting soon here in south texas and I'd like to throw something that they haven't seen yet.

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I sell (mainly jigs and plastics, but i'm working on a line of jerkbaits) direct to shops in CO, and have some friends sell for me in WI atm, once buisness picks up again in the spring and funds arent so tight I should be able to send out some samples. Remind me in march or april.

 

[papa]

I sell (mainly jigs and plastics, but i'm working on a line of jerkbaits) .

Jigs and plastics are hot baits here in south texas too. I caught a few nice bass just last Sunday here on Medina Lake. I keep a small bait well with some live minnows on the boat for crappie fishing but this time of year Bass are hot on tubes and crankbaits around main lake points in about 15 - 20 ft.

 

[egor]

What is the average weight you use when fishing a tube with a jig (football feads only right)? Have you tried a shakey head for skittish shallow water spawners yet? Blows a lizard or most traditional "bedding" tactics out of the water since you can drop the worm into the nest and keep the plastic moving while keeping the jig stationary. Works a lot like a drop shot but the plastic (roboworm.com is the only brand I will use besides mine) dead to the bottom. Works the bast after a cold front when they dont want to move. You just keep shaking the plastic until the bass is angered enough to strike it.

Let me know some of the sizes and colors oy like later in the spring and I'll see about sending you a few freebees : they need some trials in a different region anyway.

 

[papa]

I use the Gamakatsu tube heads for tubes. 1/8 oz for small tubes and 1/4 oz for larger tubes fishing deeper.
I haven't tried the shakey heads yet but I intend to. Medina lake is usually clear to lightly stained and white - chartreuse are good colors in the spring - summer. In the winter its watermelon/red flake, red smoke, black, purple, etc. darker colors fishing deeper. White bass season starts in a few weeks and we will begin by trolling some jointed crank baits near the mouth of the river and later when they move up stream we will be catching them mostly on live minnows.

 

[egor]

^^if you find a school of actively feeding white bass and are with experienced casters, a flyrod increases the fun factor in whitebass faishing (4 or 5 weight is enough, 6+ is overkill save for hooking the occasional big largemouth, then its just fun hell....) 10x

 

[papa]

I've never used a fly rod before. It does look like fun though. I've watched others use them on the outdoor channel. I like to use Ultra-lite spinning rods when fishing for pan fish. The fun really begins when you hook up with a stripper on one of those little set-ups. I didn't get to go fishing this last weekend because it was just too windy on the lake last Sunday. I would've spent all my time trying to keep the boat off the shore instead of fishing.

 

[CloudyHazeD]

^^if you find a school of actively feeding white bass and are with experienced casters, a flyrod increases the fun factor in whitebass faishing (4 or 5 weight is enough, 6+ is overkill save for hooking the occasional big largemouth, then its just fun hell....) 10x

ya know, I never considered using a fly rod for white bass........ going to have to try that when they are inland this year ( lake erie)

 

[egor]

^^when you find an actively feeding school, a #8 white (or olive depending on local baitfish) bead head wolly bugger (or just about any appropriote minnow pattern) with a black nickel bead can be killer too; best part is, with acurate casting (no laying the line over the top of the school, I use cortland 555 ghost tip and gamma fluoro leaders and tippet ), you can catch just about every fish from the school...

 

[egor]

I've never used a fly rod before. It does look like fun though. I've watched others use them on the outdoor channel. I like to use Ultra-lite spinning rods when fishing for pan fish. The fun really begins when you hook up with a stripper on one of those little set-ups. I didn't get to go fishing this last weekend because it was just too windy on the lake last Sunday. I would've spent all my time trying to keep the boat off the shore instead of fishing.

Next time instead of giving up due to wind (just give up on the boat), fish from shore on the windblown side of the lake. The wind concentrates invertebrates and algae, which draws baitfish and in turn game fish. Floating yo-zuri crystal minnows work well, they give off a ton of flash in stained water. The lakes here are stocked with rainbows yearly, so the (also a yo-zuri, I swear by them for hard baits...) rainbow pattern 3/16 oz pins magnet has been another hot walleye pattern.

 

[CloudyHazeD]

Wow! You really know your shit :D

This thread has inspired me to bust out the fly tying gear and maybe visit a craft store.........

I WILL catch me some whities on the fly rod this year