guitar_slinger Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 GS where is the motor ? I don't paddle , unless it be a last resort CB I love to paddle, well, up until I see someone sitting on a bridge playing banjo (and yes, I do also play banjo - don't ask....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 20, 2015 Author Share Posted April 20, 2015 Only problem I find rowing and trolling is keeping the rod under control. I am not a multitasking guy. I like to fish or I like to row. I do not like to do both simultaneously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 I need to replace my little aluminum semi vee. I've had it since 67 and the aluminum is starting to crack around the rivets. It's mostly held together with aquarium sealer and even when I park it in the garage after a day on a lake it looks like it's raining under the boat. One of these days I'm gonna stand up in it and go through the bottom. And I do believe that UFO (Unidentified floating object) is a Largemouth not a Smallmouth bass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 given the marking on it , I wonder if it is not a hi bred LG mouth / Small mouth cross down here , they is called a mean mouth bass tend to fight more like a smalley , CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitar_slinger Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 given the marking on it , I wonder if it is not a hi bred LG mouth / Small mouth cross down here , they is called a mean mouth bass tend to fight more like a smalley , CB Could be but I've not caught many largemouth out of that stream. Lots of green sunfish, pumpkinseed and fat smallmouth. I've caught a few largemouth but smallmouth are 10:10 ratio. GS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 the jaw does Not extend past the eye , so it is a small mouth , but there seems to be a bit too much green for it to be a brownie CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 21, 2015 Author Share Posted April 21, 2015 the jaw does Not extend past the eye , so it is a small mouth , but there seems to be a bit too much green for it to be a brownie CB Maybe it is a grass carp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrel Cody Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 the jaw does Not extend past the eye , so it is a small mouth , but there seems to be a bit too much green for it to be a brownie CB Ive caught a lot of Smallmouth out of Dale Hollow Lake that had that greenish color. I think water clarity and time of year changes their skin tone some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 21, 2015 Author Share Posted April 21, 2015 I voting for the grass carp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitar_slinger Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 I voting for the grass carp. Could be a green catfish too. This stream is very fertile with a lot of insect life and thousands upon thousands of crawdads and small bait fish. The bass au usually pretty fat. The smallmouth in this stream run from the typical bronze color to more of a greenish like this fellow is. Nice little wading stream most of the deeper holes are about 5-10' deep but plenty of runs where one can stand waist deep on warm summer afternoons and cast into slightly deeper water. They will hit a yellow popper any time of day. I tie that little gurgler popper in a number of sizes with black marabou tails. fish love them. GS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrel Cody Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Could be a green catfish too. This stream is very fertile with a lot of insect life and thousands upon thousands of crawdads and small bait fish. The bass au usually pretty fat. The smallmouth in this stream run from the typical bronze color to more of a greenish like this fellow is. Nice little wading stream most of the deeper holes are about 5-10' deep but plenty of runs where one can stand waist deep on warm summer afternoons and cast into slightly deeper water. They will hit a yellow popper any time of day. I tie that little gurgler popper in a number of sizes with black marabou tails. fish love them. GS Ever try live crawdads? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 21, 2015 Author Share Posted April 21, 2015 What is it about chartreuse and black that works so well? Fish seem to love that color combination. ED: I just knew it would happen. Saturday is the grand opener for lowland lakes in Washington. Saturday is scheduled for a heavy rain. Never fails. Don't know how many opening days I sat in a wet boat and wondered where my sanity was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrel Cody Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 What is it about chartreuse and black that works so well? Fish seem to love that color combination. Looks like small fish. Red and black is killer around here. My favorite bass lure and color: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 21, 2015 Author Share Posted April 21, 2015 Heck Tyrel, I would eat that. Hooks and all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrel Cody Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 I've won a couple of small bass tournaments throwing a 300 series Bandit in that color. I can't recommend eating the hooks.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 21, 2015 Author Share Posted April 21, 2015 I never won anything. Fish don't like me. They spit at me when I sit in the boat. Ok here is the question for tonight. IF I get out to fish next week, should I take the spinning rod and reel, or the fly rod? Will be fishing for anything that swims. I am not a trout purist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrel Cody Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Spinning Rod & Reel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 21, 2015 Author Share Posted April 21, 2015 O.K. With Garden Hackle? Shamino it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrel Cody Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Had to look that up, never heard that term. Worms, minnows,corn, any or all of the above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 21, 2015 Author Share Posted April 21, 2015 Can't use minnows or live bait except worms, crawfish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrel Cody Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Corn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 21, 2015 Author Share Posted April 21, 2015 Yep Corn is good. Some use garlic flavored corn and garlic flavored marshmallows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 BMC y'all gots some strange rules up there I would have to re learn fishing , so I did NOT , end up in the slammer thinking , I had best stay down south CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 21, 2015 Author Share Posted April 21, 2015 You never did tell me what bait you are using, CB. Garlic tomatoes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 BMC whatever is on the rods , only got about 1/2 dozen , sturng across the fornt deck , and about the same # in the rod holder thinking about breaking out the paint gun and doing some rattle traps in yellow and black or chart & black sounds like a bunck of W@%& , though CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 21, 2015 Author Share Posted April 21, 2015 BMC whatever is on the rods , only got about 1/2 dozen , sturng across the fornt deck , and about the same # in the rod holder thinking about breaking out the paint gun and doing some rattle traps in yellow and black or chart & black sounds like a bunck of W@%& , though CB Don't forget RED and BLACK or RED and WHITE! OR YOU COULD JUST USE A WORM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 BMC I AIN'T gonna , do that much cleaning of the paint stuff been thinking I should learn , how to use one of them air brush things something else to waste $$$ and time on CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 21, 2015 Author Share Posted April 21, 2015 With worms you don't need paint. Just dirt in a box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 nORTHEASTERN iOWA HAS SOME PRETTY NICE TROUT STREAMS AND i TOOK MU sON- IN-lAW UP THERE TO FISH ONE WEEKEND. tHE STREAMS WERE SO FULL OF HATCHERY RAISED TROUT YOU COULD SEE THEM ALL SCHOOLED UP. pROBLEM WAS THEY WOULDN'T HIT ANYTHINg. wE FISHED ALL DAY AND THREW EVERYTHING WQE HAD AT THEM. fLIES, lURES, sALMON eGGS, CORN, AND NOTHING THEY REFUSED TO EVEN LOOK AT OUR BAIT AS IT FLOATED BY. tHEN i TRIPPED OVER A ROCK AND SAW (Dammit I hate when I hit the caps lock key and don't notice it until I'm halfway through a story) a worm, put it on the hook in desperation and we limited out in the next 20 minutes. Next day, different river same result. Iowa trout are so unsophisticated they don't even know what they are supposed to like. Don't they teach them anything in those schools? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 21, 2015 Author Share Posted April 21, 2015 Don't know anybody that has figured out how the fish think, Bugs. Guess that is what makes fishing so much fun and frustrating at same time. Worms seem to work MOST of the time, but that is really too simple for most of us. I fondly recall fishing for bluegill with my cousin in Southern Illinois a few years back. He introduced me to fishing with crickets. Boy, those BG sure loved those crickets, that is until they found the hook in them. I think I like fishing for blue gills just about as much as fishing for anything else. Of course, salmon will give you more on the platter, but for taste, perch, and bluegill are top notch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 I've always been fond of fish from the perch family. Lake perch and Walleye top my list then come Bluegill and Bass. Personally I don't care for any of the Salmon or trout I've tasted but my wife likes than. I also prefer Bullheads to Catfish but then nobody has ever accused me of having good taste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 21, 2015 Author Share Posted April 21, 2015 Walleye are hard to come by here in Western Washington. But the Columbia seems to have plenty. Maybe some fine day I can try my hand at it, In the meanwhile, we got lots of perch here in Lake Washington, and just about all of the other smaller lakes. Danged fools keep killing off the blue gills so we don't have as many. Eastern Washington has some though. Washington is like two different countries. Dry and hot in the east and cold and damp in the west. Been cogitating on a good blue gill fly to make up. Blue gills feed looking up, so something that will not sink too far but look active in the water. I am thinking a good size ant pattern might be the ticket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 I've had my best luck with a Royal Coachmen for Bluegills but have never fished in Washington. Maybe Western Bluegill have different preferences than Midwestern bluegill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 22, 2015 Author Share Posted April 22, 2015 I've had my best luck with a Royal Coachmen for Bluegills but have never fished in Washington. Maybe Western Bluegill have different preferences than Midwestern bluegill Well, it is worth a try and I will give you a report when I do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitar_slinger Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 I have my best luck catching bluegill with a size 10 brown or black wooly bugger with a size 12 bead head pheasant tail trailing. sometimes they hit the nymph sometimes they hit the wooly bugger. During summer months, I fish a small foam popper and usually trail a nymph of some kind under. Lots of bluegill that way. Last summer, I caught a 28" channel catfish on a size 12 nymph that was about 15" below my popper. He put up quite a fight on my 4wt rod and 4X tippet. GS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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