where are all the anglers?

live2ride · March 30, 2011, 06:00:59 PM

spring marks the beginning of the fishing season. not really though, as i fish every month except march. so after a month off, the season begins again in a few days.

baseball, fishing and motorcycles. spring is awesome

any other anglers here?

rgramjet · March 30, 2011, 06:41:18 PM

Spending this coming weekend in the mountains of SW Virginia in search of Rainbow and Brook Trout.

live2ride · March 30, 2011, 07:44:54 PM

very nice. planning to go flounder fishing on friday off the coast of jersey.

mitt · March 30, 2011, 08:16:20 PM

I am ready. Still want the weather to warm up a bit more.

fastwin · March 30, 2011, 08:28:51 PM

Spent Spring Break with the wife and junior at my east TX farm. Sister and brother in law have a farm 30 minutes away with a kick ass stock tank. Every two minutes I was taking a 1-3 lb bass off their lines. Also crappie and perch. There are bigger bass in there but since they busted our lines repeatedly I have no idea how big they were!

We need to move up from 4 lb ultra light trout stream rigs for their stock tank. I'm thinking 8 lb rigs minimum.

Can't wait to hit it again. It gets very little action so the fish hit anything. It's a dream come true!

RAT900 · March 30, 2011, 10:47:55 PM

Here's one sport fisherman using tackle he didn't buy at Orvis

Fishing with an RPG

Speedbag · March 31, 2011, 04:22:27 AM

Now that's fishing.

live2ride · March 31, 2011, 01:14:22 PM

wow. all that for 1 fish?

always wanted to try this...
Aerial Bowfishing???

Le Pirate · March 31, 2011, 01:48:53 PM

Not a big angler, but we're ramping up for spring fish production here at work.

If you have caught a striper, hybrid, or small mouth in Texas (and possibly Colorado, Tennessee, or Arizona) I helped make it.

I'm a fish pimp.

JEFF_H · March 31, 2011, 04:27:28 PM

<raises hand>
i flyfish, and we just got an inflatable raft/trolling motor and we have fun putting around the lakes when we go camping
trolling with some flashers and nightcrawler scores tons of trout.

wife said 'you know its more relaxing hanging out with you fishing when you dont catch anything'

fastwin · March 31, 2011, 05:15:50 PM

A good friend of my brother has a big farm SE of here and his house is surrounded by old gravel pits that are now filled with water. He wanted to stock all those pits with bass but wanted to get all the other crap fish (carp, gar, etc...) out of there first. He was an ex TX Game Warden and used those connections to get an electric shocking rig that he set up in one of his flat bottom boats. My brother was there (AR15 in hand!) and as they trolled around the pits he would activate the battery powered shocker and all the stunned trash fish would float to the surface only to be dispatched by my brother's AR15. He said there were tons a big ass carp and alligator gar that were 5-6' long. Bet the coons and coyotes had a feast for several days!! Not exactly sport fishing but I bet it was a shit load of fun!! Sorry I missed out.

live2ride · March 31, 2011, 06:24:58 PM

Quote from: fastwin on March 31, 2011, 05:15:50 PM
A good friend of my brother has a big farm SE of here and his house is surrounded by old gravel pits that are now filled with water. He wanted to stock all those pits with bass but wanted to get all the other crap fish (carp, gar, etc...) out of there first. He was an ex TX Game Warden and used those connections to get an electric shocking rig that he set up in one of his flat bottom boats. My brother was there (AR15 in hand!) and as they trolled around the pits he would activate the battery powered shocker and all the stunned trash fish would float to the surface only to be dispatched by my brother's AR15. He said there were tons a big ass carp and alligator gar that were 5-6' long. Bet the coons and coyotes had a feast for several days!! Not exactly sport fishing but I bet it was a shit load of fun!! Sorry I missed out.

i dont see the video on youtube...i thought you tube had everything. apparently i was mistaken.
not exactly angling but definitely a good time!

fastwin · March 31, 2011, 06:52:11 PM

No. There is no video of what I described. Just my brother and his friend telling me. I know it's true because I have been there shooting carp and gar when the pit levels got real low from evaporation. They would fill up from flooding rains that would wash in tons of river fish. Then they would get stuck when the water would recede. Summer would come and the 100+ degree weather would bake the pits and the water would shrink down to a foot or two. Again, not sport fishing. It was just a fish massacre via AR15s! It certainly wouldn't appeal to everyone.

Just saying'.

live2ride · March 31, 2011, 08:12:17 PM

Quote from: fastwin on March 31, 2011, 06:52:11 PM
No. There is no video of what I described. Just my brother and his friend telling me. I know it's true because I have been there shooting carp and gar when the pit levels got real low from evaporation. They would fill up from flooding rains that would wash in tons of river fish. Then they would get stuck when the water would recede. Summer would come and the 100+ degree weather would bake the pits and the water would shrink down to a foot or two. Again, not sport fishing. It was just a fish massacre via AR15s! It certainly wouldn't appeal to everyone. Just saying'.

it was a joke. but not a funny one at that. i was drunk and typing. good thing i didn't have my phone with me. who knows who i would have called/texted...

but yes, i would have liked to see a video if it did exist. we may have to reenact it just for the sake of recording it for history. now, to crosspost this in the gun thread...

DoubleEagle · April 01, 2011, 12:38:23 AM

Quote from: fastwin on March 31, 2011, 05:15:50 PM
A good friend of my brother has a big farm SE of here and his house is surrounded by old gravel pits that are now filled with water. He wanted to stock all those pits with bass but wanted to get all the other crap fish (carp, gar, etc...) out of there first. He was an ex TX Game Warden and used those connections to get an electric shocking rig that he set up in one of his flat bottom boats. My brother was there (AR15 in hand!) and as they trolled around the pits he would activate the battery powered shocker and all the stunned trash fish would float to the surface only to be dispatched by my brother's AR15. He said there were tons a big ass carp and alligator gar that were 5-6' long. Bet the coons and coyotes had a feast for several days!! Not exactly sport fishing but I bet it was a shit load of fun!! Sorry I missed out.

That sounds like as much fun as shooting Rats at a small city dump.

Dolph

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