View Full Version : Quite wasting all your $$$ on the latest fishing gear...
SUBMAN1
08-23-08, 07:31 PM
...Fish don't care is why.
For proof - visit this link - http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/20080822/ap_on_fe_st/odd_barbie_fishing_record
-S
nikimcbee
08-23-08, 07:39 PM
Yeah, I saw that story.
I haven't been fresh water fishing in about 4 years. I need to tell my tale of woe about how I lost my nice jetty fishing pole sometime.:oops: :x :nope: :down: :shifty:
mongo angry
Monica Lewinsky
08-23-08, 07:39 PM
Who needs a Barbie Fishing Rod? Just use your hand or arm if ya a 'suthern boy to catch the big one.
http://learnabit.homeserver.com/lab/fishing_southern_style.wmv
JHuschke
08-23-08, 07:52 PM
Naaw, I still have like milllions of lures in my tackle box. Like 8 fishing poles..plenty of hooks..I am BassProShops! :D
Fishing is still fun, I love to catch bass and channel catfish
Monica Lewinsky
08-23-08, 07:57 PM
Naaw, I still have like milllions of lures in my tackle box.
REEL men ... fly fish. Have caught and released tons of Bass, Sunfish, and a rare Salmon when in Alaska on a Cruise ship excursion trip.
Naaw, I still have like milllions of lures in my tackle box.
REEL men ... fly fish. Have caught and released tons of Bass, Sunfish, and a rare Salmon when in Alaska on a Cruise ship excursion trip.
ahem.... :p
Aside from the fresh water stuff (fishing for bait that is.. :cool: )
Back in the murky grey days before time was actually counted (1979-1980 abouts) I worked on a commercial salmon boat out of Ucluelet BC.
Later in life I started long Range fishin from Sandy Eggo...
about 4 years ago I got my (so far) "fish of a life time"
http://www.sfvsf.org/images/18day/IMG_6873.JPG
I'd like to see somethin like this caught on a barbie pole!
Mush Martin
08-23-08, 10:10 PM
or a redneck arm :hmm:
or a redneck arm :hmm:
Actually a redneck arm would prolly work... just put it on a 12/0 circle hook with a wire leader..... :know:
Seth8530
08-24-08, 01:50 AM
Naaw, I still have like milllions of lures in my tackle box.
REEL men ... fly fish. Have caught and released tons of Bass, Sunfish, and a rare Salmon when in Alaska on a Cruise ship excursion trip.
ahem.... :p
Aside from the fresh water stuff (fishing for bait that is.. :cool: )
Back in the murky grey days before time was actually counted (1979-1980 abouts) I worked on a commercial salmon boat out of Ucluelet BC.
Later in life I started long Range fishin from Sandy Eggo...
about 4 years ago I got my (so far) "fish of a life time"
http://www.sfvsf.org/images/18day/IMG_6873.JPG
I'd like to see somethin like this caught on a barbie pole!
Is that fish real lol?
Jimbuna
08-24-08, 10:39 AM
Naaw, I still have like milllions of lures in my tackle box.
REEL men ... fly fish. Have caught and released tons of Bass, Sunfish, and a rare Salmon when in Alaska on a Cruise ship excursion trip.
ahem.... :p
Aside from the fresh water stuff (fishing for bait that is.. :cool: )
Back in the murky grey days before time was actually counted (1979-1980 abouts) I worked on a commercial salmon boat out of Ucluelet BC.
Later in life I started long Range fishin from Sandy Eggo...
about 4 years ago I got my (so far) "fish of a life time"
http://www.sfvsf.org/images/18day/IMG_6873.JPG
I'd like to see somethin like this caught on a barbie pole!
Wow!! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/c_jane24/Smileys/4_6_100.gif
It must be safe for the rest of us to swim in the sea again.
Monica Lewinsky
08-24-08, 06:22 PM
ahem.... :p
Dude, this fish took me 10 minutes to get by me with a barbless hook on a nine foot Fly Rod.
The size and length does NOT matter.
The fun of getting "IT" does. [Getting it in your hands]
No BAIT was used. Was using a home-made fly tied by me. Very rewarding.
Caught him/her, then released him/her and saw him/her swim away. Fun beyond the fun button.
Was a 30 or 32 inch salmon - darn thing wore out my shoulders just landing it. Best moment in my entire life!
http://learnabit.homeserver.com/lab/Alaska06.jpg
Picture was taken before digital cameras were invented - 1997.
Sailor Steve
08-24-08, 06:32 PM
ML, you remind me of a couple of favorite anecdotes.
1) I occassionally see a bumper sticker that says "Time spent fishing cannot be deducted from a man's life." Love it, even though I don't fish myself.
2) Years ago I read a little piece about a guy taking a class in sailing. He said the instructor came into the classroom and said "I've written something on the board. Read it, and then tell me if you don't understand it, and I'll give you your money back and you can go; no harm, no foul." So he read the board and all it said was "I can teach a man how to sail. I can't teach him why."
Blacklight
08-24-08, 07:50 PM
Back when my father was young, my grandfather was a serious weekly fisherman (They lived in Burlington Vermont, walking distance from Lake Champlain). Anyway, my grandfather was a man with hardcore simplistic values about fishing. It was done with a fishing pole, a hook, and a good old worm, not some fancy lures and expensive tacklebox full of crap.
Anyway, my grandfather's friend dissagreed and had hundreds of shiny, fun, hooky little lures for every occasion and my grandfather always ridiculed him because of it.
My grandfather, decided to be silly one weekend and poke a little fun at his friend's fancy lures. One of his jobs was manufacturing wooden teeth. He built a pair of chompers, weighted them down a little, and took them on the fishing trip with his tacklebox toting buddy. He tied the wooden dentures to his fishing line and cast off. Now you would expect this to be totally rediculous (and it certainly looked that way), but you can imagine that reeling the thing in made the dentures wobble and spin like mad through the water. Suddenly, my grandfather got a bite. He reeled in a huge fish.... and then another.... and then another. He caught a LOT of big fish with it. Apparently the fish are attracted to big old sets of wooden dentures spinning around through the water up there.
The next trip however, he gave up the wood chompers and went back to worms. :D
Monica Lewinsky
08-24-08, 08:38 PM
ML, you remind me of a couple of favorite anecdotes.
I enjoyed EVERY minute. Felt good ... did good, caught the fish, released it ...then let it go for someone else to catch on another day.
Yea, seems weird. I released the fish for YOU to have the same fun!
Felt good to the right thing!
I enjoyed EVERY minute. Felt good ... did good, caught the fish, released it ...then let it go for someone else to catch on another day.
Yea, seems weird. I released the fish for YOU to have the same fun!
Felt good to the right thing!
Gotta admit..
when I was working on the commercial boat they didnt exactly share your viewpoint :)
As for moby tuna there.. took about an hour 15 min. to land him... it hurt a lot!
However the very first tuna (bluefin) I ever caught was about as bad... and it only weighed 30 lbs! caught on 15 lbs outfit ... took a little over an hour...
As the well known saying goes, lures have caught many more fishermen than fish.:know:
And all I was going to add was, thats TINY for a channel cat. The state record too, spoiled in the midwest I guess.
ML you're absolutely right, getting a hit, setting the hook, and the battle, nothing like it in the world. Some days you're the bat others you're the ball...... :up:
geetrue
08-25-08, 01:07 PM
ahem.... :p
Aside from the fresh water stuff (fishing for bait that is.. :cool: )
Back in the murky grey days before time was actually counted (1979-1980 abouts) I worked on a commercial salmon boat out of Ucluelet BC.
Later in life I started long Range fishin from Sandy Eggo...
about 4 years ago I got my (so far) "fish of a life time"
http://www.sfvsf.org/images/18day/IMG_6873.JPG
I'd like to see somethin like this caught on a barbie pole!
Is that a pack of cigarettes in your pocket? That's a no no ...
Plus you look a little trimner than you did in 02 :yep:
Is that a pack of cigarettes in your pocket? That's a no no ...
Plus you look a little trimner than you did in 02 :yep:
I'll have you know that cigarettes SAVE lives!! yup.. I havent had to kill anyone yet.. just go have smoke...
As for lookin trimmer... I prolly dropped 10 lbs just on that fish! :p
Platapus
08-25-08, 08:20 PM
http://www.sfvsf.org/images/18day/IMG_6873.JPG
Sheesh, if I ever saw something that big in the ocean I would get its AoB and put a few torpedoes into it.
That is one big fish!
What did it weigh?
And how is it it being supported or are you just that fricking strong? :rock:
SUBMAN1
08-25-08, 10:44 PM
http://www.sfvsf.org/images/18day/IMG_6873.JPG
Sheesh, if I ever saw something that big in the ocean I would get its AoB and put a few torpedoes into it.
That is one big fish!
What did it weigh?
And how is it it being supported or are you just that fricking strong? :rock:
He is hiding that he caught it with a Barbie Pole! :p
jk!
-S
Task Force
08-25-08, 11:23 PM
I also fish Biggest thing I caught in freshwater was on are boat, It was a 8 pound Bass. Thing was cought on a cricket and a hook that was smaller than a penny. In salt water Ive cought some big fish that was green and silver, that was alittle over a foot long, And a croaker that was the same size.:lol: Smallest thing ive caught was a croaker that was three inches long on a hook the size of a quarter.:rotfl:
That is one big fish!
What did it weigh?
And how is it it being supported or are you just that fricking strong? :rock:
280 lbs
Still on page one of http://www.independencesportfishing.com/pages/records.php
look at #19
The fish is actually leaning against the boat rail.. still was tough to hold it up though.
Platapus
08-26-08, 09:21 PM
So is a fish that big good eatin or is it tough?
Task Force
08-26-08, 09:25 PM
I think it would taste like tuna.:D Youd need a strong wall to hang it on.
I think it would taste like tuna.:D Youd need a strong wall to hang it on.
Yup! ;)
SUBMAN1
08-27-08, 12:21 PM
I need to try that! How do you eat such a massive fish? Buy a freezer for it and it alone?
280 lbs. I bet that went on for a couple hours!
-S
I need to try that! How do you eat such a massive fish? Buy a freezer for it and it alone?
280 lbs. I bet that went on for a couple hours!
-S
You only get a bit over 40% of the weight back from the processers in filets.. so thats about 120 lbs of filet...
and yes.. I have a coffin type freezer in the garage.
On that trip we were releasing anything under 150 lbs (this is still a big fish!).. I kept only 8 fish for the whole trip.. the unprocessed weight of those 8 fish was just under 1100 lbs!
http://www.sfvsf.org/images/18day/IMG_6873.JPG
Sheesh, if I ever saw something that big in the ocean I would get its AoB and put a few torpedoes into it.
That is one big fish!
What did it weigh?
And how is it it being supported or are you just that fricking strong? :rock:
That is the Foam Fish they bring out at the end of the trip for the poor guy that didn't catch anything, thus the one hand hold...lol
JK, dang that's a big fish.
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