[Mod Request] Fishing minigame for my uboat trip..
 

I like SH4 alot and I also like fishing alot. Would be nice if I can do both at the same time :D I know it sounds hilarious and totally 'unrealistic' but its FUN. Alot of time when i go to the DG view and look at the sea i have this urge to cast a fishing line.

while camping/patrolling it would be a real blast if I could also do some deep sea fishing to help with crew morale by providing fresh fish for meals :)

This can even make patrol with no TC possible.

ideas:
-Can purchase fishing gear upgrade with the pile of renown.
-Can boost crew morale via different type of catch?
-Can spot fish school with passive sonar.
-Can go back to wreck sites created by me or other kaleun and get extra fish catch? (fish love to congregate around ship wrecks).

Just a thought... :rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2:

I guess you've never tried SCAF (Ship Centered, Accuracy Fix) or OTC (Optical Targeting Correction) and thumbed through the Recognition Manual in the Canadian section?!?

I like fishing too.

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Click the "profile" page button on the RM to get an animated version of what happens next!!

If only there were a way of snagging Ducimus' dolphin!?! :O:

Ah, fishing and sub duty! Although, since you don't have time to sit around like Huck Finn on the mighty Mississippi, tossing a couple grenades from the armory would do well to fill the stock for a Friday fishfry!

Capn Scury, do you do much fishin' on Erie? I like Huron, as it's only a few miles away, and when I can afford, it, Lake Saint Clair for pike, muskie, and football sized smallies.

I've fished Lake Erie several times. Love the idea the lake is returning to what it used to be before the "Burning River" incident up in Cleveland.

My "spot" is Lake Nipissing in northen Ontario. Been going there for the past 30 years. Same family run cottages, same beautiful sunsets. Give me a rye, a cuban cigar, good friends, and the front porch.....fishing can wait!


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Yeah, love the sunsets on the water!

This was May of 2010, and the young man in the pic, is now one of The Few, The Proud, and he was leaving 2 days later for bootcamp, but he nailed this 31 inch northern, and he also hooked into a 41 inch muskie, with a Johnson Silver Spoon with red porkrind trailing off the hook. The muskie was just one inch shy of keeper size which was disappointing. But since there were 3 of us on the boat, we let him haul 'em all in. The tally, for the day was 21 pike, 1 muskie, with 6 of the pike getting grilled.

Some good eatin' there!

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That's a beauty!!

This thread is getting to be like the "Bill Dance Show" for the computer wargamer, (love his "out takes" episode).

I'm sure that young lad had a thrill when he hauled in those large fish! Hope he's doing well with the Marines.

I remember my 42 inch pike taking 20 minutes to land using fairly light tackle. That was a fish caught I'll never forget!

One thing I've found about the fish coming from the colder northern waters is that none of them taste "fishy", you know, with a strong fish taste. I fished Norris Lake in Tennessee for years with my dad and the bass/blue gill always had a strong taste to them (not a bad taste at all, but a strong distinct flavor to them). The fish from up north don't have that distinct taste. Could be pike or perch, they both taste about the same.....GREAT. I've never not liked a fried fish put in front of me!!

Love Bill Dance too! Those out takes, / bloopers are hilarious! Especially when in the excitement he forgets to remove the tie-downs from the boat to the trailer! :har: :har: :har:

Yes, the young feller is doin' great in the Marines. Just got his red stripe to his dress uniform :salute: :yeah: and he had a blast fishing for "toothy critters"! We dispelled the myth he was always told that they are boney and taste like "you know what". :nope:

One of his drill instructors saw the pics, as we put them on DVD for him to take, and pop into a computer or dvd player, and the DI wants to come fishing on vacation now, and took a kindly liking to him as fellow rod and reel hunter.

Yep, the cold water definitely makes them taste better! The average temp where I fish in Lake Saint Clair gets no higher than about 72 degrees, because the water coming off the river there, [asses over some sandy flats that are about 2 to 3 ft deep, so it only warms a little. But the key, I think is it is moving water as opposed to land-locked duckponds, where the water can really get warm.

What I like about pike, is they feed on mostly perch and bluegill, so they have that mild sweet flavor like they have. Muskie, ............, well they're the top preditors on the lakes here. Everything from fellow, though smaller muskie than themselves to the other fish species in the lakes, along with waterfowl, rodents, amphibians, aquatic reptiles, and even the occasional finger can make up their dining choices. They like to hang out in the shadow of your boat if you're anchored and casting for bass, and when you get a smallie close to the boat, they lunge out, snag the smallie, and your tackle usually too, and they're gone. So to counteract them, I started trolling instead, and have the drag on the reel very lightly set, so they can run all they want, and they won't snap the line. And I use tackle and line that is great for average pike, and panfish fishing, but you never know what the heck will bite here. And I have brought in a 48 and 50 inch skie on my set up with 15 lb test line. And because the reels are set very light, they haven't damaged the gear one bit, which is what I feared might happen, but those Inspinity rods and reels are great for the price. 7 ft medium rods and reels.

But growing to 50+lbs and 5ft or more in length, they don't have much to worry about, except me of course. And even though the "skies" prefer warmer water than pike, they will hang out in the same area to keep cooler in the summer, so if you can get a good one in the early morning hours before the temps go up, they can be quite tasty too. Just more of 'em to fill the plate per fish is all.

To control the Asian Carp they should start planting them by the millions where those things have flourished. They might not get the adults, but they could really put a hurt on the young ones!

Hey CapnScury, check out this football my bro busted on one of the canals, and it hit on jointed diving muskie sucker lure:

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22 inches, and 6.6 lbs.

That's a huge small mouth!! Six and a half pounds, WOW, that's really big when you consider it's a small mouth bass! They put up quite a fight don't they? Jumping out of the water, diving under the boat.....any bass is fun to catch, their so aggressive.

On Norris Lake, my uncle introduced us to fly rods for catching fish back in the early 60's. We would work an over hung rock bank using flies and had great success. We'd tie two flies on, the first being a floater, the second back about 18 inches being a wet fly that sinks. The bass/blue gills would just tear them up!! I remember catching two at a time many times using those baits. Talk about a thrill when you catch a three-four pounder bass on a fly rod?!


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I knew this was going to happen!!

You start talking about fishing, and just like Grandma's "Brag Book" for the grand kids, out come the pictures. In the old days, the fish kept getting bigger, and more of them after each telling. Sometimes the arms weren't long enough to show how large the fish was after the third time of telling the tale! Now-a-days we got cell phones to keep us honest.

Here's my son with an afternoon's catch from up on Lake Nipissing.


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Like this past spring, I usually go up in early June before the small mouth come into season. My son went with us a couple of summers ago in late July when these pictures were taken. I think we caught 12 small mouth that trip, with our limit in walleye, and a boat load of perch.


My wife thought our dogs needed the life jackets!! I just think they made them look more "appealing" to the pike or muskie that might spot them in the water. Bon appetit!!


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Oh man, those are some beauts! Yeah those smallies are great! Like giant sunfish the way they go back and forth, and dive. I noticed, that the way to tell if it's a largemouth or smallie, is that smallies dive deep, and largemouths head for the surface.

Same with pike and muskie. pike like to jump and shake, while muskies like to dive and wrap you up on pilings and rocks and weeds.

Darn pike though, if they shake the lure, ...... WATCHOUT! It will usually make you duck or take treble hooks in the face.