A bucket of Salmon lol
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Do you think this kind of comment is helpful? Take a step back and think of how reading a post like this is going to make me feel.
When I first started fishing many moons ago I came up empty for months. Every other fisherman I talked talked to “knew” the secret way for a certain spot. I’d go replicate their methods and catch nothing. I started handing out challenges to all these dipshits. “I challenge you to take me out and do exactly what you told me to do and catch something with me there”. No takers. Looking back it was just the smallest of details that I’d miss. I’d be in right place at right time with right fly but maybe not deep enough down, or right fly but wrong colour... Now I can’t recall the last time I came home with nothing. It frustrating being on the water and fish are almost jumping into your boat but won’t try your fly.
You honestly feel fishing from shore will be better than using Kayak? If so that’s too bad.
@ThatOneDude this is the kind of guy I probably witness fighting this boat and makes me happy to just have a float tube.
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Shore fishing is fine, if you're fishing points and it's the spring time and fish are in the shallows. At least that's how it tends to work here. The big thing here is knowing where the structure is. I'm going to fix this issue and make my own structure.When I first started fishing many moons ago I came up empty for months. Every other fisherman at is talked to “knew” the se get way for a certain spot. I’d go replicate their methods and catch nothing. I started handing out challenges to all these dipshits. “I challenge you to take me out and do exactly what you told me to do and catch something with me there”. No takers. Looking back it was just the smallest of details that I’d miss. I’d be in right place at right time with right fly but maybe not deep enough down, or right fly but wrong colour... Now I can’t recall the last time I came home with nothing. It frustrating being on the water and fish are almost jumping into your boat but won’t try your fly.
You honestly feel fishing from shore will be better than using Kayak? If so that’s too bad.
Yeah it’s really hard to trouble shoot when you don’t have positive results to scale your current situation against. I mostly change up my spots and bait depth. It’s not like I can have a favourite bait or can judge which bait works best in a certain situation when I have had no real success with any single bait.When I first started fishing many moons ago I came up empty for months. Every other fisherman at is talked to “knew” the se get way for a certain spot. I’d go replicate their methods and catch nothing. I started handing out challenges to all these dipshits. “I challenge you to take me out and do exactly what you told me to do and catch something with me there”. No takers. Looking back it was just the smallest of details that I’d miss. I’d be in right place at right time with right fly but maybe not deep enough down, or right fly but wrong colour... Now I can’t recall the last time I came home with nothing. It frustrating being on the water and fish are almost jumping into your boat but won’t try your fly.
You honestly feel fishing from shore will be better than using Kayak? If so that’s too bad.
I could fish from my kayak tomorrow, but the mouth of the creek is pretty narrow, and in reality I’ll be fishing fifteen feet from shore anyway. The creek has a strong current so it will also save me from having to steer my kayak while I fish to keep the bait in front of me. I’ll get a lot more actual fishing done from the shore.
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Maybe you should take up knitting instead?
Sometimes I think you forget that there’s an actual person on the other side of the computer.
Kayak anchor bruh. My father in law made us some out of plow disks. Now they are my boat anchors. They kinda suck for the boat.
@Sex Chicken, can you use a casting net to catch live bait up in our communist hat?
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@ConorMcGregorsBeard do y'all know?
I haven’t looked in to it, the lake I was on last week had a sign saying “No live bait fish”. I know people catch minnows all the time though for bait, and you can buy them.
The lake I was on was a “Nature Conservation” so I think they are more strict.
I wonder if you can use live bait that's naturally occurring and living in the lake already?
since we talked about trucks and mileage recently, here is some real-time data. I just drove from Texas to Colorado. I reset one of the trip meters right as I left town. This is with me, my wife and son and the cab and bed full of luggage, camping gear, and all my bike stuff. Plus my aerodynamic mountain bike hanging off the back.
I think our talking point before was people having unreasonable mileage expectations for pickups. I usually get around 23 highway (sometimes a bit higher). But with the truck packed down and then gaining over 5000 feet elevation, I’m pretty happy with this (2.7 eco crew cab).
That would be a violation of the wildlife act
You can use worms, helgamites,frogs etc but not minnows
Any reason why?
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Banging @conor mcgregor nut hugger ’s step mom should be a violation of the wildlife act.
It is to prevent intruducing non native species and ruining lakes .they dont even allow live wells in BC
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I used to purify myself in the waters of Windermere lake
They just blanket banned live minnow bait.whether its native species or guppies and minnows.some turd introduced goldfish in to a couple lakes around here a few years back and the govt ended up killing the lakes off and restocking them.the chinese introduced snakeheads at the coast and wrecked some ponds and dudes have brought perch into lakes and decimated the trout fisheries
Fuck those people introducing non native fish into bodies of water. Fucking assholes.
Sounds like they are pretty aggressive against non native species, that's pretty great.
Yep
They had to kill off a whole super deep alpine lake here a few years ago.
Got filled with some type of Shad via bucket biology...it was eating up all the natives.
No fishing there for a few more years until it recovers with natives.
That shit pisses me off. Don't get me wrong, I fucking love fishing with live bait. We catch our own instead of buy, and we never bring from one body of water too another.
They have all these strict rules about stuff here but they are never enforced.
I don't think it was shad as bait here...I think somebody liked the fish and wanted the lake to be filled with em.
The natives are harder to catch I think.
I don't know Shad though so all that^^^ could be incorrect.
Final result is that the lake no longer has it's actual initial native genetics anymore...that is a bummer.
They had to bring in new lake trout and Kokanee populations from who knows where.
We have shad here, they make awesome bait for just about everything in the main lake we go out on. I toss out the casting net a few times, and we have bait for all day. Sometimes it takes more throws.