The Unofficial Fishing Thread

Nice, lol. My daughter caught a monster sucker in the Columbia several years ago. I used to bowfish for squawfish from the bank and spearfish suckers underwater when I was a teenager. I rarely see them these days, I guess that's a good sign.

 

We have a couple of lakes with a bunch of suckers .I snagged one that was just under 20lbs last year what a fun fight. I honestly thought about bow fishing for those. Sounds like a good time.

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Ya when my daughter hooked into that sucker I thought it might be a sturgeon. Felt like reeling in a sheet of plywood or something.

I just heard on the radio yesterday that two species of suckers are on the endangered species list. I had no idea, always assumed they were trash fish with a bounty on their heads. I used to just throw them up on the bank after killing them.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...uckers-released-in-effort-to-avoid-extinction

 

Shit same here lol I have left me share up on the shores.

I think it is funny that in Oregon you can keep your sturgeon unless caught off of the Snake but in Idaho you can get a big ticket for even pulling them out of the water. Oh well like 98 percent of fish I catch go back in the water anyways.

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Got a little fishing in today but only caught one rainbow. Fun day so far.

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I went out yesterday and caught one Crappie. It was the biggest one I have ever caught and probably the first one I have caught in over twenty years. Sorry no pic though cause I forgot to take one before I released it.

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My new gear to start of this season.

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I love to fish! I’m on the Louisiana coast so I’m lucky enough to have great saltwater and freshwater fishing at my disposal.

I’m gonna try and upload before and after pics of a boat I just finished “fixing up”. Got it and the trailer for $350! Needed lots of welding though. It’s taken me about 8 months and maybe an additional $700 to get everything that’s on there now, including the motor. Motor is a mud motor actually, it can run in literally 0 water. Heck I could throw a garden hose in my backyard and muddy it up and in a few hours be able to scoot my boat around in it lol

 

Here’s a big ass catfish I caught this past summer. Was bass fishing a 7 inch long red Shad worm, Texas rigged. Slow dead sticking on the bottom and this 10lb 1oz cat smoked it

 

I have a few recommendations. Firstly, buy a used boat bc the new ones are crazy expensive and you can find cheap deals on old dinged up ones like mine. Secondly, make sure you don’t buy a riveted boat even if it’s new or newer. Get a “welded” boat, regardless of brand. At least .008 aluminum hull thickness. Unless you’re hard on boats, it’ll never ever leak. Also these mud motors are a great way to motorize your boat for cheap. They are DIY build-a-motor kits. Mine is the sps swamp runner medium kit with a Honda gx390 but you can get predator motors from harbor freight for cheap.
Flat front will get in real shallow water easy but a semi-v is good for cutting through choppy water and can get shallow too. Just needs more power to push it through thick mud.
This boat would have costed me a lot more if I didn’t have a friend who welds aluminum and gave me very friendly prices on the welding. It originally had 2 bench seats, a very small front deck, and no storage. Plus no seat pedestals. Now it has rainproof storage, a big casting deck, open floor, seat pedestals, transom has been reinforced, and he fixed 12 leaks (this boat was used offshore to clean up the BP oil spill and was run over a lot of oyster beds which TEAR a boat up) in it.

Also, mine is a 1442 (14ft long and 42 inches wide at the bottom) and it’s considerably stable for a flat bottom boat, and can fish 3 guys but it’s cramped. Wish I had a 16ft lol


Also a side note: noticed your bullet weights for Texas rig are really big. Not sure if you’re fishing in a lot of current but you can use 1/16 oz bullet weights if there’s no current to mess you up, and you can feel the bottom contour/bites a lot better

 

So excited the wife gave me the go ahead to order one of these this week. It the Vibe Yellowfin 130t tandem to solo fishing kayak. I was going to get a couple of Vibe Seahhost 130 but she did not want to solo it so this works for me.

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