Fishin N E 1

Well this time of year with winter close at hand my fishing goes from the gentle rocking of the boat and long casts into the warm wind to a small shack on the ice with enough room to drop a jig.So i thought it would be great to be able to talk about our fishing trips,equipment and techniques,post our fishing pics from the summer and hopefully icefishing pics this winter....anybody fishing salt water or exotic areas or fish it would be great to hear the stories and see the fish to keep us guys freezing in shacks from casting withdrawal.

Well theres nothing very exotic about these fish but they earned me the weekend nickname Crappie Jim and were caught on lake of the Woods,Ont. I was using an ultra light,medium action rod and 4lb test line,bouncing a silver jigging spoon with a red reflector strip and they were grabbing it almost right off the bottom in 25 feet of water.
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Crappie is some damn good eatin'. I love fishing for crappie. If you find the right spot you can just pull them up one after the other. How do you like to prepare yours Jim?

Peace

Hey Doc, I have only actually eaten Crappie once for shore lunch and we just fried the fillet's in butter and added some salt and pepper, we really should pack more spices,they are excellent though even plain like that.Not a fishy taste like some other fish ive had.Were kinda spoiled here with tons of Walleye so alot of people wont even fish for Crappie but i really dont think many would notice much difference if it was mixed in with their Walleye.

How are you preparing yours? If you have the prescription id love to try it out.

I just season some flour with salt, pepper, maybe a little garlic powder, maybe a little cayenne pepper. Then I dredge the fillet and fry 'em up in some brown butter. Then drain on some paper towels. Nothing really too difficult, but really tasty.

Freshwater fishing gets a little stale for me down here in Texas. I have to break the monotony going deep sea fishing in the Gulf two or three times a year.

Peace

Originally posted by Dr Love

Freshwater fishing gets a little stale for me down here in Texas. I have to break the monotony going deep sea fishing in the Gulf two or three times a year.

Peace

Im Jealous....I did a little research as my knowledge of deep sea fishing is addmittedly low.

Anglers fishing just off shore can look forward to Flounder,Speckled Trout,Sheepshead,Sand Trout,Croaker,Whiting,Bull Reds and Gafftop.Anglers fishing a few miles offshore can look forward to Shark and Tarpon...15-40 miles offshore anglers can catch Kingfish(no relation to Kinglizard) Snapper,Cobia,Durado,Sailfish and Wahoo as well as Bull,Sand,Hammerhead and Tiger sharks.Travelling 70-100 miles off shore anglers will find Blue Marlin,White Marlin,Tuna,Wahoo,Dorado and Sailfish.

Im even More jealous now,From what im reading it sounds like a great place to fish even just off shore,You got fish i havent even heard of.

Which of these are popular catches for you Doc ? What kind of price range for Chartering a boat ?

Originally posted by jimstradamus
...Kingfish....Snapper..... Durado

Those are the ones I like to concentrate on. Unbelievable eating all three of them. The King is probably the best fight of the three. I don't mess with sharks usually. They're a real hassle. If you don't bleed them within a short time of catching them, the meat can get bad. They urinate through their blood. Still sharks are good eating.

I like to charter one boat for me and about three, maybe four others. It an run about $150/person. I don't mess with those party boats. They're cheaper but more people and more lines in the water sucks.

Peace

OMG !!!



What an amazing looking fish man,id love to hook one of these Durado and 150 a day is reasonable...



[edit on 11-11-2005 by jimstradamus]

I am in the fishing wonderland of the world. I just went and bought myself a new shimano 7 foot river estruary rod combo. I love it.

I don't get to go out to sea much but when I wasa girl my dad used to take me fishing with him and it was the family joke that I caught more than anyone else. As i grew it is still my favourite past time.

When I have a bad day or sad day I go down to the jetty and cast my rod, look around at the sky, the sea and the mountains and just brings everything back into perspective.

I am teaching my kids to fish now as my dad did for me. Im lucky Krissy sometimes looks after the kids of an evening for a couple of hours so i can go down and wind down.

I bought myself some pretty lures a couple of weeks ago and when I took the kids camping last week I hooked one up for Krissy. It took her half an hour for the seaweed to eat my lure. *sad.

Flatheads my favourite fish. I cook it the same as Dr Love does, in butter rolled lightly in flour salt and pepper. They are rare caught in the tropics where I live now but down south they are abundant. The seafood shop in town rings me whenever they have a fresh catch in.

I catch Mangrove Jack and Bream, Whiting and Snapper. I like leatherjackets, called butter fish and I can skin them and fillet a flathead before you can say boo. I love flounder, they feel like reeeling in an old dead shoe, no fight but yummy in the pan. Sometimes I catch taylor and trevally but I throw them back more often than keep. I love crabbing and yabbying and catching freshwater crays. I love oystering and prawning and geting live nippers for bait. I often help the tourists remove the octopus from their lines and then I ask them if they want it, I usually get a grimace and wander off happily to pop them in my bucket. I get home skin them and then marinate them and stick the pieces on a hot bbq.


I can only dream, I average between 1 to 2 kilo size sometimes bigger if I catch a duskie. Two main types dusky and sandy.


There is a couple of types of bream, red bream is snapper, yellow bream and silver bream, the silver bream is often referred to as deep sea bream.


Look at those snappers


Flounder


Leatherjacket