Fishing Strut
pointman
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Yeah so maybe it's my Cajun blood but I love fishing when I can. Yesterday I went with my old man and we limited out on Speckled Trout by 11am. Then I went home and cooked some for dinner and felt all manly. It was a good day.Who else gets their fish on'? 
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I haven't in many years, but I did a lot as a kid. My dad belonged to a small fishing club, and I would go with him to fly fish for trout (primarily brown and rainbow trout, with the occasional brook trout) in the aptly-named Trout Pond, and then hit the lake to fish for largemouth bass, perch, and pickerel. (Having a pickerel come up and absolutely maul a surface lure is pretty nutso the first time it happens.)
One of the best fishing experiences I had, though, was going to Alaska and spenidng several days rafting down a river while fishing for salmon. It was mostly humpback salmon, but I also caught a pretty large sockeye, which was very nice, and several silver salmon, which we smoked and ate on the riverbank (salmon just hasn't tasted the same since). Having a gigantic king salmon on the end of a fly rod suddenly makes that thin piece of graphite and the tiny little leader line seem woefully inadequate.
and we'd go to a lake at the camp, so it was always kind of private. Very nice.
Now I live in New York. I'm sure the fishing is good somewhere, but I don't get
out of the city and I don't feel like fishing off the pier at Coney Island. You
say you've got Cajun blood, you from anywhere around New Orleans? I grew up
nearby.
My father-in-law is an avid fisherman - I mean, dude is hardcore. He's goes on at least half a dozen trips a year, including a week in Alaska every summer where he fishes for king salmon and halibut, plus tuna trips off of San Diego for yellowtail. I'm looking forward to when my daughter is old enough to learn fishing so we can all take family trips together.
Nowadays I fish whenever I visit Port Aransas, but for the most part I've become sadly
Where at? West Bank NOLA (Algiers, Gretna, Harvey) for me.
i've only gone freshwater fishing for "wussyfish" like sween would say. never done saltwater but i would love to, just a little intimidated by it though
Nah I'm born and raised Houstonian but my Mother's family are from Port Arthur.
Prospect Park BK. Its stocked with Large mouth bass, catfish, perch, and car tires, used condoms and other surprises.
Ah, the infamous Coney Island whitefish.
I definitely recommend it if you can make it happen. Alaska is pretty dope, especially to a lower-48er like me who had never been to a place like that before, and the fishing is really fun.
Catfish?! For real? Awesome, I bet they hate all the young newly weds, too.
Speaking of catfish, anyone here ever seen a film called "Okie Noodling"? It's
about people who catch catfish by sticking their hands straight into their water-
holes, letting the fish bite, and then pulling them out bare handed!
As for the New Orleans talk, I'm from Hattiesburg, MS. A couple hours away. New
Orleans was the only spot to go to for any fun, though, so I spent much of my
youth around the city.
That shit is crazy stupid. I love some catfish but every fisherman knows large catfish taste like shit. Any catfish that size has to be horrible.
Never that son.
Catfish yes, and Large mouth bass as well. I used to fish every summer for about 8 years when we had a summer home in Penn. I cant get into ocean fishing at all for some reason even though I lived on brighton beach all my life. Something about waking up at 5:30 am and fishing on a calm, still, foggy lake does it for me. Havent had peeps to go fishing with in a long time. Need to get out there one day.
Is that a mekong river catfish? The size of those suckers are mind blowing though I hear they are being overfished. *sigh*
I always feel like fishing is one of those activities - like digging - which seem grander in hindsight. Like I've heard stories of these epic grunion runs in LA beaches or massive jubilees off the Gulf Coast or the days when crabs and lobsters were treated like trash hauls and blah blah blah.
It's sad how, in a generation or two, the once endless bounty of the sea now seems like a faint, naive idea.
my grandmother would tell me that back in Russia , catfish would snack on farm animals wading in the water.
Done it. I was just happy not to run into any snappers. See you at Bob's Pig Shack, though.
The documentary on the phenomena has a bit in the intro where they ask some guy if he noodles, and he says, 'Not anymore!' They ask why, and he says 'Because I can afford a fishing pole.' That about sums up the crowd.
Is that a mekong river catfish? The size of those suckers are mind blowing though I hear they are being overfished. *sigh*
This one is from Oklahoma