Freshwater fishermen crack me up

Oooooooo I got a 5 once pickeral! I battled a two pound rainbow trout!!!!... WOOOOOOOOOOOO....

two pounds.... :rofl:

That's not even bait for Bluefish fishing.

You can't keep a striper that's less than 38 inches long (about 18 pounds).

How many brook trout did you catch today, Mr. Freshwaterfishman? 3!

How many scup did you catch today Big? 40, and I threw twenty back because I ran out of bucket space.

Then again, you don't hear me bragging about it. My friends don't trophy-we do it for food.

I've ever caught.

I do both, but I crack up when freshies brag, even more when they scoff at salties like me.

I'd take one look at your fish and think of all the ways to cook that bad boy! And lots of leftovers to freeze-my freezer would be so happy!

Lots of catfish around here. I swear catfish can only be prepared a few ways or else it tastes dirty! If we have a big catfish catch between the lot of us we tend to have a good fish fry.

no matter what the hell I've done to cook them.

Is there some secret?? I've fried them in butter, lard, vegetable oil, olive oil, and margarine. I've spiced them with curry, oregano, parsley, salt, pepper...

Still, they taste like mud.

Non-farm raised trout though.... MAN does that melt in your mouth.

He cooks them up for us. I do know that his includes cornmeal and beer but the recipe has eluded me for years.

His aunt and uncle run a KC-style bbq joint. The best catfish I've ever had has always been in one of those joints.


And non-farm raised trout is wonderful! I can taste it right now.

I'll construct a small but elaborate shrine to you

Some families guard their recipies for catfish closely. It might be time for my daughter to beg "Uncle Ron" for the recipe!

Rivalries between fishermen crack me up even more. :rofl:

she doesn't discriminate.

so it's an all salt 2006 for me.

my testicles


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larger


than yours.


:P

giant squid.

I keep daydreaming about fishing the state both salt and fresh.

There's nothing like seeing them rise to your bait from twenty feet down in a pool. We'd build a fire and fry them right there.

On a nine-weight fly rod. In the Keys. My days and nights are full of images of leaping tarpon.

And bonefish.

:)

you forgot about the great lakes! We've got some pretty big freshwater fish here :)

scour with pole and hook.

:)

I remember the Coho-a-rama on Lake Michigan quite well. Lots of competition.

And I vividly remember getting out the nets for smelt. Not big by any means but I'd love to have a plate of fried smelt right now!

In some parts of WI it is beer-battered but my Mom always did hers cornmeal and saved the beer for drinking.

I will starve myself the day before so that I don't have to count how many smelt I've eaten.

in olive oil and dipped in vinegar, chopped onion, and fresh chopped parsley.

MAN is my mouth watering!

but sometimes I add a bit of minced garlic and have lemon wedges on the side to drizzle over the top.

Corn on the cob, cole slaw and maybe some hushpuppies makes one of the most perfect meals ever. I'd have to consider that for a last meal if I were on death row.

Everything else just does not count.



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though my brother Marc has urged me to do it every year since he returend from Washington state.


Marc McLargehuge (taken 2004)
Location: Gooseberry Neck, Westport MA

and I was a lousy fisherman regarding caught trouts. But it's a wonderful experience, to follow a brook somewhere casting your line in the exact way.

You really should try it.

I've never seen him catch anything, but he says that on the right tide he can pull three or four in a couple of hours.

;)

Honestly, I always caught the little ones I had to release again (I never fished with the hook intact), but my best friend, whom I consider a champion in flyfishing, could catch almost anything he wanted. If he goes fishing somewhere, he'll be coming back with dinner.

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... my dad would take my siblings and me fishing.

We'd regularly catch fish that weighed more than we did. Often we wouldn't have the stamina to bring them in all the way, but they were still our fish to brag about.

can get pretty good sized. Though I like deep sea fishing most.

Nephew with one caught in the river down the road.

:o So, nah!! :P

I use electricity or seines. But then...I'm allowed to.

I'm from SE Alaska...we got rock cods, red snappers, 5 different kinds of salmon, and halibut...(our main fishes). The biggest halibut i ever caught was 60lbs, the biggest king i ever caught was 38lbs...I have been down in SW Missouri for 3yrs now. The biggest fish i caught, was a 3lb large mouth bass, which is considered a good size for the fish! I enjoy fishing, i'm not knocking freshwater/pond fisherman, but damn. The biggest fish, i have seen caught down here was a 13lb catfish, and the guy was happy as can be...most of the fish i catch down here, aren't even worth the time, to clean, and debone...

And I understand why he is happy, the biggest fish i caught here, weighed only 3 effing pounds...:)

On Edit: The biggest fish, i have ever seen caught, in real life, was a 310 lbs halibut. 1988, my dad worked out of town for the public utilities, him and I were riding around on a backhoe, and all of a sudden we hear, gunshots in the distance, and a fog horn. My dad drives, over close to the oceanline, and he see's his co-worker, struggling, with something, and minutes later, the fog horn blasts again, and the boat is coming to shore. My dads co-worker, while cleaning his boat...put his rods/poles on the side of his boat, and when he did, a hook/sinker dropped into the bay, and hit bottom...teh halibut say it, and bit hard....

Co-worker, swings his boat around, and talks my dad, into taking the back hoe, pretty far down the boat launch...co-worker jumps over board to hook his line, to the bucket teeth of the back hoe, and my dad pulls out, the biggest fish, i have ever seen in real life....true story....