Anyone Fish, Fly Fish, or make lures? Here is a fishing thread.

[Mrs MIA]

Well, you don't really "fish" for crab or shrimp... you drop a pot and let it sit for several hours then pull it up to see what you got. We like to drop the pots on the way out to the fishing hole, fish, then come back and check the pots. Or drop them in the evening, camp out, and check them again in the morning.

 

[AllChookUp]

I live in Minnesota, the land of 15,000 lakes. That automatically makes me a fisherman. On top of that, I grew up with a Dad who is one of the most avid fishermen I've ever known.

I also love fly-fishing. Took a 2-week trip to MT & WY this summer with lots of fly-fishing thrown in there.

But my favorite is ice-fishing. Pulling a huge northern through the ice is something I truly love. The ice is already beginning to form on most of the lakes around here. I'll be ice-fishing by the beginning of December if it keeps up at this rate!

 

[hypnofrogstevie]

Sounds awesome! I may try to buy a boat. I wanna take a few peeps to help me.

 

[blueskylen]

We love to fish! my husband Jeff ties his own flies and makes spinners that catch a lot of trout. we often go camping and trout fishing in the spring and summer months. I especially like to go to the smaller streams and brook trout fish.

this summer we walked way down Cheat Mountain to the river - probably a 45 minute hike - and on the very first hole - i fell face first on the only pointed rock on the bank. If I hadn't had glasses on, I am sure it would have put my eye out, but instead it broke the glasses, bent my nose, and now I have a lovely scar on my upper cheek about 2" long. had to walk all the way out and travel an hour to the nearest hospital for stitches. We still went fishing again the following weekend tho.

we used to go to Cape Hatteras and Okracoke Island ( our vacations aren't long enough now for the long trip ) and surf fish - that was a great time - you never knew what you were going to pull out.

this labor day we went to the Chesapeake bay and crabbed on one of the tributaries there - caught a couple dozen big ones and have a great time- not much fish there but catfish.

nothing like a day of fishing - fresh air and scenery!

 

[Mrs MIA]

Here's a question (and I think I missed a page of the thread so it may have been answered already) do you use your own chicken/turkey/duck feathers to tie flies?
I see all those beautiful feathers going to waste when we harvest our birds, and wonder if I should save them for the people in town that tie their own flies?

 

[chicken_angler]

You can use ANY type of feather. Most of them get wrinkled, then they arent much good. who am i kidding, they are all good enough for me lol

 

[joerogrz]

There's just too much here to reply to....

You can get some really cheap kits from Cabela's and Bass Pro. That's what I'm using now.

There are just too many places people are mentioning here that I would like to go fish... Montana, Wyoming and especially Alaska.... I wouldn't mind trying some fly fishing in the Outer Banks either.

AK-BirdBrain- If you do save the feathers, it's actually better to skin the saddle and neck hackle instead of plucking. However they are still usable if they are plucked. You can actually sell the skinned ones if they are cured.

 

[Mrs MIA]

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thank you for that info! We got tired of plucking about 200 birds ago, and skin most of them now. I'll have to try that.
Thanks!

 

[FisherMOM]

My username says it all!!

 

[birdnutz]

As a child vacations were fishing trips on the Mississippi,Missouri and Iowa rivers. Now I'm in wyoming and one of these days I WILL catch a walleye! Love to catch all the different types of trout and I'm tops on CARP. Really niced sized catfish but no bass. The water is to cold for spawning.