French frogs

[LittleLakePhil]

Me either.
Don't trust the ice in MD; haven't fished WI in winter yet.

Where do you live?

 

[kwhites634]

Where do you live?

MD

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Bummer I was hoping you'd say Wisconsin....what's in Wisconsin then?

 

[kwhites634]

Bummer I was hoping you'd say Wisconsin....what's in Wisconsin then?

My son, and our bass boat

 

[LittleLakePhil]

We'll make him take you ice fishing should be plenty down there....my boys both live in Traverse City I go down there and fish sometimes. They got a good lake for smelt down there. A good meal of fried smelt also hard to beat.

 

[Cockatrice6420]

Actually yes. There is a nice one in Manistique....I mostly fish l
Lake Superior though I spend a large chunk of my winter on Munising bay. Whitefish and Splake...and Coho.....used to be great Smelt fishing too but not lately.

I like rock bass some people don't like them...I think they've never tried them myself. There is a lake not far from here where you can quite literally catch a hundred of them a day in the spring. I say yum

I've had smoked smelt... those little fish are tasty! Over here everyone call the salt water rock fish as rock bass.

 

[Cockatrice6420]

you should try it

One no longer lives in the Denver area, and I'm not sure about traversing the mountain passes right now plus I don't think the other sis has ice yet... but I'd love to someday!

 

[kwhites634]

We'll make him take you ice fishing should be plenty down there....my boys both live in Traverse City I go down there and fish sometimes. They got a good lake for smelt down there. A good meal of fried smelt also hard to beat.

We'll make it one day, maybe, God willing.
Could be a tough drive in winter...800+ one way...I won't fly
I've made it up there every summer for the last 6-7 yrs...fished most of the larger lakes in southern WI up to Milwaukee. Fished a nice one further north, near Hayward WI last summer.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Definitely not the same rock bass...rock bass here are a pan fish...similar to a bluegill they are basically a small member of the bass family.....you guys got those razor clams your way though....

 

[kwhites634]

I've had smoked smelt... those little fish are tasty! Over here everyone call the salt water rock fish as rock bass.

Two entirely different fish. The freshwater Rock Bass is a hybrid...Largemouth Bass x Sunfish. Colored like the bass, shaped like the bass, big mouth like the bass, but the size of a large Sunfish & not as bony. The Rockfish, or Stripers, are much larger & carry horizontal stripes.