Braggin Board for Fishing!

[AK Troutbum]

My best hatchery fish, and my favorite salt water species.

God I love steelhead fishing! Did you get the permit on a fly? Kudos to you if you did!


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[Big Iron]

It's below zero here for the considerable future. Dreaming of spring....

 

[rclouse79]

I will do a little bragging. The line ups on the ice are from the last two weekends. Had a great time with my son. Perch tacos are my new favorite.

 

[VernAK]

really big perch.....

 

[rclouse79]

really big perch.....

I have been addicted. It is nice to have a distraction between hunting seasons.

 

[MightyWhitey]

October, Venice La 76#
My first off shore trip. I knew they’d be strong, but I never imagined they’d be THAT strong!

 

[Lawnboi]

My favorite fish to catch through the ice

 

[VernAK]

 

[rclouse79]

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That is the fattest fish I have ever seen.

 

[Buffinnut]

Im one of those weird catch and release buffalo guys. These fish can live to be over 100 years old, grow to massive size and are difficult to catch on hook and line. My favorite fish by far. Many people call them carp or confuse them with carp but they are in the sucker family & native to the USA.

Pics 1-3 are smallmouth buffalo from 3 different Texas reservoirs.
The last 2 are bigmouth buffalo from AZ.

 

[OXN939]

Im one of those weird catch and release buffalo guys. These fish can live to be over 100 years old, grow to massive size and are difficult to catch on hook and line. My favorite fish by far. Many people call them carp or confuse them with carp but they are in the sucker family & native to the USA.

Pics 1-3 are smallmouth buffalo from 3 different Texas reservoirs.
The last 2 are bigmouth buffalo from AZ.
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Great to see the catch and release ethic coming to prevalence with this fishery. Sad to think about guys shooting fish three to four times as old as them in bowfishing tournaments just to send them to a dumpster.

Atlantic Sheepshead aren't quite in the centenarian ballpark, but the larger ones can get to 10-15 years old. We do hunt them as they are great eating, but most of the freedivers I know generally limit themselves to one or two a day. Not exactly a super popular subset of diving either... we have aggressive currents, generally quite low viz and some very large sharks.

 

[Buffinnut]

Great to see the catch and release ethic coming to prevalence with this fishery. Sad to think about guys shooting fish three to four times as old as them in bowfishing tournaments just to send them to a dumpster.

Atlantic Sheepshead aren't quite in the centenarian ballpark, but the larger ones can get to 10-15 years old. We do hunt them as they are great eating, but most of the freedivers I know generally limit themselves to one or two a day. Not exactly a super popular subset of diving either... we have aggressive currents, generally quite low viz and some very large sharks.

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That looks awesome! But a little dangerous for me lol.
Im 100% for taking fish to eat and I harvest eater size catfish bycatch often. I'm sure bowfishing for a few fish for the table would be a ton of fun, but those guys killing buffalo and gar and stuff and throwing them away by the barrel full just aren't sportsmen.

I am a little biased though after encountering a few different boats full of drunks talking about how they just needed to kill some stuff.
Wanton waste is wanton waste imo. No different from shooting a deer and leaving it to rot.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

That looks awesome! But a little dangerous for me lol.
Im 100% for taking fish to eat and I harvest eater size catfish bycatch often. I'm sure bowfishing for a few fish for the table would be a ton of fun, but those guys killing buffalo and gar and stuff and throwing them away by the barrel full just aren't sportsmen.

I am a little biased though after encountering a few different boats full of drunks talking about how they just needed to kill some stuff.
Wanton waste is wanton waste imo. No different from shooting a deer and leaving it to rot.

I’ve also never understood the whole kill it and dump it thing, I’ve seen guys fo it with pike and even tiger Muskie.

I’m not a big catch and release guy (don’t need to be where I live), but I sure as heck am not throwing away good fish I catch.

 

[Rich M]

I've been told that buffalo is excellent eating.

Agree about not killing stuff to throw it away.

My fishing is geared more towards the frying pan, we have tons of opportunity down here for catch & release but with the time and cost involved in fishing, I'd rather target eating fish.

 

[browning2480]

Bass are starting to pre-spawn at a power plant lake where I live

 

[Glory]

Got some winter kings sportfishing this weekend. Love fresh fish in February

 

[Buffinnut]

I've been told that buffalo is excellent eating.

Agree about not killing stuff to throw it away.

My fishing is geared more towards the frying pan, we have tons of opportunity down here for catch & release but with the time and cost involved in fishing, I'd rather target eating fish.

I have heard the same about buffalo being great eating. There used to be a thriving commercial fishing operation for buffalo in Arizona. One of these days I'll probably keep a young 8-10lber to try.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

I like nailing silvers on the fly rod and every year I like to keep 5-6 kings but other the. That, I don’t mess around much with salmon.

Rainbows, graylings, pike and char are more my speed.

 

[BlakeyD]

My tophy Rainbow from last season on opener. Getting itchy for opener in a couple months!
27" 10 lbs

 

[BRoth82]

Mu first musky over 50", was 50.5" caught on a bucktail with a 6" grub. The other was just a run of the mill 43" fish.