Last year I really started getting back to my fishing roots. As a kid I spent thousands and thousands of hours fishing for anything you could catch freshwater in the northeast. Since my archery addiction, I've pulled away and focused less on fishing over the last 5 years or so. This year I'm really planning to get back into it even more. I don't want to get die hard competitive with it, but am planning to hit a couple of the local tournaments with a good buddy, we plan to try and hit the striper run in the hudson river, and then lots of pond/small lake hopping in my canoe for bass and pike. I actually have a pair of new Curado 201E7's that were dropped off at my house today, can't wait to get home and fondle them. :p I've already been out a handful of times over the last couple of weeks, and can't wait for the better weather we are supposed to have this weekend, the water temps should get up into the low 50's and I'm sure the bigger girls should be headed to the shallows. I'm actually playing hooky on Friday to get out and wet a line. Anyone else doing some fishing?
i am the world's worst open water fisher-person.... if im in your boat you aint catching anything either, cept maybe a buzz!!!!
Sure have been. Caught a nice walleye in the Juniata two weeks ago. Been hitting up the delayed harvest sections catching some trout lately. Really excited about the river warming up a few more degrees, the bass will be hitting good
I have been fishing 2-3 times a week. Mostly for steelhead, but I have mixed in some trout fishing here and there. Getting a little burned out on steelhead though. Looking forward to more trout fishing as well as some stillwater fishing.
While I've never fished for or caught a steelhead, I just can't seem to get worked up for trout fishing anymore. I'm sure someday I'll go again, but after fishing for trout my entire childhood, I'm really enjoying the new found freedom I've gotten from my canoe fishing setup I've assembled for smaller lakes and ponds. I don't know what it is, but lately I'm all about catching bass and pike. We have some world class trout waters in NY, but I just can't get excited about it for some reason.
Things don't really heat up here for bass fishing until we have had 5 or more, 70+ degree days in a row. But when we get those days, I will be out on my kayak having a blast.
Trout will always be my first love, but I do enjoy chasing just about anything that swims with a fly. Besides trout and steelhead, I normally fish for smallmouth and largemouth bass, northern pike, walleye, bluegills, crappie, perch, sheephead, carp, king and coho salmon, to name a few. Plan on adding musky to that list this summer. One thing I love about MI fishing...lots of variety. I'm sure New York is similar. Most of the time I fish for trout, it is in a non-traditional way. I fish big streamers (4"-8" long) on sinking lines, and I fish them fast. I love watching a big trout crash a big streamer. Streamers are also my favorite thing to tie, so it all adds up to being my favorite way to fish. Big browns are serious predators. The big trout in MI rivers get big by eating smaller fish. For example, a friend of mine caught a 27" brown with a 12" rainbow in its throat a few years ago. A few examples.
Nah, not much free time right now. Planning to hit the water some this spring with the flyrod and of course spin fishing on the lake in Canada. Hard to juggle all the hobbies, though:D
Been out twice to a lake here in Illinois. First outing was only a few fish, but last Saturday, we boated 64. I will get back after it again this Saturday if the weather is nice, and then April 16-18 I will be fishing one of the better bass lakes in Illinois. I've also got an awesome crappie/bass pond near my house that I will hit up 2-3 times a week if it is dry enough to drive back to. And since I have lived next to the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers all my life, I was raised on catfishing, so a few nights each summer I am set up looking to hook into a few of these.
All my free time right now is devoted to archery. I'm working at it pretty hard right now. However, if I work at the boat dock again this summer, I'm sure I'll end up fishing some. If I'm around it, I catch the bug.
Real close to my favorite time to hit the river for catch and release smallies. By this point in the year, I have usually built up enough favors with my one friend who has a jet boat to get to the good holes up river, off the main stream. It's a blast, this Saturday may have to be the day. Other than that, I still usually take my prop boat out for a test run or two this month and usually wet a line or two in the process.
I have GOT to get to Michigan to fish for those browns!!!!!!!! Vito, Your love of seeing a trout smash a streamer sound like mine for seeing them smash a spinner. I've always got to be moving. I been out once so far, headed out again this weekend and likely everyone one I cna afterwards for the rest of summer plus a few scattered evenings after work. For now I'll be chasing trout, then late May I'll mix in some smallmouth. After July 4th it'll be almost completely smallie chasing as most of our trout waters will have waarmed up.
Yeah, same idea. For the most part, I cast perpendicular to the bank, as close to the bank or cover as possible and strip. When the water temp is 55-60, you can really move it fast. It is impossible to move it too fast when a big brown wants to eat it. They attack like a pike.
Im leaving tomorrow to go catch some Reds and Sea trout hopfully Ill catch enough to post some pics! Wish me luck!!!
May break out the fly rod Friday for some crappies and bluegills, if the water warms up enough. Otherwise, I won't do any until I head back to Canada May 1.
