The Fishing Thread - Ice out is upon us

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Has anyone used those strike king Ned rig bait kits with the coffee scented soft plastics? I see them sitting in a box on the shelf and people rifling through them for the colors they want.
I have a pack but I never use them. 95% of Ned Rig fish I catch are with regular-ol' Z-Man Finesse TRDs. Like this one

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I have a pack but I never use them. 95% of Ned Rig fish I catch are with regular-ol' Z-Man Finesse TRDs. Like this one

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Thanks for the info, that’s a pretty nice catch. I’m gonna go ahead and pass on them then. If you can catch them with a TRD or half of a recycled senko on a ned head then that’ll save some money.
 
I usually just put them up to a piece of tape that measures 10 inches to see if they’re legal and throw them back if they’re not. I should try making tacos with them sometime. Usually I just either fry them or steam them with rice.
 
I’d love to catch something like that but I’m not comfortable with saltwater. I just stuck to mostly panfish and bass.

I haven't fished saltwater in a while, but that's because I don't own a boat atm, and there aren't a lot of good fishing spots just from the shore around here. It's shame because there are some amazing fish out there.

Thankfully, we have a ton of lakes and rivers. A lake I ususally go to unfortunately has a major carp invasion right now, and it isn't native to the region. I couldn't tell ya how they got there though.


If you haven't had carp, I honestly don't care for it. Really gritty meat, and even spicing it up won't make it taste much better. Just my opinion anyways, but I know people who love it.
 
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I haven't fished saltwater in a while, but that's because I don't own a boat atm, and there aren't a lot of good foshing spots just from the shore around here. It's shame because there are so amazing fish out there.

Thankfully, we have a ton of lakes and rivers. A lake I ususally go to unfortunately has a major carp invasion right now, and it isn't native to the region. I couldn't tell ya how they got there though.


If you haven't had carp, I honestly don't care for it. Really gritty meat, and even spicing it up won't make it taste much better. Just my opinion anyways, but I know people who love it.
I like using carp as cutbait but even then it’s a bit of a gamble because flatheads might turn their nose at it.
 
Local weather prevents me from hitting the water at the moment and was curious if the farms had a thread, sure enough it does.

Tax of my PB bream I landed last summer.
Was a good 2.5-3 KG and a good 60ish centimetres while the rod I got it on setup was really just for match fishing for smaller panfish up to one KG, so it was a struggle to keep it on. As opposed to my other rod which I had setup for carp.
Only baited with some canned corn and oatmeal & had a cluster of 3 maggots on the hook.
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Local weather prevents me from hitting the water at the moment and was curious if the farms had a thread, sure enough it does.

Tax of my PB bream I landed last summer.
Was a good 2.5-3 KG and a good 60ish centimetres while the rod I got it on setup was really just for match fishing for smaller panfish up to one KG, so it was a struggle to keep it on. As opposed to my other rod which I had setup for carp.
Only baited with some canned corn and oatmeal & had a cluster of 3 maggots on the hook.
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This is a European bream right? Are they good eating?


Here in muttland bream is another name for bluegill sunfish, a delicious fish which is also great bait for many species of fish.
 
This is a European bream right? Are they good eating?


Here in muttland bream is another name for bluegill sunfish, a delicious fish which is also great bait for many species of fish.
Yeah Euro bream. I've never eaten one, mainly because they're, together with carp, are like cockroaches and survive in damn near any water. As a rule generally in western europe we stay away from eating freshwater fish because here they're often riddled with parasites.

Polaks seem to love eating them & carp though, I've found carcasses that have been stripped laying on the banks far too often. It's actually kind of a problem, one spot I used to go to that isn't too big has been fished empty of carp and now is fully overgrown with Asian weeds, which the carp used to prevent from taking root too much.

The Mississippi river is ice free now in my neck of the woods. Gonna drive up and try for walleye this weekend.
I've always found walleye really interesting, as well as the general fishing scene in the US, spinning/casting lures is the most popular there right? Because here it's the total opposite, only predator you can lurefish for in my area are zander, pike and europerch, but even still a lot of people when they target them use deadbait setups instead.
 
Yeah Euro bream. I've never eaten one, mainly because they're, together with carp, are like cockroaches and survive in damn near any water. As a rule generally in western europe we stay away from eating freshwater fish because here they're often riddled with parasites.

Polaks seem to love eating them & carp though, I've found carcasses that have been stripped laying on the banks far too often. It's actually kind of a problem, one spot I used to go to that isn't too big has been fished empty of carp and now is fully overgrown with Asian weeds, which the carp used to prevent from taking root too much.


I've always found walleye really interesting, as well as the general fishing scene in the US, spinning/casting lures is the most popular there right? Because here it's the total opposite, only predator you can lurefish for in my area are zander, pike and europerch, but even still a lot of people when they target them use deadbait setups instead.
Walleye are about 50/50 I'd say as far as people using live vs artificial bait.

I'll be using 3/4-1 oz lead jigs fished vertically, you need that much weight to keep on the bottom with how much current the Mississippi has. Just about everything will hit these, but the main targets are Walleye, Sauger, and Yellow Perch. I'll also keep a pike or two if I catch a good eater sized one.

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I've always wanted to catch a Zander, they pretty much just seem like a bigger walleye, bet they taste good to. There's one lake in America that they stocked with Zander back in the 80s I think. They ended the program after concerns about them spreading to other lakes and impacting native fish populations, but every once in a while someone will still catch one.
 
Walleye are about 50/50 I'd say as far as people using live vs artificial bait.

I'll be using 3/4-1 oz lead jigs fished vertically, you need that much weight to keep on the bottom with how much current the Mississippi has. Just about everything will hit these, but the main targets are Walleye, Sauger, and Yellow Perch. I'll also keep a pike or two if I catch a good eater sized one.

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Seems like a solid plan, hope you do well on your weekend out & I'd love to see pics of any nice catches! How big do pike get around there? Here we've got certain channels where the pike easily reach over a meter (3 foot I think?) up to some giants being 1.5 meters.

I've always wanted to catch a Zander, they pretty much just seem like a bigger walleye, bet they taste good to. There's one lake in America that they stocked with Zander back in the 80s I think. They ended the program after concerns about them spreading to other lakes and impacting native fish populations, but every once in a while someone will still catch one.
Zander are good fun, they're like a hybrid between a big fuckoff perch & pike. Locally around my part of the world they're also known as "pike-perch", they're the ferocity of pike with the lurking bottom dwelling ambush predation of europerch.

I don't know if they're good eating, all I remember eating as far as fresh water goes is european eel way way way back in the day, since they're protected nowadays.
My dad used to catch them with special deadbait eel rigs & smoke them in the backyard in a big smoking barrel.
Other than that we'd go coastal fishing in estuaries for all sorts of flatfish & whiting. Flatfish like flounder are probably the best self caught meals I've ever had. I still want to go squidfishing once but the nearest spot that's feasible is like 3 hours of driving away.
 
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