Get Baked and Go Fishing

[NoSaint]

no man, its not about the rules. its about forward thinking. most size limits target the smaller to mid size males. they're put in place to protect the larger, more prolific spawning females.

If it werent for conservation programs put in place in the past, some NATIVE species would have been fished out. The great lakes (especially lake michigan) experienced a problem like this with its yellow perch population. after only about 5 or 6 years, perch fishing is as good as it used to be.

Smelt populations have crashed since the zebra mussels arrived because thy eat the smelts "plankton type food". Lamprey eels have hurt multiple lakes in my area. We need to control harvesting of fish if we want them to keep them around

You want to be able to take your kids fishing dont you?? well, if we dont watch our asses now, there wont be anything for them to catch.

Again, its not about conforming....its about thinking for the future.

The slot limits put in place on certain species are a good thing. You need to protect the spawning age females. Fish start spawning earlier and earlier when the big ones get kept. You need the genes of the big fish to pass on.

The invasive species are killing perch fishing, think zebra muscles. They are filtering the water and many lakes in my area are clearer than ever. The big perch who used to be close to shore now are rarely in water less than 30' deep.

Lake otario passed a 1 steelhead limit a few years back and the numbers that return to the river have increased dramatically. Some waters need stricter regs than others.

This is a huge topic and waters need regulating differently, but without them the meat hunters who keep everything they catch would be wiping fish stocks out worse than they are.

If it were nature making these changes it would be one thing, but this is just man destroying another species.

 

[jonezin]

Here's a picture of a king salmon I got a couple years ago. It's small (the picture) but you can still tell about how big it was.

 

[ChaosCatalunya]

LOL, well, I was well and truly baked and fishing all night down on the coast for Dorado with Lugworms... imagine my stoned surprise at landing my first ever Octopus.....


Barbecue - ON ....

 

[arcticsun]

70 north

greyling and pike

peace

 

[buddah]

lovely place to be....uhhhh looks sooo cool!!
greyling are so hart to catch here...nearly impossible

 

[moth]

Kudos and Thanks for sharing

 

[arcticsun]

buddah it is THE BEST place to be greyling here is abundant, i can catch 20 easy in a night in this river. that one is about 1kilo, or alittle over 2 pounds i think. you can see the size of the river, it holds some of the largest greyling i know of. avg size of salmon in this river is 5kg. season 09 was not as good as 08.

moth: glad you liked it m8

 

[buddah]

one day i will be there and may we will fish together....dreaming right now from this spot!!

Pikes, greyling and salmons!! What else want a man he he he beers and some fattys, fishing and sleeping under the sky.-) and i am in heaven!!

 

[Sleepy]

nice pics and stories...

went on saturday...got skunked, not even a bite.

fell in the river just before leaving and fried my phone!

stoner!

 

[NOKUY]

fish w. leaches.

u wont get skunked.

 

[arcticsun]

here is a video of the salmon going up the waterfalls in september in this river for you buddha

Autumn salmon in the Arctic.

you would be very welcome to fish here, its practically free. no catch and release and no competing fishermen, we always get a stretch to ourself. river also holds giant seatrout and seachar, in addition to a landlocked trout and char population. + pike and greyling.

hope you enjoy the vid.. watch in the foam of the water before he goes underwater with the camera.

 

[buddah]

:jawdrop: :jawdrop:

 

[NoSaint]

Artic, you have access to one awesome fishery. I'm jealous still..


The salmon run is just starting in my area. Have made it out twice. First day saw around 50 blast by me, hooked into one and lost it.

Yesterday, I went in the morning. It was slow, but there were some king salmon moving through. One or two at time. Ended up losing between 6-8 between daylight and 10 am. They were big and fresh. Hard to control them when they are that fresh into the river.

Yesterday evening when back and floated the river in a friends driftboat. Didn't hook anything, but still had a nice float.

Heres a pic of one of the big holes of the river. Just to give an idea of what the crowds look like. This really wasnt that bad, it does get worse than this. All the major holes just line up shoulder to shoulder at times. Most people wont walk more than 75 yards from their cars. A little walking can get you plenty of room to fish and "less pressured fish"

 

[HookaHittaH]

It gets like that now in my area since they put restrictions on where you can fish for salmon. There will be over 30 boats in a 60 yard area... Its nuts. Talk about bumper boats haha. Id rather go somewhere else and be by yourself. Looking forward to doing some salmon fishing soon, got 2 more months to go though....

 

[Zathir]

Greetings fishermans!
I spent all day on fishing pike's on underwater hills. All fish came back to water


50 cm

48 cm

66 cm, 2 kg

 

[fish83]

Attention All People Who Go Fishing!!

Attention All People Who Go Fishing!!

Okay, fishing is my life, and I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread about fishing...

To me, theres nothing better than smoking a nice phatty, and going fishing....its my passion...lol...

Anyway...I just got a new computer, and all of my pictures are on my old one, so I have to transfer them to this one...but when I do, I will post pics for all to see...

Where are you in the world?...What do you fish for?....What equipment do you like the most?....tell us a good fishing story, not about "the one that got away" either...lol....fish recipes...anything to do with fishing....like i said...i am gonna get some pics from my old PC to post up....I have thousands of them.....I just have to stop being lazy and do it....lol...

I myself live in upstate NY, and i fish all year around, from summer to winter...In summer, I fish for pretty much everything, bass, walleye, catfish at night..i love catfishing...carp, eels, crappie, perch, pickerel, pike, muskies, and everything in between....in the winter i ice fish a lot for perch, walleye, and get this....i didnt know this until a few years ago...has anyone ever ice fished for cats?...i never tried until i read an article in an IN-Fisherman magazine a while ago....that is something altogether different...I also trout fish a whole lot....I love being on a river, catching trout...I dont do a whole lot of fly fishing, but i catch em with my ultralite setup all day long....man...i cant wait to post some pics up....

Okay all, I hopr this thread is interesting to some...fishing is huge, especially over the last few years for some reason...I hope to read some posts from fisherman around the world...have a great day alll!

 

[cellardweller]

..ummmm..dude..havent you seen the "Get Baked and Go Fishing thread"?
it's a sticky too..http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=86119&highlight=fishing

heres a few..

tight lines bro..

 

[fish83]

ummmm..dude..havent you seen the "Get Baked and Go Fishing thread"?
it's a sticky too..http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=86119&highlight=fishing

heres a few..

tight lines bro..

I never seen this thread man...thanks a lot for linking me to it though....

 

[shaunmulok]

i was just coming back to post the link thanks cd
peace

 

[alaskan]

Me and a friend drove 50 miles out of town looking for good places to fish. All we were catching up to this point was grayling from random rivers, and both of us wanted to find some pike pretty bad...

Well we find a place to pull over next to this slough on our way out to some river, probably 45 miles or so from downtown, cast for a while and were about to leave after not seeing a thing, when I noticed some grass moving around. I cast into it a few times, and then I got a real strong tug... and then nothing. Repeated a few more times and then I finally pulled in my first pike. It was about the same size as the grayling above, but the fight was much better. I'd post a picture but my memory card is inside my computer somewhere...
So we stayed for probably another hour without seeing anything else, and headed towards the river again.

After probably six hours of hiking around and not seeing a single fish we decided to head on home.

As we're going by the slough again, I though I saw a bear out in the water, so I stopped, got out, and tried to get a picture of it (probably 300ft away, in the water) but it turned out to just be a moose that looked like a bear.

I noticed that the slough was partially dammed up under the bridge, and that there was a pike just sitting there near the surface. I yell to my buddy, and then race him to the truck to get my pole. We both got to the water at about the same time, and I reaized it was probably the same one I had caught earlier, because when I put it back in the water earlier it wasn't doing too well - it took us forever to get the triple hook out. So I figure I might as well catch it again, my friend's never eaten pike before...

So I cast right in front of it, and it jerks towards the lure when BAM out of nowhere (from under part of the beaver dam) another one shoots up and latches on.
We fished that 60ft area of slough until about 4-5am and had to of caught 15 pike each.
We only kept three of them, and they taste nothing like fish, which to me is good.

Anyways, we've gone back a few times but left that area alone, walking up and downstream, just casting off the bank, and we quickly got sick of snagging in trees and losing our lures, so now we go with a canoe...

I've got some pictures that I really like from a day we actually had weed, which was the first time either of us had smoked in months, but they're on the memory card that's lost for now...
Edit; Found this one on my computer-

We were checking out a branch of the slough we'd never noticed before, and had just finished our first bowl in months about four seconds before that was taken. It was a pretty good day.

Pike are the only fish we've seen there, and there are a ton of them. A few times literally the instant the lure is underwater we'd have a fish on the line.

By the way, we mostly use spinners with bigger hooks, and a worm on the hook. We call it the double wiggler, and it works great. Plus the single hooks are a lot easier to get out of an angry pike's mouth than the triple-hooks. I don't know why we never bring gloves...