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Posted by Fur_n_Dirt (Member # 4467) on June 15, 2015, 09:11 AM:
Its fishing time.. I got my new personal best this weekend in AZ! A nice 43 lb flathead. We caught others in the 20 and 30 lb range as well.. Used small carp and large bluegill. Crazy fun..
Posted by Lone Howl (Member # 29) on June 15, 2015, 09:25 AM:
Holy shit thats awsome!
Posted by Prune Picker (Member # 4107) on June 15, 2015, 10:01 AM:
Catching large Flat Heads Rules! Around here, the waters are so high from all the recent rains it's been a "licking our chops" waiting for the rough water to calm down torture chamber ride.
Last Saturday one of the kids caught a huge snapping turtle while crappie fishing, the bastards head was the size of a large mans fist and the neck was forearm size.
Posted by Moe (Member # 4494) on June 15, 2015, 10:17 AM:
Wow!
Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on June 15, 2015, 10:34 AM:
That looks like fun right there!
- DAA
Posted by booger (Member # 3602) on June 15, 2015, 11:42 AM:
Way to go! Catching large flatheads on a rod and reel is definitely a challenge. I grew up eating channel cat and flathead—not as good as walleye and crappie, but my mom could make a boot heel taste good.
My dad was a fisherman supreme, and I think the biggest flathead he caught on a pole was about 30 pounds. In his younger days, he ran with a crowd of hand fisherman, (we called it ‘noodling’ here in Kansas). It is still illegal in all but one river in Kansas. They kept busy pulling out 30-50# flatheads out of the local river, mostly fueled by steely nerves and copious amounts of Old Charter…
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on June 15, 2015, 01:27 PM:
Hey fur. Is this basically night fishing, right?
Carp is cool, but where do you get them? I have a hunch bluegill would be illegal, for bait, here?
Where have I been? I thought the action on the river was chicken livers?
As a kid, in Minneesota, I probably caught a few thousand "Bullheads". Never ate one, too ugly. Considered a rough fish like carp, suckers, gar and sheepshead, and a rare dogfish, mostly in the Mississippi and tributaries. Sometimes we speared them but the bait of choice was very large nightcrawler. I was a sort of Huck Finn type, in those days.
We would go down to the golf course after dark when the sprinklers came on, armed with a flashlight and a coffee can. We could fill the can, no dirt, pure nightcrawler. Any left over we would bring home and toss on the lawn. Always heard a lot of talk about dough-balls for large carp but they would suck on those night-crawlers; the bite was almost undetectable. We sometimes gave them to Asian people, if they asked but this was more or less a civic duty, toss them up on the bank and let them die.
I don't know about now, but in those days, they had a real problem with rough fish getting into the lakes via the Mississippi and various creeks. I didn't care. Never was much of a fish eater, but love to fish. The carp and bullheads provided plenty of sport for a kid.
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by Fur_n_Dirt (Member # 4467) on June 15, 2015, 06:40 PM:
That's cool, LB..
Yeah, this is mostly night fishing.. And being on my buddy's pontoon, it's luxury fishing! We drank a few beers and waited for the reels to start spinning!
Some folks don't know that flat head eat mostly live fish.. So their meat is absolutely delicious . We had some killer flatty tacos.
Bluegill and carp are legal. Bass , crappie, etc. are not.
My buddy cast netted for a couple of hours and we got premo carp. 8 to 10 inches is perfect.
We let them run with the line using a clicker. It's hililarious how we jump up when the clicker stars spinning.. We use circle hooks..
Good times..
[ June 15, 2015, 06:43 PM: Message edited by: Fur_n_Dirt ]
Posted by Fur_n_Dirt (Member # 4467) on June 15, 2015, 06:45 PM:
Oh, that's a lake!!
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on June 15, 2015, 07:05 PM:
Should have known by the high water mark! Not Martinez, by chance?
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by knockemdown (Member # 3588) on June 17, 2015, 08:05 AM:
Looks like two beauties!
Man, I'd hate to be a dude to hafta noodle one of them bitches. Id' be stickin' with bait fishin', too...
When I see catfish, I think of cornmeal & cracklin' peanut oil! Did ya get your 'fish fry' on???
Posted by Fur_n_Dirt (Member # 4467) on June 18, 2015, 08:31 AM:
Oh yeah! Made some flatty tacos.. We had a kid's pool party and it was hit..
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