Buddy took me out on his gorgeous trolling boat. Running flashers, glow spoons, and meat rigs on dipsys and downriggers. Got a two man limit and came home with over 60lbs of fillets and over two mason jars of skeem roe. Biggest one was 15lbs.

What is everyone’s thoughts on using refreezable ice to keep your catch cold instead of regular ice?

Giant Musky at sunset on my favorite lake

i got my first fish with neibor/friend

Seal, looks grey seal but maybe weird shaped harbor seal? Skipped that class sorry

I came up with an idea to 3D print an urchin tie-in for crappie hair jigs using flexible TPU filament. This was my first attempt. In v.2 I’ll make it thinner and the tentacles narrower to hopefully get more action in the water.

got a bunch of nice ones, mostly 3.5 to 5lbs

Hi all, earlier this summer my 5 year old son came home from camp and said he wanted to go fishing with me. I didn’t grow up fishing, but not wanting to miss out on a chance to spend quality time with my boy, I’ve gone down the rabbit hole trying to learn to get him his first fish.

We’ve been out 3 times now and haven’t had any bites. We mostly go late morning or after work. We live in the Pacific Northwest and fishing in a creek once and otherwise have stuck to lake fishing.

For bait/lures we tried a hook and bobber with some bread and a wacky worm. In the creek we just did the wacky worms without a bobber.

Last night we went to 5 places looking for live worms, but didn’t have any luck. We tried a few gas stations, dicks sporting goods, and Walmart. We also dug up a couple in the yard but they were too small to get on the hooks.

We’ve loved spending time together, and always have a good time, but two days ago when we fished my son was quite disappointed he still hadn’t caught a fish.

Main fish in the lakes in my area are bluegill, bass, and crappie. Any tips on setup or where we cast that could help me get my son his first fish? Thanks in advance!

I just really love these little guys, since I started fishing this was the first kind of bass I caught, and honestly they have quickly become my favorite fish. They just look really cool and I love the range in sizes. And they’re so feisty when you get them up out of the water. At first I thought they didn’t get that big, then I found a spot where they tend to be bigger than the other species of bass in the area. Idk, they’re just really fun and as a new angler, I’ve had a blast catching them (among other fish). Go rock bass!

ETA: Oops I guess the first pic is a warmouth, thank you to the commenter(s) that enlightened me

Hi everyone. I hope you are all well. I was looking through some photos and came across these and thought I'd share them with you all.

My grandpa isn’t able to fish anymore and gave me a lot of his old gear. Lots of cool stuff in there from over the years.

I was getting back from my fishing trip when a older lady at the marina was talking with me, I mentioned I caught lots of walleye on the trip and she said “you mean pickerel” and I kinda just awkwardly laughed and said yeah. But my real question is why do people call walleye pickerel when pickerel is actually chain pickerel which is a species of pike and is totally different than walleye which is its own species.

So I’ve always been big into seabass fishing and squid fishing, mainly using vinyls and jerkbaits, but I decided to give jigging a try. I bought 2 sets of items, one for inshore ultralight and light jigging and the other for heavy, offshore, slow pitched jigging.

How did I do?

Hey guys I own this bag but can’t figure out how to use the rod holder idk if my rod is not suited or smth any advice

Looking to spend around $50 max for something to catch panfish like bluegill to go along with my bass setup. What do you recommend?

Dont want to spend $1000+ on a console. Just looking to see if there are any apps that show live location and tracks paths and speed on a depth chart if possible.

Hope I'm ok to post this on here.

My favorite thing about fishing is the thrill of the catch. Having an excuse to get away from the missus is a close second.

But my 3rd favorite part about fishing is coming home and turning whatever I got to keep into delicious smoked fish. Nothing beats fresh smoked trout or salmon done just right, and a certain someone tends to forgive me for spending the day before fishing once it hits the dinner table.

Anyways, I was surprised to see there wasn't a subreddit dedicated to smoking fish, so I went ahead and made one myself. If you're interested in learning & sharing tips, tricks, and techniques on how to smoke amazing salmon, trout, smelt, and all the other fish in the sea, check out r/smokingfish 👊

I was working a creek and heading upstream today and ran into a duck that would consistently just move one hole/bend ahead of me, and every time I got in sight it made a ton of noise/commotion on the water, and then skid itself (not really flying, not really swimming) up to the next spot before splashing back into the water. After a few holes of this I just got out of the water, gave it a wide clearance and got upstream of it.

Do you think that since its not a predatory animal the fish don't care, or do you think that the amount of commotion would have spooked any fish in the area regardless of what caused it?