Live From The Water 2019 Edition

[TreeGuy]

Kids day on the big pond. I *think* we boated 20ish and dropped a few. Bunch of nice 8-10# steelies and teenage king's. Kids had a blast !

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[Fletch]

Spent the first half day fiddling with deer stands. Saw how dang great and overcast it was and said I should be fishing! 3 hours later on a north pond in the kayak. 2.5 hours fishing and boated 13, 10 keeper bass. Caught a dandy 19” on a frog that got put back. Then caught a pig 21.5” 6+ pounder that got put back as well. Good day!



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[Chef]

Heading to Sullivan county for work tonight thinking about hitting the Delaware, might get lazy and just hit the Bk we will see


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[chrisw]

Buddy and I brought a dozen Kings to hand today.

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[Nytracker]

Nice ... heard they were in . Were you in the dsr?

[chrisw]

Nice ... heard they were in . Were you in the dsr?

Oswego actually

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[Nytracker]

Cool pinning or fly 

[BizCT]

Buddy and I brought a dozen Kings to hand today.

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Nice Mudsharks!


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[chrisw]

Cool pinning or fly 

Pinning under floats

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[518BowSlayer]

heading out to the big lake for salmon on Tuesday, I imagine they are stacking up towards the mouths of the rivers considering some are already heading upstream

[518BowSlayer]

Pinning under floats

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What were you using under the floats? Egg sacks? Flies? Jigs?

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[518BowSlayer]

took the full 8 hours but we got our limit. 5 kings, 3 cohos, and a steelhead. great day on the water!!!

[chrisw]

What were you using under the floats? Egg sacks? Flies? Jigs?

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Jigs and sacs

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[TreeGuy]

took the full 8 hours but we got our limit. 5 kings, 3 cohos, and a steelhead. great day on the water!!!

Muddy'd up egg wagon.... Nice !

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[doebuck1234]

Heading to charlotte pier in a few hours.meeting up with buddy at work to give it a go.have never caught a salmon so hopefully some pics to come this afternoon!

[Skillet]

36 minutes ago, doebuck1234 said:

Heading to charlotte pier in a few hours.meeting up with buddy at work to give it a go.have never caught a salmon so hopefully some pics to come this afternoon!

The Somerville side was always better for me. Less people, too. Good luck.

[doebuck1234]

39 minutes ago, Skillet said:

The Somerville side was always better for me. Less people, too. Good luck.

will have to give it a try if too busy or dont have any hook ups.thanks!!!

[doebuck1234]

0 salmon caught.alot of guys fishing and didnt see a single hookup.did see a few fish mid air.only thing guys were catching was some slab perch.

[TreeGuy]

Filled the box tonight with some chrome fish from the deep water. Felt good to be back out there. Teenagers only, no matures but they will fit nicely in the smoker. Prob last king run of the season.

Side note, tagged a nice steel on a spoon I painted, which I think is pretty cool !

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[chrisw]

Great day on the lake floating skein on centerpins, love watching float drops! Doubles!

 

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[Robhuntandfish]

Last day out on the lake most likely. Me and fishing buddy Corey tore em limited out. 

[TreeGuy]

Wasn't looking good for catt, so headed to sturgeon, which was also rocking so snuck out of small boat harbor. the lake was rocking and the winds were howling. Kept it close to shore and managed to catch some fish. Always a good trip with my fishing buddy.

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[Fletch]

So looked out the window at 3 and said wth I should be fishing! Called outa work early, loaded the kayak and drove 40 min to a north pond. On the water about 4:40. Fished for 2 hours and boated 16 keeper bass and lost a couple more. Biggest was 18, kept three 15-16 inches for some fillets.






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[Robhuntandfish]

Nice afternoon out on the water Fletch. Good to get out before hunting takes over.

[wolc123]

1 minute ago, Fletch said:

So looked out the window at 3 and said wth I should be fishing! Called outa work early, loaded the kayak and drove 40 min to a north pond. On the water about 4:40. Fished for 2 hours and boated 16 keeper bass and lost a couple more. Biggest was 18, kept three 15-16 inches for some fillets.






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Largemouth bass fillets are my favorite.  That is all I am going to be eating this winter because that was all we caught on our St Lawrence trip this year.  In the "eating advisories" for NY state, they say they are ok for men over 50, but not for women and children.  I mark all the vacuum sealed packages.  My wife and kids get all the Lake Erie and upper Niagara smallmouths (those are supposedly ok for women and children), while I get the St Lawrence stuff.   I prefer the largemouths for cleaning, because they don't beat up my thumb as bad when I am knocking them in the head with a shilali.  The smallmouths definitely fight better and are a lot easier for me to find in quantity around home.   My wife made us a "mixed batch" last Thursday and it was awesome.  I polished off the leftovers for lunch at work Friday  

I prefer bass over walleye and perch because it has more oil in it and does not dry out like they do while baking, broiling, or grilling.  Those are much healthier ways to prepare fish than deep frying.  Walleye and perch are better for frying, if you prefer that method.