If you had to fish for only one species of fish what would it be? (Page 13): Musky, all other fish are just bait!

Greg Kane Loc: chippewa falls WI

Musky, all other fish are just bait!

Robert J Samples Loc: Round Rock, Texas

Well, there are bigger fish, and fish closer to home, but for my book, the Tarpon is King! When you hook one and it jumps higher than your head when you are standing erect, that is some acrobatics. Just Sayin...RJS

Able Man Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)

sytheteacher wrote:

I like to fish for Gefilte Fish...

So... ¿Purse-seining?

Able Man Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)

Gripnriprod wrote:

Mine is yellowfin tuna. Great fighters and good eating!

I sure DO like your choice, Grip... We used to catch'em along/ swordfish, once in a while... RIGHT GOOD EATING!!!

Able Man Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)

Larry M wrote:

Bonitos are my favorite to catch on light gear.

¿Do you eat them much, Larry?... Most people I've spoken to about eating them, seem to not care for them, very much. Me, on the other hand; I will certainly eat one (well... PART of one, at "a sitting"...)

Billycrap2 Loc: Mason county,W(BY GOD) Virginia, 🇺🇸🦅

bottomcoon wrote:

If I was forced to only fish for only 1 species I ... (show quote)

Good luck BC 🎣🎣🎣🎣🐟🐟🐠🐋🐋🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅

Pete the welder Loc: Guerneville ,ca

Smelt with a frames

RJFlowers Loc: Montana

Pete the welder wrote:

Smelt with a frames

Smelt, brined with brown sugar in the brine solution, then smoked is as good as candy. The only problem with smelt is cleaning a 5 lb. bucket of them. We cut the heads off, cleaned them, dredged in flour, or corn meal, and fried them up in a little oil. We the ate them, bones, fins, and all. They ran so thick when spawning when I was aboy, you could practically walk across a stream on their backs. Sadly, people abused the resource, filling the backs of pickup trucks to dump in their gardens as fertilizer. Now it takes hours of dipping to get what you used to get in one dip of the smelt net. And I see them sold commercially in stores, which doesn't help.

Seeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North

Kerry Hansen Loc: Bremerton, WA

RJFlowers wrote:

Smelt, brined with brown sugar in the brine soluti... (show quote)

Same in Washington. Now you might get to net a couple time a year. We also have the dang Sea Lions follow the schools up stream gourging on them like they do Salmon and Steelhead at all the barriers that stop the fish continuing on up stream to spawn. they get the big brood Sturgeon too. But some say they are so CUTE and won't allow anything done until forced to because the fish species becomes endangered then everyone pays. Sorry for the Rant.

HenryG Loc: Falmouth Cape Cod Massachusetts

Kerry Hansen wrote:

Same in Washington. Now you might get to net a couple time a year. We also have the dang Sea Lions follow the schools up stream gourging on them like they do Salmon and Steelhead at all the barriers that stop the fish continuing on up stream to spawn. they get the big brood Sturgeon too. But some say they are so CUTE and won't allow anything done until forced to because the fish species becomes endangered then everyone pays. Sorry for the Rant.

Don't be sorry Kerry more people.should rant then maybe more people would listen most people don't want to look at the big picture the more we bring it to the attention of them the more chances they'll take notice and do something about it while they still can 🇺🇸😀👍

Greenjeans

Catfish hunter wrote:

My favorite species has to be jumbo yellow perch. The world record is only about three pounds so I don’t need big gear. Lol

I love yellow perch as well but my fav. would be walleye. (on a Rapala X-Rap IN hot steel.)

Fishinmaniac Loc: SW Washington

Kerry Hansen wrote:

Same in Washington. Now you might get to net a couple time a year. We also have the dang Sea Lions follow the schools up stream gourging on them like they do Salmon and Steelhead at all the barriers that stop the fish continuing on up stream to spawn. they get the big brood Sturgeon too. But some say they are so CUTE and won't allow anything done until forced to because the fish species becomes endangered then everyone pays. Sorry for the Rant.

I agree with you Kerry. I won’t try to explain why I agree because the topic gets me riled up to the point that I have trouble keeping it short.😡
I do appreciate another avid fisherman’s Rant on the subject though!😊 Thanks!

Kerry Hansen Loc: Bremerton, WA

Fishinmaniac wrote:

I agree with you Kerry. I won’t try to explain why I agree because the topic gets me riled up to the point that I have trouble keeping it short.😡
I do appreciate another avid fisherman’s Rant on the subject though!😊 Thanks!

THANK YOU!

Pete the welder Loc: Guerneville ,ca

Was in Milwaukee and had blackened walleye . One of best fish I ever had 😋

Able Man Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)

Kerry Hansen wrote:

Same in Washington. Now you might get to net a couple time a year. We also have the dang Sea Lions follow the schools up stream gourging on them like they do Salmon and Steelhead at all the barriers that stop the fish continuing on up stream to spawn. they get the big brood Sturgeon too. But some say they are so CUTE and won't allow anything done until forced to because the fish species becomes endangered then everyone pays. Sorry for the Rant.

¿Maybe sit down and "Author a book" of the many uses of Sea Lions? (Like how "Indigenous peoples" must have "made use of" every last ounce of a DEAD ONE!!!)... Maybe research how these critters were "traditionally made use of" (¿Hats to mittens to mucklucks?... Hell...:¿Flip one inside out and create a helluva set of "Winter Oilskins"?) ... ¿How many different ways to cook one? ¿How were their BONES made use of? {It's my understanding, that they were useful for a LOT of purposes, with the tiniest ones, even being turned into "sewing needles"!} ¡¡¡EAT that population back into a more balanced proportion of the local wildlife!!!