Why kill it? they eat all sorts of pests.
Ben Bragg wrote:
Anyone else still rely on the buzz bait ?
I still do, but only if the fish are not interested in taking slower presentations.
So what is the difference between the St Croix Avid X and the Panfish Series (not the Elite)? Which one is more sensitive?
Grizzly 17 wrote:
Hi Kandy. I haven't surf fished in at last 20yrs. I still have my rods biggest 8'. The rods aren't too bad but the reels are HEAVY. I make my own sand spikes. I had ready access to pvc scrap while working with the county. Glad you've been getting out. 😄😄
I made my own sand spike too out of schedule 80 dark grey PVC pipe, and I cut the end at a steep angle so I could easily bury it pretty far into the sand, it was about 2 feet long and I think it was 3" in diameter. My surf rod was 10 1/2 feet long, ideally a surf rod should be 12 feet long, but at the time when I bought this rod I wouldn't not have been able to get a two piece 12 foot rod into the car real well at all without it going out a window, so I sacrificed length for carry convenience.
I have a Mitchell Garcia 306 my brother bought in 1963 and I bought it off of him in 1970 so he could buy a car. That reel is still in excellent condition after years of banging it around as kids will do, and then I used it a lot on the ocean, now it's back to seeing freshwater fishing. Very durable, nothing ever broke on it, just occasionally clean and lube it.
bassaholic? no, I'm a fishaholic! I don't care what kind of fish I catch as long as it's big enough to eat.
Where I use to live in California fishing in the Sierra's we were NOT allowed to keep the fish we caught, it was strictly catch and release and use barbless hooks only. I don't remember what the fine was if they caught you taking fish out.
Gordon wrote:
That's a big selection. Which coast do you fish on?
I use to live in California, and fished the Southern California region of the Pacific; fished the northern Pacific for salmon, didn't get up there often enough, only fished for salmon twice, same is true for the north eastern Atlantic. Fished down in Florida near the keys and in the Gulf. Fished S Calif rivers but those are catch and release using barbless hooks. Of course I fished in the lakes around NE Indiana where I now live.
Some of those fish I mentioned I never caught like swordfish, tuna, haddock, redfish, and mahi mahi but I have ate them in restaurants. I have ate all those fish I mentioned in restaurants, but I also caught the ones I didn't exclude in the previous sentence.
Wow, that's a tough one, I don't have a favorite, I like to many of them! I like shark, halibut, sea bass, fresh water bass, trout, assorted panfish, salmon, swordfish, I'm sure I'm missing some.
The ones I don't like is red snapper, cod, tuna, haddock, red fish, mahi mahi, grouper, again I might be missing some.
I'm not sure if sardines is considered a fish like what you're asking, if so then I hate sardines.
Catfish is an odd one for me, if pulled out of a lake I don't like the taste of it, but if farm raised it taste a lot better.
Jwid wrote:
You know what they say. Rules are meant to be broken. Substitute vows if needed. I grew up Catholic. Retired Catholic now. I can tell lots of stories. Priest won the lottery and all the sudden left the church and was married. Others that had a sister with them all the time.
and others had alter boys with them! Not good.
CoreG0nUS75 wrote:
Nor will they if the reports of the current quality of saints matches the quality of too many priests and clergy in our Me Too Age. I always wondered about the vow if chastity. Guess it was a fake vow.
Most pastors do not have to do a vow of chastity, that is why so many are married, Not knowing all the church denominations in the world but the only on that I know of that does the BS chastity crap is the Catholic church.
Jwid wrote:
Please lighten up here. Just a light hearted comment that the endorsement for a rod named Saint would be the favorite of a pastor. I have a Catholic Priest down the road from me at the lake also. That doesn’t make any difference. Either what I said was funny to me or some or nobody. If you get offended then that’s your fault. I take no responsibility for that.
Of course you won't take responsibility, no one does that these days, why would I expect you to be any different?
LKPKGA wrote:
Night fishing and live bait are good suggestions, also look for deeper areas and vegetation where the water may be a few degrees cooler. Finally a slow presentation. I had a fishing partner once that fished so slow, I thought he was asleep, but his slow retrieve caught more fish than I did. Good luck
Exactly, when I fish purple rubber worms I fish them very slow, barely moving the reel handle kind of slow. In nature worms don't move fast.
Having said that if after some time fishing a worm slow and you caught nothing, then you may want to switch to a buzz bait, those you fish fast, the idea is to piss off the bass so that they then want to kill it.
Jwid wrote:
Okay. Pastor that likes St. Croix. Have to throw out that endorsement.
I have a couple St. Croix. No issues fish well. I’m heathen, drunk, degenerate. So you can believe me. Ha.
Why would you throw out that endorsement? have something against pastors? or do you think pastors can't fish?
Your a heathen, a drunk, and a degenerate, well we have all those attending our church, so you would feel welcomed there! In fact we don't have any holier than thou people going to our church.
My pastor fishes a lot, has a Lund, not sure what size it is, but it seats 3 people with a live bait well and a live fish well, along with the usual fish finder. He's taken that boat all over Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Canada.
I go fishing with my pastor and he has a lot of different St Croix rods including an older Avid, a couple of Primers, and a Legend, and another one I can't recall, he's had those for quite awhile and fishes about every other day and he's never broken a St Croix rod. He is a St Croix fanboy! He's even went up into Canada where the bigger fish are and still no problem with those rods.