I have several Ugly Sticks. Hard to beat for the price and almost indestructible.
I have several Ugly Sticks. Hard to beat for the price and almost indestructible.
Red and white is still popular on Dardevle spoons. And they still catch fish.
Most of my friends fillet everything they keep. I usually prepare my fish with skin and bones intact where practical. I think we lose flavor by removing skin/bones.
Plenty of hyperbole out there, but there are occasions, albeit rare for me, when 100 good fish may be caught. On a good day, the shad run in the James and other Virginia rivers can produce catches well in excess of 100.
I've had a couple of knee replacements and had my surgeon hang on to his hemostats instead of throwing them away. Good to reach in and remove hooks.
Ring perch here in VA - especially for the old-timers, many of whom call crappies silvers or silver perch.
I agree. Chicken livers for channel cats. Bluegills, etc. for flatheads.
We call them grindle here.
sumcatone wrote:
Heddon crazy crawler. Jitterbug had a skirt.
Crazy Crawler. Hula Popper, not Jitterbug, has a skirt.
FS Digest wrote:
I’m up in Hayward Wisconsin for the week dock fishing today off of Lake Chippewa - any suggestions on what I should be fishing and casting with? On and off drizzling/raining but still want to stay out for the day.
Mostly fishing for bass and pan fish - depth is 3-5ft
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by misterdabson
I don't consider myself an expert, but I've had several dynamite days fishing topwater for bass in the rain.
I have several. Best rod for the price IMO. Almost impossible to break, and over the years, that's important for me.
Shad will arrive later this month in Virginia's tidal rivers such as the James and Rappahannock. The shad run usually peaks here in late April. Fly fishermen use sinking lines; others cast shad darts and tiny spoons from boats or from the bank.
We call them the poor man's tarpon. They are impressive on light tackle. Shad roe is considered a delicacy here. The bony, strong-flavored flesh is debatable as table fare. I've tried baking the bones out, and they were OK.
Check regulations - especially for American Shad. In recent years, you can keep only hickory shad here.
In certain cases, not returning fish is good management. Not necessarily in the case you're citing, but crappie do tend to overpopulate and too much biomass can cause stunting.
In my 6-acre pond, I ask visitors not to put anything that they catch back. Even bass. And I think that policy has contributed to a healthy population over the past 50 years since we built the pond. Last year, an 11 pound bass was caught and quite a few in the 6-8 pound range. That's pretty good for Virginia.