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Some folks know it's possible and true and some don't. How many in numbers is it possible to ketch per hour .
My bud texted me the other day with 30 fish in 15 minutes ! I know factually it's possible and have whacked ridiculous numbers myself in this fashion and in this length of time as well . So break out the slide rules and calculators and other mathematical measurement devices and let's hear you fish tales ....
So what say you folks ?
I've done close to that before, but none were keepers :bash :Rofl
On a lake I fish, there used to be a big blowdown that stuck out into about 25fow. The tree was on a bank that was about 75yds from the launch ramp I used. There always seemed to be a school of 7-9" Crappie that was suspended over the tree, sometimes year-round. We used to always fish that tree, first thing, just to get our eyes set to the "tic" in the line. Then after playing with the dinks for awhile, we'd head out to our "honey holes" and seek the keepers.
I dint say they had to be keepers bro ......:Rofl
I'll give it a try,most times Im a slow but steady catcher.If they don't need to be keepers,I might do pretty good though.Two weeks ago,I spotted a little hole of water just begging for me to try out.I broke out the Tenkara,as fast as I could release and cast,I caught another dink,I never counted,but I sure had a blast with the Tenkara.
I've caught red eyes/ rock bass, or whatever you call em on every cast on several occasions. Didn't count em or time em though.....
I've caught the flu 4 times in a year. Just saying
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Pardner and I caught 137 in an hour one time. Ery cast was a fish.
I counted once on a trip to the Candy Store and boated over 90 in just over 3 hours. Might have been a half dozen that would have made a sammich. I was learning a lot about their behavior and so on so that it was just a giant grin the whole time. Did that several times. A friend and I went one day and we got started on the outside edge where Billy popped a 2lb, 16" black. biggest I ever saw come out of there. Cast, watch the line, tic, set, play, land and repeat for hours.
when you have a bait they are hitting as fast as you get it in front of them,and the distance to them is not too far...and they are stacked up and waiting... about one every minute would be a pretty good average for fast and furious action time you get them in and unhook them especially when you have to slow down to unhook one that's a little hard to get off...also depends on if you're keeping or throwing back and how long it takes you to hit the livewell or cooler. Thirty seconds or so if everything is just right...and just a little faster than that under perfect conditions. Hauling em straight up with a longpole from shallow water can go real fast.
I have fished for hours and hours catching almost nothing then hit just the right place when the bites picked up and caught them as fast as I could throw...and sometimes just got tired of catching them and left. And it can be keepers just as well as dinks ...if you're on a school of a specific year class of fish then that's what you catch.
Finding large schools is much harder now than it was even ten years ago around here on the typical public water.
You ever see video of commercial pole tuna fisherman sling them up and over there backs and the fish would just fall off a barbless hook? I'd say they are doing one every ten seconds at times. And were talking about 20 or 30 pound fish maybe bigger i dunno.
Looks like fishing the spawn at Sardis.
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Lake Hefner here in OKC was a fantastic fishery before PETA got cormorants on the endangered species list, and 9,000 of them (according to the headline in the paper) descended on Hefner for 7 weeks.
Catfish, crappie, and sand bass fishing was outstanding during the 80's and early 90's. During the spawn, I would fish early morning to about 9:30 with dough bait and catch 125 cats by slip-corking dough bait. Most of them were dinks, but there were some 10-15 pounders.
Crappie were very plentiful and they were big. I would float tube from 6:45 to 9:00 and get 70 crappie, two at a time on jigs. Most of them were 1.5-2 pounds.
Sand (white) bass would be schooling, and I would fish the last four hours of light, getting 200 sandies, using a gay blade and a small plastic crawdad. The only problems came when I would get a hybrid on one hook and a sandie on the other, breaking my my line.
Most of the time, all the fish were released.
The cormorants are still around, and they have decimated the populations of many lakes in the state. You can still catch quite a few cats, but nothing like it used to be. The crappie are much smaller, and after the cormorants visit, many of the crappie that you DO catch have stab wounds. I haven't caught a crappie over 1.5 pounds from Hefner in the last 20 years. Sand bass are fairly plentiful, but nothing like pre-cormorant times.
Do the math on how many pounds of fish would be eaten by 9,000 cormorants when they eat 1 pound of fish per day and they are on a lake for 7 weeks.
End of anti-cormorant rant.
My nephew and myself did 100 Crappies in 47 minutes each of us using one pole and plastics do not think you could even come close using live bait...... It was FUN.
Same as others have mentioned when it happened for me it was mostly small fish.
I have only once in 50 plus years of fishing caught 15 plus 10" or larger keepers in under a half hour. I did however once catch 12 over 12" in about that length of time at a private lake.
I want to start a petition myself to end the protection , all the state fisheries and hatcheries know exactly how smart and how bad they are . they are just bad news birds that need to go back to the coast where they belong , but why should they ? fish in a barrel beat heck out of fish in the sea and they know it ....almost everywhere I go the fish are bit up bigtime by them and for sure they damage fisheries , my good friend has a 40 acre lake that used to be the best crappie lake ever made , until about a zillion cormorants and pelicans showed up 2 winters in a row . Now the only fish in it are big carp best I can tell ....pretty sad for sure , cant even ketch a bream or a bass or a crappie in it now ) =Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigskyfisherman
Not crappie, but alot of fun....
Smallmouth on lake St. Clair, avg. over 4# each, as fast as you could cast, 20 fow. Went on for 3 days, same hole.
Best fishing I've ever had or imagined ....
I've had days on KY lake when i had my limit of keeper crappies in less than an hour and was back at the marina for breakfast by 7:30AM. I've found bluegill beds that i caught fish every cast for at least an hour before i got tired. good keepers too.Quote:
Originally Posted by wolfhnd
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My son had it like that the first time he went to Dorr's (sp) County, only the average wasn't as good. The funny thing is that the guys with him complained that the fish weren't as big as usual.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kevmc
Too bad both PETA and cormorants aren't extinct.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigskyfisherman
there was a point on lake Shelbyville you could catch a walleye on every cast . I tried to scare them off by banging side of boat with paddle ,hitting the water with a square floatation cushion which makes a loud pop but nothing would scare them off that point.
Best I ever did was a limit (25) in about 45 minutes. Over half came out from under the first dock I hit which was about 150 yds from the ramp I launched at.
yes sir had a day like that myself about 75 yards from the ramp , first tree i hit 6 big slabs and got my line broke , moved to the next tree and it was better ...had 23 I already boxed when my bud called about 30 minutes into my adventure to tell me that he was running late ....told him he best hurry or I was gunna limit out and leave ....LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by Mike Andrews
of course I quit boxing them at that point and just ripped em for fun .....he finally shows up about an hour later and we struggled to get 10 or so more keepers, seems they were about to shut down and did basically that about the time he got there ....Go figure .... :Rofl
Obviously I catch fish slower than the average fisherman,seems to take me several hrs to fill the cooler.Ive always said," Anybody can run a 7 min mile,it takes real stamina to run a 15 min mile", I figure I've got more stamina than you speed catchers.Jumping Jacks Icon