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High School buddy is out from Florida (dodging hurricanes) - had time for a couple of hours this morning. Kept a half dozen for lunch. Buddies lovely lady friend is going to show me how it's done. Lake lice showed up early so we didn't get too much time on the pond.
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Nice catch. I've had no time the past 4 days. On a college football weekend I would have to deal with BIG lake lice. The VOL Navy, and or Alabama Navy constantly locking through below the dam I fish will come close to sinking you...many 65 footers and a few 80 footers. Be this way all fall now.........I've got the weekdays. Pretty colors on those fish.
Regards
All I can say is "wow". Those are dandee. I've got to start attaching spinner blades to some little jigs in my arsenal.
i would take a quess and say that the fish your buddy is holding in his left hand on the bottom picture is a hybrid green sunfish ???...the alabama record for green sunfish is over a pound ....it is so much fun doing the blue-gill , bream , thing... i use to think only catching huge catfish ( or maybe what i thought was huge ) was the only way to have fun fishing.....and never even really took the time to examine the fish that i caught ....i only had time to jug fish on the weekends at night , and it was chaseem down, catchem , throw em in the cooler and on to the next jug....dont get me wrong , it was really fun , in-between eating bugs......but since i retired and have the time to go out at daylight and fish at any speed i like , it is a different world !!!!...and being able to observe everything around me , and take the time to really look at the pretty fish that i catch , has brought a new appreciation to nature and the fish that nature provides me so that i may enjoy them....now i understand what i was missing , in being in such a rush all the time , and not taking the time to respect and appreciate what nature provided me !!!!
Sounds like you are adapting well to retirement. You surely hit that nail square!Quote:
Originally Posted by ultralightrooki
thnx for the comments guys
Lunch was awesome - CNBG fried with soy sauce & ginger and steamed CNBG - won't attempt to spell the greens... I was shown how it's done.
I start using both blade and no blade - if the fish start hitting one or the other more - then I'll switch to both the same. If it's the blades - then you have to figure out which blade.... Most times it doesn't matter.
I would probably still be fishing Baja bluewater or going down to Costa Rica with Mike (HS buddy) if I wasn't medically retired almost 10 years ago. Chasing big Bluegill on ultra lite gear keeps the flame lit.
sure are dandy bluegill my friend . congrats to all involved
Crazy question. Did any of those fish have eggs?
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Very nice fish. I’m between boats so I have none to fish from. It’s coming soon though. Seeing the good gills makes my ambition stay strong.
......way back when i first started fishing , mostly for anything that would hit what we threw , ( which was rooster tails , meps , all of them had spinners ) .. we caught mostly blue-gill , sunfish , little stuff .....then i got into bass , with the bigger lures , and still liked the big clothes-pin type spinners , then i got into catfish and lures faded into the darkness.....now i am back !!! into blue-gill , and people told me to use the plain jigs , but they just did not seem to do anything , i mean you could not even feel a thing when you reeled them in !!! i have since learned better , and even just plain old jigs give a vibration coming through the water , even tho it sure don't feel like it , ........but it was built into me from a long time ago , that spinning shiny things are good !!!!.....so spinners are a hard habit for old dogs to break ....Quote:
Originally Posted by mchech
In my humble opinion spinning blades attract by sight, sound and an unique vibration. Fish do not need to be hungry to eat a spinner. I believe sometimes the spinning blade aggravates them to the point they want to KILL that strange thing. It all depends on their mood. Sometimes they just need to come and see then the plastic, feathers, fur etc. does the rest. Anyways I been chucking and trolling some sort of spinning blades for years because they work for almost anything that swims.Quote:
Originally Posted by ultralightrooki
Rooki, these days I still break out the spinners but they have another purpose. I use them as a search bait. Once they get a couple I get out the jigs and slow down to see who else is around. Hard to beat an 11” shell cracker trying to take the rod and spinner away from you.
[QUOTE=mchech;3884116]i agree 100% , and for blue-gill , i take the smallest beetle spin i have and take the regular jig-head that came on it off , and put my favorite tiny jig head on ...plus i have bought some jigs with spinners from the excellent vendors on cdc and they work great too !! ...i am going to try more of the small spinners from the vendors here too ....Quote:
Originally Posted by ultralightrooki
yes , i am just getting back into the blue-gill , red-ear world , still working on the slew by my house...after i get better at it , i am going to move out into the river and search for the bigger ones....there are so many techniques that i need to learn...Quote:
Originally Posted by skeetbum