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re: Describe your best day on the water
Posted on 2/26/15 at 7:40 am to VernonPLSUfan
Posted on 2/26/15 at 7:40 am to VernonPLSUfan
Anytime I fished with my dad. He had two "rules" for fishing. If he got invited, I had to be invited. No fishing on Sunday if we didn't go to church. I would get hung up on every limb under water, most of the time I would pretend I was still fishing so as not to disturb him, but he would quickly un-hang me and never fussed. He would take a big bite out of a plug of chewing tobacco and spit on the worm. (I tried that once-after I grew up and was laying on the bottom of the boat very green). He died many years ago at the age of 43.
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Posted on 2/26/15 at 7:42 am to runningTiger
I climbed into my treestand
Posted on 2/26/15 at 7:47 am to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
Lay Lake, AL July of 2014.
I caught 7 bass from my kayak, all top water blow ups on a ribbit frog. Had a 4 lber come completely out of the water on a strike as soon as it hit the water.
The reason it's the best day ever is because my Dad and brother are very skeptical of kayak fishing. They were out on the water that day in my dads boat. They boated 4 between them.
Outfished from the yak!
I caught 7 bass from my kayak, all top water blow ups on a ribbit frog. Had a 4 lber come completely out of the water on a strike as soon as it hit the water.
The reason it's the best day ever is because my Dad and brother are very skeptical of kayak fishing. They were out on the water that day in my dads boat. They boated 4 between them.
Outfished from the yak!
Posted on 2/26/15 at 7:59 am to BoogaBear
a ex coworker and I after Katrina had to take his boat to look at a job. It only took us maybe 1.5 hours to take pictures and look around. It was a Friday and he said frick work let's go fishing. We could only find frozen bait in the area, but we said what the hell we would try it anyway. We ended up running out of bait about 3 hours later. We caught a bunch of trout and some smaller reds. Good times.....
Posted on 2/26/15 at 8:18 am to bayou choupique
Tie between these:
Found a bed of chinks on a Sunday afternoon in 1989 before driving back to Tech. The next day my roommate and I ditched classes and drove back down to catch them. Caught 48 of the biggest bream ever in 1 hour before a big storm blew in. Went back to school and had a big fish fry at our house with several friends. It was about a month before graduation and a great memory with one of my best friends that I seldom see.
Around 2003 I went to Grand Isle for the first time. After a good day with a guide my friends and I went out in the pass right before dark. I thought we were crazy and wouldn't catch shite, but after we anchored down and were carolina rigging cracked crabs, the tide started moving and the action was unbelievable (at least to me). Wound up catching 7 bull reds over 20# and several black drum in that same range. Came back to the camp with empty reels on a few rods.
2011- I was at the camp on a Good Friday looking for bream beds alone. Brother and Dad and all our fishing friends were at Caney, and thought I was crazy. Wound up finding the motherlode and my wife and kids came down the next day. We caught 67 in a short time til it cooled down and the kids started to get bored.
Found a bed of chinks on a Sunday afternoon in 1989 before driving back to Tech. The next day my roommate and I ditched classes and drove back down to catch them. Caught 48 of the biggest bream ever in 1 hour before a big storm blew in. Went back to school and had a big fish fry at our house with several friends. It was about a month before graduation and a great memory with one of my best friends that I seldom see.
Around 2003 I went to Grand Isle for the first time. After a good day with a guide my friends and I went out in the pass right before dark. I thought we were crazy and wouldn't catch shite, but after we anchored down and were carolina rigging cracked crabs, the tide started moving and the action was unbelievable (at least to me). Wound up catching 7 bull reds over 20# and several black drum in that same range. Came back to the camp with empty reels on a few rods.
2011- I was at the camp on a Good Friday looking for bream beds alone. Brother and Dad and all our fishing friends were at Caney, and thought I was crazy. Wound up finding the motherlode and my wife and kids came down the next day. We caught 67 in a short time til it cooled down and the kids started to get bored.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 8:47 am to VernonPLSUfan
A couple come to mind...
Myself and a poster named Calculus Entropy who rarely posts caught 136 good sized white sac a crappies from the bank one day. We just started playing around getting ready to go out and ended up never even putting the boat in the water. This was in an undisclosed location.
Another one was just a few years ago on Caddo Lake during the spring. Buck bass were chasing and every boat I passed was saying how well the fish were biting. "We've caught 11" one would say, "I think we've caught 15" another would chime in. Everyone I passed was throwing flukes. Meanwhile I kept my bait in the water as I passed boats. I was throwing a wacky worm. I caught 43 that day by myself with 2 over 6 pounds. I stopped when number 43 tore up the last worm in my last pack of watermelon (undisclosed color) senkos.
Here recently, Hardhead and I had a great trout fishing trip on the White River. We caught well over 100 in 2 days of fishing.
Those are a few that stick out, but any day you can get out there is a great day. Catching fish or not...
Myself and a poster named Calculus Entropy who rarely posts caught 136 good sized white sac a crappies from the bank one day. We just started playing around getting ready to go out and ended up never even putting the boat in the water. This was in an undisclosed location.
Another one was just a few years ago on Caddo Lake during the spring. Buck bass were chasing and every boat I passed was saying how well the fish were biting. "We've caught 11" one would say, "I think we've caught 15" another would chime in. Everyone I passed was throwing flukes. Meanwhile I kept my bait in the water as I passed boats. I was throwing a wacky worm. I caught 43 that day by myself with 2 over 6 pounds. I stopped when number 43 tore up the last worm in my last pack of watermelon (undisclosed color) senkos.
Here recently, Hardhead and I had a great trout fishing trip on the White River. We caught well over 100 in 2 days of fishing.
Those are a few that stick out, but any day you can get out there is a great day. Catching fish or not...
Posted on 2/26/15 at 8:51 am to runningTiger
Fished the Caernarvon pro series, scouted a spot the Thursday prior, was on fish but nothing great... That Sunday of the tournament, we wound up boat 54 out of 58... Get to the spot we had scouted and it was on... 2nd cast put a 4lber in the boat on a top water bait.. it was like that all day, like catching footballs, short fat fish all on Super Spook Jr's, and Minus 1 crank baits.... Stayed in that one spot all day.. Caught over 30 with one 5.12 that took lunker.. had over 19lbs of fish.. only problem was, we lost out on stringer by 2 friggin ounces... 
Still took home $1400 check....
Still took home $1400 check....
This post was edited on 2/26/15 at 8:57 am
Posted on 2/26/15 at 8:54 am to runningTiger
Recent memory was last summer when I brought the wife out. She loves to fish but hasn't been able to go the last couple years since the baby was born. Put her on a tree in the middle of a pit I fish in often and caught about 100 huge red ears. She had a blast and that's what that day was all about.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 8:58 am to SCwTiger
quote:Where?
Found a bed of chinks on a Sunday afternoon in 1989 before driving back to Tech. The next day my roommate and I ditched classes and drove back down to catch them. Caught 48 of the biggest bream ever in 1 hour before a big storm blew in. Went back to school and had a big fish fry at our house with several friends. It was about a month before graduation and a great memory with one of my best friends that I seldom see.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 9:00 am to Clyde Tipton
A couple of springs ago I eased out to lake vernon for a couple of hours to fish. Vernon used to have a slot, 14"-17". I catch 12 in the slot and three over in that time span.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 9:11 am to AlxTgr
My camp is on Saline lake between Natchitoches and Winnfield. Biggest chinks I've ever caught have been out of Kincaid Lake though. Ridiculous size there.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 9:28 am to VernonPLSUfan
2003 in costa rica I had the same clients booked for 4 days. For three days we didn't get a single bite. By the end of the third day I could tell they were not happy with me, lol. On the fourth day we went out and got covered up with striped marlin. We hooked five at the same time and caught 4. The fifth one spooled us on a tld 25. We let that one get a little too far while catching the others. By the end of the day we had 4 stripes, 4 blues, 4 blacks and 4 sails...a double super slam.
1996 dangerous reef, Australia I got to swim with and hand feed 5 great white sharks. The largest was about 18'.
2009 indonesia I was diving there for 3 weeks.. Well, after 3 weeks of diving, I was ready for something different. I was dropped off on a small island next to a larger island named Buton. It was like stepping back in time. All of the kids came running up to me, to touch me, to see if I was real. The islanders were super friendly and invited me into their huts. They showed me many cool things both in nature and their culture. Not exactly on the water, but I was on the water in the morning and then in the afternoon, returning to the mother ship.
2004 Johnstone river, northern Australia I was dropped by helicopter and rafted down class five rapids for five days until reaching civilization again. I had never even rafted before and lied to the expedition company. I was pretty scared the first day.
1996 dangerous reef, Australia I got to swim with and hand feed 5 great white sharks. The largest was about 18'.
2009 indonesia I was diving there for 3 weeks.. Well, after 3 weeks of diving, I was ready for something different. I was dropped off on a small island next to a larger island named Buton. It was like stepping back in time. All of the kids came running up to me, to touch me, to see if I was real. The islanders were super friendly and invited me into their huts. They showed me many cool things both in nature and their culture. Not exactly on the water, but I was on the water in the morning and then in the afternoon, returning to the mother ship.
2004 Johnstone river, northern Australia I was dropped by helicopter and rafted down class five rapids for five days until reaching civilization again. I had never even rafted before and lied to the expedition company. I was pretty scared the first day.
This post was edited on 2/26/15 at 9:31 am
Posted on 2/26/15 at 9:37 am to runningTiger
I can't remember the date but it was on Father's day weekend when i was in my late teens. My mom and younger brother met us at the houseboat we had in Cocodrie on a Sunday morning and my Dad reluctantly decided to make another trip to last island. My younger brother was whining about going out in the boat. We ended up hammering the white trout near wine island pass. Ended up catching 260 of them. They were feeding so hard that they would hit a bare hook. Since my father passed away unexpectedly this past November at 53 yrs old i have been looking back on this memory allot lately.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 10:25 am to runningTiger
Hurricane Andrew went up the Atchafalaya in 92 and killed pretty much all the bass in there. LDWF restocked in 93 and implemented a 14" size limit.
One day in 1994 or 95 me and a couple friends decided to fish Bayou Pigeon. It had been raining for several days straight and we went out on a clear day a day or two after the rains quit. We're motoring around looking for clear water but it was all chocolate milk.
We came around a bend and there was a point formed where a small creek was feeding a larger tributary. The water coming out of the creek was clear as a bell and where it met the chocolate milk of the tributary there was almost a straight line of mud/clear. You could look down the side of the mud wall as it flowed...pretty trippy. On the clear side of the line a small hackberry tree had been undercut and had fallen into the water.
We anchored right there on the mud/clear line and cast toward the branches of the tree. I was throwing a white snagless sally. We all three caught bass on every throw. We stopped counting fish around 100 and still kept catching for another couple hours. It's the only time besides spec fishing that my arm got sore from catching. They were only in the 12"-15" range but they were super aggressive. We released them all and left happy...we had serious concerns that fishing in the Atchafalaya basin would come back in our lifetimes. That day taught me a lot about how resilient bass are.
Another summer day in the late 80's me and the same two friends went after bream on Lake Verret. We trolled through the cypresses tossing crickets 18" under a bobber. I forgot how many we caught but back at the house when we put them all on a string for a photo it took all three of us to hold it up.
One day in 1994 or 95 me and a couple friends decided to fish Bayou Pigeon. It had been raining for several days straight and we went out on a clear day a day or two after the rains quit. We're motoring around looking for clear water but it was all chocolate milk.
We came around a bend and there was a point formed where a small creek was feeding a larger tributary. The water coming out of the creek was clear as a bell and where it met the chocolate milk of the tributary there was almost a straight line of mud/clear. You could look down the side of the mud wall as it flowed...pretty trippy. On the clear side of the line a small hackberry tree had been undercut and had fallen into the water.
We anchored right there on the mud/clear line and cast toward the branches of the tree. I was throwing a white snagless sally. We all three caught bass on every throw. We stopped counting fish around 100 and still kept catching for another couple hours. It's the only time besides spec fishing that my arm got sore from catching. They were only in the 12"-15" range but they were super aggressive. We released them all and left happy...we had serious concerns that fishing in the Atchafalaya basin would come back in our lifetimes. That day taught me a lot about how resilient bass are.
Another summer day in the late 80's me and the same two friends went after bream on Lake Verret. We trolled through the cypresses tossing crickets 18" under a bobber. I forgot how many we caught but back at the house when we put them all on a string for a photo it took all three of us to hold it up.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 11:48 am to runningTiger
My dad, brother and some of my dad's coworkers and I went on an 8 day float trip in Aniak Alaska in the summer of 2004. I had just finished my freshman year at LSU, and it was an absolutely perfect way to reconnect with my dad (we had a few tense moments that year). The trip was designed to be fly fishing, but we all brought one baitcaster as backup. The first day we arrived was cold and misty, and we all broke out our fly fishing gear and set to work. Maybe 10 fish were caught all afternoon, and we certainly weren't off to a blazing start. Early the next morning, my brother tied on an inline spinner and made a few casts. He hooked up each time, bang, bang, bang. I went and grabbed my curado and we set to catching more fish in a 6 day period than anyone should ever experience. All manners of salmon, arctic char, grayling and rainbow trout. I didn't pick up the fly rod again. It was 7 nights of camping on the side of the river and catching fish, after fish, after fish. Best vacation of my life.
A few years later I was on a tuna trip out of Cocodrie. Only caught a few blackfin, but that was largely due to our hooking a 600 lb (estimate by length) marlin. While running in, I pointed at a floating log in front of us. The log then spewed water into the air. We slowed down and began circling and a sperm whale that absolutely dwarfed the 36' center console we were in rolled on its side and looked right at us. We got so close that we could see the circular suction scars on its head from giant squid. He looked at us for what felt like forever (in reality under a minute) and with one swing of his tail, he was gone. I'll never forget that.
A few years later I was on a tuna trip out of Cocodrie. Only caught a few blackfin, but that was largely due to our hooking a 600 lb (estimate by length) marlin. While running in, I pointed at a floating log in front of us. The log then spewed water into the air. We slowed down and began circling and a sperm whale that absolutely dwarfed the 36' center console we were in rolled on its side and looked right at us. We got so close that we could see the circular suction scars on its head from giant squid. He looked at us for what felt like forever (in reality under a minute) and with one swing of his tail, he was gone. I'll never forget that.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 12:14 pm to runningTiger
Most recent I can remember was weekend before Thanksgiving 2013 in Venice. We had 2 boats consisting of 4 adults and 6 kids. Boated 419 trout in two days from one spot.
Week before that my dad, myself and my two kids pulled up to a spot and started catching them one after another. Never pulled out the counter and estimated we had about 80 when we pulled away. Cleaning them at the dock we counted 98. Luckily, we stopped at 80...
Week before that my dad, myself and my two kids pulled up to a spot and started catching them one after another. Never pulled out the counter and estimated we had about 80 when we pulled away. Cleaning them at the dock we counted 98. Luckily, we stopped at 80...
Posted on 2/26/15 at 12:27 pm to LSUengr
Ive truly been blessed when it comes to fishing but anytime I can get out fishing w/ my dad, good friends or my kids it’s a great day, catching fish is really a bonus.
Great catches include:
Smallmouth bass fishing w/ my dad over the years on L Erie including the time he caught a seagull on spinning gear ( ya it was pissed), I got a 6.5 fish and won a local tourney. Now fishing w/ my daughter (my son likes to fish but my daughter loves it) always a great time
Walleye fishing while I was in college w/ my dad in N Ontario– I was a Jr, I was working or at school so I hadn’t been home for 3 yrs and we got to spend 5 days together. This was before smart phones ipads satellite tv radio etc, we were way up north with no radio or TV, so all we had to listen to was his hardcore country cassette collection – Tammy, Merle, the possum, Hank sr, John cash, etc – I was into punk/alternative at the time …. Great trip lots of walleye caught on the slow troll
12+ yrs in LA
More redfish and trout than the law should allow
Trips with red snapper, lemon fish, AJs, wahoo, blackfin, tripletail, kings, chicken dolphin (looked like an axe murderer was on the boat) and a tuna trip when we caught all the yellowfin a 25’ boat could hold by 1 pm on pogies. We were hand feeding 30-120lb yft tuna like they were bream behind trawlers
Did a lot of spearfishing then w/ personal bests of 28lb RS, 88lb lemon, 45 lb cuda – lots of rodeo trophys and king diver at LSI rodeo, best RS diving was a trip w/ 6 divers who shot a limit of RS each (6 – back in the day when the no more fishing service actually let you keep a snapper and had a season for more than 4 days) – total of 36 fish and the average fish weight was 22 lb…. one went over 30
Diving w/ whale sharks
Didn’t fish much freshwater but had fun w a green trout and a couple of days catching a cooler full of bull bream when the chenise (sp?, Cajun for caterpillars) were falling from the trees.
Great catches include:
Smallmouth bass fishing w/ my dad over the years on L Erie including the time he caught a seagull on spinning gear ( ya it was pissed), I got a 6.5 fish and won a local tourney. Now fishing w/ my daughter (my son likes to fish but my daughter loves it) always a great time
Walleye fishing while I was in college w/ my dad in N Ontario– I was a Jr, I was working or at school so I hadn’t been home for 3 yrs and we got to spend 5 days together. This was before smart phones ipads satellite tv radio etc, we were way up north with no radio or TV, so all we had to listen to was his hardcore country cassette collection – Tammy, Merle, the possum, Hank sr, John cash, etc – I was into punk/alternative at the time …. Great trip lots of walleye caught on the slow troll
12+ yrs in LA
More redfish and trout than the law should allow
Trips with red snapper, lemon fish, AJs, wahoo, blackfin, tripletail, kings, chicken dolphin (looked like an axe murderer was on the boat) and a tuna trip when we caught all the yellowfin a 25’ boat could hold by 1 pm on pogies. We were hand feeding 30-120lb yft tuna like they were bream behind trawlers
Did a lot of spearfishing then w/ personal bests of 28lb RS, 88lb lemon, 45 lb cuda – lots of rodeo trophys and king diver at LSI rodeo, best RS diving was a trip w/ 6 divers who shot a limit of RS each (6 – back in the day when the no more fishing service actually let you keep a snapper and had a season for more than 4 days) – total of 36 fish and the average fish weight was 22 lb…. one went over 30
Diving w/ whale sharks
Didn’t fish much freshwater but had fun w a green trout and a couple of days catching a cooler full of bull bream when the chenise (sp?, Cajun for caterpillars) were falling from the trees.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 12:45 pm to OntarioTiger
I have several but the one that comes to mind was 2 summers ago. My son, dad, brother and nephew went to the Little Red in AR to trout fish. We didn't catch a ton of fish but enough to eat. After I fished a little while I stopped fishing an caught crawdads with my son (he was 7 at the time). It was the last trip I got to go with my dad and I'll never forget it.
Plus my son had an absolute blast catching crawdad's. Still talks about that trip.
Plus my son had an absolute blast catching crawdad's. Still talks about that trip.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 12:45 pm to LSUengr
Posted a video fishing in Delacroix last year out of my kayak throwing topwater. Caught over 30 reds that trip on topwater till my arms were sore and it was getting hot.
Other trips in my teen years, was fishing in the Jordan River in the spring with grass shrimp. Every trip I made that month, I caught huge red ears. Some close to two pounds. Filled up a 48q each time without ice. That was a lot of cleaning.
Fishing an overnight on my buddies boat. We fished Mars. On the way there, stopped at a drill ship and caught 5-6 nice mahi mahi. Get to mars catch 8 more. Several over 40lbs. They became a nuisance trying to get to tuna. We ended up with 13 mahi mahi, 9 yellowfin, and all the blackfin we wanted, but we threw them back due to no room in the boxes.
Fishing bayou bienvenue in May, caught a limit of trout. Smallest was 18 inches. Was done in a little over an hour. Wasn't expecting to catch anything.
Crawfishing the pearl, got to a new spot and found a few ditches that didn't have water pouring out. The crawfish were concentrated. Caught 3 sacks in a little over 4 hours by myself. Ran out of melt.
Other trips in my teen years, was fishing in the Jordan River in the spring with grass shrimp. Every trip I made that month, I caught huge red ears. Some close to two pounds. Filled up a 48q each time without ice. That was a lot of cleaning.
Fishing an overnight on my buddies boat. We fished Mars. On the way there, stopped at a drill ship and caught 5-6 nice mahi mahi. Get to mars catch 8 more. Several over 40lbs. They became a nuisance trying to get to tuna. We ended up with 13 mahi mahi, 9 yellowfin, and all the blackfin we wanted, but we threw them back due to no room in the boxes.
Fishing bayou bienvenue in May, caught a limit of trout. Smallest was 18 inches. Was done in a little over an hour. Wasn't expecting to catch anything.
Crawfishing the pearl, got to a new spot and found a few ditches that didn't have water pouring out. The crawfish were concentrated. Caught 3 sacks in a little over 4 hours by myself. Ran out of melt.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 1:51 pm to runningTiger
Had to be back in 2011. Buddy of mine heard me complain about the idiot 15 speck limit at Big Lake and told me to meet him down in Houma. We left and launched at Cocodrie and before 9am we had hammered each a limit of huge gator trout on croakers. There was none under 2lbs! About half were 5-6lbs and we had like 4or5 over 7. Never had that great a day until then. Oh, and before some clown tells me that big trout don't taste good, learn how to cook because they taste just fine when cooked by someone who knows how.
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