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  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,834
    mcgruff10 said:
    If you zoom in pretty much in the middle of the photo on top of four leaves close together you can see a small snapping turtle just checking us out.  Grab the tail?!?! Hell no lol 
    Hahaha.
    Yeah, im not grabbing any fucking snapping turtle either. Fuck him!! Hahaha 
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,699
    this girl comes up every year and lays eggs in our yard. I just hope I'm home to walk her back to the pond. Don't pick it up unless i have to.. Just watch that cars don't run her over. Follows the same path every year. 

  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,111
    That s awesome!  Do you fish the pond across the street from your house?
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • jerparker20
    jerparker20 St. Paul, MN Posts: 2,529
    No idea there was a fishing thread… Waiting for the lakes to freeze here in Minnesota to hit the hard water.

    Anyways, here’s a picture of a 53” Muskie my brother tied into a few years back. Was close to the MN state record at the time. He’s good buddies with the folks at Linder’s Angling Edge. They were filming when he caught this. The footage was used in commercials for Rappala and St Croix Rods.


  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,111
    Omg
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,699
    Yeah! Wow

    Don't fish the pond. Tiny. 
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,116
    Great stories. Those big old snapping turtles are nasty! I have hooked a couple of them over the years. I tried Muskie fishing once up near the 1,000 islands region. 0 fish,10,000 casts LOL.
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,116
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Get_Right said:
    Ha! I always say I just need one fish. Does not need to be big, but just give me one bite. As I get older fishing has just become an activity to get me outside. Some people golf, ski, climb mountains, or play tennis. I prefer to be walking in the woods, on the water with a rod in hand. I am not as serious as I used to be and I do not travel for it like I used to. And I used to import lures and tying materials from Japan. I am lucky if I get out a few times a year and 98% catch and release. Children put a damper on fishing time!

    I have been to a few private places where you to pay to fish trout. The fee is basically to ensure a sustainable population and eating part of what you catch is what you pay for. I have taken some native trout in Japan. That is a story unto itself, one I think I told here before. The only other exception might be yellowtail or mangrove snappers in the keys. Classic yellowtail sashimi, maybe grilled, and then fried snapper sandwiches. Also smallmouth bass/perch on the border lakes near the Maine/Canada border- a classic shore lunch on an island in the middle of nowhere. All cooked in a well used cast iron skillet with bacon fat. Over a fire. With beans and cornbread. I bet you can smell it. I will take that over 18 at Pinehurst a thousand times over.
    Nice!.  My old company let me go on a fishing retreat to Canada.  Tetu Lake.  Remote.  Sea plane in and out.  We brought beer in with us, lol.  I made a rule that  u must crack a beer after the first fish caught.  One of the PM's I was with ran with that.  He said "rules are rules.  I need to abide by the rules."

    We were catching Muskee/snot rockets, Walleye and Bass.  What a fun trip.  I wore shorts out w a raincoat and a huge storm came.  I was feeling no pain and enjoyed the hell out of it.  The guide said to me afterwards, "i didn't think you were gonna make it." I said, from that little storm?  I worked in Alaska my man, this ain't shit.
    He laughed and said, now I know.

    Anywho.  It was a huge drought around that time so the water levels were 10 feet lower.  All their old fishing spots were now above water and the fish found new spots to hide in.  I have pics of that somewhere too, lol.

    We cooked what we caught for lunch w cast iron skillets they brought.  What a fun bunch of guys. 2days of fishing.  No internet.

    Nice! I loved my trips to the Maine border lakes and yes, we carried in everything, there was no Walmart, cell service or internet! They had outhouses. Suck it up city boy. I love going "up north" with one exception that has kept me from going back. Black flies. Meaner than those snapping turtles and I cannot say I am a fan of wearing a hairnet over my face. They still find a way in. 
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    Snapping turtles I have a story about them too, lol.
    While in Hartsville Tenn building a prison we were on federal land so everything was protected.  The deer and turkey roamed freely and not hunted.  There was water everywhere so catfish and turtles in abundance too.  One day I was riding around and saw a snapping turtle that looked like a large rock.  I second guessed it but stopped my car and shonuff, it was a HUGE snapping turtle.  12" shell i'd say.  Anywho i went up to it cause that's what i do.  I pat the thing on its shell w my arm above it as I know these things can chomp.

    It LUNGED at me and you heard its mouth snap.  I laughed at it.  I have video of that somewhere too...  I really need to go through the archives and pull some stuff out.
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,699
    Wow^ we used to go carp fishing all the time as kids off a bridge. Catch huge turtles. We'd beach them. Grab em. Bring them up to the bridge and they would hiss and snap at sticks we shoved in their faces. Throw them off the bridge back into the water. Heck they would come right back and We'd catch them again. 
    Had a bio teacher in high school that would offer 10 bucks for a turtle. He ate them. I never gave him one. They are magnificent creatures.
    Also had a Russian immigrant that came to the bridge when we caught carp. He brought a shopping cart and we filled it with carp. He couldn't believe we threw them back. 
    End of flashback

  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    Loujoe said:
    Wow^ we used to go carp fishing all the time as kids off a bridge. Catch huge turtles. We'd beach them. Grab em. Bring them up to the bridge and they would hiss and snap at sticks we shoved in their faces. Throw them off the bridge back into the water. Heck they would come right back and We'd catch them again. 
    Had a bio teacher in high school that would offer 10 bucks for a turtle. He ate them. I never gave him one. They are magnificent creatures.
    Also had a Russian immigrant that came to the bridge when we caught carp. He brought a shopping cart and we filled it with carp. He couldn't believe we threw them back. 
    End of flashback

    HA!  You wracked my brain about another turtle story. I had friends that moved away from Cali back to Kentucky.  That's where their Dad was from so they left.

    When they were there they got looks and stares because of their license plate.  CALIFORNIA.  It might as well say SATAN on it.

    About a week goes by and the people were still driving by oogling at their house when a man knocks on the door.  Introduces himself and walks in holding a turtle.  Greets everyone and hands them, no shit, a snapping turtle as a gift.  The son, my friend, asks his mom "what are we supposed to do with this?"
    "I think we're supposed to eat it?  We'll let it go after he leaves."

    They never really found out why he brought a turtle.  They did let it go and the people stopped driving by their house after that.  That podunk town got to be too podunk for them so they came back to cali.
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,699
    Awesome
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,116
    My town used to pay $50 for a dead copperhead snake. Better than a paper route I guess  :o:o
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,699
    Yeah. Today I hope people kill less stuff. I told my dad I saw a rattlesnake. First thing he asked was did I kill it. 
  • eddiec
    eddiec Posts: 3,959
    This thread is inspiring me to get back into fishing. I used to fly fish for trout all the time.
    Here's a brown caught on a size 18 Blue-winged olive. Probably thirty years ago.


    In retrospect, I feel bad I kept that one, but we did eat it.
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,699
    edited November 2024
    It's ok. I feel like there are stages to fishing. I went through that one. Also harvesting a large brown likely saved thousands of baby wild trout it would have eaten.
    All good and awesome fish.

    I have a 19" brown on my wall from about 30 years ago too. They must have been biting then!
    Here's a pic of my buds he got on a dry fly maybe 2 years ago. Released it.
    F..king gorgeous fish
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,699
    ^story..
    We were heading to this fishing spot and while hiking in i told my bud you are going  to catch a huge brown. It was the first time he fished that season. Late September. We both hit this run and a fish was rising like crazy.  It wouldn't hit. He told me to give it a try. I said it's your fish. I went downstream and told him to whistle if he nails it.
    He changed his fly and I was going after a fish feeding in the riffles.
    Sure enough he hooked up! Said he was trying to whistle but forgot how.
    only fish caught that day. We haven't got out since...yet. have to waitvtil the river calls us back.

  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,116
    Nothing better than a big brown rising to a dry IMHO. Never kept a brown for eating. 
  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,111
    The joys of teaching your son how to fish.   Two different lakes today and nada 
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,460
    Teach them something that doesn't cause the suffering and death of other animals.

    Not good values to pass down to the future generations imo.


    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"

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