Fishing Update In Your Area.
 

Fellows,
1. Are you just hunting or hunting and fishing?

2. What are you fishing for?

3. How are you doing?

I am fishing for crappie as well as hunting. It's been a little slow and crappie where I fish have to be at least 10 inches. Many are 9 1/2 . I did manage to get 2 nice meals of them for the freezer though. I love using light tackle and my favorite reel is the C 101 Garcia open faced spinning reel with 6 pound Trilene clear. I use live minnows and hal flies. { A jig} Nothing over 13 inches yet.
During the minnow fishing I've caught many channel cats and a few nice bass. I only keep the crappie.
God bless,
C7

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Catfish are staying pretty deep, and the bream and crappie are staying shallow, where I'm at.

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i've been catching bass on jewel spyder jigs from0-20ft. deep along rocky banks just by casting to the bank and letting drag behind the boat it does real well with a jewel crawdad trailer ''The Eakins Craw'' is the trailer by jewel but the color is green pumpkin and cimmonin purple.

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Hey Chuck how did your deer season go. Did youdo any good bow hunting up in Missouri?I might get to weta fishing line come middle of December, other wise it willbe the end of Janurary before I can get out.

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Hey Chuck how did your deer season go. Did youdo any good bow hunting up in Missouri?I might get to weta fishing line come middle of December, other wise it willbe the end of Janurary before I can get out.

Thanks for asking,
My friend Strut in Missouri has been going through a lot of trials .His wife had just had a liver transplant and was having some difficulties so I opted to stay in Florida this year. So far I haven't gotten anything. I had 2 opportunities for a shot in Florida with a bow but blew both opportujties. I've sat 5 times in a tree for general gun but haven't seen anything. Our general gun goes through Jan.6th .I get 2 more weeks off in Dec. so I will hunt hard then. Until that time comes I may shoot a few squirrels and catch a few more crappie.

I hope your hunting and fishing season goes good .;)
c7

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I've only been hunting, but I am doing well. Waiting for the ice to hit the lakes, then we can get some fishing in! ;)

Good luck all; be safe!

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I'm hunting & fishing and I've been going for crappies and sunnies for awhile, catching a few but its getting to cold now.

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I love our crappie..for you new fellers ..
Crappie can have a mushy like texture so if ya want a 5 star recipe to firm them up and make them tasty .here it is.

1.Soak your thawed out crappie / speck fillets covered in buttermilk OVER NIGHT

2. Take fish directly from buttermilk and dredge them through a mixture of 1/4 cornmeal and3/4 white flour and generouis aount of salt and pepper.

3. Carefully put ina 5/8th inch hot oil that is in a cast iron skillet.

4. When stiff and golden brown carefully flip over.

5. When that side is golden brown let fillets drain on paper towels.

I don't know how but your crappie are now firmed up real good and the taste is spectaculiar. There are never any left overs.

Serve with..
baked beans onions,molasses with crispy slab bacon on top
cole slaw
sweet tea
apple pie.

:):)Good Stuff man

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Still catching specks..here is one just over 12"
I also caught 5 big channels on light tackle and 2 bass.
I caught around 25 specks but only kept 8

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NIce.. your speck's are alot different than ours. Same shape but different coloration. The ice is coming soon!

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Thanks,
There are actually two different species of crappie..the White Crappie and the Black Crappie. This one happens ot be the White Crappie. Thanks, they are the best tasting freshwater fish IMHO in Florida lakes. I buttermilk batter them up and they are 5 STAR.
c7

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You got it. We do the same, except we have Black crappie. I like getting them fresh off the ice and eating them up. Everything taste better from ice fishing. I don't know if it is because the temperature of the water, or psycological? :D

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We have both down here.It's been my expereince tha tthe black crappie are a little bigger than the whites. I learned the recipe from a man from upstate New York. I can't beieve how drastically the texture and taste changes.

I tried it on bass and bluegills but it didn't have nearly the effect that it has on crappie.
c7

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We went walleye fishing a week ago before the river froze up and we caught 22 eyes and 4 sauger the biggest was a 3 pound sauger

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Good eatting my friend..I've never caught a waleye but sure have eatten them.They are great.
c7

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How can you call yourself an American angler if you haven't caught a walleye in your entire life.

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"How can you call yourself an American angler if you haven't caught a walleye in your entire life. "


:)Hey we don't have them in Florida. I've caught a few other species freshwater species though..from Maryland and Florida combined.

Largemouth bass
Small mouth bass
Crappie Bass { White}
Crappie Bass {Black}
Chain Pickeral
Brown Trout
Rainbow Trout
Pumpkinseed Sunfish
Green Sunfish
Red Earred Sunfish
Blurgill Sunfish
Red breasted Sunfish
Warmouth Bass
Sunshine Bass
White Perch
Yellow Perch
Mosquitoe Fish
Dace
Sickleback
Creek Chub
Killfish
Northern White Sucker
American Eel
Blue Catfish
Channel Catfish
Yellow Bullhead
Brown Bullhead
Armoured Catfish
Tilapia
Wild Shiner
European Carp
Grass carp
mudfish
Gar
Gizzard Shad

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Chuck, how do you catch your carp? We have alot and they are pushing around 30 pounds. They would put up a heck of a fight.

Also, do you guys have Pike in FL? I noticed they weren't on your list and they are fighters! :D

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;)Chuck, how do you catch your carp? We have alot and they are pushing around 30 pounds. They would put up a heck of a fight.

Also, do you guys have Pike in FL? I noticed they weren't on your list and they are fighters!

OK The European Carp { Orange colored carp} was luckily caught on night crawlers in Maryland. I used ot make my own dough balls but forgot the recipe. In Florida we have Grass Carp..I only caught one and it was 10 pounds in a cast net.

No, we don't have Northern Pike in Florida. WE do have Chiain Pickerals. Floridians call them Jacks. They treat them like trash fish. Not me.;)
They are fine eatting if you can deal with the bones. I caught many pickerals off spinner baits { Rooster Tails} in Virginia . I've ever caught a pike. Before I die I'd love to catch a salmon, a pike, a musky and a waleye.;)

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I'd love to take ya on some pike fishing adventures... I have yet to catch myself a muski yet. Gotta get up to Canada for those.

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I'd appreciate that but that 2000 mile drive is a little long.;)

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maybe you could take some time away from the computer and church and go do it.

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We have gotten 25 walleyes the past two days.

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19 incher

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Nice. Looks windy up there

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Got a 3+ lb. today and it blew hard.

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We were catching the Walleye just fast and furios. But this past week has been terible. I am moving the houses today. We were catching 5-15 keepers a day with about 6 total over 20+".

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Nice pictures.Thanks for sharing.
C7

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steelhead in the Lake Erie Tribs is heating up. Heres apic from 12-23.

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another one

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one more. All fish were caught on a flea pattern in either orange and chartreuse or blue and chartreuse.

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Awesome steelies. Way to go!

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Great pics.
Thanks for sharing

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how do you guys fish when the water is hard? I think i need to get me one of those new steel bass boats with a ice chopper motor[8D]

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pour water softener all over...

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No ice fishing yet for me and my season is at least 2 weeks late now as compared with other years. I had a nice deer season and got my Vt buck and a cow elk in Colorado to help fill the freezer. Now all I need is 3 1/2months of hard water fishing to make my year almost complete. The gear is ready now for some cooperation from Mother Nature.

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Thanks for the updates gentlemen...I can't wait till Josh starts the BASS tournament after the hunting season is over. I'm itching for some lunker action. Our deer season is over Jan.7th.

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I'll start it up.. but I'm still debating if I'm gonna fish it this year, or give someone else a chance;) I have a neat little idea that I'll run by you all when the time is right. Its a bit of a change from last year:eek:

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or give someone else a chance;) Josh...
Heytall man ..you only came in 2nd last year and I was only 1 ounce behind you.in 3rd place.That man in the little jon boat kicked both of our butts with that sweet looking 9 pounder.
c7

Last years's winner;)[8D]

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Caught 8 bass today and 25 crappie, Biggest bass was on a jig about 2 1/2 pounds,