Author Topic: Fishing (Read 11061 times)

iddee · « **on:** April 11, 2015, 06:35:31 pm »

Thursday evening, 24 "keepable" crappie, 6 white perch, 2 large catfish, one large snapping turtle. Crappie under 8 inches have to be put back.

Friday morning, 40 keepable crappie, 4 white bass.

Freezer looking much better now.

May be going back tomorrow, Sunday. Not sure yet.

LazyBkpr · « **Reply #1 on:** April 11, 2015, 08:54:38 pm »

hrm.... no Crappie.. a few bluegill over 2 lbs, and half a dozen cats over ten lbs in the freezer.. The fishing is JUST starting to get good here.... I miss catching crappie.. I'd like to add them to my pond, but they typically devour the young blue gill...

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iddee · « **Reply #3 on:** April 11, 2015, 09:23:57 pm »

Well, no fishing tomorrow. Boss just called. Had about 6 packages and a few queens left over. Will be installing them in our hives and making a few nucs tomorrow. OH, well, if it's fishing or bees, it should be a great day.

LogicalBee · « **Reply #4 on:** April 12, 2015, 01:11:41 am »

Wow, you did better than I did. I just caught a few Pollack at Walmart tonight

Never ate a crappie. How do you cook them?

In terms of taste, how do beeks rank the fresh water fishes?

iddee · « **Reply #5 on:** April 12, 2015, 06:32:14 am »

Rank....Crappie and largemouth bass tie for first.

cook....Just roll in different batters or dry mixes and panfry or deepfry.

Ray4852 · « **Reply #6 on:** April 12, 2015, 08:02:37 am »

You guys down south should be able to catch 2 lb crappie. There’s one lake I would love to try is Kerr Lake. I here 2 lbs slabs are very common. We have a 9 inch limit. I wont take out any crappie under 12 inches. By the time I clean it whats left to it. I never fish for crappie during spring. Its to easy to fill a bucket. I prefer to fish for crappie during the summer months trolling over 30f of water down 5 to 10 feet. Spring crappie spawn. I'm mostly a great lake troller and fish our deep finger lakes for trout and salmon. I do a lot of lake erie fishing for walleye. I'm way behind my fishing this year. I haven’t pulled my boat out of storage yet. I'm usually fishing our Seneca Lake by mid march with my boat. Seneca is to deep to freeze over. Its over 700f it froze this year in parts. My buddy called yesterday. He wanted to troll lake Ontario. We still have floating ice yet.

iddee · « **Reply #7 on:** April 12, 2015, 08:09:32 am »

NC's record crappie was 4lb 15oz. Caught by a friend of mine many years ago. Very few over 2 lb here, as they are so prolific they crowd a pond to where few obtain full growth potential.

Ray4852 · « **Reply #8 on:** April 12, 2015, 09:03:26 am »

You guys down south have plenty of reservoirs and ponds. You need some kind of fish to eat the crappie during the spring to help balance them up when they spawn. We have a lake up here with excellent crappie and walleye fishing. Both fish eat each other. When the walleye numbers are down the crappie numbers are up. This lake has tiger muskies in it too to control booth fish. What I like about some of your techniques down south, you can put in your own brush piles and stake beds to draw crappie to them and mark them with a GPS and fish them later. Up north we cant do this. Our fisherman are light years away with their thinking. All they want to do is fill a bucket. If we could put in brush piles here our crappie fishing would be better because the crappie would have a place to hide from the predator fish.

G3farms · « **Reply #9 on:** April 12, 2015, 09:14:58 am »

sinking a brush pile is a secret activity even in the south, you don't want everybody to know where your secret fishing hole is at. Surely you could sink a brush pile in the middle of the night without mr game warden finding you out!

Ray4852 · « **Reply #10 on:** April 12, 2015, 09:57:07 am »

My buddy and I want to sink a few brush piles but he wants to go through the right channels doing it. Mr game warden does not like the idea.

iddee · « **Reply #11 on:** April 12, 2015, 04:51:39 pm »

I've never sank a cedar tree in the daylight. I've also never asked a game warden for permission to do anything. The last time I was checked by a warden, he measured my fish, and being legal, he handed it back, but dropped it between the boats into the water before he got it over my boat. He can kiss my elbow, or wherever I can't kiss myself.

G3farms · « **Reply #12 on:** April 12, 2015, 05:03:11 pm »

My sentiments exactly on the game warden, only been checked one time and that was in a dove field. He was checking to make sure there were no more than three shells in everybody's shotgun, shucked all three of mine in the mud, handed me back my shotgun and walked off. I had several choice words for him but they fell on deaf ears. Come to find out he was doing everybody that way.

riverbee · « **Reply #13 on:** April 12, 2015, 06:17:07 pm »

"in terms of taste, how do beeks rank the fresh water fishes?"

trout, (all species), salmon, greyling. catfish, walleye, and big fat blue gills.........

grill, or panfry, usually grilled, but can bake in the oven/broiler. i am not one to use batters or mixes, only occasionally.

Ray4852 · « **Reply #14 on:** April 12, 2015, 07:24:11 pm »

Best eating walleye, Perch, crappie and blue gill and northern pike. I like the smaller walleye 2 lbs or less. The bigger ones I throw back in or give away.

Trout and salmon from the great lakes get pretty big. Again I only take the smaller ones for eating. These fish get smoked or backed in tinfoil over the grill. Those little trout you get in the stream have very little taste to them. They come out of a hatchery.

Catfish are good when the water is cold. Excellent smoked. Bullhead are good too when the water is cold. Once it warms up they get to soft and taste like mud.

riverbee · « **Reply #15 on:** April 12, 2015, 07:26:48 pm »

"Those little trout you get in the stream have very little taste to them. They come out of a hatchery. "

not where i fish ray..........but you are correct, hatchery anything has little to no taste, and you can tell by looking at them when caught......

LazyBkpr · « **Reply #16 on:** April 12, 2015, 09:57:54 pm »

heh, we had a game warden like that.. many years ago... He was asked to leave.. Then he was FORCED to leave... There is no reason for anyone to be like that, police, game warden etc... respect goes a long way in a small community.. lack of it tends to go the short way.

Dunkel · « **Reply #17 on:** April 12, 2015, 10:20:51 pm »

Crappie, bluegill, walleye, muskie, smallmouth, then small largemouth. But I'll take a freezer full of flatheads anytime.

LazyBkpr · « **Reply #18 on:** April 12, 2015, 10:27:39 pm »

Quote from: Dunkel on April 12, 2015, 10:20:51 pm

Crappie, bluegill, walleye, muskie, smallmouth, then small largemouth. But I'll take a freezer full of flatheads anytime.

I am with Dunkel and Absolutely owe him a beer.. He will preferably get that beer while kicked back on the boat, pole in hand..

LogicalBee · « **Reply #19 on:** April 12, 2015, 10:30:56 pm »

Maybe I need to take a break from the bees and get back into fishing this summer

I used to dream of catching a Muskie, but never had any luck.

I was once ticketed by a game warden too. Not for the fish or a lack of license, but because we didn’t’ have life jackets in the boat.

We had the floating seats, but evidently that wasn’t sufficient for this guy. It’s not like we were on Lake Michigan. Just a small lake and we were all excellent swimmers; lots of swim lessons as kids. Unfortunately, the school yard bullies tend to be the ones that end up with badges later in life.