Category: Other fish
Can You Name Your Fish? Many Can’t
As avid bass anglers, about all we have to figure out is the difference between largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass every now and then - everything else we catch doesn’t matter. However, when you look at fish identification from a research standpoint, especially when you are talking about DNR angler surveys and asking people what fish [...]
Asian Carp Solution: the Herp?!
From the “we can’t make this up” files comes this. Is it a potential solution to the jumping, flying, devouring Asian carp menace? Let you answer thata one, but I do know this: Nothing mankind can devise will keep those suckers outta anywhere, same as zebra mussels, hydrilla, etc. Following is from here: Hundreds or [...]
Science: My, what a big mouth you have!
Research has discovered some neat stuff about flathead catfish. These fish can be highly prolific in the right environment, to the point of being considered invasive, and have a large appetite, especially for smaller members of the catfish family as well as most members of the sunfish family (including bass). As such, it is not at all [...]
Can’t Get a World Record on an AL Rig
Remember this story? Arkansas fisherman Rodney Ply caught a world record striper (68+) while bass fishing Bull Shoals with a homemade umbrella rig. Luckily for him – but not really – he’d also enrolled in Mustad’s record payout program. That’s called the “Hook-a-Million” contest. Catch a state record fish on a Mustad hook and win [...]
More Evidence for Goldfish Baits
Ever hear of “alternate methods” fish records? Me neither, until now: Missouri’s 20-year-old Dylan Gilmore just set the new “alternate methods” largie record with a 9-02 caught on a…trotline. Yep. A largie was fooled by a dang catfish rig – wait: we now know what the Missouri Rig will be! – which you would’ve known [...]
IGFA To Make $1 Mil Ruling on AL Rigs
Here’s a good story. Involves a bass fisherman, Bull Shoals Lake (MO), official fish record-keepers the International Game Fish Association, the Missouri DNR, $100,000 and $1 million. Excerpts from here and here: > Rodney Ply of Diamond City has lived on and fished Bull Shoals Lake his entire life. His once-in-a lifetime catch came earlier [...]
Is It Worth Catching a Record Fish Anymore?
Used to be said that it’d be worth a million dollars to catch the next world record largemouth. Don’t know if that was ever true, but even if it is now – which I doubt – would the baggage of a record catch be worth it? Two recent things made that thought pop up in [...]
Wicked Bent Rod Pattern Sux!
I like to check out all the new fishing-related shows on TV. Not so much the same -ol’ wanna-be-Z/Hank/Dance/Jimmy shows out there, but the stuff on what I call the “nature channels,” up around the high 200s on DirecTV. You know, NatGeo, Discovery, etc. My son likes to too, and he saw an ad for [...]
Crazy College Carp Caper
What does an NFL pass rush look like if you’re Eli Manning? (Go Giants!) Looks like what these crazy Illinois “yoots” found out in their quest to rid a river of some Asian carps. Don’t try this at home!
Science: Who Goes Multi-Species?
According to a recent article posted over on OutdoorsFirst website, apparently Elite Series pro Brandon Palaniuk does. Being from Idaho might help in the matter, as I imagine many bassers in the northern part of the country might chase other fish species for one reason or another, especially those in states that have closed seasons [...]
Bass ‘n’ ‘Eyes – Why Stop There?
Let’s keep this going. If the Mixed Doubles thang was bass and walleye anglers paired up, what about the other permutations, such like below. What would you like to see – pairings that would be interesting and/or funny? Don’t need to keep bass as one side of the pair…. Few cracks at it: Bass ‘n’ [...]
Lunch: Chicken of the River?
Charlie the Carp? Check Out These Vids Speaking of bounties on fish, saw an article the other day about these Asian carp and how some scientists – I want to say, in Arkansas? – were studying whether canned Asian carp could take over for canned tuna some day. From our own USDA, quoting food technologist [...]
8K Fish = 66K Dollars
It’s that time again. The time to award, reward or mental-ward – whatever you want to call it – those folks in the Pacific Northwest who grind out cash year after year by catching and killing northern pikeminnows, formerly called squawfish. As we’ve said here before, Bonneville Power Administration (our tax $ at work!) provides [...]
Should Trolling Rigs Be Banned?
[Update: Heard this rig was already banned for some Seminole derby. Can anyone confirm? Another update: Word is fish caught with these things can have a couple to several hooks stuck in 'em. Confirm?] Almost choked on my fruit pie when I saw the rig Paul Elias used to win the Guntersville FLW. It’s a [...]
Ever Tourney-Fished With a Bobber?
Somehow I’m on this walleye site reading an article and come across this: Dave shared an interesting walleye tactic that has won him some big bucks along the way. He calls it “Power Bobbering.” Dave credits more than $100,000 in cash over the years, and a 1st-place finish in the Wave Wacker Milles Lacs tournament to [...]
WTH Is This Fish – Worth 10 Grand?!
I don’t know, man. If I pull this outta the water, I think the first thing I’m touching it with is a net – the handle. Give it a couple sharp whacks on the top of the skull, then take a closer look. Lone Star Outdoor News had the story, here are the highlights: > [...]
Would You Wanna Go This Way?
Last month a Washington state man died soon after catching the fish of his dreams. Here’s the story: > Dan Dodds, 62, was fishing off the beach at Keystone Spit between the Coupeville ferry landing and Island County Driftwood Park early Thursday morning. Coupeville resident Jim Steinkirchner, 84, was fishing nearby. He said no one [...]
