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Post by Paws on Mar 6, 2007 10:07:01 GMT 12.75
Somewhere around here I have an ultralight spincast outfit with four pound test on it. I think you just give me an idea. Tomorrow I'm taking that rig over the hill with some red worms and see how big the perch in the pond have got and how hungry they might be.
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Post by geiyserq on Mar 6, 2007 13:24:32 GMT 12.75
Shooooot. Ya lucky dog.................
What difference being accross state makes. We still have ice on all our mud holes.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Mar 6, 2007 14:00:45 GMT 12.75
ONLY TWO FISH PER DAY? That's wanting to go fishing awfully bad! I wouldn't even get out of the truck for two fish! No wonder so many Yankee are moving down here.
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Post by Mars on Mar 6, 2007 14:34:11 GMT 12.75
For these trout I use a nine foot fly rod and an ultralight spinning reel. I like this set-up for bluegill as well.
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Post by Paws on Mar 7, 2007 3:43:29 GMT 12.75
ONLY TWO FISH PER DAY? That's wanting to go fishing awfully bad! I wouldn't even get out of the truck for two fish! No wonder so many Yankee are moving down here. Come on now Toby. How many times did you get out of the truck for "no" fish? ;D
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Post by geiyserq on Mar 7, 2007 3:59:30 GMT 12.75
Thats good paws! ;D ;D ;D No offense Tony, but even though I'd come down to visit ya, I wouldnt wanna live next door to ya. I spent 3 years in South Georgia, and unlike down there, I dont have to worry about red wasps buzzing my head while in the tree stand or the boat, let alone getting snake bit during hunting season. There's a time for wasps and snakes, and its not in December & January. But like i said. if ya got a world record honey hole, I'll be glad to come down and visit a spell!
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Post by Toby Benoit on Mar 7, 2007 5:51:47 GMT 12.75
"How many times did you get out of the truck for "no" fish?" Nary a single time....on purpose! But, there's been a bunch of trips I got skunked out on by accident. I don't have a World Record honey hole, but I got a bunch of them with plenty of fish. It ain't much to ride over to Lake Harris and boat a hundred speckled perch (crappie to ya'll what don't know no better) and bass. We can take a drive over to the docks on the Withlacoochee River and put forty or so brim on them cooler in a few hours. Red wasps and snakes? Oh yeah, we got them too, along with gators, crocs, and fresh water stingrays!
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Post by Paws on Mar 7, 2007 6:00:42 GMT 12.75
Toby you get the chance cary your butt up to Kentucky Lake and catch them crappie in late winter or early spring while the water is still cold and they are holding deep. They got black and white both and they run I guess eight or better inches and about as wide as your hand. Man those taste better than walleye do! Old Bill Hurley (SgtBill) who posts on here occasionally got some in his lil pond too (about 30 acres as I recall)!
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Post by geiyserq on Mar 8, 2007 3:35:00 GMT 12.75
Now my home lake has been kinda disapointing lately, but upto a couple years ago I didnt have to drive morena few minutes to catch all the crappie I wanted. Wouldnt have to keep none under 9". And the hardwater perch! OOOOOOOOOOODoggieeeeeeeee. We were catchin buckets of 9"+. some were going 11-12" But alas, a turn of events has got me nuthin but the world's largest mudhole. No wait a minute okay, thats a better representation. Between the farmers' pesticide run off in the creeks, the states infinite wisdom to rebuild a spill way, and loosing not only a bunch of sport fish, but also tons of bait fish, wetting a line has come to mean little more than....well, wetting a line. Not to mention that the QUALITY shoreline fishing has shrunk dramatically in the last 10 years due to people who insist on showing me how much money they have by buying up the waterfront property and putting $500,000.00 home on it. Ok, sorry, got on a self pitty party there.
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Post by Mars on Mar 8, 2007 9:55:56 GMT 12.75
Crappie!? When they named that fish they must have tasted it and called it by the first thing that was said!
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Post by Toby Benoit on Mar 8, 2007 12:04:43 GMT 12.75
Wash your mouth out with soap! Whoever named it "crappie" was just some damn Yankee what didn't know no better! Them Sac-a-lait, or spec's as what we calls em down here, is the bestest tastenist fish what I ever could wrap my mouth around! I bet I could eat seven or eight pounds of them damn things in one sitting and still make room for the hush puppies, cole slaw, and grits! Puttin' down the taste of them spec's is just terrible. I'm gonna pray for ya my friend. I hope the Lord leadeth you to a more educated palate!
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Post by geiyserq on Mar 8, 2007 17:43:59 GMT 12.75
I agree crappie are hard to beat toby, but johnny reb.....they can be beat!
1st off they have to be coldwater crappie caught no later than May in Ohio's shallow water lakes. A lil later in the deeper resevours (never could spell that)
But the only reason you could possibly say they's the best is cause you dont have yeller perch down there!
Now they're the best eatin fresh water fish. Bar none!
When you eat a perch dinner that come thru the ice or early spring you dont need no hush puppies, cheese grits and whatever all else youins fill up on so you dont need to eat too many of those musty warm water specks.
Now.......that bein said.....if we're cetchin 'em in your honey hole, and your cleanin an fryin em. What times supper? I got a killer hush puppy recipe and can spoon down the cheese grits with the best of them South Ga. boys
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Post by Mars on Mar 9, 2007 1:53:10 GMT 12.75
Soap? OK if I don't have to eat the crappie! ;D Best freshwater fish is the catfish!
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Post by Paws on Mar 9, 2007 2:18:56 GMT 12.75
Mars you have got to quit fishing in those effluent settling pools! Well day before yesterday I got dressed, had my camera and radio and such and headed over the hill to take a peek at the pond. Dump truck loaded with firewood was pulling in my counsin's driveway so I got distracted and forgot all about it. Yesterday I got dressed fixed myself a thermos and headed over the hill and the mailman pulled up. I fetched the mail and on the way back to the house saw a half dozen other little chores that needed done and lost out again. I got to learn to focus!
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Post by Toby Benoit on Mar 9, 2007 6:13:22 GMT 12.75
"I got to learn to focus!" Invest in a good pair of blinders! Catfish the best eating fresh water fish??? Well, you ain't entirely wrong, but they ain't the best, just in the top three. GQ...what's all this pulling through the ice stuff? You nukkin futz? You ain't gettin my fatarse out onto no ice, so I'm gonna tale your word about the taste of them white perch. Cheese grits? Ain't no sho' nuff, self respecting Cracker gonna throw cheese in his grits. That's just something they started doing years ago to trick the Yankees into eating them!
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Post by Carter Northcutt on Mar 11, 2007 9:18:25 GMT 12.75
Walleye is one of my top eating fish
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Post by Paws on Mar 11, 2007 10:15:16 GMT 12.75
"I got to learn to focus!" Invest in a good pair of blinders! Catfish the best eating fresh water fish??? Well, you ain't entirely wrong, but they ain't the best, just in the top three. GQ...what's all this pulling through the ice stuff? You nukkin futz? You ain't gettin my fatarse out onto no ice, so I'm gonna tale your word about the taste of them white perch. Cheese grits? Ain't no sho' nuff, self respecting Cracker gonna throw cheese in his grits. That's just something they started doing years ago to trick the Yankees into eating them! Aw Toby they make them holes pretty small you won't fall in!
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Post by Toby Benoit on Mar 11, 2007 11:55:34 GMT 12.75
Yep, that's what she said! ;D
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Post by geiyserq on Mar 12, 2007 5:28:23 GMT 12.75
Toby, I know it dont really make you any difference, but just for the record I said yellow perch. You wouldn't get me to eat one of dem white perch they catch up in Lake Erie.
I'd sooner eat a sheephead (freshwater drum), and have.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Mar 12, 2007 5:49:53 GMT 12.75
Sorry G, I'm color blind!
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