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Up here in my neck of the woods the brook trout fishermen hit the weed pretty good. I'm not going to guarantee you catch more fish but it seems the guys who are smoking always do. Of course when the fish are not biting ( usually the case ) and the weather stinks , its a great relaxer around the old campfire.
I like going for striped bass or black bass in this area. Shiney spinner baits are so fun, and when you are stoned its almost like you see the thing moving slow motion while twinkling like a star... then the bass HITS! The struggle begins and your heart is racing!! Dont break the line!! lol.
Sounds like you might be near my area, I don't know many places where you can fish striper and black bass. There's a big, deep, salty, cool lake that has just enough saline for the striper to reproduce. And striper is soooo yum!!!
I ususally catch black bass on a plastic worm. The best for me has been Mann's Apple Jelly worms. They smell like apples, but I think it's the color and very soft texture the bass like.
To the UK angler, it sounds so funny to hear about purposely getting carp. :) Most people here get mad when a carp hits. It's considered the same as getting a snapping turtle, only less dangerous. We don't really think they're good eating. And it seems like they offer no challenge, just throw anything with a hook and you get a carp. Maybe it's a different carp though. The main thing is that we think they have way too many bones to be pleasant eating. I read somewhere that hempseed is an excellent bait for carp. Any experience on this? BTW, sometimes I takes the hulls off a few bagseeds and eat them, wow they are delicious. :)
As far as hunting, my dad is against it, but he eats meat. I have never understood that viewpoint. Livestock are treated terribly before they get to the refrigerator, on an animal welfare basis I would take venison over beef any day of the week. Plus it tastes sooo freaking delicious. I have never hunted though. I'd like to if I can just get the nerve to actually shoot a mammal. Maybe I should go for quail or doves on my first hunt. :)
Jeremy Grey: Have you even shot one of these things before?Quote:
Originally Posted by JD1stTimer
John Beckwith: The whole 17 years we've known each other I've been sneaking off to go on little hunting trips around the world. No, I don't even know what the fuck a quail is!
Jeremy Grey: I feel totally ridiculous. Like why do I have to be in camouflage? So the big bad quail doesn't see me?
John Beckwith: I know. Why can't we hunt something cool like a hawk or an eagle, something with some talons?
Jeremy Grey: That'd be awesome. We could get something like big game. Even like a gorilla or a rhinoceros or a fucking human being! That'll get you jacked up.
John Beckwith: That's a little heavy.
Jeremy Grey: I mean like, hunt a human being right now, "Most Dangerous Game". Like a worthy adversary. Not a human being that's armed, but a clever, a clever, human being who knows the jungle. Or the woods.
Sorry I had to after you said quail hahaha... And by the way, just because a fish has a lot of bones does not mean it doesn't taste good. Up here in the lakes, 50% of the time you'll catch pickerel/walleye, 30% you'll catch jackfish/pike and 20% is little perch. The walleye and perch are both easy to fillet and taste great, but most people throw back the jackfish because it has so many little bones that it takes forever to fillet it. Most people assume it also taste bad.. not the case. You just have to a) know how to fillet and b) know how to cook, and you can't tell the difference between jack and pickerel. It's probably the same with carp over there.
we don't eat the carp allthough the eastern europeens do, it's just plesure fishing allways catch and release, carp in the lakes in the UK are big sport and being fished for regulary the big carp are very wary and hard to catch, the biggest i've caught is 36LB which is a specimen carp in the UK,but where i'm fishing there's one in there at 48LB thats the one i've been trying to catch for the last 12 months.
johnny never tried perch but have heard they are good eating,i have tried pike they taste good:thumbsup: