On Sunday I was out looking for panfish, chubs, or suckers from shore at a new spot my buddy showed me, the river still had lots of ice but I found a little pocket of water at the mouth of a creek I could cast a line at, I've spent years trying but never caught a fish this early when there's still huge ice chunks floating down the river but after 2 hours of having a worm off the bottom I finally got a chub! Its my new PB at around 15-16 inches, by now most of the ice is gone and the fishing should get good soon. Can't wait until the slabs start moving in!
First open water fish 2015
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Gotta love fallfish
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How did it taste?
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Re: First open water fish 2015
Awesome. Always a great feeling catching that first open water fish of the year.
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Wow you did not waste any time nice one !
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Thanks everyone! I wasn't sure what it was at first but i'm pretty sure its a fall fish, the record is 18.5 inches so i wasn't far off.
I wouldn't eat it but it's in my freezer waiting to be cut up when the catfish start biting.Doug wrote:How did it taste?
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Re: First open water fish 2015
Yep, they are not high on my list of fish to eat. But an old lad that used to fish in a camp I belonged to used to keep fallfish, cut off the heads and gut them, then BOIL THEM and eat the meat off the bones. "JUST LIKE TROUT!" he would say. I think gin had by that time pretty much ravaged his taste buds, and any kind of soft food was good.LiplessCrank wrote:Thanks everyone! I wasn't sure what it was at first but i'm pretty sure its a fall fish, the record is 18.5 inches so i wasn't far off.
I wouldn't eat it but it's in my freezer waiting to be cut up when the catfish start biting.Doug wrote:How did it taste?
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