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LOL Yep that’s when you know it’s cold. Thanks for sharing Rymanz!

I was fishing early last winter and noticed my braided line and guides were freezing. First time it had ever happened to me, so it caught me off guard.

I still have not stepped into the fly fishing world but it’s high on my list! There are a bunch of fly fishing only ponds and streams in New England that I would really like to try. That’s a good looking brookie you caught. Among the species I can catch around my area, brook trout are probably my favorite. They have some of the best colors and patterns, in my opinion.
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Mushroom wrote:
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LOL Yep that’s when you know it’s cold. Thanks for sharing Rymanz!

I was fishing early last winter and noticed my braided line and guides were freezing. First time it had ever happened to me, so it caught me off guard.

I still have not stepped into the fly fishing world but it’s high on my list! There are a bunch of fly fishing only ponds and streams in New England that I would really like to try. That’s a good looking brookie you caught. Among the species I can catch around my area, brook trout are probably my favorite. They have some of the best colors and patterns, in my opinion.
Caught me off guard too. Was very confused why there was a ton of resistance when bringing the line back in. I knew it was cold but didn't realize it was freeze the line to your guides, cold. I instantly regretted it when I put my hand in the water to release the fish. :grin-sweat
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Hi Nick, I’ve fished since I was a little tacker. In my younger years I did a fair bit of land based game fishing with fairly good success off the ocean rocks.

These day’s I only toss soft plastics, primarily for our Flathead. I also fished with the Carp Management Program at Centennial Park just down the road till Covid and bureaucracy put an end to it a few years ago. It was good fun catching 12-14lb Mud Marlin on 4lb string.

Flatties are great table fish. They’re not great fighters though still fun on 6lb string. I only ever take one per session and call it good. They reckon your not a Flathead fisherman here until you crack the one meter mark (39”) something I haven’t done yet but I had one swallow a 3” plastic that rubbed through the 8lb leader (they don’t have teeth) at my feet that was at least a meter but that’s fishing, ay? Ah, hahaha!

Some Mud Marlin

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Some Dusky Flathead.

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And my first ever Silver Bream on a soft plastic.

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Bloke wrote:
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Hi Nick, I’ve fished since I was a little tacker. In my younger years I did a fair bit of land based game fishing with fairly good success off the ocean rocks.

These day’s I only toss soft plastics, primarily for our Flathead. I also fished with the Carp Management Program at Centennial Park just down the road till Covid and bureaucracy put an end to it a few years ago. It was good fun catching 12-14lb Mud Marlin on 4lb string.

Flatties are great table fish. They’re not great fighters though still fun on 6lb string. I only ever take one per session and call it good. They reckon your not a Flathead fisherman here until you crack the one meter mark (39”) something I haven’t done yet but I had one swallow a 3” plastic that rubbed through the 8lb leader (they don’t have teeth) at my feet that was at least a meter but that’s fishing, ay? Ah, hahaha!

Some Mud Marlin

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Some Dusky Flathead.

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And my first ever Silver Bream on a soft plastic.

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Hi Bloke, those are some impressive catches, thanks for sharing!

Those are some really nice carp. I can only imagine the fight on 4lb line. I’ve seen how hard they can fight in videos but have yet to experience that myself. I know a good local spot where I can target them though, so I’ve been planning to try it this season. I’ll be sure to post anything I catch.

I’ve never heard of Dusky Flathead but it’s a cool looking fish. I’m surprised to hear it’s not such a strong fighter because it looks like it would be the opposite. It reminds me of a catfish, which in my experience tend to be very hard fighters.

Nice silver Bream too, it looks a lot like a fish we have here called “scup” or “porgy.”
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Thanks Nick, I think “Bream” may be disturbed world wide by different local names as I caught a few fish in Greece decades ago and they seemed the same fish we have here. They’re great fun on 6lb gear and another great table fish.

If I may, I’d like to offer my experience with catching carp and hopefully help with your success. They’re skittish buggers and you’ll often hook one and no more even though there are plenty around.

If you go to a spot where they are, take a loaf of cheap white sliced bread. Break off bits about 1” square and just feed them. It may take a bit for them to work out it’s food if they’ve not seen bread before. I’d do that for several days if it’s practical of coarse. This will acclimatise them. You can also do the same with a tin of sweet corn kernels but try not to silhouette yourself in the open as that will likely spook them.

When you come to fish for them, fish as light as you can. 4lb is great if it’s not snaggy where they are. Feed them a few bits of bread and when they congratulate use a 1/0 - 2/0 offset hook, pattern won’t matter but suicides will gut hook then. Use about half a slice of bread but only the soft white bit and make a tear drop ball hiding the hook completely. You may need to wet the bread a little to do that and don’t use any sinkers or swivels. You can also use the juice and a few kernels of sweet corn from a tin to wet the bread bait and form it around the hook. If they’re close you can target individual fish and drop the bait nearly into there mouths.

I find I have most success by leaving the bail arm open after I cast with rod tip down. I let them take the bait and run for a few seconds then close the bail arm and lift the rod tip with a little jerk to set the hook.

Hope this all makes sense and sincerely hope you don’t find it condescending for that is not my intention.

Hope you hook some true heavy weights. Good Luck, Tight Lines and Steaming Drags. :smlling-eyes
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May as well throw this one in. It’s my biggest landed Flattie to date and just shy of the Magic Meter mark. Ah, hahaha! I caught the old girl on a live poddy mullet off a mates back yard backing onto an estuary on the Gold Coast last year.

That’s my mate Stuie holding her while I snapped a picture. I won’t take them that big if they’re not hurt.

She was fairly buggered by a long fight on 6lb string so we swam her for about twenty minutes in the shallows till she recovered and turned her loose unharmed except for a hole in her lip.

She wasn’t caught on a soft plastic so I’m not really counting her. Ah, hahaha! :winking-tongue

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I'm very happy to see this thread. It's great seeing the fishing photos. Fishing is one of my all time favorite activities. Every backpacking trip and camping trip I plan revolves around where I will be catching fish as a first priority. I was fortunate to have been taught how to catch fish at an early age and have loved fishing ever since.

One of my greatest joys in life has been having the opportunity to teach both of my kids how to fish as well. They too love to fish now and always look forward to the next fishing, camping or backpacking trip we have scheduled. Here's a few pics..

Catching and releasing while on a solo journey through Wishon Reservoir.
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My son trying various fishing spots around a small lake while backpacking in the John Muir Wilderness.
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My boy bringing in a brook trout.
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My daughter trekking into the wilderness to catch fish with me.
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She has good fishing "mojo" and usually catches the most fish and the prettiest fish.
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This is a great thread! Hope to add some fish photos soon. Snowing this morning… I thought we were out of the woods in the winter weather.

Enjoying everyone’s photos! Thanks Bloke for the pics, I love seeing fish we don’t have around here.
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Ok, looking at all the pictures made me unable to resist. Ran down to the pond for a few minutes. Fly fishing in the cold with 30 mph wind gusts is brutal. Caught one small bluegill and called it quits, since I could feel my fingers anymore and the wind had casting almost impossible. But hey, I caught a fish!

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Bloke wrote:
Thu Mar 24, 2022 10:49 pm
Thanks Nick, I think “Bream” may be disturbed world wide by different local names as I caught a few fish in Greece decades ago and they seemed the same fish we have here. They’re great fun on 6lb gear and another great table fish.

If I may, I’d like to offer my experience with catching carp and hopefully help with your success. They’re skittish buggers and you’ll often hook one and no more even though there are plenty around.

If you go to a spot where they are, take a loaf of cheap white sliced bread. Break off bits about 1” square and just feed them. It may take a bit for them to work out it’s food if they’ve not seen bread before. I’d do that for several days if it’s practical of coarse. This will acclimatise them. You can also do the same with a tin of sweet corn kernels but try not to silhouette yourself in the open as that will likely spook them.

When you come to fish for them, fish as light as you can. 4lb is great if it’s not snaggy where they are. Feed them a few bits of bread and when they congratulate use a 1/0 - 2/0 offset hook, pattern won’t matter but suicides will gut hook then. Use about half a slice of bread but only the soft white bit and make a tear drop ball hiding the hook completely. You may need to wet the bread a little to do that and don’t use any sinkers or swivels. You can also use the juice and a few kernels of sweet corn from a tin to wet the bread bait and form it around the hook. If they’re close you can target individual fish and drop the bait nearly into there mouths.

I find I have most success by leaving the bail arm open after I cast with rod tip down. I let them take the bait and run for a few seconds then close the bail arm and lift the rod tip with a little jerk to set the hook.

Hope this all makes sense and sincerely hope you don’t find it condescending for that is not my intention.

Hope you hook some true heavy weights. Good Luck, Tight Lines and Steaming Drags. :smlling-eyes
I don’t find it condescending at all, I actually really appreciate the tips. That’s partly why I wanted to have a fishing thread on here, I still have a lot to learn myself. You’ve shown me the results you can produce, now I’m hoping I can replicate those results on my own. I’m definitely going to try feeding them in one spot to acclimatize them to the area I want to fish.
Bloke wrote: May as well throw this one in. It’s my biggest landed Flattie to date and just shy of the Magic Meter mark. Ah, hahaha! I caught the old girl on a live poddy mullet off a mates back yard backing onto an estuary on the Gold Coast last year.

That’s my mate Stuie holding her while I snapped a picture. I won’t take them that big if they’re not hurt.

She was fairly buggered by a long fight on 6lb string so we swam her for about twenty minutes in the shallows till she recovered and turned her loose unharmed except for a hole in her lip.

She wasn’t caught on a soft plastic so I’m not really counting her. Ah, hahaha! :winking-tongue

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Very nice fish! I know feeling about catching it on live bait vs artificial. LOL I’m the same way when it comes to catching bass. I keep track of my personal best heaviest fish and if I were to catch one bigger than my current best on live bait, I wouldn’t count it. I only count the ones I catch on artificial lures.
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Xplorer wrote:
Fri Mar 25, 2022 12:31 pm
I'm very happy to see this thread. It's great seeing the fishing photos. Fishing is one of my all time favorite activities. Every backpacking trip and camping trip I plan revolves around where I will be catching fish as a first priority. I was fortunate to have been taught how to catch fish at an early age and have loved fishing ever since.

One of my greatest joys in life has been having the opportunity to teach both of my kids how to fish as well. They too love to fish now and always look forward to the next fishing, camping or backpacking trip we have scheduled. Here's a few pics..

Catching and releasing while on a solo journey through Wishon Reservoir.
https://i.imgur.com/LQgP3Sal.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/SIi7Nbjl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/LY6uMDDl.jpg

My son trying various fishing spots around a small lake while backpacking in the John Muir Wilderness.
https://i.imgur.com/Rm1cKjIl.jpg

My boy bringing in a brook trout.
https://i.imgur.com/BSBN3xKl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/28AUS8il.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Eho5HFZl.jpg

My daughter trekking into the wilderness to catch fish with me.
https://i.imgur.com/WRxkXcDl.jpg

She has good fishing "mojo" and usually catches the most fish and the prettiest fish.
https://i.imgur.com/6Zcxlw2l.png
https://i.imgur.com/ugWnZZ7l.png
https://i.imgur.com/7Se7rXEl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/I1zbTA9l.jpg
Hi Chad, thanks for sharing! Those look some absolutely beautiful fishing spots. Fishing with family and making memories is one of the best parts of it. It looks like you’ve taught your kids well because those are some beautiful brook trout! Brookies are easily my favorite trout to catch because of their colors and patterns.

I still haven’t packed my gear with me on any backpacking trips but that’s something else that’s on my list. That is one reason why I’ve been interested in learning how to fly fish too. There are ponds in the White Mountains that are only accessible by hiking in and have fly fishing only regulations. I’d love to map out a route to a few ponds and make a backpacking trip out of it.

If I’m remembering correctly, you made a few TiMascus spoons for a fishing trip but I can’t remember if I read about how they worked. Were you able to catch anything with them? It makes me want to try my hand at making some.

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Found a photo of my first Brook trout and figured this was a good time to share.

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Fantastic pics!!!
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Ranger_Ike wrote:
Sat Mar 26, 2022 9:59 am
Ok, looking at all the pictures made me unable to resist. Ran down to the pond for a few minutes. Fly fishing in the cold with 30 mph wind gusts is brutal. Caught one small bluegill and called it quits, since I could feel my fingers anymore and the wind had casting almost impossible. But hey, I caught a fish!

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Thanks for sharing Ike! I can’t imagine fly fishing in those conditions. Let alone doing it successfully! A fish is a fish in my mind, that’s a nice little bluegill. I actually have a lot of fun fishing for bluegill and other sunfish. Especially in the summer when they’re spawning and their colors are most vibrant. I’m often surprised by how strong some of them can pull and on ultralight tackle it’s a blast.
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Live in Northern Australia and Barramundi are the fish up here.

Live them, breath them chase them whenever I can. I have a tackle room in the house. Known as the after hours tackle shop to my mates. If they miss the tackle shop Friday due to work they know I can cover them with hundreds of lures still in packets in any colour they want and enough line to spool many reels. (At a cost :rofl )

Wet season has been a good one up here this year and so looking forward to a great run off season.
(Run off is at the end of the wet season when all the water on the floodplain’s drain back into the rivers with all the food for the big fish waiting)

We have a 1x Million dollar fish tagged every year and 100x $10,000 fish that is open between October to the end of March to attract tourists during the hot and humid season when all the tourist leave. Dry season the tourist season is a booming time as everyone from down Blokes way comes up to avoid the winter. No winter in the Northern Territory :winking-tongue

The pinnacle is a 1 meter Barramundi

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My biggest at 122cm = 48”
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The Mrs is a gun fisher also
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The problem is there is more Saltwater crocodiles than people
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standy99 wrote:
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Live in Northern Australia and Barramundi are the fish up here. ...
Nice Barra, Andy! I haven’t been up that way in a few decades now and didn’t catch any Barra fishing from shore. I did go out with a local and caught a few Queenfish though which were great on light gear.

Seeing the Salties in the pics reminded me off

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To all the guys/gals on the fence about fishing; please know most days are skunked or dink catches. I was in South Florida last year on a dock and the guy next to me was skunked for 2 months… and I walked in and he caught a shark! It was a dink, but it broke his skunk-a-tude.

Here’s a shot of me kissing a mistress. The catfish were spooking the Florida sheepshead (in my book the best eats.) I figure if I give the cat my attention, they would go away.

Before the end of the trip I caught about 40-50 catfish and was only slapped by one.
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Mushroom wrote:
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If I’m remembering correctly, you made a few TiMascus spoons for a fishing trip but I can’t remember if I read about how they worked. Were you able to catch anything with them? It makes me want to try my hand at making some.
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You're referring to these... :smlling-eyes One is timascus and the other is regular 6/4 titanium.
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There were issues.. :eye-roll
I had two backpacking trips planned and had wilderness permits for both. The two were scheduled 2 weeks apart. At the time there were big fires burning for weeks in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and my son and I were lucky to be able to get to our destination and find it unaffected by smoke.
The larger of the two lures I made was not getting any action because it was bigger than ideal for the fish here. I used the smaller one for a little while.
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After about 2 casts I cut 2 of the 3 hooks off the treble hook and crushed the barb on the remaining hook. After about 10 minutes I caught trout with it. As luck would have it, the fish spit out the hook as I was reaching to remove the hook and it slipped into the water just before my son was ready to take the picture. At the time I didn't think anything of it, and just figured I'd get more shots of fish on that lure soon enough. Later though, I was back to fishing flies and didn't go back to that lure that day. In the back of my mind I knew I'd get more opportunities the next day and in 2 weeks on my next trip.

When I woke up the morning of my last day out there the smoke from the fires had reached us and it was thick. We knew immediately we had to pack up and get off the mountain and the day's fishing plans were scrapped.
Sadly, 2 weeks later the fires had still not been extinguished and the smoke in the area I had permits for was even worse than it had been in the previous location. We had to cancel that trip altogether :disappointed

I've got more trips on the schedule and plan to have pics of fish on those lures in the next few months. I'll post them when I get 'em. :smiling-cheeks
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These are all great pictures and stories . Thank you for sharing, hope to see more . MG2
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You're referring to these... :smlling-eyes One is timascus and the other is regular 6/4 titanium.
Hey Chad, they look way, way too nice to toss at fish. Ah, hahaha!

I haven’t in a while now but I use to spin off the ocean rocks for Kingfish, Bonito and the like with sliced metal lures and would buy a dozen at a time for a weekend comp.

Gold seemed to work best but I think different colours are meant to catch fishermen rather than fish. I used a Shimano Speed Master overhead reel and the only thing that mattered was the speed as they have little if any true action. As long as the lure was skipping and splashing over the surface the fish chased and hit it. The faster I cranked the more hook ups.

All said, I’ve only fished for carp in freshwater so I don’t rightly know how any freshwater fish may react to lures.
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standy99 wrote:
Sun Mar 27, 2022 9:38 am
Live in Northern Australia and Barramundi are the fish up here.

Live them, breath them chase them whenever I can. I have a tackle room in the house. Known as the after hours tackle shop to my mates. If they miss the tackle shop Friday due to work they know I can cover them with hundreds of lures still in packets in any colour they want and enough line to spool many reels. (At a cost :rofl )

Wet season has been a good one up here this year and so looking forward to a great run off season.
(Run off is at the end of the wet season when all the water on the floodplain’s drain back into the rivers with all the food for the big fish waiting)

We have a 1x Million dollar fish tagged every year and 100x $10,000 fish that is open between October to the end of March to attract tourists during the hot and humid season when all the tourist leave. Dry season the tourist season is a booming time as everyone from down Blokes way comes up to avoid the winter. No winter in the Northern Territory :winking-tongue

The pinnacle is a 1 meter Barramundi

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My biggest at 122cm = 48”
https://files.catbox.moe/ks6wvk.jpeg

The Mrs is a gun fisher also
https://files.catbox.moe/5yrk9t.jpeg

The problem is there is more Saltwater crocodiles than people
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Photo taken by a mate
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Impressive photos, Andy! Thanks for sharing. I’ve heard of Barramundi and that is a fish I would love to try fishing for! Especially if I could win a million dollars for catching one, I’d be trying any chance I got as well! Wouldn’t dream of turning down the $10,000 either though, those are some incredible rewards.

I’m glad I don’t have to deal with any 20ft Saltwater crocs where I’m fishing! That photo your friend took makes that 5-6 ft bull shark look like a dogs chew toy. There are some decent sized American Alligators in the southeast US but nothing compared to Saltwater Crocodiles. I’m fortunate to be further north than the gators are able to survive naturally so even those aren’t in my radar here in the northeast US.
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