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A group devoted to the Angler and the Angler at Heart.

If the topic has anything to do with fishing, this is the place to post. Tell us your fishing stories, talk about tackle old and new! What you like and what you don’t like.

Bought some new equipment and want to tell us about? We want to hear about it.

Thinking about buying a new pole and want to know it if it is worth the money? Ask up!

Do you collect fishing tackle? Show it off with pride!

Any type of angler with any skill level is welcome!

And as this is I Knife Collector, this is also a place to talk about the knives made, used and collected by anglers! We especially want to see your fishing knives -- in the tackle box, on display, or in action!

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Thoughts about Custom Rods

Started by Old Guy Dec 11, 2018. 0 Replies 1 Like

I was reading a discussion here about how pleased a member was with his purchase of a Dobyns rod. He commented that the only thing that bugged him was the placement of the hook keeper which…Continue

Fishing rods I am now using

Started by Peter Creager. Last reply by Peter Creager Dec 11, 2018. 1 Reply 0 Likes

I got some money, so I always liked higher end stuff, sort of you get what you pay for these days. I have all the normal St. Croix, G.Loomis , etc... however I came across a brand named Dobyns. I…Continue

Fisherman's Knives

Started by horace rogers. Last reply by Charles Sample Apr 18, 2018. 13 Replies 3 Likes

My passion is about fisherman's knives. Hope to meet and talk with others that collect themContinue

Leave it to Cleaver

Started by Tobias Gibson. Last reply by dead_left_knife_guy May 20, 2017. 5 Replies 6 Likes

Picked up two purpose made Fish Cleavers. On is made by Ka-Bar, the other by Robeson. I'm not sure if anyone is still making these but they really seemed to be a perfect size for cutting bait fish…Continue

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Comment by Jan Carter on July 15, 2015 at 21:22: hmmm, Rick that is something we have never tried! Sounds like a good solution

Tobias, I wish it could have lasted longer because it sure looks like you were having a good time

Comment by Rick Hooper on July 15, 2015 at 20:20: When I have line problems such as memory related problems, I spray the line with Reel Magic. I use it, in both fishing reels and bow fishing reels. Much less line twisting and tangled line, and many more casts and shots.

Comment by Tobias Gibson on July 15, 2015 at 20:11: Absolutely, Charles. It just ended too soon. Still, I'll be fishing locally, again come Friday.

Featured Comment by Charles Sample on July 15, 2015 at 19:45: Sounds like you had a lot of fun Tobias.

Comment by Tobias Gibson on July 15, 2015 at 18:56: so last week-end I went fishing at Magician Lake near Dowgiac, Michigan. In a 48 hour period I caught at least three dozen fish (first time I ever lost count). Almost all were bluegill, just a few perch and two rock bass (if you include the ones that were caught in the homemade bait trap - more on that later!)

I'd say maybe six of the three dozen were big enough to classify as keepers but the most averaged around 4 or 5 inches, a little too small for filleting.

I only used two poles, one was a the Zebco Micro Triggerspin with a 5 foot rod the other was my homemade 7 ft can pole with my 1950s Wolverine Sportsman Reel. At least a 1/3 of my catch was with the can pole using either a crappie rig or just a single hook.

I was totally amazed at how effective the cane pole was and was thrilled with the performance of the Zebco. I fished the ultralight mostly using a float but also had luck with a rooster tail and two rebel lure, a Horsefly Bumblebug and Chartueuse Crickhopper-popper. The Rebel lures were most effective in the evening.

I wished I could've stuck around for some Mon-Fri fishing so that the week-end pleasure craft wouldn't have been churning up the water but all in all a pretty good week-end.

One of the bluegills, not the biggest or the smallest, This one was caught off the pier with the ultralight

Zebco 33 Trigger-spin ultralight.

The cane pole with the wolverine sportsman reel. The mono-filament line proved problematic due to its memory. Once I reeled it in and out a few times it started laying sort of loopy on the reel causing some snagging. I've replaced the mono-filament with some old 20 pound linen fishing line from the same time period as the reel (the 1950s) and attached a about six feet of 10 pound fluorocarbon to the end of the linen line.

The line reels much more smoothly now.

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Comment by Ron Cooper on July 13, 2015 at 4:24: Here's a shot of me and a yellowfin tuna I caught deep sea fishing on a friend's boat about 30 miles off the coast of Ensenada, Mexico - I believe it was about 2001 or 2?

We left Coral Marina in Ensenada at 5 a.m. and after picking up bait at the bait barge we headed out into open water, running 6 lines behind my friend's 42' boat.

Unlike the day before, which was really windy, the water was smooth as glass and there was nary a breeze. Not a cloud in the sky! It was a beautiful day.

The problem was, there were no fish hitting our lines all morning. Fast forward to 1 in the afternoon, still batting zero, and all of a sudden it looked like the ocean was boiling. Literally! In every direction, all around the boat, as far as the eye could see. It was the largest pod of porpoise that any of us had ever seen. I'm talking thousands of porpoise and dolphin. Literally thousands!

We had hired a Mexican skipper to take the boat out, as is the custom to do down there. He suggested that we follow the pod because oftentimes the porpoise will lead you to schools of fish. So, that's precisely what we did. And, after a morning with not so much as a nibble, suddenly all of our trolling lines went taut and began to spool out.

Sure enough, those porpoise led us into a huge school of yellowfin tuna like the one I'm holding in that picture. The four of us - myself, my two friends and the Mexican skipper - spent the next hour reeling in one fish after another. It was obscene!

Thanks to that pod of porpoise, and an intuitive Mexican skipper, I enjoyed one of the best afternoons of deep sea fishing I had ever had. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Comment by Jan Carter on July 12, 2015 at 21:50: LOL, my best catch on a trolling lure???

In Memoriam Comment by John McCain on July 8, 2015 at 18:37: Want to see the Original Trolling Lure??-Here is is !!

Featured Comment by Charles Sample on July 8, 2015 at 17:50: Tobias said "Remember when you were a kid and all you needed was a pole and you'd find your bait along the river bank and you went fishing almost everyday?"

Reminds me when I was a kid growing up on the farm. We had several ponds scattered about the farm and a creek. I would use a persimmon sprout for a pole and white store twine for line. The only real tackle I would use was a hook. For bait I might take bread to roll into little dough balls or maybe a strip of bacon. Or catch little frogs or grasshoppers on the bank for bait. I caught literally hundreds of fish that way. They were only sunfish, nothing big, but I had a ball! Ah, the simple life!