My favorite fishing show, Lunkerville:

A zebco promotion:

http://www.zebco.com/whats-new/promotions/

And a Mudville Contest:

http://mudville.net/neworleans.html

for those interested.

And here would be my submission for the mudville promotion:

Now THAT is a catfish pic LOL!!! 

I never realized that nightcrawlers were an invasive species in my area.

See:  a href="http://www.startribune.com/night-crawlers-are-good-bait-but-there-s-a-catch/302690261/" target="_blank">http://www.startribune.com/night-crawlers-are-good-bait-but-there-s...  >

Something to think about next time you go fishing using any variety of earthworm.

I just thought earthworms were everywhere.   I also thought they were good for the soil.  Learn something new every day!

hmmmm, I always thought earthworks lived everywhere too.  Wow was that an interesting article!

I too thought they were everywhere and were good for the soil.  Now I find out they are not native to my area of Illinois!

On the bright side, I've never dumped my unused bait on the ground or in the water.  I give it to another person who is still fishing or bring it back home.   Worms last for week in the fridge.

It's Throw Back Thursday.  So remember, it doesn't matter what you catch or how you caught it, today you throw it back

LOL, well that is one way to always have a net handy

Still working on my old Colonial Utility fish Knife with homemade scabbard  Here are some updated pics.

For those unfamiliar, I got the knife on Ebay.  The leather sheath that came with it was so dry-rotted it fell apart in my hands!  I decided to make a scabbard out of wood.  This quickly devolved into a fish shaped scabbard!

BEFORE:

AFTER

The tip of the sheath is an open slot to allow drainage.  I'm still looking at a way to add a scale for weighing fish.  The scabbard is purely for decorative purposes but i do want it to be functional

Or as they say in Latin: Felix Crappie Diem!

LMAO Tobias!

Tobias,

That fish shaped scabbard is pretty nice.  I have been sitting here looking at it trying to think of how a scale could be incorporated.  The closest I can come is something along these lines mounted to the back side?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Toolzone-12-5kg-Fishing-Balance-Weighing/dp...

Jan, no doubt incorporating a scale into the scabbard will be tricky - which explains why I haven't done it yet.   That one scale could be interesting.  Other options might be a hook remover and/or a bottle opener.  Another possibility would be a spare hook holder.

I am not a fisherman but I did take the boys from church fishing this morning. Fortunately, I did have a couple of fisherman come to help. We all had a lot of fun and even caught a few small bass. Here are a few pics.

Hi Jeremy, It looks like a lot of fun.  Wait I take that back!  I know it was a lot of fun.  Taking small children fishing can be a blast, especially if they are willing to to touch the fish!  The key is to remember you are there to show them how to fish and not to catch fish yourself.

I'm no expert on fish identification but I'm pretty sure those little fellas are perch.  Little buggers seem to inhale the hook!

I went on a Lake Michigan Fishing Charter over the week-end. 

This was first time I have ever done anything like this and had no idea what to expect.   Fortunately the 30 something year old charter captain (Larry Rishman) had been doing this stuff since he was around ten! 

There were four of us (five including the Captain)  My brother in law, his son (16) and a friend of his son (also 16). There were 1-3 foot waves - we were fishing in 100 ft deep water -   Just 1 More Charters  operates a 30' Sea Ray Weekender, 12.5 beam powered by twin Merc engines 

All total, we caught eight.  Four steelhead and four lake trout.   I reeled in two lake trout, personally and worked the net to land a third one.     This could be habit forming!

Me with one of the lake trouts.  The boat is visible in the background

My brother in law, me, my nephew and his friend in back, Four Steelhead and four lake trout up front.

My Nephew fighting a Steelhead

I wouldn't mind doing that myself Tobias!

SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good work Tobias, catching fish and spending time with the young ones.  Good Mix

Another fishing survey.  This one is really, really short!

1) Would you rather go fishing for the day and reel in  two dozen feisty non-keepers or spend the entire day with no bites and only reel in one big keeper?

2) Which is more aggravating: Catching the big one on the first cast and then having nary a bite the rest of the day, of having little nibblers steal your bait all day only to finally land a just under the limit dude on your last cast?

Tobias, question one is a little hard to answer.  I would enjoy both days.  But if the one fish is a really big whopper, I guess I would chose it.

The second question is easier.  I would chose catching the big one on the first cast.

1. Yes

2. Neither

Any time fishing is bliss and no one can convince me otherwise.

A bad day fishing is better than a good day at work!

I would rather spend the day catching, keepers or not so 2 dozen feisty smalls would be good with me

More aggravating to catch big first cast and nothing all day after that 

Anyone headed to North Georgia next month?

Youth Fishing Days at Buck Shoals - 9/20/15 at 8am-12noon
Children and their special "big person" can fish in a lake stocked with catfish, bass and bream. Fish caught can be kept. Bring your own bait (no corn) and rods. This event is not at Smithgall Woods, but at Buck Shoals, a nearby unopened state park. Call for directions. GPS Coordinates:
N 34.691950 | W -083.767150. $5 parking fee. Phone: 706-878-3087 - Address: Buck Shoals, 61 Tsalaki Trail, Helen, GA 30545

Here are my answers to the short survey

1) Would you rather go fishing for the day and reel in  two dozen feisty non-keepers or spend the entire day with no bites and only reel in one big keeper?

I'd rather have a day of catching.  Strangely it is the  one big one that somehow makes up the bulk if the stories.

2) Which is more aggravating: Catching the big one on the first cast and then having nary a bite the rest of the day, of having little nibblers steal your bait all day only to finally land a just under the limit dude on your last cast?

The one big one ends up being the story but it is more exciting to get bites all day.  I really hate it when nothing is biting.  I guess I need to work on patience.

Who wants to go Ultralight Deep-Sea Fishing?

https://www.facebook.com/WhatTradiesWant/videos/vb.141665125896530/...

Lots of work there but sure looked like fun!

That would be fun!

Do any of you fish in the winter?

Anything you have to do to prep your gear?

I hope to go ice fishing this year.  I have never gone.  My brother in law has been going the last two years.  So far, all I've done is pick up an ice fishing rod/reel combo.   I also plan on making a homemade jigging pole for which I've purchased a inline 1:1 reel.   I've also bought some new 6 lb ice braid.  Now all I need to do is hit the ice!

I have never ice fished either.  Sounds like your getting ready for it Tobias,  anyone else?

The only ice I want to see on my fishin trips would be in a nice gin and tonic.

We are currently at 48 members to this group.  That's not too shabby!  I mean after all people don't join groups about the knife collecting to actually talk fishing!  They join knife groups to talk knives!

On that note, I'm guessing everyone here happens to collect knives - (Of Course I could be wrong!)  

My question is did anyone here begin collecting knives because their love of fishing?   

I know my knife collection includes quite a few knives of the fishing nature, but my knife collecting started with military knives. It was only recently that I started collecting fishing knives and that is in part because I started collecting old tackle and had already been an avid knife collector.  Among the knives I got a real fancy for were the large toothpicks which are essentially a folding variety of bird & trout knives.  The same frame and  the sabre ground California clip blade is often used on the two blade fish knives so it was an easy hop from the toothpick to the fish knife.

I also know that the knives I use when fishing, with the exception of fillet knives, have rarely been made specifically for fishing!

Tobias, I was a fisherman long before I was a knife collector.  But no, I didn't start collecting knives because I was a fisherman.

I do have 24 fish knives in my collection, all the two blade variety.  I may or may not ever add the one blade type to my collection.

And I have never actually used any of my fish knives for fishing!

Me too, I've been fishing much longer than collecting anything besides memories. But I've always had an appreciation for hand tools. I visited Randall Knives when I was in Boy Scouts probably around 1968 or so I was fascinated by what I saw, not so much to be bladesmith but by the sheer beauty of a Randall knife. I really only started collecting a few years ago and bought my first (and only) Randall at Blade Show 2013. I do have several maker knives in my collection and just ordered one from Preston Roberts of the Mountain Man television series. There is just something about a well made tool, custom or production, that just sets me off. 

Well I am glad someone figured this out!  Fisherman have always known

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I just love to fish and can feel their presence when they get close to my line.

The wife says she just hates to perch fish , but I still have hope.

We fish mainly lake erie and use what works, but had short season this year. 2016 will be different and I will be ready.

good luck fishing!

Michael, well to the discussion.  The season seems to be rough over in the Lake Michigan region as well, at least in Chicago and NW Indiana.  I hope you are right about 2016.

I'm like your wife, at least when it comes to small perch.  They're jerks.  Nine times out of ten they swallow the hook so deep that you just know they are dead if you try to remove it and have zero chance of survival if you cut the line and release them. But they are yummy!

Thanks,for the invitation to the group. I will try to post some of my fishing knives .Tobias have you found one of those "banana fish knives yet". I have tosee a guy that supposedly has a couple of the kin folk knives . I will keep you posted . Been on the road with tattoo conventions and trying to catch a couple of knife  shows in the process. Well of to the shep the flounder are calling and the lights need fixin

Hi Jeff, to date, i have two of the Banana Trout Knives. (Gaff Knives)

Oops!  Make that three, when you include the cork handled floater!

Why did Jeff call it a Banana knife?  I'm just guessing:

hmmm, I have never heard them called banana knives.  Good to know !

I love the "yet"

Lets take one of those Gafs and go fishing

Saw this on Lunkerville Facebook page:

Essential skill for removing a hook from human flesh

How to: Remove a Hook

Tim Barker

Essential skill for removing a hook from human flesh

To remove a hook that has penetrated the skin beyond the barb, loop a piece of cord or heavy line around the bend, then press down firmly on the shank of the hook. This pressure opens up the wound channel vertically, clearing the barb. While maintaining steady pressure, take a firm grip on the loop of cord, and snatch the hook out in one quick motion.

Lunkerville directed me to the original article located at:  http://www.saltwatersportsman.com/how-to-remove-hook-from-human-fle...

I have thankfully never had to do this I understand it is a bit painful.  On the other hand, Donnie put a gaff through his foot in the boat once

As many of you are aware, Ralph Kessler works with a non profit that sells knives.  What the funding goes to is really great!  Here is a pic of what happened this past summer

I recently started a blog on bait/utility fishing knives.  As these are knives more likely to be used and not collected I doubt the vast majority of knife collectors will be looking at them.  However, as anglers can always use a good, inexpensive, beater knife to use around the boat, I figure some of the people here might be interested.   So far, the blog just discusses what makes a bait knife a bait knife and why you might want one by your side.   I will soon be adding reviews of modenr bait knives as well as older utility fishing knives in the same location.  The blog is located at:

http://iknifecollector.com/profiles/blogs/the-modern-bait-knife-by-...