Boats / Fishing / Ft Lauderdale / Ponds

[Omaha Red Sox]

Rainbow trout mostly. Targeting crappie this weekend.

[scottaa1]

Rainbow trout mostly. Targeting crappie this weekend.

And they're already frozen for easy storage.

Seriously, glad you're having fun, and I hope the fish are tasty. The only kind of fishing I want to do in January is sailfishing. January is when the sails are running off Islamorada, and tho the seas are heavy, slow trolling with ballyho can mean 4 or more 6 footers a day. Great stuff.

[Omaha Red Sox]

Fish through the ice taste amazing. Not sure what it is. Fresher maybe? And being out there in the crazy elements, not sure what it is about that either that makes it what it is, but just a feeling of something a human being shouldn't be doing I guess. That brisk wind, snow and ice stabbing your face. Sounds crazy, even to me as I type this, but I love it. Still prefer open water, but when there's ice, I look forward to getting out there.

[Omaha Red Sox]

[Omaha Red Sox]

Had the pleasure of attending a nerdy pond conference at Big Cedar Lodge in Ridgedale, MO and got the chance to work on an electrofishing boat, shocking up fish for a survey.

[Omaha Red Sox]

Not me, but one of the fish that was shocked up...might give up the rod and reel way of doing things...

[Guru13]

Big Cedar is really nice, family went there a couple summers ago. Nice fish.

[scottaa1]

Nice bass. did you happen to weigh him?

In the electric photo, is that a carp? Those can actually be quite fun to catch. There are carp fishing clubs in Indiana and I"m sure elsewhere that take it very seriously. Those suckers grow quite large.

[Omaha Red Sox]

Nice bass. did you happen to weigh him?

In the electric photo, is that a carp? Those can actually be quite fun to catch. There are carp fishing clubs in Indiana and I"m sure elsewhere that take it very seriously. Those suckers grow quite large.

Did not get a weight on the bass. My buddy, who is a bass tourny guy, estimated her to be a little over 3, but I'm guessing much closer to 8.

That is a common carp and yeah they can be a LOT of fun to catch. They can get huge, largely because they get so old and can be difficult to catch since they prefer an herbivorous diet. Their cousin, the grass carp, is stocked pretty regularly in ponds to control vegetation. They can eat up their weight in plants in a day.

[scottaa1]

Did not get a weight on the bass. My buddy, who is a bass tourny guy, estimated her to be a little over 3, but I'm guessing much closer to 8.

That is a common carp and yeah they can be a LOT of fun to catch. They can get huge, largely because they get so old and can be difficult to catch since they prefer an herbivorous diet. Their cousin, the grass carp, is stocked pretty regularly in ponds to control vegetation. They can eat up their weight in plants in a day.

I was thinking more like 2.5 pounds on the bass, but 8 sounds good too Man that's alot of fun to have that drag ripping, watch them jumping, aint it?

I used to purpose fish for carp on Morse Lake in Indiana w/ doughballs as bait. Corn Flakes, water, vanilla or rum extract, and they loved it. they averaged five to six pounds apiece, so that's plenty of fun on light open-face rod/reel. Carp kinda get looked down on because they're not an eating fish or as sought after as other game fish, but I say if it's fun to catch, then catch it.

I got a line wet weekend before last. Caught some small largemouths, nothing worth writing about. It was more a matter of just enjoying the water/sun/fresh air. Cathartic.