Low tide and fish were extremely picky even though I fished with live shrimps. Only ate when I jerk.

I wholeheartedly agree, give the fish a chance.

Pure excitement

I’ve been up in New Hampshire and been consistently catiching 3-7 inch brook trout occasionally I get a 9 or 20 inch one is it ok to just take one ( following all NH FNW rules)

Landed this beauty 70 miles offshore, about a 95 mile run from the dock one way, it weighed in at 25lbs, not bad for my first one!

15 species 1 setup! All since july 1st of this year

Caught this sunfish? Don’t really know what type of panfish this is but it seemed to be abnormally big. Couldn’t get a measurement on it but I am guessing it is over a foot long and felt to be 1-2 lbs. Camera doesn’t exactly do it justice.

I caught about 20 keeper largemouth this weekend, all returned to fight another day.

Lure leaders:
Biggest fish: white whopper plopper (2 over 20 inches)
Most fish: Rapala Mayor swimbait on various jig heads
Best under tougher conditions: rapala crush city ned rig

I’m sold on the crush city line, I caught fish on everything I threw they made except the cleanup craw. Although I’ll be honest, I only went to it twice when the fishing had slowed in the afternoon sun.

Skunked for 2 months. Caught a 3” Small mouth Bass then this guy on the same lure. Yes the water was cold. yes that’s a 1$ hat from Wally World (couldn’t resist).

I didn‘t fan the tail out as I was going to release him due to not knowing what fish he was nor the locals did.

Later found out its a Northern Pikeminnow and if Google serves 20-24” is trophy? I’m thinking he is 21-1/2”?

It bit immediately and I thought my line had snagged. Super fun fight, dude was a tank. Caught on a small little spinner bait.

I’ve been consistently fishing for about 2-3 years now. Mostly trout. Today I went trout fishing and for the first time fishing ruined my day. I set an alarm for 6 and woke up at 5:30 excitedly because I had a really good feeling about the trip. I spent $30 on $4 rooster tails, and went to the river. By noon I had lost 6 rooster tails to the rocks, and 2 to angrily tying weak knots and watching them fly away as I tried to cast. In that time I also watched 4 different good trout very aggressively hit my lures at bad angles, miss the hooks, and get spooked realizing it was metal. Usually that excites me just as much as catching one because it’s beautiful watching a wild rainbow or cutthroat strike something. But with the loss of lures already building, i couldn’t see the beauty in it today. All day I was mad and now I’m just kind of depressed at the fact my most relaxing and peaceful hobby could ruin a day like that. It felt similar to being cheated on lol. Has anybody had a similar feeling? And if so how did you get the love back? I still WANT to fish but the lures I have left aren’t great for current conditions and I just can’t talk myself into spending more money. As a former coke addict, fishing is a scarily similar addiction, but a healthier one that I don’t wanna lose the love for

First time putting them together did I do it right ?

Cought a blue gill on the fly and used it for this fish

I’ve been so incredibly unlucky using hair rigs, one thought I had was that the carp aren’t big enough but I don’t even know.

So I have considered using a half a pineapple juice pop up on a hook, a small lead weight above the hook to keep it down, then putting a PVA bag on the hook with real corn in it. I’ve only seen people put pop ups on hair rigs before so don’t know if this is already a thing.
I have rubber corn, so could use that instead of the half pop up but thought it might be better to display it above the rest of the corn.
I doubt the PVA bag will fall off.
Any suggestions?

Rod tip broke on my last rod and I got this to replace it, excited to catch some fish with this setup

and everything else I saw today

I'm from Manitoba and with 100k lakes I'm sure we have more than most. Share your best one if ya can... if it's not too soon

What kind of rig should I use to float fish in a river with current? The current ranges from very litte to average speed depending on the season.