It would be a good idea to use a canoe or kayak, but crocodiles are quite common and big!...lol you'll be quite vulnerable in a tiny canoe, but I might get a small boat to do a little fishing in creeks, you see I want a boat small enough to get into creeks but big enough to handle the ocean...

i love fishing, i live on the mississippi river in Wis. and love it!!! especially around the fourth of july when we break out the heavy artillerie!!! i also hunt and criticize PETA/religoun. but i love fishing, my freind has his own boat and am saving up for one myself, am also begginnig to fly fish.

Whoops, I forgot about Crocs...we don't have them in MI

The boat that could handle both the rivers and INSHORE sal****er would be a skiff. However, it would be destroyed if you took it to deeper waters.


Fly fishing is great. I'm a self-taught fly fisherman for 8 years.

i love it when bass are surface fishing and you toss out a popper, its awsome when they hit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!i also like spinners.

I don't use poppers that much. The Zara Spook and the Dahlberg diver are my topwater lures...

Hey guys! I just bought a reel for my uncles old 8/9 fly rod, so i'm off hopefully this weekend with my brother, steelhead are running in his local stream. I'll post some pictures if I go, its been a constant battle with weather here lately.

I can't wait for bass season to open up again!

Weather doesn't deter steelhead fisherman, Ciraxis Why, a requirement of being a steelhead fisherman is wading in chest-deep water when it is -10 degrees outside and a blizzard

i also bow fish and ice fish, but normally that ends (and begins) witha weeny roast on an island i als o like spinners. they work.heddons are really good. zaras are great. i also love fishing for mississippi mudcats, me and my friend have around 15 secrets spots and our own secret bait (not chicken liver). i also go to dam walls when nothing's biting and use a zonar to snag sheephead.

Yeah I know forgfish, its the wind that kills fly fishing, not so much the cold. I've got plenty of warm clothes, i wear breathables too this time of year, most guys here wear neoprene. I'll go out anyday, rain, snow or whatever, but I hate the wind.

I looks to be good weather though this weekend. Do you have any streams near you to go for steel?

Yep,a ll around me Ciraxis. I have the Huron, which is within 20 minutes, and I can head south to Ohio, or north so some more renowned waters like the Au Sable, Manistee, Muskegon, and Pere Marquette.

Like I said before, I frequent the Manistee. I'm thinking of heading up for some wintering steel!

Ciraxis, don't forget about floatfishing for steelhead. During colder temps, steelhead head to moderately deep holes (sometimes about 4 feet) and don't move. For them to bite, the bait needs to float directly in front of them into their turnwheel (the area is which they will bite, about 1 fish length in front and to the sides...It's very small). My fave combo for steel is a river float (Thill Rivermaster) with some splitshot, and a small steelhead jig tipped with waxworms or spawn tied to the end. Don't be afraid to experiment with depth and color AND COVER EVERY SQUARE INCH OF THE HOLE


Speshall, yep, I love ice fishing for walleye. We haven't had safe ice in much places here yet, but I know we will have it soon. My fave lures breaks into two categories (excluding live bait fishing) -- spinning/casting and flycasting. When flyfishing, my fave flies are wooly buggers, dahlberg divers, and mayfly imitations. I also use a lot of hex, streamer, and nymph patterns.

When spin fishing, I normally use road runners and beetle spins for panfish and crappie. For bass, I use zara spooks and texas-rigged plastic worms. For pike and walleye, I use Rat-L-Traps and XRaps. Those baits are awesome!

Thanks for the tip buddy! I've been experimenting quite a lot this year with fishing, I really enjoy trying out different things, and I always am open to suggestion or advise.

don't fall down

You're welcome Ciraxis. Just give me a holler if you need anything.

I get a lot of good info and techniques from the magazines I get. I definitely suggest subscribing to North American Fisherman and In-Fisherman! They also have various trout/salmon journals.



Hehe, I fell down while fighting a king once...Actually, it was twice. Damn submerged logs...

All I can say that it was VERY cold and not very fun Cold water in your waders is NOT good.

i fell down and it was cold and the water was to. but i was duck hunting and it was a patch of good old mississippi mud i got mudd in ma' boots!! you should read Patrick F. McManus, he's really funny and you will love him, i do

Hey speshall, you should post your fishing pictures!

i don't take pictures of my fishing adventures, i don't know why though. i just don't. o well.you wouldn' beleive how many lures i lost in this one tree! bass always surface feed there so you are garenteed to get one, if you can just get your lure under the damned willow. i can't. o have before and out fished everyoe else with me when i did, but it doesn't happen much. its not so much me its the tree.

I have to fall down in the stream, I know that it is a right of passage in a way, but i have yet to fall. Believe me though, i know its coming, like death, you can't stop it.

then you can get yourself some pretty chrome!

if you really want the people fishing with you see you ass good, get a fish on, fight it, pretend it made you fall, and lose it (if its small or mediocre)

I went centerpinning the Huron today. Between 3 of us (my friend, his dad, and I), we got 13 chromers. W used river floats with a teardrop jig tipped with brown skein or wax worms. We got most out our hits on the waxies.

The biggest one went about 9 lbs. We weren't expecting anything, so we didn't bring our camera. Boy, were we wrong!

yeah, i got advise for ice fishing. don't do it at the hockey rink. people get mad.

Uhhh, there's no water to fish at a hockey rink...

Just came back from a awsome fishing trip, it was a long weekender and every aussie was celebrating Australia Day!...and whats better then celebrating the special event with a 3 day fishing trip!...Went out to the ocean and did deep sea fishing, it was all very new to me so I was very excited, the fish I caught was absouletly HUGE!...Red Snapper, Golden Snapper, Spanish Mackeral and a few more other types of fish. A great weekend that I will never feget.
Some boats I seen out there was awsome...I'll try to post some of me pictures of the adventure here once I get my camera working again...O_o...

i know, it was a joke

lost soul, sounds like you had a great time! I'd love to do deep sea fishing, am i'm hoping to go on my cruise this march, but we'll see, I really want to do some fishing, but I doubt my wife will tolerate me taking her fishing everywhere.

Lol Ciraxis!

Lostsoul! Post your pics fast! I'm can't wait to see them...

We took a deep sea partyboat fishing trip off Myrtle Beach, SC two years ago...The pics are somewhere back in this thread AND in my fishing gallery:
http://s124.photobucket.com/albums/p38/frogfishing/

wow those are great. i was goin to go deep sea fishing when ni was in california, but ended up jiggin for sardines and ancovies, but i got a seagull . later i did go fishing for trout on crater lake though. man that lake is awsome! its crystal clear and beautiful, then that night we watched this huge meteor shower1 its an awsome place, you can see the trout like, 30 feet down. then we went to oregon caves and then to the redwoods. we also went to fern canyon, theres lots of roosevelt alk there, and the cayon was used as the backdrop for that one part of walking with dinosaurs with the baby apatosaurs and stegosaur. yeah we found that part out later. heres some pics...

oh crap i put this on the wrong thread didn't i?

Nice pics and story, SM. We lived in Ja Lolla for some time, near San Diego. I've been to Redwoods and Yosemite, but never Crater Lake...Maybe when we go to BC, we'll make a stop there on the way back...

Do any of you pack your rods where ever you go? Any trip we go WILL involve some fishing Stay tuned for more adventures in this coming up year.

My friend and I are going centerpinning on the Huron this saturday. Temps will hit 0, but hopefully we can pull out some winter steelhead

yeah, i pack em everywhere, unless its a big city we are going to. always pullin over at stream or river or lake or whatever to see if something is bitin

i love shipcreek, how do you get the url code for a picture, i wanna show you guys some picks of ship creek but how do you get a picture onto a reply????

i wouldn't know, i only know how to upload.

Post the url in between [img][/img] tags...

whats the URL? i know what it is, but i don't know what you put in.

well i had a time set to go for steelhead this weekend with my dad and brother, but they both had things come up last minute. I'm kinda bumed about it, still i'm going to try and go sat or sun or both days.

Go by yourself...There's nothing like some solitude while fishing.

I'm hesitant about heading for some steelhead/walleye tommorow. The Temp will be hitting zero. I'll probably go anyways

I don't mind fishing alone at all, it usually how i fish, i was just looking forward to going out with them, there are my fishing buddies basicly.

ywah, same here, and thats not including windchill.


but who knows, maby global warming will kick in, and we can go bass fishing, and al gore will get some respect

I didn't go, it's -11 with the windchill...I'm not risking any of my fingers, plus, the reports coming out are not good. People are getting skunked. I doubt any chrome would bite.

its about that here, without windchill, but i went out with a shack, got both heaters going (propane space heaters) still frekin freezing. but i cought a couple bluegill and a perch.

Steelheaders don't have time for dem fancy heaters and shacks...

yeah, well, we don't have trout in the mississippi river . so we can have shacks.

Steelhead are not "trout"! They're much better

I have an idea, lets list of states and countries in which we have fished. This so we can get an idea of where people went.

Michigan (LP and UP), Ontario, British Columbia, Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Virginia, Tennesse, Kentucky, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, California, Oregon, Washington, North Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Mexico, Australia, and India.

Bolded places are where I fished more than once.

i know that they're salmon, its the mississippi, so we wouldn't have 'em either. if theres no places you can have trout you probably won't have salmon, ther like indicators, i guess.




wow i have been fishing just about every where there, exept wisconsin i liked fishing in oregon and california, and have fished in the UP and minnesota, but i don't reallly travel much.

I went on saturday for steelhead, but the hadn't plowed and my car got stuck 2 miles from the stream, I was alittle ticked off, it took an hour to push it out. I also went yesterday to a local stream that I like and caught a brown trout on a new wolly bugger pattern I was trying. I did a lot o experimenting yesterday, watching the stream and testing out new ideas. I figured I had the time, so it was ok to goof off a little.

ok, all the places ive fished are Alaska, Virginia, North carolina, South carolina, Massachusets, England, Hawaii,, Italy, and Florida.

wep thats about it, ohh whats steal head?

I go fishing....but I throw the poor fishies back....

where do you go fishing ASC?

steelhead is a rainbow trout that made its way to the ocean and comes back to spawn

i want to go fishing in alaska, may be a little overrated but i want to. and deep sea fishing. you should be able to shoot flying carp wiht a shot gun. but i guess it'd be more of a sport to hit them wiht a bow or spear. or a shovel . but something sould be done about them. they haven't gotten to my area yet, but when they do am havin a field day. what was the point of even introduving them? to claen dams? its still stupid.

they are everywhere over here in New York, when they spawn there are nothing but carp lining the shore.