Show off your fish

Last night got this king with my $30 crappy rod and reel..

 

Great fish. It's not an old boot yet, either. Well done.

 

Yea that carp was like a submarine was at the end of my line. Got into the fast current and we had to chase after it or it woulda spooled me. Fun times.

 

Its crazy how much harder fish fight when you foul hook them and you aren't controlling their heads. I've thought I had a couple serious lunkers on only to find out I'd foul hooked em

 

Thanks, yup didn't expect this guy in that small river

 

11 lb coho hen 1/4oz twitched jig

16 lb chum buck 3/8oz twitched jig


both taken on my 6'6 one piece med twitching rod. Both were a blast and smoked up real nice.

 

How did you smoke them? As in were they whole and hollowed out? What wood did you use to smoke? And how long?? I am going to tackle smoking fish one of these days that is why I am asking. Thanks

 

The fish get halved, then soaked in brine( brown sugar and salt) for 28 hours, the rinsed and smoked with alder chips. The chum was about 8 hours, the coho about 6.5.

 

Thanks I might try that one of these days soon!!!! I am off next week so maybe then. You should post pics if you have any in the food bs thread.

 

I took a short vacation with my wife to Costa Rica last week. We did a 1/2 day of inshore fishing and had a blast.







-Travis

 

No roosterfish man!?! where were you in costa rica?

 

I WISH MAN!!! That's what I really wanted to hook into. I guess they just weren't hitting that day.

We fished near Jaco and up around the bay. Trolled the entire time. We still have a great time. We caught 6 fish and my wife reeled a few of them in so she was having a great time too.

I saw your Rooster from last summer and I'm SUPER jealous.

 

Not sure if I had ever put these up or not but the first one was a solid chunk from a couple years back that I caught the day before I left on a trip with my dad up to British Columbia...... Where I caught a few nice halibut and some chinooks. And hot damn did that halibut and those salmon taste goooooooood! LOL

 

Caught 11 trout this evenin. 7 were 14-15". Not huge, but fun on the ultralight. The girlfriend's brother caught 8, 5 were 14-15". Not a bad couple hours.

 

Eat'em!!! They look good!!!

 

Gonna fry a few up and make Trout dip with the rest

 

dont forget to post some pics especially in the foodie thread.... trout dip sounds good

 

haha, we were trolling all day and we did not have any luck so i insisted on snapper fishing and that was when i caught that bad boy, and after i all i was lucky.

 

Did a little yak fishing today.

Caught some reds and some trout.



Buddy caught a nice red as well

 

200lb Blue fin on spinning rod/ popper