Happiness is............

KATMAN · #1 09-04-2009, 07:30 PM

...........A empty cricket tube and a basket full of brim.It was a picture perfect day,tempature in the low to mid 70's,slight breeze,partly cloudy.It's a perfect place to bream fishing,nice secluded spot with very few people. In fact there isn't anyone around.Had a great day,even caught a few titty breams!

blkdia · #2 09-04-2009, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by KATMAN

...........A empty cricket tube and a basket full of brim.It was a picture perfect day,tempature in the low to mid 70's,slight breeze,partly cloudy.It's a perfect place to bream fishing,nice secluded spot with very few people. In fact there isn't anyone around.Had a great day,even caught a few titty breams!

What kind of breams? Pictures?

KATMAN · #3 09-04-2009, 10:40 PM

Bluegills,sunfish,etc. I din't take any pictures,I didn't take my camera and my brother took the fish over to my sister in laws.With nine kids over there all the time I figure that would feed most of them.

ChautauquaBob · #4 09-05-2009, 09:07 AM

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Originally Posted by KATMAN

Bluegills,sunfish,etc. I din't take any pictures,I didn't take my camera and my brother took the fish over to my sister in laws.With nine kids over there all the time I figure that would feed most of them.

We work pretty regularly through the summer for Bass and Musky out on the lake, when I can with a buddy. Not obsessively but regularly. But I swear, this time of year when the bluegill and perch are coming back in from their little summer vacation and swarming the docks, there is nothing more fun than a couple of hours with an ultralight just fishing off the docks. Those Bluegill can be as much or more fun as some trophy bass on a little ultralight outfit. And the little perch are a dime a dozen and keep you busy but every so often you snag a big decent perch too. Just good fun.

KATMAN · #5 09-05-2009, 09:45 AM

When you say perch down here in means bluegills,pumkinseeds,redears and other panfish.Since I lived up north when I was a kid and knows what a true perch is,I don't call them that.Brim is what they're generally called here.It comes from the shape of the fish,like a brim of a cap.

Oklahomahunter · #6 10-10-2009, 11:51 PM

I always called them perch, or heard them referred to as perch Katman, When I was younger I used to catch all kinds of them, Bluegill, Goggleeyes, Pumkinseeds, some of them get quite big, but I never ate any of them, they're really bony I heard, but my grandfather always told me of how his parents could cook them hole, and you could eat the bones and all. Not sure if he was telling me a tall tale, but I guess it's possible.

Then again I was raised in Oklahoma, and since you live in Arkansas, you know how a lot of people refer to things around here.

ChautauquaBob · #7 10-22-2009, 05:26 PM

Our October weather has been like our July, in one word, "LOUSY" lol Rain, cold, day after day. Just this week we finally put together more than one non-rainy day in a row, as in most of the week has been anywhere from nice to at least decent. But then the old conscience kicks in with ALL the out door stuff around the house that hasn't been getting done before winter. I'd been working at it all week and FINALLY today I said "I'm go'n fishn'. lol Could be the last hoorah of the year before all the gear gets put away. The boat has been long gone, so was reduced for looking for docks to fish off of and by this time in the North they're getting darn hard to find.

Anyway I heard that some of the docks were still in at the State Park marina, so went there this morning for a couple of hours. Just took an ultra-light and the perch were in a frenzy. Just way too much fun. I wasn't keeping anything and just tossing them back until someone else came along with a bucket that planned on keeping them, so I helped out their cause for awhile. I don't even know how many I caught, lost track, however many one person can possibly catch in a couple of hours is how many - a LOT. Good way to possibly close out the season, unless some other nice days sneak in before the snow falls. I probably caught more fish today, than I caught all Spring and Summer combined. That is a sad story and not a good testiment to the fishing this past summer.

Of course on the sportsman skill level sliding scale today was about a "2". i.e. if you could tie something onto your line, you were likely to catch fish. lol But on the entertainment and fun level sliding scale it was definitely a 10.

KATMAN · #8 10-23-2009, 10:37 AM

I love my ultra light poles. I like to feel the fish fight,even the littles ones. My brother always uses big surf rods,so he can cast farther.There's just no fun in catching a small fish on a big pole,2 oz sinker,and 20 lb test line.I have bigger poles also,but use them when it's called for.

HOGWILD · #9 11-14-2009, 09:24 AM

Back years ago on White Oak Lake (Lower) i would use a fly rod (short) with a porcupine quill for the float and a box full of Catalpa worms which had to be fresh and each worm would be good for at least 5 to 6 Red ears! You could fill an ice chest pretty quick plus not have that orange cork picture burnt into your eyeball for a week!
http://www.ppdl.org/dd/images/catalpa_sphinx.jpeg These boogers would flat fill up an ice chest and were free when they were in season!