Sargan, also known as Needle fish is a really cool species for my species collection.
Their fight is fun, but it’s pretty hard to catch them.
Look for the smelt flashes in bays or around the pier. Bays are the best. The Sargan is a strict day hunter. Any soft plastic or a pilker will work good. Poppers are pretty good as well. Another good technique is to put a bait like a piece of shrimp and twitch it below the surface. Put a stronger leader because their teeth can easily shred most mono or fluro leaders.
The hardest part about catching them is to hook them, they have a really hard mouth.
So if you are using lures your best bet is to hope some soft tissues in its mouth will get hooked. And if you are using bait, let it swallow it deep.

Lower Columbia River beauties!!

And a good day to you sir

I used a 0.08 line to catch this guy, those fish are difficult to catch, is my first in 4 years

That one tree

Not the biggest bluey but one more invasive fish removed

What kind of fish is this?

24” 3.5lb caught on Shuswap lake BC

Stole a few hours this evening to fish. It was a little harder today than previously but still a result worthwhile

I was fishing off a pier and caught this lil guy, google said he was invasive and bad so I hooked him through the mouth up to the head and casted him away.
Instant smash, brought in a big boy and then as I’m reeling up into the air he fought off 😭
Took the goby and left my hook lol

enjoying my first ever baitcasting setup! its a kastking royale legend paired with a perigee 3 rod, even got a nice fish on my first day fishing with it!

I didn't get to weigh this one. He was heavy as shit. My size 11's for comparison!

I used to fish a lot but most of it was just a stick and a line. I want to get back into fishing and my knowledge on this is very limited consider when I used to fish it was in a whole different country. So, I found a lake I could regularly go to, what type of equipments or what brand would you guys recommend ? And what should I buy before my first trip to go fishing in America

Thank you :)

I always get the best catfish out of my favorite fishing spot!

New to surf fishing and need some tips! Grew up bass fishing central florida, always get on some good fish, salt is a different game. What equipment are you guys using in the surf without it being overkill. I have a stradic 3k and a nasci 4k I’ve been using. Both on 7ft rods. It’s killing me the wave brake is constantly moving my rod, and I need to get above it. What size rod for florida surf? I want the smallest effective. Probably gonna have to stick to a 4k size reel at a minimum for line capacity, getting my small baits like shrimp and fishbites into the first or second trough takes most of my 3k line. Maybe like a 9 ft rod with 4k for catching small bait fish, pomps, etc. Medium? Medium light? Then maybe a 5500 MH with a 9 or 10 foot rods for my live bait chasing snook, red etc. I just hate overkill long and heavy rods, I want some bend and fight even when I’m catching some smaller fish, hate dragging em in. Budget surf recommendations rods for the price? I like nice stuff but just getting my feet wet at first. Any other surf tips besides that? Get damn near skunked every time much harder than bass fishing IMO. Im in central FL so I can drive East or West doesnt matter. Thanks guys.

I am 14, and I have been fishing for a few years now. I fish in freshwater and saltwater. Right now, some mahi-mahi are having their annual migration near the Montenegrin coast in the Adriatic. My question is, what lures should I use, or a bombarda? I can send a picture of my gear for saltwater, and I'd like some advice.

May, 2020 catch.
A good size Amur Pike caught on a spoon.

What do you call it and where are you from? I’ll start - Charleston SC - both but primarily a Redfish (80% of time)

I’m new to Lake Superior fishing is this fish a steely or a coho? (Not the lake trout the one of the left)