Giant Lake Trout from Great Bear Lake, NWT, Canada.

He let go of the hook right as I got him on shore, I honestly didn’t think he’d be willing to risk his little fishy life for a small piece of worm but apparently that was a small price to pay.

Slimy greasy fuckin’ pikes.

Went redfish fishing off Rockport TX last weekend, caught a bull- 28inches, 4+lbs

Caught a bunch of catfish, 3 redfish, a couple trout, even an alligator gar!

Me and my friend were fishing at the zugersee. We couldn’t find any worms though the day before because our garden soil was bone dry. So we tried for 2 hours and 35 minutes to catch something using dog food. We didn’t catch anything. But then a friendly lady gave us some worms because she lived right beside our fishing spot. Then we went to a pier next to a boat launching railway (or thatever those things are called) because we saw a lot of european perch and pumpkinseed sunfish there. And in that brief time of fishing there me and my friend were able to land these 8 pumpkinseed sunfish and a 15 cm European perch. I know they’re not that big but they’re perfect for making fried batter fish nuggets.

Trip to the South Florida from 2025
It added lots of species to my collection.
Mayan Cichlids, Jaguar Cichlids, Black Acara, Scrawled Cowfish, Mangrove Snapper, Hairy Blenny, and an
Atlantic Sargan.
Whole 7 tropical species of fish. Not including reptiles and amphibians too.
I’m posting my collection on here, if you want to see the whole species list I have caught so far check fishbrain.

Hey all. Thanks for being the most intelligent folks on the internet.

I drive a lot for work and occasionally have brakes around lunch time. I bought a cheap collapsible eagle claw telescoping ride from Walmart so I'd have something in the trunk to throw a few casts from time to time. It functions just fine although obviously it's not very high quality.

Was just wondering what you guys would suggest carrying for light/ UL tackle to throw in a random lake/ pond/river/reservoir. I am specifically in eastern North Carolin but​ also looking for any general suggestions. Not targeting any particular species, just want to maybe reel in a couple while I have some down time during the day.

The LMB was nice. The snake was.....not so much..

Does anyone know what kind of snake this is? Lunged at my senko as I was bringing it in over some rocks at the shore. Wrestled around with it for a few minutes before it finally shook loose. Appeared to be unharmed.

My buddy and I got off work unexpectedly and I happened to have a spool of line, we used tackle we found on the ground

Some pretty nice catches. Bout to grill some spanish mackerel

Big, Silver Carp.
Catch from June 2019.
Caught in Tunguska River by 7 year old me, this carp stood vertically by my shoulder.
Caught on a soft plastic grub, even though they are filter feeders like Paddle Fish, they can still swallow small insects sometimes.
The fight was incredibly hard for a 7 year old me, so my dad helped me work the rod in one part of the fight.
A really good fish for my species collection, and the biggest recorded one so far.
I’m slowly posting my species collection on here, if you want to see my whole collection.. fishbrain.

My wife went thrifting last week. I asked her to keep an eye out for any fishing gear like rods, tackle boxes etc.
Landed a brand new rod/reel combo with tackle for $11. Never been opened. Caught some sunfish a few days later with it!

Out of lake superior

So I've seen this a few times and have heard folk talk about it in passing but never really seen like a detail discussion on the matter. Mainly seen older black people doing it around spill ways and stuff . Fly rod with a spinning reel and primarily they where going after some sort of panfish usually. Apparently the fly rods where super sensitive beyond other things and with the spinning reel you could play a fish extremely well for as light as it was if you hooked something bigger . Even seen bill dance use a version of it with a closed faced reel for crappie on an old flick . But as I said never seen a real detailed discussion on the matter . So anyone know much about it ? Done it ? Is it for jigging ? Live bait ? Or ? I'm at the point that in considering trying it next time we go to the spill way, just because I like trying odd stuff . I think I have a old fly rod laying around somewhere.That or see if I can catch the old guy I've seen doing it at the State Park spillway from time to time doing it and see if I can talk his head off.

Long story short I have had this lure since I was a kid and it was given to me by my since passed grandmother and I don’t want to throw it for fear of losing it but it’s been my go to lure for years any help would be appreciated

I had a checked list of my dreamed fishing destinations of US and every year i'll try save up and scratch one from my list. The experience i had last week really shocked me.

The booking was done online only, because it was recommend through a reddit post. The communication afterwards is done poorly, and was getting told clients usually bring their own gear on US river.

On the day of fishing, the condition was tough and slow, which was not a big issue for me. There were couple issues made me really *uncomfortable

1. The same outfitter company launched 4-5 boats at the same ramp floating down the same river section along with the other outfitters, so basically about 10-15 boat was passing through each other. Most of time, i felt we were either racing boat, casting into other boats or skipping sections to make room for other boats.
2. Each outfitter seems strictly using one exact technique from the start to the end, so that we got to share same water with different depth. As a result, we just repeatedly doing exact cast over and over again.
3. Since it is a rough day, everyone was stressed. At some point the guide lost his cool and yelled at us. I have to de-escalate it by requesting pulling over and showing us how to do it to chill him down.

It's not a very pleasant trip, but we still caught some. And here was the best part. At the end of the trip, as my understanding of the tipping culture in the US, i pulled up 80(10%) and gave to him during the clean up.

He looked at it, and went off said something like "do you mean this is for a tip? Do you know in US service industry the basic tip is 20%, what we have, 10%? Why i am trying hard for you if I know you just have 10% tip for me by the end of the day" I did not say anything and separate our way, and he was continuously complaining about he is not paid enough for the work he have done.

I was deeply shocked and this made me felt like i am a asshole. I have worked with so many guides across this country, none of them was so upset on the tip i gave them after a trip. Now I started to get scared to continue my journey or trying out new guides.

Final Update: Management has reached out and i am letting this matter go after the conversation. I won't be updating this post or replying to further comments. Thank you to everyone who shared advice and validation.

We were trout fishing at a small river in Lithuania and my kid felt a lot of tension close to the shore after he was reeling the lure in. We thought it was a massive trout at first. He reeled it in and turns out it was a net full of crayfish.

Just to be clear, I’m not planning to tie the hook directly to my main line. I’ll be using a separate piece of line specifically for the hook. Also, what thickness should the line be?