dave

An old fishing guide I know said the gold showing through is the reason he USES red hooks. The gold flash attracted fish.

Not sure how it is lazy, sloppy maybe... Cursive was all we wrote papers in school, unless it was required to be typed on a GASP typewriter...

In MD and VA, where we have northerns, it is illegal to possess them alive. Release or kill to take home to eat. Great eating.

Split shot rig...

Sounds like a split shot rig...

There is also replacement juice you can buy to add to the tub.

I heard that the Berkley scientist that make the body and the scientists that make the juice, aren't working in the same lab. Just to keep the secret from getting out. Killer on reds and specs. Well worth the money.

They say to take it one hour at a time...it'll be tough but, I'll make it...

14 hours for me...

Northern Snakehead

In a day of fishing, we brought over two dozen in the boat. We lost just as many from just after hookset to boatside. They are way fun. We had one follow a spinnerbait, nipping at it all the way to the boat. At the end, he just dangled the bait just under the surface like a dog treat and POW!

Hi, I'm Wyatt sounds like the best option. Let her take it from there...

And quite possibly removing them from your hand... We switch out to circle hooks.

Love to catch bowfin!

I don't always grow a beard but, when I do... Stay hairy my friends...

May just be a color issue. Sometimes fish will commit to a certain colors better than others. If it is only occasionally, then maybe just mood.

You cannot go wrong with the Mettle.

That is exactly how we understand it. We kill and eat or, snap a picture and release. Our summer schedule is booked solid from June until the end of August with people wanting to catch a snakehead. They either want just to catch one (or more) for sport or they want to eat it.

Posted before and posted again...enjoy. Tom's reference to the snap set.

A few weeks ago, one of my clients dangled his horny toad in front of a brown water snake coming through the pads.(while playfully asking the snake if he were hungry) The two foot snake latched onto the toad and wouldn't let go. After a couple of shakes, it was still latched onto the toad. The next question to me was, "what do I do now?" "Hold him over the port bow and cast him over the starboard." A nice ten yard air ride for the little fella and we got a laugh.

The key is in the words. "what CAN you do?" I saw this "statement" and it is just that, a statement. It is not a regulation or law. The only regulation is not to possess live snakehead. I am just pointing out the difference. Most fisherman are mislead by the the "statements" and assume "regulation." The government can't regulate that you kill anything. They can ask you to kill but, not make you do it.

Please copy and paste the MD regulation that mandates the killing of northern snakehead. (hint...there is none...if you find it, I stand corrected) The verbiage in the text and in videos says that you SHOULD, not that you have to kill Northern Snakehead. Illegal to have in your livewell alive. Illegal to transport alive. Not Illegal to catch and release.

Me. Every morning, I get the rub against my legs treatment. In the evening when I get home, if I reach down, I get hissed at. She also hates my fishing outfit. She hisses at me from the time I put it on until I leave.

Why would you intentionally fish for "smallerish fish"? LOL

Roy Buchanan, again, there difference between great and famous.