On 9/28/2021 at 8:15 AM, TnRiver46 said:

we got some poor man’s lobster

What do you guys call poor mans lobster in Tennessee? The ice anglers call eelpout/burbot that up here lol

9 minutes ago, gimruis said:

What do you guys call poor mans lobster in Tennessee? The ice anglers call eelpout/burbot that up here lol

Haha! Walleye or sauger . I’ve seen videos of those burbot, not sure if I could bring myself to grab one! 
 

and apparently Sandhill crane is the rib-eye of the sky but I haven’t tried one yet 

12 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Haha! Walleye or sauger . I’ve seen videos of those burbot, not sure if I could bring myself to grab one! 
 

and apparently Sandhill crane is the rib-eye of the sky but I haven’t tried one yet 

Walleye is poor mans lobster there?! Canadian walleye filets are like $20/pound here. Ain’t no poor man buying that.

 

I’ve never caught an eelpout or eaten one. I know a couple people who claim that they are like boiled lobster though. I am skeptical. Probably will never confirm this unless someone catches one and prepares it for me. Then I’ll try it.

2 hours ago, gimruis said:

Walleye is poor mans lobster there?! Canadian walleye filets are like $20/pound here. Ain’t no poor man buying that.

 

I’ve never caught an eelpout or eaten one. I know a couple people who claim that they are like boiled lobster though. I am skeptical. Probably will never confirm this unless someone catches one and prepares it for me. Then I’ll try it.

Well it’s not legal to purchase here, poor men catch it while fishing haha

Flathead is poor man's lobster here. Guess it makes sense, I don't like the taste of either of them much ?‍♂️

9 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Flathead is poor man's lobster here. Guess it makes sense, I don't like the taste of either of them much ?‍♂️

So far we have three different parts of the country indicating a different species is "poor man's lobster."

 

Tennessee - walleye/sauger

Minnesota - eelpout/burbot

Kansas - flathead catfish

 

Anyone else want to chime in with their regional poor man's lobster?

caught this 8.10 lb x 23” largemouth in Virginia on a 6” paddle tail swimbait with 8 OT weighted owner hook! Killer bite!

Biggun!

1 hour ago, gimruis said:

So far we have three different parts of the country indicating a different species is "poor man's lobster."

 

Tennessee - walleye/sauger

Minnesota - eelpout/burbot

Kansas - flathead catfish

 

Anyone else want to chime in with their regional poor man's lobster?

Yes!

in my part of Tennessee a poor man's lobster is a crawdad!

15 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

… and apparently Sandhill crane is the rib-eye of the sky but I haven’t tried one yet 

Sandhill crane is indeed some amazing stuff.  I hunted waterfowl in Saskatchewan several times, and cranes were very much a prime target.  We’d send ours to a local Chinese food restaurant and the owner would make a big platter of ginger crane.  There’d usually be 8-12 of us at a big table and when he put that platter down, we looked like a pride of lions on a zebra. ??

4 hours ago, TravisVirginiaAngler said:

caught this 8.10 lb x 23” largemouth in Virginia on a 6” paddle tail swimbait with 8 OT weighted owner hook! Killer bite!

Nice fish. Congrats!

Got out 8-1 boated 6 bass, 1 on a popper, 1 on a Spinnerbait, 2 on a punch rig and 2 on a buzzbait with 1 of those the best of the day at 3-12.

Making walleye into poor man’s lobster is a huge waste IMO; that fish needs to be breaded and fried.

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wife and i went back to the big culvert today in detroit lakes minn territory. Man it was a hot 80* sunny, no wind, bluebird skys and crystal clear water. Not what i wanted to see as it was supposed to be cloudy, bummer.

 

It was 11:00 when i threw the fluke in on a ewg keel hook and first cast out 30 yards out front of the culvert in the green vegetation bam was hooked up then 2nd cast,3rd,4th all in a row caught nice 3-4 lb bass.

 

I was so tired of reeling in the fish from the top of the culvert and then having to gingerly walk down the steep broken concrete embankment to unhook them that i was ready for a break and it had only been 25 minutes gone by.

 

I then got cocky and put on a jig with a new first time for me to use yum craw on a orange and brown arkie jig. I pulled 1 claw off and the casted into the culvert and hooked up. Then i threw a yum craw on jig with both claws and hooked up.

 

Then threw a jerk bait and caught sunnies and pike, no bass though. Then a square bill and caught sunnies,pike while the wife caught a few bass on square bill.

 

I took a nice long break and sat down and relaxed as the fishing slowed down after 12:30 noon.

 

It picked up again at 4pm and i went back to the jig and caught my biggest. Then the rock bass came out to play and we both caught them me using jig and wife using berkley white general on a tr catching both lmb and rock bass on that white general. We caught between us 35 bass, handfull of sunnies and pike and 5 rock bass. Not bad for hot sunny day in late september.

 

Ah 1 more thing, i stripped down to my boxer shorts and fishing gloves and went swimming and diving in the culvert. Why? i will post that in the general fishing forms later.

 

 

 

 

 

10 hours ago, bassh8er said:

Making walleye into poor man’s lobster is a huge waste IMO; that fish needs to be breaded and fried.

That’s the way everyone eats them, they just call it poor man’s lobster because it’s really good meat, lobster quality, that a poor man can acquire 

Launched last night and the water was really fast. We figured what the heck, we will try some downtown fishing, just searching out slower spots behind all the docks, bridges, and barge ties. My buddy got a nice smallie right off the bat with a pearl grub (sorry about the plumbers butt in the photo). Then we tried a creek mouth and my other buddy lost a nice largemouth with a fire tiger pop R in milfoil. I thought what the heck, I’ll try my booyah toad runner. Not long into throwing it, I saw a big wave following it. I told my buddies to watch the “gar” that was waking behind my frog as it approached the boat. Well about that time it went BLAM as a nice largemouth (not a gar) finally decided to eat it. Fun times. 

10 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

That’s the way everyone eats them, they just call it poor man’s lobster because it’s really good meat, lobster quality, that a poor man can acquire 

Around here we call Poor Man’s Lobster when you chunk up the fillet, boil on 7-Up and dip in meted butter.

 

Eyes are ok like this but I like my breading 1000 times more.

5 minutes ago, bassh8er said:

Around here we call Poor Man’s Lobster when you chunk up the fillet, boil on 7-Up and dip in meted butter.

 

Eyes are ok like this but I like my breading 1000 times more.

Gotcha. I’ve only ever seen striper and hybrids boiled. I was skeptical but it was pretty good 

We had high hopes for yesterday, but struggled to find fish without electronics.  We started off shallow and worked our way out deeper.  Our first fish came when I ran a squarebill over the roots of a stump in 2ft. of water, on a marked shoal close to the main channel and 12-15ft. of water.  A new PB for me at 3lb. 11oz.  We picked up two more along that area, then it was a slow grind from there.  We fished 8am until 6:30pm, with everything from surface to bottom in 2-25ft. of water and could never confirm any pattern from our first few fish.

 

Funniest part was at about 5:30pm my buddy said let’s go back to where we got the first three and see if they’ve turned on, or if more have moved in.  I rolled up there slow, and as I cut the motor he cast a jig with craw trailer at the same stump I caught my big one on, and wham… catches what we’re certain is the same fish again.  It weighed 3lb.14oz., looking like it had eaten something since I caught it.  Proof that catch and release works.  As my buddy said, you can only eat them once. haha

My first time fishing in FL. My first FL fish.........

 

 

                        

Hit the local lake for a couple hours with the wife. No big ones but still lots on a spook, and  caught a bunch on a scatter rap shallow that we’re feeding on crayfish. I’m surprised at how warm the water still was, 61 deg. Usually by now it’s cooled off more than this and they’re hunting in little wolf packs, but today it was all singles.