Doesn't get old.....

[catman529]

Well I had a nice trip catching bass and bream the other day which I posted here, for a nice break from all the carp.

But last night I went carp fishing again, and I still haven't gotten tired of it. Something about sitting in a lawn chair under a big tree by the water at night, listening to the bugs when suddenly you hear a jingle bell or a ZZZZZZZZZZZ and jump up to hook into a fish... and you know it's half decent when your Zebco 33 with 8 pound mono can't turn the fish around.

Caught 2, lost 1 last night. First was small and caught on corn. The next 2 that I hooked were on my homemade boiled dough bait and the one that I landed was 8 pounds even.

Wont bother you all with pics this time, just reporting last night's trip for those interested.

 

[mathews338]

cool, i went last night and only caught a few small bass. it was so hot!

 

[RodBone75]

 

[Football Hunter]

hope you killed them nasty things

 

[Rowdy]

Glad to see you enjoying yourself catman.
Just goes to show you don't have to go all
out with all the high tech gear and stuff
in order to have a ball fishn....way'da go man.

 

[catman529]

hope you killed them nasty things

I let them beautiful fish back into the water unharmed

Really there are more bass than carp in there, no reason to kill a big fish if it's not a true nuisance. Even though carp aren't native, there are a lot more native buffalo clogging up the river than carp. I have a cheap bowfishing rig now so I intend to practice on the excessive amounts of buffalo.

 

[chip]

Keep this up and you gotta change your name to carp-man529 !!!

 

[catman529]

Keep this up and you gotta change your name to carp-man529 !!!

I originally made the username catman529 several years ago because I was just getting into catfishing at the time. I still love catfishing now, just haven't had tons of luck with it at night at least compared to the carp fishing. did catch a channel a few nights ago on one of my boilies.

 

[4onaside]

Keep this up and you gotta change your name to carp-man529 !!!

I originally made the username catman529 several years ago because I was just getting into catfishing at the time. I still love catfishing now, just haven't had tons of luck with it at night at least compared to the carp fishing. did catch a channel a few nights ago on one of my boilies.

Hint: In my experience, channels bite as good or better in the daytime as they do at night. Try fishing the deeper pools in the Harpeth during the day with nightcrawlers and see how you do.

 

[catman529]

Keep this up and you gotta change your name to carp-man529 !!!

I originally made the username catman529 several years ago because I was just getting into catfishing at the time. I still love catfishing now, just haven't had tons of luck with it at night at least compared to the carp fishing. did catch a channel a few nights ago on one of my boilies.

Hint: In my experience, channels bite as good or better in the daytime as they do at night. Try fishing the deeper pools in the Harpeth during the day with nightcrawlers and see how you do.

Deeper pools and channels are always my go-to during the day. They are more predictable during the day, which is when I prefer to catch em. I have a buddy who uses night crawlers day and night and catches a lot of cats. I prefer cutbait or whole stonerollers which work just as well without letting the smaller fish eat it.

 

[stik]

hope you killed them nasty things

x2

 

[catman529]

hope you killed them nasty things

x2

Read my above post....

 

[jw0312]

 

[Football Hunter]

hope you killed them nasty things

x2

Read my above post....

Nope,you let them nasty things live

 

[catman529]

hope you killed them nasty things

x2

Read my above post....

Nope,you let them nasty things live

Yes and I let those nasty bass live too.

 

[4onaside]

Bravo, Catman for learning at an early age not to kill anything just for the h... of it. I often wondered about the mentality of the dumb A.. rednecks who fish below dams and throw skipjacks and gar out on the bank to rot. What purpose, aside from making it unpleasant for the people who fish there tomorrow? Duh, population control! lol

 

[catman529]

Bravo, Catman for learning at an early age not to kill anything just for the h... of it. I often wondered about the mentality of the dumb A.. rednecks who fish below dams and throw skipjacks and gar out on the bank to rot. What purpose, aside from making it unpleasant for the people who fish there tomorrow? Duh, population control! lol

Thanks, I try to be considerate and not just kill for the sake of killing... I do want to thin the buffalo population in my fishing holes, but I still would rather find a use for the dead fish such as fertilizer. Oh and I still dont get why gar are considered trash fish... they are full of aggression, put up a good fight, tough to hook, jump out of the water like a marlin... people love bass, pike, musky, but don't like gar? Don't understand it...

 

[B.D.]

Buffalo are actually better eating than carp, and I bet you might find someone who's willing to take them off your hands if you ask around.

bd

 

[4onaside]

Bravo, Catman for learning at an early age not to kill anything just for the h... of it. I often wondered about the mentality of the dumb A.. rednecks who fish below dams and throw skipjacks and gar out on the bank to rot. What purpose, aside from making it unpleasant for the people who fish there tomorrow? Duh, population control! lol

Thanks, I try to be considerate and not just kill for the sake of killing... I do want to thin the buffalo population in my fishing holes, but I still would rather find a use for the dead fish such as fertilizer. Oh and I still dont get why gar are considered trash fish... they are full of aggression, put up a good fight, tough to hook, jump out of the water like a marlin... people love bass, pike, musky, but don't like gar? Don't understand it...

Gar are a great sport fish for the reasons that you mentioned. And, a good way to utilize buffalo is the eat them! The bigger they are, the easier they are to fool with, and big mouth buffalo do not eat as well as small mouth(buffalo). Find you some recipes on cooking buffalo and have at it. The flesh is excellent, and they fry very well. The real problem that you have to overcome is in the preparation(cleaning)(a zillion small forked bones), but that can be overcome.

 

[catman529]

I have considered eating buffalo... if I ever feel up to the challenge of all the bones. There would still be too many in the harpeth river for me to eat anyway, but fertilizer is still an option. There are smallmouth and black buffalo (I have caught both) but no bigmouth in the harpeth.

 

[easy45]

cool

 

[4onaside]

I have considered eating buffalo... if I ever feel up to the challenge of all the bones. There would still be too many in the harpeth river for me to eat anyway, but fertilizer is still an option. There are smallmouth and black buffalo (I have caught both) but no bigmouth in the harpeth.

 

[4onaside]

There may be no bigmouth buffalo up where you fish the Harpeth, but I would assume that they exist in numbers on the lower river in the vicinity of where it empties into the Cumberland. Bigmouth buffalo are generally critters of big river systems.

 

[catman529]

There may be no bigmouth buffalo up where you fish the Harpeth, but I would assume that they exist in numbers on the lower river in the vicinity of where it empties into the Cumberland. Bigmouth buffalo are generally critters of big river systems.

Interesting, that would make sense because the harpeth is small here in franklin. I don't care for bigmouth buffalo anyway, we have way too many smallmouth and black ones here already.