Some advice for beginners

Sometimes, I will be out fishing & I will notice something. A fisherman down the shore, I know them they live beside me & I help them with their catch, they cannot flay fish due to reasons.
Anyhow they only fish one spot & I know there isn’t much going on in that area, the advice I have is don’t stay in one spot. Move 40 feet every so often if the catch isn’t there.

Before moving spots try different lures, sometimes they slam spoons & not jigs with curly tails, sometimes all they want is jigs with curly tails, sometimes all they will hit are swim baits. If a fish falls off, changing your bait to something you know works can get them back on.

The big fish aren’t always deep. I have caught most of my larger fish in depths less then 5 feet. If you spend enough time on the shore you will see why, look at all the baitfish swimming along the shore, the leeches, the crayfish.

If you sit still on the shore in the spring to summer when the jackfish (pikes) are moving out from the bays you will see how they sit behind the rocks just out of sight to suck up passing fish, if you watch Divers you see how they lay in weed beds waiting to strike or resting, it is a hard life as a jackfish. It is important to incorporate observations on the activity of fish into how we target them, this is how some folks are able to toss a lure on the head of a fish, they read the water maybe they have explored the waters on a boat or in waders, they combine observations on the water & habits of the fish they target.

Weeds, annoying, wonderful cover, sometimes tossing into the weeds & allowing a drop can yield a bite. Fishing the outskirts of weeds can be very rewarding & remember to look at any depth maps so you can follow the transitions from the weedy areas which the fish must travel to & from the weedy areas.

Final bit. Use your rod to bring the fish in, not your reel, line tension is shown by the bend in your rod, when landing keep a consistent amount of pressure, many times the hook will hang onto a bone just by pressure alone.

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u/FishingPolitical — 1 day ago

How would you smoke this

I will be removing the scales & bones, how do you smoke these? I know folks typically aim for a cold smoke but these are poisonous unless brought up to at least 170 for a few minutes due to thiaminese

u/FishingPolitical — 5 days ago

29” Jackfish

2.49kg after bleeding out.

This is a dead fish, I do not measure fish I release, I just keep the memory.

I caught them in a weedy flat that is about 4 foot depth, been catching lots out of that flat the past 2 weeks, I will smoke the meat over birch & boil the innards for the dogs do any of you eat the heads? Boil them for stock? Otherwise it will be winter cutbait.

u/FishingPolitical — 5 days ago

Mundane stuff.. First Sauger

The fish came out of the water bronze, I thought I caught a walleye covered in lesions before I had a good look.

u/FishingPolitical — 27 days ago

Question of practice

I will keep it short and simple. You don’t want a tenant drilling into a wire or waterline when adding furniture/pictures.
Why isnt a floor plan drawn up which details which walls have waterlines & electrical. Why is this always a shot in the dark

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u/FishingPolitical — 29 days ago

Are there contradictions in supporting Veganism and Native liberation?

This is a honest question, my reaction to some answers is not based in “non-genuineness” in my question but based in anti-imperialism & native liberation. I am against colonialism & the cultural hegemony which maintains it.
What is the perspective of veganism on traditional food gathering systems practiced by native communities the world over.
In what ways can someone who is sensitive to animal exploitation point out the material differences between the capitalist system of livestock & the traditional system of trapping, netting, spear fishing. (Furthermore have you experienced these differences to put them in material contexts & not ideal contexts.

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u/FishingPolitical — 2 months ago

Training melee

Prisoners come by the dozen if you are careful.
Capturing them & installing peg legs, peg arms makes them only capable of head butting.
Hemogen farming keeps them dazed
Send in the children to knock unconscious the prisoners & they will be experts in hand to hand combat fairly soon.

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u/FishingPolitical — 2 months ago

Some questions

This is a bay of a much larger lake. The mouth from point to the other-side is 700 meters & from the top to the bottom of the middle bay is 1.4km. 700x1400 meters.
The deepest points of this lake go only 60 feet. Is it possible to catch whitefish in this bay based on depth & structures? So far I have only caught jackfish, walleyes, perch, sculpin. I have also found Burbot in the bellies of bigger jackfish (what you call pikes

u/FishingPolitical — 2 months ago

Good harvest today

I caught the first one 200 m from the spot I caught the rest, I would say all of the bites were within ten meters of each other. I hit a school

u/FishingPolitical — 2 months ago

Reflections from across the pond

https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2022/05/28/soviet-environmentalism-in-the-stalin-era/
I was raised in an education environment of environmental conservation framed in opposition to timber industries & their extractive nature.
The maintenance of the habitats of woodland species & aquatic species is of great importance not only on a personal scale, but on a collective scale.
Do we want a future where our unquenchable thirst for finance capital; loans which inflate the economy via interest, enterprises which are operated by the whole of the working society in a unmatched development yet the benefits being divided amongst a few (bankers interest, industrial profits, commercial profits) leaving the majority with only enough to get by. Do we want the above to lead to the ruin of every species in the way of these objectives. This isn’t about you or I, it is about us & the future.
My interest in the above article is the planning around zones which are separated into 3 categories based on the effects of watershed which were a concern to combat desertification & droughts. Anywhere within 1 km of any major river logging was restricted to sanitary cutting & for heating homes. The next category allowed some harvesting, the last allowing the most.

u/FishingPolitical — 2 months ago

Jackfish coming out of spawn

I posted this 3 days ago but I am to controversial to have high enough Karma & the post was removed. I believe I might be there now.

Sitting on the shore you can see a jackfish occasionally swim past, wading into the floodplain you could watch the groups of them writhing in clusters as they spawn. Normally I gut them at the lake, a neighbour wanted to see how to clean them.

u/FishingPolitical — 3 months ago