2023 Fish-Pic-O-Rama

[MarsB]

Stuck one skinny meat eater for Thanksgiving break before the water dropped out. One of my biggest pet peeves with Utah is there is no rhyme, reason or warning when the dam operators decide to shut down flows to a trickle or turn on the firehose.

[Hopeless Sinner]

South Carolina pond bass, a brief respite on Thanksgiving. Topwater in late November!

[AmmergauerTele]

the other type of trout.

[Percy Rideout]

South Carolina pond bass, a brief respite on Thanksgiving. Topwater in late November!

I use the same Zara Spook Jr on lake powell with great success. Walk the dog!

[tgapp]

i was promised huge, colored up browns

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[Phall]

tgapp, you have a smoker? start bonking those whities. gut, rinse, brine, smoke, make whitefish dip, die fat and happy.

[Rasputin]

[tgapp]

tgapp, you have a smoker? start bonking those whities. gut, rinse, brine, smoke, make whitefish dip, die fat and happy.

aren't the bones a PITA though? And a hot smoker will work, yeah?

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[Phall]

They can be, but when you smoke em to fall off the bone its pretty easy to pick out. I usually smoke em at 225.
A few years ago I caught a few whities, brined them in this:
3/4 cup kosher salt
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup honey
8 cups lukewarm water

Then smoked them, picked the meat off, made homemade empanada dough, mixed the whitefish with some cream cheese and red salsa, stuffed the empanadas, then froze them in packs of 2-4 to cook from frozen at a later date.

[Hopeless Sinner]

I use the same Zara Spook Jr on lake powell with great success. Walk the dog!

On a boat I'll always have a spook and a Lucky Craft Sammy 115 tied on and bounce back and forth btwn the 2. I have a rod dedicated to each bait. They sometimes want the slightly more subtle walking movement of the Sammy.

[Self Jupiter]

Striper on the middle spook from earlier this month, they love them. My favorite way to fish for them during the day.

[Brock Landers]

^^^that rebel jumpin is the tittays early morning spring, flat calm estuary, knocking out schoolies.

I actually just loaded one this weekend for a smaller profile glider. One day I burned my minnow in fast and it got caught underwater, great action. Little wobble.

I’ll let ya know how it goes…in 5-6 months.

[Rasputin]

Along with yesterday's snow, came warmer temps in Missoula; I thought it would make for less ice floes in the river, and it did.





The fishing was slow, but I caught two and a half fish, one midsized trout which came off as he bumped the edge of my net, one whitefish, and one 18 inch rainbow (pictured Neckdeep style). I also hooked another big trout, it was directly downstream in heavy current, and when I tried to move it sideways into soft water, the hook straightened out, and the fish came off. The outing was absolutely worth standing in freezing water with a leak in my hip boot for a few hours.