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Fishing & Tackle Thread

Anonymous Sat 04 Jul 2026 13:14:31 No.2873723 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2873730 >>2873764 >>2873770 >>2874080 >>2874102 >>2874223

#539- “boat fishing” Edition

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>>2872194

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Anonymous Sat 04 Jul 2026 15:00:34 No.2873730 Report

Quoted By: >>2873738 >>2873750 >>2874087

>>2873723
If I start fishing will I get a nudist fitness gf?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Jul 2026 15:30:21 No.2873731 Report

Quoted By: >>2873742 >>2873773

Let it be known to the faggot who lost his shit last thread that this thread was posted before the bump limit. Yes, liking those things with rock hard tits and alien faces makes you a faggot. This picture might be a bit more tasteful than usual.

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Skid !TCEaAwseXw Sat 04 Jul 2026 16:30:44 No.2873738 Report

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>>2873730
Its worth a try

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Jul 2026 18:08:07 No.2873742 Report

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>>2873731
>this thread was posted before the bump limit
it wasn't tho, bump limit was reached with post no 2873712 and this thread came exactly 6h and 36 minutes after it

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Jul 2026 19:39:26 No.2873750 Report

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>>2873730
I 'd settle for one that will pee off the side of my boat.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Jul 2026 20:49:07 No.2873757 Report

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>>2873742
You're right. My mistake.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Jul 2026 22:02:10 No.2873764 Report

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>>2873723
this look so dangerous, you can get that fish that gets inside your pussy and parasites it

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Jul 2026 00:16:30 No.2873770 Report

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>>2873723
Dumb whore gets trebles in her pussy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Jul 2026 01:04:11 No.2873773 Report

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>>2873731
>Rent free

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Jul 2026 01:53:32 No.2873776 Report

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saltwater, now that's real fishing

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Anonymous Sun 05 Jul 2026 03:21:12 No.2873793 Report

Quoted By: >>2873794 >>2873806

Had a nice day down at the creek.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Jul 2026 03:22:42 No.2873794 Report

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>>2873793
I caught 7 nice little rainbows.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Jul 2026 03:23:56 No.2873795 Report

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>>2873794
They all had great color. The pictures don't do them justice.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Jul 2026 03:25:42 No.2873796 Report

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>>2873795
Also saw snek in the water

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Jul 2026 05:26:29 No.2873797 Report

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She’d get beat up by her man if she did that. Looks like fun though. Interesting nap time zzzzzz

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Anonymous Sun 05 Jul 2026 05:56:42 No.2873798 Report

Quoted By: >>2873845

Need it or keep it.
Currently my only rod is an eagle claw pack it (5.5ft, medium) with a presidential on it. throwing mostly 1/16oz spinners on 4lb mono

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Jul 2026 06:05:29 No.2873799 Report

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I just need to cuss at a bitch, maybe hit her a little bit. for real

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Jul 2026 09:16:39 No.2873806 Report

Quoted By: >>2873862

>>2873793
>>2873794
>>2873795
I assume you did fly fishing?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Jul 2026 15:00:32 No.2873845 Report

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>>2873798
well it's cheap, you could have it as backup, but shouldn't you look for stuff to go for bigger fish first if you only have one rod?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Jul 2026 17:20:40 No.2873862 Report

Quoted By: >>2873878

>>2873806
Yes. I caught one on a dry, when the light was hitting the water just right that I decided to pull out my 4w lift. The rest were caught on various nymphs on my 3w euro rod. It's tight up there for the 10' euro rod. I have to figure out the best angle to cast to hit the water I want to target without getting caught in the trees. I still lost 5 flies to trees above and a branch below the water.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Jul 2026 18:19:13 No.2873878 Report

Quoted By: >>2873900

>>2873862
>The rest were caught on various nymphs on my 3w euro rod.
I just put a 3 WT DT line on my 3 WT euro rod. It casts pretty well. I have yet to fish it, but I'm very glad that I bought it. When I want to fish dries, I'll just take my euro leader off and switch to a regular leader.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Jul 2026 21:38:18 No.2873900 Report

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>>2873878
Sounds like a nice setup. Let me know how it fishes. I might be interested in putting something like that together too.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Jul 2026 06:46:31 No.2873918 Report

Quoted By: >>2873926

First of the summer

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Jul 2026 07:11:49 No.2873920 Report

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Holy fuck the weather has been ass.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Jul 2026 08:31:08 No.2873921 Report

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Hoping I get some to water blow ups in the morning

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Jul 2026 11:21:16 No.2873926 Report

Quoted By: >>2873950

>>2873918
UNA LUBINA

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Skid !TCEaAwseXw Mon 06 Jul 2026 13:39:16 No.2873938 Report

Quoted By: >>2873970

Fuck sake
Last week it was too hot to fish and on the one day i did fish all i got was a sun burn and dink, this week its raining all week. To live is ti suffer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Jul 2026 15:37:46 No.2873950 Report

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>>2873926
Sí, pequeña

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Anonymous Mon 06 Jul 2026 17:45:29 No.2873956 Report

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Fishing was great this weekend despite the heat

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Jul 2026 21:48:09 No.2873970 Report

Quoted By: >>2873980

>>2873938
That's why I love fishing in the mountains. Fucking 111 in the valley where I live. Mid to high 90s up in the mountains, mid to high 80s down by the creek. You have to look for the natural AC.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Jul 2026 23:33:04 No.2873978 Report

Quoted By: >>2874274

wear life jacket

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Jul 2026 23:46:20 No.2873980 Report

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>>2873970
Lucky son of a bitch.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Jul 2026 10:02:59 No.2874070 Report

Quoted By: >>2874079

i got the tiny fly hooks and then i realized i needed smaller ones and also split rings
fuck my goy chungus life

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Skid !TCEaAwseXw Wed 08 Jul 2026 13:54:06 No.2874079 Report

Quoted By: >>2874119

>>2874070
Yeah, it doesnt help that hook sizes are made up. I once showed a friend a selection of size 4 hooks where none of them were the same size and he thought i was fucking with him. Some of tgem were wildly different, like, a size 4 b10s and a size 4 c14 (both gamakatsu) are wildly different sizes

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Jul 2026 14:01:14 No.2874080 Report

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>>2873723
AWOOOGA

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Jul 2026 14:20:10 No.2874081 Report

Quoted By: >>2874084

How do you guys personally try to get a feel for the depths of a body of water if there's no maps for it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Jul 2026 15:34:19 No.2874084 Report

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>>2874081
When I’m not bringing a sonar with (because I’m canoeing or whatever), I look for vegetation breaks and I use a big fat jig like I would an ice fishing depth finder weight.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Jul 2026 16:50:31 No.2874087 Report

Quoted By: >>2874091

>>2873730
>fitness gf
She's pretty doughy

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Jul 2026 16:58:48 No.2874090 Report

Quoted By: >>2874095 >>2874142

Started fishing this summer. Two trips in a row I've lost a lure I had just bought. Currently headed home defeated after feeding the lake a lure I bought just two hours ago. I know it's a part of the hobby but feelsbadman.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Jul 2026 17:00:47 No.2874091 Report

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>>2874087
From the photo she looked a bit like the fitness Becky everyone on /fit/ is obsessed with.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Jul 2026 18:09:08 No.2874095 Report

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>>2874090
Your sacrifices to your local undine will soon pay off, i'm sure of it.

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Anonymous Wed 08 Jul 2026 19:35:46 No.2874099 Report

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I wish pikeminnow weren't so easy to catch and worth money so I could fish for something else.

Somebody please put me out of my misery, this large scale sucker is the only fish besides pikeminnow I have touched in weeks.

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Anonymous Wed 08 Jul 2026 20:11:01 No.2874100 Report

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Hey
Basically I'm just not gonna stop using it. (The snap swivel)
UGH I know.... I know .....
It's just that I'm not gonna stop using it is all
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Jul 2026 20:36:32 No.2874102 Report

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>>2873723
Gonna take my first fishing trip on a boat with my young son. I already bought seasickness pills. Ill be renting a rod and reel and will take cash to tip the staff. Anything else I should know? Fishing catalina island off socal

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Anonymous Wed 08 Jul 2026 21:43:18 No.2874104 Report

Quoted By: >>2874415

Forget the drop texas wacky carolina shot rigs.
These prerigged purple worms are killing it.

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 01:48:53 No.2874119 Report

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>>2874079
Actually I was able to get one of them to work. Just made the first ever 1/32oz single hook barbless PM using MFC hooks with no split ring.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 01:57:58 No.2874120 Report

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I don’t think I like the hooks PM uses for their barbless. Friggin massive

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 01:59:01 No.2874121 Report

Quoted By: >>2874122

Forgot pic

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Skid !TCEaAwseXw Thu 09 Jul 2026 02:02:37 No.2874122 Report

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>>2874121
Yeah i like the one on the far left best personally

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 02:11:24 No.2874123 Report

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>>2874122
That’s the easiest one for me to make without splitrings, however right now I’m wrestling with putting the tiny fly hook on the far right one too.
Then I can go out and compare all these hook styles and pick the best one.
The only issue is I can’t put the fly hooks on the metallic barrel weighted ones, since they are too long to slide up the shaft and rehook, so I’m hoping the far left one works good enough.

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 02:19:37 No.2874124 Report

Quoted By: >>2874157

You do end up mangling the bottom of the weight a little but nothing more than it hitting a rock would

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 03:08:14 No.2874126 Report

Quoted By: >>2874158 >>2874366

Going out to the lake later this week. I've never been successful fly fishing on still water. What flies should I tie/bring? I've got lots of wooly buggers, a couple articulated flies and a good variety of dry flies and nymphs. I'll be going out on an inflatable raft. So I'll have the opportunity to fish both from that and the shore. I'm planning on bringing my 9' 6w echo and maybe my 10' 3w euro rod. Lake is cold, clear water, rocky. There are bass, sunfish, crappie, rainbow, brown and lake trout, chinook and kokanee salmon and a few others. The salmon will likely be too deep for me to target. They're usually fished by trolling spoons on down riggers. Same goes for the larger trout. But I've caught smaller ones from the shore on spin tackle.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 03:15:20 No.2874127 Report

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Well I fucked up the wire while reassembling but I think I salvaged it.

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 03:17:28 No.2874128 Report

Quoted By: >>2874157

Forgot pic again

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 03:42:37 No.2874129 Report

Quoted By: >>2874143 >>2874158

Woooo! First ditch pickel! Today, I mostly drove around. I was checking out rivers I haven't fished, water that I knew wouldn't be good today but hoped would be. Thus, it took me a long time to reach my planned destination. This was the first time I brought bass spinning gear to this region, a part of the state I frequently fish with fly gear.
I get one bite, ripped my Keitech off. I get another bite and hook up. Reel in the pike. I was elated. This has been a goal fish of mine for years. Fucked up the handling, which I regret.
Afterwards, I caught a smallie. Nothing after that. Fished before a storm and didn't fish long.

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 03:49:00 No.2874130 Report

Quoted By: >>2874135

Okay last PM post until I actually get to use them

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 05:21:31 No.2874135 Report

Quoted By: >>2874136

>>2874130
The best Panther Martins are the ones with metallic blades and painted weights, black and gold and yellow and red. These really the only ones you could ever need. White is nice, and so is brown trout. Holographic ones are nothing special.
I don't always use a spinner, but when I do, it's a Panther Martin.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 05:44:39 No.2874136 Report

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>>2874135
I’ve had best luck with the all silver and the tiger stripe holos

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 05:46:14 No.2874137 Report

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Tiger stripe for this one

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 08:56:40 No.2874140 Report

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I did some snorkel because there is already many tourists here and I shouldn't be fishing, I found three lost lures.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 10:22:11 No.2874142 Report

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>>2874090
How expensive was if

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 10:24:52 No.2874143 Report

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>>2874129
Congrats, how long is it? Looks like a young one so good to eat

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 15:03:57 No.2874156 Report

Quoted By: >>2874159

>>2874143
I didn't measure or eat it. Eating it did cross my mind, though.

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Skid !TCEaAwseXw Thu 09 Jul 2026 15:10:22 No.2874157 Report

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>>2874128
>>2874124
They look decent. My only concern would be losing fish because of the small eye of the hook getting fouled on the wire weird and giving them a bunch of leverage. thats the main reason i like the one hook better, the open eye.

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Skid !TCEaAwseXw Thu 09 Jul 2026 15:14:30 No.2874158 Report

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>>2874126
Id throw big wooly buggers or the articulated flies along weed edges looking for bass. If you can find sunfish, they are usually eager to come up for dry flies.
>>2874129
Pike and smallies are fun, hopefully you didnt find the gill rakes the hard way. I know i did when i caught my first pike, it was definately a learning experience.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 15:32:57 No.2874159 Report

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>>2874156
>Eating it did cross my mind, though.
you should release small ones, for me keeping size is 60cm/24in
pike meat is great btw, just be mindfull of Y bones (they're in a line so you can take them out while you filet it)

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 20:09:03 No.2874176 Report

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Lovely weather today, went out to do some shore fishing. Caught 5 cod and was reminded that my nations obsession with importing subcontinentals will ruin every good thing we have

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 20:26:09 No.2874178 Report

Quoted By: >>2874180

I like these slip bobber but they keep breaking the same way. This one snapped because a fish shook too hard.

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Skid !TCEaAwseXw Thu 09 Jul 2026 21:24:11 No.2874180 Report

Quoted By: >>2874181

>>2874178
Weird ive never even seen one do that

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 21:28:22 No.2874181 Report

Quoted By: >>2874203

>>2874180
This is the first I've had break to a fish shaking its head, but the third or fourth one I've had break in the same location after a decent amount of use.

Given, I used this single slip bobber to catch well over a hundred fish before it broke so I'm not that upset, mostly they're hard to find in town and expensive online so I whine.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 22:18:52 No.2874185 Report

Quoted By: >>2874200 >>2874203

my 20 something years old 20 something euros telescopic rod died today while i was spooling a reel, lowest ring broke
can you guys have a recommendation in the 10-20g cast range?
it's been my everyday rod

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 23:28:10 No.2874194 Report

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Only small ones until autumn or winter, how do i cope

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 23:37:14 No.2874195 Report

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I'm having dinner and will be headed out again in a bit. I'm the shop guy, and my coworker, a masculine black lesbian has a great many sugar daddies. One of them gave her an Orvis Helios 3D 5 WT and a Mirage reel. I've tried to get her to go out and use it, but she hasn't consented to a lesson, despite it being a few weeks. Anyway, she lent it to me, and I fished it today. I was fishing a small stream poorly suited to such a big rod—didn't catch anything with it. However, I did noodle a sculpin.

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jul 2026 23:52:49 No.2874199 Report

Quoted By: >>2874207

had some good fishing recently despite the heat
one of if not the largest i've caught at that spot

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2026 00:04:15 No.2874200 Report

Quoted By: >>2874201

>>2874185
okay i managed to put it back together and drown it in superglue
hopefully it will hold

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2026 00:15:57 No.2874201 Report

Quoted By: >>2874204 >>2874226

>>2874200
I’d say just get an eagle claw telescopic but you sound erop

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Skid !TCEaAwseXw Fri 10 Jul 2026 00:50:15 No.2874203 Report

Quoted By: >>2874204 >>2874207 >>2874225

Holy hype batman! I just caught my new PB carp on the fly at 33 inches!
>pic

>>2874181
>hard to find in town and expensive online
Fair id whine too
>>2874185
+1 for eagle claw

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2026 00:57:08 No.2874204 Report

Quoted By: >>2874205 >>2874215

>>2874201
>>2874203
look neat, i can import it though ebay or amazon, tho it only goes up to 14g
are daiwa telescopic rods any good?

Skid !TCEaAwseXw

Skid !TCEaAwseXw Fri 10 Jul 2026 01:19:35 No.2874205 Report

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>>2874204
No idea i dont really use telescopic rods i only have the eagle claw cause its fiberglass and it fits in my motorcycle panniers. And yeah i didnt really think through my metric conversions, 20g is near an ounce, i dont know any telescopic rods that heavy off the top of my head.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2026 01:28:01 No.2874207 Report

Quoted By: >>2874208 >>2874211

>>2874199
Nice bows anon. Looks like stockies? What type of water body did you catch them in? River? Pond? Lake? What did you catch them on?

>>2874203
Holy shit! I've heard getting a carp on the fly is the hardest way to catch them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2026 01:32:08 No.2874208 Report

Quoted By: >>2874216

>>2874207
yeah stocked rainbows, they lost some color because i left them in the cooler until evening
there's no wild trout near that size around me
i just use red worms, and it's a big pond, a big deep pond

Skid !TCEaAwseXw

Skid !TCEaAwseXw Fri 10 Jul 2026 01:51:40 No.2874211 Report

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>>2874207
Its trighy for sure, some stars have to align just right
>visibility
If you cant see the carp you're probably not going to catch it
>active feeding
If the fish isnt actively feeding, casting at it is more often than not a waste of time (periodic cicada hatches are an acception)
>delicate presentation
If your fly hits the water too hard, you spook the fish
>stealth
If you move too fast, or line over a fish, or bump the fish with your fly, or a bird flies a little too low, or an acorn falls off a tree and in to the water, or any number of other inane stupid annoying bullshit happens, the carp will spook
>detecting the bite
Even if you do everything right, if you dont detect the bite you dont get the fish. Honestly half the time it feels like some 6th sense bullshit where i dont even feel or see the take but something in me tells me i have to set the hook and wham ive got a perfect corner of the mouth hookup seemingly by dumb luck

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2026 02:39:32 No.2874215 Report

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>>2874204
Not sure on daiwa but if you have to spend more than $20ish usd for the eagle claw to import it’s not worth it probably (I paid $12 4 years ago), though idk how much the other rods you’re looking at compare or what the market is like over there

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2026 03:01:43 No.2874216 Report

Quoted By: >>2874252

>>2874208
Are you sure they're stocked? Those fins look good.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2026 06:23:35 No.2874218 Report

Quoted By: >>2874225 >>2874236

>search “beginner budget fly gear”
>they want me to spend $500 before I touch the water
Yeah I just remembered why I hated flyfishingfags

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2026 06:38:21 No.2874219 Report

Quoted By: >>2874225 >>2874236

>the reel is there to hold the line
>this entry level one is $130
>this entry line is $100
>start with this >$200 stick
>don’t forget your waders, hat, vest, net lockstep uniform for another $800
Vs
Spinning beginner
>here’s a $25 combo now pick some $3 lures and a $0.99 bag of swivels

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2026 09:17:56 No.2874222 Report

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spinning just works

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Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2026 09:28:32 No.2874223 Report

Quoted By: >>2874225

>>2873723
i just got this old 2 hander set up by a pro. im not so well into fly fishing that i can match line to rod so i paid someone to do it. rod is hørgård, probably 50 years old, reel is one i found that looked period correct. then i paid a store to set it up for big trout, small salmon and pike. i only used it twice, it can be used single handed but its best double handed. and its an exercise, you dont fap that day your hand is wasted.

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Skid !TCEaAwseXw Fri 10 Jul 2026 12:11:52 No.2874225 Report

Quoted By: >>2874226 >>2874230 >>2874236

>>2874219
>>2874218
Getting in to fly fishing is admittedly more expensive than spinning gear but whoever told you to buy those is a knob.

If you want high end entry level, buy an echo lift kit; its got a rod, reel, and line for under $200.

If you're properly broke, you can still get in cheap with an eagle claw fly rod. <$40 for the rod, <$30 for a reel, and $20-$30 for a fly line.

As for the costume, you dont need it, throw on some crocs and wet wade if its not cold, or fish from the shore i caught my carp >>2874203 without setting foot in the water
Like i said, admittedly more expensive than spinning gear, but i got my start in fly fishing while i was working part-time at mcdonalds for minimum wage
>>2874223
That setup is sexy as all hell

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2026 12:34:28 No.2874226 Report

Quoted By: >>2874229 >>2874257

>>2874201
>>2874225
what's with the eagle claw shilling

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Skid !TCEaAwseXw Fri 10 Jul 2026 13:00:31 No.2874229 Report

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>>2874226
Cheap and fiberglass

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2026 13:21:08 No.2874230 Report

Quoted By: >>2874232

>>2874225
fly fishing is the one type of fishing where its worth to pay up. your line is the casting weight and it needs to match your rod and skill level. if not you might a well throw furballs in the toilet.

Skid !TCEaAwseXw

Skid !TCEaAwseXw Fri 10 Jul 2026 13:43:21 No.2874232 Report

Quoted By: >>2874240

>>2874230
Good gear makes it easier but you can literally use 550 cord as a skagit head and mason line as a running line and two hand cast with a surf rod

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2026 15:16:12 No.2874236 Report

Quoted By: >>2874239

>>2874218
>>2874219
>>2874225
>If you want high end entry level, buy an echo lift kit; its got a rod, reel, and line for under $200.
Ha! Or so you think. Lift Kits are now $250. They've been that price for almost a year.
Prices have gone up. There's no need to single out fly fishing for being way to high when you're comparing it to spinning prices of many yesteryears ago. Sure, you can get a dogshit fly kit on TEMU for $40. I don't care if $25 was a weeks pay back in your day. Fly fish or don't; I don't much care. Just stop bitching in the manner you are.

Skid !TCEaAwseXw

Skid !TCEaAwseXw Fri 10 Jul 2026 15:54:36 No.2874239 Report

Quoted By: >>2874266

>>2874236
>Lift Kits are now $250
Jfc never mind then i didnt realize they went up so much

>Just stop bitching
I never started, i was trying to help another anon who was bitching.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2026 16:11:12 No.2874240 Report

Quoted By: >>2874244

>>2874232
you can do that, then you try a good fly fishing set and you cry for doing it the poorfag way these years.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2026 16:20:38 No.2874241 Report

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anyone have much experience with beach surf fishing?

Skid !TCEaAwseXw

Skid !TCEaAwseXw Fri 10 Jul 2026 17:03:19 No.2874244 Report

Quoted By: >>2874250

>>2874240
I like my hundred dollar fly lines and my 500 dollar fly combos for sure but if you cant cast string with a driveway marker thats a skill issue

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2026 20:26:12 No.2874250 Report

Quoted By:

>>2874244
i learned fishing using bent nails and worms. but its just more fun to do it with proper gear.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2026 21:13:20 No.2874252 Report

Quoted By:

>>2874216
yes 100%
there are no wild trout in ponds around here
i'd probably have to drive close to 2 hours to find wild trout in a small river/stream, and those trout would be much smaller

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Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2026 22:01:58 No.2874254 Report

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Fish for the fish thread.

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Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2026 22:39:34 No.2874257 Report

Quoted By: >>2874435

>>2874226
Claws the law baby

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2026 22:44:07 No.2874258 Report

Quoted By: >>2874290

This or eagle claw pack it ($30 but no line or anything else)

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2026 22:47:58 No.2874259 Report

Quoted By:

Or maybe one of these

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Jul 2026 03:50:34 No.2874266 Report

Quoted By: >>2874290

>>2874239
>>Just stop bitching
>I never started, i was trying to help another anon who was bitching.
I wasn't referring to you in the subsequent paragraph. I was directing it at the other anon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Jul 2026 08:24:20 No.2874274 Report

Quoted By: >>2874290

>>2873978
i prefer to just not fall in the sea in the first place

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Anonymous Sat 11 Jul 2026 11:43:58 No.2874287 Report

Quoted By: >>2874291

Grandpa gifted me his old lures from around the 80s. Anything special here? Which one would you pick if you got one?

Skid !TCEaAwseXw

Skid !TCEaAwseXw Sat 11 Jul 2026 12:41:29 No.2874290 Report

Quoted By: >>2874291

>>2874266
Fair enough, i misinterpreted that part of your post
>>2874274
Dont we all, but sometimes fate makes decisions for us.
>>2874258
If the pack-it is the telescopic one dont get it i tried it and its not good, the action sucks and its fragile as fuck.

The phlueger kit or those wild water kits could be good. Ive also had decent luck with cabelas brand fly stuff, my second and third fly rods were cabelas brand and ive still got a CGR i like a lot.
>2874254
I wouldn't want to fish any of them for fear of losing them

Skid !TCEaAwseXw

Skid !TCEaAwseXw Sat 11 Jul 2026 12:42:30 No.2874291 Report

Quoted By: >>2874294

>>2874287
>>2874290
Fugg accidentally lost ine of my greater-than symobols in my reply

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Anonymous Sat 11 Jul 2026 12:57:40 No.2874294 Report

Quoted By:

>>2874291

Bitta recreational codfish on my day off.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Jul 2026 15:44:31 No.2874305 Report

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Had my best day fishing this past week.
>4 bluegill
>1 crappie
>1 smol mouth
>1 pickerel
>3 large mouth
All in the span of 2 hours and mostly from the bank. WAGMI

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jul 2026 06:24:15 No.2874366 Report

Quoted By: >>2874367

>>2874126
Well, the weather was pretty nice. Unfortunately, it was super windy though. I did try casting several setups, but the wind was just too much for me with my level of fly fishing experience. Fortunately, I did bring a spinning setup with some spinners and spoons. I should have brought a couple swim baits too, but was really planning on focusing on fly fishing, so the spinning setup was a just in case. Spent all day at the lake. Spent most of the day back in a little cove with a good shade tree. Only tree that close to shore for as far as I could see. I got a couple bites but nothing that hooked up. Once it got up into the low 100s I spent most of the mid day swimming or hanging out on the beach. Headed back to the car as the sun was starting to lower, around 6:30. By the time I got back to the car, the sun was behind the mountains and the fish were active. I passed several people fishing from shore catching bass. I spent about an hour throwing two different panther martins, gold blade, black with yellow spots and silver blade, yellow black dots. Tried a couple different spinner baits gold willow with chartreuse and white skirts in a couple sizes and then finished with a silver spoon. Nada.... Meanwhile, as I'm loading up, a dad and his kid show up and pull two 15in spotted bass right out of where I was just fishing. They were using soft plastic shad swim baits. Just didn't have what they wanted. Oh well. It was still very impressive to see those two being caught. Good day on the lake. Hopefully I have better luck next time.

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jul 2026 06:25:43 No.2874367 Report

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>>2874366

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jul 2026 18:35:11 No.2874415 Report

Quoted By: >>2874422

>>2874104
Finally kicked the bucket after catching fish all week on this thing. A decent sized bass managed to cut the leader thrashing his head before I could handle him. Should have checked it for damage but I'm just glad he threw the hook before bouncing into the water.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jul 2026 20:34:20 No.2874422 Report

Quoted By: >>2874423

>>2874415
what are those protecting wires called

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jul 2026 20:46:39 No.2874423 Report

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>>2874422
Weed guards.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jul 2026 23:25:41 No.2874435 Report

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>>2874257
Nice

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 13 Jul 2026 20:37:35 No.2874490 Report

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Brothers, does one require a metal line leader for larger chain pickerel? Fucked up yesterday by keeping a bigger one (My bud estimated ~3 lbs) suspended in the air, which broke the line. Unrel Attachment

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jul 2026 23:47:11 No.2874499 Report

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>Threw my back out casting too hard
Well I guess now I'm old.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Jul 2026 03:04:24 No.2874507 Report

Quoted By: >>2874508 >>2874555 >>2874560

other than rod, reel, line, hook and lure what are some of your must have pieces of gear?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Jul 2026 03:20:56 No.2874508 Report

Quoted By: >>2874509

>>2874507
Good set of nippers, forceps or pliers and a tooth pick.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Jul 2026 03:26:41 No.2874509 Report

Quoted By: >>2874510

>>2874508
What do you use the toothpick for?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Jul 2026 03:40:09 No.2874510 Report

Quoted By: >>2874514

>>2874509
Picking out knots, punching paint, glue or resin from the eye of the hooks one lures.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Jul 2026 05:05:33 No.2874514 Report

Quoted By:

>>2874510
Ah, I always used another hook for that sort of business. Do you do more fresh or salt water fishing? I imagine that is the real deciding factor on what's necessary. I've just gotten into surf fishing at the beach and what a change it is to bass fishing and even inshore salt water fishing.

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Anonymous Tue 14 Jul 2026 06:42:09 No.2874518 Report

Quoted By: >>2874560

Any of these worth it? Still looking for trout setup, probably smaller rivers

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Jul 2026 12:28:08 No.2874555 Report

Quoted By:

>>2874507
Knife, forceps, net.

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Anonymous Tue 14 Jul 2026 12:35:18 No.2874556 Report

Quoted By: >>2874557 >>2874558

My monthly Smitty's box arrived this weekend. I just got around to opening it today. The beginner pattern is going to be the easiest hopper I've ever tied. Just craft foam, rubber legs and polly yarn. It's called a Meadow Hopper. Materials included: size 10 dry fly hooks, 6/0 uni thread in tan, double sided foam(grey/peach), 2mm indicator foam, rubber legs and a section of polly yarn.

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Anonymous Tue 14 Jul 2026 12:37:20 No.2874557 Report

Quoted By: >>2874559

>>2874556
The intermediate pattern is called the Over Under. It's a sculpin pattern with rabbit zonker on one side and deer hair on the other. Which is where the name comes from.

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Anonymous Tue 14 Jul 2026 12:40:42 No.2874558 Report

Quoted By: >>2874560

>>2874556
These are a very simple fly to tie. No hair, no dubbing. Just craft foam, poly yarn and rubber legs. The grass hoppers are numerous this time of year. I think these should do well right now.

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Anonymous Tue 14 Jul 2026 12:52:33 No.2874559 Report

Quoted By: >>2874560

>>2874557
Woops! Forgot to list the provided materials.. size 6 jig hooks, 6/0 uni thread in red, pearl uni mylar, 4.5mm slotted tungsten beads, black barred olive rabbit zonker strips, olive deer hair, red flashabou, pearl Krystal flash and olive ice dubbing.

So, nowhere in the instructions or the video do they use the pearl Krystal flash or olive ice dubbing. It does look like they might have used the ice dubbing around the collar of the one in the picture. I didn't notice that until after I'd already tied mine. But I double checked and it's not in the instructions.
Overall a fairly quick and easy pattern. I didn't care for the deer hair that came with the kit. It doesn't compress and flare out hardly at all. In the video, the guy's hair bushed out like elk hair. I got just barely a bit of lift from the very top hairs. And applying more pressure only results in broken thread. Which may be why they provided the dubbing, to cover up the not so elk hair caddis like head.

Skid !TCEaAwseXw

Skid !TCEaAwseXw Tue 14 Jul 2026 13:08:44 No.2874560 Report

Quoted By: >>2874599

>>2874518
Get that south bend white knight
>>2874507
Knife, wire cutters, needle nose pliers or forceps, diamond hook file
>>2874558
Thise look hella id be surprised if you didnt catch anythihg
>>2874559
Looks like they want the ice dub on the collar and the krystal flash in the tail, but i dont think the fish will care too much

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Jul 2026 22:42:49 No.2874599 Report

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>>2874560
Thanks! Yeah, I think they must have made a modification to the over under, but didn't update the instructions. The video is over a year old, so it's a repeat pattern(not for me). I'm not sure if they changed the type of hair or of they got a lot of people that ran into the same issue with the deer hair not compressing and flairing out and needed something to cover up the head to make it look neat. I may throw the ones I tied back on the vise and add that collar.

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Anonymous Wed 15 Jul 2026 03:32:12 No.2874645 Report

Quoted By: >>2874651 >>2874675

>fish literally jumping out of the water in front of me
>none will take my lures

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Jul 2026 05:07:00 No.2874651 Report

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>>2874645
So friggin true

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Anonymous Wed 15 Jul 2026 16:22:42 No.2874675 Report

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>>2874645
>fish nibbling on the lure but won't commit
>miss the hook set on the one good chance you had

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Jul 2026 17:50:18 No.2874679 Report

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Guys, my health in all respects is absolute shit. I slept 12 hours the night before last, and last night, I woke up at 2:00 AM, couldn't go back to sleep. It's been hot af lately, so I decided to go fishing first thing. I get a few bites on the river but no hookups. I might try going

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