What fish do you catch in your part of the world?

[Kai]

As a dedicated flyfisher I'm very interested in fish from other parts of the world. I catch pike, zander, perch, rudd, roach and some other freshwater species in and around Amsterdam.

Pictures of a few will follow soon.

Please share your fish!

[Kai]

Zander:

Pike:

Roach:

Rudd:

Bream:

Perch:

[Laaz]

Inshore or offshore?  

[Laaz]

BTW, your rudd & roach look like shiners we used to use to catch pike & musky up north.

[Kai]

2 hours ago, Laaz said:

BTW, your rudd & roach look like shiners we used to use to catch pike & musky up north.

Oh catching a musky is on top of my bucket list. Sadly we don't have them here.

Last year I was able cross out tarpon on the fly... oh man, that fish showed me half the river!

[Kim]

Nice fish!

I don't fish myself, but last time I went down to Pohoiki a guy loaded a huge fish into the back of his truck.  When asked, he said it was a 75-80 lb. barracuda.  He was kayak fishing with a pole.  Later I read they may not be so good to eat.   Even so, I wish I had taken a pic, it was quite impressive.

[Kai]

And the cat's chiming in as well...

This fish must have come from a pond of one of my neighbours because my pond only has sticklebacks and salamanders... Oh, what should I do?

[DoomsDave]

do you cook and eat, or catch and release?

[fiji jim]

Caught this one on the way to work one day.

[Scott Cohen]

Fishing is one of my favorite things other than palm trees, here are some pictures from a fishing tornament i was in yesterday and the week before. 

[Scott Cohen]

Snook, redfish and seatrout

[Kai]

5 hours ago, DoomsDave said:

do you cook and eat, or catch and release?

I practice catch and release Dave.

[fiji jim]

Catch and release is a good practice when everyone has plenty of food but here that is a rare event unless too far from shore to keep that amount of flesh fresh.

We always release Marlin and other large fish above 100kg unless they arrive at the boat without chance of revival.

Here people love to eat the head and flesh closest to  the bone so nothing is wasted.

No yellow fin tuna is ever released as it  is such prime eating.

We also catch Mahimahi or Dorado, Wahoo, Spanish Mackerel, Giant Trevally and other tunas all trolling lures.

[Kai]

2 hours ago, fiji jim said:

Catch and release is a good practice when everyone has plenty of food but here that is a rare event unless too far from shore to keep that amount of flesh fresh.

We always release Marlin and other large fish above 100kg unless they arrive at the boat without chance of revival.

Here people love to eat the head and flesh closest to  the bone so nothing is wasted.

No yellow fin tuna is ever released as it  is such prime eating.

We also catch Mahimahi or Dorado, Wahoo, Spanish Mackerel, Giant Trevally and other tunas all trolling lures.

That is some great big game fishing there! I wish I could just go out and catch fish like that. I would bring fish home for sure! Still, you gotta love your local fish right?

In the Netherlands we have many, but small waters and about 2 million registered recreative anglers. Which is a lot for a country of our size. If we would all cook & eat our catches there would be not much fish left. We have very strict regulations about how many fish and at what size they are allowed to be taken home. We have little choice but to c&r.

[Alan_Tampa]

Here in Florida there are many many many ever changing rules regarding taking certain species of fish. Off shore it gets more confusing if you enter federal waters! The Fish Rules app is the only way I can keep up!

[Alan_Tampa]

[steve99]

These days I mainly concentrate on catching Jewfish (Mulloway), although Snapper, Spangled Emperor or Teraglin are often a by catch.    A couple of these Jewies went 23kg (50lb)  

 

 

[PalmTreeDude]

Carp, in Allegheny River in P.A.

[topwater]

Mostly speckled trout and redfish, ideally on topwaters of, course. 

[Kai]

24 minutes ago, topwater said:

Mostly speckled trout and redfish, ideally on topwaters of, course. 

As long as you can see the chase and the bite! Gets the adrenalin flowing.

[topwater]

6 minutes ago, Kai said:

As long as you can see the chase and the bite! Gets the adrenalin flowing.

It's a close second to using a fly rod. I have a small one I used for fresh water but I need to get a big fly rod that holds more line for salt water fishing, they're hard to find around here. I've never heard of Zander, looks cool though! 

[topwater]

On 8/21/2017, 6:02:52, steve99 said:

These days I mainly concentrate on catching Jewfish (Mulloway), although Snapper, Spangled Emperor or Teraglin are often a by catch.    A couple of these Jewies went 23kg (50lb)  

 

 

Nice, I really miss offshore fishing.  I sold my ocean going rig a while back.  

[Kai]

18 minutes ago, topwater said:

It's a close second to using a fly rod. I have a small one I used for fresh water but I need to get a big fly rod that holds more line for salt water fishing, they're hard to find around here. I've never heard of Zander, looks cool though! 

Yeah I used to fish topwaters like little sammy's and gunfish for perch and pike in the summer. The action you get can be amazing. If only we had largemouth here...

But ever since I bought a flyrod and got my first pikebite I got hooked.

The zander (Stizostedion lucioperca) is closely related to the American walleye but zander gets bigger. I catch them in the canals of the center of Amsterdam, and good size too.

[topwater]

Every year Texas City has a fishing tournament, mostly local guys enter, it's no big deal. The winner of the offshore open catagory this year broke the Texas state record for hammerhead sharks, the fish weighed over 1,000 lb. They say sharks are endangered overall.  In the Texas Gulf, they seem to be doing well.  In some places you can't catch game fish because the sharks take every bait before anything else has a chance, and unhooking them in a small boat in large seas gets old fast. Here's a pic of the winner.

Edited September 9, 2017 by topwater

[Kai]

Today I caught my first official autumn pike. Had to walk some kilometres to find those pike hiding somewhere in the water vegetation. They weren't really hunting so I had to irritate them, using brightly colored streamers and retrieving them fast.

Right there, left of the water lillies the water just exploded as a metre+ fish went for the green/pink tubefly and missed it. I was shaking with adrenalin, the attack was just brutal and right in front of me!

Second cast... utter concentration...will it go for it again? ...it did and I was able to set the barbles hook properly. The pond went upside down, little baitfish got airborne, water vegetion got ripped out of the bottom and a duck that was just a littlebit too close to the action nearly got a heart attack.

Finally I kneeled down and took the fish with one hand in the gill and laid it down on the wet grass. It was larger than it looked when I was still fighting it. Quick picture and back into it's element...

A very nice Amsterdam suburb pike to catch another day!

[tropicbreeze]

We have an annual million dollar fish competition that runs from October to February. There's 100 tagged Barramundi, Lates calcarifer, released around the waters of the Top End worth $10,000 each to whoever catches them and brings the tag in. There's also one Barramundi released with a million dollar tag on it.

It sort of adds another level of enjoyment to recreational fishing.

http://www.milliondollarfish.com.au/

[steve99]

Went for a fish last night and managed to get three Mulloway (Jewfish) and lost three as well (pulled the hooks)  That's fishing speak for "got off"

 

 

[Kai]

Well, flyfishing from a kayak is something that I'll have to get used to. It's not easy trying to cast while drifting on the breeze and current and keep the kayak positioned at the same time. I've been struggling and clumsy but still managed to get three awesome surface-bites and one pike in the boat.

Cheers,

Kai

[Mr.SamuraiSword]

bass, pearch, pickeral crappies, and fo course catfish  will get pics soon!

[Kai]

11 minutes ago, Mr.SamuraiSword said:

bass, pearch, pickeral crappies, and fo course catfish  will get pics soon!

Pickerel is in the Esox family right? Looking forward to seeing the pictures!

[Missi]

We don't fly fish, but we do love us some fishin'! We do saltwater (more often) and freshwater. I'll share some of our more interesting catches. Here are a couple of my largest Spanish mackerels.

The last pic is my friend demonstrating that sometimes the dolphins catch your catch and leave you with simply a head - Spanish mackerel head. 

[Missi]

My one and only snook 

Pufferfish! 

Polka-dotted batfish! 

Spadefish 

[Missi]

Pompano, blue runner, Spanish mackerel.

Redfish 

Inshore lizardfish

Gulf flounder

[Missi]

I thought I had a big one! Nope, just barnacle-encrusted sunglasses 

Sometimes we go out on the research boats. Here we're catching sharks in the estuaries. We caught baby bull sharks and bonnethead sharks that night. 

Surf fishin' with the Mister 

[Missi]

On 9/8/2017, 8:24:42, topwater said:

Every year Texas City has a fishing tournament, mostly local guys enter, it's no big deal. The winner of the offshore open catagory this year broke the Texas state record for hammerhead sharks, the fish weighed over 1,000 lb. They say sharks are endangered overall.  In the Texas Gulf, they seem to be doing well.  In some places you can't catch game fish because the sharks take every bait before anything else has a chance, and unhooking them in a small boat in large seas gets old fast. Here's a pic of the winner.

Why did they kill it? Did they use the meat?

[Alan_Tampa]

Kingfish. Me soaking wet from running in 5ft seas the entire way back!

[topwater]

11 hours ago, Missi said:

Why did they kill it? Did they use the meat?

Killing big sharks is very controversial, even among the guys that specialize in it (I don’t). In the old days, people would keep every shark they caught. Now, no one brings in a dead shark unless it’s possibly state record huge, or tournament winning big. Its  99% catch and release. I think they only weighed in like 5 sharks this year, no serious angler brings one in unless it’s an epic catch. Plenty of local PETA types have been bitching about the shark tournament thing for years, imho, we have more than enough huge bulls, tigers, and hammerheads to last.  I worry more about red snapper populations as that fishery is 100% catch and chew. 

[topwater]

9 hours ago, Alan_Tampa said:

Kingfish. Me soaking wet from running in 5ft seas the entire way back!

How big is your boat?  I won’t leave the dock with anything more than 1-2 foot seas. 5 foot seas, no way. 

Edited October 25, 2017 by topwater

[Alan_Tampa]

It was supposed to be 2 to 3 foot seas, and only at 3 for a couple of hours! Lies! Also, fish biting so stayed longer than should have!

Aquasport 245 Explorer.  Actually 26ft to the pulpit. Deep vee,  but very wet ride. 

[Missi]

11 hours ago, topwater said:

Killing big sharks is very controversial, even among the guys that specialize in it (I don’t). In the old days, people would keep every shark they caught. Now, no one brings in a dead shark unless it’s possibly state record huge, or tournament winning big. Its  99% catch and release. I think they only weighed in like 5 sharks this year, no serious angler brings one in unless it’s an epic catch. Plenty of local PETA types have been bitching about the shark tournament thing for years, imho, we have more than enough huge bulls, tigers, and hammerheads to last.  I worry more about red snapper populations as that fishery is 100% catch and chew. 

Ew, PETA  I was just curious what they do with the shark after it is weighed. Is it disposed of? I'm definitely not against catch and keep if the species' population is doing well, it's just a bummer to think of such a majestic animal being wasted.