The fishing thread ( not about fish fertilizer)

Wizzlebiz

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Hey what's everyone using for gear? Any sweet reels/rods you wana show off?
I practically have a fishing store in my basement. Been an avid angler all my life. I fish for multiple species all through the year. Now is walleye and salmon time soon trout and also muskie. Once winter hits it's onto more trout, walleye and panfish: perch, black crappie, bluegill (sometimes pike) on the ice.
I'm a baitcaster guy. Most people know me as baitcaster jj.
I run a Shimano Calcutta 301 TE DC for casting. She's a work horse. Caught hundreds of fish with her. She's boat rashed up a bit but I think that adds character.
I have 2 old Calcutta TE 401'S for muskie and a chronarch for Rando outings when my other reels are in use.
Spinning I run a pflueger president (nothing too fancy I dont spin much)
Float fishing I use my TE DC as it has a digital controller for backlash. It's ultra smooth and you can hit nice long runs with it very effectively on my raven 11'6 custom bait casting float rod
Looking at adding a Calcutta TE DC conquest to the arsenal
For bass fishing.
Reels
1 Shimano curado DC baitcaster 8.1.1 ratio
1 Shimano slx DC baitcaster 7.3.1 ratio
1 lews mach crush baitcaster 7.5.1 ratio
1 lews mach 1 baitcaster 6.3.1 ratio
1 lews mach smash baitcaster ratio 7.3.1

Striper and Sturgeon
1 lews Mr striper baitcaster
1 Shimano cardiff 400a
1 Penn fathom li

Rods
1 shimno curado 7.7 med heavy extra fast action
1 lews mach crush 7 foot med heavy fast action
1 shimano slx 7 foot med heavy fast action
1 lews mach 1 7.3 med heavy fast action
1 lews mach smash 7 foot heavy med action.

For Striper and Sturgeon
1 lews Mr striper 7 foot heavy rod
2 Phoenix 8 foot heavy

All my stuff is in my truck. Il post the pictures tomorrow.
 

PadawanWarrior

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$16.99/lb here. And waldo's pale compared to gills or white perch through the ice here. Damn I'm drooling as it rains @46F. Salmon, steelies and lake run brown footballs will be here soon. And I can walk to them here.
Both are tasty. But I'd have to fillet a lot more Blue Gills to get the same amount of fish. They're too much work for my lazy ass. But they do taste damn good.

Do you prefer the taste of the trout species or the white fish?
 

MICHI-CAN

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Both are tasty. But I'd have to fillet a lot more Blue Gills to get the same amount of fish. They're too much work for my lazy ass. But they do taste damn good.

Do you prefer the taste of the trout species or the white fish?
I prefer the taste of the smelt we use for bait for trout through the ice. And blue gills are a breeze to clean. Not like wallies or the perch. Armor plated razor blade wielding thugs I say. Man do you get tore up.
 
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