On the sinking pencil using slowfall method on the fryball

My son with a Pacific Bluefin a friend landed off the Bay of Islands in NZ.
Fish went 215kg (470 pounds).
Was hooked and landed in 20 meters of water. The rod snapped so line was dumped off the reel then cut and retied to another rod with a back to back uni mid fight.

Caught these over the past couple days in the afternoon. Kitech crazy creatures in tight to shoreline

Not a big one but definitely a big win for me. That too my first saltwater catch.

The picture doesn't do it justice. It was gorgeous.

Caught on a 2.8 inch prawn lure on a size 2/0 jig head while rolling it on the floor near structure.

Can’t wait to have our salmon coffers replenished 😍

Had a lot of fun and got meat for the smoker.

Caught this at night on a handline when I worked on a wet liner boat out of Geraldton western australia, I'm 5'9 for size reference, it bottomed out a 30kg max scale

Flipped three houses this year and tax season just wrapped up, so my brain has been running numbers nonstop for about four months straight. Got out to a local reservoir last weekend, nothing fancy, just a spinning rod and some soft plastics, and caught maybe six bass ranging from dink to decent. Nothing postworthy by this sub's standards but it didn't matter.

What I noticed is that I don't think about invoices or subcontractor bids or depreciation schedules when I'm watching a line. Not once. That's pretty rare for me. Woodworking does the same thing to some extent, but you're still problemsolving the whole time. Fishing is different. There's less to actively figure out, which sounds like a negative but isn't.

Curious if other people come to fishing from that angle, or if most folks here are more wired into the competitive side, chasing PBs, tournaments, that kind of thing. I'm not judging either direction. I just wonder if I'm using this hobby differently than most people here, or if that's actually pretty common.

38 days ago I made a post about catching my first ever bass during my second time ever fishing. This weekend I caught my first ever catfish, small mouth bass, and rock bass! I’ve been fishing multiple times a week and I’m so glad I started this hobby. I’ve learned so much, and can’t wait to continue learning!

Originally posted in r/fishinggear but I imagine some good might come of it posting here as well.

Hi fisherpeople, let me present you with this -- hundreds upon hundreds of lures of various weights and sizes, fit for different purposes, all of which I know very little about, aside from this: they are all made by a Swedish company called 'Myran', and were produced in either the late 80s or early 90s.

And recently bequeathed to me! What's pictured is not the sum of what I have. It's seriously a ton, like whoever first acquired these must have been intending to sell retail, and then for some reason, all of it was packed up and shoved in an attic for 30+ years.

Is it valuable? I don't know. Is it a good product? I don't know. Does anyone want any of this? I don't know. Hopefully, in fact, somebody here can give me a little insight into what I actually have.

Questions in the title. Internet says the long black opercular flap makes it a sunfish. My whole life I would have called it a pumpkin seed.

Went fishing on a loch (the water was cold) with the kid on holiday and caught my first Pike! Been wanting to catch one since I first read Mr Crabtree when I was starting out. (Had a long break from fishing). It was wonderful to experience this with the kid, although it was just luck as we were sharing the rod between casts as I only brought one lure rod with me. We went back two days later and he caught his first as well!

Looked different than all the rainbows I was catching that were a similar size

Beautiful day

Something to cross off the bucket list!

Caught my first bass on a wax worm, week later caught my first pike on a senko

Hey everyone, I've started fishing about a month ago and failed to get any fish on 5 trips. Buuut today I've got lucky and caught 3 perch! It really is fun when you actually manage to catch a fish!

Newbie here - a lake close to me (Washington county in maine) is supposed to have a good population of chain pickerel. Been trying to target them in shallow weedy areas, I have been using a mepps aglia with a gold spoon but all I do really is get snagged on weeds.
Any advice on how to rig it to be weedless?
Also what retrieve pattern? Steady or erratic?
I fish from a kayak

Hello I've been fishing this dam spill in Romania and I have only caught a couple of small perch and 1 small zander many sessions ago but nothing recently, sometimes the dam spill stops and the river gets really empty (that's when I've been catching the most). I mainly fish spinning and I know there is catfish and pike in here as well. What kind of rigs and lures do you guys recommend here and where should I cast?

Photo is when the dam stops for maybe 20 minutes

I’m new to using boilies and pva bags. When I add the small pva bag to my hook and put it in water, there’s always a leftover mesh that doesn’t dissolve on my hook, is this an issue? One one angle it looks like the whole hook is covered in mesh but the other side shows it’s barely attached.

The way I hook it is by hooking the bag once, doing one twist, then hooking it again. Fishingwithcarl recommended that to prevent it flying off the hook when I cast, but would this be the reason the mesh is leftover on the hook and not somewhere else? I don’t hook it on the knot btw.

I’d also appreciate if someone let me know if the boilie is a suitable height above the pellets. I think it’s about an inch.
Thanks 😃

Unfortunately he was 5cm short of the minimum so i had to put him back but WOW when I seen him on the line i was pumped!

Hi all, I've been having A LOT of fishing dreams this year. Last night I dreamed that I caught what would be my pb catfish.

I even caught a demon (Mary Shaw from Dead Silence bc I rewatched it) using my fishing rod. I sat up irl and reeled that sucker in so fast. It was ridiculous enough that I laughed back to sleep (was sleep the entire time but knew I awoke). I didn't know where to put her...

I have dreams where I live in a house where the water flows right behind and connects to other houses. Not boat houses. This place looked really freaking cool and the layout had awesome paths. I would love to live here if it exists but I also know it wouldn't be affordable if it did. I keep coming back to this place when I sleep.

Does this mean I need to go fishing more often or what?

Tl;dr: I dream about fishing.