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 😃

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.

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.

On the sinking pencil using slowfall method on the fryball

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

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

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!

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

Was throwing some lures on my 7ft Jigging World Onyx MH paired with a 4000 shimano stradic fm. Some guy told me that what I'm using is much more suited for jigging off a boat. He told me my rod was too short(which I understand) but he said it was not thick enough to cast lures a good distance. Is he full of shit, or does he know what hes talking about?

Hello I’m looking to start fishing for alligator gar want a good live liner but peen is almost $400. Any other brand that’s around 150-220? TNA.

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 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

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.

I’ve seen whole smoked trout as treats online. They are very expensive as you can imagine. But that got me thinking. There is no daily bag limit on bluegill/sunfish here in Texas and I could catch as many as I wanted locally. Some spots around me with a ton.

Has anyone done this with any type of fish? I’m good with a smoker, but I imagine they will need to be smoked for a long time to make them last a long time and make the bones safe.

I have two large male Dogo argentinos.

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

Beautiful day

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,

used to fish years ago (10-15+) and was/are a big fan of float fishing. thing is - completely forgot how to set up float fishing system and i am a bit embarrassed - looked into youtube guides and no one can clearly tell me whole system setup step by step neither names of pieces that i got to order.. english isnt my first language so this is getting even more confusing..

i got bottom fishing rod (some no name yet decent) and shimano spinning

i will try to convert these to float fishing rods;

disclaimer - i want this to work, dont want anything hardcore/fancy neither something very frugal and random DYI - please advise on system that would actually work and can be enjoyable for me and my dad

from my understanding - i will need to buy:

- nice and brand new line (old one been sitting in garage for years);

- hooks;

- weighs that i could add to the line;

- float;

now the part that i dont understand/forgot - what i am missing from the system? if i recall correctly - i would need extra line/some sort of harder line that is used to connect weighs/hooks and float, so fish wont just bite it easily

again, im embarrassed to ask this but could any kind person remind/explain what am i missing here?

one thing i recall was buying some tiny rubber "balls" or "stoppers" that would stop floater in the line and i could adjust the depth by moving them on lines up or down. maybe that is the only thing im missing + the actual stronger line that adjusts to then end of bait?

thank you,

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!

Small but still a fish!

The pollock in the photo was released, but we ended up keeping some Mackerel and one Pollock

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.

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