• Welcome to Baptist Board, a friendly forum to discuss the Baptist Faith in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to all the features that our community has to offer.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon and God Bless!

Fishing Bonanza 2024

kyredneck

kyredneck

Well-Known Member
Site Supporter
When I was a pipefitter apprentice, mid 70s, my boss knew I fished with a fly rod a lot and invited me along with his son to Dale Hollow Lake in TN just to fly rod the locust (cicada) hatch that year. It was just like I said, everything in the water was coming to the surface to feed - catfish, drum, carp, buffalo sucker, everything except bass and other sport fish which had their bellies full already. The water at Dale Hollow Lake is crystal clear, the bottom can be seen down to about 30', big bass could be seen lounging around but could not be enticed to strike, but we caught everything else, including an eighteen lb carp on a fly rod. It was fun and memorable.

The last locust year here my wife and I literally filled a freezer with channel cats from trot and limb lining.
 
Earth Wind and Fire

Earth Wind and Fire

Well-Known Member
Site Supporter
Can you catch trout with that bait?
tyndale1946 said:
I guess everyday for you will be FRYDAY!... Brother Glen:Biggrin
Click to expand...
I prefer smoking the catch in a low process wood fire, marinating with wine and other spices but pan frying is an alternative if cooked outside … I don’t like cooking it in the house.
 
kyredneck

kyredneck

Well-Known Member
Site Supporter
Earth Wind and Fire said:
What do you catch them with….a net perhaps.
Click to expand...

Oh, they're not super active or nimble, they're actually quite clumsy, flying into everything and each other there's so many of them, actually you can pick up all you want from the sides of trees and off the ground. I've frozen them and used them for fish bait the next year with good success.
 
Earth Wind and Fire

Earth Wind and Fire

Well-Known Member
Site Supporter
kyredneck said:
Oh, they're not super active or nimble, they're actually quite clumsy, flying into everything and each other there's so many of them, actually you can pick up all you want from the sides of trees and off the ground. I've frozen them and used them for fish bait the next year with good success.
Click to expand...
Good to know. Might be good bait for fishing Pike in Canada. New JERSEY so polluted I wouldn’t dare eat anything in these waters any more.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top