Fishing Thread

[BalthasarR]

Anyone else enjoying fishing here? Didn't find a good thread with search. I fish year-round primary with gillnets but I also use longlines. Practically all my fishing take place on the Baltic Sea (I'm not really a lake person).

Usually once or twice a year I set a net for baltic herring. This is because with baltic herring you either get nothing or you get far more than you need. Well today I got a bit more than I need - circa 30 kg:s. Good be worse though. It's easily possible to get more than 100kg:s with only one net when the timing is right.

Me, my relatives and friends will be eating fish for a while now.

[Jim]

Very interesting. How will you prepare them?

On the east coast of the USA we use spearing and Herring as bait.

[BalthasarR]

Very interesting. How will you prepare them?

On the east coast of the USA we use spearing and Herring as bait.

Baltic herring is a bit smaller and less fatty than atlantic herring. It's used widely as bait in here also, mostly by Salmon longliners.

Traditional finnish way is to simply roll the fishes in rye flour and then frie them in butter. It's pretty tasty when the fishes are fresh. I also make rolls of the fish fillets and boil them in light vinegar stock with some spices. When ready they look something like this:



The most freakiest thing to make from baltic herring is definitely surströmming. It is a traditional swedish dish and by far the smelliest thing I've ever tasted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstr%C3%B6mming

Youtube is full of videos of people trying to eat this "Delicacy".

[Shave A Buck]

I do not recall ever seeing a Swedish restaurant. I wonder how much of it could go mainstream, might be that hole in the market for someone.

[BalthasarR]

Although I still have some baltic herrings to eat from last time I set some gear for whitefish. I got one small whitefish that I smoked same time with some baltic herrings. Mainly because I was too lazy to fillet it. Usually I fillet these small whitefishes and springle rough sea salt and fress dill all over them and set the fillets to fridge over night. Then eat them with some toasted ryebread and butter.

The smaller fish is called "smelt" (probably because it smells like fresh cucumber). It is extremely underrated fish here in Finland. It has very tasty roe and the flesh is quite good when fried. In Spring time I collect lots and lots of roe. Whitefish roe is also excellent but it won't spawn untill late fall.

Smelt get pinched to nets with relatively large eyesize because it has large teeth and it swims mouth open. Winter time when it's cold and hands are freezing it can be real pain in the ass to loosen from net For example with baltic herring this is not a problem. This time there was like 12-13 of these beauties in the nets.

[Unknownsoldier]

I love fishing, I'm a river person, but lakes will do at a pinch....



I've got a few more somewhere.... :D I love these fish.... they are just so well designed... :D

Nothing like sitting on a bank freezing cold, feeling going from every exremity and suddenly the line goes screaming off and your in for a fight :D

I don't however get the American fascination with fish length over weight.....

Tom

[BalthasarR]

That's a nice pike Very tasty too after you remove those nasty y-bones.

[Unknownsoldier]

That's a nice pike Very tasty too after you remove those nasty y-bones.

Thanks.

Not allowed to eat them in the UK..... we're having a lot of trouble with polish migrants eating lots of carp etc. from commercial fisheries etc.... Generally you arn't allowed to take fish for the pot, barring ofcourse trout and salmon. You put your fish back after you've caught them.

Thats not my biggest but my first biggest :D LOL I spent 5 hours waiting for her, using a smelt DB injected with brs and tf liquid. :D

Tom

[BalthasarR]

That's a pity. On coast of Finland trout, salmon and pikeperch are the only fishes having an undersize. Fishes bigger than that you are allowed to take. Pike is very commonly fished in here. Mostly by sport fishers. In commercial fishing it's more of a bycatch.

[gaseousclay]

I haven't fished much and when I have I've never caught anything worth keeping. there was a segment on the news the other night talking about how a time limit (rather than a per person limit) might be imposed on fisherman to help control fish populations, or something to that effect. I don't think my father in-law will like this if it happens

[Austin]

I love fishing. Unfortunately, I don't go much. My son will be home this summer. Hopefully, we'll have time to go to the coast.

[bandrus1]

The past 2 weeks

[BalthasarR]

Wow! Very nice. Is that the pike from Unknownsoldiers pic?

Where do you fish btw?

[Wilpar76]

I love fishing. Not only do I love the sport, but I love just being outside and relaxing. Most of my fishing is done from small inlets on the shore. I like it because it is so peaceful. I will go out at about 5:30 in the morning and there are no cell phone calls from work to answer, no traffic jams, no signs of the daily hustle and bustle of our lives. I will crack a beer at at 6:00 in the morning and enjoy the time. Catching a fish makes it all the more pleasurable.

All of my fishing is salt water fishing. As I said, on the inlets in the Chesapeake Bay or out on charter boats from Deale, Wenona, or Crisfield on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. I just found out that the husbands of some of my wife's friends like to fish. We went on one charter together and we caught 6 rockfish. We are trying to line up another one for later this summer. Around July in Maryland, it will be a heavy croaker (hard head) and blue (or salt water pirahnas (sp?) as I call them) season.

The charters are expensive, but that is why we try to go with groups to defray the cost. I am not a big fan of head boats, because there are too many lines in the water.

[Duamuteffe]

Both sides of my family fish, so I've been fishing since I was very small. I have an early memory of being dragged slowly into the Allegheny, one step at a time, as a giant carp had a hold on my bait and even at four years old I wasn't going to let go of the pole. Luckily someone noticed and stepped in to intervene. We mainly do trout fishing on the various little streams that criss-cross the area, hiking up and down and all around (my father has a rule; no more than three casts on a hole without at least a nibble, so we can cover some serious ground in a day keeping up with him...) with the occasional jaunt down to the local lake on boring evenings (never catch anything there, though, it's just for the fun of it...) and the odd river fishing trip thrown in when my Mom decides it's been too long since she's had walleye.

[Unknownsoldier]

The past 2 weeks

Nice, what was the weight of the pike (Or is it a Muskie??) Looks about 15-18lb?

Tom

[Walker]

FISHING PICS!!!!! Here is a pic of a Mahi Mahi we caught while running from Hurricane Ike. We went down to the Bay of Campeche and hung out for a few days

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[bandrus1]

I didnt weigh the pike because well, we wernt fishing for them.. They sometime latch on while we troll for trout.... id say between 14 and 16 lbs

[Unknownsoldier]

Nice, thats not a bad fish by UK standards, biggest we get is around 45lbs..... unnoficially a 50 is said to have been caught but I think thats dubious.....

Top picture: 10lb pike
2nd: 9lb Barbel
3rd & 4th 20lb Pike

I have caught some nice carp too, only maybe 6-8lb, not the 60lb ones you read about, carp to me though are such boring fish, little fight and they look generally rather horrible, all distended and blobby....

Tom

[thunderball]

I was ridiculously into fishing back in Canada. Nothing like hooking into a Gerrard Rainbow. (no, that's not me in the picture)