Variety Pack Fishing - Tell us what you've Caught this Year

[oneshot]

Well not so much on variety.

Mess of Goggle Eye from Niangua River

Rainbow Trout from Niangua River

Channel Catfish from Pomme de Terre Lake

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[JestersHK]

Rainbow trout - lots of em LOL

Longear sunfish

Bluegill

Goggle eye

Channel Cat

Flathead Cat

White Crappie

Last weeks saltwater trip in Destin yielded me

Ladyfish

Hardhead Saltwater cat - about a gabillion of these...

Sailfin Cat

Spanish Mack

5.5ft Blacktip Shark

4 or 5 different kinds of bait fish on a sabiki rig

[Johnsfolly]

JHK - I saw your Destin post. Sounded like a great trip. You mentioned the bait fish with a sabiki rig. I loved catching bait. You never knew what you would catch. I have never tried, it but I wonder if that rig would work in freshwater. You would have to cut the rig down to maximum number of hooks allowed. Still I would think three hooks would catch minnows and maybe even bluegill or crappie.

[Kayser]

Channel cat

Blue cat

Rainbow trout

Brown trout

Bluegill

Redear

Green sunfish

Warmouth

White crappie

Black crappie

White bass

Largemouth bass

Freshwater drum

Bleeding shiner

Common shiner

Common carp

Creek chub

And I think that's all for right now. Suckers and smallmouth are next on the list.

Smallmouth Bass

Spotted Bass

Goggle Eye

Longear Sunfish

That makes 21 so far.

[podum]

Hope to add to this list soon:

White Bass

White Crappie

Longear Sunfish

Brown Trout

Rainbow Trout

Green Sunfish

Common Shiner

Dace

Common Carp (10lb at Truman Dam fishing for Whites)

[JestersHK]

John,

I was thinking the same thing with the sabiki rig. I'm going to try and mock one up with some 2 or 4lb and some micro hooks. I think jigging them like you do for ocean bait would yield some results off of docks and such. One rigged with some zebra midges might work on the trout too.

[DADAKOTA]

Largemouth Bass

Spotted Bass

Black Crappie

White Crappie

Green Sunfish

Bluegill

Goggle Eye

Pumpkinseed

Channel Cat

Common Carp

Buffalo

Walleye

Drum

[Johnsfolly]

Finally broke the 20 mark. With it raining almost every weekend, I have not been able to get onto any creeks or small rivers to fish. I did get out Saturday with a come hell or high water attitude and spent a fair amount of time going upstream to find clear water.

Here are the latest catches:

White bass - a first for me with this species

Nothern Rock bass (aka goggle-eye)

My first smallmouth of the year (certainly not the biggest)

Puts me up to 21 for the year. I did see two new suckers and some gar in the creek. looking for a rain window to get back down again.

[bs1827]

My updated list:

-Largemouth (biggest so far was 5lbs 3oz.)

-Smallmouth

-Ozark Bass

-Rainbow Trout (Wild)

-White Bass

-White Crappie

-Bluegill

-Green Sunfish

-Longear Sunfish

-Creek Chub

So far, all of these have been with the fly rod.

[Johnsfolly]

BS1827 - That was an awesome bass on a fly rod. Where did you catch the wild trout?

I caught this and one other redear sunfish on Tuesday pushing the total to 22 for the year. Not one of those fish were caught with a Ned rig.

The redears should be hitting their beds shortly. I caught a bunch of bluegill and the females l that I caught that night were pretty big with eggs.