Micro fishing

[BilletHead]

How Microfishing Took the Angling World by (Very Small) Storm | Hakai Magazine

 

[Johnsfolly]

I have said many time that there are so many opportunities opened when you add microfishing to your arsenal. Really can be extremely frustratingly difficult when you can't  get your target fish to bite or are overwhelmed by hundreds of more common fish. It can also be very satisfying when you catch something that is exceptional in coloration or you never even knew existed.

[BilletHead]

45 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

I have said many time that there are so many opportunities opened when you add microfishing to your arsenal. Really can be extremely frustratingly difficult when you can't  get your target fish to bite or are overwhelmed by hundreds of more common fish. It can also be very satisfying when you catch something that is exceptional in coloration or you never even knew existed.

                      It is pretty neat the variety of potential of odd varieties.  Right now it is just an incidental catch and be tickled with it. I do prefer a fish that  will pull and tug and try to take you and your rod into the water. 

[Al Agnew]

As much of a fish nerd as I am, I just can't get too interested in microfishing...I'd rather take the seine and see what I can dredge up.  But when I was a kid I microfished.  My grandpa had a concrete tank that he kept his crappie fishing minnows in.  He was always trapping creek minnows, and the tank was always full.  I'd get a stick, some of his fishing line, and a pin, bend the pin into a very small bend, put bits of earthworm on it, and fish in his tank.  I even imagined that the minnows I caught were something else.  Creek chubs were giant largemouth bass.  Stonerollers were brown trout.  Bleeding shiners were rainbow trout.  I'd make up species for any others he had that I caught, too, but those were the most common. 😆

[fishinwrench]

When I was a kid, my neighbors cousin came to visit and he was all into bug collecting.  Ya know where you make a board with pins and model all the bugs you can find.  Put them in a jar with a cotton ball soaked in some kind of deadly crap.....then label all the different bugs.  

This kid found bugs right in our two yards that none of us had ever even seen before. And quite a few that I don't think I have ever seen since.   He had "Bug Books" as thick as encyclopedias, and there were bugs he caught that couldn't even be identified at that time.   Totally alien creatures.  Have you ever seen a centipede type thing WITH WINGS?  Well bygod I have!  (Once, about 50 years ago).   If some of those creatures got to the size of a field mouse, or larger......it would be a scary world out there ! Especially for a guy like me that goes into shock at the sight of any spider bigger than a pea.  😅

It's pretty interesting that there are tiny critters out there in YOUR OWN YARD that nobody on earth is even aware of.   And I bet the same situation exists in streams, ponds, and ditches. 

[Johnsfolly]

9 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

And I bet the same situation exists in streams, ponds, and ditches. 

It would be great if someone would just go out and catch those unusual fish and post reports with photos on this site 

[Dutch]

I would like to see you guys promote the heck out of this micro fishing.  More people need to get involved in it.  Maybe you could promote some micro tournaments.  It is fun to see the kinds of pics you all post, animals that I didn’t know existed.

[snagged in outlet 3]

1 hour ago, Johnsfolly said:

It would be great if someone would just go out and catch those unusual fish and post reports with photos on this site 

Pictures are always a nice touch.  😁

[Johnsfolly]

1 hour ago, Dutch said:

I would like to see you guys promote the heck out of this micro fishing.  More people need to get involved in it.  Maybe you could promote some micro tournaments.  It is fun to see the kinds of pics you all post, animals that I didn’t know existed.

I would like to see about setting up a 24 hour or 36 hour total species tournament that would include micros, minis, and just about anything else that you could catch. If @JestersHK could put that night fishing energy into something besides Taney sea monsters he would be a force to recon with. My old self would need a few hours for a nap in there somewhere .

[Johnsfolly]

47 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Pictures are always a nice touch.  😁

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