04-13-2003, 03:57 PM
[cool]If you fish for fun, you can't beat carp for some good hand-to-fin combat. They definitely stretch your string and bend your stick. In Europe there are probably more serious carp fishermen than trouters.
My only advice on the tubing thing. Respect the law and don't float your tube where it is not allowed. Unless...if there are some big bass that will bite after dark...and you can pull it off without getting caught. I gotta admit that I (and many other tubeaholics) have been guilty of the midnite marauder thing on golf courses and private lakes. Heck, even if you don't catch many fish, there's an adrenaline rush everytime a set of headlights sweeps over you. It's almost like the scenes in movies where prisoners are trying to escape from jail or concentration camps. The good news is that some of those forbidden ponds are full of hungry fish that have never been molested. There's nothing like the blast of an 8 pound bass on a topwater bait six feet from your rodtip, in pitch blackness. Pacemaker time.
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My only advice on the tubing thing. Respect the law and don't float your tube where it is not allowed. Unless...if there are some big bass that will bite after dark...and you can pull it off without getting caught. I gotta admit that I (and many other tubeaholics) have been guilty of the midnite marauder thing on golf courses and private lakes. Heck, even if you don't catch many fish, there's an adrenaline rush everytime a set of headlights sweeps over you. It's almost like the scenes in movies where prisoners are trying to escape from jail or concentration camps. The good news is that some of those forbidden ponds are full of hungry fish that have never been molested. There's nothing like the blast of an 8 pound bass on a topwater bait six feet from your rodtip, in pitch blackness. Pacemaker time.
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