08-30-2019, 02:53 AM
Hi everyone, happy to be here. I haven't fished in many decades and I'm just now getting back into it... very slowly. Instead of going out an buying thousands of dollars worth of equipment I haven't earned yet, I've decided to take a decidedly old school approach -- used rods and reels I find at swap meets and pawn shops, no fish finders or other electronics -- just topo maps and Google Earth -- no trolling motors, minimal tackle and baits, etc. I do own a boat, but it's not a fishing boat -- yet -- but at least it gets me off the bank.
I fish entirely in freshwater, and so far only in lakes Mead, Mohave and Havasu in Arizona. I live less than a 90-minute drive from the farthest spot I launch from at any of the lake, so it's safe to say these are definitely my home fisheries. Bass, certainly -- striper, LMB and smallies -- but I also like to go after catfish, carp, crappie and blues. I have't yet tried for trout -- which are released once a week in Lake Mohave -- but they're next.
I don't have a personal best yet, and even if I did i wouldn't know it because I don't own a scale or a tape measure -- I simply don't care how big it is. I'm not in this for the numbers, I wanna catch fish... what kind or what size doesn't mean anything to me.
Clearly, I'm still very new at all this and I pretty much suck at it, but I'm getting better... and that's half the fun!
Looking forward to learning all I can.
I fish entirely in freshwater, and so far only in lakes Mead, Mohave and Havasu in Arizona. I live less than a 90-minute drive from the farthest spot I launch from at any of the lake, so it's safe to say these are definitely my home fisheries. Bass, certainly -- striper, LMB and smallies -- but I also like to go after catfish, carp, crappie and blues. I have't yet tried for trout -- which are released once a week in Lake Mohave -- but they're next.
I don't have a personal best yet, and even if I did i wouldn't know it because I don't own a scale or a tape measure -- I simply don't care how big it is. I'm not in this for the numbers, I wanna catch fish... what kind or what size doesn't mean anything to me.
Clearly, I'm still very new at all this and I pretty much suck at it, but I'm getting better... and that's half the fun!
Looking forward to learning all I can.
