Any Angling Fanatics out there?

[steve dave]

Looking for only hardcore fishing and angling enthusiasts in this thread.  I need to know where to get the best gear at the best prices.  TIA.

[sonofdaxjones]

What kind of angling??

[kso_FAN]

I am an angler. 

Cabelas/Dicks Sporting Goods type places are best.

[sonofdaxjones]

Yeah, I would say that for a true "one stop", wide selection and halfway decent prices it's hard to beat either Cabella's or Bass Pro Shop.  Dick's has a fairly decent selection as well. 

[Trim]

Not so much myself, but I know a master angler.

[The1BigWillie]

Looking for only hardcore fishing and angling enthusiasts in this thread.  I need to know where to get the best gear at the best prices.  TIA.

You need to PM "wellsculptedeyebrows".  He's THE authority on all things angling related.  I can assure you nobody on this board takes angling more seriously.

[steve dave]

I once got a northern pike on a minnow and my uncle had to reel it in for me it was so big 

[Pete]

Steve, have you seen the movie "A river runs through it?"  I cannot fish as good as Brad Pitt in that movie, so if that's what you are looking for, I am NOT your guy.

However, if you are interested in putting pieces of hot dog on hook, just sort of chucking it out there, and then getting black-out drunk while you stare at the bobber, then I have quite a bit of knowledge to share with you.

[Poster formerly known as jthutch]

I'm not master angler, but even wal-mart stuff isn't too bad.  They have lots of stuff and really fish don't care what they bite, it's all in how you flick it. 
And also I'm a master-bater.    

[CNS]

Hardest thing I ever reeled in:  Stingray - about 20" wide at midpoint

The guy on the dock called it a "kite".  Don't know if that is a type of stingray like fish, or if he was  .

[steve dave]

I once caught a bullhead catfish and it swallowed the hook and I had to cut the line and throw it back in the lake to it's almost certain death.  pretty sad day for little sd.

[Pete]

Hardest thing I ever reeled in:  Stingray - about 20" wide at midpoint

The guy on the dock called it a "kite".  Don't know if that is a type of stingray like fish, or if he was  .

"kite," or "kyke?"  I think maybe he thouught you caught a jewish fish (no offense IchabodCat).  Pretty common minsunderstando.

[CNS]

Hardest thing I ever reeled in:  Stingray - about 20" wide at midpoint

The guy on the dock called it a "kite".  Don't know if that is a type of stingray like fish, or if he was  .

"kite," or "kyke?"  I think maybe he thouught you caught a jewish fish (no offense IchabodCat).  Pretty common minsunderstando.

I was in Mississippi.  I have no doubt the local on the dock was  , so very possible.

[steve dave]

One time I thought my hook got stuck on a log or something and I had to reel as hard as I could to get it to shore.  When it got there what was on the end of the line?  You guessed it.  A turtle.

[Saulbadguy]

I'm a neophyte angler, but I can only catch catfish.  I'm not good at catching anything else. My favorite moments in fishing is when I catch a catfish and get the hook out (really quick), I turn the fishes face towards my wife and say "IT'S A TRAP!" in my best Admiral Ackbar voice.

[CNS]

One time I thought my hook got stuck on a log or something and I had to reel as hard as I could to get it to shore.  When it got there what was on the end of the line?  You guessed it.  A turtle.

[kso_FAN]

I really like it when anglers use the word "mess" to describe a really good day of angling.

"We caught a mess of channel cat the other day at Old Charlie's Pond. Must have been 13 on the stringer."

[sonofdaxjones]

The best part of fishing is when open a fresh case of explosives, or when you get the old phone generator cleaned up reel nice.

[steve dave]

one time sdbro and I put a fishing net on the bottom of a lake and held onto the long handle and then dumped an entire bag of popcorn into the water over it and it was, like, sunny city right there above the net.  Then we yanked up on the net and guess how many we caught?  You guessed, 3. 

[ew2x4]

Fly fishing is pretty big in CO. Went a couple times.

[Dirty Sanchez]

Haven't gotten to do much of it the last few years, just a couple times a year.  Just bought a boat, though (purple with powercats--KState0 in a cheap kind of way), so I'll be doing a good deal more of it by spring.

[Poster formerly known as jthutch]

I grew up on the Ninnescah river and used to set Trot lines all the time.  The Ninnescah is pretty small so I only had 5 - 6 hooks on each set.  One time I had a channelcat on every hook.  Another time I caught 2 softshell turtles on the same line snagged them in the back leg.  Stupid turtles.

[pissclams]

i have a fish costume that i put on sometimes and go to the lake and swim under water then wait until anglers come.  then i hook myself on their line and let them pull me in to their boat.  when they get me in the boat and try to hold me up to take a picture with me, i get out of the fish costume and yell pranked.  works every time.  dumbasses. 

[jtksu]

I get down with torturing fish.  Sometimes a put them in a cooler until they are like paralyzed and then I feed them to a turtle.   Also, one time I cut off a fish's fin and fed it to the same fish.  Fish are dumb.

[Pete]

Here's one thing I learned the hard way....fishing and phishing are not the same thing.  Not be a long shot.