It's Fishing Time

[ness]

Originally Posted by Darth Slater

They are, and yes anadromous, but in the great lakes they still run up the rivers to spawn, some stay behind and never migrate and they stay rainbow "Trout".
There is also a species close to the rainbow only far more ancient known as The red band trout it also can withstand warmer waters they are found out west.

OK -- I'm with you now. You're up the chain a little more -- I thought you were saying steelhead was reclassified as a salmon and different from a rainbow.

Speaking of redbands, the trout-of-the-month for May on the 'Trout of North America' calendar to my left is a Skull Creek Redband, O. mykiss newberri.

There are a whole bunch of subspecies of rainbows and cutthroats, and I'm slowly working on catching as many of them as I can - just for fun.

[San Antonio]

One more favorite eating is Walleye.

[werecat]

I don't care what fish I pull in, if it's big enough and edible it's getting cooked. we were at the illinois river last year and this really nice gent and his friends were fishing and mum and I got skunked which is fine cause we still had a nice picnic, but this poor man... my nephew accidentally knocked lose his stringer and my sister went in the river to get it for him. He was such a sweet heart. a grampa himself so he just helped Robert get his line out of the weeds and was showing him how to cast and everything cause somehow my nephew at 8 is a bit of a chauvanist (sp?) and girls like me can't know how to do it right. when we all left he offered us his catch since we got skunked and he had a freezer full he said. I gave him the left over flat breads I had made as plates. it was just big honking carp, but once we picked the bones out it made really good fish cakes. No point in wasting anything!

[gulfcoastguy]

Originally Posted by werecat

I don't care what fish I pull in, if it's big enough and edible it's getting cooked. we were at the illinois river last year and this really nice gent and his friends were fishing and mum and I got skunked which is fine cause we still had a nice picnic, but this poor man... my nephew accidentally knocked lose his stringer and my sister went in the river to get it for him. He was such a sweet heart. a grampa himself so he just helped Robert get his line out of the weeds and was showing him how to cast and everything cause somehow my nephew at 8 is a bit of a chauvanist (sp?) and girls like me can't know how to do it right. when we all left he offered us his catch since we got skunked and he had a freezer full he said. I gave him the left over flat breads I had made as plates. it was just big honking carp, but once we picked the bones out it made really good fish cakes. No point in wasting anything!

Reminds me of a Greek bridge painter that I took out saltwater fishing once. No matter what we caught it was "Greeks eat that!" Bonito, mackeral, it didn't matter. On my way into the dock I started to throw the left over bait squid to the gulls. "Wait! Greeks eat that! See calimari!" I just pointed on the box where it said "Not for human consumption" and tossed the rest.

[werecat]

Originally Posted by gulfcoastguy

Reminds me of a Greek bridge painter that I took out saltwater fishing once. No matter what we caught it was "Greeks eat that!" Bonito, mackeral, it didn't matter. On my way into the dock I started to throw the left over bait squid to the gulls. "Wait! Greeks eat that! See calimari!" I just pointed on the box where it said "Not for human consumption" and tossed the rest.

LOL I would have done the same thing and been just as bumed about the not for human consumption tag. I love squid.

[gulfcoastguy]

He was a darn good painter, doing the job on time and right. Couldn't let him catch botulism, that squid had been riding unrefrigerated allday while we fished. BTW I love squid also.

[Billy B]

Jug fishing or trot line for catfish. But any kind of fishing will work for me.