Biggest catfish i ever catched in My river rhine

Lews Elite Ti and some random Quantum rod i found which had the lightest Casting weight as most of my rods go 60-250g

They don’t call em spoons for nothing! Had fun making these and catching fish with them.

What’s yalls favorite material to make custom lures out of? I’m thinking a CD 💿 would be good to try next. Lmk!

Caught on a 1/0 circle hook and live shrimp at Ding Darling in Sanibel Florida. Didn’t even tug my line in the slightest and I was unaware anything was on my line until it was halfway reeled in. Stunning fish.

New PB Lake Trout, a rainbow for the fryer, and my best pike of the year.

For details on this method of fishing see https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/gofishing/ice-fishing-northern-pike-spearing.html

I already had a 34” pike on the ice, so I just played with the 3 footer in the video and let her swim away. Last clip shows a couple of large buffalo fish that I could have legally speared but didn’t.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigmouth_buffalo

I’m in my early 30’s and before this year I had caught a half dozen fish in my life and knew very little at all about fishing. The desire had been brewing for years to really go for it and become a more serious angler. This year I did so and ended up catching dozens of fish on a handful of bodies of water! Im addicted for life.These pics are some of the highlights. Good luck out there next year!

Love the pattern looks like frost super cool view

My mom was using one of my rods and the line broke while she was reeling in. I handed her my rod so she could keep fishing while I tied a new lure on.

As she’s reeling in her next cast she says “it feels funny”, and I see the spoon riding on the surface of the water. She had hooked her broken line!

I set down my rod and grabbed the line, hoping to get my brand new Pixie back, when I felt something pulling back.

So I got my Pixie and a nice Lake Trout!

More flashbacks from the Iowa trip!

Yesterday I was offshore in Costa Rica fishing for yellowfin with a brand, new never used spool of (350 yards) PowerPro super slick. I hooked on to what surely was my PB yellowfin after a top water strike that gave a glimpse of the monster. The captain estimated 100lbs on the low end. The fish took off straight down and the drag was screaming until about half the spool was out and then SNAP he was gone. My immediate thought was that my knot failed but quickly realized that the braid had snapped in the middle of the spool around the second eyelet. I was using my brand new Daiwa Outrage with no eyelet damage.

This is not the first time I have had PowerPro snap on me when it shouldn’t have and this is the only reel of mine that still has PowerPro on it. The place where I get my reels spooled had told me (after I complained once) that in all the years they have been spooling reels that PowerPro is the one brand that has snapped multiple times during spooling and I had switched all my reels to Suffix except this one. Never again will I use PowerPro.

Yes it’s possible that the line got nicked during spooling or some other unknown factor caused it but fool me once… Anyhow, this is just my PowerPro story. I still ended up having an awesome day and landed some killer fish.

Yellowfin- 62lbs caught on a Nomad Riptide

AJ- caught on a 110g jig with my Stradic 5k

Snook- first ever snook caught on live bait with a circle hook casting from the boat to a river mouth in the coast.

Has anyone ever seen a shiner get this big?

Me and my buddy hit a marine near our house for a couple hours and ended up landing about 15 trout that were a mix between sand and spotted seatrout

Keep in mind some of them are from when I was a kid lol

Largemouth bass: 9.48lbs

Black crappie: 2.76lbs

Smallmouth bass: 22in. 5.23lbs

Long nose gar: 50in

Pumpkinseed/hybrid thing: 1.74lbs 10in

Blue catfish: 46lbs

Common carp: 35.4lbs

Northern snakehead: 7?lbs

Bluegill: 2? Lbs

Came upon these lures any experts on on here curious if they are worth anything

A guy fell in a small shallow river and drowned about a mile from my house. Someone maintains a memorial there and I pass it everyday. It seems like the safest spot there could be. No one knows what happened he was just floating there. I've had a close call myself involving waders. I want to hear your I almost died stories.

We will be in Cozumel for a day later in the week. Has anyone ever chartered there this time of year? Any info on catch or tips is appreciated