Gone Fishin’!

I need advice. I am going to working in Clearwater,florida and i thought about moving to tarpon springs area. Would you move there? Is there enough to do for my kids ages 10 and 11. Is it too far to clearwater?
I am so confused!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Please Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If I remember right, Tarpon Springs is a good 2 hours or so from Clearwater.The most interesting thing in Tarpon Springs are the sponge docks, which I’m sure that you’ve heard of. It is fun to walk up and down the boardwalk and look in the little Greek tourist shops and try the Greek restaurants. It is also relatively cheap to go out on deep sea fishing boats from Tarpon Springs (I think 30 dollars for 4-6 hours where they provide everything). There are also beaches of course in Tarpon Springs, so overall, I would say that it should be a nice spot for your kids to be brought up in. Feel free to send me a message if you have any other Tarpon Springs related questions!

I’m fishing out of Lockwood Folly in North Carolina for speckled trout. I’m using yellow jigs on orange jig heads right now and I’m getting some action. I thought I should know what I can also stock my tackle with on days that my jig setup is a little slow.

Try the same size jig head and body, but in different colors. Some days they hit the bright colors, but some days they prefer more natural colors. Try white with a black head, and some translucent colors with black heads.

Also any type of silver spoon the same size as your jig will work. You might want to keep the same type of lures in different sizes. Baitfish vary in size over the season and the fish tend to target what there’s plenty of.

You see Lukoil springing up everywhere now.

We won’t succeed. Russian oil and Russian sovereigny are too intertwined. (Is it any different from Halliburton and Cheney?). Russia, Inc is Lukoil. It is their ticket to get a seat at the international table.

Put in a factor of smoothness, casting, and strength. When i say inshore i don’t necesarily mean light taclke(FLA fishing gives great oppurtunities for bull reds, monster snook, and migrating grouper)!

It mainly depends on how much you’re willing to spend. Assuming you don’t want to spend an arm and a leg, check out Daiwa Emblem Pro, shimano Spheros, and the Penn SS series reels. I personally use liveliner type reels, like Shimano Baitrunner, Daiwa Sealine Black, Penn live liner.
Good luck, tight lines and Happy Holidays.

I fish for everything in freshwater how many poles should I use and what types?

First off rookie, poles are for fishing like Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer did, a cane pole with a string tied to the end. For the interest of time and energy, they are called rods and reels these days. There is no way of answering this question so you can gear up. Truth is there are so many different and perfect answers for all the different kinds of fishing there is. (The combinations are limitless) Where you are in the world isn’t going to have some species that other places do have. I can’t think of life without the twenty I have in the boat but that is just for bass, I take some out and put some in for all the different species I am going out to target. So! In addition to different length rods and different tips, strengths, and quality rods, I think it’s highly important to have different spool sizes on my reels to accommodate all depths fished and distances casted not to mention based on the different lines you’ll need to be spooled with for certain bait presentation perfection and resistance to abrasion caused by cover. I also think you need to have different speed geared reels to present baits at the proper speeds to give the baits their optimum fish attracting look. So how can any answer identify your exacting needs? The perfection only you will know you need comes when you reach and don’t have a combination there in the rod box and you have to take time away from trying to put fish in the live well, to set up a rod and reel combo for what that water you are on that day, that time right now that the bass are biting on.

I am starting a bait shop and don’t have alot to put into a minnow system. Is there anyway to set up a tank that will keep them alive for about 2 to 3 weeks?
Is there anyway to keep it cool enough without get a water cooler for them. The bath tub thing is what I was thinking with an outside filter and pump.

You can build your own fairly cheap, but make it nice. I would layer the inside with fiberglass and install a pump to circulate the water and also get you a heater core from any junk car and fix up with a compressor from an old refrigerator and fix it to rotate freon and keep your water cold. Any Aircondtion man can hook that up for you. I built one and I tell ya the secret to keeping your minnows alive is Oygen and tempreatuire must stay cold. And feed them fish food.
Alot of dealers lose alot of fish becasue they don’t have enough Oxygen in the water and the Temperature gets too warm.
I have my box loaded once a month and I hardly ,lose any minnows at all. Infact they grow.

well, not sure. i have not heard of his plan. but one thing is for sure, that i heard the current bush administration has neglected the issue, so i feel that when obama becomes president he will defenitly tackle the issue but one problem is that current finanical crisis could take away attention from it so, it is one of the greatest challenges we are facing in the 21st century today.

have been outside this week, or for the last 10 years? not very warm out, is it?

I’m a new carp fisherman and i caught a 22" one, what’s your biggest one? Where did you catch it?

48 lbs. Lake Sam Rayburn in Texas. Light tackle, 6lb test on earth worms as bait.

I see Heritage Express runs tours north, but via Strathfield instead of over the Bridge…
Thinking of taking one on a private charter, and it’d be nice for my guests who are both rail and bridge enthusiasts.

Any idea??

The only access to the Bridge by rail is through the tunnels of the City Circle. I would think the combination of enclosed spaces and smoke from a steam train means that this will be very unlikely.

Hey, I just bought "Gulp, New Penny" shrimp lures thinking they would be good for freshwater fishing. Little did I know but they are used for saltwater. Will they work when I go freshwater fishing?

They will work fine, as long as they smell bad and aren’t huge. Most, if not all salt water lures work in fresh water. The only difference is the size and what they are made of. Salt water lures have to be made of special materials so the salt does not ruin them and the hooks.