Thread: 2023 Fishin season

Interesting fishing concept. I have two telescopic 20' cane poles that I use for European match fishing. Most sensitivity set up I've ever used. Light biters don't have a chance.

One of the things I miss about living in Slidell is Redfish. A light flaky flesh that was always good. Never saw it anywhere else.

Originally Posted by rolodave

One of the things I miss about living in Slidell is Redfish. A light flaky flesh that was always good. Never saw it anywhere else.

They are common all along the Gulf Coast but I think Louisiana has the lion's share. I even caught one surf fishing, E. Coast FLA, once. We catch them now and then in Lake Pontchartrain from the boat and from the bank, usually when targeting Speckled Trout.. Also from an old disused bridge over Little Irish Bayou and we used to get them from a fishing pier on the North Shore. I have been meaning to take a trip down to Delacroix (pronouncify it like "Della-crow" so the locals don't laugh at you and charge you double for stuff.) where it is filthy with Reds. Around Hopedale and Shell Beach are good, too. Redfish is some excellent eating, yeah.

Originally Posted by outback

Interesting fishing concept. I have two telescopic 20' cane poles that I use for European match fishing. Most sensitivity set up I've ever used. Light biters don't have a chance.

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That's one of the two longer tenkara rods I bought. Price is right if you can wait the wait. These poles are a bit fragile, though. I broke my first one lifting a 3lb or so turtle out of the water. So if you buy one, buy two. And always take a landing net with you.

Took a 10# blue channel cat, like the one in the pic, on mg cane pole and 4# test, while perch fishing. Big ol pole took the fight right outta him.

Cane poles are an overlooked tool.

I like fishing stream trout with a 15' cane pole.

4' wide stream you can hide over the bank and drift your bait in front of the water cress.

I saw an old fart doing this in the 1960's and have copied him ever since.

Sounds like me as a kid, trout fishing in West Virginia, fishing the south fork of the green briar, river. I was the only one around with a 6 1/2' ultra lite spinning rod.

We dealt with a lot of undercut banks, and the trout would pack up under the tree roots that hung over the water. Nobody could get to them with a normal rod, but with the added length of my rod, I could poke my rod under the bank ahead of the fish, then feed line out till the bait was right in their faces.

A freind of mine was fishing an undercut bank on a Sunday morning. I heard the tree tip over and I ran down there. It barely missed him.

We now call that the Heathen hole..............

Still frozen here

I just realised it's 20 years since I fished freshwater
Living near the coast now I fish the surf & tidal creeks as often as possible.
Got these 2 bottom bouncing a 40 gram jig in the surf with the hook reversed from head to tail.
Flathead was 55cm, a coupla inches shy of 2 feet. The tailor ( bluefish ) didn't measure.