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"Wayne Knight" wrote in
oups.com: I think any fish, even trash fish, are *great* to have on a rod and maybe it's because of that short Mass season but catching a LM Bass is like Redneck Foreplay, ain't nothing there to excite you. LOL. I only fish for LM Bass with top water, floating patterns. Seeing a bass burst out the lillypads is pretty exciting, but it goes down hill from there unless it's a 3lb+. |
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Wayne Knight typed:
Lionel F. Stevenson wrote: Hi y'all, Of the fish I've caught, these are the fightinest ounce for ounce: [snip] Whaddya think? I think I'd like to catch an Atlantic Salmon one day. But until then 1. Permit 2. Blue Marlin 3. Sailfish 4. King Mackerel 5. Brown Trout It's interesting to read the different take on fighting fish. I've never even fished for your #1-4 (someday, when I grow up), but the brown trout I've caught, and I've caught a few, have been near lethargic. The big ones I've caught have put up some fight and were fun on a light rod, but on an "ounce-for-ounce" basis didn't even make it into my top 5. -- TL, Tim ------------------------ http://css.sbcma.com/timj/ |
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Tim J. wrote:
but the brown trout I've caught, and I've caught a few, have been near lethargic. The big ones I've caught have put up some fight and were fun on a light rod, but on an "ounce-for-ounce" basis didn't even make it into my top 5. I think a lot of *fish fighting* comes from the evironment. And IMO, if most of the fish one is catching once felt the side of a hatchery tank I don't think they fight very hard at all, but the last couple of decent sized (14") browns I've hooked took some serious line out and really put a bend in the rod. I fish to fish these days and like trout more because of where they live not so much of how they fight. I've spent most of my life on the southern coast. As a teenager and a young adult I had so many opportunities to fish the salt. Besides the Blue Marlin, I've caught white and striped marlin, hooked a tarpon, sailfish, swordfish, dolphin, several species of shark, etc. I think sal****er fish are the better fighters pound for pound but I just don't enjoy that kind of fishing anymore. Same with the Bass and Bream, I fish for them at least twice a week in the ponds and creeks near here, nothing wrong with them per se but I look forward to each outing for my troutlets. The wild ones are so much more attractive. |
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Wayne Knight wrote:
.... I think sal****er fish are the better fighters pound for pound but I just don't enjoy that kind of fishing anymore. Same with the Bass and Bream, I fish for them at least twice a week in the ponds and creeks near here, nothing wrong with them per se but I look forward to each outing for my troutlets. The wild ones are so much more attractive. Very true. I don't think there are any freshwater fish that can match *pound-for-pound* any sal****er fish.... even the ugliest little grunting, shovel-faced, spiny-fan-finned, puke-and-mud-colored bottom-dweller..... I'd much rather catch a 9" trout than a 9" bluegill, for the reasons you state (beauty of the fish *and* their surroundings), although ounce-for-ounce the bluegill will almost always fight better. Among salmonids I've caught, I think it's steelhead rainbows brookies cutthroat browns bulls. But then, that's based on the specimens I've happened to run across. As you say, things vary a lot from place to place. The browns in OR, even the stream-bred ones, are pound-for-pound mere shadows of their cousins in the Madison. Bull trout in the Metolius are infamous for being poor fighters; folks on the Westfly board call them boots. In the reservoir the Metolius drains into, though, they're reputed to fight like tigers.... JR |
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Jonathan Cook wrote:
I've never encountered a species that seems extremely more fighting, for me it boils down to individual fish. Some fight, some don't. Geez, you're a scientist.... we expect some sort of signal-to-noise analysis here... ![]() JR (I mean, what if we ever discuss which countries have the best looking women? g) |
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Lionel F. Stevenson wrote: "Of the fish I've caught, these are the
fightinest ounce for ounce: 1. Atlantic Salmon 2. Rainbow trout 3. Mackerel 4. Sea run speckled trout 5. Brook trout 5. Pond trout (brookies)Whaddya think?" Try Jack Cravelle and a redfish. Bluegill are fighters too. Sarge |
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![]() Jonathan Cook wrote: JR wrote: analysis here... ![]() Well I think I'm casting my vote for the neon tetra...we're going ounce for ounce, after all :-) (I mean, what if we ever discuss which countries have the best looking women? g) I not well traveled enough to comment...hafta defer to riverman on this one...didn't he say something about latvia or one of those baltic states? Jon. Absolutely. I read somewhere (and I've been looking for it again ever since) that back in the 18th century, some rich Duke or something embarked on a round-the-world tour looking for the most beautiful women in the world. After several years of what was probably as unscientific as it was enjoyable, he declared that the women of the baltic states, particular some island off Estonia (I believe it was Saaremaa) were the most beautiful. Having been there, I will personally declare that the women of Riga have them beat, hands down. Having conducted my own extensive research, and SWMBO being exempted because she would tilt the scales (as well as the front door lock), I earnestly declare that the Latvian women are #1, the Hong Kong chinese have a few very strong frontrunners, and the Isareli women can certainly hold their own. The congolese are not to be misunderestimated, as there were certainly a few diamonds in the rough there. The Brits, sorry to say, are not even allowed in the competition... --riverman |
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![]() "riverman" wrote in message ups.com... ..The Brits, sorry to say, are not even allowed in the competition... Roight, ladies!.....back to the scullery then, wot? Wolfgang o.k., they can't cook and they're ugly. small wonder that the scotts and the gordons and the cooks and the livingstones and the drakes and the fitzroys and the burtons and the rhodes and the raleighs and the kitcheners all left home and went gallivanting about the globe civilizing the bloody wogs. ![]() |
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