NSFW: Super Post Whore Thread v2.0

[Charlie]

Morning
Drop shotting off the dock, bites but no keepers, got too hot ... old age makes you wussy. Coffee time, again.

What's "drop shotting"?

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Casting for accuracy?

 

[kbaxter60]

77 degrees in Kerrville right now. High today is supposed to be 101. Go figure!

91 here in Pipe Creek. Thinking we'll hit that triple-digits by noon.

 

[karlac]

What's "drop shotting"?

Way to rig lures.
A weight at the bottom, hook/lure about 12-16” above. Keeps the lure off the bottom so you can give it some action. What you see here is called “wacky” rigging the bait.

 

[Charlie]

Way to rig lures.
A weight at the bottom, hook/lure about 12-16” above. Keeps the lure off the bottom so you can give it some action. What you see here is called “wacky” rigging the bait.

Thank you! Haven't fished since I lived on the coast over 40 yrs. ago.

 

[karlac]

Thank you! Haven't fished since I lived on the coast over 40 yrs. ago.

It can be a helluva lot more complicated, and expensive, today, if you let it.

 

[Charlie]

It was cheap then. We'd go down to the 61 street pier in Galveston late in the evening and try to catch a shark! Interesting and diverse group of people down there after midnight.

 

[karlac]

It was cheap then. We'd go down to the 61 street pier in Galveston late in the evening and try to catch a shark! Interesting and diverse group of people down there after midnight.

BTDT
Ice chest full of beer, your tackle, camp stool and some bait shrimp you got at one of the bait houses on 61st.
It was generally the same people every night, and they each had their "spots" on the pier.

Also used to crab off of 61st with chicken necks saved from my FFA projects in high school, we'd trailer our horses in and camp on the beach for the weekend.

Bet you can't do that anymore.

Old enough to remember the roller coaster and ferris wheel on the beach?
Must of been around 1948 or so.

 

[Charlie]

I wasn't in full swing yet in 1948!

 

[SQLGeek]

Way to rig lures.
A weight at the bottom, hook/lure about 12-16” above. Keeps the lure off the bottom so you can give it some action. What you see here is called “wacky” rigging the bait.

I tried fishing for trout with that setup in the local lake. Didn't work worth a poop. Neither did anything else I tried.

 

[EZ-E]

I tried fishing for trout with that setup in the local lake. Didn't work worth a poop. Neither did anything else I tried.

The drop shot is more for bass fishing than rainbow trout.

 

[SQLGeek]

I was just going by what TPWD advised on their website as one method to try. Damn gubbmint.

 

[Moonpie]

Arkansas fishing

 

[karlac]

I tried fishing for trout with that setup in the local lake. Didn't work worth a poop. Neither did anything else I tried.

Watching the FLW bass tournament here in Hot Springs on TV this past weekend, saw the guy who ended up winning fishing the docks with a drop shot rig.

SOB won $300,000.
And one of the reasons I rigged up that way this morning and didn't take the boat out ... besides just being lazy.

 

[karlac]

Arkansas fishing

Dynamite works!
One time Boudreaux handed the game warden a lit stick and asked him if he was going to fish, or write a ticket.

 

[karlac]

I wasn't in full swing yet in 1948!

I was 5 or 6 when Dad's seismograph crew worked out of Galveston for a summer.
We lived in a trailer park off 61st, within walking distance of the beach.
Great place for a kid allowed free range ...

 

[Moonpie]

Just don’t ask Thibadeaux about his duck tape, nutriasweet, or pussywilliow stick!

 

[karlac]

Couple of them things can be stinky ...

 

[easy rider]

I used to fish walleye below McNary Dam on the Columbia River. We used to tie the weight about a foot and a half above the hook and use a hypodermic to fill the night crawler with air to keep it off the bottom.

 

[Charlie]

Have any luck?