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I love all of them. I consider myself a panfisher. My favorite is shellcracker beds. But I like crappie as well as bluegill.
Smallmouth are my favorite of the bass. Especially in current and shoals in rivers and creeks with top water baits like plugs and whopper ploppers.
Never fished in the ocean.

I like all of the fish except freshwater drum.
 
gasman said:
Big mudfish for the catching part, crappie for the eating part. Although last year I stepped out of my comfort zone and started bream fishing just to prove to @RUGER that even a novice can catch bream. I was so good at it, folks started calling me The Bream Reaper.
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I'm updating your contact name in my phone "The Bream Reaper" 😂 😂
 
I like the consistency of finding and the strength of the fight itself with reds.

I like the intellectual part of finding and figuring out specks and flounder (I haven't figured them out tho). For eats, flounder is my favorite.

Have a ton of freshwater spots close, just can't get excited about doing that much any more.
 
Crackers on light tackle may be a favorite. Staring at a screen with a 13' rod and jig for crappie followed closely by ultralight and dropshotting trout.

I wish I had a boat I trusted to chase smallmouth on the Cumberland, the knowledge to successfully catch flathead and sauger/walleye.
 
Big bows in AK on a fly rod with the brown bears all around…….
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Big reds on a fly rod on your own flies……
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Even reds on the beach
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Even Jacks on a popper!! I love them all!!!
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BDS05 said:
Crackers on light tackle may be a favorite. Staring at a screen with a 13' rod and jig for crappie followed closely by ultralight and dropshotting trout.

I wish I had a boat I trusted to chase smallmouth on the Cumberland, the knowledge to successfully catch flathead and sauger/walleye.
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Me and you would get along. I grew up bass fishing the most but i like taking something home with me. Im wanting to get on these shellcracker and bluegills hopefully in the next couple days!! I love livescoping crappie as well !!
 
Dbllunger said:
You guys that get to chase the saltwater stuff kill me. Color me jealous.
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Don't start!!!!! I don't want to tell you how much that ADDICTION cost me!!!
 

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7mm08 said:
Don't start!!!!! I don't want to tell you how much that ADDICTION cost me!!!
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Oh, it's too late for me. I just don't have easy access anymore. Born in Pascagoula and lived there till I was 13. Summer when I was 12 I would ride my bike down to the beach every morning and my friends grandmother would make us fried eggs, biscuits and bacon and then he and I would fish off the pier that was there. If it wasn't that, then dad and I would chase reds and specs in Bang's bayou. Great times.
 
Dbllunger said:
Oh, it's too late for me. I just don't have easy access anymore. Born in Pascagoula and lived there till I was 13. Summer when I was 12 I would ride my bike down to the beach every morning and my friends grandmother would make us fried eggs, biscuits and bacon and then he and I would fish off the pier that was there. If it wasn't that, then dad and I would chase reds and specs in Bang's bayou. Great times.
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It's funny how the things we experience as kids can turn into lifelong obsessions. I grew up on the caloosahatchee river in FL and I spent my free time on our dock using live shrimp to catch whatever I could.

One day I flipped a small shrimp under our dock using one of my dad's old baitcasters. I got a bite and a 100lb tarpon came jumping out from under the dock. Ever since that day I have been fascinated by tarpon and haven't gone a single day without chasing them or wishing that I was.
 
Over the years, i've been lucky enough to go after fish both big and small. Saltwater and fresh. Lures and live bait.

But i keep going back to the simplicity of wading a small stream with a little Rapala or crawdad jig to catch whatever i can coax out of it's hiding spot.

Now though, it's a matter of whatever the grandkids would like to try to catch. Ain't nothing better.
 
I'm partial to bass fishing. Largemouth and smallmouth do it for me. The enjoyment I get from it is more technique specific. In August of 2004 I went to Canada on a Smallmouth/Walleye/Pike fishing trip for 10 days. I caught an uncountable amount of 3.5-5pd smallmouth on topwater. It was a blast. Caught a couple over 4 and several 3's on a popper with a fly rod. I really miss the way Guntersville fished in the pre Internet era. I've had some unbelievable days to say the least. Shellcracker and Walleye are hands down my favorite freshwater fish to eat. Mahi Mahi and Red Snapper are my favorites from the big water.
 
kornbread said:
I'm partial to bass fishing. Largemouth and smallmouth do it for me. The enjoyment I get from it is more technique specific. In August of 2004 I went to Canada on a Smallmouth/Walleye/Pike fishing trip for 10 days. I caught an uncountable amount of 3.5-5pd smallmouth on topwater. It was a blast. Caught a couple over 4 and several 3's on a popper with a fly rod. I really miss the way Guntersville fished in the pre Internet era. I've had some unbelievable days to say the least. Shellcracker and Walleye are hands down my favorite freshwater fish to eat. Mahi Mahi and Red Snapper are my favorites from the big water.
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As much as i love seeing videos of local waters and hunting, I agree and think the internet has ruined (or at least changed) alot of the waters and places people have hunted for years!!
 

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