In honor of tomorrow being opening day for trout statewide in PA... Enjoy And Rick, let me know if the one part near the middle exemplifies you?
Catches everything but a fish, close but like I said, when it comes to fishing I couldn't catch a cold. Hell I be happy if I caught a boot.
Trout season isn't usually open here until the last day of April. The best lakes to fish are around 10,000 feet in elevation, and even into August one will see big ice bergs floating the Lakes of the High Sierra Nevada. Many of the lakes dirt cliff (4,000) feet dropoffs, are not opened til mid to late may, due to wet roads of dirt on those cliffs. Hell, even in August, there's still snow on the Peaks from 14,000 feet to 11,000 feet. The High Sierra's is as much a taste of God's Country, as the Rockies. I hiked up Mt.Whitney in the summer of 77, in T-Shirt weather, but with Freezing nights. Twice in one month I scaled Whitney. A week after, two men, went to climb Whitney, and chose to spend the night at the summit camp, they had NO Winter Gear, (which is mandatory if you want to survive in high elevations, one must pack winter gear, along with summer gear, every time). these 2 men had no winter gear, were caught in a overnight blizzard, and froze to death.... Here's a pic of one of 3 of my favorite trout lakes, I think I posted this once before, yet i never get tired of looking at the High Sierra....for some reason, I can't open my GIF and JPEG file for the South Lake Pic, by far my favorite lake to fish for Trout........ North Lake Lake Sabrina
...fishing is great down here...me and the wife ride our golf cart 1/4 mile to our pond nearly every day to feed our fish...not a big pond at all, maybe 1 1/2 acres. We feed them bread from the day old bread store and fish pellets. The brim and white perch act like piranhas when the bread hits the water...hell, they can even hear the motor of our golf cart approaching and the water starts swirling before we even stop the cart...I guess they somehow know that sound and know that 6:00 in the evening means feeding time. ...we've also got a few largemouth bass in the same pond (3-4 pounders) to help keep the population from getting out of hand...of course fishing also helps the population but we usually just throw a jig out there and catch 3-4 and release them...but 2-3 times a year we'll keep enough for a fish fry with friends and relatives that come over. Those white perch are so fun to catch and so good to eat...I gotta believe feeding them white bread and protein pellets has something to do with it...kinda like the difference between grain fed cattle and grass fed cattle...deer meat also differs in flavor depending on what they've been eating.
No doubt, of all the numerous states I've fished in for Large Mouth Bass, Georgia was hands down, by far the very best, even exceeded what I had been told, and to expect on my way to work there in Middle Ga. Bass- The common line: "if we come to a pond in the dirt road, pull over and cast a line, there's got to be Bass in it." I've never seen so many ponds, lakes, small private fishing holes, like the one you have on your land, all had more than spectacular sized Bass for the Norm, with Huge 12 lb. and bigger on special days fishing. That was the best time I've spent fishing for Bass, which I like its flavor only 2nd to Halibut and/or Salmon, (Which says alot since both Fish are most plentiful in an extreme wilderness, Alaska; last tapped frontier of both Fish.) Which I can't fish for unless I'm deep into the Great Northwoods, and those are the babies. Georgia's Bass rating, #1 always in my book. Never saw so many Bass, so plentiful and large....as good a eating as most fish, than most. Equally as good as Sea Bass, better than Rock Cod, IMO. Georgia's Large Mouth Bass, are to that Garden Bass heaven, which Salmon is to the Northwoods, Colombia River to Alaska. I've also loved Catfish all my life, Luzianna had a lot to do with that much, Fried Catfish. But bass and trout, are clean water fish, with Cats being mud sucker bottom dwellers, eating all the sludge of the bottom. But then so are Lobsters, Shrimp, and I'm not knocking any fish other than turd fish found floating in water waste reclamation plants.
I quit Ocean Fishing quit a few years ago, when the Japanese Fukudome Nuclear Plant blew, radiation traces, have been found from mid CA to the Northern Border with Oregon; (to high to want to eat Oceanic Fish off the CA. Coast only)..... Oregon and Washington are still pristine. The Puget Sound, is damn near as great a fishing trip as spear fishing on the Columbia River. Now that's serious fishing, takes a couple years anymore to get a permit/license to fish the Columbia. Still the land & River belong to the Native Indians, is a extremely clean river, some huge Salmon spawning grounds reside there. There's this great floating Seafood Restaurant in Seattle's downtown Fish Market. Ivar's On The Sea. If one is in Seattle, that's a must stop and eat delectable. When one orders Salmon, at Ivars; they're getting, half a Fish, big enough for 2 or 3 (big men)-people to eat, served on a huge platter.....Damn it, I'm hungry........
