Re: Trout vs Bass

feeds@yuku.com (riverwader) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:18:08 GMT

Fishing for Smallies versus Trout...... It is like picking a girl up in a bar. The smallie is usually the girl a guy of modest means and looks goes home with at closing time. A little larger, can give you a hell of a fight when you cross her. Is easier to pick her up. the trout is the cheerleader that you have to work at to get. Like in high school.. Beautiful, pretty, popular, lives in nicer neighborhoods. Can be a pain in the ass with different sizes of flies, hatches, places where they...

Re: Trout vs Bass

feeds@yuku.com (flyslinger) — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:12:30 GMT

Here's a Toledo Bend largemouth. I like the way this one kept jumping.

Re: Trout vs Bass

feeds@yuku.com (sharps4590) — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:30:59 GMT

Stomias, now that fish would be a HOG here! Great catch!

I love to fish for trout, wild trout, the hatchery raised stuff here in Missouri doesn't interest me much. Now smallies....they'll always be my favorite.

Vic

Re: Trout vs Bass

feeds@yuku.com (cyangler) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:04:07 GMT

Another great thing about river smallies. They LOVE to jump.

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feeds@yuku.com (crcaddis) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:36:29 GMT

I think that you can break down bass fishing into a couple different Genres..1)Glitterboat fishing on the big lakes 2) Pond & Small lake fishing, and 3) Stream Fishing. Each of those Genre's has its own following, and you can choose to do what you want...I'm not a big fan of big lake or pond fishing, but stream fishing and canoeing are passions of mine...I enjoy few things more than a fishing trip down a remote stretch of river.

We dont have much floatable trout water...

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feeds@yuku.com (OnlyTrout) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:07:42 GMT

mmorris236 - very good information - thanks.

Re: Trout vs Bass

feeds@yuku.com (Stomias) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:29:53 GMT

Northern Wisconsin Mike. There has been an incredible resurgence in the number and size of the smallies in this region over the last 15 or so years. I've fished this area for 40+ years and since about 1995 the difference is unbelievable. Thirty years ago a 15"-17" fish was about tops and rare at that. Now we regularly catch 18"-20" fish. We've had many days with several 20" fish!

Re: Trout vs Bass

feeds@yuku.com (mtn) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:56:20 GMT

Interesting topic, the way it's titled, bass vs trout well old buck mouth might win he'd probably swallow the trout Nice fish Bulldog! I fish mostly ponds here in the "show me state" for bass, I think you call them tanks in "the great state of Texas". Nice smallie too Stomias what part of the country did he come from? We have lots of good warm water streams here...

Re: Trout vs Bass

feeds@yuku.com (mmorris236) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:21:59 GMT

Only Trout, While some of your observations are true I would hazard that the vast majority of Bass Fishing is not done from an overpowered monster boat. Here in the Northeast and throughout much of the rest of the country, there are motor limits on most of the lakes. This was predominately done to eliminate Watersking, but the result is the same, No bass boats. Tournement fisherman also use heavy line because that fish they just hooked could be the million dollar prize winner. Ultralight...

Re: Trout vs Bass

feeds@yuku.com (Stomias) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:44:49 GMT

Landing a fish of this size on anything less than a 6 or 7 wt rod can be quite a chore. They always fight hard bulldogging and jumping all the way. They always give one last lunge and are often lost at the very end of the fight. The best smallmouth waters I have fished definitely have had the wild and secluded beauty of a quality trout stream.

Re: Trout vs Bass

feeds@yuku.com (OnlyTrout) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:06:02 GMT

I am sure this will get me into trouble with some of you but here is my take on this topic. First let me say I do not fish for bass so my knowledge is limited. I just don't see that trout fishing is romanticized like some may believe. Maybe what this topic is really about is trout fishermen's attitudes about bass fishermen? Trout fishing is only talked and written about by other trout fishermen - for other trout fishermen - so how is that being romanticized? Many books and videos...

Re: Trout vs Bass

feeds@yuku.com (cyangler) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:29:29 GMT

Greg,

YES!

Been there.

Ron,

Would have loved to be there to watch (hoot n' holla)...

Re: Trout vs Bass

feeds@yuku.com (Greg Reynolds) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:23:52 GMT

A few tributaries of the Youghiogheny River hold wild smallmouth. I hadn't fished them, but ended up on one after a exploratory trip to a "new" brook trout stream turned-out to be a bust. I only had my 6 1/2-foot Superfine with me and tied on the closest thing to a bass bug that I had--a #12 Humpy. I fished for about 30 minutes without results, when I had a tremendous strike and was into a very strong fish, which I couldn't see due to cloudy water from an overnight...

Re: Trout vs Bass

feeds@yuku.com (bulldog1935) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:37:13 GMT

in the TX hill country, we don't need no stinking reservoirs
this fish (28")

came from this water

and I sight-fished him, along with a few of his siblings
...

Re: Trout vs Bass

feeds@yuku.com (MontyMontana) — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:57:36 GMT

Boo on the fiberglass forum asked: "Why is trout fishing, especially with a bamboo rod, romanticized so much more than bass fishing"?

Not sure it really is...might be a regional thing ...different areas of the country...but "out west here"....most of my friends fish both...different times of the year making it possible to fish 365 days of the year, (personally would not recommend this unless you have a good Divorce lawyer in the family).

Monty Montana

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feeds@yuku.com (spruce grouse) — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:10:25 GMT

TnTom wrote:
I'm still waiting for "The Reservoir Runs Through It" to come out.

Tom, wasn't that called "The TVA Story"?

Re: Trout vs Bass

feeds@yuku.com (WatercolorMan) — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:04:49 GMT

Now that's a fish, my 1/2 pouinders just won't measure up to that bad boy.

Re: Trout vs Bass

feeds@yuku.com (TnTom) — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:11:05 GMT

5llbs 7 oz Mr.Amos 1999 NC World Record Blue Gill on 8 lb test. Couldn't find the length. Found in Outdoor Life.
Now would this be a day on the water with a 4 wt bamboo with 6x tippet.

Re: Trout vs Bass

feeds@yuku.com (gearboy) — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:21:04 GMT

I think it's folks like Robert Traver that has diminished the "aura" of fishing for bass. I love to read Traver, but he's got some knucklehead and ignorant ideas about bass. I love fishing for native brook trout in the mountains of Virginia in the colder months and smallmouth on our beautiful Shenandoah River. I rarely see another person fishing when I'm out and where I go. Most folks talk about the pressure on the streams here in the east but I don't see it....

Re: Trout vs Bass

feeds@yuku.com (cyangler) — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:24:48 GMT

Now, there's a line.
Bravo -

Trout vs Bass

feeds@yuku.com (Boo) — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:32:40 GMT

There are times when I think nothing could be sweeter than floating down a meandering backwoods green river with a warm southern breeze casting for smallies. But, ya just never read or hear about it and very few adds showing the romantics of bass fishing. If so it's usually some big/husky good'ol boys with goatees and ball caps whooping it up. The opposite is generally portrayed of the trout fisher. Why is trout fishing, especially with a bamboo rod, romanticized so much more than...