I live in RI and I really only enjoy fishing saltwater for Bass and Blues exclusively.It is only recently that I've been getting interested in other fish. I find myself daydreaming about about fly fishing for Permit in Florida, or actualy fishing the fr - fr - fresh water. Do you think I need councilling? Do other guys have Non- Stiper thoughts ? What else do you fish for?

Pike, trout, smallmouths in the spring, steelhead, salmon.

Gotta love the hardtails, especially on a fly rod. Nothing like an albie or a bonita running off some serious line :uhuh:. Too bad the SBFT aren't as numerous and as widespread :mad:.

Tunoids on the cape. Largemouths, trout, perch, pickeral and bluegills all year. Bonefish, permit and tarpon whenever I can!

Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass, Pickerel, Trout in the Spring, Smelt in the Winter.

Gonna do some serious Ice Fishing this winter for Perch and Crappie as well as LM and SM bass.

I probably spent more time fishing fresh than salt this past summer....a lot less gear to worry about, just throw on an old pair of sneakers and wet wade till sundown. I have at least 5 ponds that are within a 5 minute drive to my house so i can be fishing in ten.

Of course; I love bassing in the surf, but I have boat vices as well...
Summer;
Fluke and Sea bass
Nov; Blackfish

Summer and fall; Canyons when fuel budget and weather allows us to run...
If I had the time and money I'd be offshore as much as possible! You think a hardtail on the fly is a rush; 200lb Bigeye crashing the spread at dawn is better than cocaine for a rush and addiction!

Well, for me, trout and light tackle blackfishing in the Spring.

After the bass have thinned out in the late Fall, back to blacks with the heavy stuff from the rocks.

Tog, scup, fluke, sea bass and anything else that swims.

Scup, hickory shad, squid, and mackerel

Trout and carp in RI. Still catching both as of this date. Also, you can catch stripers all winter in Providence with consistancy. I had 3 last thursdeay eve with one going about 12 pounds. There is no need to hang the rods up if you are willing to withstand some cold weather. I've caught winter/over bass in Providence now for the past 10 years or so. It is a very good fishery.

If I am not targeting Bass , its Weakfish with the occasional interuption by Bluefish . Add in a little window of opportunity for some shore-based Fluke and that keeps me busy..

Although I might venture out into a nearby lake this coming spring to take a look see in my yak as to what I can find.....

Go to the Florida Keys, and catch a 90 pound tarpon on a 20-pound spinning rod (I've never caught a big tuna on a light spining rod, that can be the ONLY thing in the Northeast that compares). Then anchor over a wreck for yellowtail and grouper, have the captain fillet the fish, and bring the meat to a local restaurant for dinner that night, with a Corona and Key Lime Pie for desert. A nice way to beat back the winter blues!

My buddies and I did a trip to the Key West every winter, until we all had kids. Someday, we will go back...

Spring - After ice out, it's trout and holdover stripers.
Summer - mixed bag of fresh and salt. Fresh when the temps are high and salt at night.
Fall - salt an then fresh as the striped one exit I go after trout.
Winter - anything through the ice. I do like targeting specific species, but it can be frustrating when there are plenty of fish around EXCEPT the species you have chosen to pursue!

Fresh - Bass, trout, pickerel, pike crappie, perch and salmon (when available)
Salt - bass, blues, fluke, flounder, black sea bass.

I fish year round.

I ice fish for various fresh water feeshies, and occassionally will target shad in the spring. Oh yeah, a few times a year they drain the canals in Holyoke. I kick the dead bodies aside and toss out some corn for carp.

Another vote for Bonito and False Albacore. I love watching for breaking schools, getting within casting range, and firing off that perfect shot and hooking up. Pure adrenalin rush!:bo:

I do have a particular pond in mind for the possibilty of getting holdovers through the ice. Of course that depends on how much ice we get this year.

Compliments...:hee:

cod, haddock, pollock, bft, macks, both flounder, sea bass, scup, albies. if it swims in the salt it gets my attention at some point of the season.

I fish for catfish when I visit family in Alabama & Louisiana, my mother left the cold north some years ago. On overcast days or at night, I find big water, preferably in the tailwater of dam on a large river, 1-4 oz egg sinker, size 2/0 hooks and chunk of spoiled mackeral or herring and hold on. Also catch freshwater drum and freshwater stripers this way too, but mostly large catfish. A 20lb catfish is not at all unlikely in 3 or 4 nights fishing. A dozen fish from 2 to 8 lbs is the norm. Despite ugliness, catfish are amazingly prolific and can damn near live out of water. I've skinned and gutted catfish that were still breathing a after 1.5 hr drive home from the fishing hole. And the decapitated heads were still trying to breath after having been severed from the body for 10 minutes.

I also fish for largemouth, perch and pickerel.

I deep sea fish as well a few times a year for groundfish.

ES44...ever do any noodling for them down there.....

Albies, Bonito, Bluefin, Fluke, and southern species whenever I can get down there. Freshwater I'm going to get back into trout and bass next season.

I Think I have it the worst....I fish for every thing

trout and LMB as well as scup to supplement stripers and blues. The more options the better!

TUNA

Dont do much freshwater fishing at all anymore. But i must admit that i have some wicked small hooks in my truck and sometimes will go cunner fishing. Its entertaining.

Hey RoyL I went around the net looking at pictures of brown trout after I saw your post - Nice catch!

Channel Cats. I use eels on these too. They don't really get big here in CT though, and it sucks that we don't have any flatheads.

Besides bass, I'd say my next favorite fish to target would be a toss up between brown sharks, weakfish, tog, and tuna. Depending on how the salmon fishing goes after they stock those bad boys on the Cape soon, they could make the list as well.

Besides bass, I'd say my next favorite fish to target would be a toss up between brown sharks, weakfish, tog, and tuna. Depending on how the salmon fishing goes after they stock those bad boys on the Cape soon, they could make the list as well.

Boy, you're optimistic about the salmon. Seals will get them first :bl:.

Anything in freshwater.

Trout

Does fishing for a wife count?

Oh, Kevin you jerk!~!! I was racing to the end of the thread to say compliments.
OK, I like to troll, fa ho's. I 'm sorry, family friendly moderators!!!
I hate ice fishing and my brother, too.
If anybody would like to see what we fish for in the winter, please join us for our first annual ice fishing tournament!

http://striped-bass.com/Stripertalk/showthread.php?t=53413

ES44...ever do any noodling for them down there.....

Never done any noodling. Hats off to those guys though, i'm to soft to wrestle a 30 lb flathead out of hole. Or for that matter wrestling my hand away from 30lb angry beaver.

Or for that matter wrestling my hand away from 30lb angry beaver.

This right here is what I'd be afraid of finding.....A buddy of mine from Texas used to have a pond full of these things....nasty friggin animals

If it swims,(or flys) it's fair game. Ask Hooper about how good I am with sheerwaters.:lama:

Anything that swims in the ocean.

I did catch two firsts this season. My first shark up in Falmouth and my first lobster : ) the lobster(on rod and reel) was consilation for Fish-Addict's 23# that night.