Hey guys my cousins and I are going spear fishing for bass and sunfish this week it will be our first time any tips?
Thanks
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Hey guys my cousins and I are going spear fishing for bass and sunfish this week it will be our first time any tips?
Thanks
Here's a tip: make sure it's legal to spear fish in fresh water.
PATIENCE ...........Tried it once for two days with nothing to show for my efforts (hand held stick and knife spear) . I did gain a deeper respect for the survival instincts of those fish , any movement or even a shadow crossing their path would spook them . Good Luck !Quote:
Originally Posted by Superman52
And speaking of legal. If using a spear is legal in your state make certain you have a fishing license. I can't imagine any state allows the use of spears on game fish.
The only fish you can spear (or bow-fish) in my state are snakeheads.
Check your local fishing regulations, Since your a minor your parents will face the wrath of fish and game for any thing you do wrong!!
if it's legal to spear, aim under the fish. The water refracts the light and the fish isn't really where it seems to appear.
In my area it is legal to spear fish from a fish shanty on the ice. The fish are attracted by fish decoys. Mostly it's sturgeon, pike and walleye. The sturgeon requires a special license that is issued through a lottery system. The spears are weighted with lead and are dropped through the hole in the ice from the shanty.
I'm pretty into spearfishing. It just takes practice. Watch my videos and mayb you'll pull some ideas on how to do it.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y-wAGvYjsw
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bvt13egbNLw
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PU6q5WicaRQ
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MkZU4Yey98w
Cool videos.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandyRhoads
What the heck is a fish decoy?
http://www.fishworldfyi.com/gallery/...20Fish_300.jpg
It's a wooden fish painted up to look real. The fins are often made from copper sheet. Lead is poured in a groove in the bottom to keep it from floating.
Uhh spearfishing is legal in just about every state.... Some states you don't even need a licenseQuote:
Originally Posted by Rick
That may be true, but In Texas its for non game species only.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandyRhoads
What do you mean non game? If you target something doesn't that make it game...
Carp, gar, and a couple others are non game fish. Bass, Stripper, Perch etc are game fish in texas.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandyRhoads
Easier way to sum it up, if you have to buy a licence to catch it you cant use a spear .
You don't need a license to catch those...? A game fish is any fish I'm going to kill and eat... Including carp
Same in Illinois and Indiana. I'm sure California regulates game fish too. Spear and bow fishing is only legal in Indiana for Carp, Gar, Bowfin, Buffalo and Shad. Then only in certain water and at certain times. You can't use a spear at all on the Lake Michigan tributaries on any fish.
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Originally Posted by RandyRhoads
LOL, you are correct in that respect. Sorry guess my explanation didn't sound right, what I meant was if its on the list of fish you can catch with a pole you cant use a spear on it, you have to have a licence for any fishing, bow fishing, spear fishing.
Fish spear, gig, spear gun, bow and arrow and underwater spear are all treated the same here and are covered by the same regs.
What ridiculous laws. That pisses me off glad I don't live there. We have been fighting over some bs laws regarding us spearing in the sacramento/American rivers a lot this year.Quote:
Originally Posted by welderguy
Rick of course california manages fishing... Did I say something that made it sound like they don't?
Think about it for a minute. One, "non game" should be a no brainer.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandyRhoads
Two, "certain seasons" are to keep you off the bed. They won't bite (they'll gingerly pick it up and move it), and ain't likely to move at all. Ducks in a barrel, is that the way it should be?
In the state where the OP is posting from there are restrictions regarding spearfishing. Some fish have a very limited season, and if things haven't changed since I lived there your had to be scuba diving, snorkeling or floating to spearfish.
No, Randy. I was referencing spear fishing not game fishing overall. California has a section on fresh water spearfishing that includes the type of fish, where and when they can be taken. See section 2.3 of your freshwater fishing regs.
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/regulations/
1- http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_fishQuote:
Originally Posted by intothenew
Any fish pursued by recreational anglers.
No, it shouldn't be ducks in a barrel. Laws can restrict spearing in the seasons they are spawning/don't bite. Spearfishing is the most enviro friendly method of fishing, as well as extremely difficult and requires active hunting instead of just sitting on shore drinking a beer. Go try it out and please tell me how much it's like shooing ducks in a barrel in any season hahahaha, I beg you...
Rick- Besides MLPAs where no fish can be taken by any means, almost all ocean fish of legal size are fair game. The freshwater laws are tricky right now. Carp pike and other less desired fish are pretty open. This is the first year we finally got them to open striped bass in freshwater and some political bs is trying to stop it for reasons other than preservation issues. Sac county parks made it spears/spearguns illegal weapons that can't be taken there.
Ocean fishing is a bit limited here at the moment. If this whole global warming thing works out we might have ocean front property but that's still a few years out.
I get the ocean fishing thing. A little different spear than we're accustomed to here. Just a long stick with the ends flared is all we use. Either that or a gig. I don't know anyone with a spear gun.
Hahaha.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rick
A quick google search showed that people do spear in Indiana.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_lgMPw5ABg
If you like hunting, spear fishing is an awesome portion of it most people never experience. Whole new tactics and strategies, crazy elements you don't have to deal with on land...like not being able to breathe...
Randy - There are two groups of folks I don't hang with. Those who willing jump out of perfectly good aircraft and those who put tanks on their back and actually put their heads below water. If God had intended me to do that stuff he would have given me wings and gills.
Being underwater is so very peaceful, You should try it . unless there are sharks, or gators around then its a little scareyQuote:
Originally Posted by Rick
Or giant catfish, snakes, snappin' turtles, huge shellfish, or piranha. Oh, and those little tiny fish that swim upstream in urine. Yeah....no.
Well that's good because we don't use tanks. Ever. That was all done breath holding, which god intended you to do because he gave you the mammalian dive reflex..Quote:
Originally Posted by Rick
Welder guy- Its hardly what I'd call piece full with darth vader bubble breathing in your ear on air tanks...
I actually find the sound relaxing!Quote:
Originally Posted by RandyRhoads
HAHAHAHA, you have a LOOOOONGGG list of things you dont wanna meet , dont ya?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rick
Randy - Oh, pashaw. If he meant for you to hold your breath you wouldn't turn blue as a warning signal.
Dave - I would like to keep all my appendages in one piece. I carry a handgun because I can't tote a cannon.
Rick. Just as a side note on fish decoys. Back in the day of market hunters and fishermen, fish decoys were used alot as randyt said to attract fish under the ice. These decoys have now become highly collectable and many of them are considered pieces of art. Thought you might like to know.
Oldtrap
First, USPA D4287 and PADI OWSI 11400 (both retired), etc., etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rick
A salt water spearfishing lesson, somewhat related to the topic, on my very first skin dive with a short gun I shot at a barracuda and fortunately missed (according to my instructor). They apparently have a knack for following the line back toward you. I didn't try a second time.
Not sure about ur area but most places only "rough" fish are legal. Don't know much about spear fishing but bowfishing is another story. Attachment 9313Attachment 9314Attachment 9315Attachment 9316
Do you eat rough fish and rays?
Damn dude take me bow fishing with you...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ranger F
How do you cook your carp? I love it, but the bones are a bit much.
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Originally Posted by Rick
Don't eat the carp, their fertilizer. The gar,and rays we usually eat some. The snakeheads are awesome, I'm not a big fish eater n we always fillet them n keep the meat. There's no fishy taste at all just white flaky meat
Where you located Ranger? Our canals down here in South Florida are loaded up with big snakeheads.