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Been doing a lot of walleye fishing.

First fish



First fish

One of the very few things i miss from the north.

Yup they definitely don’t fight like bass (my favorite to catch) but they are pretty tasty! Been eating lots of fish tacos with Sarah’s Peach Salsa and her chipotle ranch!

Good job dad

We went out yesterday evening. Started raining and had a weak thunderstorm on the way there. With the temperature being 20 plus degrees colder than the day before I knew the bite would be slow, but my oldest drove about an hour to fish so that is what we did. Definitely not a good old southern downpour, but it was raining pretty steady. Ended up with close to 2 inches of rain from this system. Only brought home 2 walleye and released a few small ones.. Oldest daughter, youngest daughter, and Vinny falls somewhere in the middle. Got down to 47°. When I noticed that they were shivering, I pulled the plug. Just not worth suffering when the fish really aren’t biting.

Supposed to be more rain this afternoon.

Wanted to get some rainbows to try smoking them. Thankfully Vincenzia and Rosangelia are better at catching than me!





Fish are cleaned and now I have to figure out a brine

Glad you all are having some luck. I have been having crap for luck. Only thing remotely interesting I caught was a puffer fish. They are actually good to eat. Well, as long as you know its not one of the ones that will kill you. I let mine go

I didn’t know there was a puffer you can eat. I thought they were all bad for you. I may have to do some research just in case I end up shipwrecked on a remote island one day.

We are getting ready to head out to do it again today. Yesterday we just fished off the swimming beach because I did not bring a net. today we have it so we will fish off the docks provided by the Game And Fish. A little deeper water and usually More action. The kids are all ready waiting for me to get my butt gear. Haha. Never been much of a morning person, especially when it comes to trout.

Awesome way to spend the day.

PorkChop wrote:I didn’t know there was a puffer you can eat. I thought they were all bad for you. I may have to do some research just in case I end up shipwrecked on a remote island one day.

There's one species that is common that people eat and is supposed to be really delicious. I don't know one from the other, so they all go back. One thing I did learn is some have toxic spikes, so I need to be careful. There's all kinds of crazy shit in salt water. I was out on a head boat and got to talk with a couple of guys who go out pretty regular. They caught one of the good kind and the mate asked if they wanted to keep it. When they said "yes." Her response was that I usually have to argue with people to try and convince them to keep them. I don't know one from the other and I'm letting them all go. Now without touching them. Although, the only one's I have caught have no spikes or any such thing. I wouldn't touch anything with spikes that comes out of the ocean. Most things you pull out of the ocean seem to have teeth, spikes, and/or poison.

The walleye are biting the walleye are biting! Won’t be getting much sleep the next couple months as we will fish. Every chance we get in the evening. Last year we gave over 100 pounds of walleye fillets away. Mostly to the elderly in the community that can’t fish anymore or that just don’t fish, but they love to eat walleye.

Here is one from last night that Vincenzia caught.



This is what we brought home which gave us a little over 7lbs of boneless fillets.




Here is the smoked rainbow we did the other day. It was absolutely amazing. I thought I was up in Alaska again eating smoked salmon! Definitely a winner and we will probably try to catch some more rainbows before the water gets too warm.

Tonight’s haul

That's an awesome haul. Been so windy down here in Houston that I haven't been able to get out in the bay to fish. Now with all the rain from here to Dallas the Trinity River will be dumping fresh chocolate milk for weeks putting us out of business until we get a drought.

What do you primarily fish for in the bay?

Probably don't catch a lot of these in ND.



Or see many of these.



Caught a few stingrays. Got them all back in the water without getting stung

I don't have proper rod holders in my boat. I just use the seat post locations and I've never had a problem until this weekend. I was chumming for sharks and pretty sure I had a good sized one grab my rod. At least it looked that way as my rod went flying out of the boat and zipping through the water

Not really sure how that happened, but that really sucked. I've had some close calls on losing rods over the years. Had a dolphin grab my bait and pull so hard it snapped off a rod holder sending the rod flying off the bridge and into Tampa bay. Since the dolphin wasn't hooked, I was able to snag the rod as it was floating away and recovered it. Not so lucky this weekend.

PorkChop wrote:What do you primarily fish for in the bay?

Redfish, speckled trout and black drum are the targeted species. When it gets fresh you will catch catfish and gar as well.

Can you eat those stingrays? Always sucks to lose a pole!

PorkChop wrote:Can you eat those stingrays? Always sucks to lose a pole!

Yes. My bowfishing buddies shoot quite a few, so we often have fried stingray at bowfishing tournaments, etc. It's not bad, but it's not walleye.

I didn't bring a cooler or the bigger one I caught would have probably have come home with us.

I am not a big fish eater, so I don't keep a lot.

Out of all my kids this one right here I would’ve expected to not really enjoy fishing. Boy was I wrong! Last year after her third or fourth fish, she just started picking them up on her own and unhooking them. This year has been no different. She’s casting And catching them like a pro. Well maybe that’s a little parental exaggeration but she’s doing very well! I think she’s going to give Vincenzia a run for her money. She also goes hunting, but I don’t think she’s as crazy for it as she is fishing.

Sweet: the little gal, the eye and the smile.

Vincenzia landed a nice one last night. She was pretty excited and was very close to tears. The fish is swimming again.

Awesome video of your little one, and kudos to Vinnie Quack for releasing that monster!!!!!!

Thank you!!)