Some of us only use a Fly Rod for everything!
Nothing better than a perfectly adjusted baitcast in my opinion.
The only thing I don't like about bait cast is that you have to have a finely tuned reel for each weight of lure your throwing. If you set it up for 1/4 oz, and swap over to a 1oz, its backlash city.
Mainly baitcast, but do use spinning. Spincast is for the wife. Not into fly fishing at all, though with the abundance of flies in OKLA, I can somewhat see the allure, but why would you 'catch and release'?
BTW: cane pole and a bucket of worms or minnows has produced more fun than the whole truckload of other rod and reels I have.
Favorite, 7" med/hvy with Amb 7000.
BTW: cane pole and a bucket of worms or minnows has produced more fun than the whole truckload of other rod and reels I have.
Favorite, 7" med/hvy with Amb 7000.
LOL! the flies are bad this year.
The catch and release comes from the trophy areas for trout or other game fish.
Lots of the tailwaters below dams have a trophy area where the fisher can only keep fish in a certain length. Each district has different regulations.
If they don't meet the regs you have to release. It not a bad deal.
The size of the fish will get larger and allow the fishers to get bigger fish.
so they claim. well, yes the fish do get bigger, but ................
Texas had a size limit on redfish for 3 years of 15". We would go to the beach and catch 50 - 100 redfish in a day, all 12-14". FINALLY, got to where you could catch a 'keeper' and Sept. 1st the regs changed, 17" minimum and 1 over 48".
The population was strong, the limits did allow the fish to get bigger, but it also almost destroyed the fishing industry because people quit fishing for the reds and concentrated on other species which could be kept.
I'm all for reasonable bag limits or even size limits to protect juvenile fish, but that was going to far.
Texas had a size limit on redfish for 3 years of 15". We would go to the beach and catch 50 - 100 redfish in a day, all 12-14". FINALLY, got to where you could catch a 'keeper' and Sept. 1st the regs changed, 17" minimum and 1 over 48".
The population was strong, the limits did allow the fish to get bigger, but it also almost destroyed the fishing industry because people quit fishing for the reds and concentrated on other species which could be kept.
I'm all for reasonable bag limits or even size limits to protect juvenile fish, but that was going to far.
I own more than one gun because they each serve a different purpose. No difference with fishin'.
FISH ON!
FISH ON!
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