I do mostly river fishing and losing lures is common due to snags and rocks cutting your line at times. I generally only bring one one pole with me when I go, and try to condense as much as possible because some of the best spots to go are a long walk from where you can drive(I do have spares in my truck). A couple of my favorite salmon holes are a mile or two upstream from the last place you can drive a vehicle, and hauling salmon back with 3 poles would be a pain in the ass its bad enough with 1 pole and a net and tackle.

Yeah, I figured as much. I think the farthest I've hiked for a spot was about a mile and a half (not counting the walk around the lake), so no big deal to bring a few in.

the worst I did was to bring a cooler, 4hp motor, 3 rods, tackle box a mile in the forest

it was painful

I also climbed a mini mountain/went up hill with a cooler, 2 rods and a tackle box, that was pretty intense

Yeah the things we do to go fishing, lol. One of my favorite small mouth bass spots is in a small river that has high banks, like 150-300 feet depending on where you go. It's a bitch just to climb with your gear down there, but I walk the river with a rattletrap or a deep diving rapella and slay the smallies all day long. They aren't real big about 12-16 inches average, but they are fun to catch and put up a good fight.



Yeah, a lot of the places I go are overgrown and just thick, but that's part of what keeps people out and makes the fishing good there.

my favorite small mouth spot is in a rich neighbourhood
you gotta walk about half a mile and they all look at you
then you gotta go in the ''forest'' (it's what they call it) then go down to a hill ...during that moment, they are all looking at you wondering what you're doing down there

hello, bunch of rich idiots, I have a fishing rod, a backpack and the water is right in front of you, I cant help much more

I catch 3-4 pounds every time I go there, there is also some decent walleye at night and I guess pikes are somewhere around but I never catched any

all reels lubed and oiled

I'm debating replacing lines on some of my reel


any lure you guys would bring for pike?

I do alrdy have alot but maybe I'm missing the one

Around here I have my best luck for pike on minnows with a bobber. If I am using artificial bait I use a vibrating bucktail, like a mepps H210 (they are big about 3 ounces and 9 inches long). I'm going out morel mushroom hunting this afternoon once the rain stops, wish me luck!

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Only found this lonely guy. It's just the start of season, but this is a decent find I guess it's better than getting skunked..

I sell morille for like 300$ a pound at the job

This time of year the high is about $60, as the season progresses goes down to a low of about $45 per pound. This year you have to take a class in our state in order to sell them. People were misidentifying them and selling people poisonous mushrooms.