here is a great recipe on how to make the most out of the meat of a largemouth bass for all of you bass fisherman out there 

1. Catch a fairly big largemouth bass make sure that the pond / lake you are fishing at allows in the regulations that you can to keep your fish .

2. Gut the fish wile keeping in mind thc cardinal rule for gutting fish don,t cut the intestines or the meat will become unsanitary and not edible .

3. Fillet each side of the fish then de-scale the slabs of meat after that cut each slab of fish meat into little bite sized chunks and put the chunks away for later.

4. Fill a pot with chicken broth and put the stove on a high boiling temperature. Then throw in your favorite vegetables such as mushrooms , garlic, and mabey some onions. Lastly put in the chunks of fish meat you saved for later and boil the stew for at least 45 minutes or more. The longer it boils the richer the flavor now you can eat this wonderful meal and please enjoy the fish you had caught .    HAPPY FISHING!!!

Sometimes it can be hard to find great fishing spots and you end up going to same spot over and over even if its not good fishing. Its easy to do that even I do that sometimes so don’t feel bad about it. So the easiest way to find fishing spots is to take advantage of technology. If you have a laptop or desktop computer that will work just fine. But if you don’t, any local library  will have computers you can rent for a given amount of time. Next after you acquire a computer go to google maps look up your home town. You will find tones of lakes you probably never knew about. Then click the print button and print the map of fishing ponds, lakes, and or rivers. Well thats the last boring step to this process the rest is fun because all you have to do is start fishing yay. That is the fun part start fishing and chances are you will find at least some great fishing spots you never knew about.               Happy Fishing

Yesterday I was fishing with carp snag  rigs and I caught within the first five minutes a massive 20 pound , 3 foot long common carp but there was nothing common about this catch I caught this monster carp in my SECRET fishing spot. Well on this special post I will share the info about where my secret spot is to all of you fellow fisherman. So about my secret spot it was created by the massive flooding in colorado that you might have heard on the world news. In longmont colorado my hometown their is a group of ponds that goes by the name of GOLDEN PONDS you can look up the directions on google maps because the ponds are not the secret spot. So the last step to get to my secret fishing spot is to locate the first pond by the parking lot. Next walk to the far corner closest to the second pond then bingo you are at my secret fishing spot. just cast a lure or any snag rig and catch the biggest carp that you will ever catch the rest of your life.

I have ben fishing since I was 4 and have caught so many fish that I lost track years ago, but a few fish have made their way to the top of the list.

My Top 5 Most Amazing Fish I Have Caught:

#1. The day I caught a 4 foot long Trophy Carp at Isaac Walton Park Lake. as I finaly reeled it in after about a half an hour it broke my line.  I was so determened to catch it,(after all it was a once in a fishing cereer event ), that I jumped in to the seemingly ice cold water and grabbed the massive thrashing carp by the gills and wressled it up a steep bank!  That was the best fishing experience I have had and I will have for a long time

#2. The time I caught a 15 pound Catfish also at Isaac Walton Park Lake.  When I had finished the strenuous but fun task of reeling that sucker in, I realized I forgot my stringer at home so I got my jacket out and put the catfish inside of it and zipped up the jacket placing it under a shade tree while I walked around and found some string to tie the catfish up.

#3. One day I was fishing and had hooked a small Bluegill and as I was reeling it in a HUGE 5 pound Bass swallowed it whole!  I was able to reel it in after a ten minute fight!  So worth it!

#4 The time I caught an 18 inch Rainbow Trout at Gross Reservoir.  Nothing funny happened on this fishing expedition except that I caught a HUGE fish.

#5. The time I caught a 10 pound Catfish accidentaly with a square bill crankbait lure which is not supposed to happen, because the crankbait lure I was using was strictly a Bass lure.  Awesome luck!

Bait fishing can be a very fun and rewarding type of fishing  even with the somtimes seemingly never ending wait for fish to bite.

A big mistake that is easy to do is reel in the line too early. Adults and kids alike even me somtimes will do this. As long as the bait is still on the hook and the cast was good there is not a reason to reel in the line early.

A good rule of thumb is leave the line in for at least 30 minutes, if all is well more time wont hurt either. But in some rare situations it’s posible to get so many bites that you need to keep replacing the bait frequently. This has happened to me a few times as well.

A good thing to do when fishing is to bring enough tackle in your tackle box to support the amount and type of fishing you will be doing. Well one sunny evening the fish made me learn that the hard way. I was fishing at a great fishing spot I regularly go to called golden ponds. I casted my line out into the cool clear water near some other fisherman with my favorite crankbait lure. Almost instantly i got a strike quickly i set the hook then as I reeled it in to shore it became clear that it was a pretty good sized 3 pound largemouth bass. I put it back and casted again almost instantly i got a bite exactly as before. But a after about 4 to 5 seconds of fighting it it snapped my line disappointed i casted again. Another fish bite and broke my line a second time this happened over and over the fish bite of my lure every time until my tackle box was completely empty. Except for a few hooks and weights  scattered around.  I went home out of tackle in one of my boxes and disappointed.

Nasty old food, rotten meat-things that you wouldn’t eat.  I don’t blame you I wouldn’t eat it either, but it makes great catfish bait.  Catfish love old, rotten, food.  It’s a 5 course meal to them.  A good example is, a few summers ago, I was catfishing at a local pond. The secret to that pond was that there was also a lot of easy-to-catch trout. So the cool thing was, I didn’t need to bring bait at all. Because I would catch a trout and slice it up into chunks with my pocket knife, (also making sure it was not still alive and suffering).

Next, I would put it out in the hot, colorado summer sun for an hour to ferment.  After all of that it was the perfect bait.  My homemade trout-bait caught me over 5 ten pound catfish in that one day.  So my point is, if it smells bad, or tastes rancid, then good!  It might  just make good bait for catfish.

Trout love shiny lures.  They just cant resist biting into something that glimmers and shines. The secret is: the shinier the better!  

This secret is how I have caught countless amounts of trout.  About 70% of the trout that I catch is always on the shiniest lures I can find.

The best lure to buy for the “shine importance” is the Pot-O Gold brand all silver spoon.  It works  very well.  This lure can be found at any Walmart or tackle retailer.