Published by Rob on September 13, 2008
in Fishing.
My wife and I went to Gosam and rented a boat yesterday. It was a beautiful day, but once again the fishing was extremely tough going. All of the ones we caught were very small, and were caught out in deeper water, 33′ to be exact. Once I realized that they were holding deep I put on a shaky head rig, and although I got numerous bites I couldn’t set the hook on one to save my life. Either the fish were really small, or I was doing something wrong. Any pointers? Yesterday was the first time I tried a shaky head rig so I really have no clue.
Gosam is actually a very beautiful lake, but I’ve never had much luck fishing out there.
That right there says it all, doesn’t it? LOL
Published by Rob on September 11, 2008
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I received an email from Tex Mex this morning. He and his son recently went ocean fishing off the coast of California, and from the pictures it looks like they had an excellent time. They caught several nice sized barracuda, over 30 large rock fish and one rare ling cod. Joshua, who I think was ocean fishing for the first time, caught himself two nice sized barracudas and some nice rock fish. Way to go guys!
Published by Rob on September 11, 2008
in Fishing.
I hit the river bright and early yesterday morning for what I hoped would be a “not so crowded’ great day of fishing out on the water. Well, the “not so crowded’ part worked out great, but the fishing was a little tough. I caught 14 fish, but they were all very small. I also fished from sunrise to sunset, and received a healthy dose of vitamin D via the sun in the process. ;) Even though all of the fish were small, I still had a good time and consider it a true blessing to have been able to get out on the water, catch a few fish and enjoy the beautiful fall day.
Pictured below are the two biggest of the day, and I think they may have weighed a pound each, possibly a wee bit more.
As Nomad mentioned below, the green algae was horrible, but it wasn’t horrible everywhere. Weird…
The most exciting part of the day happened while I was dragging a top-water weedless frog across this stuff and a bass came out of nowhere and nailed it. I unfortunately missed the hook-set, but the way he exploded out of the water and slammed that thing was enough to get me hooked (no pun intended) on top-water fishing. I’ll definitely be doing some more of that in the near future.
I got off early on Friday and decided to take advantage of the time off to do a little fishing. It was crazy hot, in the low 90’s with high humidity, but the fish didn’t really seem to mind; I caught eight, and up until just before dark, consistently had bites all afternoon. Unfortunately, most of the ones I caught were really small though. I caught one decent bass that weighed a little over two pounds. I apologize for the crappy pics, but all I had was my cell phone.
I got within ten feet of this bird (perched on top of the rock) before he flew away. He must have been really tired, or that spot must have been a really good feeding area that he didn’t want to give up.
(By Hunter Dave)
Sorry for the long time between posts. I’ve been very busy lately and decided to reward ourselves with a week in Jeju. While down there, we enjoyed many of the fun island excursions and of course the one that I found to be the most fun was fishing for my supper. We found an operation on the west coast that takes you out for a few hours to let you catch your own dinner. Took the wife and daughter a couple of kilometers offshore and commenced to start slaying them. Quickly we had a couple of nice flounder on board and the captain gets them sushied up real nice. Yum Yum! 
We continued to pull in some nice multicolored fish of unknown species and are having a good time. My daughter is slaughtering the 8 to 10 inch mackerel (which deep fried up very nicely by the way) on tiny shrimp catching them 3 at a time, while I start using a larger strip bait and start hooking some sort of larger predators. We had a blast but after a while the waves started to get to my wife (landlover) and so we decided to head back in with a total of about 70 fish. Once were back on shore the operation’s restaurant prepared us up a nice dinner of sushi, spicy fish stew, deep fried mackerel and various other fish dishes. It was outstanding meal topped off by a nice sunset on Jeju’s west coast (sorry I forgot to get a sunset picture). Next time we go down there I am going to try one of the all night offshore fishing trips under the lights. That is supposed to be very fun.
After getting skunked at the river early yesterday morning I talked my wife into heading out to Idong for some bluegill fishing yesterday afternoon, which seemed like an excellent idea to me, but apparently somebody (Nomad??? / Hacker???) tipped the bluegill off before we arrived because we didn’t get a single bite. After thirty to forty five minutes of that, we both decided to switch over to bass fishing, and I’m thankful that we did. Before the wind and rain ultimately drove us away, we caught six in approximately an hour and a half of fishing, and I caught one that was a personal best out of Idong, a 3-10 pounder.
The water level was extremely low so I used my chest waders to get out as far as I possibly could, which was, I’m guessing at least 150′. Senkos and chatter baits are what we served up. Here are some pics:
Biggest catch of the day:
Here’s one to provide you with a reference for how far out in the water I was:
I took yet another Friday off to do some fishing yesterday and had a great time. It didn’t start out so great though. The visibility on the water was extremely low due to dense fog and I started out the day by running the boat straight into a fishing net at full throttle. Ack! Then, shortly thereafter I got skunked at the first place I stopped to fish, which was at a place that has consistently produced bass for me in the past. At that point I was thinking “way to waste a vacation day Rob.” However, things quickly turned around and I had a great day. I fished for 11 hours straight, and averaged a little better than 2 fish per hour on the day. I caught all of them on numerous different colors of 5″ Senkos and 1/2 ounce Chatterbaits. I didn’t take a whole lot of pictures mainly because I can’t seem to find my Sony Cybershot anywhere, but I didn’t catch any monsters either. I caught five in the 2.5-3 pound range but all of the others were 1 to 2 pounds. These pics were taken with my cell phone so the quality isn’t all that great, but here they are nonetheless.
Senko Fish:
Chatterbait Fish:
With a little help from this 4.39 pound smallmouth bass, my brother-in-law won his local club tournament last weekend. Nice fish Gary!
Greetings all, and welcome back Nomad. I had the opportunity to head down to Andong this past weekend with a great bunch of people and had a blast. The weather, food, beer, company etc. were all great, and the fishing wasn’t half bad either. I caught this little fella from the bank not more than twenty minutes after arriving. I don’t know what it weighed, but it measured twenty inches. She was the only bass I caught on Friday, but not a bad way to start out a weekend I say.
On Saturday, a friend and I went out in Ruben’s boat and did really well. We caught approximately fifteen bass, most of which were in the 2-3 pound range, but four of ‘em were what I’d call really nice bass (for me anyway), and one of them was a personal best that measured 22 inches and weighed 4.9 pounds (first pic on left below). The two pics to the right are of another good fish that I caught just across the lake from the campground early Saturday morning. Actually, I think it may have been a tad bigger than the personal best one that I caught later on in the day, but at that time of the morning I was barely awake after having only slept for about two hours the night before and didn’t even think about weighing or measuring it. Doh! Plus I was slightly hungover, which also explains the lack of expression on my face in the pics (hurt’n for certain). LOL
The best part of the weekend for me was on Sunday morning when we got into an area just loaded with beds though. To me, that was just amazing. It was a real treat to be able to see them bedding with my own eyes. Although I did manage to catch one after about twenty minutes of dropping my bait on her nose, we left the rest of them alone to do their thing. Still, it was just an awesome experience, one that I’ll remember for some time to come. Great weekend…
John P. and Walt came in second in the tournament on Sunday by the way, weighed in an awesome bag of fish at a little over 22 pounds. Basically, they had a bag full of my “personal best” fish. WTF? LOL I’m sure that he’ll be making a post later on.
To one of the biggest ass holes finest people I know, Happy Birthday Nomad!!! Here’s to better days my friend! :) :)
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Nomad’s House-In-Waiting Sunset on KY Lake Ultimate Bass Fishing Setup
And courtesy of Hunter Dave, we have this pic of Nomad’s Dream Boat (Roll Tide!) :) :
I took the day off yesterday and had a great day out on the water. In fact, it was the best day I’ve had fishing in many years. What surprised me the most though was not the quantity of fish caught (well over 20), but the quality. I’ve been fishing the Pyongtaek River for a good five years now and can’t remember another time where I caught so many nice sized, healthy bass in one day. And sorry, once again I didn’t have a scale or tape measure with me so I don’t know what they weighed or measured. I have a good idea, but since ideas aren’t official I’ll keep them to myself. lol
As you can see from the first pic, I started early. I left my house at 0520 and had the boat assembled and was on the water fishing by 0630. Even though the air temperature was in the low 30’s, the water temperature was in the 50’s. I know there are a lot of different theories out there about the best time of day to fish, but I say it’s hard to beat the break of dawn on any day, and yesterday did nothing but ingrain that in my mind even more. By the time 0730 had rolled around, I had caught several nice sized bass, including the biggest of the day.
I caught everything on 5″ black Senkos with blue flake, both wacky rigged and weedless. And truthfully, I didn’t notice that one rig produced any more fish than the other. I’d say they were about even for the day.
All in all a great day, and for that I am truly thankful.
I agree with Nomad. It’s definitely picking up out there. My wife and I went to the river early yesterday morning and were able to land seven before the gale force winds that Nomad mentioned below drove us away. Leave it to Mother Nature to ruin an otherwise perfect day! :) I don’t have a scale (that works anyway), and didn’t have anything to measure the fish with either, but here are a few pics nonetheless:
Then, I was over in the Anjung-ri area this morning running errands when I noticed (quite surprisingly, since it was Sunday) that nobody was fishing in one of mine and Nomad’s favorite spots, so I couldn’t resist the urge to wet a line for a little bit. I only fished for about an hour, had a couple of bites, and caught this one. Again, I didn’t have a scale, but did have a tape measure in the truck this time and it measured pretty close to 17″. All in all it was a pretty good weekend, and I hope the trend continues for a while.
and it looks like they’re up to some really good things. It’s an all veteran professional tournament team based out of Texas. Check ‘em out…interesting stuff.
Army Bass Anglers
After reading some of the posts this morning, the fishing urge got the best of me. I quicky loaded up the car, threw the rugrat into the back seat, and headed off at about 1400. First stop was lake Idong. I drove up the South side of the lake just to take a peek. Casted a few senkos with no luck. Looks real full with plenty of water so far. So I decided to go up to the north side. I’m in the process of going over the hill on the dirt road and I notice it is getting a little slick. I get out and the road has a little more mush than I expected and the road down the other side was a little more steep than I remembered, So I decided not to try it since I was in my 1995 rear wheel drive Daewoo Prince. My daughter wanted to go over to the Hwy 82 pay lake to fish, because she usually does well on bluegill over there and the old man working there always gives her free ice cream. It was windy and nothing was biting over there either. I was digging through my tackle bag and I ran across my Berkley Gulp trout bait. I suddenly thought ‘I wonder?”
So we packed up and drove over to Sangjiland. There were about 10 other people troutfishing with fly rods and they were catching a few, but I could see the trout were very active cruising below the surface. I plopped down my 15,000 won (Rene was free) and we fished from about 1600 to 1730. The bait was Berkley Gulp in pink, orange and chartreuse all with speckled flakes.. They were really hitting the pink and orange well. In 90 minutes, we landed about 6 or 7. Lost another 6 or so right at the edge, and missed at least a dozen other strikes. We were definitely outfishing the others. I don’t think these fish had ever seen Gulp before. My daughter had on a real nice one about 5 pounds that ended up snapping her bluegill rod in half. We lost that one at the edge as well. That was a very action packed 90 minutes. My daughter was a little bummed out that we couldn’t keep the fish to eat.
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