How to Fish for Sunfish

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Sunfish are found throughout the U.S. and are a very popular sport fish.  They are abundant and easy to catch making them the perfect fish for anyone from a first time fisherman to an advanced angler.  A Sunfish will take almost any bait, put up a good fight, and taste great in the frying pan.

Carp Fishing with the Kids

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Carp fishing is a great sport, well, carp bow fishing to be more precise.  Most people don't prefer eating them, but it can be a ton of fun!  For one, they are big, and who doesn't like pulling in a big fighting fish? Secondly, they are everywhere in such abundance that people want them gone... Easy pickings!

Jug Fishin'

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There are a lot of ways to catch catfish. You can try noodling, putting some really stinking bait on the line, or just hope one swims into your hook and you get lucky, but have you tried jugging?

A friend told us about it, and why not? It sounded pretty fun! Kids aren't exactly the best candidates for noodling and they wanted to join in as well.

It all kind of started because we had some ponds on our property. Whilst fishing we had once in a while snagged a carp on our hook and had a good sport of fighting the big guy for an hour or more, then letting him go till next time. One day while thinking about the catfish that were in there and thought, you know, that could be fun! We'd often had people tell us about the catfish they'd had the other night for supper and wanted to try some. Then they suggested jugging.....

Jugging is interesting, and perhaps widely known, but we'd never heard of it. Basically you get an empty plastic bottle (such as a milk jug) and tie a nice long bit of strong fishing line to it. At the end you fix a fairly large sized hook and the stinkiest bait you can find (we were told to use cat food). That night you throw it out into the pond...and that's it.

Deep Water Fishing, Boats, and Sea Sickness

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When I was younger my family and I had the opportunity to go fishing on the Great Lakes. Friends of ours had a boat and offered to take us out for the day and have a good time. We gladly accepted! It isn't everyone who has a boat you know! The one stipulation was that we had to take Dramamine before going out. (Dramamine is a drug taken as a relief for nausea, motion and sea sickness, and other related symptoms.) We informed them we'd been on plenty of open water and had never before had a problem with sea sickness. Nevertheless, they asked us to take it just to be sure no one would have to be cleaning up any "messes." It seemed fair, no one wanted to spend the day "sick at sea."

None of us got sea sicknesses that day, however, I remember nothing of that fishing trip but laying in a chair and not being able to move. I'm telling you this story first off so that you are aware of the possibility of sea sickness and its unpleasant side effects. Secondly, I'd like to share alternative tips to avoid being "sick at sea."