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View Poll Results: What is your preferred method of angling/hunting fish?
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Downrigger fishing
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7 |
5.83% |
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Spinner fishing
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22 |
18.33% |
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Spoon fishing
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21 |
17.50% |
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Bait fishing
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34 |
28.33% |
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All other types of lure fishing
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18 |
15.00% |
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Spey fishing
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4 |
3.33% |
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Fly fishing
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38 |
31.67% |
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Scuba fishing with spear
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2 |
1.67% |
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Ice fishing
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24 |
20.00% |
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Noodling AKA. (hillbilly hand fishing)
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4 |
3.33% |
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07-18-2016, 04:36 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Gods Country
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What are your preferred method of getting fish?
What is your preferred technique catching fish? (general topic because it encompasses more than one sub topic)
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07-18-2016, 04:39 PM
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Alberta
Posts: 2,445
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Jigging or slip bobber.
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07-18-2016, 04:39 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 1,034
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I usually only fish for Walleye so I jig with a minnow, or troll with a bottom bouncer.
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07-18-2016, 04:43 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: GP AB
Posts: 16,234
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I like to sit back with a beer in the fighting chair while some crew bait, cast and tend to things. Then after she's all hooked up nice, I like to reel them in. Ah, the good life. 
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07-18-2016, 04:45 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Canmore
Posts: 2,104
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Buzz Bomb for lakers, wedding band with a maggot for kokanees, five of diamonds or mepps for Bow river browns. Bumble bee on a fly rod for all of the above.
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07-18-2016, 04:51 PM
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Banned
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Alberta
Posts: 10,937
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No explosives option?
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07-18-2016, 04:54 PM
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Banned
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Gods Country
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Quote:
Originally Posted by silverdoctor
No explosives option?
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Only 10 options, it would have been # 13 after nets and electro fishing
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07-18-2016, 06:16 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Edmonton
Posts: 11,858
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All of the above - depends what my target species is, what type of water we are fishing, etc..
I've never tried noodling ......... could be fun ......
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07-18-2016, 06:36 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: West Edmonton
Posts: 5,174
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Kayak fishing...
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07-18-2016, 06:46 PM
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Gone Hunting
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Between Bodo and a hard place
Posts: 20,168
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I didn't see my option.
I have an above ground septic tank and I raise Tilapia to smoke for my inlaws. They think they are Chum salmon strips.
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07-18-2016, 06:55 PM
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Gone Hunting
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: North of Peace River
Posts: 11,346
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I prefer whatever works.
I don't fish for the enjoyment of using the gear, I fish for the enjoyment of eating and for the time away from civilization. With friends.
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07-18-2016, 07:20 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Ft. McMurray
Posts: 38,576
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I like fishing period!
If am fishing wit gear I prefer jigs t like fly fishing as well .
Cat
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07-18-2016, 07:22 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: At the end of the Thirsty Beaver Trail, Pinsky lake, Alberta.
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Just fishing,
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07-18-2016, 07:33 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Calgary
Posts: 3,343
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My Alumacraft with me in it, tossing Rapalas into the shallows, jigging, trolling spoons. Life is great.
Dodger.
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07-18-2016, 07:56 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: McBride/Prince George
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Bait fishing in a major river system. The aspect of never knowing what you may hook into is what I like.... Is it a pike? Walleye? Burb? Goldeye? Mooneye? Sauger? Sturgeon ? Is it one of several types of sucker? Guess I'll reel it in and see what I got......pickerel rig with a minnow on top and a worm on the bottom is going to catch every species in the river.
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07-18-2016, 08:46 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Edmonton
Posts: 9,671
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For me, nothing better than over the side, jig with a minnow, straight down. Wait for the nibble. Favorite way to fish Walleye.
Lindy rigging with a leech is a close second.
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07-18-2016, 08:46 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Location
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I love the slip bobber action over a pile of active walleye. However downrigging a clear BC lake with a chance to pull out a monster has to be slightly more exciting for me.
I'm pretty well rounded. Love to float the Bow with a flyrod, adapting to new lakes such as Wabasca, finding structure in a reservoir... It's all good!!!
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07-18-2016, 08:56 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: On the edge
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Tough to pick just one, different species require different technique so depends.
I have about 3 species that I concentrate on fishing at different times and depending on time of year that's my favourite. Throw in the other half dozen species a guy chases and well,, you get the picture.
I think if someone has a preferred type or species and concentrates on that species they are robbing themselves of some experiences. The more diverse one is in species and method it only broadens your knowledge of fishing in general and as such your success.
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07-18-2016, 09:30 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
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I think people are missing the point. Just because you have a preferred method doesn't mean you can't adjust or be well rounded...
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07-18-2016, 09:42 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2016
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wildwoods
I think people are missing the point. Just because you have a preferred method doesn't mean you can't adjust or be well rounded...
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Yah but one can't answer a specific question that has more than one answer.
I prefer fishing with a down rigger and bait when targeting Chinook salmon in Aug because that is my favourite fish to catch in Aug.
I like tossing jig tipped minnows on anchor for June walleye because that is my preferred target in June.
I like down rigging with spoons for Lake trout in July because that is my preferred target in July.
Ice fishing from Dec through March is my favourite cause well we have no choice in this part of the world.
I like not one better than the other and I think that's the point the others are trying to get across.
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07-18-2016, 10:24 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Location
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Originally Posted by Remihunter
Yah but one can't answer a specific question that has more than one answer.
I prefer fishing with a down rigger and bait when targeting Chinook salmon in Aug because that is my favourite fish to catch in Aug.
I like tossing jig tipped minnows on anchor for June walleye because that is my preferred target in June.
I like down rigging with spoons for Lake trout in July because that is my preferred target in July.
Ice fishing from Dec through March is my favourite cause well we have no choice in this part of the world.
I like not one better than the other and I think that's the point the others are trying to get across.
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I know what you're saying and agree that is really depends on time of year and target species.
I look at his thread like this: it's my choice to fish any way any species. I probably go down rigging if I get to pick....
Just a paradigm thing. I agree 100% with you. Just looking at it different.
I'll ask this question: you pick time of year/lake/target species. What do you pick?
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07-18-2016, 11:13 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2016
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Lol,, I hear you.
I really don't think I can pick one, but I can pick two.
Down rigging with bait for Aug Chinook.
Tossing minnow tipped jigs for big June Walleye.
That's pretty much an even split for me.
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07-19-2016, 05:43 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Calgary
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fly fishing for me,
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07-19-2016, 06:45 AM
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Talking moose
pickerel rig with a minnow on top and a worm on the bottom is going to catch every species in the river.
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I totally agree
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07-19-2016, 06:52 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Edmonton
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Looks like it always comes down to fly vs bait 
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07-19-2016, 07:27 AM
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Trolling with crank baits for walleye and pike
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07-19-2016, 08:47 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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Kayak fishing... are the a treble hook or just single....hehe.
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07-19-2016, 09:04 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Remihunter
Tough to pick just one, different species require different technique so depends.
I have about 3 species that I concentrate on fishing at different times and depending on time of year that's my favourite. Throw in the other half dozen species a guy chases and well,, you get the picture.
I think if someone has a preferred type or species and concentrates on that species they are robbing themselves of some experiences. The more diverse one is in species and method it only broadens your knowledge of fishing in general and as such your success.
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You've got multiple options that you can pick more than one of
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07-19-2016, 09:44 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Edmonton
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My favorite way to catch fish is with a cold drink in one hand and good friends at the other end of the boat.
Fishing any style is better than working!
BW
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07-19-2016, 10:16 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FlyTheory
Looks like it always comes down to fly vs bait |
Not necessarily, I've seen guy's with fly rods using bait on more than occasion (grasshoppers), and I've seen countless guys using flies with spinning gear ie. bead head wire worm on a scud hook hanging below a slip bobber for lake whites, trout guys using a streamers and nymphs below a bobber.
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