Scorehero FISHING Thread!!!

**aldo1** · Joined: 03 Mar 2012 Posts: 54

Hello Scorehero! I was wondering if anyone else here partakes in my new obsession... FISHING! I moved to the Midwest from Vegas and finally found something to pass the time. I had never fished only when I was a small child so I have pretty much zero knowledge on the subject. I more or less just do the worm(went nightcrawler hunting tonight) and hook thing. Yesterday I caught 4 perch a sheep head and a baby channel catfish. Today I got 3 perch and a Sheephead. I just bring my ipod and walk half a mile down to the river. I just do the catch and release thing, but if I catch a decent sized walleye I may try to fillet that sucker! Anyone else have any tips, tricks, or stories please share!

**slfan68** · Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 656 Location: Pink Hill, NC

A group of my buddies and I go catfishing multiple nights a week on the Neuse river here in Eastern NC. We use everything from cut bream to chicken gizzards and hearts to dough balls, and during the summer we usually have a good amount of success. We just throw the lines out, stick em in a holder with a bell on the pole, and wait for 'em to start ringing. Nothing quite like spending a night on the river with your buddies haha.

Gotta be careful on the river at night though, a couple of weeks ago the river was unusually high and a part of the bank gave way right under me. Was up to my neck in cold river water haha, made my phone bout as useful as a brick. We were back at that spot last night and with the water back down now we could see that where I fell was about a 5 foot straight drop off, and if I had floated about 2 more feet out the current would have taken me to God knows where.

And strangely, twice we've had to call the police on drunk homeless people coming up to our spot under a bridge. The first one was cool until we got quiet listening for a bell. He took our lack of talking as us "plotting something" against him and tried to throw a rock at us. Then he almost fell in our fire and the cops arrested him for the weed we didn't know he had. The second guy was being really nice, but we had to call them because we couldn't keep him away from the bank and didn't want him falling in a drowning.
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**aldo1** · Joined: 03 Mar 2012 Posts: 54

Whoa that us crazy falling into the river, so lucky you didn't get swept away! Have any of you been stung by a catfish? I find it interesting that they have venom in their fins!

**Sarg338** · Joined: 07 Feb 2008 Posts: 5143

**aldo1** · Joined: 03 Mar 2012 Posts: 54

Yeah for some reason I was always under the impression that their whiskers were stingers. I looked it up and they aren't, but the dorsal and pectoral fins do contain a mild venom.