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Salmon season on the American River

First snakehead this season.

Beautiful trout!

Another barra

6kg barramundi and red drum

Also forgot to mention. I will never look at bass fishing the same way anymore. The only reason I'll even go bass fishing again is to teach my two little nephews back home how to fish. Otherwise, bass just seem too boring after catching snakeheads.

Check out how vicious they are. This is about an 8" snakehead. It took a 4" frog on a 4/0 worm hook.

Shimano Bass One XT. A lower end bait casting reel, but much, much better than the lower end Shimano bait casters in the states.

They fight like bass on steroids. These snakeheads destroy lures, literally. They bend spinnerbaits out of shape after one fish, and will mess up treble hooks on crankbaits, and usually destroy plastics after just one fish. I tried eating it once, but will not again. It's not so much the...

Not gear related, but I had to throw this one in. It's a fat striata snakehead I caught.

My panfish reel. This series is a higher end reel compared to the Sedona.

My panfish rod

So, I've been living in Taiwan for a few years. Besides catching snakeheads, I also find some really cool Shimano gear here from Japan that you would not get in the states. The stuff there is all the lower end Shimano stuff, as well as a very, very limited selection. I'm moving back to Cali...

Yes, it was an old one. It was black with yellow and red rings and a clear tip. That was from almost 20 years ago.

I had an old ugly stick that I used as a saltwater setup for boat fishing. That rod went to a friend when I moved out of the country. I miss that rod.

If you have never compared an Ugly Stick with the sensitivity of another rod, then you would have no idea what sensitivity is. Comapring the sensitivity of an Ugly Stick with, let's say, G. Loomis, there is a day and night difference. Ugly Sticks are made for people to thrash and not break...

At the moment, snakeheads. It's new to me. They got a mouth full of teeth, super aggressive, and are known to destroy your lures. So far, I've caught striatas. Next on my list will be maculatas and giant snakeheads. These are the species in Taiwanese waters. I'm going to go fishing for them...

That's a good steelie. I miss salmon/steelhead fishing. Before I left Cali, salmon fishing was banned due to low returning salmon in the Sac/American Rivers. I have no idea how it is now with the severe drought. I would love to go back home and fish for them again one day.

Your buddy should get his thumb looked at. Sounds like nerve or ligament dagame. I severed a nerve on my pinky before and needed surgery to reattach it.