Favorite Way to Collect

[Ben268]

IDK why but in salt water i have no problem walking thro but fresh scares the cr@p out of me? Maybe snakes, gators (not here just my mind) and snapping turtles along with leaches and others. Had a seine but threw it away after we moved. Have all stated it poll. Most likely gonna try castin first and move on from there

Weird i've always been the opposite. I actually had no proplem as a kid simming in a pond that i saw a MASSIVE snapping turlte in.( i know, not the smartest ). Yet...I was always afraid of jellyfish stinging me, or crabs and lobsters pinching me in saltwater.

To answer the question though, i gotta love my trusty net.

 

[fishkeeper1]

lmao bong water soundsfunny. I was raised in NY so those things werent around, but now im like 200 miles or something like that from the ocean. IDK im just not used to Fresh water thats really it. and i live in Fayetteville GA. Only a couple of small lakes not much at all, but there are some monsters!

 

[Noto]

If you're worried about stuff like that just wear waders. You can get a decent pair of chest waders for $40-50, and a nice pair for twice that. I recommend rubber-soled boots and neoprene. They'll be hot in the summer, but it's better (for the fish) to collect during cooler weather anyhow.

I've spent a lot of time barelegged in southern waters and the worst that's happened to me is being scratched by submerged branches and stepping on broken bottles. Snakes and turtles seldom bite unless provoked; I've stepped right over plenty of snappers and cottonmouths (I'm not recommending you do this if you can avoid it, I'm just saying the reputations of these animals are exaggerated). Parasitic leeches are not common down here; they seem to prefer cool waters.

 

[dominicolas]

Personally, I like to dump poison into the water and wait for the fish to come to the surface gasping for air, then I go through and take the ones I want off the top of the water before they die, and leave all the rest.

 

[Moontanman]

I like seines, they usually produce more and better specimens than any other way.

 

[Ianab]

Depends what you are trying to catch ...

We went fishing last week, Spotlights, hand nets and a stick.

Find fish with spotlight, put net in front, poke with stick. Works about 20% of the time, but we found dozens of small fish and crays.

Night time fish hunting can be WAY more successful than daytime. The river we were fishing is pretty dead looking in daytime, but at night you could see maybe 6 fish or crays in your torch beam. Catching them was more tricky, but the above method worked well.

We even caught a couple of small trout, but let them go for legal reasons, plus not having a tank to house them anyway.

Freshwater Cray

Bullies that are in my tank now.

Closeup of a bully.. not really a monster though

One of the pools we fished, the big cray was around the rocks in the centre of the pick. the bullies on the sandy area to the bottom right.

Anyway, thats fish hunting in NZ

Ian

 

[suitcase]

dip net or seine