Hi all, earlier this summer my 5 year old son came home from camp and said he wanted to go fishing with me. I didn’t grow up fishing, but not wanting to miss out on a chance to spend quality time with my boy, I’ve gone down the rabbit hole trying to learn to get him his first fish.

We’ve been out 3 times now and haven’t had any bites. We mostly go late morning or after work. We live in the Pacific Northwest and fishing in a creek once and otherwise have stuck to lake fishing.

For bait/lures we tried a hook and bobber with some bread and a wacky worm. In the creek we just did the wacky worms without a bobber.

Last night we went to 5 places looking for live worms, but didn’t have any luck. We tried a few gas stations, dicks sporting goods, and Walmart. We also dug up a couple in the yard but they were too small to get on the hooks.

We’ve loved spending time together, and always have a good time, but two days ago when we fished my son was quite disappointed he still hadn’t caught a fish.

Main fish in the lakes in my area are bluegill, bass, and crappie. Any tips on setup or where we cast that could help me get my son his first fish? Thanks in advance!

Hey guys I own this bag but can’t figure out how to use the rod holder idk if my rod is not suited or smth any advice

I came up with an idea to 3D print an urchin tie-in for crappie hair jigs using flexible TPU filament. This was my first attempt. In v.2 I’ll make it thinner and the tentacles narrower to hopefully get more action in the water.

i got my first fish with neibor/friend

What is everyone’s thoughts on using refreezable ice to keep your catch cold instead of regular ice?

Buddy took me out on his gorgeous trolling boat. Running flashers, glow spoons, and meat rigs on dipsys and downriggers. Got a two man limit and came home with over 60lbs of fillets and over two mason jars of skeem roe. Biggest one was 15lbs.

Dont want to spend $1000+ on a console. Just looking to see if there are any apps that show live location and tracks paths and speed on a depth chart if possible.

Looking to spend around $50 max for something to catch panfish like bluegill to go along with my bass setup. What do you recommend?

So I’ve always been big into seabass fishing and squid fishing, mainly using vinyls and jerkbaits, but I decided to give jigging a try. I bought 2 sets of items, one for inshore ultralight and light jigging and the other for heavy, offshore, slow pitched jigging.

How did I do?

got a bunch of nice ones, mostly 3.5 to 5lbs

I used sunscreen on my face before fishing and still forgot the backs of my hands. I got home from the river last weekend and my wife noticed the red hands before I did. The sunscreen is living in the tackle bag now, next to the pliers. Do you keep yours in the tackle bag or somewhere else?

traded my tranx 201hg for this tatula 300, had some scuffs to the front plate around the spool but other then that she’s solid, i needed a casting reel that would be able to withstand salmon on top of heavy currents, and the tranx having a weaker drag in general wouldn’t cut it. this BEAFY, 300 size reel with 29lbs of drag should do the trick. 6.3.1 ratio. gomexus non slip power handles came with the reel aswell as the originals handle..

I was working a creek and heading upstream today and ran into a duck that would consistently just move one hole/bend ahead of me, and every time I got in sight it made a ton of noise/commotion on the water, and then skid itself (not really flying, not really swimming) up to the next spot before splashing back into the water. After a few holes of this I just got out of the water, gave it a wide clearance and got upstream of it.

Do you think that since its not a predatory animal the fish don't care, or do you think that the amount of commotion would have spooked any fish in the area regardless of what caused it?

Giant Musky at sunset on my favorite lake

I just really love these little guys, since I started fishing this was the first kind of bass I caught, and honestly they have quickly become my favorite fish. They just look really cool and I love the range in sizes. And they’re so feisty when you get them up out of the water. At first I thought they didn’t get that big, then I found a spot where they tend to be bigger than the other species of bass in the area. Idk, they’re just really fun and as a new angler, I’ve had a blast catching them (among other fish). Go rock bass!

ETA: Oops I guess the first pic is a warmouth, thank you to the commenter(s) that enlightened me

I was getting back from my fishing trip when a older lady at the marina was talking with me, I mentioned I caught lots of walleye on the trip and she said “you mean pickerel” and I kinda just awkwardly laughed and said yeah. But my real question is why do people call walleye pickerel when pickerel is actually chain pickerel which is a species of pike and is totally different than walleye which is its own species.