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Not necessarily Mike, but if theres a choice between the 2, Ill take bread. BUT, I do fish with sweetcorn on the tidal section of the 'crack.....
Louis, Ive had 3 low 30's locally to 32+. IM blessed with great waters near me with obliging fish all winter...even though Im 6 hours north of you. All told I have 60 fish right now, with 24 over 20. Only one of these came from Town....
I may be going down your way in the summer to try and get into the Big Big D carp, you game?
im always down scott.
me and the pfg boys will be going cross country from june 4-20thor something like that so that will be a factor. spawn will be on by then anyhow... maybe later in the summer when it gets really jumping again.
i know a 30 is in store at this spot where matt and i have been fishing lately. it is in the lower schuylkill, where it is tidal. its at a dam about 1 mile up river from the delaware. so i think the fish will be thick as the travel upstream during pre-spawn.
besides all that, its plush compared to our other spots and relatively local to school/work for both of us.
there is a spot at chester station in chester, pa that i have eyed for a while though.. its a small abandoned old harbor. it's gangster though... might be right up your alley, i heard you were a carp thug.
thanks by the way, for dropping all that info on matt about the kennebec last year.... it was a good time. probably would have caught more fish if we stayed in that spot longer... seeing those sturgeon was awesome...
peace pin-master.
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last night, after hours of not catching fish on boilies, i put on some sweet corn and caught this one at 11:05 pm. i haven't caught a fish over 18 lbs all year, and although i didnt have a functioning scale, i'm pretty sure this one is closer to 20. why is it that sweet corn always performs best?
what are you guy's bests for the year? (besides atc)
feeling good. louis
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30 inches! you lucky dog. someday my friend....
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ok.
the standard answer to the screen rez/website question used to be always make it look good for all resolutions down to 640x480. but it seems its been a few years since anyone has used such a low screen rez. 1024x 768 is considered standard, but 800x600 is common. i make all my sites look good down to 800x600. and i put all pics at 640x480. i always use a thumbnail gallery because before you know it, you have more and more pics which makes your page a mile long and annoying to even those woth the fastest of connections. if you do make a gallery, you do not have to make a new *.html page for each pic. the thumbnail can link directly to the full size image. and that will just show alone in the browser window. thats how i do it for fish guys. its fast for updating and changing things around.
as for dpi. its irrelevant on the web. even if you save something at say 300dpi and 1 inch by 1 inch. it will still show at 72 and be 4.17 inches x 4.17 inches on someones screen after you put it up on the web.
an important tip for you on this subject would be, try as hard as possible not to resize pictures in your page building program. make them the size you want in photoshop or whatever image software you use. if you do resize them artificially, yoou will often get something called a moirre pattern on the image. it will be different on ever pc you look at it on. if you can imagine putting two window screens on top of one another and wrinkling one... that is sort of what happens to images on screen. it will ruin details in the image.
i've wanted a pc with 2 monitors for years and i finally got one. 2 21 inchers too! finally a topic close enough that i can nerd out about it. i can drag windows from one monitor to the other. i often put one at 1024x768 and the other at 800x600 to test things at different sizes at the same time.... right now im reading this and making cad models at the same time... i love it.
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yeah, they dont show in previews.. its dumb.
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when you post a message see "file attachments" at the bottom. browse to your picture and thats it. make sure its 640x480 resolution or less or it will be very big, or might not even post.
also, if its already on the internet somewhere, you can just link to it using the "IMG" button at the top. just copy and paste the address of the file. like this:
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the first 2 pics are the same trunk-butted fish the rest are individuals.
4 total fish.
someday i hope to catch a more substantial specimen, but i'm satified for now with one baby.
from what local guys told us, this time of year, you need to be in much deeper water, we didnt have a boat.
thanks for all the help!
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so matt and i went to santee SC for a few days. it was a great time, caught some catfish, shad. there arent any blue cats in philly.... so i really cant tell the difference between them and channel cats. i know both are present where we fished.
anyone want to venture a guess on these photos?
they look like channels to me, but so do a lot of blue cat record pics i have seen...
i'd love for them to be blues to add to our species list.. but whatever...
louis
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and a 16 to finish the evening.
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one while the sun was still up.
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an interesting scale pattern.
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matt and i caught 4 fish today, 2 each. 13, 10, matt 16, 9, for me. not bad considering its not been long since the river was frozen. we even managed a self timer pic of our double hook up.
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i always try to take a picture of at least 1 fish per day that i go out. that is why you'll see so many small fish on fishguys.org. we always try to take pics of all types of fish that we might catch at different locations too. once in a while i even take a picture of a rock bass or a sunny, if the scenery behind it is something i want to remember, or if i don't have that species listed online. last year together we caught around 50 species.
i'd say, if you havea digital camera, you should almost always take one. they're free, they won'tfill up any boxes in your house, and if you catagorize them well, someday you can sift through your pics and remember any particular day you like.
louis
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mine is a pretty funny one.
the first carp i really ever caught, was by hand... you can read that story here:
but after that, i was so intrigued by this type of fish that i had never really seen up close before. i saw big crowds of them at our local reservoir coincidentally a few weeks after the one i caught by hand. 80% of this reservoir is private property. i justified tresspassing on that 80% in 3 ways. 1- lots of guys fish there. 2- i take out trash with me nearly every visit. 3- i release all of my fish. it's owned by the water company anyway, its not like someones private fishing hole. back to the story... so one evening i went out, chummed and in an hour or so, hooked a fish. i was using my old POS "fishbone" trout sized rod. it's all i had. i battled this fish for a while. matt the commy and marty, another philly fish guy, conversed with me during the excitement. i lost the fish. went home mad. got up at 4:30 before work to settle the score. i was all alone. by 6:30 i was getting frustrated. i went for a walk. on my way back to my rod, about 50 feet away, i saw it fall over. thank goodness i left the bail open. i also saw a truck coming towards my spot. it's not a public road. it's a trail for the water company. i bolted for the rod. battled (trout rod). this old man gets out of the truck and calmly walks over. "you gotta get outta here." i said "huh?" like i didn't know. i honestly never thought anyone would care enough to ask me to leave. (i'm still fighting the fish.) i netted the fish and i didn't care if i had to leave or not. i said, "it won't happen again, but can i ask a favor of you? ... can you take a picture of me with this fish?" he reluctantly agreed. i never caught a fish this big. i didn't even know how to hold it. this guy was getting sick of watching me juggle the fish for a pose. "just hold it by the damn gills!" so... i did.
here it is, my first, illegal carp. photo by water company guy.
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so like most of you, i've read and read about carp fishing. but i've never learned how to tell a male from a female. maybe it's easy... maybe not... anyone?
also... suppose it is easy:
we all probably know that if you are going to eat a fish then it will taste better if its small. and leaving bigger fish in the water to procreate results in more viable eggs and therefore more fish born. but wouldn't it also be a good idea for those who do eat carp and other fish to only take male fish from the water? one male can fertilize many many eggs, but taking a female from the water, no matter how small, would result in less eggs, and less fish born. i think thats maybe the way crabs are harvested? does that make sense?
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here's my best producing knot(swim). it's tempermental, sometimes too turbid and often flowing too swiftly to fish... but when it's on, it's really on. i caught all of my fattest trash-eating philly fish here.
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another happy customer.
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i love them. i spot fished this one with a minnow... i couldn't beleive he wans't scared of the cast.... and then he went for it! i unhooked him easier than i thought.
finally, a substantial fish
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i always keep in 2 rods... probem is, most of the time im silly and i put the same bait on each.
i've caught all my fish at night so far this year.. but i think its probably school and my 2 jobs fault and not anything to do with when the fish feed.
i have never had much faith in bread or doughs... i never even really tried bread. other fish always seem to snatch my bait and leave me like a sucker waitng for a fish to bite on a bare hair. little channels and sunnies are murder. i feel the same way about sweet corn otherwise i'd use it exclusively..
and yes.. i have been getting sick of walleyes.. maybe a striper would do though....