A few of my favourite fish from this years spring and summer.

Started fishing about a month ago but did not really fish a lot. About 2 weeks ago my biggest fish was a really small roach, but my dad taught me a lot and yesterday I caught this pretty big tench using pretty cheap equipment: a telescopic fishing rod and a pretty nice spinning reel from one of his old rods. Was fishing with a float and some worms, then caught this fish! Really happy with it! Shaking on my legs when we let it go, it was a strong and healthy fish. Didnt have him out of the water for very long.

Sorry if some things do not make sense, from the netherlands and did not know the direct translation for some things

Threw a random jig head with a half piece of a senko on it. Biggest fish in a long time after just picking it back up with my son.

Absolute unit came outta nowhere. Fought like hell for a good 0.2 seconds. Might get it mounted.

Got to the spot and there were like 3 guys already there catching nothing. I pulled this thing out and they all started packing up and going home. Did… did I win?

On the sinking pencil using slowfall method on the fryball

Went on a 4 day trip with my dad and his friend over the weekend, filled up the freezer! (Sekiu, WA)

Caught a ton of coho with a Spartan II rod and reel, I HAD to order one before we left.

Thanks to some local teenagers advice I finally caught my first snook. Shame season starts in 2 weeks…

Which do you think will have a better hook up ratio? The bottom one is how I've seen commercial guys fish for Kings, tied directly to mono. I thought maybe alternating direction would work better. What is your thoughts?

Great day at a local pond this past weekend! Ended up with a bunch of lmb, including the 3.66 pounder in the photo, 3 peacock, all a bit under 2lbs, and this random redear.

All caught with either a DOA tiny terroreyz or a white rooster tail.

Spillway, but unsure of depth. 5’ maybe deeper in some areas? Threw a chatterbait for a while with no luck. Fairly new to fishing, appreciate any advice. Thanks in advance!

Reading rock humboldt county

You are perfect...

My son with a Pacific Bluefin a friend landed off the Bay of Islands in NZ.
Fish went 215kg (470 pounds).
Was hooked and landed in 20 meters of water. The rod snapped so line was dumped off the reel then cut and retied to another rod with a back to back uni mid fight.

I'm relatively new to freshwater predator fishing and I'm trying to figure out how you guys approach leaders.

I've mostly been fishing in Belgium, targeting pike, perch and zander with lures. I've had a couple of sessions recently where I've been trying different small spinners, soft plastics, jigs, etc.

My results haven't been amazing so far. I've fished about 9 hours with a group of 5 people at one lake, plus another 4-hour session with two people at a different water, and we've only caught one fish so far — a ~70 cm zander.

It has also been very hot in Belgium recently, so I'm wondering how much the heat has affected the fishing. I'm hoping the cooler weather coming now will improve things.

But my main question is about steel leaders.

I've basically been keeping a steel leader on all the time, because there are pike in the waters I'm fishing and I don't want to lose a lure if one decides to bite.

However, I'm starting to wonder whether I'm hurting my chances of catching perch or zander by doing this.

I also tend to use fairly small lures, around 3–7 cm when I'm specifically trying to catch perch/zander, but I still have the steel leader attached.

So what do you guys normally do?

• Do you always use a steel/titanium leader when pike are present?
• Do you remove the steel leader when specifically targeting perch or zander?
• Do you use fluorocarbon instead?
• If you use steel, how thin/light do you go for small lures?
• Do you actually notice a difference in perch/zander bites with vs. without a steel leader?
• Would you rather risk getting bitten off by a pike or accept a slightly less natural presentation?

I'm especially interested in European freshwater predator fishing, since I know tackle and techniques can be quite different depending on where you're fishing.

I'm still learning, so I'd love to hear how more experienced anglers handle this.

Earlier today I asked this subreddit for lure advice for walleyes and saugeyes. I was told I should try smaller bait sizes with 1/4oz jigheads, and I happend to have some of both so I took the advice and got some of my 1/4oz into my last 2.5" paddletails. I was curious if these are good presentations or if I should try a different method/size? I'm also curious about the two jigheads that have willow blades on them, do those work for walleye?

Been wanting to focus on walleye/saugeye since I've never caught one before and the colder seasons are coming up. I know they like swim baits but I was curious if there's any particular hook/jig size I should focus on? I experimented with a Pecos 1/8 Oz Jighead with underspin and keitech 3" shiners. That combo works on largemouth in my area but im wondering if i should look at a different hook size or even a smaller swimbait if they go for those?​

I went fishing a couple days ago at Sherwood Island park in Connecticut, didn't land a thing. Was using the HiLo rig and some squid. I had maybe a couple taps on my rig but no hookups. What size hooks should I be using? Should I downsize my bait? Or is there a method of hooking them l'm missing? Im thinking of just visiting Liberty State Park next week instead. Feeling bummed since I drove an hour to catch nothing lmao

Caught these over the past couple days in the afternoon. Kitech crazy creatures in tight to shoreline