Caught 2 1lbāers today, a Rass & a yellow rockfish off South Point, Big Island Hawaiāi. 
Rass became bait, rockfish got lucky. 
My first action in 20+ years I think, & there wasnāt much being caught by the others so it felt like a couple lunkers today. 
No license needed here! 
I get to say 
to Californiaās BS completely. Awesome.
Aloha friends
Daaaaammn!!! Them are nice fish!
Lake Erieās finest. LoL
Where do you catch them all fried up like that?
I normally just stay in the inner bay when im fishing erie but we picked up a bigger boat last year and fixed it up this winter. Planning on trying for some walleye this week!
Normally just fishing for bass/pike/perch
Late April to mid may is my favorite time to go up. We caught all these probabaly less than a mile off shore they were SHALLOW!!!
Damn, somebody smells like fish in here! Oh, itās me!! Hell yeah, I slayed the rainbow up at the lake yesterday. Only one real big one, but I caught a dozen or so in a couple of hours. Most were14-16" and fat.
They fight like bass here. They seems mush bigger when they first hit it and run. They were jumping out of the water to throw the bait and were totally worn out by the time I landed them. I had to hold each one for about 5 min to get revived to let go.
Those fish were all over me as well, lol. I smelled like a fish when I got home.
I did catch a real fat walleye a few days back at around 16-17 ", and ate half of him last night. OOOh that was good. I saved a couple of fillets to make a sandwich today.
Itās hotter today, so I may pass and work with the plants today. The thing that makes me want to go so bad is that the wind isnāt blowing. At all. That never happens here. hah. So. Iāve been kayaking every day at least a little. Itās soooo nice to not have to fight that wind in the kayak.
Hope everybody gets out and gets some tight lines. Summer is going way too fast for me.
There was no water at the top of the cliffs here & I had fishgut & bait fingers until getting home. 
smell my finger
Secret spot and chef Robertās is in the boat with me
Anyone here from the UP or lower parts of Michi? Iām looking to make a trip up that way for ice season this year. Would love to link up with some fellow hardwater junkies
Couldnāt have said it better man. Fishing and cannabis are both therapy for me and there is absolutely no way Iād be able to pick between the two. Luckily we still live in a free country and I donāt have to.
I dont live in MI but I do live in the heart of the lakes in MN.
I know where youāre coming from
Thatās another place on my list
Iām 10 minutes from a hundred lakes, one outside my door another across the street, for example.
Takes me longer to hook my boat up and be ready then it takes me to go down the road a bit and dump it and be fishing.
Wow Iād find that hard to complain about 
ā¦so I got 2 āLuaā the other day & itās been about 35 years since I cleaned a fishā¦ I scaled & cleaned 1 fine, but I botched the filet job so bad I just turned it all into compost 
& froze the other bigger one.whole, uncleaned, just rinsed off.
Did I f*ck that up by not gutting it? My relative said it was a bad move but didnāt elaborate. 
Is it salvageable? It was on ice as soon as it was caught & was semi-frozen by the time I got home.
Thanks. 
