.......when it comes to fishing.
Just taking a poll. Who went fishing in the cold weather today and what did you catch?
Noticed somebody went to Fairfield yesterday and tore 'em up.

I went out this afternoon on Buchanan and caught 40 whites but I wouldn't call it hardcore. Hardcore is when you have to dip your rod tip in the water to clear the ice.

I have a tournament in the morning. Supposed to be 28 degrees. But I seen and felt worse.

hardcore=carp anglers....2 of our guys have been on the banks of emma long in Austin since monday...in tents they lines have not been taken out of the water and they are going to be fishing for another 9 days across east texas.

Yeah...I'll be out in it all next week with the carpers, no matter what the weather.

will be on Lake in the morning. Now Sunday is a different story with the forecasted winds 25-35 and temps in the 20's- 30's

Sorry LoneStarCarper, but I'm thinking the correct equation is

carp anglers=lunatic fringe.

I've been in a couple of bass tournaments where it was in the 20's all day but that was just one day.

I hope they're keeping a journal, thats gonna make a good story.

I will fish no matter what.


.. and I always fish in shorts..


No matter what!

Well heading for the creek in the morning should be 32 to 35 in the morning with a 10 to 15 mph north wind and thats out in the open plus it will be muddy as hell just hope i catch some white bass if not it will be a very cold morning LOL

Shorts? Thats not the smartest thing I've heard of but hey you do what you do, even if it lands you in bed the next week fighting off the flu! haha

Only sissy's and yanks get the flu. When I have shorts on I am like Bruce Willis in Unbreakable. Superhuman!


-Z-

LOL yeah bum but u a bit south then me, don't think i could wear shorts in 32 deg. with a 15 mph north wind.

Yeah see if i get sick and catch the flu then i can't fish LOL so has to stay warm LOL

Okay I'm not sure this fits in but... I use to fish a rock jetty that was an inlet to Barnegat bay on the Atlantic coast as a kid. We waited till we got 3-4 swells generally accompanied with cold inclimate weather because those were the ideal situations to catch Stripped Bass in the 30-50 lb range on surf pole & 2 oz bucktail jigs. You wait till lowtide & walk out over the boulder rocks to the end with full rain gear on including cleats. We'ld anchor ourselves with a cord to an hook eye that was predrilled in the rock to make sure once the tide got high along with the swells we didn't get washed out to sea. That was generally 2-3 hours of the best times I can remember fishing each outting. My biggest was about 37 lbs & seen one landed cose to 45lbs. This type of fishing wasn't for everyone & generally you'ld hear of losing an angler every so often. We had to deflate our tires to 8lbs just to drive down the beach 10 miles just to get there. Total awesome memories.

I would say thats hardcore. And well worth it to catch stripers that big.
"Hardcore" is a relative term. To a casual fisherman, going out in this weather might be hardcore, but to a guide or you guys that could be guides if you wanted to it may just be part of the deal, a minor nuisance.
As for carp fisherman, I've always got the impression that they are all hardcore to some degree. And thats a good thing.

I went out yesterday when it was 19°. It got all the way to 40° and was back down to 31° at dark when we loaded the boat. We had a 15 mph breeze from the NW all day. The bass wouldn't cooperate so we decided to get some eaters. We wound up with 11 nice white crappie and 7 walleye. I'm gettin' the smoker ready for tonight.

Does fishing on lake michigan in a 20ft triton with 7-9ft swells while jig fishing for smallies waves are so bad that the trolling moto shaft isnt long enough to keep the prop in the water at the top of swells??

Haven't braved it this year. Last year my partner and I were out on Fork when it was 18* pre-fishing for Media Slot Teams. It was wierd not seeing any other boats out there. Will probably never have the entire Lake Fork all to myself again. To make it worse niether of us got so much as a bite all day.

how hardcore is this?

Dayne, where are you fishing to get 'eyes. I love them. I go to Norther Ontario every year to get my fill of them but somewhere in Tx would be better but I thought the only place that had them you couldn't eat them.

Please elaborate - thanks.

I was going to be hard core today, then I went outside and ran back in.

I went to Lewisville today, had 2 keepers at 4.54...

It was way to freaking cold to be on the water today. I have come to the conclusion that 25f, north winds at 15 and bass fishing have nothing in common.

I've wade fished Galveston Bay, Dollar Point, when ice was forming along the shorelines. No kidding. Is that hard core?

How about the other extreme....hot temps? Does that qualify for "hard core" status? I've fished Mexico and points south when the air temps were 110 degrees, humidity 100%, mosquitoes so thick you couldn't get a breath... and I have to say that those conditions were even more uncomfortable than ice conditions. But catching Tarpon makes whatever you have to endure worth it.

Hard core all the way!!!

Yeah my boss wade fish alot in the winter at baffin bay it just looks funny to see him in a jacket wade fishing.