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outdoors a fishing thread

I went fishing the other day on the pier. caught a couple blue runner of varying sizes.
 
Tried to send a small runner out on a 3oz weight on 30lb mono. Left it out there for a while... no bites. It started to rain then, and I half hoped for a larger fish during the rough weather. when I got back, found my pole on the ground, but no fish. And the runner was still alive, so it must have been the wind or a person that knocked it over. Oh well.  I pulled the runner off the line to use as bait. 
 
After a bit, there were some big needlefish that were biting (you learn to fish for what's biting.) so some fisherman were using floating orange and/or green weighted styrofoam cylinders to pull a piece of cut up bluefish/blue runner through the water. Seemed to attract the attention of the big needlefish. I didn't get any on the pier, but others did.
 
Marlin fishing a while back.  Dad and I hired a charter for the day, tagged and released 1 each and had an additional rise but threw it.  Great day, hard work though lol! 
 

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Rymerpt said:
I had shark fin soup when I was in Hong Kong, but was unsure if the rest was eatable. Guess not.
Here in California you don't need a license to fish off a pier. Does that apply elsewhere?
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In New York state, you only used to need a license to fish in fresh water, but that has recently (not sure how many years ago) changed for my area.  Now you need a different license to fish in the Marine and Coastal District:
 
http://www.dec.ny.gov/permits/54950.html
 
The license is free—The theory behind it is that the DEC wants to know how many people are fishing in the area, so they can better keep track of stocks.  The enforce this:  Over the summer, I was visited by the 
"Fish Police," while fishing for snappers (Young Bluefish) off a dock.  A big van pulled up with DEC logos on it and the word "Police" written with big characters.  A guy in a formal uniform came out and checked the licenses for everybody that was fishing.  I was safe since I had mine.  A guy fishing next to me did not.  The officer was nice enough to only issue him a written warning.
 
I’m glad I found this thread.  I recently took up fishing again, after a long period of inactivity. 
 
Sorry about the underwear in this picture.  I lack the Photoshop skills to pull my pants up! I did however do a crude job of erasing my old stepfather’s face.  I’ve got nothing against the guy, but we don’t keep in touch and I don’t fell it appropriate to post his picture in a public forum.
 
This is a picture of me with my first fish, a large Pickerel that I caught as a child.  There is a great story behind the picture: My old stepfather was a serious fisherman. He boarded the rowboat, armed with a three-layer tackle box full of lures. The only fish he caught were some very small sunfish.  I double hooked a Blood Worm that I dug up myself, and caught this monster:
 
 
dragon49 said:
In New York state, you only used to need a license to fish in fresh water, but that has recently (not sure how many years ago) changed for my area.  Now you need a different license to fish in the Marine and Coastal District:
 
http://www.dec.ny.gov/permits/54950.html
 
The license is free—The theory behind it is that the DEC wants to know how many people are fishing in the area, so they can better keep track of stocks.  The enforce this:  Over the summer, I was visited by the 
"Fish Police," while fishing for snappers (Young Bluefish) off a dock.  A big van pulled up with DEC logos on it and the word "Police" written with big characters.  A guy in a formal uniform came out and checked the licenses for everybody that was fishing.  I was safe since I had mine.  A guy fishing next to me did not.  The officer was nice enough to only issue him a written warning.
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I may be misunderstanding the intent of the original question.
 
But here in my area, the fishing license is I think required, but if you are fishing off of a public saltwater pier, they generally charge admission. And a fishing license for the time you are on that pier that day I believe is covered under your admission fee. Add to that parking fees and bait.. generally it costs about 10-15 dollars or so to fish for a few hours approximately. I used to be able to buy a special parking pass that gave fisherman a special all day parking pass for a fee. But now they are limiting it to four hours only for fisherman (with a small discount.) I think it is four hours for regular people too. But they may pay slightly higher fees. Maybe its a city thing or just a traffic thing, or both.   
 
If you are not fishing on a public pier with an access gate (like if you are just fishing at a campground that allows fishing or something, or beach fishing,) I think you need a license also. Same perhaps with fresh water. Special regulated fish may require additional licenses (like snook.) A snook license may also be included in the admission fee if you are on a public pier-not sure. Always best to ask. the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission seems to be one of our Regulatory agencies on such matters. Maybe you could find your local equivalent in your state and contact them to see if you can get better information pertinent to your area than what I or others are providing.
 
correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not a licensing expert. I generally just buy them when I need them, and pay the admission fees the rest of time.
 
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This is from a few weekends ago. Just had to take advantage of the incredible weather we've been having considering that this lake would be almost good to go for ice fishing at this point (3" this time last year). A balmy +3 made the 3km hike through the bush easy, no wind made for great paddling, good friends & great whisky just needed to get the fish to bite.
 
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A little while into our trek I hook up with a decent Splake (cross between a Speckled trout & Lake trout for those not in the know). See my float go under & think it was just the rather large minnow I just put on, wait a second or two....no you know it's a fish. Just the beasty a few seconds to swallow, set the hook & the fight is on. The fish flashes boatside & I see half the minnow out its mouth, think "shit not hooked" & a few seconds later gone. Swearing ensued & not paying attention the minnow was floating boatside when either the same fish or another one smashed it. Don't have a good picture as my buds cell phone sucks but was a decent 2-3lb.
 
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 We do a 4 km portage across to a set of connected smaller lakes as the action started to die down on our first lake (6 total caught). Something about backwoods fishing in mid December by canoe....man life don't get any better.
 
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My buddy would catch the only Splake on this lake but what a beauty!!!
 
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On the way out we'd take a slight detour & hit a really small Speckled lake & non stop action would end the day. The Brookies aren't huge but tons of fun, no quit in them.
 
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We would end this day on our fist lake have a small shore lunch/dinner, Brookies are fine dinning man & chased down with a slash of some decent whisky
 
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Last weekend winter decided to make a appearance but we still headed out, when I get all the pics I'll post a report 
 
So after all the unseasonably great weather we've had you know it had to break at some point & wouldn't you know it was just in time for a planned backwoods adventure. After studying the weather to see if it would be a cancelled trip we decided that it was still doable. Glad we did as it turned out the Brookies were on fire & the area didn't receive all that much snow.
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Hike in we're met with about 6" of snow & a skim layer of ice on some parts of the lake, perfect!!
 
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Didn't land any monsters this day but some personal bests were broken & then broken again. Biggest one landed on the day was about 1.5lb
 
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My dumb ass forgot to switch out my main line as I was running 8lb Braid & anyone in a colder climate could tell braid freezes.......so with casting distance cut by about 8/10 I was forced to play the short game. was banging them 3ft from shore.
 
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There is a time in the year when most fishermen are sitting idle waiting for the ice to come & most years ice would have started to form on most lakes, not this year. The Steelheaders will be out in full force chasing chrome in the river systems & as much as I'm a Steelheader I hate the crowds. Our fishing regulations would point out that pretty much everywhere & everything is closed, stocked lakes are another beast all together. The zone I fish has a metric shit ton of backwoods lakes you can fish year round all it takes is some effort to reach them, & I love that it takes effort as 90% of folks won't give it a go. Lakes all to ourselves & the bears/wolves/deer...etc
 
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