Hybrids, subspeicies and mutants

As any wise fisherman will tell you, nobody is really sure what they will catch and with mixed lakes and similar speicies crossbreeding is not uncommon. In fact, three days ago I caught what I am almost sure was a bluegill/pumkinseed hybrid, it had the shape of and fins of a bluegill but the coloration and mouth type of a pumkinseed plus a little bluegill color. Anyway, panfish breed easily with each other and hybrids among them are more than common but other speicies spawn with each other as well, for example , some hybrids are known and others are not named. For example if a male brook trout spawns with a female lake trout, you get what is called a splake, it is similar in size and shape to a brook trout but has the markings of a lake trout. Another form of hybrid that also involves a lake trout is a fish that you will catch in lake superior known as a ciscowet. If a walleye mates with a sauger the offspring is known as a saugeye and if a northern pike and a muskie spawn, you get a tiger muskie. On rare ocassions anglers catch mutant speicies like the silver pike, a mutant speicies of Nothern pike. Different forms of the same fish can be caught, a few examples are the northern largemouth bass and the florida largemouth bass and the northern bluegill and the florida bluegill. The muskie is divided into three subspeicies, the spotted muskie, the barred muskie and the clear muskie. You may catch a number of crossbreeds and subspeicies or evan mutants so if you catch a fish you don't know, look into it, you may be suprised. In the picture to the left, this is a Saugeye

Freshwater options: North America

North America is a masterpiece of God famous for it's natural beauty and bustling with lakes and rivers and ponds. You can reel in a variety of fish. These are the freshwater speicies you can catch, you can catch freshwater fish from the tropics of southern mexico or just below the arctic circle in northern Alaska. You may catch... {Pictured, Atlantic salmon}

Largemouth bass
Smallmouth bass
Spotted bass
redeye bass
Bluegill
pumpkinseed sunfish
longear sunfish
green sunfish
fliar sunfish
redear sunfish
redbreast sunfish
Orange spot sunfish
warmouth
black crappie
white crappie
rock bass
white bass
yellow bass
striped bass
yellow perch
white perch
sacramento perch
striped bass
channel catfish
Blue catfish
flathead catfish
black bullhead
brown bullhead
yellow bullhead
white sturgeon
shovelnose sturgeon
lake sturgeon
paddlefish
Atlantic salmon
coho salmon
chinook salmon
pink salmon
chum salmon
sockeye salmon
brown trout
rainbow trout
brook trout
cutthroat trout
golden trout
lake trout
bull trout
apache trout
arctic char
dolly varden
lake whitefish
mountain whitefish
round whitefish
Nothern pike
Muskie
chain pickeral
grass pickeral
walleye
sauger
rio grande perch
Grass carp
mirror carp
common carp
white sucker
bowfin
freshwater goby
freshwater drum
shotnose gar
longnose gar
alligator gar
garpike
American shad
hickory shad

Reeling in Advice

At your local library you will likly find a number of books on fishing from maps of lakes to ice fishing, reading these books and studying your target speicies will get you closer to success.
Here are some books that will give you advice and may improve your chances of catching fish.

1.500 fishing tips for freshwater 2.Freshwater gamefish of North America, hunting and fishing library series {Pictured}
3.Northern pike and muskie, hunting and fishing library series
4.Catfish, hunting and fishing library series
5.panfish, hunting and fishing library series
6.Walleye, hunting and fishing library series
7.The complete book of saltwater fishing
8.Northern pike a complete guide to pike and pike fishing
9Wisconsin's top muskie lakes.

Don't fish on friday the thirteeth

Just for the fun of it I am going to tell about the worst luck any fisherman can possibly have!
There is one little tiny noise that no angler ever wants to hear when reeling in the big one.....snap. And hooks, those things are nasty, one time I caught a bass and it fell off the hook, sending it flying and hitting me in the finger or when my friend hooked me in the neck and he kept reeling in Ouch! If you ever get hooked,you do not want it to go into your skin past the barb, I can't imagine how painfull that must be to get out. These ones are simpler but downright irritating! When you get poked by the sharp spines on a bluegill's back. The scent of rotting dead fish and pretty much fish in general. When you touch a fish and it's really slimy. When the warden starts questioning you. When a bullhead slices you with it's sharp fins. When it gets too dark to continue. When your boat starts sinking. When you reel in a bunch of weeds. When you snag your line on something and you spend endless hours freeing it. When You lose that ten dollar lure to a snapped line. When your line snaps due to a snag. When the fish gets away. When the guy next to you starts catches your fish! When little kids are running around. Ducks swim by and scare all the fish. when another fisherman is in your spot or when someones dog jumps in the water. And last but not least, the worst luck of all, When you have to untangle a mess of line!

Self control

Two weeks ago I hooked a beaufiful northern pike! The thing was on my line for about twenty five seconds and then I accidently pulled the hook out of it's mouth. Bummer, but to tell you the truth I never saw the thing but the guy next to me described it to me. Well anyway, I now know why the fish escaped and what I did wrong, my andreniline rush got the better of me. You see I have this habit of jerking back on the rod more than once to make sure the fish stays hooked and keep reeling between jerks. I knew how to fight it and I knew what to do but like I said, my exitement overcame me. Perhaps if I had given the fish more line, it would have stayed on the hook. Well the point here is that you must learn to control your andreniline rush, it's not easy to to stay calm when you hook the big one, it is very exiting but still, you have to fight him just right before you can land him. For example if the fish is swimming downword, lower your rod and let out about a foot of line before raising the rod and reeling, if the fish is swimming out farther and farther keep letting out line until he stops, if he jumps out of the water that is an attempt to throw the hook so what you have to do is raise you rod as high as you can. The trick to keeping the fish on the hook is making sure your line is tight but if he is straining the line, just loosen your drag a little. You should only reel in under one of three condition, when the fish is has stopped struggling, if the fish is only struggling a tiny bit or if it has dragged out too much line and is about to snap it. One more thing, when landing the fish, if it is a big fish like a pike, salmon, muskie, catfish or even a big bass, it is best to use a net. Man if Only I had caught that pike, not only would it have been my first pike, it would have been the biggest fish I have ever caught.

Beware!

Fishermen, watch your backs! Because popping up in lakes and rivers all over the united states is the giant snakehead! These monsters are such a problam because they are predetory beyond imagination, eating smaller fish, decreasing they're numbers and lowering the food supply for larger species. Native to thailand and other areas of southeast asia, they are considared a delecacy and up until recently have been sold live at many asian supermarkets and are capible of surviving out of the water for at least eight hours, some are still being smuggled into the country as you are reading this, some have escaped captivity and some pet owners have dumped snakeheads they can no longer keep into American waters, in fact one was recently cought in the lake Michigan in Chicago. If somehow, you catch a snakehead you must kill it and contact your local DNR office immediatly. Be extreamly careful when unhooking these things, they have teeth like demons and are responsible for some bloody attacks in thailand. Note that you may find out that your possable snakehead catch is actually a bowfin, a native fish often mistaken for a snakehead.

Beat this! Bass anglers!

Well bass fishermen, you have officialy been beaten, for years you have been catching huge bass, trying to break the sixty and forty year old records for both large and smallmouth bass and you have landed some pretty impressive catches. But!.... in the year 2007 two fish and two anglers changed the world. First, the largemouth bass, a lucky angler {Bless his heart} fishing in Dixon lake in Californa managed to haul in a whopping Twenty five lb one ounce Largemouth! Sadly the previous record of Twenty two lbs from the forties is now a memory from the past. Now for the smallmouth. Another fisherman in canada proved himself by landing a beautiful twelve pounder and without knowing it, erased the previous Eleven lb record from the top of the list. These fish are amazing and they're captors should be proud, Congratulations! We all give high fives from our hearts! Still How long will these records last? We all know that there are bigger fish out their, they just haven't been caught yet and they could be hiding in an enormous lake on the other side of the country or in that small community pond down the street, you never know. These future monsters will continue to elude us from the shadows, but for how long? Which one of YOU will reel in the next giant? This is the picture of the world record largemouth