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Bringing back an old thread. Thanks for the post @baluga. I'm currently on a vacation/reunion (turned out to be more of an introduction than a reunion for me with most of the family) myself right now. We are staying in Manila. Our planned activities for the trip are mostly complete and I would like to rent a boat and find some green fish in lake Caliraya. Pantabagan would probably be my first choice from what I've been reading on the internet but Caliraya is much closer to Manila. Would you happento have any insight? Boat rentals, location or structure to fish on that lake? Or just any BS'n about it you feel like bs'n about?

I couldn't find it on Google maps. Lol. They must spell it differently or something

Bringing back and old thread as I depart for a 30 day trip there next week. @Brett's_daddy, how did the trip go? Find any good shops or fishing locations? We are bringing 3 rods and a small bag of tackle with Hope's of finding some fish and maybe some tackle to finish filling the tackle bag

These came out of watts bar. Can't wait to go back there but I really need a boat to get to the dam at watts bar I say "These" but can only upload one pic. Lol. We had 2 - 25lbers that day and 7 or 8 others over 20lbs. Big fish at wattsbar.

Nice fish! I mentioned to my girlfriend and now it looks like we are going Friday night. Lol.

We considered going back that evening for the sunset bite. Looks like we might have to this weekend. Does the bite just turn off in the evenings? It sure seems to in the mornings. All of a sudden, bam. Their done.

I was hoping for some of them spider man kinda isotopes, but it just gave me the runs.

melton hill dam Thanks for the tip. I think where I screwed up was the initial cut right behind the head and gill. I didn't cut the head of, but I think my actions were the same if I was trying to cut the head off. Very aggressive. Do you start with a straight cut being the skull and gills? That was the most difficult to get through the scales and where I ended up being aggressive, also the cut the green goo came from. Next time I will start that incision with just the tip of the knife to get through the scales, like you described with the back.

Yeah, that was definitely a learning experience. It looked so straight forward on YouTube. I was expecting my knife to cut better but it was more dull than expected and the scales took way more effort than anticipated to get through. I feel better knowing it was my technique and not something wrong with the fish. I can practice, and I feel better knowing we didn't waste the fish as we almost didn't finish filleting the fish worried about toxins as this body of water has warnings about radiation and contaminant in catfish from all the industry that pumps into the waterway. Thanks.

Thanks. I wasn't sure if it was somewhat common, or something to be concerned with or what, but the meat washed right out and looked clean after a rinse, and no one complained. So that's a good thing.

This morning we got up early and went below the d**n and had a great time with the white bass, some of which we kept and had a little fish fry tonight. This was my first time keeping anything I caught and my first time filleting a fish. 2 of them had this green goo. Anyone seen this before? I had thought sea weed of some sort, but idk. That yellowish tint on the meat is from that green stuff

Lol, yeah, it seems about as predictable as the weather. Nice little cool down this weekend, then back into the 80's next week

I snell knot my ewg hooks. I'm also not a fan of straight shank hooks mainly because i run through plastics and can never seen to keep the hook point burried in the plastics, which grabs grass, then tears up the plastics. With the snell not, the weight doesn't contact the knot and clanks on the hook eye and the knot can't slide to the side of the hook eye. I've heard it's not a good idea to snell ewg hooks, but I have yet to have a problem with hook ups, whenever I do happen to get a bite.

This happens with my 90 also. It rolls sideways sometime, and I also lost most of the rear treble hook

I've been watching them chase the schools of shad around up at the surface at every shoreline, I been to in the past week. I've got a shad colored whopper plopped and a couple jerk baits and lipless cranks to match, but they don't seem to care. But with as clear as the water has been, I can't say I blame them.