What Else Do You Target?

[rvadog]

Obviously we are all Bass fisherman but I was just curious what else you target (if anything) when the Bass aren't biting or you just need a change.

 

For me:

Snakehead

Peacock 

Saltwater Pelagics

[Bluebasser86]

Anything that will eat a hook is fair game in my book. My favorites are catfish, wipers, white bass, and walleye but I'll fish for bluegill, crappie, drum, gar, carp and just about anything else. Each fish has qualities that I enjoy about them and all hold a special place with me. 

[BuffaloBass716]

Im going to start going for pike! Ive never caught or targeted them before though

[pbizzle]

Girls

[tomustang]

What ever is by. Fresh and Salt.

[5 Dollar Fishing Game]

Sticks, trees, grass, paper,......whoops! I thought it said what we accidentally catch. Lol

[ww2farmer]

I usually dedicate 98% of my time in our open water season is for bass with about 75%-25%split on LMB v. SMB, the other 2% is panfish.. When I am not bass fishing for some reason (bored with it , slow going, etc...) I just go "looking" for fish on the graph, and usually find plenty of willing panfish, mostly bluegills, rockbass, and perch, with the enough crappies mixed in to keep it a guessing game. I catch plenty of pike, I don't want to start looking for them on purpose.

 

During our hard water season it's bluegills most of the time, with the occasional venture to deep water for perch.

[MarkH024]

Musky and Pike

[flyfisher]

I go after trout, usually native brookies up in the mountains and browns in the spring creeks. 

[Darren.]

I target bass the vast majority of the time. On occasion I've been known to target panfish (bluegill, crappie) from the yak. Even taken nothing but a long pole or two (no reels) on the yak.

 

From shore, my boys and I have taken all our long poles, even our 20 footer (both fresh and salt).

[NEjitterbugger]

Trout & Striped bass (saltwater)

[derekxec]

i mostly fish for snook but mostly ill target anything saltwater

[Catt]

95% bass - 5% Speckle Trout & Reds

[Missourifishin]

Besides bass, I like catfish a lot and will also go after crappie and bluegill. If it's really hot or if I'm just getting frustrated, I've often been known to just crack open a cold beer and watch a bobber for an hour or two.

[DelcoSol]

Those d**n pike and pickerel seem to target my new Siebert Outdoors jigs 

[00 mod]

I am bass 99% of the time.  About once a year I will go after bluegill or crappie.  I LOVE chasing big brown trout and anything in the salt, but mostly the larger game fish( bill-fish and sharks)

 

Jeff

[basshole8190]

Crappie is a big part of my fishing and bluegill with my son. i also chase catfish with the wife as she enjoys chasing jugs

[papajoe222]

Mostly walleye and pike, but I plan on targeting stripers later in the fall and next season when the big fish bug hits me.

[iabass8]

stream trout 

Walleye in early spring/mid fall to ice

[slonezp]

Walleye and panfish for food, pike and musky on accident, king salmon because you HAVEN'T fought a freshwater fish until you've hooked into a 25lb+ Great Lakes Chinook.

[bigbill]

I was a trout only fisherman for decades. After the trout slowed down we would hit the lake for bass once or twice a year. We would also fish for strippers, snapper blues, harbor blues and blues in saltwater. We would go for porgies and blackfish too. Inbetween trolling for blues we would catch weakfish too. We went spear fishing for whitings but never got any. Also we would fish for Flatfish too. (Flounder) We would anchor the boat and fish for flatfish as the tide was going out then go claming off Norwalk.

Now I fish for bass. I do enjoy catching the larger chain pickerel. We do have the northern pike here too. They put them here to control the white perch population in one lake. Now we have pike in all the bodies of water that's down stream.

We also have salmon here too but I never targeted them yet.

[SirSnookalot]

My bass fishing as far as really targeting them is done only in the winter months, once in a while I'll go for peas and snakeheads.  My main focus is saltwater, inshore and offshore which I do every day.  Snook are probably my favorite everyday fish followed very closely by barracuda being the most finicky fish I specifically target. Offshore an amberjack tops my list, inshore it's a permit.

[Mike2841]

Pickerel will hit pretty much any bass lure, and I actually prefer them over bass. In the winter I fish for trout.

[Hattrick7]

I'm mainly bass year round. Will go after trout at times during the winter.

Saltwater wise calico bass and halibut. Would like to get a rig for yellowtails, blue fin tuna and dorados.

[Bankbeater]

Most of the time when I go fishing by myself I target bass.  When I take the kids, we go after panfish.  Once in a great while I will go after trout or muskie.