Kick’n up birds is what my good friend ‘”Bama Bill” did on a recent hunting trip to North Dakota. I’ll let the pic speak for itself, but if I had to guess I’d say that he and his hunting partners had a great time. Awesome job Bill, and thanks for the pic!! 
Well the weekend that I had been planning for months finally came and we made the annual trek to Busan for the amberjack run. This year we bumped up the number from 5 to 8 people. The boat seemed to be large enough for 8 but we only fished 7 rods (me and Rene shared). They said we were a bit early this year, but that didn’t stop us. We still had a blast. We didn’t get the mother load like TexMex had in years past but we got a fine mess of fish. 27 amberjack, 2 mackerel, and one nice red snapper. We had two greater amberjacks hooked but they were both lost. The first spit the Korean style hook, the second broke the 20lb main line. It’s funny that the 15lb leader stood up but the main line busted and I just bought that spool less than a year ago. Oh well. I hope you enjoy the pics. I even got a nice sunrise one.
I headed down to Andong early Friday morning with a great group of people and fished / camped / bbq’d / and drank beer for three days. I had a GREAT time, but plain and simply the fishing was rough; there’s just no other way to describe it. I threw everything (including the kitchen sink), but in the end could only get them to bite on a 5” Shad Rap, and even then only ended up with five catches in 2.5 days of fishing. And oh yea, I forgot…a pretty impressive sunburn too.
My friend TK hooked into a hog the first day down there on a top-water Torpedo, but lost it. However, he stuck with that pattern (top water) for the duration, and it ended up paying off nicely for him on the last day, producing this nice little hog.
As for me, I caught a Sogari and a decent bass on Saturday.
And although Sunday wasn’t much better, I did manage to catch “two” bass, one that was about the same size as the 5" Shad Rap I was tossing, and this 3 plus pounder.
To wrap things up, I caught this one on Monday morning before packing up and heading back home, and that was all she wrote.
Even though the fishing was so / so, Andong is always great place to be in my opinion. I met some really nice people, got out in the boat on a “non tournament weekend” for the first time in a long time, and basically had a good old fashioned great time, and boy did I need that.
In closing, here’s a shot of a peaceful Andong cove, which pretty much sums up why I love it down there so much.
Went and stayed at a pension house this weekend with 2 other families on Modo (one of the islands north of Inchon Airport). One of the wife’s friends knew a guy with a boat there and he gave us a free trip out for some hand line fishing for sea bass. There were 3 of us guys with 4 kids so we weren’t there for some serious fishing. Just handlining for whatever would bite. We ended up with a descent mess. Sashimied up a few for a midday snack. the rest went on the grill or in the soup pot. Still it was pretty fun overall.
Leaving out tomorrow to Okinawa for a week. Hoping to get in an offshore trip for some "big uns" 
I was finally able to get out and do a little bass fishing, but it took coming to the states to do it.
This past weekend my brother-in-law took me out on Lake Barkley in Kentucky for a little summertime post-spawn drop fishing. It started out kind of slow on Saturday morning with my brother-in-law catching a nice catfish on a jig, and both of us catching a few dinks. So, after an hour or two of that we decided to hit another area, one that to me looked like the middle of the Pacific Ocean, but in reality was a nice little drop that had a slight bend in it, which thankfully for us proved to be one of the best spots on the lake (for bass fishing) that particular day. For an hour and a half we hauled in largemouth after largemouth, on nearly every single cast, with at least ten of them being 4 pounds or better. It was truly a phenomenal day, and one that I will remember for years to come.
Oh, and by the way, I bought a new camera too. 
Here are a few pics:
Wait a minute, that’s not a bass!
Well the best made plans always have a way of going sour if you know what I mean. I had been planning for weeks to camp at Idong and fish at night with the catfish rods baited with live bluegill. We went to Idong Wednesday and it was WAY down. The water was dirty, smelly and just horrible. I have never seen it like that. Neither me nor my daughter wanted to stay and I don’t think I could have caught a bluegill if I tried. We went home and I quickly changed gears for a beach trip. We went back to Taean National Seashore and camped at Mongsanpo beach campground. It was pretty fun. While there I got a few sunset pix. I also checked out the harbor for some possible deep sea fishing info. The comercial boats were coming in loaded with some big fish. Got a few promising phone numbers. We’ll see if that pans out. We woke up the next morning and headed back up to Gungpyeong. I had noticed on Google that the harbor there was about done. I hadn’t fished there in over a year and a half. When I arrived, things had changed quite a bit. There is now a HUGE fish market there. Plus they constructed an American style fishing pier there. A very nice large Y-head pier jutting out from the harbor wall and it was free. I couldn’t pass it up, so we fished for a few hours. It reminded me of fishing on the Gulf Coast. I haven’t seen anything like this before in Korea. We had a few bites on cut squid, but no one was really catching anything except for small bait stealers. We then went and fished the rocks on the other side of the seawall where we had done well before and began to slay the small flatheads. My daughter caught about 2 dozen in an hour (3-6 inches). It got me thinking that maybe we shoud go there in the afternoon and load up on some small flatheads for bait and take them to the new pier for a night trip. The new pier was a pleasant surprise. At only 55 min from the house, I can see me using that a few times. I bet it gets CROWDED on the weekends though. Anyway the fishing wasn’t so great, but I got even more phone numbers in Gungpyeong as well. Soon I will find a decent offshore charter close by without having to drive all the way to Busan.
Dave
That’s the skinny. Pete can fill you in on the specifics.
Just sending you a post for a spectacular trout fishing trip we had this weekend at Eleven Mile Reservoir and the South Platte River just below the lake. We left very early for about a one hour trip from Colorado Springs to the lake and river. It was a beautiful drive where we got to see a herd of elk, antelope, and mule deer. We also got to see a red fox and some coyotes. I can say that this place is very beautiful, well kept and clean. When we got to the lake, we found a small cove where we threw spoons, spinners and finally fly fished. Between me and my partner we caught about eighty 12-14 inch trout before we got tired and went to the South Platte River to go after some bigger trout. We managed to catch some bigger trout (Rainbows, Cutbows, and Browns) and kept the ones on the picture for a fish BBQ. All in all this was the best trout fishing trip I have ever been on and am looking forward to catching a trout this year that will go over 5 pounds. I just have to be patient and eventually she will end up at the end of my line, I hope. Tight lines to you all and keep catching them nice bass in Korea before they become extinct.
From Hunter Dave:
Between being very busy this winter and all the exercises lately, the rug rat and I hadn’t had any opportunities to fish yet this year. With spring break coming, we decided to book a family vacation in Guam at the Pacific Islands Club resort. I sneakily used this opportunity to book an offshore fishing trip from the marina on the Guam Naval Base. After complying with the family stuff like parasailing, snorkeling, sailing, windsurfing, jet skiing, diving, etc, my turn came around. Unfortunately the wife and daughter weren’t feeling too good the morning of the trip, so I had to go it alone. Probably was a good thing since it was a little rough with 4-6 foot seas by the time we were heading back in. We went out in the 23 ft center console and started trolling for Wahoo right outside Apron harbor to no avail. We then went further past the drop off and started trolling for Mahi-mahi and yellow fin under working birds. That pattern quickly paid off as we hooked into our first double of the morning. We did so well and there was no way I could use all the meat that I shortened our trip from six to four hours. We had 12 hookups and was able to boat 8 nice Mahi-mahi over about a two and a half hour span. I definitely filled that fishing void for a little while and had some outstanding sashimi to boot. We ate like kings that night. I have to say that the snorkeling over there was fantastic. Almost makes me want to get stationed there. We were all a little sad to come back to Korea.
I woke up early this morning, and since I didn’t have much going on decided to head out to the river for a couple of hours of fishing. I went to an area that hasn’t produced very well for me in a long time. Why? I just felt like trying something different I guess, plus I had a feeling that I’d have the area all to myself, and thankfully I was right.
The last time I caught any decent fish here was a couple of years ago when Nomad and I both landed 3 and 1/2 pound bass on the same day. Even though I couldn’t replicate that success today, I did manage to catch a fair amount of fish, probably 12 or so in just a couple of hours.
All of them were caught on Senkos and shallow running shad raps (Tennessee shad and baby bass colors).
Here are a few pics.
I caught one decent bass, probably around 2.5 pounds, and a carp of all things, both on a shad rap.
The shad rap ruled the day. There was a thirty minute period where I was getting hits or catches off of it on every cast, which was a blast while it lasted, but like all good things it eventually came to an end.
Seriously. I had been fishing for a couple of hours without the slightest hint of a bite, and had even fallen into the cold river water and gotten soaking wet from head to toe on my right side, but all that bad luck changed when Nomad decided to send me a text message on my cell phone. As soon as my cell phone started vibrating from the incoming message, I felt a “tap…tap…tap” on my line, and I set the hook. Thanks Nomad! LOL It wasn’t a monster or anything, but hey, it was a fish. I’ll take it.
Other than it being cold and windy it was a beautiful morning out there, and I got to take in some awesome scenery too:
To my left:
To my right:
All of the fishing pics on this site motivated me to get out there and give it a try today. I caught two and missed three, and even got to watch one swim up behind my fast-moving Basstrix minnow and slam it. That literally made my day because I watched the bass dart out from underneath a clump of weeds, swim past my minnow, circle around behind and then nail it. Unfortunately I missed the hook-set (probably because I was watching instead of feeling), but it was nonetheless pretty awesome to watch.
I caught both of these on a 5” baby bass colored Senko, and the bite on both of them was surprisingly hard.
Oh, something else that made my day was when I got cussed by a netter ajoshi for releasing a bass right in front of him. He was watching me fish while bailing water out of one of his boats, and when I caught and shortly afterward released the first bass of the day, I heard a rather loud “aaaeeeesshhh,” followed by some other unintelligible grumblings. I just smiled and kept on fishing.
I decided to try another spot down near Asan Bay in the afternoon, but it was so windy down there that I could barely cast my lure. I put up with that for about thirty minutes, and since the fish weren’t biting anyway I walked around for a bit, snapped a pic of these nets in preparation and then called it a day.
I have a feeling that the weather is going to break any day now though! At least I had the river to myself today, which trust me, is a rare occurrence no matter what the weather may be.
My dog Amy didn’t seem to mind the white stuff.
This pic pretty much tells the story for where I’m at:
But not all fisherman are deterred by ice:
Take a drive 15 miles north, and there’s no ice at all. What the heck?
Alan and I have always wondered if there were catfish in the Pyongtaek River, and now we know. When I went out early Tuesday morning this is the last thing I expected to catch, especially on a shaky-head worm. Anyone ever seen, or caught one of these things? I think the Koreans call them Mae-gi.
In addition to the catfish, I caught several small bass…
…and then finished up the day catching this little pig on a 4″ chigger craw in the early afternoon. About thirty minutes before, something nailed my Senko and nearly pulled the rod out of my hands, so I had a feeling that there was a decent fish in the area. I stuck with it and finally got her to bite, but only after changing baits and then very slowly working it through the tall weeds.
