Off topic; fishing. Show your catch7457

Originally Posted by esaravo
@Darkseid_of_town - Pretty much what @Frontier2Xterra said. I mostly target Largemouth Bass when fishing freshwater ponds, lakes, and rivers. But I frequently catch other species, like chain pickerel, when I am bass fishing. If I am in a body of water that includes Smallmouth Bass, I may downsize my lure a little bit and fish deeper and rockier areas than if I was seeking just Largemouths. And if I am on a body of water that has Northern Pike, I would switch to larger and possibly flashier baits. If you throw a small spinner, you can catch a wide variety of fish - from panfish, to trout, to bass, etc. I pretty much always use artificial lures instead of live bait, with the exception being that I use shiners when ice fishing. I rarely keep any fresh fish to eat, unless they are likely to die when released (for example, a gill was damaged by a lure.) When saltwater fishing, I usually keep fish that meet the state minimum requirements for that species. Most of the time if I want fish to eat I go to a store or restaurant.
I have seen Alligator Gars in ponds in the Florida Everglades, but haven’t fished for them. I have also had Needle-nose Gars as aquarium pets decades ago. I have caught a few large snapping turtles by accident over the years, have had owls silently swoop down and grab my surface plugs a few times (thankfully they dropped them without getting hooked), and even accidentally hooked a river otter in a Maine lake once.
PS - I used to bottom fish for catfish (brown bullhead) years ago with live worms as bait. Unfortunately RI ponds don’t hold giant channel catfish.