Novel forms of fishing

catch a fish off a surfboard. caught two barred pargo @ 9 palms on the
east cape. have the photos, but I need to scan them.

did I see handline on there? I've seen a
30lb amberjack caught on a handline
at the jetty in loreto. Also a giant needle fish by a 3.5' tall kid @ el faro
in michoacan.  he hung it over his shoulder and it hit his feet in front
and back...

trotlining is illegal in many places, including florida, but I did hang a
pinfish in my boat slip on a vertical line hanging from a line across the
boatslip, which would probably be a trot line.  yep, something ate it.
didn't get hooked either.

how about bridge fishing. it's the sh*t in the keys. I hooked a tarpon!
I suggest "no name bridge" between big pine key and no name key.

so you got four reverse-money anti-foo-foo things to add to your list.

On the flip side of that,
I don't think I saw a $500 guided trip on there either, the kind where they
peel the grapes for you.  I think I've done a $300 guided trip. caught a
10" flounder... did get to pilot the boat between two million dollar boats
while the guide tried to net bait...  "sure, I've piloted a boat before..."
my wife loved the boat ride.

a worthy quest, goodl luck!

Try crawfishing.  Find a mud crawdad chimney, the bigger the chimney, the bigger the crawdad.  Tie a piece of bacon on the end of a string and then tie a knot in the string, half the length of the chimney, up from the bacon.  Drop the bacon and about 2 feet of string into the chimney, then wash it down with a cup of water.  When you feel the crawdad pulling on the bacon, S L O W L Y pull the bacon up, finger over finger.  If he drops the bacon, wait until he returns.  If you are patient enough to pull the crawdad up to where the knot clears the chimney, that means the crawdad is in  the chimney and you knock the chimney over and you have your crawdad.  A hundred or so of the big ones and you have a good boil.

I did some seining in TX, it is a net stretched between 2 poles then 2 people pull it around, mostly for bait fish but I have caught the odd flounder in there.

Also gigging for flounder: you walk around in shallow water, about 2 feet deep, with a light. You see there eyes glow red then you gig'em. A gig is a spear with 2 barbed tips.

Wadefishing in TX is huge, from the beach or the miles of shallow flats.

Fishing oil rigs off shore for snapper, grouper and king mackerel.

Bottle fishing, winding line around a beer bottle and casting it out, never done that but I have seen a bunch of people in TX doing it.

We called it Beach Ball Fishing. We would go out on Hwy 37 by Sears Point and when the wind was blowing out we would hook up a big beach ball like a bobber and let the wind troll our baits way out. It worked pretty good. We used a variation on the San Mateo Pier where we used balloons to carry our baits down current, when it got where we wanted we would jerk the line the balloon would pop and the bait would sink for Sturgeon.

when I was a kid I got a few carp with my shotgun.

How about longboard fishing? Simpler and less of a haul than a kayak, but still pretty effective. There's a pretty big contingent of long board fishermen out of Santa Cruz, and on a good flat day you'll see them drifting baits through the shallow flatty spots off East and West Cliff.

Let me know when you try the dynamite method. I have always wanted to give it a shot.  

Up in Alaska, a weighted treble hook is often referred to as a "Sockeye Fly", as in many areas up there, snagging Sockeye is or was legal. I also remember snagging kokanee being legal when I was in SW Colorado.

Of course, the statute of limitations on what I'm now relating has long since expired. But a buddy and I once found our selves 12 miles from the truck where we had overlooked one of our food bags. We didn't have a fishing rod, but we did have a .22 pistol... The rainbows were delicious, the brookies, not so much.

But my most blasphemous fishing technique has to be fly fishing for bass while wearing a mask and snorkel Way too much fun.

Regards,
Scott

couple of interesting ones I have done
1 floating with mask and snorkel hand lining (bring a tube with a net in it for your fish)
2 mask, snorkel, fins, cheap pole, cheap reel and a lake  (lets you get to alot of interesting places in the lake without a kayak and the tourists think its hilarious too.

I've been on a quest to try as many types of fishing as I can.  Having already hit the basics I'm looking for some of the more novel methods.

The mainstream methods I've done..

-power boat fishing
-row boat/canoe fishing
-party boat fishing
-surf fishing
-pier fishing
-fly fishing

Novel methods I've done already...

-kayak fishing (maybe this should be mainstream now)
-spear fishing
-ice fishing
-poke-poling
-cast netting
-dip netting
-seining
-trawling
-electro-fishing

Legal novel methods I haven't tried ..

-float tubing (mainstream?)
-kite fishing
-noodling
-bow fishing

Illegal novel methods I'll probably never try..

-poisoning
-dynamite


Am I missing anything?  I find it hard to believe I only have four more legal genres of fishing to try.

Brian

How about catching them with your hands?

It's like fish rugby that you play at 3am and you tend to get pretty wet. It's illegal as hell but I'm not sure why because it's alot harder than rod&reel and it's a blast. Not really a solo sport though.