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| Console Fishing Game list |
[26 Mar 2008|02:14pm] |
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I know its been quiet and its been awhile since anyone has posted anything here, but while the ice is melting and I'm getting anxious for that open water, I went out and inventoried all the fishing games I own (console systems only).
I’m NOT going to try to count Fishing games made for the PC because that would be rather insane and to be honest, anything old for the PC is impossible to find and won’t run on a modern computer without an emulator and its not worth the hassle. All of these games in BOLD that I own still run on the original console fully well. I was going through and doing reviews of these games; and its been so long I might just do a new set of reviews instead starting from the bottom and working my way up.
This is the most comprehensive list I put together that of console fishing games that were released in the US. My goal is to someday collect them all. I am NOT interested in importing games in languages I CANNOT read or need an imported system to play them on.
Ones I own are BOLD. Ones I am missing are therefore in plain text. I might upload this list to Wikipedia at some point if I get bored enough. If the game is CROSS PLATFORM I only have it listed for the console I own it for, and I don’t feel that its neccsary to own every version of the game either. I’ll only list the game on all the platforms if theres something I’m missing.
I was at one point doing reviews of these games waay back when. I might either pickup or restart that project someday.
( Uber massive list behind cut! )
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| Hey all |
[27 Mar 2007|12:13pm] |
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Haven't posted here in awhile... Does anyone still read this community?
We've had an unseasonably warm start to spring up here. I only went Ice fishing twice this year because I didn't do all horribly good the two times I went out and it was a really bizare winter.
However we have an early start to the spring/ open water fishing season. It was 82 degrees F yesterday and has been over 60 for the last week and a half. Most of the lakes around here are ICE FREE in March. So I'm hoping to get an early start this year.
I went out for the first time yesterday to the river, it was still a bit early and the waters were almost at flood stages so nothing was biting at all. But it is saying something when its too hot to be out in jeans and a T-shirt in March in a Northern state. Regardless of not catching anything... it was a great day to be out enjoying what I couldn't a month ago.
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[30 Nov 2006|10:47pm] |
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Question...I want to get my dad into fishing. His gf loves it but hates me so she wont tell me anything about it. and the people at stores are stupid and mean. But I want to get him a fishing rod and stuff like that. I just dont know what kind to get, what to get him, what he needs. etc. etc. Help please? Sorry if im annoying you..I cant really find websites.
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| Dreamin of "the one" |
[26 Nov 2006|10:14pm] |
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So I live in Northern California. Right now it's pretty cold and cloudy. I am just going crazy dreaming about next year, and the fish I will catch during the spawn. I just got a Daiwa Veinto from my husband for my birthday in October. So I didn't get to use it much. I will be looking foward to going out next year with my family to find the one fish I will be bragging about all year. Right now I'm just dreamin'.
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say, is anyone here from montana and an angler?
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| Attack of the Turtles! |
[03 Aug 2006|10:31am] |
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I hadn't had the boat out for awhile now, so I thought I would do something special last night. For the first time in 3 weeks we had a wensday where the tempature was decent here (80's, still got hot on the boat and had to make a water break- but it was not baking hot); so I decided to take the boat out to the St Croix river.
Winded up getting lost on the way there once, had to back track but still made it there at a decent time. Turned out I was an idiot and didn't charge the battery for the fish finder. If I would have been farther north I would have turned around and not went fishing, but this stretch of the river was wide with few obstructions- I knew it well. My spot was just on the other side of the river, and was well marked from the shoreline, so I didn't need the LCD.
Fished for the first two hours and got two nice catfish right in a row, (kept one released one. Fresh catfish dinner for me tommorow!) missed a few strikes on the catfish rod and caught a few mooneye. Then I caught a turtle. A little painted turtle, though I couldn't get the hook out after trying for 30 minutes; it was buried deep in the middle of its tounge. I didn't want to hurt it, so I put it in the livewell cooler with the catfish and drove back to the boat launch (I had a second reason for doing this- me not thinking ahead didn't bring any extra water, and I was starting to get really de-hydrated.) There was a DNR officer there, I took the turtle to her and see if she had any ideas. We eventually just used the pliers to cut the hook shank leaving only the barb inside the turtle, and off he went.
Drove to the office, filled up a few bottles with water, then returned to the boat and went back to my spot.
This is when it became wierd. The catfish were gone. The turtles invaded. Generally when evening comes the catfish go nuts. Either the turtles got them out of their hole or were getting to the bait first. After I returned all I got were turtles on the cat rod. Another painted turtle, this time not hooked that deep- I was able to unhook it; and then something MUCH bigger.
At first I was pretty confident I had hooked a really big catfish. It was fighting like a catfish- it was using all its effort to keep on the bottom, and only really started fighting hard when I was trying to raise it to the surface. It turned out to be a HUGE snapping turtle about 3'-4' in diameter. It would have likely weighed 30-50 lbs; so it offically marks the biggest thing I've ever caught (but not a fish)
I wasn't of course going to try to wrastle it into the boat nor even try to get the hook out. Snapping turtles are somewhat nasty- and have the tendancy to be able to make big gashes or take off fingers with their sharp and powerful jaws. I cut the leader with the fillet knife as I got it near the boat.
The other rod? I was catching sunfish yes BLUEGILLS on the St Croix river! They were all over the place! Normally they are rare on the river, but for some reason tonight I happened to find a large school of them mixed in with the Mooneyes. I didn't do anything on the cat rod after the snapper but the action for the mooneyes and sunfish on the other line was pretty steady. I must have got about 20 mooneye and 6 or 7 sunfish (I would have had more had I been using angleworms and a panfish sized hook).
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| Fishin |
[22 Jun 2006|07:55pm] |
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I want to go fishing this weekend for just bluegill and maybe a crappie or two. I hope the weather is nice. It is stormy now. I would not mind going bass fishin with someone in a boat. I don't have a boat. I have a lot of bass lures and crappie lures, Spinnerbaits, buzzbaits, poppers, divers, froglike baits and hook/worm combos of many kinds. I wish some of yall was near by so we could fish together.
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| Memorial Weekend Fishing |
[31 May 2006|03:55pm] |
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Well this weekend i fortunate to get out fishing. I went with my family to Lake Carlos State Park, where i spent all of saturday fishing. I caught a total of 7 bass and 3 pike. I kept one pike because i had hooked it somehow in its gills and it was bleeding an awful lot. so i kept it to eat. I was having strikes only on perch colored lures and on a steady retrieve. At 5 o'clock my dad came and asked when i wanted supper, and i said "I dont care, just come get me when you want to eat" (i would be having to clean the pike and such so i would need some time).
WELL, somewhere around 5:30 i got a BIG hit, at first i thought it might be a big pike, but when it got close to the dock, i saw it was a bass!! i didnt have a net and my only thoughts were to grab onto it and not let go...
so i reached down, grabbed the jaw, and immediately began to put it on my stringer before it would get away...
Then i became excided! I couldnt have guessed how much it weighed at the time, but i would find out later. I called my dad and told him to buy a camera, since no one had brought one (d'oh!). When he came back, pictures were took, and i cleaned and ate her. she was mighty tasty.
the final measurements were 18 inches long, 11.5 inch girth. my digital scale wasnt working right, but from equations and estimating she was about 3 lbs. the pike measured to be 18 inches too.
here are some bad pictures of me with the bass...
hope y'all had as much fun as i did this weekend!
-ben
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[08 May 2006|06:41pm] |
yesterday was great on account i was able to get out fishing. i was only out for 2 hours and i caught my limit (10) of crappies. they werent too big, maybe 9 inches, but combined they sure tasted great. cant wait for fishing opener...
-ben
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| Brotherhood of Catfishermen |
[17 Apr 2006|01:59pm] |
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We are showcasing tons of awesome catfishing videos, some of which are over 20 minutes in length. If you haven’t watched our BOC Staff member reel in a 75+ pound Blue Catfish, you should bang your head against the wall now!
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The Brotherhood Of Catfishermen
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| first fish of the year |
[13 Apr 2006|12:28pm] |
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so yesterday i was able to go fishing. tuesday i went out and got my fishing license, and found out that wisconsin DID up their out-of-state license fees, so now its $50! ehat a rip-off.
so anyways, yesterday i went down to a lake right by my house and fished of a bridge for about 3 hours or so. i caught about 25 to 30 sunfish between 4 and 5 inches and a shiner about the same size. I had to stop when the wind was too much of a hastle and the clouds, (some of them dark), were moving in. They werent hitting anything artifical yet so i used my berkley power bait natural stuff. it works great. hopefully ill be able to get out more, but if not im spending every day from june 7th to august 13th fishing. Im working at a boy scout camp and im the marina director. i teach kids the fishing and fly fishing merit badges... plus i only work 8 hours a day so thats plenty of time for me to fish otherwise.
-ben
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If you like you catfish, I would like to ask you good folks to check out The Brotherhood of Catfishermen.
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| Almost time! |
[04 Apr 2006|03:55pm] |
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I wonder if anyone still reads this LJ community. Its been slow, and I guess its partially my fault for being as inactive as I have been as of late with it. O.o
Anyways, just touching base here. Only got out a few times ice fishing this year since it was slow and Open Water is my real domain up here. With the rain and warmer temps, the lakes up here in Minnesota are ALMOST ice free.
Time to re-spool the line on the open water gear. I might even get out on the river this week, which has been open for some time but is likely still pretty in-active by shore.
Rule of thumb I've found for panfish on smaller lakes atleast: They won't start being fishable from shore till about a week after complete ice-out. The boat won't come out until May.
So who else here is ready for some springtime fishin? :)
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| tackle box heaven |
[20 Jan 2006|07:34am] |
yep, my husband loves me, that is for sure.....and he KNOWS what THIS woman wants....
he surprised me with an early valentines gift last night....a new tackle box!!!
and not just ANY tackle box, its a BROWNING BACKPACK tackle box! OMG i am in fishing heaven......
jsut for point of reference.....
and pay no attention to the woman in her jammies.....comfy pants ROCK.....
( Read more... )
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| back to "winter" steelheading |
[13 Jan 2006|05:53pm] |
Fishin has slow since the new year for me. Haven't hooked a fish other then a chub.
So my buddy and I headed out to the river yesterday. What a great day and beautiful weather. I started off the day with loosing a nice mint hen. Was I ticked, lol. I made up for it with the next cast on landing a smaller hen that was chrome. She looked to of been doing battle with a pike. My buddy ended up catching 2 steelies later on that were one the small side but pretty none the less. We did see a bald eagle flying around. Something you never see down state or some of the other rivers I fish.
We moved around quite a bit but didn't have any luck once we left that hole. After getting home and talkin to a knowledgeable resource it sounds like I was fishing too deep. Lesson learned!
We then moved to another section of river with limited sucess. I did get into a scrappy little fighter of a brown. Right when it was almost too dark to tie a knot my buddy tied into a strong native steelhead. This fish put up an excellent fight in cold water. Def. put a great end to the trip. Snapped a pic with the point and shoot and off he went. Hopefully i'll get him in a few weeks
If it wasn't for gas being so high, I know where I would be on saturday, lol
Today, friday, I headed to another river in search of the mighy steelhead. The weather was COLD with a little bit of wind. Plus some rain and a mixture of snow at times. Once again my fishing partner was down there and I found him in a hole that produced alot of salmon for us. Guess he had already had a great day with going 3-4. We then searched for some steelhead and finally found one. Bill made a drift towards the fish and he went for it but turned around. 3 drift through, bobber down, and FISH On!!! After takin his time with landing the fish, it was in the net. What a pretty little chrome hen.
The north wind was pickin up so we gave it another hour. Then we headed in in hopes of a good day tomarrow.
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| loooong winter |
[11 Jan 2006|02:03pm] |
this has been one seriuosly long dry spell for me....i usually NEVER go more than a week without fishing , and i am in serious withdrawl right now......
it has been MONTHS since i fished.....this last year was the worst with my husbands deployment, adn then i injured my left arm right before stripper season opened, putting a stop to all fishing for the last few months....
*sigh*
but this weekend i am hitting the pier....once again Bass Babe the Pier Pirate will take over her rightful place on the end of the pier, rubbing elbows with the osprey that hunt those waters....waiting for my line to stretch.....i cannot wait....i am giddy just thinking about it.......i hope its foggy that morning.......that would make it peeeeeerfect.....
now im going to go clean out my tackle box, restring my lines, oggle and fondle some lures, and wait for saturday.......
*big fishy grins*
x-posted cause im bored....
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| Cabela's |
[06 Jan 2006|07:47pm] |
Got a call from Don today asking if I wanted to go to cabelas. I was planning to go fishin but in 15 minutes I was ready and waiting.
It was my first time being out there. What a great place. It's like christmas :D I did good though, spent under 50 bucks. Had an elk burger, wow are they good. Think i'll start putting in for an elk tag.
Bought some jigs, and some lure. Had a trail camera on sale ready to go home with me but I put it back, lol
Checked some other stuff out that I wanted but put it off.
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| Perfect way to end 2005 |
[31 Dec 2005|08:27pm] |
I don't want to clog anyone's friends list and I have no idea how to do links. I have some new pics and reports of fishing and hunting up on my page. If you want to check it out, just click on my journal.
Hope everyone has a great new year!
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| two days of steelheading |
[29 Dec 2005|11:35pm] |
Christmas eve, got patted down by the cops for "tresspassing." We were looking for a place to hang out and get away from the christmas party. Thank god we didn't get into any trouble that rsulted in me with less money, lol
Yesterday, went down to the river where I hooked that steel christmas day. Water was up but perfect stain. Talked to a guy that had been fishing all days with no luck. I stepped in up river of him and hit a fish on my second drift through. Put up a decent fight and I landed a small 23 inch female. Perfect, because I needed some eggs. I pounded that hole and had one more hit but missed it. Moved on down with no luck. White bags were the ticket with a white jig.
Got home, tied up some fresh spawn bags.
Went out searching for some land to hunt but no luck. Then it was off to the river where again on my second cast I nailed another steelie. At first I thought it was a bigger one because it started of taking some drag. Then it surfeced and basically gave up. It was a smaller one with beautiful colors on it. It was then released. Another caught on a white bag. I walked alot of river, just checking it out since I haven't fished down there in awhile. Same program as yesterday.
What a great couple of days. If I can't find a hunting spot in the afternoon, I know where i'll be tomarrow night and saturday night.
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| Christmas steelheading |
[25 Dec 2005|10:42pm] |
When I woke up at 10 AM I looked outside and saw over cast skies and my first thought was steelie fishing. Not the presents under the tree or all the good food I was going to eat. I went down stairs and did the usual. After that I kept looking outside and was wanting to go. Usually I wouldn't ask, I would just go, but being christmas I didn't want to be rude. My mom knew and told me to get out, but be home at 2:30. I was out the door in a flash and on the river at 1:15.
Of coarse when I pulled into the parking lot the rain started. I put on a white spawn bag and made a cast. This hole usually does not produce but with all the reading I have been doing I figured I was fishing it wrong. I decide to let it sweep around and up against the other side of the current. I knew there were alot of snags around. My bobber slowing went under, like it was snagged on something. So I gave it a little jerk and knew I was going to regret it. Sure enough there was a steelie on the end and it came up head shaking and threw the hook back and me...figures. Had 2 other bobber downs that I was sure was fish but missed them both. They were takin small bags in chartruse and white.
Thought I was going to get it when I walked in 10 minutes late but thank god the pistons distracted them:)
Anyone else get out?? Hopefully you all had a very nice christmas!
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