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ORIGINAL: papinner

Oh so sorry didn't realize you were the grammar police.

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ORIGINAL: swinger

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ORIGINAL: avidangler

I think pinning is great because it allows me to catch numbers of steelhead. I also enjoy it alot. I spend somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 to 400 hrs a year chasing musky catching a fish somewhere around every 15 to 25 hours fished, so when i head out to lake erie or lake ontario i'm looking to catch fish,plain and simple, pinning has been the most successful tactic for me. Before i started i leaned more towards fly fishing for them than noodle rods, as well as fly fishing for trout. I've lost alot of my passion for flyfishing over the past 5 or more years. Pinning is not just a steelhead thing for me either, basically i've caught cats,carp,bass,walleye,sauger,sheephead,crappie and bluegills and of course lots of trout, fishing the pin. It can be used very successfully in certain situations for stream and river fishing, its not my go to choice of tackle for these fish but all can be caught with them.

I can relate because I love to musky fish. I dont troll all I do is cast. Trolling would for sure put more fish in the boat, but I just dont get the same rush. I love watching them fish hot on my bucktail as well as the low and slow follow. I watched my 51" follow and eat my buchertail feet away from the boat. Awsome plain and simple.

Thank you for taking the time and answering my question with the thought it deserves. I respect you.  You are a quality person. I hope you enjoy your season. By the way you know anything about that Revo Winch?

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ORIGINAL: Loomis

I really honestly think he just wants to know what it is that gives you the passion to pin...in an honest answer.

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ORIGINAL: Carphead

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ORIGINAL: Loomis

I really honestly think he just wants to know what it is that gives you the passion to pin...in an honest answer.

No he doesn't. He has made it clear long ago that he loathes centerpins and those who fish with them.

If this came from anybody else honest and pleseant answers would have been given.

Why frequent threads/forums you dislike or have no iterest in?
There are funny people all through this site......and then there are douche bags that try to be funny and witty.

Swinger, we get it that swinging flys is the greatest thing since f'in sliced bread and that you are the best at it, but how about you go beat your bible to somebody else. Its getting lame dude.

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ORIGINAL: Mr. Twister

Guys come on. Erie steelhead is a competion everytime you go fishin. You always want to catch more than the guy next to you. The pin is more effective. i have only just recently started pinning. I have learned alot more with a pin in my handthan any other fishing rod or reel. I dont care what you do swing flies,pin or spin fish. if you are enjoying wat you are doin that is all that matters. period not fly's vs. the pin. just enjoy wat you do.

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ORIGINAL: Carphead

Lets clear a few things up here.

People who make comments about numbers and outfishing other people with their chosen methods, are being foolish. That shouldn't be what its all about. I never once mentioned numbers of caught fish as my reason for fishing with a centerpin.

Can anybody really brag about catching a bunch of steelhead when there is so many stacked into tiny creeks? IMO that doesn't mesure an anglers skill, not that it matters anyway. That is also why I don't post on here much. The majority of guys look at pinning as just a way to catch those glorified pelletheads with bait. They don't bother to learn how to use it correctly, or other ways to fish with it other than slapping any old float on the line and making a half-assed cast.

Seeing that I rarely(if ever) bother fishing for steel with a pin, I don't have to worry about being crowded or drifting over someone and vice versa. The waters that I fish recieve very minimal pressure and are large enough you can almost always avoid people, so who is there to compete with? Nobody is there to oooh and aah about how good you are or how many fish you're catching. Besides, who ooohs and aaahs over a guy catching carp, catfish, smallmouth, and other river fish?

I wasn't going to comment about this, but here goes:
Centerpinning is so great because its one of the many ways I enjoy fishing. Nothing to do with numbers, quote "effectiveness", quote "drag free drift", or anything to that nature. More to do with the mechanics than anything else. To me its fun. I don't bother with bait such as eggs like everyone is obsessed with mentioning. Jigs, flys, and others are just as good if not better and are easier to take with you. A lot more goes into it than that, but I'm done.

Swing to your hearts content swinger. And when I feel like its how I want to fish, I will pin to my hearts content.

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ORIGINAL: pxatim

The general idea I'm getting is that "It outfishes all other methods"...

My question is(since I've never even laid hands on a pin), why is catch rate so important... is the rush from triggering strikes of aggresion rather than enticing a fish to strike out of really wanting to? Or does it really not matter to you pinners since it's all about numbers?

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ORIGINAL: jimhalupka

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ORIGINAL: pxatim

The general idea I'm getting is that "It outfishes all other methods"...

My question is(since I've never even laid hands on a pin), why is catch rate so important... is the rush from triggering strikes of aggresion rather than enticing a fish to strike out of really wanting to? Or does it really not matter to you pinners since it's all about numbers? All but one who has replied have stated is about numbers.

lol just knew you would be jumping on the bandwagon and chiming in tim.  You're worse than ffpa. It's been said a hundred times before that most of us don't pin for numbers. 

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ORIGINAL: jimhalupka

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ORIGINAL: pxatim

The general idea I'm getting is that "It outfishes all other methods"...

My question is(since I've never even laid hands on a pin), why is catch rate so important... is the rush from triggering strikes of aggresion rather than enticing a fish to strike out of really wanting to? Or does it really not matter to you pinners since it's all about numbers?

lol just knew you would be jumping on the bandwagon and chiming in tim.  You're worse than ffpa. It's been said a hundred times before that most of us don't pin for numbers. 

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ORIGINAL: pxatim

not in this thread it hasn't... any honest reason stated in this thread for using a pin has been simple...NUMBERS...and I'm not jumping on any bandwagon. I don't pin and don't come in here much so it was just a question.

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ORIGINAL: Carphead

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ORIGINAL: pxatim

not in this thread it hasn't... any honest reason stated in this thread for using a pin has been simple...NUMBERS...and I'm not jumping on any bandwagon. I don't pin and don't come in here much so it was just a question.

So basically anybody who claims they don't centerpin for the numbers is a liar?

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ORIGINAL: pxatim

why are most of you so quick to bash any one questioning pinning... no one has given any other reason for pinning other than "it out fishes any other method"

so let me reword it this way...why does pinning out fish other methods out there and does it do it consistently?

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ORIGINAL: swinger

Nice photo avid. Looks like you got room for another guy on that boat.

I swear carp you have an attention problem. Just read the words that are on the screen and stop looking into stuff. You got a guilty conscience guy. See a priest or something.

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ORIGINAL: swinger

What can possibly be so hard about it? You are using a bobber.

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ORIGINAL: Carphead

You didn't answer the question.

Did you not say you fish with a bobber....or should I refer to it as a "strike indicator"? Whats so hard about that?

The last post was lame even by your standards.