David Unnerstall

I like to go out the weekend before, set up camp, do a little scouting and fishing. I spent one Easter in Japan and another in New York with my old job so the family can do without me for another, I guess.

I was in the process of applying for vacation for Turkey Season (I was in the middle of a project, last year, and had to skip it) and found out it starts on Easter Monday. Man that puts a crimp in the situation. I have been hunting since '86 and don't recall this ever occurring.

Apparently, I am not good at either one.

I would say it is bad news. I would guess that fish up north are somehow different or have different strategies.

My experience has taught me that weedless design is more important when fishing from a bank. You can't just move the boat or canoe over to where the bait is snagged and get it loose.

The first thing I thought about was mosquitoes. It was the second and third things I thought about, also. My wife and I went ice-fishing by sled dog a few years ago in March. No mosquitoes.

It seems to me, BiteThis, that you just need to buy another tackle box.

It is just a long winter. This ain't nothin compared to the thread devoted to pissing of your front porch.

I have a buddy that calls them "Possums On The Half Shell." It just seems impossible for them to even get here considering they can't cross a road worth a sh-crap-it.

Edward Abbey said "if a man can't piss in his own front yard he is liiving too close to town."

Wennenman's in St. Libory. Tell them I sent you.

It never occurred to me that laying a fish on the carpet can affect the slime coat. I do believe I have done that for a picture, in the past, and now regret it.

Oh man, go to your local butcher shop and get some landjager (or something of the sort) and skip this crap.

I am comfortable sitting down in my 13-ft solo. I can do a side-arm cast that has a similiar effect as pitching/flipping. But I don't do a lot of pitching//flipping in my bassboat.

Larry, I am pretty sure they are the same but I have not timed it.

If someone doesn't let me what you all think about the bowling ball process I am going to post a link of Slim Pickens singing "Desparados Waiting For A Train."

OK I will take it out on the water by myself with a lot of portable light and my dentist's mirror and do a some investigating. That is once the weather breaks and I can get it out of my mother's garage. I don't live in my mother's basement but my boat stays in my mother's garage -- I wonder what that means.

I am REALLY happy that is what it is.

It is an outboard and I am googling "spilt squeezins."

I bought a 1979 Chrysler Bassboat that is sound mechanical condition a couple of years ago. It’s just that every couple of hours the automatic bilge pump kicks on and moves a gallon or two of water out. I would assume if I were to disconnect the pump and run some water into my boat, while in the driveway, I could find where it is coming in. It gets out on the water about a dozen times a year and only once a year, on average, does it stay in a slip for any length of time. But my question is "Is it worth all the trouble." I guess that would depend upon where it is leaking but does anyone have any advice on this?

I was in the neighborhood bar and told this story to the guy who now owns it. He told me I need a bowling ball with a hole drilled into it, an eye mounted in it with a cable attached. You throw the bowling ball as far as you can. It breaks through the ice and as you pull it back with the cable the cable breaks the ice to shore and you have a lane to fish in. Has anyone heard of this? Is it legal or ethical? He would not be pulling my leg on this.

No no....a submarine. You can go under the ice. Sticking a pole out the hatch....now that is a whole other issue.

That IS good news!

There are marinas for the pleasure boaters. And there is that place right as you get in town. I put my boat in at Hideaway Harbor a few times a year but have not stopped there in a while. Age makes you less fun.

Thanks guys, this is on the list this Spring. It sounds like the place for a white RoadRunner to see what is there. I will be in the canoe so it would be C&R. It won't be the same without a stop at Big Al's in Portage Des Souix on the way home, though.