fishinwrench

Jerry, I think that's kinda like paying sales tax, yearly PP tax, and registration fees on a used outboard motor. I'd like to find out what the fine is for failing to do so.....but nobody has ever been fined for it. It'll cost ya 100.00 to fish without a permit. I know this because my daughter spaced hers off last year and got popped in March. Somehow that became MY fault, so I had to pay it. I've already reminded her this year though, so she's on her own if it happens again.

I am experimenting with these "Pucking Products" for shoot-thru applications. I did one with the red stuff last July, and tried the "sports/outdoor" type on another one last October. So far both are still doing great. The green tube stuff sets up a little more flexible and might be a little more impervious to fuel or oil (only time will tell). The cool thing is that if it doesn't work then it's easy to clean-up and start over, unlike a big blob of hardened epoxy. I scuffed the transducer and inner-hull surface with coarse sandpaper, then cleaned with alcohol before sticking it down. No issues with air bubbles as long as you don't get pucking stingy with the Goop.

I don't think you could launch there now if you wanted to. Its in the back end of the cove, right? Gonna be high and dry until May I bet.

An alcohol wipe does a good job of "prepping" before adding the strips.

Fried up my last bag of Fall whites last night. I'm officially on the wagon until the Spring run unless someone either invites me to dinner or I go catch some crappie or gills. There's always store bought salmon I guess.

So is it still a tax exempt church thing? Just curious.

Thank you! Are we just still doing this to keep Rubbermaid as an industry sponsor? Or what?

I'm all for either Keep it and Eat it, or release it UNHARMED immediately. And although I'm probably gonna catch hell for saying this ..... If you put it in a livewell and transport it to the other end of the lake, then you should just go ahead and have a daππn fish fry ! Its 2014 for Dog sake ! There are other (Better) ways to have a fishing contest that don't include hauling fish around. If you're gonna release it then release it immediately. Lets progress a bit here, can we? How many Rubbermaid baskets of dry bass do you need to see in your lifetime? I've seen enough of them to last me awhile.

HAA! I spotted You, Ness, CWF, Gavin, Chief, and Phil. Chief, why doesn't Al ever answer you?

Oldplug, The Oar house is on the opposite side of the main channel, He'd have to drive 100 miles to get to THAT ramp. LOL

That would be fun. Our state doesn't want us to leave and spend in other states, so it would be interesting to see which way they lean.

Last Saturday night you could hear geese overhead for HOURS. There must have been millions and millions of them. I couldn't tell which way they were headed but I'm guessing Southerly, AGAIN.

So after it was obvious that he had boxed all the weight he needed to secure a high finish (possibly a win), he then reached for something from one of his sponsors so he could say he "used it" since he was more or less obligated to do so. Competitive fishing is still cool and I really do dig it alot. The "reality show" direction that it has been headed in for years now is the only real turn-off for me. "I'm young, handsome, and ambitious, Please root for me". "I'm a godly man and live by the black book, Please root AND PRAY for ME". "I'm a clown, I'm funny and act silly when I catch a fish, Please root for ME". "I'm timid and soft spoken, and carrying on my fathers legacy, Please root for Me". So on and so forth.... The character cast is cheesy and unoriginal. ( IMO ) Someone needs to enter the circuit as the "unnamed angler" in plain clothes and in a plain looking boat..... and just start freakin RULING the weigh-ins! "Just leave the Pay to the order of BLANK please. Thank you".

Oh...That! It used to be that a land management company disguising itself as a "church" was in charge of all that property. Not sure how that works, or if that is still the situation out there. Maybe you could become a Deacon and have free rein of the place. LOL Good fishing up there, and Turkey cr. (above the lake) is a nice little Smallmouth stream....if you can get access to it.

"Spring branch cove" ????? Gravois Spring branch? What Mile marker, or what lake road are we talking about ?

I don't GAS one way or the other, but I'm probably gonna be a little more organized and know exactly where every bait I have is at, and what it'll do BEFORE I get to the Classic. There wouldn't be any "dumping out piles of crankbaits" and "eenie-menie-miney-moes" going on. That's just hilarious. Seriously? Oh, well then. That settles that.

That's depressing. I assumed that the sanctioned political area (wherever it is) held that honor. Just wait for the Spey or Roll cast clarification discussion.

Yep that'd be a good'n for the money. ^^^ It does catch fish!

Not sure you can call it "price gouging" since the price is stated up front and you have a choice whether or not to purchase.

I was just wondering if the bait being thrown weighed close to 3/8oz.

I hope it feels better now, to have that off your chest. Because I'm afraid that is the only relief you'll ever get. We are given freedom of speach in order to bitch about things, but no indication that the bitching will ever change anything.

Yep ^^^ I'm normally standing, with one foot on the gunnel. Palm down/reel handle pointing down/ elbow only slightly lower than my shoulder. The hips and the wrist are all that pivot. I'd suck at it (distance-wise) if I was sitting and couldn't use my hips in the process.

Dremel? In the time it would take to dig it out, find and change the bit, put on safety glasses, and plug it in.... I could have the crankbait "tuned" with an emery board.

I take it that a number of you guys throw the wart during more situations than I do. The wart phenomenon is a fairly short window for me, usually beginning as the late Winter-early Spring jerkbait bite falls off, and lasting until the shallow flats begin to produce big fish sometime in April. After that I am pretty much done throwing crankbaits (of any kind) until Late Summer when I break out the DD-22's. On Lake O the crawdads burrow into the shoreline rocks and up under the bases of seawalls sometime during the Early Winter, then during the coldest part of Winter Ameren draws the lake down considerably leaving the sleeping crawdads high and dry. When the ground begins to warm up and we have a few warm NIGHTS the crawdads wake up and make their little 5-30 ft. migration downhil to the waterline, and that's what starts the legendary "wart bite" here. A twin tail grub tossed along the bank will catch the same fish but the wart covers water faster and the fish are obviously hungry enough that finesse isn't required. So why is the wart so much more effective than other crawdad type crankbaits has always been a mystery to me, and why the OLD warts are noticeably better than the new ones is a mystery too. But I sure can't deny it, the old Warts are the bomb.