MrGiggles

Sounds like a good spot for a snare.

It hurts when you lose two or three in a day... I order them from Midway.

I have a couple baits that are similar to that. I got them at the Bass Pro outlet, but have never used them. I'd say they have more of a flutter/rocking type of action, similar to a rippin rap or a blade bait, rather than the dart/glide that a jigging rap does. I do know that you can buy jigging rap blanks and save quite a bit that way, but you need to paint them and install the treble. This is just one source, I know there's another website and Ebay as well. The downside there is that for whatever reason they don't make the 5/8 #7, which is the size I prefer. https://kbtackle.com/products/10-pack-1-2-ounce-walleye-jigging-minnow-blank

Maybe they don't want to be laid up and crippled in their old age like, well you know who.

Have to give some credit to @lmt-outfitters for turning me onto jigging raps. Those things just flat out catch fish, a lot of other things too, but still. There's a lot of good info out there, sometimes it takes some digging to find though.

I put in at Crabtree and fished a little ways down the little Sac up to the dam. I scoured some of @powerdives old posts, reading about targeting main lake points that extend a long ways and eventually touch the river channel, even better if there is a channel swing nearby. Seems to be a pretty good pattern all year long.

I have a 10' Ozark rear seat, Everharts was closing them out a few years ago and I got it for like $20. It's a good rod, but I always found it pretty awkward to flip fish with, and storing it is a hassle. I suppose it has it's uses but not for how I like to fish.

I slipped away yesterday for a couple hours and got into them again. I only threw back one crappie, two walleyes that were short. I think only one of those that I kept was under 12". Jigging raps and ripping raps, 20-50ft.

Does this count? It worked a lot better than I thought it would, I cut the piece roughly with a holesaw but had to trim the lip down some and cut around the outside a little so it was concentric. That's a replacement dryer pulley that is NLA.

Looks like the 12' Outlaw is 8 ounces. Not sure how that stacks up with the competition. https://fishoutlaw.com/products/12-pro-se/

Check out Outlaw Crappie Poles. Local company, the owner is a great guy, met him a few times and see him around Stockton and Truman now and then. I believe I am Outdoors in Buffalo and Everhart's carry them, you can get them directly from him as well. I'm not really a fan of long rods, but I have the 6.8, it's my favorite light action rod. The sensitivity is great. He can also sell you just a tip section if you ever break it.

With that pattern in mind I'd be heading to the point just west of Master's island. There's a brush pile along it that has to be up out of the water now. There's some shallow brush in the back corner of the big flat northeast of cedar ridge too.

I'm picking on myself a little too. I only have one on the wall that might break 140, probably in the 130s. The rest are unremarkable size-wise, but they're important to me.

I'd mount a 30" walleye from Stockton. My PB is 24", I've seen some high 20s but 30 is pretty rare I think. Who cares what anyone else thinks, if he's proud of that fish and wants to mount it, he should. How many guys have dink bucks on the wall? It doesn't need to be a booner to be mount worthy.

I've been seeing the normal amount of buck sign. I normally don't pay a whole lot of attention to scrapes but I have seen some, and some rub lines. The food plot thing is kinda odd, only thing I can think of is added pressure, or maybe you tilled up some kind of forage that they really liked. The first year for my plots was really good. I still have an archery tag, I've been letting the place settle a little bit after hunting during firearms season. Wouldn't mind for the acorns and stuff to dry up a little more too, so my turnips look more appetizing.

Cell cams have come down a lot in price. I bought a Stealthcam Fusion X this year, been out since September and I haven't had any issues with it yet. Cell reception is pretty poor here, especially on ATT which is what that camera uses, but it seems to work pretty reliably on two bars. I've used Moultrie in the past and had good luck with them. Academy had a pretty good deal on one a while back but I'm not sure if it's still going on, I believe that one used Verizon. I experimented with some cheap Tasco's two years ago, most of them went in the dumpster after they proved to be unreliable. Nothing worse than coming back to a dead camera that was working fine when you left it.

What's everyone wearing for cold weather bibs? I have a Magellan pair that I bought from Academy a couple years ago. They're good enough I guess but they aren't water or windproof in the slightest. Ideally I'd like a pair that's between thin waterproof rain bibs and full on snow pants. I can't stand walking around like the Michelin man with bulky clothes. Just a little bit of extra insulation and a water/wind barrier would be perfect. Any suggestions?

The past few years I've made a habit out of sneaking off Thanksgiving day and heading to Stockton. I think every year I've done pretty well, today was no exception. Ran into JR Oldham (owner of Outlaw crappie poles) out there. He had a pretty good day too. I ended up with 6 walleye, 2 keepers, and 7 crappie with 5 keepers. All on a #7 black/chrome jigging rap. The crappie were kinda everywhere from 30-50ft, walleyes were 25-15ft. Fished the crappie vertically but the walleye definitely preferred casting and just letting the bait glide back along the bottom. Water temps were 51, very clear and still low. Cloudy and mostly clear but it did drizzle for a half hour or so. Happy thanksgiving everyone, hope all had a good day.

I was kinda surprised to find fish in there. No bait or anything. But they were there, on the bottom or close to it. Sometimes scattered and occasionally in a small bunch. I'm back home now. Not sure if I'll be back to TR anytime soon. I do want to fish Bull though.

Booked one of those big lodges on Indian Point for our Thanksgiving get together, I had to bring the boat. I put in at Indian point marina Tuesday morning and fished some for a couple hours. Struggled to find much life anywhere. It's a very different lake than Stockton or Pomme, way deeper and the submerged forests are pretty interesting. I've never tried to fish a treetop that was 50ft deep. I went back to the lodge and had lunch, went back to fishing solo afterwards. Checked a few different spots and couldn't find much again. I was trying to apply the Stockton walleye pattern without much success. Come to find out the walleye population isn't quite as big here. I didn't have any brush pile waypoints loaded for table rock either. I stumbled into what I guess you would call the auxiliary dam. Marked some fish near the bottom in 45 feet. Dropped a jigging rap down there and hooked up pretty quickly, one spot one smallie. Hooked several others but never boated them. Took another break and went back in the afternoon, the fish were still there but not active. Didn't hook any. Rode around for a little while, checked out the main dam and saw the Belle leaving her dock. Pretty cool. Returned to the aux dam and hooked another spot. They were a little more active but still pretty finicky. I'm not really a bass fisher but it's still fun to catch those healthy fish. The smallie especially was a pretty good one.

You need to have a GPSMap unit with HDMI out. They will also mirror to a tablet/android device, if I remember correctly. The $700 93SV doesn't do any of that. I can't imagine that you are going to gain any resolution, whatever you get is going to be the maximum that the graph is able to produce. So if you scale it up quite a bit screen wise, image quality will suffer, but I bet you could go up to the size of an average computer monitor without sacrificing too much quality.

I think "warm apple pie" would be more appropriate.

I'm partial to Lightning Rods too . I think I've got three of the 6' 6" now, two have the tips broken off but I still use them, and one 6' old model that I got at the outlet store. The broken tips stiffen up the action just enough for jigging raps.

I've been going here and there lately. Sunday 11/6 I had nice 8pt at 15 yards. He was just about to cross into the opening where I could shoot, and stopped and went the other way. So yeah, they're good at not dying. When I climbed down I noticed the tree I was in was skylit pretty badly. Live and learn I suppose. I haven't seen a whole lot for acorns this year. Red oaks have plenty that are good sized, but the white oaks are tiny and hollow, if they have any. My turnip patch has been more or less untouched for the last month or so. Which is typical, it'll come alive first week of December. Just been hunting sign and acorns where I can find them.

I've never seen a blower used like that but I bet it works. I have seen someone essentially make a shepherds hook out of 1" PVC with a 3/4" hose adapter on the bottom, and walk along spraying the gutters out that way.