dan hufferd

On the flip side I have caught several walleye under wake boat traffic, they seem to dig it, but the stress of it all is too much for me to hang out there long.....I may have acquired some hippy speak from my uncles, 🤙

I would just like it if they would give me a wide berth when I'm fishing. I have had them roll within a few yards of we when I'm finishing the bank when there was plenty of room for both of us. Either most operators are oblivious to others or they just don't care.

I like the shiver minnow really well, I will try the little ones for crappie.

Those dang things get hooked on everything, and you can't hardly get them loose, I clip the front hook off that might help a little, I quit using them, too expensive. I can get a jigging spoon loose 99% of the time, that's what I go with.

There is a reason why that music isn't popular any more, thanks, now it's going to be 40 years before I can for get it again

Mink pee it smells great. Put the boat in an enclosed area (not the garage connected to the house) close the doors let the generator or tractor run in there for a few hours. I knew a guy that would close his shop a couple times a year and let his semi run until it shut itself off. It was an older truck, I wouldn't do it with a new one, or anything with tech

Registration is a state thing as far as I know. We took kayaks to fellows and they sold us a sticker based on the type of boat. There was a 40hp limit last I knew. The folks at the marina will inspect (look at ) your rig to make sure your description is accurate, if I remember right. It seems like I remember something about the marina being closed after a certain date, after that a guy is unable to buy a sticker for the boat. It's been a while.

Congratulations ! I feel like I have a 100 years before I can think about retiring.

I caught a couple trout opposite side of the ramp off a stick up with a black twitch tail minnow on a dropshot one summer, the water was hot they were only about 12ft deep or so, must have been a spring there or something, they were completely silver.

Weird, I don't understand what age has to do with it, it's not like they're pole vaulting or some??

I am not a spelunker but when I was young we crawled around in several caves in the Greene and Stone counties, many times I would catch a bat by trapping it against the cave in my ball cap (now I have weird hair in that spot...not really😜) I never had a bat deliberately bite me. I would guess that bat was infected, really weird !

You are right, I think, try getting a spoon through a suspended pack of feeding k bass, the walleye are almost always under them, I think picking up the wounded.

That's great, and a spread of multiple sizes as well ! I felt like the walleye population was going to get good. I wonder if a slot limit like they have up north would help the size now that there appears to be a decent population. Several mile north of the area you mentioned I spooned up 30 walleye all 1/4 of an inch short, in an area the size of a large dinner table. That was 2 or 3 years ago now. I too have caught a ton of those big bluegill. Once in October we found some large ones with the walleye. That was 8 or 9 yrs ago already (there is a video somewhere)...I need to get my priorities straight Thanks for the report

I put a couple things I like to throw on the scale just because. I can chuck these in the 70ft+ range with my cheap junk reels if I get things right. I don't know what I'm doing. It seems good enough to me. I am curious how this compares to the more refined options. That's 2/10 and 3/10 oz

Tell me about your Cummins dually or single wheel?

Yep

I am looking to replace my old hds 7 gen 2. I wouldn't mind another gen 2 with a larger view. Thank you

The Piscfun Spark pro will do it, for $37 find a medium light 6'6" from a big box store for under $50 or wait until Bud's Bait in Carthage puts rods on sale (usually October ) and get a $100 rod for 1/2 off. I am now buying line off the jungle site 1000m for about $35. You can probably buy 100yrds for $6 or something. I can be done.

That sounds like a really nice set-up. How far do you think you are throwing the ned? I did some measuring in the yard yesterday with the ned, I can get around 70' sometimes 80' I think I have reached the max for my cheap-o reels. The weird thing is braided line size didn't seem to matter, I have some old 50# dacron, it casted as good or better than the 10# stuff.

It's more than likely my technique. 15# Yozuri, is what I was using

Update, I can't do it 😀 The way the fluoro flips around when its doubled over is just too fiddly for my old hands, so I'm staying with the double uni that I know well. I thought I would give fluorocarbon another chance on the bait caster...nope, I'm not great at the caster yet so that in combination with the willingness of fluoro to unwind itself for no reason didn't work for my dumb thumb. On a positive note: I put some 50# braid I had laying around on the caster I made it manageable for me. I bought a few el cheapo chinezzium knock offs that work pretty well. I bought 2 Piscfun spark pro 8.1:1 for $37 each new paired them with 40# Reaction tackle braid ($35 for 1000m), I can throw a weightless fluke no problem, also purchased two kastking reels for around $65 each, one was the Zephyr for throwing light stuff ( paired with 10# braid I spooled off something else) and their Mega jaws, it has a centrifugal brake, I would highly recommend this reel or one like it for someone new to the baitcaster world. A guy can literally launch this thing with no input from the thumb until you want to stop it. Maybe someday I'll have some fancy reels to go with these fancy rods, but for now these should get the lure in front of fish. Thanks again for all the input and advice !

I like them too, and do the same.I bought most of mine at Fleet Farm. I used to travel some for work, our home office was in Oshkosh so I always made my way to Fleet Farm. I sure wish we had one down here.

I just feel like the "hybrid" thing could hold some unforseen problems, what would be wrong with promoting the native species? Maybe it's to late for that line of thinking?

https://www.wired2fish.com/news/texas-stocks-300000-genetically-superior-largemouths-into-o-h-ivie