DADAKOTA

How are you weighting the brush. I've used cinder blocks and wired them or tied them with nylon rope. Both eventually come loose. Any better ideas?

I totally understand your frustrations. Hunted a walk in area a week or so ago. The part of the area we chose to hunt has enough water for one party and we arrived early. while getting boots one had some guys drive up and ask where we were going. After we told them they said they were going to another section. Had some late arrivals that had not drawn in at the local CA. Asked where they were going and the guy tells me by the refuge line. Told him he'd be about 60 yards from us and that the area was only large enough for one party. He asked why is that? and I let him now that only 1/3 of the field had any water. Figured I'd save them a walk. Sure enough 10 minutes from shooting time here they come. They split their group and had 2 about 55 yards to our left front and 2 more set up about 50 yards to our right front along a tree row. Way too close and one of my buddies loudly told them so. After watching these morons sky bust and pass shoot birds at 70 yards my buddy hollers at them to let the birds work and quit skybusting. They yelled back "Its public hunting". They lasted about an hour and a half before leaving the area. Their tally was 2 crippled birds that they never retrieved. It amazes me how few hunters have any common courtesy anymore. If they'd have sat back and waited they could have had the spot we hunted as we were done by about 9.

Wow

Be prepared to stay the entire day. Often times the last 2 hours are the best at Schell.

Some real bruisers. Congrats on a great trip.

How much on the electric start 25

Great thread. Would a spring gun be mire accurate than the compressed air guns? Which has the higher fps. Needing to whack some squirrels in the yard.

Nothing more than a replicating lathe.

SO sorry to hear another great man has passed. Prayers for the family and friends.

Me three

MoCarp - If you knew folks were selling gamefish or deer, why did you not turn them in? The MDC sets the limits on game and fish and this State has some great angling. If a person legally wants to harvest a limit then so be it. Not sure what the point of your post is. Do you object to folks harvesting and utilizing fish and game? Are you claiming that these pics represent lawbreakers?

We call them brain balls

Are you slow trolling the jig and crawler or casting it? If casting are you hopping it back, dragging it, or just slow retrieving it near the bottom.

From the research I've done it seems that most folks are going with braid and tying on a fluoro leader. Anyone drop shot with their baitcasters?

I have always spooled the line onto the reel with it coming off the spool counterclockwise. I also close my bail by hand and start my retrieve on a tight line. Not sure what the nephew was doing although I had suggested he do the same. I grew up fishing a spinning rod and switched to a bait caster many years ago. Other than my ultralights a bassin sized spinning outfit feels funny now. Going to learn how to drop shot and figure I best get used to the spinning rod again.

Ain't nothin better than a yella dawg. Great pics Wrench. Brought back a rush of memories of my ol yella Dakota.

Got a couple of spinning outfits that I obviously need to change the brand of line on. Been using them primarily when I troll, but took a nephew fishing over the weekend and he used them for casting frogs, chatterbaits, etc. What a nightmare. The poor kid had numerous bouts of severe line twist. Tried running all the line out with no lure on it to get rid of the twist and added a swivel for him, but still line twist. Pretty sure I had spooled them with 10# AbrazeX fluorocarbon. Apparently that was a poor choice on my part. What line do you wire reel experts recommend. Planning on using one of the outfits for drop shotting.

Prayers from here

Is a "paddle jon" just a jon boat in the old style long and narrow that folks used to use on the rivers like the James?

I hate seeing dead LMB. Tourney anglers need to take care of their fish. With that said, I'd imagine that more bass die every day from being gut hooked on soft plastics like senkos and/or by being reeled in too fast after being caught in deep water than are killed by tourney anglers.

Looks like they were about to meet head on and the boat banked hard assumably to avoid a collision and the pwc hit it. Or the boat driver decided to cut in front of the pwc to throw a bigger wave and the timing was off. Be interested to know what went on. In my opinion there are too many people that own and/or operate boats that have no real idea what they are doing.

Bandit 300s will get you deep enough. Mad Cow is a Stockton killer.

Used to use a tiny treble as a stinger when fishing emerald shiners for brook trout in the UP. Never used a trout worm so I am unfamiliar with the action. Just a thought.

Put a stinger hook on to catch those tail nippers.

Amazing Brownies.