Always enjoyed your posts Bill. My wife and I really enjoyed visiting with you and your wife at the Lodge a few year back. Hope you will consider posting again.
Take a metal stringer and tie off the single clip to some stout fishing line and then open the rest of the clips. Cast perpendicular to the line the rod went out and drag the stringer around. Found any rods that have went into the drink with this method.
The teams did a poor job of providing a workable package. Lots of unknowns and unexplained items. The biggest reason it failed was because of the property tax debacle and folks were going to get even.
I agree with putting in the time, dealing with weather, and getting them to bite. You can't argue that it is way easier if you know they are there and can see them and how they react to your bait.
How will the higher water temps for this time of year impact the spawn for bass and crappie? I know water temp and photoperiod trigger the spawns. Local KC area lake I fish will hit 50 degrees by the end of the week if it isn't there already. Way ahead of normal for the 2nd week of March. Will the spawn stay the same or be early this year?
Dude weighed his fish on a certified scale and it didn't beat the record. Takes it to another place to weigh and suddenly it beats the record. Pretty easy to determine who put the weights in. Does not have a sparkling record to boot.
Time on the water makes one a better angler. Fishing with others and learning new techniques make one a better angler. FFS and advanced electronics make ne a better hunter.
Not sure it is even fishing now. More like hunting that fishing. On the hunting side, the instant notification game cams make it much easier to pattern a trophy. Easy buttons seem to be the way of life. Time on the water or in the woods actually fishing, scouting, hunting in no longer required for success.
Watched Connell scope his way to 110+ pounds. Every angler I saw when watching was scoping. Really curious how those boys would have fished had they not had the scopes running.