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Just looked at their recent stock history. Gone from $92 in April to $72 yesterday.

Those Z-Man baits are great!

Great pic!

I'll definitely pick up some 1.8" Ought to be good for crappie.

I have no idea what clinical ketosis is, something to lookup as I have never heard of that.

Can't confirm it myself, but have heard that there are a lot of boats sitting on dealer's lots. Demand was high, now it is not. It's a lousy deal for the people being laid off for sure.

That's a great trip!

Is that when you run out of anything else to eat except for sardines (for 3 days)?

In the summer the guides do fish the crawlers. If I'm targeting walleye, I don't want no stinking bass messing with it.

I know Tom's boat on sight but not sure of the brand. I think it's a Skeeter. He moved out of the Ranger quite a while ago.

It opened my eyes up to how deep they can be. Just watched some drop shot for walleyes videos. Looks to be a great way to fish a crawler deep.

That thing looks like a trap. You get 100 yards into that field and the farmers pet bull, a retired rodeo bull, looks out and sees what appears to him to be a rodeo clown in his pasture. How fast can you run wearing waders? 😃

The one I caught deep would have needed to be fizzed.

Even though I wasn't expecting a lot of fish catching this morning, I had to get out and take advantage of a nice, cool morning. 66 degrees at the ramp when I launched at 0530 and did it feel good! Fishing for me was slow, caught some right away with a c-rigged craw on a gravel point up shallow, and then one here and there on the craw and drop shot. Then things got real tough about 0900 or so. "Walleye Tom" and his wife were out there today, they've been catching walleye fishing spoons really deep as in 50-80 feet deep. I fished near them for a bit and watched them spoon up a couple of eyes and a couple of bass and I could not get a bite on a drop shot or Keitech fishing near them. Started bouncing a spoon myself and finally caught a keeper sized walter in 60 FOW right off the bottom. By then it was 1030, the skiers were out and it was time to go. Caught 13 bass (no keepers) and two walleye. WT 85.

I talked to a buddy today that fished the Big M area - he caught 3 keeper walleye but they were at 60 feet on the bottom (spoons). I'll still keep banging my head against the wall, but looking forward to November when things get cold again.

It was a slow one for myself and Dutch this morning, we caught 15 smallmouth and one largie and were off the water at 1030. None of them made the keeper list. Jigs and a few on a c-rigged craw. I'd say most of our fish were in 10-20 FOW. Talked to a striper fisherman that was docking his boat and he had caught a couple of 24" stripers. WT 85.

That would be a good alternative!

Maybe a blessing in disguise, the fun part of stripers is fighting them, you got it the boat, it got off, you don't have to deal with either trying to revive it, or keeping it and dealing with a lot of striper to eat. 😀

Just chased a couple out of mine this morning. New generation is on the way too, all of a sudden there are fawns everywhere.

Congrats!

Trout in Florida? No way!

Those MS lakes are crappie factories. Never needed FFS when I fished them with my uncle.

Thanks for the report, Dutch and I plan to give it a shot Tuesday. Going to be warm according to the forecast so we may be off the water at 1000 ourselves. Fished Windsor yesterday with a buddy, we caught about 20 bass but they were all small, nothing over 14". Dragging C-rigs with Zoom UV Speed craws.

BassPro has plans to bring to market the "Species Selector" portable DNA test kit.

Welcome!