Quillback

Always fun to spend a day on a charter boat. That is something I miss living in the midwest. In the 90's it was $80 to go out on a bottom fish charter out of Westport WA. Primarily you'd catch black sea bass and a ling cod or two. Limit was 10 sea bass and 3 lings. Pretty much a guarantee you'd get your limit of bass. Catch your fish, the crew would fillet them on the boat ride back, and you'd step off the boat at the end of the day with 20 lbs. of tasty fillets.

Happy birthday Duane!

Not much rain here either. I hope they miss on this ice/snow/sleet stuff coming through starting tomorrow.

Thanks for posting that, didn't know about it. What a monster!

Chunks!

According to the Wikpedia article, the central can be found in NE Arkansas.

Those are a couple of good ones!

That's really neat. Used to burn some western cedar when I had a wood stove. Lightweight when it is dried. Good wood for starting a fire, burns fast and hot. Nice to have something light weight for a 16' canoe.

You are spanking them!

That's a good day! Nice to hear the Crawler is working.

In Washington there were several outfits that would had beehives they would move around to pollinate the fruit orchards. Used to go over to that part of the state to trout fish in the spring, you'd be driving down the highway and they would be everywhere smacking into the windshield. Never had a desire to raise them myself. I like a honey and peanut butter sandwich.

I was watching the BASS tourney on Harris Chain last week. Patrick Walters was fishing a jerk bait throwing it to the bank with his boat parallel to the bank. He would make his cast and start working it, when he started working it, he'd look down at his screen watching the bait and fish reacting to it. He'd never look at his rod or line, head down facing forward the whole time until the next cast. He caught a bunch, but not the size he needed.

Fished bankers hours yesterday, put in around 10 AM and left at 3 PM. Fishing was tough, caught 11 bass and a short walleye, mostly on a Ned with a couple on a 2.8 Keitech. The fish were in the 10-20 FOW zone, mostly on points or on banks near points. Had several bites where they'd thunk it and drop it and not come back for it. Threw a Steve Martin bait for a bit, no bites on it. WT 44.5

Reading a WA state game warden book and it mentioned the Olympic Mudminnow. Neat looking little fish. Another one for JF when he makes that west coast trip. Olympic mudminnow - Wikipedia

Yeah, I'd try it.

Didn't know jellyfish is edible.

Ugh. I have Powroznik and Christie at 24 and 25. My other three guys are in the 75th-85th places. I hate these dang FL tourneys.

I taped it, whoops, I mean recorded it, probably watch it today. Ain't going nowhere with the rain anyway.

When the lousy one that comes standard with the Fortrexx broke on me I replaced with the TH Marine cable. The handle pulled off on me once, the little Allen head screws that hold that clamp deal onto the cable loosened up. Put it back on and good to go. Which reminds me, I need to do an inspection on it and make sure those screws are tightened down.

Great, thanks!

TH makes a trolling motor handle that you could fit on the end of that cable if the original breaks off. I realize your cable is frayed so it makes sense to replace the entire thing, but if they send you a duplicate replacement it seems that you might have the handle break off again in the future. You could keep the TH Marine as a spare handle, so if it fails again, you can get fishing again without having to wait for them to ship you a new one. I don't know however if you can buy just a handle from them, all I have seen is a complete replacement kit and it runs about $50.

I used to fish for blues on Grand lake. I would take a ring net with me and net shad if I could. Even though I was lousy at throwing that thing, the shad were so thick I get still get enough to fish the whole day with a few tosses. Fresh shad, either in chunks or whole are a great bait for blues, at least in Grand. If I got enough, I would freeze some for the days I had trouble finding shad. Frozen will work, but not as good as fresh.

Is that a wire cable?

Launched out of Eagle Rock yesterday at about 0830. Flat calm when I launched, then about an hour later is got really windy, then after a few hours of wind it calmed down somewhat. Wind messed up my fishing, I had to get back in a couple of coves to get out of it and could not get a bite back in the coves. Caught a few on the jerk bait before the wind hit on a Berkley Stunna. Stunna has a slow sink built into it, real slow, maybe a foot every 2 or 3 seconds. The bites I got were on the pause, I'd pause it for about 5 seconds at the most and that's when they would get it. Not impressed with the grip type trebles that come on the bait, lost a few, so I am going to change them out. Caught 8 bass, three were keepers, all largemouth, with one meanie on a Ned. Did not catch a single spotted bass. Caught 3 short walleye. WT 44 Neat looking fish. Fat sticker eater:

I catch 10 white bass and I am done with them.