Quillback

Always liked his humor. Too bad he stopped his cartooning, but I believe he just ran out of ideas. One of my favorites:

Nice catching on the smallies.

I was wearing my usual fishing attire - buff, sun gloves, Speedo and Crocs.

It is all about being in the right place, I found them yesterday, if I had not found them in that spot, I probably would have only caught 5 or 6.

Welcome back, thanks for the report!

I bought some of these "Cush-its" for some of my rods. They look dorky, but they work, saved me a combo that I accidently knocked into the water a couple of weeks ago. Probably won't help if a striper swims off with one, but in most "rod overboard" situations it will save you time and money. The Inshore size fits most fresh water rods. http://www.basspro.com/Luna-Sea-Cushit-SlipOn-Rod-Butts/product/1206280436378/ Speaking of point 5, my neighbor got an 8 lb. striper there a few days ago.

Found some deep fish today off a gravel bank. They were playing a little tough to get on the drop shot, but switched to a 1/8 o Ned and did much better. It takes that Ned a while to fall to the bottom in 30 FOW, but it was working. Sometimes they would bite it as it was falling, or when I would slow roll it back to the boat right off the bottom, and sometimes when I would fish it vertical underneath the boat. I was able to stay with them for about 2 hours and boated 25 fish. Mostly spots with a couple of keeper sized largemouth mixed in. Picked up a few more fishing jigs and the drop shot off gravel points and chunk rock banks, but never got into them again like I did with the schoolers.

Champ has a trained mink that he taught to attack people when they are fishing one of his spots, but it lived up the White river arm (I had a run-in with it once, but fortunately I was able to fire up the big motor and get out of there before it got in the boat). I guess it is possible Champ may have relocated it to the Cape Fair area. Darn fish, you'd think with this cooler water they would be biting like crazy.

Nice fish. It was chilly yesterday, saw a bit of frost on the top of the neighbors roof yesterday morning.

At Tackle Warehouse. Anybody tried these? I haven't fished them myself. Curious as to what would be a good trailer to use. http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/NuTech_CrazyBlitz__/descpage-NTCB.html

"He should have armed himself..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vw7d6LSWmk

Love those smallies!

I am up for coming down Thursday night and staying until Sunday AM. I can bring cole slaw and ketchup for the fish fry and plastic cups/plates/utensils. Since I am reliant on the kindness of others for boat rides, I will be happy to order some zig-jigs and pass them out. Seems like tri-color olive, ginger, and black olive, in 1/16 and 1/8 pretty much get it done, but any other colors? They have that stout hook version now, but I don't know if it is needed for trout.

What nights do you guys want to stay? Are we talking Friday and Saturday nights, does anyone want to come in Thursday night?

Gave you a vote, I like the originality.

Nice fish Dan - Now I know how to find your spots, look for the guy in the chartreuse shirt - should be able to spot you from along ways away.

5 days to here, and it is every time. Only time I have experienced slow shipments in when they have a big sale. I'll usually pony up the $5 and get it here in 2 days. If it leaves TW the day your order it and it takes 7 days to get to you, it's something to do with the shipping company.

Well, looks like 12/3 is the date. We'll need to have everyone state what night(s) they'll be staying so we can figure out what place to rent. And we'll have to get a handle on who is bringing what as far as food and boats.

Depends what you want to defend yourself against, grizzlies? Humans?

That is it, when it comes to money, people are going to want to see the fish. And in the big money tourneys there is the drama of the weigh in.

Didn't mean to imply that I would not give money to charitable causes, but that would require more thought on where I would send it. And this is all daydreaming anyway, I'll never have anything as far as money that is even remotely close to JM money.

Yep, I'd have a boat and a house on a lake in the south somewhere. And probably another set-up some place north like Sturgeon Bay. And I would have at least a 640 acre section in South Dakota where I'd have my own lodge to stay at and have the rest of the land set up for pheasant habitat. Heck, make it 2 sections. Of course there would be jaunts to Alaska and Montana.

Well, from what I can tell, it is either the weekend of 11/12 or the weekend of 12/3. Either one, someone will not be able to go. But, we'll never find a weekend that everyone can make it. Seems like those 2 choices are the ones that work best for the most people. But, how do we decide which weekend? If we're going to go 11/12, we should probably get decided on that soon.

Yep, chunk of change for sure.

If I'm reading the article referenced by the link below correctly, Cabelas got over 5 Billion for their CC operation. Also looks like Goldman Sachs fronted Johnny a couple of billion for the purchase. Of course, Goldman will want a return on that, which leads to speculation about an eventual BPS IPO. https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2016-10-03/why-cabela-s-reeled-in-a-better-than-expected-price-from-bass-pro