Quillback

Thanks for the heads up, glad to see they're moving in.

Been researching boats myself, Phoenix has a good rep, will definitely be on my short list when it comes time to buy. But I'm looking more in the 18-19' range. Something that will fit in the garage.

Loomis has come out with redisgned GL2 casting rods, I like the split grips.

Loomis has come out with redisgned GL2 casting rods, I like the split grips.

Funny with the price of gas being what it is, and unemployment being so high, that it almost seems there are more boats out chugging up and down the lakes than there were when gas was relatively cheap.

And you're out on a Friday, imagine the bozo factor on weekends! Can't wait for the hot weather to end, cooler temps for fishing and fewer bozos.

Thanks for the info Bill, I was curious about those micro-guides myself.

Wow, I would think one place the regs would be understood by all would be at trout parks. That being said, I'll email the MDC and ask them to implement a catch and release rule for browns, with the exception of keeping one over 18". Heck if you need trout for the frying pan, just keep some rainbows.

Very nice, and that weather sounds great! How was the smallie fishing? Just curious as to how many a person could look forward to catching per day, and average size.

If you take a meth addicts govt. assistance away, they will do anything they can to fuel their addiction, crime, prostitution, or even worse, they'll start cooking meth and selling it. If they do start drug testing people that apply for assistance, when they get a positive on meth, that meth user should be immediately put in a lock down rehab. Pretty harsh, but meth is incredibly addictive, they users aren't going to stop when you take their assistance away. Of course the rehab costs would be huge, and I doubt taxpayers would be willing to foot the bill. And I saw a statistic that 90% of meth users that complete rehab go back to using meth. Meth is evil stuff.

I have no problem with these canned hunts, first because it provides some entertaining reading here I would not do it myself, and it isn't remotely close to real hunting, but I don't condemn those who do these "hunts". I remember a while back, maybe 10-15 years ago, there was a scandal involving zoos and these Texas hunting exoctic hunting ranches. Zoos were selling (at auctions) surplus animals to the ranches, and the ranches were in turn charging people to shoot them. There were big bucks involved, rare animals were going for big bucks. PETA types found out and that was that...no more auctions. Don't know where these ranches get there animals these days, but I bet someone is making some money selling to them.

I fished Windsor this AM, ended up with 5 bass, 12-16" fish, all on 10" worms. I counted a dozen boats out there at one point later in the morning, funny there's that much pressure now, in the spring when the bass were easy I'd only see 4-5 boats out there. They were chasing shad early but it did not last long.

Thanks for the links, that new DD jointed pointer looks interesting. Like that prop bait too, not that I need any more topwaters in my tackle box.

Cool, if McD's would start using them for their filet-o-fish we might see them get wiped out.

Are the bluegills still biting?

Yeah, I know exactly where that is, it's a good spot. Me and John B were out on Windsor the day those guys in the story were fishing it,my notes say it was June 10, in the background of the large photo you can see a boat, I'm about 95% sure that is us, we were watching those guys fish shallow docks while we were fishing deeper water structure, they passed between us and the shore. I went out on Avalon yesterday early, caught 1/2 dozen 12 inch fish on 10" worms, I didn't hook any sizeable fish.

Are these fish available commercially right now?

I did see the report, are you asking about the one in the Benton Co. paper that has the story on Lake Windsor?

I went over to Brittany early last Thursday, did about the same, 2 bass in the boat, but missed several others, had some opportunities just could not stick them. Fishing deep with t-rigged craw type baits. This hot weather is making it tough, fish are sluggish, I try and get out an hour or so before dawn, fish until 0900 or so, and call it a day.

The article is full of "ifs" and "maybes". Alarmist scare tactics promoted by the commercial fishing industry to elimate competition from farmed salmon. The greatest danger wild fish face is overfishing by industrial fishing methods. Fish populations are being wiped out and have been wiped out by commercial overfishing, that's a far greater danger, than the unlikely scenario of farmed fish escaping and successfully breeding in the wild.

Wow, that is a pig of a walleye! Congrats, that's a once in a lifetime fish!

Wow, that is a pig of a walleye! Congrats, that's a once in a lifetime fish!

Those are some good looking cranks, I bet you'll catch a bass or two on them.

Given a choice between playing on Grand or Table Rock, I'd choose TR. But man that stuff drives me crazy, I'm not fishing this weekend, it's just too nuts.

Sorry to hear that, is it the slimy, mossy stuff? Are you doing any bass fishing?