old man

ok,i'm out. i went to e-bay to raise the bid,but i can't remember my password. gotta start writing things down.

mmmmmmm,i hate to lose. guess i'll have a couple and think it over.

i fished conesus today. pretty slow for me. i caught one nice northern and had a couple small lookers. broke my camera so all i have is this cell phone shot.

i bid the $100.00 intentionally,but i didn't know the site would raise my bid a buck at at a time. so i posted on larry's site for someone to go to $99 bucks. it's at $100.00 now. i'm good for it. i am maxed out at a c note but if i get it i will give it to the smallest muskie caught at larrie's tournament.

this is gettin old. let the season begin

nicely done.

trying to figure out why the squirrels hook up so well....i laid out all my spinnerbaits on the table and compared 'em all. trying to be scientific about it. haven't got a clue. then the damn cat hops on the table,flips out,and takes off with a funky chicken hangin off her. she was safely released.

i really can't say why they hook up so well,i just know they do. when a fish hits one of these they get caught. as for holding up,alot of it comes from getting eaten all the time. they are real hairy,i think it's marabu,and every fish takes some off. and i lose a lot of the second hooks. they are held on with a piece of surgical tubing and if you don't watch it they fall off. i make the problem worse by taking the barbs off everything. i bought some new ones for this year and i put shrink tubing on 'em. looks like it will stay there,we'll see.

i use both bucktails and spinnerbaits. i have a couple ghostails that work well there. i think the pattern is called sucker. it's brown and gold. i have had a lot of luck recently with rabid squirrl spinnerbaits. the walleye color is my favorite. i have caught muskie,pike,walleye,and bass on em. the only downside is they don't hold up real well. on the plus side they hook up better than other spinnerbaits.

zach has you covereed on trolling. here's my 2 cents on casting. they like brown hair and gold blades. go out of the canal til you hit 7' of water and start there. work to your left til you get to the point with all the docks. there is a trailer/pre-fab home area there. the little bay there has been good to me. work the weedline and dropoff from there about 400 yards up the lake. repeat. like zach said"let em go".

p.s. the noodling story was funny

that fish was caught in the netherlands a few years ago. the photo gets around. last year i saw it was caught in chippewa bay. if you search"big european pike photos" you'll get to the real story.

good idea,nitro. i wrote 'em with my 2cents,which is a 50"limit. what i would really like to see is "possession prohibeted" for all muskies like they have on sturgeon. we all have cameras so what good is a mount? i have a 50" mount that my dad caught. after i croak it'll end up in a dumpster. that fish may have spawned a couple more times.

impressive bass...having said that,could that guy be any gayer?

i caught a 40"er in the slop at the end of the canal a couple years ago in october

it's beyond me how anyone can whack a musky. they are too hard to catch as it is. say you mount or eat a 40"er? that fish could spawn 10 more times. even if only one of her eggs reached maturity that's 10 more muskies. show me a lake that can't take 10 more adult muskies. make the limit 60".

we put up the tree sunday and i counted all the fishing related ornaments i've been given over the years. you know,fishin bears,fishin moose,fishin santas,trout and bass ornaments(there seems to be no esox ornaments). i have 17 of 'em. can anybody beat that?

it's somethin to do. all men like to break stuff.

thanks for your input. i was thinking new but if larry's honda is 15 years old and still good i guess i 'll shop around for a used one first. thanks again

the pain and suffering of 8 hr casting days are getting to me. i am thinking about doing some trolling next year. what's a good kicker for an 18' v-hull? how do i get gas to it? can i put a t fitting in the line to the big motor?

at least you were out there on a nice day. gotta love this global warming. i was at the stinkin mall.

fished all day yesterday. had FIVE follows. i was about ready to break my rod over my knee and throw it at 'em. caught a dink during the downpour around 4pm. we're talking puny here. this fish wouldn't make a decent pickeral. i had three of the follows in the same area....10fow in front of the brown condos at dewittville. one was a nice one. wait til next year.happy turkey.

i'm hittin chataqua wed and then i'm packin it in. what happens first? bills make playoffs or old man cracks 50"?

i have a couple shimano calcutta 250's that are almost as old as i am. they're about 160 bucks and you can't hurt 'em. this year i splurged for a te1000 at $400. it's no better. i also have a big ambassaduer somethin that i got at wal-mart for $56. it's big and heavy and has no thumb bar but it holds a mile of line and works great.

fished waneta today,there is plenty of water. i got my 18'er in and out no problem. no fish either. 8 hours and only one follow. one other boat was out trolling. he said he caught a 40"