HB2

Well they said 2ft higher and 1 ft lower from normal before the bill passed .

My bad , I read it wrong Yes kill every one of those birds .

I have caught a whole bunch of huge smallmouth that say the contrary

Which is why they should stock a whole lot more of them .

Keep it very simple at first better to run a few rods well than a bunch wrong. Sometimes , less is more . When I am small boat`n alone , I run 2 . Shallow water is snag country and snag time = no fish time . In close you could be in 8 ft and it could shallow up to 5 and snag up . But that could be where the fish are . Or you turn or board stalls and spoons sink . I would run strictly sticks . If the fish are in there , they will hit them . Straight original Rapalas and jointed rebels dive the least . You will learn the dive rate of your sticks soon enough , the hard way . Get some natural and some bright colors The purpose of a Rapala knot is a pivot point for the bait to work freely/ properly . Some baits come with split rings , if they don't , I put them on . And I tie direct . Any snap could change action . I'm anal about tuning my stickbaits . It kind of an art . Good luck

Apparently the lakes upstream of us are at record highs levels . And weren't we told to expect high levels in LO because of that ? Looks to me this is what happens when you pull the plug when you are suppose to , like they use to do before they passed 2016 .

So my neighbor ,retired Capt Charlie Chick gave me a bunch of boxes of lures . Some were fished hard and needed some TLC . Here are a few I brought back from the dead .

The outlet is open as of noon today .

They use to be the BEST

Orange and reds down to 50 ft or so . Then blues ,greens and glows deeper than that . Try the pearl / mirage bottom left for high Sun days. A Mirage Atomic has been a good one for me high Sun at all depths . Also try a little green mix with white They look good . My best all around Spin Dr is a double crush glow white . Followed by a white green dot .

I feel that a lot of the newer super glows are to intense . Especially in low light and early morning situations . For example , I like the older Glow green J plugs compared to the newer super glow models . Side by side I do better with the older . And it seems they do better when they are in the water a while after the initial light charge wears off a little . It's dark down there and IMO a subtle glow will show up fine where an intense glow maybe scares fish away . Mid day high Sun could be different story . But I still feel any light penetration to those deeper depths hits that glow and makes it attractive as I've done well on those days with glow . Which is why UV works well mid day high Sun foR same reason .

I use Rustolium.from.Lowe's . It works OK.

When I do glow , I paint the spoon or flasher white first , then glow , then I mist over the glow with the color I want . I just did a few with florescent green . Then the base glows through the green and makes the green glow . Then I spray lacquer over . I

I have a Black and Decker electric a good friend who use to Ice Fish a lot who passed away left to me . It works great. Any of you guys know Chipper ?