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Similar to AJ, I use our cats’ dry food as treats for our lab. She’d do the taxes for that stuff. Heading for an open gate? Stops her like she got sniped. All you have to do is grab the ziploc and say treat and she’ll show off every trick she knows.

I redid mine from wood/carpet to the Ultimate Bunk Boards, not that it’s the biggest boat, but the improvement is noticeable. It does slide off easier though, just something to be aware of…

You want to go to Jordan Lake and catch prespawners. Great big fish lake.

Those are the best size to catch…somewhere between 8 an 12lbs is where they are still athletic but still heavy.

I’d put it in the front section midway between the hook hanger and the joint as low and parallel to the belly as possible. Good luck

@Woody B - that’s just a marked up white perch. I caught a few wipers in Mtn Island last week (they’re not stocked there, they wash in from Lake Norman.) There was a group of them at the entrance of Gar Creek. And I’ve caught very nice stripers/hybrids below the Lake Wylie dam, but never any in Wylie itself. I guess they’re there kind of like yellow perch. Present but very tough to target.

They must be Italian…

I think @clayton86 may recommend 40 grains of .223 at 3300 fps…

That’s a groundhog/woodchuck right @TnRiver46? I don’t think they’re too hard to trap but what you do with it them might be the bigger question.

Catfish mostly lately. It’s a ton of fun dragging baits for double digit fish.

Small world right? We missed each other by just a few years

Sunny days and rocks or wood. I fish a 1/8 oz white roostertail in shad lakes, 1/8 oz gold spinner brown glitter body in creeks and lakes without shad. Or a weedless tube slow if it’s in cover. Pick sunny days and fish around stuff that soaks up the heat. If you see swirls or schools, an OG rapala very slowly worked on the surface with long pauses, especially late in the day… A few degrees can make a huge difference and really concentrate big fish.

I went to college planning to go to med school. Realized about 6 semesters in that it was probably a bad idea. Finished out my biochem degree and continued working in restaurants after college. Really loved restaurant work. I worked at the highest of high end places outside of Knoxville for a few years. Great place and great people. Joined federal law enforcement on a bit of a lark from there and now tomorrow it’ll be 20 years. Best job in the world. Time sure flies by.

Yep - L or ML and a 2500 or smaller reel. 4 lb test mono or 10 lb test braid. 1/8th and smaller roostertails, my favorite color is ‘Grasshopper’. I also use rapala OG floating minnows in the smaller sizes. You can go bigger out west; stay on the smaller side east of the Rockies. All bets are off in tailwater fisheries.

@Woody B - we had an overall warmer winter last year with a couple severe cold snaps. I catfished ever couple weeks Jan-Mar and barely needed a coat.

I can’t remember if it was here or TN but in one or the other you were charged more of a fee online for a digital license than if you got it in person somewhere. That’s the one that made me question my sanity.

They do have to pay the person that’s putting your information in and handing you the license…so you either pay a little fee or they add it to the cost of your bait and tackle. No free lunch, people.

@Woody B Wylie?

I grew up in Memphis where there was only one sheet of ice and it was in the Mall of Murder, so no hockey for me. Fast forward 30 years and my son dropped baseball to play hockey year round. I don’t completely understand everything but the games are fun and traveling on the weekends has been great the last few years. Although someone did suggest an outdoor tourney in Buffalo in January this year, so maybe they’re all crazy..,

Dude! That is a nice sack of specks!

I saw the leaves on the trees and how young you looked too late to pull the post back… FTR - Potomac smallmouth will definitely eat Hudds. As will much larger stripers and blue cats in the same areas. But Magdrafts have a much better hookup rate.

Wait… @A-Jay is that an old pic or is winter officially cancelled in Michigan?

I miss hybrid stripers above the dam on Ft Loudon/Tellico and real stripers below it. I also miss trout on cool, foggy mornings on the Clinch River below Norris. Eastern Tennessee is truly heaven.

Yeah like he said… I use rodbreaker.me

@gimruis In gridiron football, a muffed punt is defined as "touching of the ball prior to possessing the ball.” A muffed punt occurs when there is an "uncontrolled touch" of the football by a player on the returning team after it is punted…just saying. Not that it matters… Same result either way.