Low_Budget_Hooker

Anyone else fly fish here? I was taught and honed at a freshwater private club for a few years in the late 90's and now it's a staple for bluefishing and striper hunting on my boats. Anyone else?

I've had a good year,work has been allowing for lots of available time off. I fish 2-5 evenings,mon-fri,and 4 shifts each weekend. I'm iced out from late Dec till late march early April

Awesome pictures!! I wanna come visit! (long swim :'() Those fish get really large. When you said twice as big, I had no idea you meant that big! I'm surprised these aren't a more popular gamefish. Keep em coming!

Great find , get that baby running.... and SELL it!! lol Good luck w/ your new project and thanks for the resource.

Easy guys, I dont think Avid was being snide, I just think this is somthing he hadn't heard of yet.

I don't see any pics, what are you guys talking about?

I agree with madhouse but I would start at $500 and explain that you don't mean to insult the buyer and for the age, the stuff looks good but it's still almost 40yrs old. I would go as high as $700. Good luck!

kbj3597- I just submitted an article that is more of a checklist. Good resource to keep on hand. Keep an eye on the mainpage, will be up as soon as Glenn has time .(provided it passes inspection)

I know this is a sore topic for many fisherman but I still have to take the side that says they are entitled to use the water just as much as we are. Etiquette is etiquette whether it's another fisherman or a jet ski,. I firmly believe that most of the people who cross the line simply don't know they are messing us all up. I choose to educate them and ask if they could show some consideraton in the future now that they've been educated. NOT DEFENDING JERKS HERE! A jerk is a jerk, but for instances like roadwarrior had, just goes to show that it all washes in the end.

well in my low budget world, $8500 sure is real "money"!! I agonize when budgeting out $500 for a restore job! Good luck in your hunt and I think you will find that the longer you look and the pickier you are, the better your outcome will be. Good luck hunting!

rebasser- I think probably 90% of us found out that way! ;D

That's wierd! I've used the grass frog by SK and it floats. I've seen the popping frog and also assumed it would float.

Those are awfully heavy already. Might not be the best idea.

Email the chamber of commerce for whichever state(s) you are interested in.

If anyone wants one, send me the pics .

Here's mine

These guys will have it if you are still having problems. I've used them twice with no regrets so far. I needed a speed control switch once and an old style prop and shear pin once. http://www.trollingmotorparts.com/ Use exploded diagrams on left to find part and number to order, just click on your make, year, and then model for the exploded diagram. Good luck.

The signs are posted for a reason, I would let the authorities know that people have been observed ducking the fence and fishing in the posted areas but not necessarily tell on him.

welcome aboard, do you have any pics of the local species you speak of?

yea, I didn't think about the legal aspects. I'm definately looking into it though.

The few different tagging sites explain how and where to tag the fish. Doesn't seem very evasive and we've caught stripers with tags as old as 7 yrs. I want to research it more, for example, I found a company that lets you pick what's printed on the tag but minimum orders might be large I'm thinking (email sent). If I had some that just said,"research fish\do not harvest", and a #, then maybe I can split the cost with some of you guys or a couple local clubs maybe to place an order. We'll see Glenn, contact local legislator, some ideas are born to be laws. ;D

Are they still in production?

Anybody tag their fish? Kevthebassman left this link in another post. I think I'm going to give it a try I've fished the same place for 20 yrs and would love the data you could get from tagging. Plus maybe, if someone catches a 4 or 5 and it has a tag in it, they will let it go. We need tags that say "please release" and a serial number. http://www.fishunlimited.org/ProgramsTagging.shtml

Depending on where you are geographically also, what are the bass doing this time of year. What they are doing here in New England, I'm sure, is much different than Georgia. If they are staging deeper, roll deep,etc. For instance, right now up here, fish are sitting on the deeper ends of all points, primary and secondary, and tight to wood that sits in the 10-15 ft range so I would deep roll banks that are near wood in that depth or out deep on the points as opposed to throwing in the weeds along the shore.

I think it would be more of the fact that RW touched on. "Closed environment" are the key words. I fish a 292 acre private impoundment which I'm sure holds bass in the thousands. I suppose if all the fish have an opportunity to hit the same bait repeatedly, they may shy eventually. Totally not knockin' nick's observations, just adding another opinion to the equation.