gardnerjigman

Anytime the sauna heater or steam generator goes down at work in the men's locker room.... Nothing like an old dude standing over your shoulder bare assed telling you a story about how they fixed something in their day...

Lol... you should have a few.... I'm sure there are lot's of little ones out there conceived on float trips!

Finally had a bit of a cold front come through today in NE Kansas. Only supposed to get 88 today. Let's hope the water temps will drop out of the 90's now....

I've never been, but with all this talk I'm going to have to investigate!

fishing deep cranks.

I'm 100% with Lund on this one. You can get the same payment over a longer term with a better interest rate. I'd go with the newer, nicer boat. You'll be ticked if you spend $8-$10k on something that either craps out, or you will most certainly out grow in a few years. (especially since this is your fist boat.)

BPS has a culling system with scale. My daughters got it for me for fathers day. it's pretty cool.

good video and nice fish. Can't beat some top water action.

Life goes on...

Not until they have a lot of use on them so that all the salt is gone. This is another reason this works perfect for me. Use as wacky at first, then once destroyed a quick snip of the scissors and I have 2 ready for a ned rig.

Good to hear. Good luck with the hatchery job.

And then poor ol' blue got banished to be nearly turned into scrap....

X2 on the rage toad

Another vote for zman zinkerz. Can use one all night, and when it gets wore out, I use the 2 pieces for Neds

Agree with BassinLou. That's just summer fish doing the best they can in the environment given to them. This is a sick fish. Went 19" and didn't weigh much over a pound.

In all seriousness, a lake I fished often had some beg flats that would be over ran with hydrilla. We would idle or troll through making a path, turn right around and start fishing it. Put A LOT of fish in the boat that way.

Gotcha, makes sense. I've never dealth with those species. I get your point though.

He is most definetly not wrong. It happens with all living creatures. If they are under stress or poor accommodations before they die, they release acids as blue said. The acid is absorbed by the meat, which causes the meat to break down. I'll use cattle for example, considering my family has decades of experience. Break a cows leg, let her deal with it for a day, then put her down, cut up and eat. What you will get is tough, twangy meat that also lasts about half the time it should. Now, walk up to ol bessy just fat and happy chewing her cud, pop her behind the ear with a 357 and cut her up. Massive difference I promise.

You gut and fillet? What's the point in gutting it? I also don't understand the de-scaling/skinning if filleting. Am I from another planet or are y'all wasting time...???? Steps: 1) catch fish 2) keep fish alive or put on ice (as long as the gills are pink I'll clean it) 3) get electric fillet knife 4) lay fish down on flat surface an cut in behind gills straight down until you near center of fish. Twist wrist while knife is still cutting so the blades run down the length of the fish using top fins as a line. Cut until you get 1/2" from base of tail. 5) using knife flip the fillet you just cut over (tail peice is still attached) so that scale side is down and meat side is up. Run knife at an angle from tail to end of fillet. This removes the skin and scales. 6) make a V cut around rib bones to remove. 7) chunk as desired. 8) flip fish and repeat. All that is done extremely quick. I can clean a basket of fish before my wife can peel the bag of potatoes.

Anglers Paradise?

Post in central thread. You'll get more accurate responses

Yup, just to hear her talk about it is enough to give you chills. It really stuck with her too.

Basically yes. I prefer the action of the spook. It takes absolutely nothing to walk it, and you can make it take wide zig zags or make it go tight.

River2sea makes a small frog. I think it's the JR wa maybe...

I use a combo of baby bass, pb&j, green pumpkin, green pumpkin with chartreuse tail and black/blue. They all have their days.