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Further North

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About Further North

  • Birthday 06/19/1962

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    NW WI
  • My PB
    Between 6-7 lbs
  • Favorite Bass
    Smallmouth
  • Favorite Lake or River
    Chippewa River
  • Other Interests
    Fish with teeth and an attitude

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  1. I'm with you on the "different strokes for different folks", and I don't think poorly of people who leave the barbs on, but... I've never lost a fish because of lack of a barb. I've lost fish because I let slack get in the line, or because I did something else dumb...but never because I didn't have a barb on the hook. We pinch barbs on my boats...that's just the way it is.
  2. This is why every hook used on my boats is barbless. So much easier to get out, and almost no risk of having to cut a day short with a trip to the Emergency Room.
  3. There's a considerable difference between wet, saturated dirt, and dry dirt...and the gravel, sand, concrete, etc. that we see bass laying on all over social media. 😂 You're not wrong... ...but there's a trick: Tie in a wire bite guard. I actually intentionally fish for muskies (and pike) with heavy bass-sized gear (conventional and fly) about 90% of the time. It works fine.
  4. Thanks - I didn't check because I won't be doing it - but it's good to know. ...or not. It's not a binary decision. 😉
  5. Education is the key, and doing it without chucking the person engaging in poor handling under the bus. Some of the attacks on people who just don't know any better are ridiculous...and more likely to turn them off than get them handling fish properly.
  6. Thanks, I appreciate the info! Not something I've ever seen. Suckers (big ones) seem to be the lave bait of choice here, and I think using any gamefish is illegal. I'm not a live bait angler - I lack the patience, and don't want to deal with the mess and hassle, but I know a lot of people who do it and enjoy it.
  7. I'm trying to understand what you're getting at - if the habitat is there, natural reproduction will be enough to sustain the population. If it's not, we have to stock...which is a losing proposition over time. ...I'm not trying to be difficult...just trying to get my head around what you're saying.
  8. Stocking is - at the end of the day - a loosing proposition. Habitat is the answer.
  9. Had another musky on (little guy) and lost it...another guy I the boat had one more one and lost it, plus two follows. There was another little pike too...not worth photos. All on the same fly: pink and white musky deciever.
  10. That seems painfully obvious...gotta wonder what's going on there...
  11. Water here isn't much cooler than that yet...it's been a weird year. It was 56° last Sunday.
  12. Pike are my favorite fish, and like @Scott F, I've caught thousands, on both conventional gear and flies. Oddly enough, I don't target them much, as it's easy enough to get them when we're targeting smallies ans muskies. This year's biggest was in the mid-30s. I don't lose a lot of lures to them, because I run tieable wire leaders on almost everything except cheap soft plastics. We had a comical incident this year: We took a guy who is mostly a trout angler on a smallie/musky float. Even though we told him to, he didn't bother to tie wire in on the red/white bucktail popper he'd made for the trip...and on his first cast, he twitched it once...and it disappeared in a big swirl...and his line went slack. He just sat there, mouth open...and we laughed. 10 seconds later the popper floated to the surface...I tossed a properly rigged (12" 13# tieable wire leader) popper into the same spot, and it got clobbered on the 3rd or 4th pop...and a nice high 20's pike hit the net. Then we rowed in and got his popper, and handed it to him with the spool of wire... ...on the 50# fluoro mentioned above: Tieable wire works better, and is at least as flexible...and I've seen 50# and 60# fluoro cut like it wasn't there...and the fish that did it were not all big. I saw a monster musky lost because of a 50# fluoro leader once...I avoided saying "I told you so." If someone could convince my esox were line shy, the absolute smallest size I'd consider would be 80#...and that stuff kills lure/fly action. LOTW 38, on the fly.
  13. Yuck. I've never done that...probably never will. Seems like a not-fun way to catch them.
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