TnRiver46

We love surfing wakeboat remnants on the canoe. They sure aren’t going to quit driving by so we make the most of it. My buddy mike has a fast narrow kayak and he can almost keep up with people wake surfing and jump their waves like he’s on a jet ski

My buddy got something called campylobacter (sp?) on our camping trip in Alabama once, he had to be extracted by his dad and was in a bad way for a couple weeks after. He used to get sick on the last day of a week long trip nearly every year, he’s since found out through diet experimentation (doctors failed dozens of times at figuring this out throughout his life ) that he is lactose intolerant and allergic to wheat. Now he is rarely sick. Not sure how on earth doctors missed this for over a decade but at least he’s always feeling good now

I’m usually early but I sure wouldn’t leave a fishing buddy behind if he/she was late. I always just fish around the boat ramp until they arrive. What drives me bonkers way more than anyone being late is people always asking me “what time?” Oh my goodness that’s my pet peeve, from the moment I wake up everyday until I lay down to sleep people are asking me what time this what time that. It just makes me want to implode, I’ll friggin be there when I get there. If you have stuff to do, go on and do it!!!! If you can’t stay at home to have me come kill your mouse, well than you can just put on your adult pants and kill your own mouse then after work it’s my fishing buddies (who several are musicians and need a show time haha). “What time will you be at the ramp?” Well guys I don’t know, whenever I get off work, feed the dogs, then hook up the boat and go. “Well what time do you think that will be?” I don’t know, just go to the ramp and when you see me let’s go fishing then after fishing, she’s asking “what time will you be back?” Well honey we fish til dark then idle back to the ramp, same as every single time in history. “What time do you think that will be?” It doesn’t matter because it won’t be early enough for her regardless of the numbers on a clock then wake up next day and it’s “what time can you come throw away my dead mouse?” Well let’s see I’ve got 15 live traps to check all over town, maybe magic 8 ball knows what time

Usually I slice some apples and toss them in there. Cantaloupe and pears are some other good baits, anything from the produce aisle should work. Patience is the best “bait” when it comes to a groundhog

You got all the fun part out of the fish, you just didn’t want to get your hands all slimy

Um, I can’t remember if anything picture worthy happened last week or so. I’ll consult the archives …….. looks like it was tough sledding until Friday when I caught a groundhog I had been after for 3 weeks and a raccoon I had been after for one week. The raccoon had been getting in a foundation vent down low behind a bush that was kind of hidden. Here’s the vent, the plastic factory one didn’t fit up under the siding so I had to lay in the mulch and use a mirror to rig up some wire mesh. Once again not raccoon proof but it should stop a stray cat or possum from walking in there in the future

I have seen boat waves ignite a feeding frenzy a time or three. One bank I know has a bunch of loose rocks inside a chain link fence on the waters edge, lots of fish seems to feed there when waves hit the rocks

Enough to invite me over!

My buddies pulled into a launch at daylight one time and a car was face first in the water. My buddy walks up to the guys and says “rough nite, eh?” They said they were partying listening to music all night on the car radio and the battery died. So they tried to pop the clutch and start the motor using the incline of the boat ramp………. Hehehe that particular ramp is wild, I’ve seen lots of dead deer and mattresses and burned up cars. And there’s off road trails all through the woods to top that off so it’s typically loud as well. The comic relief is the only saving grace

I always go into an auto parts store and buy hose by the foot and a primer bubble, then some hose clamps and make my own. What you might need from wal mart (or a boat store) is the connectors that clamp onto the ends of the hose and plug into the motor and tank

Brook trout fishing in Maine??

I was on the water all weekend, saw a cool Yankee Doodle hat and surfed some waves, fish were biting pretty good on the 4th

Congrats! That’s a beast

Not in a desert!

More bass drum

Bass drum……. See what I did there?

Or maybe more like a guys with the best air guns using a hammer instead, they’ve got 360 imaging and live scope and are using a megaphone with glass in it Perhaps sometimes the old school stuff is better? I think we’ve learned from the MLF dink fest discussion that the powers that be indeed care about what “random” Internet forums think

I’m not trying to get it changed. Like I said in my previous post, hi tech or low tech is not important. it’s the optics of laying down on your boat and looking through a cone to locate spawning fish. Some viewers would rather not see that and it’s not just a tiny fraction, I didn’t watch any of the coverage. Obviously not everyone feels the same way about it, it’s quite a hot topic currently

Proving wildlife intentions is an exercise in futility. People always ask me why the raccoon chose their attic to live in. My response is “there he is in that cage, just ask him and see what he allows” the scientific experiment that the OP has conducted is literally just as solid as any research you will find, he hooks more fish deep with the newer lures that have more scent than anything before. You will not find any better research from any so called scientist

It doesn’t matter one bit how long the flogger has been around, or how high tech or low tech it is. A lot of folks don’t like sight fishing beds and when you do it with a magnifying glass, then they really don’t like it.

Well that looks slicker than a peeled onion! Nice work, I bet that gets a perfect reading

Twisting your straps can cut down on the noise quite a bit

I would probably have to go with my dear friend Albert. He’s my buddy’s grandpa, their entire family took me under their wing when I was about 13 years old. Not only do they teach youngsters a lot about fishing, but the life lessons always come out during long hours on the boat or at fish camp. You’d be hard pressed to find a better group of individuals than this family, they all grew up dirt poor and have tons of information and stories to pass on