12poundbass

^7 I think that’s been played in a few adult movies! Lol one of of the most recognizable and best voices out there.

Congratulations! My son is 8.5 and my fishing buddy. Every Saturday or Sunday morning we try and go out When there’s no ice. He loves it and I love watching him fish. Enjoy!

Does it have cup holders?

At least you get to shovel your roof, I know you missed doing it in mid-November.

I commented last year how Bobby Lane did the same thing and how it was a very poor look. I’ve never seen Ike do it, doesn’t mean he didn’t, no matter what and who it is throwing a fish in anger, snapping poles (Bobby Lane) in anger is a very bad look and should be taken care of by way of fines. Speaking of fines I read that because of some choice words by some last week BPT will be handing out fines for swearing in future events starting today. Also the top 25 MUST attend the activities at the end of the event.

That was pretty darn cool! I can barely tie my shoes let alone come up with something like that. I wonder how how long it took to set it up, and especially clean it up? ?

Thank god the freezing rain is south of us because we still have a few people without power. We have gotten 6 inches of snow in the last 5 hours, the wind is blowing pretty good so nice drifts, and it’s now a snow sleet mix. Of course there is no school today and there won’t be tomorrow and possibly Thursday because this isn’t supposed to stop until mid day tomorrow.

Holy smokes! Not that bad for us. Another ice storm tomorrow night, hopefully not as bad because there are people around who still don’t have power, it’s been since Thursday.

Fish on!

Is this kind of weather normal for you? I imagine the heavy snowfall isn’t but everything else?

No brainer......but it!

Absolutely miserable here! Freezing rain Wednesday. Rain and freezing rain yesterday. At 8 pm last night the temp was 46 at 2 am this morning it was 15 and wind gusts close to 45 mph. Over 150k without power due to the freezing rain destroying trees. The power company is saying Monday before everyone has power again. In the last 3 weeks (15 days of school possible) my son has had 4 days where it wasn’t canceled. Thankfully we we have power at our house. The windchill is -5, the wind is going to die down tonight and the weather is going to stabilize for at least the next week.

I don’t have a Striker unit but have an Echomap and for $20 more you can’t go wrong. The more options the merrier!

A local water well driller does this every winter. Kinda cool.

Round 2 of the ice today. It's raining now temps hovering around freezing. Temps around 5 pm 48 and at midnight tonight 17 and windy! There's already close to a half inch of ice on the trees. Trees and lines down all over. Not pretty.

I think that's why a lot of us don't care for it, because fish catches can be and often are few and far between. IF you can find a school it can be fun. I have a 45.5" 25lb pike hanging on my wall that my brother in law caught on a tip up, that would have been a blast to catch. All I've caught are 2 hammer handles.

Over 14" dumped on us last week and the kids had no school at all last week. Now the snow is completely gone and we got a decent ice even last night. No school for the kids today either. Tomorrow mixed accumulation and temps near 50 and quickly dropping to 17 creating what is called a 'flash freeze'. Absolutely the worst, if you've never experienced it be thankful.

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Exactly! Even when I'm walking on 10" of ice like we have now and it shifts or cracks I still get the pucker effect going.

Ya re-reading my post that was a big swing and a miss by me! LOL To be honest in my head I'm thinking one thing, but explaining it for some crazy reason isn't coming out right, so I'll just end it there. ? At the end of the day I don't see the MLF/BPT format being the norm for the average tournament angler. Logistically it would be a nightmare and very expensive and not practical.

You could use the same argument with BASS. They over the years have taken a stance on conservation and catch and release (which I exercise) and science has proven since BASS has pushed the catch and release lakes have taken a downfall. Catch and release (again I practice) has been cemented in the minds of the majority of bass anglers that it's contributed to the slow froth of bass because of the over population of bass. Steve Kennedy within the last week contributed to a thread which I was a part of in which he showed unscientifical data to prove this.

I think you might have the cart before th horse at this point! You've made some valid points and as Maryland as consirned it might be valid but I think after one event and a couple comments from the pros I think it's pretty early to freak out. JMHO

The same thing happened on Saginaw Bay or Lake Erie years ago where a bunch of ice anglers were ice fishing and a big chunk broke free and it seemed like 15 anglers had to be rescued by the Coast Guard and had to leave their gear, 4-wheelers, and side by sides on the chunk of ice that was floating away.

The 'trash talk' is all that it is. I'd bet you won't hear anymore. As far the no livewell tournaments I don't see that ever happening in my state or any in the Midwest or the majority of the country for that matter. The MLF/BPT format I agree isn't feasible in the everyday tournaments.