MN Fisher

^ this Totaling up retail on my rigs = $2100 Totaling up what I actually paid = $1200 General sales, closeouts and even used gear have made it into my arsenal. My most 'expensive' rig would be the Patriarch 7.9:1 on the Fury 704C Retail - $320 My cost - $157...rod on sale, reel was bought used.

Long as all baits are in their original packaging, there shouldn't be any cross-over issues. I have Z-Man baits and Zoom baits in their original bags in the same box (Plano 3607)...no issues between them.

That depends on the lake too. Minnetonka has 6 creeks that flow into it at various points. It has one exit - the Minnehaha Creek - at the east end. There are currents caused by the inflow and outflow, but they're very subtle; nothing like the flow you'll find on dam-lakes like Eufaula, Guntersville, Sam Rayburn, Toledo Bend, etc. Bemidji, the lake of my teen years, has the Mississippi entering the south end and exiting the east side - the current between those two points is more significant, probably coming closer to those listed dam-created lakes...but only between the inlet and outlet...north end of the twin bowls is much quieter. Having dived Bemidji in SCUBA gear, I can personally confirm that...we preferred the north bowl over the south because of the current in the south. So natural lakes can have currents, but the strength of them depends on the interaction of inflow vs outflow.

Two ways to do it 1: PM your e-mail address to Boomstick - he'll add you to the invite e-mail that gets sent out well in advance. It'll have the direct link to the Zoom room we meet in 2: 5-10 minutes before the start, he posts the link in this thread so you can join from here without disclosing your e-mail. Come on in - the more, the merrier.

My crankbait rig has a 6.3:1 Fuego CT loaded with 12# Yo-Zuri Hybrid Any decent Mono would work fine - Berkley Big Game in 10#-12# would be a good starting line.

Crank and walking baits I do on a Fury 705CB Larger jerkbaits on that too - but the small ones (3/16oz and less) I do on a Fury 703. Your M/F spinner can handle those as I use to use my Aird-X 6'6" M/F for them

You know me - anytime is a good time.

MInnesota is in the same boat - while the Twin Cities area is only classified as "Moderate Drought", up in the Red Lake area they're classified as in "Exceptional Drought" with most of northern MN in "Extreme Drought".

Isopropyl alcohol

Well, right now I got no choice...canoe is sold and currently the trailer for the Lake Master is in pieces. ?

Or keel for the really shallow ones.

Sounds like a good time despite the lack of fish, Dean. Time with the kid is always good. Hope your dad gets better soon. My dad had a pair of stents put in 20 years ago...he's still going strong so I have no doubt yours will be going strong for years yet. If nothing else, I gotta get out shore-fishing one of these days

One of the sites I can't name has a drawing currently going on...three winners each get a 1000yd spool of 17# and 22#.

When I was 14, not long after moving from the east coast to northern MN, dad bought me a .22 rifle so I could go rabbit and squirrel hunting with my new friends. Following year he got me a 12 gauge semi-auto shotgun so I could join them grouse hunting. Now-days, giving a rifle and shotgun to a teenage kid can get you in all sorts of trouble.

Not only did I have the G.I. Joe - also had a box full of those little army men.

Ya - here's a pic of the racer - shifter by right handle, bell by left

The bike I traded in for the 10-speed Kabuki Super Light in '75 was a 3-speed Schwinn Racer with the shifter by the right handle instead of centered on the handle-stem.

Takes less than a minute to grab the trailer and string it on the hook. Better that than the oils of the trailer slowly breaking down the skirt bands, starting to rust the hook, etc.

Jig gets tied on during prep the night before. Trailer goes on just before I start casting...comes off when I want to switch lures on that rig, or at the end of the day. I do decide the night before which trailers I'm going to use first...they go into their own box (still in the plastic bags) so I don't have to search.

I got a few things like that Desk/dresser pair - solid walnut...was my dad's when he was a teen...so 70+ years old...been mine since I was a teen. My uncle JW's last service cap (you'd recognize it, Andy)...he retired as a R-Adm from the USCG in 1961.

Let's put together a super-team @Catt @Bluebasser86 @roadwarrior @A-Jay and Captain @WRB

Ya - evolution is more about "What the heck, let's try this and see what it does" over "That deer is a little faster than the other...it'll be the one that survives best". While the slower one hides and goes un-noticed, the 'faster/better' one gets chased down and eaten.

About the only American colored-water I'll lower myself to is Sam Adams...but it has to be when there's nothing better available.

Tonight's drink of choice