silvercliff_46

How do you like yours. The one from Cabela's uses 2 batteries. I see this one uses one. Like most guys I want the biggest one, but I'm open.

Thanks Ebby I checked the site and there it was, I'll be picking one up shortly. I think the soldering iron is a good idea, but I don't have an extension cord long enough to keep it in my boat when I am fishing.

Come next December I will be happy to say hi to that little guy in the picture with you.

Oh! I'm sorry.., but you seemed to have based a criticism on me because of you lack of knowledge of the ELFN' language. You see $#&^ in ELFN' merely means "Aw Nuts"! Now don't you feel better having learn something new. :

Alright! alright! I knew sooner or later it would come out..., so here it is. Me and the wife at the town picnic. By the way that IS my beard before I trim it, after Christmas.

I live on McCaslin Mountain, Silvercliff is the side of the mountain I live on. Grizzly Adams was here for a while, but never fit in, we sent him packing. I hear he move out west to a place called "Broke Back" mountain.

Due to circumstances beyond our control fishing season has been posponed!!

I noticed that most of you guys prefer using a shorter rod 6-6 1/2 foot for skipping. I find using my 7 foot Fish Eagle II M/H works best for me. Maybe it is the arthritis. My shoulders, elbows and wrists wear out after a half day fishing. I find, I am able to use an easier snap with the tip to do the job. I have switched to longer rods over-all. the wife uses longer rods now days too. She has been my fishing partner for 47 years now. I have been trying to teach her to skip, but it sounds like a depth charge dropped from an old destroyer. Maybe that's a good thing, because she beats me enough, and she only fishes from the back of the boat. ;D

My wife bought me a 12 foot crappie Whuppin stick for Valentines day (I got her a new spinning combo). I looked up a technique called "Doodlesocking", basically poking around in the brush for crappies. I have a lot of slop that has fairly deep water under it (5-7 feet). I think this will work for all pan fish. The lakes I fish have musky and pike, which I think keep the bass and pan fish in the weeds. Any suggestions/experience in this?

I am just curious as to how it is done. Maybe I will give it a shot. I always like learning new things. Nothing ventured nothing gained.

YAH! I think I'll stick with the spinning reel, by the time I would get it figured out I'd have wings. I hope I get the wings, not the horns. :-[ I have to add skippin' is one of my favorite things. If you can put your bait where other guys are afraid to throw...,well look out.

I like to skip under docks, low lying trees and the like, but always use a spinning reel to do it. I heard someone say (on tv) they do it with a baitcaster!! If so how do you set up a baitcaster to do it. I know if I try to do it, I'll do it one time, and then spend the rest of the day digging a world record over-run out of my reel. :-[

Aw! I'm just injecting a little humor, before injecting the epoxy. Thanks for the advise.

It is interesting that this should come up just now. Yesterday after cursing at my snow-blower for crapping out (it still ain't going) I came in the house and got out some old 3M tapes I have. One was a Glen Lau film called BASS (could have been Largemouth) either way Lau had an Afro back then. The others were by Bill Dance. He had no grey hair and was skinny. Another was by a guy named Homer Circle. Homer featured a couple of up and comers in the fishing world named Al Lindner and Roland Martin. The guys had electronics alright but they were the Lowrance in the box flasher units and hand held thermometers. Roland Martin was fishing out of a jon boat. ;D I don't remember the other guys name except he fished out of wooden boat, dragging suckers behind, and trolling with a Shakespeare electric trolling motor. Homer caught a 12 pound largemouth and released it right into the cooler. As you can see, these were some old tapes, but after all these years I still enjoy them, recall a few things I forgot, and remember back when my waist was smaller then my chest and numbers meant more then just fishing.

HMMMmmmmmm! Maybe I'll get the universal repair kit out and duck-it.

I love fishing gills right after ice out. I use a fly rod and my favorite fly is one I tie myself. I use a 14 nymph hook, I wrap most of the body with red chenille. At the butt end I put in a wrap of yellow. ( I think this may look like an egg sack to the fish, but who knows) I Palmer some black ostrich herl over it and tie in a couple of antenna with ostrich naturally these are tied in at the beginning, but are made from the previously tied ones left over tags. I watch my water temps real close and take a small battery temp. gage in the canoe with me. You can get some drastic temp. difference at that time of year. I.E. The temps in the north corner of an 80 acre lake was 33. The wind was blowing out of the Northwest and the Southeast temps were close to forty. The first place I look is in the super muddy shallows from a foot or less. Last year the bulls never came that shallow. They hung out in 5-7 feet of water just below the surface. They were really fussy and I had a hard time at first. They were taking knats off the surface. At my age and with my vision I am lucky if I can see a 10-12. By the time I figured out what was happening the game was over. Every once in awhile a live brain cell emerges from some dark recess of my brain. This time I figure to tie a small popper to my line and tied a 18" 1-1/2 pound tippet to the popper hook, with the size 22 Griffins knat tied the end. That did it. I smacked more then enough big bulls for a nice fish fry. I see your from Africa so you probably think ice out is removing ice from your drink. This one is for the up north cold country guys. However it does demonstrate how you need to think to get ahead of them sometimes.

Actually it started to crack at the union, but cracked the cork ring in a spiral around the handle. HMmmmmm! :-/ I know what I mean, but I don't know if you will know with my word scramble.

Thanks guys. I will keep trying to hunt it down on my end. If I come up with something I will let you know too.

Maybe so, but he beat us (Packers) in below zero temps in our back yard, then went on to beat the Pats. If he is overrated then the Giants as a team are underrated. I'm a Cheesehead and will always be, but you got to give credit where it is due. Congrats to the Giants and their fans.

I may have to get the glue. I have been searching the net and can't seem to find a welder. Any suggestions on where to look??? Glues seem kind of messy.

Thanks for the info. It might be worth considering since me and the wife fish a lot of plastics.

Well now that sounds nifty. I will do that, and thanks for the tip. HMmmmmmmmmm! I don't have any cork around so I guess I will have to buy a bottle of good wine just for the cork. Not being a wasteful man, I will have to consume it so it doesn't go bad. This idea keeps getting better. Thanks again.

I agree with you guys on color, well 95% anyway. As was stated light penetration can make a difference in presentation. Some times too bright a color in clear water seems to turn them off, and not enough contrast (I like black) in dark water and they can't find it. It's like matching the hatch trout fishing. Most of the time it doesnt make a difference, but when it does, it makes a big difference. That's just my opinion and I have been full of stuff before.

I know I'm cheap, but why throw away a soft plastic if the head is just screwed up. Also bear in mind I am an old coot and have time to putz. I have seen these "Worm Welders" for sale through the catalogs. Has anyone tried them and how well do they work?????????

The cork on my rod handle cracked "around" the handle (not the long way). I can still fish with it but I would like to fix it. What will it take and what kind of glue should I use???