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be carefull you might end up with protesters against you and end up gettin your yard and trees TPed ya know toilet papered or worse.

vmc touch lock for me

there will be a time in the future where fishing reels that can hold over 120 yards of braided line will be banned along with all lures with treble hooks.

going to a different lake this thursday in Minn as its gonna be 60 F but still only 45 degree water temp for some bank fishing for crappie. I tied up some different lures and will also be using a bobber with gulp live minnows. Yes all these are tied up using spro barrel swivels #8. I use many different lures during the day and this makes it sooooo easy to switch.

where you located? going out again for crappie on thurs in Minn, expected 60 f.

a bunch of karens living around the lake with money and next will have a save the fish rally.

2 lakes i fish on are just pure slime in the bays come 2nd week in august and arnt fishable till sept.

i have split ring pliers but when i need to open it wider i use a knife blade.

went crappie fishin yesterday and the water was 39 F and the bass were tearing up my crappie jig with an under spin and small grub on it with a steady reel. Why with 39 F water at 3 feet were the bass so very active and this was bank fishing standing in the same spot.

Hit the bank in Minn waters saturday at 1pm with the air temp 43 degrees sunny and the water temp at 38 F. Wife and i all rigged up for crappie. She throws out a crappie jig with a berkley gulp alive 2 inch minnow and first cast catches a nice 3 lb bass. I throw out a crappie in line white spinner and first cast catch a 3 lb bass. Hmmm, cast out a few more times and we both hook up bass again. I change my lure to a crappie jig with an underspin and a small grub green and white hoping for some crappie to bring home. Nope, get bit again by a bass while casually reeling in the underspin in 3 foot of water. We were now catching bass every few casts and bass here doesnt open till May. I didnt want to get in any trouble so i put the rod down and did something i never did before while fishing. I went and sat in my car, relaxed and ate some lunch. Came back out to fish and again the bass hit, they were very frisky for this extremely cold water and bending my jig hooks out so i gave them lots of light drag. I decided to stop fishing as the crappie were not around and felt bad catching the bass especially it being so easy so we left for home.

i am packed up for a 1 hr drive to detroit lakes to my crappie lake on saturday. Only gonna be a high of 50 but only 5-10 mph winds so shouldnt be to bad.

to be of any great all around use dont buy anything under 2700 psi.

watch this, you may learn something you need to know.

i fish alot around Frazee area, especially the lakes that have very little boat traffic or houses on them. The area on DL where lots of people congragate are at Long Bridge where many people fish on and under the bridge as i have. The crappie are crazy in abundance under the bridge and using small plastic tubes and crappie minnows is a sure thing but as with all fishing after the spawn the crappie and panfish litterally dissapear from the bridge.

bundle up buttercups its a long john type of day for me anyway.

The detroit lakes area is supposed to be sunny and 50 both sat and sunday and then later on sunday gonna cloud up and possible rain. The water temp is only in the low 40s but whats a guy to do wait till june so off we will go and bank fish for the crappie as the weather doesnt look good for the following week.

Well the red river is high from the snow/sleet/rain and river water temp fell back into the low 40,s. My crappie fishing at detroit lakes is on hold now for another 10 days till the cold and rain move out hopefully middle of next week which still doesnt look to nice.

every stimulus check.

its easier to ask for forgivness than for permission.

i enjoy sweating in the hot sun, makes me drink tons of water and keeps the weight off. I am always wearing long pants, waders, long sleeves, gloves, shoes, apply sunscreen every 2 hrs to my face, wear a gator around my neck and a wide brimmed straw cowboy hat complete with sunglasses. I used to fish facing into the sun in some areas but now i dont fish into the sun anymore as it was so hot with sun reflecting off the water that i couldnt keep my sweat from forming under the sunglasses that then ran into my eyes.

a good 2 stroke engine like all the major brands have chrome plated or nikasil plated cylinder walls which are super tough. The cylinders can take some heavy abuse from lack of oil in gas mix and overheating, dirt getting past the air filters as the filter itself isnt much and the old 2 stroke snowmobiles didnt even have air filters only an air intake box if that. The pistons and rings are the parts in a 2 stroke that take the wear as they are made of softer material such as aluminum. You can run the engine untill it siezes and the real damage is on the piston exhaust side which gets the hottest and it will leave a trail of aluminum on the cylinder wall. All ya need to do is bang out the piston and get some muratic acid and a cloth and wipe of the aluminum from the cylinder wall, put in a new piston and rings and you are good to go. Also may need some crank and piston pin roller bearings as the originals may be blued from overheating but if just screwing around skip it.

old 2 strokers with pull start, always got a laugh when the pull rope broke because the owner never cared that it was thin as a shoe lace. Ended up removing the shroud and winding whats left of the rope into the manual pully and doing that 50 times as the carbs with the diafram fuel pumps were wore out. Good times.

my wife thinks you need to, well you know ?

i went out for first time today, had a choice between a 3 mile drive to the Red River here in north dakota or a 16 acre lake 23 miles away. I chose the lake, I never been there before but according to a fellow i met all he ever catches are small northerns. So i start out at 2 pm throwing spinners, chatterbaits, shad raps, square bills, suspending jerks and no luck so i was gonna go but it was just a beautiful day out and better than being at home. So i tried a 2 3/4 inch spook looking popper translucent and tossed it out and walked it and got a little explosion on the surface and had me a little northern. I will drive over to the river this week and then to Detroit Lakes area in Minn this weekend for some roadside crappie action weather permitting.

using a pflueger supreme size 30 i crank the heck out of my reel keeping that fish out of the deep grass. I am cranking with 30lb braid with a snapped on 20lb leader all the while i am cranking the drag will kick in and i keep reeling as this is what works for me. The last time i quit on a fish it got off so i crank untill the cows come home. If my reel was to go bad from this extreme cranking then i woud have to seek out another brand of higher quality.