bigbearstroop122

Beautiful fish congrats.

I was going to try and get out this past weekend and beat the bank but everything had a sheet of ice on it 🤨

Happy New year, hope you are able to get out more this upcoming year and run into your new PB.

Thanks for sharing.

I would like to offer my deepest and most sincere condolences to all who knew Tom. He was a wealth of knowledge and every post I made I knew I would receive to sound and well rounded advice from him.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!!!

Those fish are just beautiful, glad you stuck it out and was rewarded for it.

When I read the title of this post I just chuckled to myself, that's how I feel now and I'm only 58. I have done construction my whole life and played football through high School so I have abused the body quite a bit. But just like in construction there is no quitting, when you are tired you push through it and when you cant go anymore yo always end up finding that last reserve. I hope I can fish until I take my last breath but if not then its Gods will and we have no say in that.

Sounds like you earned each and every one of those fish, way to stick it out.

I will see how much I absorb between now and the spring, I really do appreciate the offer though. thank you

My goal is to better understand and use my Helix 9 fish finder, I have been watching plenty of videos and plan on installing it in the house and using it on demo mode to become more familiar with all it’s available functions.

Just slow down and take your time, when your hand is on the bottom of the wheel it should never pass the 3-9 o’clock position.

It sounds like you have the right attitude which is critical and a lot of people praying for you which can’t hurt, wishing you all the best and a speedy recovery I’m sure we will be seeing pics of you with fish before we know it.

I was dying to go out today but we are heading out on vacation tomorrow and I promised the wife I would do the last minute running around with her. Glad you ran into some fish. I ended up putting the transducer on that came with my helix 9; I was using 2D on the Terrova so hopefully when I get back I can give it a test run.

beautiful fish, that will warm you up real quick.👋

Nice write up, looks like those fish need helmets.

I will fish into the low 30's but its really the wind that gets ya. as far as becoming acclimated to the cold that's so true I have worked construction my whole life and in the winter I would go the bus stop and all of the office workers would be there with so much stuff on they could barely move and all I would have on was a hat, gloves and a hoodie with good thermals on and a sweatshirt in my bag. My crazy postman wears his shorts all winter long and I'm talking all winter long even with snow on the ground.

I ordered a few of the siebert chatter baits and I love them, very good quality and they thump right on startup.

I find myself moving around a lot more than I probably should, when I was bank fishing I would definitely fish a spot more thoroughly. This is my first year with a boat and while I didn't do to bad overall I know I could have made some changes, I guess that's why we are all here to gain experience and apply it.

what a day, glad you got into them and the weather cooperated for you. Its starting to get pretty frosty here and the wind gusting at 25-30 isn't helping.

Nice catch congratulations.

excellent report, glad you were able to find them.

I’m in Central Jersey and this is the first gear with the boat, the only tile the gas motor was run was at the dealer, I have fished all reservoirs and small ponds, next year I plan on running the motor. I have been out in my Kayak in November fishing so I’m aware of all the risk just don’t want to do any damage to the boat. I will winterize the rv after this weekend since it’s our last trip for the year.

No electric deploy I have to partially pick it up and steer it by hand and then pull it out at the last second.

I do have a push pole, there is a small lake that’s close to the house that doesn’t have a real ramp and no dock so you are forced to beach the boat after launching it.