1 minute ago, ol'crickety said:

 

I thought so too, @Blue Raider Bob. However, since @cheezyridr looks just like Lurch and he approaches pond owners for permission to fish, I'm wondering how that goes. 

My guess is he gets permission to fish wherever he wants and doesn't have to ask twice!

When the pond owner answers the door, does @cheezyridr say, "I rangggg."

2 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

 

I thought so too, @Blue Raider Bob. However, since @cheezyridr looks just like Lurch and he approaches pond owners for permission to fish, I'm wondering how that goes. 

 

 

hahahaha   ?  i wasn't always this ugly!  i got old, and the whole ball of yarn unraveled one night in my sleep.

 

but i will tell you the trick i used to get permission to fish the private places.  i used to offer free labor.  if they needed help doing something here and there, i'd work the whole day, or however much of a day they needed. i also always carried a trash bag in my belt loop, and would pick up any trash i found, on my way out.  these days i'm too old and broken to be useful, so i can't use that method anymore. but a day or two per season, per fishin hole, was all it took for people to understand i wasn't a psycho, and would respect their property.  lots of times i went home after, with free produce they gave me at the end of the day, sometimes they fed me lunch, and i got to know honest, hard working people. some of them turned me on to other good fishin holes, and vouched for me to those owners

 

5 minutes ago, cheezyridr said:

 

 

hahahaha   ?  i wasn't always this ugly!  i got old, and the whole ball of yarn unraveled one night in my sleep.

 

but i will tell you the trick i used to get permission to fish the private places.  i used to offer free labor.  if they needed help doing something here and there, i'd work the whole day, or however much of a day they needed. i also always carried a trash bag in my belt loop, and would pick up any trash i found, on my way out.  these days i'm too old and broken to be useful, so i can't use that method anymore. but a day or two per season, per fishin hole, was all it took for people to understand i wasn't a psycho, and would respect their property.  lots of times i went home after, with free produce they gave me at the end of the day, sometimes they fed me lunch, and i got to know honest, hard working people. some of them turned me on to other good fishin holes, and vouched for me to those owners

 

That trick works about 90% of the time.    I've done a lot of work to fish people's lakes.  

@AlabamaSpothunter and @cheezyridr, I bake pecan chocolate chip cookies if I have to cross private land to reach a bog or swamp.

 

Thanks for being a good sport when I teased you, @cheezyridr!

Center Hill Lake Middle Tennessee. Fishing was slow, scenery was not! Caught three small spots and one slab crappie.

After our trip to Headwaters in Florida las week I have a new one to add.

Duck River near Henry Horton State Park, middle Tennessee. The water is clearing up and soon it will be river time! I've got to shovel mud off the ramp before that can happen. Every time the river rises, it leaves a coating of mud. Nature makes me work for my leisure! 

A shot from my drone of Mousam lake in Southern Maine. 4.5 miles long. One in a string of 22 lakes in the immediate area. My avatar picture is a shot of it from my front door as I live on this lake.

Bass, crappie, pickeral, And Salmon and trout in the spring after fall stocking.

15 minutes ago, DanielG said:

A shot from my drone of Mousam lake in Southern Maine. 4.5 miles long. One in a string of 22 lakes in the immediate area. My avatar picture is a shot of it from my front door as I live on this lake.

Bass, crappie, pickeral, And Salmon and trout in the spring after fall stocking.

That is beautiful beyond words!  Congrats on being able to enjoy that daily.

This was Monday morning. It was super windy, gusting to 40 or so.

How bout some urban scenery!

1 minute ago, MassBass said:

How bout some urban scenery!

Changed quite a bit since I left NE back in '74

Lake Beltrami, Minnesota

7 minutes ago, Tlauz said:

Lake Beltrami, Minnesota

While Bemidji was my main 'fishing hole' when I lived up there...I have fished Beltrami, Turtle, Little Bass and Big Bass on several occasions.

 

Part of my open water SCUBA training was in Big Bass.

 

Some days, I miss living up there.

Cumberland River near Nashville

Gull Lake, MN

A scene from today on the Upper James River in East Virginia

 

 

 

Today's put in:  Lindsey Slide on the Lower Greenbrier River, Summers Co., WV

15 hours ago, Jeff Zurawski said:

Today's put in:  Lindsey Slide on the Lower Greenbrier River, Summers Co., WV

That looks like the walleye hole!!!

Upper Greenbrier River, Pocahontas Co, WV

Taken Saturday on the Rappahonock River in Virginia.