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Is it wrong to keep a loaded gun around when a person isn’t home if it has a trigger lock on it?
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I used to have one of those. I had a bad experience with ammo deterioration which led to an accidental discharge of the weapon. Be careful BK!
Find out who was hosting the tournament and give the director a call. If it a stand up club run by a stand up guy, he will talk to the guys at the next meeting/event and chew some 
. The last thing a club wants is the DNR to revoke their permits due to some hooligans.
At that time of year, a VAST majority if your audience cannot even fish open water walleye. No need for 3-5 shows in a row covering something only a small percentage of your audience can use. Might as well add in some bass/pike/panfish shows from open water. I think it would appeal to more people at that transition period between ice and open seasons.
I’d say either the ground (which should be the ground for all of your dash switches as well), or where the wire attaches to the ignition switch.
Shouldn’t be too hard to trace and fix. Nice week coming up to work on it!
Actually touching the dock/pontoon with a lure, your hand, or your boat is not acceptable. That is someone else’s property.
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How about throwing your worm up on a boat canopy and letting it slide down into the water, or clanging your jig off someone’s pontoon?
That cannot be a serious question. Come on now…
Use a fish basket.
Its public water. I try to not fish around docks that have signs of children though (float tubes, kids life jackets hanging, swimming beach). They usually aren’t very productive docks anyways with all the commotion. But otherwise they are all fair game IMO.
I think they knew what they were getting into when they bought the house.
I believe MN, WI, IA, and IL all have laws in place if someone tries to disturb you while you are fishing/hunting legally. Call the DNR/sheriff and let them know of the idiot that thinks he owns the water under his dock. A deputy knocking on the door will teach him to quit yelling at fishermen.
It happens all the time on a lake I visit in MN. People will come down and fire up their boats because we are fishing their dock, or tell their fully clothed kids to run down the dock and jump in the water damn near across our lines.
Quite often though when I am fishing a string of docks I’ll have people come down and throw a line in the water off their dock before I get there, usually with no bait. But that is okay IMO, didn’t hurt my fishing any.
They aren’t all like that on that lake though. One guy I can remember very clearly, for a good reason. We were catching some NICE crappies off docks one year, and would hit them every morning at daybreak. Every morning there would be an older man sitting on his deck drinking coffee and reading a newspaper. When we got to his dock he’d say hi and ask if we were still getting them, what we were getting them on, etc. When we caught a fish he’d yell “nice one!!” and wave. Really a nice guy.
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You can do that in WI. In Minnesota we can’t and I am not sure that Iowa anglers can either.
You can’t have two hooks on one line off one rod in MN? Like a double drop shot? Or pulling a three way with two lures? Didn’t mean to pass on bad info… I love fishing like that in WI, and thought you could have two lines, or lures in MN. My bad.
Only with flies in MN.
We can do it in Iowa. I do it quite often when straight lining crappie. 5/8 sinker, two minnows a foot apart and just set it in the rod holder so the weight is just off bottom. I do it alot when I’m throwing jigs, I’ll set my dead stick rod with two minnows about 6-8′ down and just let it dead stick as I go down the bank or around docks.
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Mounting actual fish, wasn’t in the best of shape discolored and very beat up so I made decision to keep it,unsure if it would’ve made it…
Nothing wrong with that!! Your son will be able to point to that and say “I was with him when he caught that”. MEMORIES!
Wow, what a HAWG! Congrats!!!
Replica being made??? 
If they are on the bottom. 3way trolling first to see if they are active. 3 way with a 1′ dropper to whatever size weight will keep you down there. Then a 2′ lead to a small floating jig head with a minnow. Troll it past and see what happens. Its a very good crappie rig that I have never seen anyone else use. The floating jig head has outfished plain hooks 20:1 for us.
If they won’t hit that, then drop a jig down there and use the sonar like ice fishing.
Fish are biting. 
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don’t creeks run into rivers??PLEASE so us the two
I don’t know their actual names, that is just what I call them. Creek shiners are the same shape as a golden shiner only silver. River shiners are very long and thin, thinner than a fathead.
This is a creek shiner. Around here some have red tails, some are all silver, and of course golden shiners.
Here is a river shiner
Creek shiners (store shiners) have never really produced much for me. Mostly because I’ve had to catch my own since the bait shops don’t sell them here.
River shiners on the other hand, WOW! Every time I have used them they have outfished fatheads 20:1. All species, crappie, walleye, white bass, largemouth, etc.
Mine all look like the middle ones.. FWIW. I’d contact bob and see what he says.
That’s a subject a lot of people aren’t familiar with! (follow the regs of where you are fishing, not where you are from).
I was just trying to convince a guy about that last week. He is from Iowa and has both IA and IL licenses like me. He was trying to tell me that you cannot have two possessions (one from each state), that the regulations are for where you live. (not talking about the Miss river, talking about inland). He also tried to tell me that with his IA 3rd line permit he can fish 3 lines over in IL as well, because he has an Iowa resident license. I tried to inform him otherwise (being as polite as possible) but he wouldn’t hear any of it. So I hope he learns the rules before a CO shows him with his ticket book.
Simple rule to follow. Follow the regulations for where your butt is located when fishing.
I haven’t seen that, all of mine have been pretty much the same.
Maybe contact Bob here http://www.idofishing.com/forum/showprofile.php/User/12348
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For small and medium shiners, in the mouth and out behind the head. They will stay alive for a long time! This is also how I hook fatheads on a jig head.
For big shiners, through the nostrils with a weedless wacky hook. It won’t come off.
http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/VMC_Ike_Approved_Weedless_Wacky_Hooks/descpage-VMCWW.html
Wow. They put 10,000 in the whole lake and this one man caught 1600 of them? that’s insane!
I don’t fish sub surface much, unless its a super fluke. I am a BIG fan of cabelas walking dawg topwater in the smaller size. I walk it 3 times (left, right, left) then pause, then two times (right, left), then 3 times, then 2.. you get the picture. Only a 3-4 second pause between sets. That is what I have had my most luck on. If the fish are in any slower of a mood I switch to a popper. Any faster and a buzzbait.
Its public record now that he has been arrested. You can say his name. 
Assuming your sonar is set to the appropriate low voltage setting, it is telling you that your battery is either too small or just about shot. When you crank over the motor it is taking all of the juice from the battery to turn it over, a sign of a weak battery. If the battery is new, then you need one with a bigger CCA rating and a bigger reserve amp rating.
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What if they are smarting off to you in the bar after work? IS that ok?
Sure, but only once! 
Hit a worker, $10,000 fine and 14 years in prison.
7-7’6 MH-H depending on model. Right now I like my veritas 7′ MH (it has the action of a Heavy)
7:1:1 reel (preferably a solid metal frame)
30# 832 braid
3/8 or 1/2 strike king pro model jig with a rage craw.
Yes, I have owned both. The legend is a solid carbon blank with the ultra sensitive spring bobber. The TUCR is, as you know, glass with an ultra sensitive tip. The legend with the lightest spring is more sensitive than the TUCR to small movements. The one thing I hated with the legend was the lag time. By this I mean the fish hits the spring and I set the hook, it is going from no tension on the fish to a big shock of a hookset with a small lag time. This caused a lot of lipped fish for me, and a lot of torn crappie mouths. With the TUCR there is no lag, and no shock. The fish almost hook themselves. Also, with the PN you will feel some of the bites. It happens to everyone, you look up to see your buddy land a fish and *THUMP* you get hit. You probably wont feel it with the legend unless he really smacks it, but you will feel it with the TUCR since the fish is moving the blank of the rod and not an attached spring.
I would opt for a 30-32″ for the PN.
