i either saw a commercial for, or saw an ad in a magazine for open water tip-ups that could also be used for ice fishing, or vice versa…..they looked just like the polar ones from frabill but that wasn’t the brand. if i find it i’ll let you know
were you fishing from the boat landing in muscoda eyenutz?
I went to an ice fishing seminar last weekend and they talked about it there. The guy said that he believes that it is only good for deeper waters. In shallow water, there isn’t alot of line stretch and it shakes the jig too much to look natural and would scare the fish away. When it is used in deep water, there is alot of line stretch so that the line can absorb most of the shake and gives the jig that little vibration that could potentially drive the fish wild. I don’t think that it would support a spring bobber too well, and it does look kind of flimsy and not well put together.
I use pink, black, and yellow rembrandts often without anything on it but scent and I have done a number to the slabs down the the big river.
who could pass it up?
At the beginning of last years ice fishing season, I used wool glommits. They provided average warmth and all, but if i had to make a quick grab down the hole to get a big crappie and they got wet, that was the worst thing ever. They soak it up and hold it in. I even had them freeze solid after i took them off and put them down and borrowed a pair of someone elses gloves. I got wise and decided to use a pair of chopper mittens. They kept me warm and didn’t soak up water, and unlike gloves, they left space for hand warmers to be put in. Although they are a bit cumbersome in that you have to take them off to change baits, tie knots, etc., they are sure as hell better than frostbite 
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The good lookin guy at the top is me, the next guy is my father Craig, and the last one is my brother Tim. We slammed the big crappies that day down to the big river. My dad is coming back from a fishing/sight seeing trip in Alaska so I am hoping to have his pictures developed soon to get them to you all.
now i know what i’d do! i’d “moderate” and post & comment on every board just like a one of the pros…FTR Young Gun is what they’d call me….lol yea like that’ll ever happen (wink wink)(nudge nudge)
p.s. hey James I tried to send you some pictures but i guess they must not have gotten through….i’ll try to resize them and send em again
alright Kid i think you went a little bit too far with the norwegian comment…..i belive the correct term is truncheon-pedimentally challenged
p.s. hey all you moderators…you think your hot stuff with your big shot green names? i’d tell you what i’d do if i had a green name. I’d…..well….umm….well i don’t know because they won’t give me one!!! 
lol
even though i don’t specifically “target” whites I do tend to catch quite a few with my number one crappie lure, the zip lure. I’ve noticed i have caught the most on the silver colored ones….i’ve also noticed that i get snagged and lose the silver ones the most
p.s. do you guys keep em and filet em or just throw em back?
p.p.s jeez i hope mavzer doesn’t get on my case about “selling” zip lures…lol
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well they ARE Asian carp…. yep.. they eat em in asia…. in fact they are quite popular…
Yea, they eat cats in asia too! Here kitty kitty !CHOMP!
I got the gas operated semi automatic marine issue laser sighted heat seeking shotgun cleaned, loaded and ready for the day they say GO 
Jenkins gets the nod to go to the all-star game! He tallied 2,872,200 votes and deserves every last vote.
i agree with bigpike on the febreeze idea. That stuff works like nothin i’ve ever seen before
anybody who has contact with his family please give my condolences to. I have never met him but from what I have heard makes me think of what a great guy he must have been. God rest his soul and may his family find some peace in their time of loss.
what happened? i didn’t hear anything about it
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“An aggressive solution to a problem is always cheaper than repairing the damage later.”
12 guage shells don’t cost that much, do they?
grass carp! or bigmouth carp!
all ya gotta do is the “accidental” slip and head hit against the side of the boat deal…. 
or carry one of them cool gaff’s loaded with .44 mag shots that they use to subdue them big halibut things. Otherwise i’m all for KwikStik’s idea about the shotgun thing. Who wouldn’t love blastin harmfully invasive fish! I suppose there would be some legalities to be worked out though..
thats a b…….i…….g…fish! nice pic!
how exactly do you “tune” a bait. probably a stupid question but i don’t like to use big baits very often….them big pike will take a bunny hair fly just as easily as they’ll take a huge crank bait….or so it says in my latest issue of outdoor life…which by the way either that or the latest issue of in-fisherman magazine had an add where our own Steve Dezurik (sp?) testified about catching over 90 walleye from late dusk til the wee hours of the morning….. 
yea there it is again at his best! It took me months to lobby for that name.! 
I’d like to take this time to nominate Stillakid2 for the position of EFN Motivational Speaker. Almost everytime he posts something, it’s always positive towards other anglers and very enlightening to read and know theres still someone out there who gives an ats rass about people. Keep the positive comments comin buddy! 
yea them big carp sure put up a nice fight don’t they?!
hey gimpy, has anyone ver told you that you bare a strange likeness to Adam Corrolla, one of the hosts on comedy central’s “The Man Show”? Does anybody else watch that show and know what i’m talkin about?
Nice fish and reports, keep up the good work
speaking of subliminal messages, somebody told me that in movie reels in the 50’s and 60’s they would put every hundred frames or so a frame that would show a pepsi or some popcorn, and it would be too quick for you to see but your brain would respoond, and you’d think, “Hey, i want a pepsi and some popcorn….” (just for good measure)
Where is this famed “Pettibone Park”
were you fishing a slough?
