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This, interesting show.

My current lab’s name is Fenwick, Fen for short, I name them after fishing stuff. Next boy will be Pflueger.

For female lab, I would say Selkie, from Celtic folklore.

Yep, look for an after-market video card. Check your power supply first, and the what kind of slots you have for expansion. A lot of PC only come with 300 watt or so power supply, which will limit the amount of card you can put in. But card makers make some decent cards that plug in that you won’t have to deal with upgrading power supply.

If you want a top end card you may have to upgrade your power supply.

I think Nvidia and some of the other top card makers have little utilities you can download from their sites to see what kind of card expansion options you have.

You can get a decent card and performance boost for $50-100. If you want real top end it can get quite expensive in a hurry.

Glad to see ruffie the mascot in there

Very cool report and pictures, thanks.

Black drum, nice fish. Good eats too.

The guy is clearly nuts. I mean what idiot wouldn’t be trolling a crankbait behind him?

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I dont think Stange would be interested if it didn’t involve swimbaits! LOL

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Haha, more specifically a 5″ Berkley powershad, lol. It makes for a nice drinking game while watching TV though .

Seriously, however, that’s a great report. I’ve been chasing them with a fly rod for a couple of years now. They are a great fish to pursue, and one of the few things that will take you into your backing. I will have to think about chasing them on ice, that sounds like a heck of a lot of fun. Not only for the catching, but for the ‘bug eye’s’ of other fisherman who are pursuing ‘game fish’.

pandora.com and last.fm both offer same-type service. Now you have 2 accounts to play with.

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Thanks alot guys. I’m heading for 51 soon and have been delaying this procedure. These posts are not helping. i wonder if I can have it filmed and post it?

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The Aqua-View camera may hurt a little bit at first.

I think I got another couple thousand beers left in me too.

I’ve burned gas many times without any problems. You just have to keep on top of maintenance. Burning gas will cause carbon buildup in the generator. This is easily removed with a little acetone. So just keep it clean, and you shouldn’t have any problems.

As a side note I’ve bought a Petromax lantern this last year for camping, and power outages emergencies. I have a tank of kerosene at the house for back up heat, light, cooking. This lantern/fuel combo is my new favorite. Kerosene is relatively cheap and burns nicely.

I took my 9 year old nephew out for stream trout and some walleye fishing last year, and I used circle hooks with him. They worked great and we gut hooked very few fish. We caught a lot of trout and quite a few walleyes. I think only 3 fish or so were not hooked in the mouth.

We were slip-bobbering and lindy rigging mostly. As others have stated a nice slow rod sweep or just reeling up is the way to go. I think it’s a real nice way to take youngsters fishing who don’t have a great feel yet or the patience needed by certain types of fishing. The slip float fishing was great for him as it gave him something to look at. And showed him where fish were hanging out in the smaller water we were fishing. Now he knows to look at the rock piles and log jams and current breaks in the small streams and rivers we fish because that’s where the float disappears.

I had to have one of these a couple weeks ago too. The prep is truly the worst part. As a sitcom recently put it, “I think I saw some chewing gum from the 5th grade.”

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I am so deeply saddened to hear about this. Back in the late 70’s I went to tech school at NEI in Minneapolis, where I met Jack and we discovered a mutual interest in fishing. Jack and I would rent a boat and get out fishing 2 or 3 times a week, usually on Lake Elmo. We drifted apart after school other than meeting up occasionally on the water. In 1996 I went to work for Fisher-Rosemount in Burnsville. Much to my surprise and delight, I stumbled across Jack in the lunchroom one day. He was working there as a Tech writer. There were many afternoons where we didn’t get a lot done as we were involved in deep technical discussions about fish location or leader design. Eventually Jack left to work on Esox magazine, and I took employment elsewhere. Here’s the kind of guy Jack was: Now understand that he was a very good Musky fisherman and that he worked hard at it. He drove up to the NW Angle on LOTW almost every weekend of the season. At this point he told me he had put over 70 Muskies in the boat 50 inches or better. Hanging on the wall in my cube was a picture of me holding a 49 inch Muskie on I caught on Cedar Lake (the one North of Somerset, WI). Jack saw the picture and went on and on about what a great catch that was. I interrupted him and pointed out he had caught dozens of bigger fish. He replied “Sure, 800 miles from here on LOTW under optimum circumstances. You caught that fish near the Cities where the pressure is a lot higher”. That was Jack, he never got a swelled head no matter how successful he was.

My thoughts and prayers to his family today.

Rootski

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Those are some great memories Rootski, thanks for sharing. Like Bob, I never had a chance to meet Jack; but tried to read every book or article from him I was able to. His writings have really made me a better fisherman, and I am indebted to him for that. Prayers to all those close to him.

Welcome to IDO.

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I just wonder if we could get the addicts on here off of the water, or out of the woods long enough to talk for a podcast.

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Fair enough point . However, it seems like a lot of the professionals around here enjoy the teaching side of the business. I imagine most of our dreams of being a pro-fisherman or guide would be brought down to earth if we knew how much time is devoted to the non-fishing side of life .

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I’m one of the few without a Ipod and wouldn’t even know how to listen to a podcast.

Here is how us old guys do it………We go to Skeeter Boat Centers open house this coming Saturday and listen to James and several other experts doing seminars.

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I’d love to do that as well. Sadly, my work schedule seems to get in the way a lot of the time .

I’ve looked for other freshwater fishing podcasts to listen to since I travel quite a bit, and there just isn’t anything that is high-quality out there at the moment that I could find. The IDO experts would do much better. It would be great to here from sponsors like Wade about electronics, as well as other sponsors highlighting their products. Additionally, you could have techniques and tips from the field staff and guides here.

Just a thought I had about this considering there seems to be an untapped media outlet .

Listening to a podcast is easy. You can stream it right on your website, or you can listen to it from ITunes or any other podcast-compatible program. So even if you don’t have an Ipod or other mp3 device you can still listen to the show .

In early voting, it’s 75% yay, 25% nay.

Pretty close

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Hi Suzuki –

I’m a Florida transplant here to MN from just a few years ago. As others have pointed out, lots of great opportunities for you to explore.

The two species I most enjoyed fishing when I lived in Fla were permit and bonefish. The fight is just incredible in those two. Islamorada is home to some world-class trophy bonefish. It’s a fun sight fishing opportunity, and they fight and run incredible.

If you can HQ yourself out of Hawk’s Cay. Lot’s of great charters and guides work out of there to suit whatever you wish to do.

Some of the guides mentioned above are HQ’d out of Hawk’s Cay as well.

Saltwater Experience Outfitters for guides and charter captain’s working out of Hawk’s Cay.

Seems to me the Vikes have been jinxed since they moved indoors. There may be something to that.

Being a Vikes fan is like living a sad country song over and over, season after season.

I trust the Cheapo Vegas gang.
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I’m not sure you get enough out of the really expensive seafood buffets on the Strip. Although, the Rio’s is still pretty good, I was there a year ago.

Main Street Station downtown has a real nice buffet and a seafood option on the weekend. Plus their own 777 brew on site, it’s very good for the money.

Just my .02

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How about this… Links to the next page of the guide are on the bottom, this gentleman even included a schematics link.

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Thanks for the link. That is helpful.

Some further internet searching found me Reel Repair Tips this site as well. I think between the two links I’ll be able to get started.

Edit: found a bunch of schematics online for free as well. Schematics site.

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Aren’t suckers an invasive species? I heard that there was one born every minute.

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You talking minnows here or politicians?

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Politicians are an invasive self-replicating species. Studies by the University of Minnesota show that if you remove a politician, another one that acts, speaks, behaves, and votes in the same way replaces the original within a very short time frame. This has made control of this species quite difficult.

Researchers who have been on the forefront of studying this problem state the only way to remove the politician from it’s locale is to give it a high-priced tax payer-subsidized ‘conference’ in an ideal location such as the Bahamas where they can meet their mating partners. These mating partners are attorneys who fall under the title ‘lobbyist’. The lobbyists seem to follow the politician to whatever water they are currently located in. There is no known way to keep the species apart and to preventing them from breeding. Thus, the cycle of invasive politicians/lobbyists continues unmolested in waters both near and far. Studies continue as to how to halt the progress of theses two symbiotic invasive species.

Thanks for the heads up on Orvis leader Rootski. I’ve been using the Cortland Climax pike leader, they are an 8 foot leader with 15 inch wire shock tippiet, for pike and musky when I’ve been ‘waggling a stick’ at them. They are a good leader, and haven’t let me down. But they are on the pricey side.

You’re welcome, and thank you.

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Thanks for the input guys though I wasnt really looking for info on how the chinese make everything we buy. I am pretty much aware of that situation. I just wanted to make sure I get another pair of quality boots that are most importantly WARM

Thanks to all that replied

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Just thought I’d jump in and point you to a place in Berlin, Wisconsin that makes hand-crafted boots and shoes. They make them to fit you. High quality hand-crafted construction from people who have been doing it a long time. Heck, they’ll even use your leather if you want to send it to them. Price will be a little more than at the big box store, but they’ll resole for free if need be, and warranty can’t be beat. Lifetime worth of boot.

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