BASS announced today a partnership with Roku. Great news if you are a Roku user; I am not. I assume I am now cut off from being able to stream live weigh-ins and tournament coverage. If that is the case, I am going to get a trial subscription in doing without that which I was accustomed to be able to watch.
“The only thing that ever stays the same is change.”
I do not understand the fascination with mock drafting. I’ll leave drafting to the experts.
Nick Lindner put out an excellent YouTube video with plenty of underwater camera action giving tips on the Mille Lacs perch bite. I wanted him to catch the silver bullets that came through instead. Tullibee on 3lb test line, that is a fish I get excited about. Those dudes will peel drag.
Not if they hold the power to do it unless there is significant opposition pushing back. The Government sometimes operates like special interest gangsters. You think your voice matters, that may be naive.
It seems what matters is pinning down why the change is being proposed by the DNR. If you have no target or targets to shoot at, it will be tough to knock the regulation change down if that is your goal.
Bass fishermen in this state have been aiming at and making slow progress in changing the Closed Season for bass into a catch-and-release season. I think MN is the final holdout in the US. The DNR Commissioned a public survey in 2024 that was overwhelmingly favorable to the change. We are really close now to overcoming that final hurdle.
Boom and bust cycles are interesting. They can be caused by a few different factors for all species, I think, and in the case of walleye, the amount of forage around can have a huge impact on the bite regardless of their actual population level. Low forage and the bite is hot; high forage, they are fat, happy, and hard to catch.
I have fished the same area/areas from shore now for almost 20 years for everything in the lake. Some years, the fishing is spectacular. Some years, not so much. It has been a bit of a puzzle for some years as to why fishing isn’t as good when conditions seem prime, but fishing isn’t as good for this or that species.
Changing the walleye limit will have zero effect on me other than I could potentially not keep as many fish as I would have otherwise. Being able to keep fish isn’t important to me. If I do catch a walleye, it will likely be coming home with me unless it is what I deem too big or out of Mille Lacs with the restrictive limit and slot.
What I have gathered from reading this thread is that the main reason for the proposed change is to give anglers an easier-to-achieve goal, which will, in theory, boost their satisfaction level. That reason is good enough for me. If there are 10,000 satisfied fishermen because of the change and 1,000 or 5,000, or 9,999 disgruntled ones. Yes, they have done the right thing. It is only wrong in my mind if it is an even split or more disgruntled anglers than satisfied ones. Talking about the wisdom or lack of it biologically may make you feel good, but it is missing the point of the change entirely. If you oppose the regulation change, you need to hire a reputable public polling agency and commission a poll on the subject. I would presume the DNR has already done that, and you are not going to like the results you get. If the DNR has not done its due diligence and the polling reflects that the change would be a loser for them, you will probably open their eyes and win the argument.
This thread was amazingly entertaining to read.
The Bears dropped from 5th to 10th by beating the Packers. I don’t think anyone can hold that against Da Bears. Their loss to Washington, which sent the team into a tailspin was a fluke result. Didn’t they have several other fluky last-second losses? They were a better team than the record reflected.
Of those four, Allen then Mahomes. The other two haven’t proven anything really in comparison. If you flip teams with Allen and Mahomes, I think Allen achieves everything M did if not more.
Is it just me who finds it absurd that a lake as big as Mille Lacs could be fished out out of a healthy population of perch? Sure, jumbos seemed to disappear for an abnormally long stretch, but I doubt that it was due to direct fishing or netting pressure. Maybe as a second or third-order effect of poor walleye size management, the ballooning SM take over, and zeebs making the lake less fertile. The lake just doesn’t get fished enough to put a dent in a panfish population that lives everywhere on the lake.
Lions OC Ben Johnson will be Da Bears new Head Coach.
I’ll echo Brittman’s thoughts. I generally find a crappie bite window before dawn to dawn and then again as the sun sets until after dark. Some nights, they keep biting after dark; other nights, not so much, or the schools just don’t stick around. I don’t move much.
Sometimes a minnow is hot, sometimes this jig or that jig is hot, sometimes a spoon, sometimes a Slab rap, sometimes a little of everything I throw gets bit.
I tend to be really successful in those bite windows for crappies so that is when I go.
One and done across the board in the NFC North. ! This crab in a bucket is doing SKOL Chants with Banana Man.
Daniels would be on IR if he were the Bears QB.
I was like what is that Lions TD celebration where they were burying a dead body when they were still behind, Huh?
How many more points does Washington have to score to win? I think 13 or 14 should do it.
The Lions looked fazed, and now they are in real trouble, down two scores. They need to score before half or the game may have gotten past them like it did vs. Buffalo.
Daniels doesn’t look fazed at all in the Lions den. The Lions could be in trouble.
The boat ramps in my area have been pushed up in at least 3 different instances that I can remember since moving up here in 2003. Always have been taken care of right around the time they put the docks in. Last year they replaced the NE Access on Sullivan at some point after Opener. It wasn’t on the DNR’s official list, so it may have been the Lake Association that had that done.
It’s nice to hear that jumbo’s are coming back in Mille Lacs. Perch will never be a fish that I get excited about.
I agree ST coach should be let go. I don’t understand returning kick offs??? Seems like 99% of the time you start inside the 30.
Packers have lots of needs. My #1 would be a lock down corner and see if they can get anything for JA.
Hafley’s defense is made for man coverage.
If the ball lands short of the goal line and isn’t returned, the Team gets the ball starting at the 20-yard line. That’s why if it’s going to be close, guys return it.
All it takes to win in playoffs is for a coaching staff to draw up a stalemate of game plan and have your team get a lucky break or two or make a play at just the right time. That is how Washington went down to Tampa and won from what I saw of the game highlights. That Daniels kid has to scare the bejeebers out of DC’s. The kid can make plays.
Listening to KFAN this morning as a Packer fan is just “oh so delicious”!
But like others have mentioned KOC’s play calling was really a head scratcher with all the runs while being down. After the Vikings beat the Packers I was thinking they were legit but now I think both teams over achieved this year.
Every team in the North except Da Bears overachieved this year. The Pack and Lions held up remarkably well given all their injuries. I will be shocked if the Lions make the Super Bowl. They could very well be one and done just like the rest of the Division if Goff is off a bit and the Washington O has more answers than KOC did.
I was so tired on Sunday for some reason I’m not sick. I missed all of the first game. I didn’t get up for the Packer game until after the Eagle’s first TD. All I can remember from the game is it seemed like Packer players were dropping out injured left and right. They lost, and Love didn’t play well. I ended up going back to bed before the start of the Bucs game. I did get up and watch a little bit of it, but soon after, I went back to bed. I didn’t look to find out who won the night game until after I was back from rehabbing my hip in the afternoon. I know next to nothing about the Washington squad besides they have an amazing rookie QB that is money under pressure. If Washington has a D that can get stops, the Lions are beatable. Wouldn’t that be something if the toughest Division in the history of the NFL all went one and done in the Playoffs? I wouldn’t be shocked if it happens.
We need Bass Pundit to come in and give a good psycho-analysis.
My psycho-analysis proved to be prophetic once again. I hit the brake’s hard on BP’s Vikings Bandwagon, recognizing last week’s yellow light for what it was. KOC doesn’t quite get playoff football. Instead of playing their best, his teams take a step or two back. The pattern repeated itself last week vs. the Lions. I see a pattern, and I go with it until proven otherwise. KOC now 0-3 in the playoffs, as far as I’m concerned.
If the price is right, I am 100% for bringing Uncle Sam back next year. He has the physical tools, and he showed growth between the disaster in Detriot and the Rams game. He is still young and teachable.
It looked to me like the Rams should have been called for encroachment on fumble score. I was amazed no flag was thrown.
KOC and Uncle Sam broke my trust in them last week. Now, I am back to square one with the pretty boy coach who isn’t tough enough to win in the playoffs. KOC and Sam have to prove they can do it. Paint me as skeptical that the Vikes come out with a win, even though I think they are the superior team.
I expect Sam will bounce back for the Rams game. The first meeting loss was a fluke of circumstances coming together perfectly in the Rams favor. It being a Monday Night game gives Uncle Sam a start on chipping into the narrative I outlined. He can mostly erase it by getting to the NFC Championship Game and playing well in it. Getting there is going to be a hard road.
Gibbs didn’t take off last night until after the dropped INT by Gink at the start of the 4th Q. If Gink takes it to the house, who knows what happens from there as the game would have been tied up with a 2pt conversion. That dropped pick was the play of the game, total backbreaker for the spirit of the defense. Instead, Lions score a TD a couple of plays later for a 15pt lead; Game Over! Gibbs runs wild in garbage time gaining half of his yards for the game on their next drive.
