buckybadger wrote:

If you want to target one with a bow, now that’d be epic and an experience you could sell for huge money.

Can you use FFS?

Jimmy wrote:

All this tariffs are on one second and off the next minute really makes his threats of tariffs have much less weight.

Its called leverage. Investors, largely overseas were very negative about the increase in tariffs which led to a big sell off. He didnt budge. 75 countries came forward and wanted to work out a deal of sorts on this or that, but never retaliated. Trump responded by backing down on some tariffs but increasing China’s and look at what is happening? Its pretty much gained everything it lost. What he did was expose China for the corrupt people they are. The fact remains the world NEEDS the US to flourish. Without it everyone suffers. Investors are responding in resounding fashion. Mind you, what the stock market does has really no correlation to the US economy itself. Those that “lost” when the markets fell were propped up by printing money and because it was inflated for many years.

Dan wrote:

Again, genuinely asking…what is being negotiated and what does “winning” look like?

Not getting screwed over by every other country we trade with all the while coming to their defense or assist when in need because they have no military budget or any money come to mind. When someone can buy a new Mercedes that is produced in Europe here cheaper than a European could buy an equivalent Cadillac there is a problem and that is merely one example.

stout93 wrote:

No, what is insane and irrational is that the majority of lefties support the assassination of Trump.

Right. There are a lot of political people I absolutely hate, but I would never applaud someone assassinating them.
The funny part is the left is the main drivers of green and everything electric and 3 years ago worshipped Musk. Now, he is a Nazi apparently.

grubson wrote:

$90 to fish with a worm, hook, and bobber? Come on man.

I thought I was the only one, I just was biting my tongue LOL I switched to using braided line years ago with a fluoro leader. I only swap out the leader over time but the braid lasts for years. You can change the length of the leader for overly sensitive fish, but I find no issues with that approach.

grubson wrote:

The price of fishing post is not “nuked”. It’s in the general discussion forum where its been all day.

And the guy doesnt come here for sometimes a week yet he remembered that one that just popped up today. Interesting.

Oh, I dont know grubson, with all the money in fancy tackle, electronics, mapping and other stuffs, its still hard to catch fish at times. I remember my buddies telling me I was cheating when I rolled up with side and down imaging along with on the fly detailed mapping. Well, what do you suppose they all use now? You got it. Regardless, we keep pretty good track of what we catch for fish each week in Canada for each boat. It does vary by years and quite widely and the catch rate is not determined by ability to find fish because they are there, but we just cannot get them to bite like other years.
One particular day my buddy and I were fishing and I mapped out this underwater point that no one knew about. As I was doing so I marked a bunch of fish so I said lets fish this. Mind you, we were marking fish everywhere we had been but it was tough fishing until this point. So the two of us managed to catch 98 walleyes and saugers in about 90 minutes of fishing. It was intense. We were so convinced that we figured out something special about that spot due to my electronics only to find out the other boats had similar results, but not quite as good, during that same time window. Something just turned on.

tswoboda wrote:

That vancouver dallas game was absolutely bonkers. Dallas with 3 powerplay goals to start the game gave me ptsd

How is it even possible to score 3 goals in a minute?

I was bummed a few days back when I couldnt find a post I know I commented in, so I went to my activity and there was nothing there.

I have mixed emotions about bringing back something that is extinct. On one hand its cool as heck that we have the capability to do that, but on the other its but should we? I mean, there was a reason they were extinct right? Its not like man hunted them out of existence. They died off due to various other factors. They start bringing back dinosaurs and I am out.

lindyrig79 wrote:

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a worse collapse in the 4th quarter. At one point it was a 30-3 run by the Bucks tonight. Such a waste.

Game was still going when I went to bed. Disappointed to see they lost. That really hurt them in the standings too. What 3 games left? Probably have to win out to move up.

grubson wrote:

If you were trying to defend FFS with that story, you failed.
That’s a very above avg day of musky fishing in the pre-FFS days.

Ive had better many times than that. Boated 4 fish over 40″ in a day a few times. Not the norm, but this was before all the 1 foot detailed mapping on GPS units like we have today. They were LONG days and we had no idea we were casting AT fish.

fishthumper wrote:

Now had all the hassle that was talked about ever really happened, I’d agree it wasn’t to over blown, but it never happened that I’m aware of.

I dont know anyone personally that it happened to, but I read claims and third hand stories of people claiming it did. I am beginning to doubt that it ever happened in the first place. Who would ever think that a fisherman would exaggerate anything?

fishthumper wrote:

A rhetorical question back at you. Do you agree that with more fish being caught, the # of fish dying from hooking mortality is likely to increase? If so, what’s the problem with my statement? Now if you think with more fish being caught, the hooking mortality death do not also increase, then we have a different situation. I assume the primary reason one would purchase a FFS is to catch more fish, can we agree on that or do you disagree with that? If so, what do you think the primary reason is?

I wasnt disagreeing with what you said merely pointing out the only way we can reduce or eliminate fishing related mortality is to not allow fishing in the first place.

fishthumper wrote:

The long and short of it is more hooked fish is more mortality to fish.

This is a rhetorical question, but since fishing essentially leads to mortality regardless of whether the fish is released or not, are you going to stop fishing and pick up scuba diving and just take pictures of two fists full of largemouths?

Pailofperch wrote:

They always let go half way up the hole, so you gotta be quick with the scooper!

You need that device that Curt Quenielle has (NCOR Podcast on Youtube channel). You step on a pedal and it flops something over keeping an unhooked fish from going back down. Pretty slick.

I would say decimating musky populations might be an exaggeration but when you consider how few adult muskies there actually are in a lake and basically having the ability to identify clearly a big fish and harassing that fish until it has just had enough, yeah, someone could certainly do some damage. Regardless of how well they handle them, there are still fish that dont make it. True, muskies are essentially a C&R fish now because of the reg change, but that doesnt mean some fish dont make it after being caught.

Headed to LOW on Thursday night for the end of the season. Should be beautiful weather!

FFS works without moving while down imaging/side imaging do not. Try using it on the ice sometime, doesnt work well at all.

FinickyFish wrote:

I’m not sure what has happened regarding turkey in the past. Maybe they’re completely different, but people pen raise and release pheasants all the time. If it works for pheasants, why not for turkeys?

Pen raised pheasant survival rates are very close to 0%. They are pretty much released to be shot that season, as most don’t last a year in the wild.
[/quote] Yep. Even wild pheasants the average age of a pheasant is something like 3 months which sounds ridiculous, but from what I have seen/read it seems to be true. They just dont survive due to predation, poor nesting, winters, etc.

fins wrote:

But they are way easier to shoot out of a tree.

Ha, I have tried to shoot pheasants out of trees before and it never worked well. A turkey? LOL

I am probably not dethatching this year. I will however core aerate. I havent done that in a number of years and should be doing it every year if not twice per year. I have also stopped bagging my lawn. It seems to be healthier now then when I did. I do have a mulching attachment that shreds things up really well vs just throwing clipping all over the place in piles like before.

crawdaddy wrote:

I always wonder what happens to these people who get their five minutes of fame for all the wrong reasons.

Did you hear about the guys who jumped Paul Bisonnette? You may not recognize the name, he was an NHL hockey player, but not overly well known. He is on the spittin chiclets podcast and also on the TNT crew during televised games. ANyways this group of drunk guys jumped him in a bar, all caught on film, and basically they FAFO. Apparently they did this sort of thing multiple times before. They had their “businesses” ruined as a result of this. IDK if they were arrested or not, but similar deal they were in construction of some sort. SHady businesses too.

Ripjiggen wrote:

Not sure what Eric Dickerson has to do with any of it as that was a single season record. This is an all time career record. Pretty different IMO.

Its different for sure. I was just saying the way Gretzky handled this is vastly different than Dickerson. Gretzky was all class. Granted, he knew no one will ever come close to the total points record.

Ripjiggen wrote:

Crazy that Gretzky is still 1200 something points in front of 8. Fun to watch today. Kind of glad the game didn’t have really playoff implications as the celebration which was deserved really halted that game.

Don’t be a fun hater Rip! Gretzky is still the great one. Nothing is changing that. Ovi is now the goal scoring leader and he’s earned it. Two way different eras and we can argue for weeks about how each of them would do in each other’s era but it’s useless. Gretz was all class about this whole thing which says a lot. Dickerson who was threatened with losing his record in the NFL said no, that’s my record I don’t want anyone to break it.

Yep, that was a huge win. Boys played good overall with everyone that is out. I was hoping for 1 pt and ecstatic with 2.

They showed Gretzky’s stats from each 100 goal range side by side with Ovi and it was incredible. Ovi has been so dang consistent it’s crazy.

Well, from his office. That was awesome!

It was a hey look at me for all the wrong reasons.

Deuces wrote:

JC got half way thru video and shut er down. Watching 2 dudes continue to escalate a situation is not interesting. Boggles my mind folks who give 2 sh!ts about this stuff

I agree it was hard to listen to but imo only 1 person was escalating it.