i just saw this post. why is there no more H2o’s being made? i love my unit. why would they just pull the plug? did somebody eat one and die? there would be no reason for this.

yes there are other units out there, but to just pull the plug on faithful users? i dont think i’ll be buying anything they make anytime soon. it really ticks me off.

just my 2 cents worth

I heard about this right after it happened. the guy alone didnt pay $1200 for his condo. they split the condo fee and not only that, it’s a cheap condo On the chippewa flowage. Normally $1700 is about right for a week.
anyways, I also heard that some of the Bible boys were preachers.
what they were doing is getting fish for a church fish fry.
that wasnt mentioned in the paper either. I know people that were there when these guys got busted. yes they are going to pull the race card out. they already said it when they were getting busted cuz only black people were getting tickets.
give it some time. the reverend al sharpton and jessie jackson should show up soon and try to wreck fishing too.

I think these guys got a slap on the wrist if you ask me.

The thing of it is…they just took a crap load of fish out of my favorite lake. I say fine them triple. If they are too stupid to figure out the rules, then they are too stupid to know what fine is too much. make em pay more!!!

been there, done some of that. we werent that creative in our dance though. we just blew the awning off of our travel trailer and left a nice aluminum frame for my dad to see when he used the trailer next. sure saved time rolling it up at the end of our trip though.

Did anyone really doubt he would pull through this? He’s just itchin to get back on the water!!!!
Great Job Chris. You are definitely in out thoughts and prayers. We’re all out catchin fish for ya. You better hurry up and recover or they’ll be all gone!!!
Best wishes

I was a union carpenter. got laid off march of ’09. I love the work but i am very upset at the union. I have 20 years in and they threatened to take away my pension if i didnt pay in my monthly fees.
while i know i dont have to pay anything because i dropped my card, i received lots of not so nice mail telling me i am letting the rest of my union brothers down by not sending in my dues.
last time i checked, i dont know another union brother who is working in SE WI. there is some work, however it’s the foreman and their little buddies.

I am going to work in a factory starting next week. I wont lose my health insurance every two months because there isn’t a lot of work. I wont have to find my own work when the job is over, and my pension plan will have more input from me as far as how much i want to put away!!!

No more union from this guy. keep hangin in there and put out tons of resume’s. I have been doing so for over a year and now the offers have been somewhat pouring in the last three weeks (sure-right when fishing is heating up–go figure!!)

My sister in law had a similar problem. She closed on a home and immediately went to the house after the closing and upon arrival, she noticed the front door smashed open. when she went in, there was a dead body on the floor in the foyer,another of a naked woman across the breakfast bar.

according to the real estate people they were there that morning, however the police said the bodies were there for over two days. so, the real estate company either lied about the cleaning of the house or they knew there were bodies there and sold the house anyways.

needless to say, the courts (after a two month battle) made the real estate company give back her money because she couldnt ever live in that house knowing what had happened.

this happened in texas about 2 years ago. sort of takes the fun out of buying your first home!!!

my friend and her sister own a second hand store and sell tons of those car seats. they dont make a million bucks on the things so it’s not like they will make a huge profit. I would check on some of those stores. they may even offer to give you a percentage of the sale as a consignment kind of thing.
just a thought

Chris,
although I have no clue who you are, I do wish you the best of luck. I cant even begin to imagine what you are feeling or going through. I do want you to remember one thing through all of this:
Look at all the support you have from others that share your passion for fishing. we are a brotherhood and we do care about each other. We are strong together and power of positive thinking will get you/us through this!!
Please let us know when you are ready to fish again, one of us will be there to take you out!!!

good luck!

fished the flowage this weekend. did very well. caught lots of “eyes”. fished the bogs early in the morning and released several eyes in 14 to 18 inch range.
went out to some deep holes i know and did very well there as well, pulling out one over 22 inches at 11 am on sunday. I dont fish weeds on the flowage too often. I am more of a structure fisherman kind of guy.
I will fish drop offs and holes before weeds. just seems easier to hook them “eyes”.
anyways, as always, we had a great weekend again on the flowage. worth the 4 hour drive any weekend i get time!!

good luck n tight lines!

nice. what pound line were you using?
I was on the ice when the guy in wisconsin (lake winnebago) when he brought in the 212 lb monster spearing.

I am not a sturgeon guy either, but these things are so dinosaur lookin that they are just great to view. It’s amazing how old they are too.

great job!!

I have to say I would never take a fishing report to heart. Many folks post bogus stuff to make themselves look and feel better or just the opposite, they dont want others on the lake so they say there are no fish.

as for how to locate the active fish–there are so many things to learn that in a life time you wont know all the secrets.
some folks will look for the first group of boats and do the “monkey see–monkey do!” kind of thing.
That works now and then and is ok if you are only going to fish this lake once a year.
If you plan on fishing a body of water often, then you will definitely want to dissect the lake starting at home.
get yourself a map and/or an H2o unit.

I know for “eyes”, they are always going to go where the forage is. You’ll need to know what the forage base is in your lake system. If there is shad or cisco’s, expect some kind of suspension going on at least some of the time.

if you are dealing with bullheads, perch, crayfish, etc, then know when and where they will spawn and what they do throughout the year. where do they congregate.

I have to say, that for walleyes, there is a 5 book series called “Critical Concepts” that has turned my walleye fishing around. I can honestly say I have increased my catch rate 10 fold after reading these books. I take them with me when i go for a week long trip into the northwoods just for reference.

You can ask at a bait shop, but remember the bait shop guy is stuck in his shop and is getting his info from other anglers. He might be able to tell you where they spawn, when they spawned and some weather patterns as of late, but his info is limited as well.

you will also need to take the lake type into consideration. Is is Oligotrophic, Mesotrophic or Isotrophic? Is it some of each and what does that mean to you?

Keep in mind that in any body of water, not all fish are doing the same thing at the same time. fish in one area may be responsive to leeches while others across the bay prefer red tail chubs on a jig, and others may prefer more of a slower presentation such as a slip float and crawler.

I wouldn’t go by what is happening on another lake because no two systems are the same. The only info i would take from a different lake is the date of spawn if they are located within an hour from each other. Water temp can very by more than 10 degrees in a single body of water so taking two different bodies of water and comparing them is like apples and oranges.

rochelle,

for a small fee, i think we can all keep quiet. Just make sure payments are sent before May 1st (I need a little extra for bait on opening day here in WI).

As for the rest of the posts– My wife took enough of my tools so I gave her a tool box filled with her own tools and she now leaves my stuff alone.

Ok, she’ll still go out to the garage once in a while to steal somethin here or there, but for the most part, she’ll leave my tools alone.

oh, and she is guilty of the extension cord thing too. I am down to one that i just bought yesterday. (shhhhh)

Nobody on here fishes in the treeland challenge? I cant believe it. 300 anglers in the field and nobody on here is one of them? WOW!!!

Carp hugh? eeeeeewwww!!! You know, people in the ghetto wont even eat carp!!!
Well i’m glad somebody is getting their use out of them. I’ll just start sending all mine to you!!!

As for wasting the walleye—

I’ll talk to some of them as i go fishing again this weekend, but i cant guarantee they will allow you to catch anymore of them. You may need to make a sacrifice now to the walleye Gods and promise to never wreck a good fish again!!

the only problems i have with the bfishin jigs is that they dont sell them in SE WI. and if i use the credit card again I will be moving in with one of you guys.
2ndly, the bait keeper is on the bottom and that is just a magnet for weeds, zebras, etc. should be on the top of the jig.

who is Hutch and where can i see his jigs or paint jobs?
In wisconsin, we had the annual rules and regs meeting on monday and it was voted unanimously to phase out lead over the next few years. so buying a bunch of lead jigs would not be my best bet right now.

as for the in between sizes: well, i guess i’ve never really had any reason to want or need them.
I fish tournaments and do fairly well.
the fish dont know if i am using the between sizes so why should i care and buy a kit with them in there?

the precision kit should have more options such as 1/8, 3/16,1/4,3/8. to go to a /32 is a little overboard in my thoughts. I think the shape and action put on with a jig is more important than the weight at these size and weights.

just my $.02 worth

Jason,
You have no idea how ticked off the people around the Chippewa flowage are in Sawyer county.
They are very misinformed, but still are ticked at the trolling issue, along with the 18″ Minimum.
Most people dont keep 18″ and overs for eating, they release them. it’s the 12 to 16 for the fryer and the rest release.
so basically they have decided to only take the spawners out. one fish over 18″ lays as many eggs as 100 3 year olds (or so our dnr guy doing the fertilization of the eggs down here said!).
so basically we are taking 100 possible spawners out per 18″ fish. I know you and I dont agree with this issue, but i would trust a fish biologist before an anglers heresay. doesnt mean he is right either, but I would lean towards his words since i dont really have the numbers available to me.

as for the trolling issue: The people up there, resort owners, summer residents as well as year round folks believe that trollers are going to:
*destroy the weed beds by trolling through them.
*Push anchored anglers out of the way when they make a pass.
*spread lines so wide that nobody can go around them.
**Take more fish than a person jigging, casting, or slip-floating.
*Trolling is the lazy way to catch fish and shouldn’t be allowed.

We all know the trolling issues raised by them are silly, but that doesn’t change the thought process. They may have had an inconsiderate person trolling by them on some other lake and the “bad apple” put it into their head we are all that way.
Also, in the summer, I guess i would prefer to troll at night anyways after all the boat traffic would be calmer.
They also believe that the DNR is raising the minimum to 18″ because they want to allow trolling (which has nothing to do with the price of milk).
They dont understand that we aren’t going to push them out, but rather go around them with our boards. why would we want to snag set ups that take a while to get out to the correct depths and the right speeds, over the right structure?
I think its their passion for not wanting to change the way things are.
With all of this on the table, i have heard numerous folks talking about selling their cabins and trailers on the flowage (along with not visiting the resorts) because of the rule changes.
so the resorts may be hurt by the rules changes for a while.
I guess in my mind, there should have been a slot limit and or introduce the trolling in a few years, rather than all the changes at once.
just my $.02 worth!!
by the way, im for the trolling, not the 18″ rule.

very nice, an oldie but a goodie. great for a chuckle.

whats the cost of these handy dandy trays? we have been using the wifes cheap tupperware and that doesnt leak either. It’s cheap to replace when the seal on that does ware out.
I just think that if the tray cost more than $15 bucks, the gulp folks are stringing you along with each step of the process and we are paying it.

And i dont know about you guys, but to have another tray in my soft sided tackle bag is not going to happen without buying another bag (my 7th) so i dont know where i would ever put it.
love gulp, but not the price or aftermarket products to use it!!

just my $.02 !!

as far as the tournament guy that asked you to move so he could fish there:
There is a rule in some of the tourneys that says they are not allowed to do so and in fact breaks the rules.
I fished with Gary Parsons one time in a PWT tourney. There were some bank fisherman in one of his favorite spots. we had to wait until they left around mid day just to cast in the same area.
Next time a tourney guy does that, get his boat number and report it to tourney officials. That makes the tournament look bad and it is bad publicity.
I fish tourneys too and it doesn’t matter how much money its for or how much i have invested in it or if i make my living from it. I have no right to ask you to move because i am fishing a tournament. In fact, some tourneys are purposely started a little later in the morning for the very reason of letting the locals get to their spots first so the tournament guys dont take over a body of water depending on how many boats are in the field.

I’ve had my share of not so nice guys stormin close by on lakes, rivers and reservoirs. I myself slowdown as to not rock a guy out of his boat if im going by. just courtesy i guess. hoping one day that common courtesy will be contagious and catch on.
just my .02 cents worth!!

whod-a-thunk.
eyesore
basshole
smarter-than-before
like-a-challenge
greeneyes.

I really think all of this name changing because they represent Indians is just stupid.
For one, the white settlers gave them names like Indians and Souix. So they do not own the rights to the names. They are not discriminatory names by any means any more than saying a guy is white or Caucasian.
Also, If they are called the fighting Souix, then that would be a proud name, not even remotely racial or negative in any way. It is a reminder of our country’s past and actually honoring them in a way.

I know the Indians for the most part dont even mind most of the names used as logo’s, but the politically correct coffee clutches of people with nothing better to do seem to push the right buttons on the state governments and larger corporations.
We had garbage like this with our Marquette Warriors here in wisconsin.
Pretty soon all the teams will just have symbols for their names and logo’s, sort of like the artist formerly known as prince!!!
The politically correct people need some major chlorine in their gene pools, cuz this stuff is stupid.

definitely go with the color film. Nobody would believe me if it was in black and white. Also, black and white is for dramatic opportunities. Pelosi going under would not constitute drama, but rather a new beginning.
Do you think this woman knows that everyone hates her? How dumb can you be>?
nuff said!!!

what a man will do when you take his beer away from him!!
some people have killed for less!!! lol

just wondering what kind of boat do you have? I am assuming you have a built in tank and not two 6 gallon tanks that you take out?
If you have a 16 to 22 ft boat, you should have a tank breather valve coming out of the side or back of your boat. Not sure how familiar with your rig you are.

Is this a new rule or are you new to boating, just got a boat and want to make sure you follow the rules? Never heard this question before and I am assuming it is for larger boats.
So, More info on your set up please

I sort of feel your pain with this one. Why cant i get fish with em when others are?
I went through that phase with a couple of lures myself.
normal trolling speeds for that time of year, color selection for water color, casting, trolling, pitching.
did all these things and nothing seemed to work. I basically lost confidence.
Then I trolled faster and went with the colors that weren’t suppose to work with that water color. I caught tons of fish.
I guess in my mind, when traditional thinking falls apart, I go the other direction and i guess you could say “think outside the box!”.

good luck. keep your confidence and get some eyes!!!

I agree.
Lake link was ok when they started, but it became a joke really quick. false fishing reports, bashing of certain people and if you just want to ask a simple question, half of the people on there cant write a complete sentence or spell.

the guys who started it had good intentions which quickly became taken over by the mighty dollar. Not very friendly place to visit on line anymore.
stay clear–ok, you have been warned.

yes this is a bad thing going on, however it depends on how you look at it. If you fish for walleyes or bass, now would be the time to really see what these shallow areas look like without water there. mark these spots on your maps for future reference.
we used to wait for the winter draw down on the Big Chip and then go and get all the crank baits people lost in the tangles. we would mark little dips and rock piles that were too shallow to go in by boat when water was present.

Just a thought for ya.

Also, as for the Big Chip, I know their water levels are affected by when they open the dam on Moose lake. since many of these are hydro-electric dams, maybe using less energy would also help on the flowages. just a thought!

She fillet’s and goes fishing? You better get a ring on that girls finger really quick!!! you know other IDO-ers may just stalk her down to clean fish!!!
nice fish and good luck with that one. yes a keeper–definitely.

for a decent campground right on the Chippewa Flowage, go to lake chippewa campground. Prices are really good. Call as soon as you can because they book up fairly early in the year.
# 715-462-3672.
as for a decent rate on a cabin, go to either R&R or Sysko’s. Now these are not the top rate cabins, but you’re not paying for the top rate either.
Sysko’s is on the West side and R&R is on the east side.
Best food on the lake is also found at the R&R.

If you believe money is no object, then go to Treelands on the east side Or Pats on the far west side. These places are very nice and the owners are super people, however you will pay a bit more. their number is 715 462 3874.

I have been going up to the flowage for years. I will never go anywhere else unless they change all the fishing regs on it.

good luck and call for reservations asap. serious. i would bet the summer holidays are already booked.

what happened to when the kids went door to door? Now just the parents bring a sign up sheet to work with them. It has become the parents responsibility to sell them.
I only say this because I dont know any young kids in girl scouts and I have been craving those cookies for years!!!