If you see fish busting the surface, I’d throw a popper across, above, and below the dam. I’ve had success with smallies doing this.

Roadrunner.

Russells Reserve: 10 yr: Woodmans has it for $22 typically around $40. Very good. This is my “new find”

Eagle Rare
Buffalo Trace
Crown Black

Check out this fellow: http://drczys.com/

Read the “articles” section.

I love glommits: https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Headz-Polarex-Glomitts-Gloves/dp/B00N55YWJC

You could wear a pair of latex gloves underneath. I love being able to take bait hooks and take off fish without taking my gloves off.

Here’s a road map that I found for working with children and raising our own. This has been a real lifesaver for me (literally once in the classroom) and my family. Parenting the Love and Logic Way is a balance in allowing kids to make mistakes when the costs are small and holding them accountable with empathy and love. You can get started here: https://www.loveandlogic.com/

I currently travel the nation teaching this. I want other parents to live as stress free as we do when it comes to children. Feel free to find out more at: http://www.theparentingprofessor.com

Where do you all stand on chew and seeds being left?

Years back, I learned a way to bleed out a fish by breaking the spine (thus severing the arteries) by grabbing the fish at the base of the head and bending the spine until it snaps. It bled out the gills by doing this. Anyone else try this?

Top notch post, Ryan. I’ve been plugging holes in this plan for years. I was moments away from purchasing a trailer from Indiana this summer. Then we nearly lost my mom. The chef was working directly with our county inspector and was willing to make it meet WI code. Long story short, I’m holding off. I continue to do parties and private catering. I do it for fun and people seem to pay me well. I still consider it a hobby, but continue to tweak the adventure to set myself up for the future.

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I had an older phone Iphone 5s. It would drain in a few minutes at anything under 40 degrees. I brought it to Verizon. She told me that it shouldn’t do that. She gave me an Iphone 6 for free. I had it outside (coat pocket) on Friday from 6 am to about 3pm. I had a few apps running most of the day. When I got to the truck to plug in it was at 76%. Hopefully this keeps up.

Freezer bags. Toss in freezer. Or jar it and toss in freezer.

Topper. ARE brand.

I tried to call them…no reply.

Crown Royal Black really sings to me.
Basil Haydens
Buffalo Trace (was turned on to this in Wyoming in 2013)
Dickel
Johnnie Walker Double Black (can only do one/two of these…very intense)
Angel’s Envy

CC and 7 for mixing

Windsor for spilling around campfires up North

Side note: Woodman’s, every other month it seems, gets a cart full of McCray (12 year old) and sells it for $13. It’s really strange stuff, but I like it. Almost as fruity as a brandy.

Eagle Nest.

red89 wrote:

Got the 698 at Gander I assume?

That 899ci HD SI for $599.99 that Jeff mentioned looks like a heck of a deal, but Cabelas website says sold out.

Yes. The 899 is out of my budget.

red89 wrote:

Any update on if you bought one? Just curious as I’m in the market for a new one also. My 700 series humminbird has black lines in the screen, freezes, and won’t hardly load the navionics map, so time for a new one.

I got it. Still in the box. Weekend project.

Thanks for the input.

Derreck Moen wrote:

Discipline is a very tough issue to tackle. In my classroom for the most part there are few discipline problems. All the students know where they stand with me. I feel that if I provide a very consistent base of rules and follow them consistently the students respect that. I have found that no matter where your line is the students will find it and hover right around it. I am not a disciplinarian and the teachers who are in my district in my opinion do not get as much out of their students as others do. The students that I have a problem with in class are the ones that either have the support of their parents for pushing the rules or the ones that have no parent involvement. If I had to choose between the two I would take the student that does not have parent support at home. Many times when you get to know them they are not bad kids they are just making bad choices. With no one at home helping them make positive choices.

Now the kid who sits in class and knows their parent will back them no matter what they do, they can be a nightmare. For example I had a female student with a low cut shirt both top and bottom with a thong pulled up so you could see it. Very inappropriate, myself being a male teacher no way I was going to address that. Thankfully I had a female Paraprofessional in my room. I asked her to get and administrator to address the girls clothing. She did and administrator also talked with the girl. This was in the morning and before lunch her mother was at school raising holy ruckus. Defending her daughter saying she has every right to expose midriff, cleavage and any undergarment that she as a parent deems appropriate. She claimed that because we are not parents that we cannot judge appropriateness of a students dress.
Its debatable that her dress was a distraction to the other students (they deal with her on a daily basis). What was not debatable was the social appropriateness of what she was doing. We teachers like it or not will help shape what is socially appropriate for many youth. We would love to not have a part in this.
One other thing to consider with these students that create chaos is that chaos is comfort. When chaos at home is all you know the quite calm of a classroom actually causes anxiety for some. The last six years I have taught special education at a Juvenal Center. Most of the students I now get are a product of a broken home life. The parents are not involved and when they are they are not teaching positive life skills. My students are the worst of the worst but when you get to know them and they get to know you very rarely do I have behavior problems in the classroom. They can be very enjoyable individuals. Part of that (but not all) is that the stress of home life and negative influences are gone.
I don’t know if my ramblings have a point but I just want to point our a little of what I see and how much of the functions of student behaviors are out of a teachers control. No matter how strict, militaristic, or payer based our classrooms are.

Your points have merit and are delivered with balance. I believe them to to spot on. Thanks for the insight. In my classroom, I had one guideline: Feel free to do whatever you wish; unless it creates a problem. My students knew that I would deal with each case in a unique and unprescribed way.

Tom Sawvell wrote:

I have never felt that teachers were the problem in the schools. I won’t go so far as to say that the kids are free of fault though. Parents are a problem but then that can take us back to the bleeding heart political rules parents are strapped with today regarding what they can and cannot do at home. And the onset of those rules started way back in the 70’s. Consider that now a kid can walk into school and see a counselor and say they are being abused at home just because the parents administer some rules. The cops show up and toss Dad in the slam, run him thru the courts and MAKE HIM APPEAR IN ANGER MANAGEMENT classes, maybe lose a job, just for doing his parenting and the kid not liking it. Am I the only one that sees something wrong with this scenario? This country seriously needs to re-assess some of the laws we have. Parents should be left to deal with their kids behavior when they are not in school in any way that works free from this tyranny that kids on a whim can hand out because they don’t like to be told no. The government should keep their nose out of the home and deal with the dinks when they turn 18.

As far as owning a car, getting a drivers license, dating, dressing appropriately, having cell phones, driving to school, open campus, playing sports, having a job….all of these things should be earned, not handed to them. I wonder how many parents [or former parents] today wish they could take back some of the virtually un-needed toys that they blessed junior with as they stand at the kids grave, killed while driving and texting or driving under the influence at 2:30 in the morning. Just in my home area alone I can recall many such accidents involving teens that come from great families, but who’s kids made bad mistakes after they assured the parents that they do these things. Someone in this thread mentioned trusting the kids…..I think today many kids that their parents say are stellar and trustworthy are only so if they are alone or within eye sight and ear shot of the parents. Peer and social pressure erases a lot of what is taught in the name of common sense and then many parents today simply buy the kids off with electronic goodies, cars and blind trust rather than taking the time to instill on those kids some basic values to life and one of those being that you earn whatever you want and when your reward starts to show up it comes in increments.

You bring up some great reasons to educate parents and teachers how to become more effective and efficient with young people. The concept of ‘discipline’ is tough to wrap our heads around. It becomes challenging to not be swayed by how we were disciplined as kids. Objectivity becomes difficult.

The big hurdle is getting parents to show up for class ready to make positive changes. Once they are there…there are great ways to make life changing impacts.
https://www.facebook.com/theparentingprofessor/

http://www.theparentingprofessor.com

You might want to check with Kathy at Piddle Creek. She’ll steer you right to some one close by.

Looks good. I like to do that and finish with a splash of vinegar and saute in some dried cranberries.

Where are you located?

Promise I don’t get any kickbacks from Baffin

tmyboy2001 wrote:

About to pull the trigger on some Baffin Eiger’s. I’ve read that the Impacts and Titans cause you to not be able to pull your bibs down to your ankle around the boots. Does anyone know if this is also true with the Eiger’s? I have a pair of Striker Ice Predator bibs.

My Frabil bibs fit easily over them. I have an old camo pair of Woolrich that fits over them, too. These are a little tighter. I believe the Eigers are the best compromise for the typical outdoorsperson. My only complaint is that they get pretty hot when sitting at the tavern after a day on the ice.

I’ve been shocked how well the traction system works on icy surfaces. They are a dream to walk in and are easy to drive with (F150). I’ve had three foot/ankle surgeries. My old pack boots were a nightmare for walking in. The Eigers have really helped out the aching of my foot at the end of the day.

I’d be surprised if you got them and didn’t like them. Once you get them adjusted how you like; it’s basically just slip on and go.

Not exactly what you are looking for, but sometimes you just need to have bare fingers. I like these: http://www.gandermountain.com/modperl/product/details.cgi?pdesc=Guide-Series-Mens-DynaStretch-Fleece-Glomitt&i=794528&r=view&cvsfa=2586&cvsfe=2&cvsfhu=373934353238424c41434b4d2f4c&gclid=Cj0KEQiAlae1BRCU2qaz2__t9IIBEiQAKRGDVRAVqLxHA0qg5BpPXtNr4R6xH-IVSULu_cYNl-cg1VwaAmiI8P8HAQ

They are one of a few pairs that have a thumb free version. I’ve beaten these things for two seasons now. No visible wear.

tmyboy2001 wrote:

With the Baffin Eiger’s did you find that you had to wear wool socks, or were they fine with a normal pair?

I’ve yet to need my thick woolies. I have a “hiking” thin pair blended poly and smartwool. I put these boots through the works lately. Water, slush, snowmobling, subzero fishing, shoveling, etc. They seem to be able to adjust to the weather. That system they use is great.

Jason wrote:

How is their sizing? Most of my boots are a 10.

Baffin advises to get a full size larger than your shoe size. I went with that advice and worked out great.

haleysgold wrote:

I bought a pair of Impacts but for me, they were too “tall” and my bibs BARELY fit over them.
I sold them to a friend but they are great boots.

This was a concern of mine. The Eigers were designed shorter (3 inches) and narrower up top. My bibs fit easily over them. And, they are comfortable when sitting and/or kneeling because of the shorter upper.