I’ve been known to see exactly how loud a coach’s whistle can be when these (expletive deleted) call me over and over again… eventually the pain in their ears encourages them to leave me alone.

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Seriously Dtro, do you think if I would have moved closer to you it would have made a difference?

I mean besides them being closer to one of us?

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You could always try setting up some marker bouys for your fishing area. Some 80lb power pro attached to a milk jug and a 3 oz weight or heavier. Place these a far enough way from your boat so that the sturgeon won’t get tangled in them. If the big boats want to run them over and tangle them in their prop that is their decision. Same thing work for boats skiing a little close to my fishing areas on lakes.

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Nah, go straight to the 130# with a 6oz lead on it. that’ll hold plenty tight enough to get a mass of lead beating the @(!#_!@ out of the lower unit, or the hull in the case of an inboard.

mileage is cited in the MSNBC article… MSNBC article on Smart cars

Combined City/Highway of 40mpg

Hey Sand, nice to see you swing by!

I actually use Fenwick Riggersticks and trolling reels for tightlining… the soft tips on these work nicely for circles, for channels on down to carping. I’ve got 2/0 to 5/0 hooks and one to three ounce lead.

I have some King Kat rods with Penn 209’s I use for flats, as the stiffer tips work nicely for driving home the hooksets on big Kahles.

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OK, maybe this is a stupid question, but what is a bullhead trap and what does it look like? Can it be made from hardware cloth or something similar? Can you post a picture?

I just started catfishing and it takes quite a while to sit on the bank and catch them with hook and line. Looking for something that will do it for me 24-7.

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if you want to build one, google search for “whistler bullhead trap” minus the quotes- the first result should be from catfish1 and is a good one.

I picked up some vintage 209’s for my heavy cat and carp rods, and I love em! they’re probably almost as old as I am, (in my 30’s) and out of a set of 4, one needs new drag washers and one needs the clicker replaced….

that’s all!

I think the only grumble i have is the low gear ratio, but for 20 bucks apiece I’ll overlook it….

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Actually, The gar came early in the AM.

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shortly after we ran out of cut firewood and burnt the grilling table….

I will say, the “incident” was exciting, if not a little weird… Your agility after the aforementioned bumps was admirable!

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Grant you said you caught them two from the front seat of your truck. I was just wondering was that throgh the ice? I have a small pond by my house that has carp in it that i bowfish in the summer but cannot catch one in the winter. I thought it was because maybe their metabolism is slowed down in the winter but i can caught them throughout the winter on the river on open water. does anybody have any ideas?

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I actually had pulled my truck right to the water’s edge on the Mississippi- on a boat ramp… made for comfy fishing! Then I just jammed the rod into the inside handle of the driver’s door. so it was open water.

was fun to get out the old tin can zebco again. I’m hoping to get out this weekend as again.

drowned some crawers in the Miss a few weeks ago, caught 2, one little guy and one about 13#. all this from the driver’s seat of the truck!

I know of a fellow who fishes big cats out of a kayak from time to time…. that would be a ride.

Myself, I think it’d be fun but by sense of balance ain’t that good.

You could just go “Old School”

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I met a guy the other day that says dogfish are the best flathead bait. He says he traps them in some slough.

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That I would like to see….