isu22andy wrote:

Another thing I wish is you could look by posters started threads .

Deezee threads i couldn’t get to page 2 last night.

Years ago when I did a lil programming I had that same idea. Somehow mine the date and categorize it, heck James could make a small print of it for a keepsake.

Too bad the pics never transfered over to new site. The Bfishntackle thread had a large doing that got me into river fishing

Still a slow bite today. Managed a half dozen with most 20-22″

Hair and meat in 6 to 8′

Probably won’t get back till after spawn. One of these years I’ll get a 10# sunning in the sand

Only got a handful this evening into night. Water 42, fish not leaking.

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

My dad lives in Greenfield, gets some intel from close knit of fishermen here and there. All about timing for quality eyes in which I would still consider the metro area out there. Some lakes can have lights out fishing when certain year classes move thru. Haven’t really figured out the math but it seems natural production can occur really well in what shouldn’t be naturally occurring lakes. Stocking probably is a big factor.

Either way good luck figuring it out. You won’t hear a peep from anyone in the know

Years of wader fishing from st.anthony falls up to Monticello. Mostly all for just a week or two after opener, then late fall eye chasing, and winter smallies.

Waders mostly got the backseat once I figured out most fish are tight to shore. Had enough mid 20″ eyes surface on me as I was taking the bait out of water, moved up on shore and bammo, more fish.

I’ll put on waders if I need to get to the fish, not fish the fish.

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Spawn is weird, alot of factors. I’ve caught some fatties that never spawned some years late april.

Hoping to get out this weekend

Going to try and get up there this fall. Lots of shorts one time I went, waiting on the hog

Ripped out a kitchen counter last weekend bc I like making my life busier. Finally used up some pretty expensive walnut and sapele sitting in the garage for years.

Took over my grandpa’s misc nut and bolt collection, he was a machinist so there’s plenty of goodies in there.

Did a quick Google smallie, can’t find it, although tbh i might be overlooking it. This was probably 15 or more years ago, back then money was tight and alot of my books were in the public domain and free to download off the internet, which would make the book at least I beleive at that time was 70yrs old or older. Mightve been on my old computer as I don’t recall a paper copy but again, I may be mistaken. I’d enjoy reading it again

Id have to look, that was a couple house moves ago and there is always a purge with each one. Writer had a chapter, or at least a good part of one specifically on the beaver and how the American landscape had been transformed in many areas by the industrious lil dudes.

Anchor and a couple cleats on each side of the boat is alot cheaper, and alot more fun to play the i think is where I should drop it game. Always can let out more line, ya can’t move farther up tho!

Each year its just more and more people shorefishing the dam area.

Me and the kiddo hiked around hidden falls yesterday for a bit, saw one fish caught between 20 or so anglers.

isu22andy wrote:

Well how else are you supposed to know where the good catfishing spots are ?

The American wild most certainly would have been a sight to see in the beginning. Read a couple books of land surveyors from that time that carried no guns. Amazing stories and spectacles to see.

They never feared for their safety from animals or humans. Embellishment from “adventurers” is certainly no foreign concept at any point in human history. Not taking anything away from folks who set forth into a wild land, but was interesting to read another perspective.

Prayers to you and your family.

Dutchboy wrote:

Nick Hammer from this site does floors i believe.

Hung up the toolbelt in December. Was hoping to do some sidework here and there but my knees and back haven’t felt this good in 20 years…

I am/was 2nd generation floor guy, my dad still operates and has some great guys on his team.

Rick Hammer
Hammer Wood Floors
763 350 4862

Mcdavid sandwiched in the first

Tastes better when it’s gnawing on yoursome wood

Have an okuma 86 that is fantastic, it does get some fatigue tho. I do feel I connect more with it having such a soft tip it allows the fish to take a spinner more.

Gamechanger is the flippin switch for the reel. Must have afaic.

Bearcat89 wrote:

rush guessing that’s where nick was

We were around pine river area, don’t really consider rush up nort

Majority of folks don’t need that capacity.

Decent amount of folks like the security during winter a truck gives them and their family.

And a small portion out of all that likes the flash. Small percentage, but multiplied to a large population gives us what it is.

Any such truck not driving in states that see a snowy winter has a ding-a-ling equivalent to a cat.

Some metro lakes i do ok on weedlines for crappies, usually punching holes for sunnies tho. Best was on Harriet during a snow storm, dang near had my limit of crappies and eyes that night, some kids were pulling their buddy on a snowboard behind em on the parkway when I left at night.

We fished the basin up nort this weekend, Saturday pulled 7 limits of craps.

Cheap jersey gloves, bring a few pairs to swap out. I’ve bought alot of gloves trying to find the right ones.

Wool is second but hooks always tend to find em.

Pailofperch wrote:

So what makes a beaver a nuisance? Loud music? Standing outside a bar or loitering?

Those beavers outside a bar chain smoking camel lights on their 4th long Island with at least 4 piercings in one ear should definitely not be eaten.

22 years as a hardwood floor guy

<60 days into job sup for residential restoration

Thomas tools used to be right in crystal, they moved and just googled that they sold in 2022 to Ferrell. Not sure if same service, but thomas used to be great at everything tool related.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/842/51-days/part-one-11

This sheds a lil light on a hostages life if anyone is interested. The relationship dynamics are absolutely wild and complex.

This is just a general observation on the folks who are absolutely he//bent on defending everything medical nowadays.

Do they like just walk down any normal city street nowadays, do they go out in public really anywhere around any of us in which and they are not seeing the devastating affects of health issues. Do they not have friends and family that have a myriad of diseases and conditions that just weren’t around much at all just a handful of decades ago, or have their kids attend schools w kids and their teachers that are trying to navigate the add/adhd/spectrum….and then tell themselves ya know what, yeah, America is heading in the right direction, we’re doing okay, nothing to see here folks let’s move on to next topic.

It’s mind boggling for me that anyone wouldn’t dig even just a lil bit into the non main stream news outlets just to see what’s possibly out there, bc the mainstream is what got us to this sh!tshow in the first place….just my 2 cents.