Nice crappie-your measuring device has me puzzled but that’s ok

Bear I hope you are felling ok-You always respond to my posts even if its just to say the post is a waste of time. Bear? Are you evolving? Well wishes to you as always. (and where is my headlamp?!)

Thanks Thump!

Thump, are you putting a split shot up from that 1/100th jig?

Thanks Thump
Nice ones!

I already do alot of trolling with jigs-I go faster and bigger as the water warms- so I might do a 2″ one at 1mph-Small plugs are deadly post spawn too.
Water right now is in the 40s so I’m looking at slower stuff.
BTW, what I read about barrometric pressure has really turned out to be true on the lakes I fish-high pressure crappies suspend, low pressure (like last Sunday) they are down. Thanks

I love radio, with radio you get surprises, stuff you havn’t heard in a while or new stuff. I listen to local, internet and satellite, love it all.

Ok Bear but you did say you use the heated blanket.

Seems like for whatever you buy they ask if you want to pay a few xtra to extend the warranty.
Not for batteries.

Gently lay a heated blanket on my batteries..
What’s next?
A kiss good night?
(not for me)

I’ve had luck with half grill half pan, now I want to try it your way-great excuse to eat steak.

I tend to only wear my PFD when the water is cold (dumb) Now/Fall

Matthew Craig wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>tim hurley wrote:</div>
You can ask if the law is applied unevenly, you can talk about how important freedom is. Then ask yourself if the law saves lives.
What do you value?

Then let’s require passengers aboard ALL watercraft to wear life jackets at ALL times. You’ll save 600% more lives than this law.

If You decide to not wear a PFD that only affects you, that’s how it is different than a boating safety class (big difference!) If you ride a motorcycle w/o a helmet that should not be against the law, if you have someone riding with you especially a minor w/o a helmet that’s different.

Would not be the end of the world if we had a C&R season here too, bass are tough to catch in cold water. I catch them early season crappie fishing, they like stuff smaller, slower and suspended.

IMO-the fixed float is fast and simple,double bobber stops to adjust are not nearly as simple as ONE clip. For me to have a separate slip bobber rig is much easier-but I fish from a boat, plus I would rather vertically jig or troll than fish a slippy.

I LOVE late season ice fishing. Anything I catch threw the ice is 2x the score than open water. I’m a hole hopper so late stuff is great for me,
reeling stuff up with the birds singing, so good.

A fixed float works better in shallow water-otherwise great options shared for deeper stuff.

Hard to beat the rocket bobber for casting, usually the smallest size (can be hard to find) is best, they are durable too. In some shallow situations they land a bit hard, but they cast a mile.

Why do we park on a driveway
Yet
Drive on a parkway?

Like the reel on my Aqua View, battery is not too great.
Use mine in the winter, not so much in the summer. As many have said it works best on clear lakes, low light. If I am on a clear lake in low light I mostly want to fish & not mess with a camera, but it would help with finding and marking structure.

Nice report-good to hear about open water.

Was on a lake just north of Rush, the end of the access was a pond of water, so i went to another access on the other side of the lake, same thing. Pretty sure I’m done.

You can ask if the law is applied unevenly, you can talk about how important freedom is. Then ask yourself if the law saves lives.
What do you value?

As for music every generation thinks they are the best-but in our case it’s true.

Would you go to Rush lake?

I use this braid in darker water sometimes w/o a leader, crappies do not seem too line shy.

Nice catch Micheal & Hill! Good to see others are out.

Cub is so spendy-for those prices they should bag and the bag should be better too!

Think I own 5 coolers. Not sure how many flashlights, maybe 10. As someone said its a lot of charging esp.for ice fishing.
Feel like if you want to catch more and bigger fish, you have to be ready to fish in the dark.

I also have a rechargable solor flashlight on velcro in my boat. Easy to find in the dark, always charged w/o messing with plugging in a charger.Works well as a back up if you need some light for setting up or loading in the dark.