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.

My eveready rechargeable works great-about 20 on Amazon.

Nice!

More lines does not always mean more success-More lines tax mobility and focus. In open water they tangle.

The musky dudes spend a lot but because of leaders I guess they don’t loose as much, I cannot use a leader because it would wreck my feel with this lure. First time I have spent more than 20 on a bass lure.

Lots of ice still for most lakes, some lakes like Pulaski set up much later so you have to be extra careful.

Hello DNR: set a limit and stick to it for the year, 1,2,3, whatever, switching around, scaling back, hurts your PR and does not help the fishery.
Also, looking into the eyes of a wolf I know I would not want to hurt its feelings!

Nice mixed bag. Great looking LMB, so fun on light gear.

Relax and enjoy the ride x3-I would recommend satalite radio.

Compared to gambling the insurance company is the house.
The house always wins, as they say.
Only insure what would wreck you if you loose it.
-your house, life.
For the insurance companies they have full time people dedicated to figuring out the numbers on EVERYTHING to their advantage, this is not your full time thing, so again just have insurance for what helps you sleep at night, if you cannot sleep because you worry about your truck you have other issues.

My brothers and I decided to ‘live off the land’ for a day. One of the geniuses said that cattail roots were edible ( google just said ‘yes’) so maybe we got the wrong plant or undercooked, but we were all throwing up.
They tasted just like rutabaga root, still get quezzy at the whif of the rutabaga.