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A Johnson Silver Minnow that twists your line is being fished too fast. The action is better and twist is eliminated if you fish it sloooowly. Adding a trailer really helps eliminate twist. I've used trickworms, grubs, and split tail trailers. Whatever style and color that tickles your fancy. Usually white with a silver spoon, and something else that matches the gold colored or black.

Heck! I'm greedy! I don't like the choice, one or the other. I'll take just 3 over 8 (my pb is 7) and the bunch of dinks in between. Go for the gusto!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if I had to make a choice, I'd take the "few" over 8. There's times when I go out for 6 hours and catch only a "few" dinks.

I grew up in northern Wis. I really believe that for the average fisher person, not avid bass anglers, more bass, there, have been caught on plain old nightcrawlers than anything else.

Maybe battery acid. If so, it will eat the seat.

There are other ways to "fake" a picture. I don't care if it's done. It's pretty obvious to see a fake when the shadow of the fish and the shadow of the person "holding" the fish are in different directions. As I said before, I faked a picture of a bluegill (lost the pic in an old puter crash) and my wife. I hung the fish from a tree limb with about 4lb test mono. I had my wife stand on a step ladder with a rope in her hand and make believe she was straining to hold the fish. Backed up, lined things up and snapped the pic. The bluegill looked to be about 100 lbs. Thee were people, that don't fish, that believed the pic. If you don't try to claim some kind of record or prize, what's the harm?

This can answer two questions. 1. I didn't get a strike for 2 1/2 hours. 2. I tried five different places until I found out where the fish were moving to, to feed. I guess I fished a pentagon method?

Small plastic cable ties. Could not find mine, today. Good bye one Yum dinger.

But, I watched an otter, flock of turkeys, herons arguing over a fishing hole, osprey catching fish, maybe a manatee bumped the bottom of the boat, I and my maker had a good conversation. No bites? Well, that is just a small part of a good day.

If there is a home owner's association involved, I would be really careful about what I complain about. They may make the pond off limits to everybody and every activity. You might be cutting off your nose to spite your face. As others have said, that doesn't really scare the fish much. Just fish when they're not there. Is this going on just during summer break?

One instead of the other? I've had a couple of pieces of cancerous hide cut out. I do both!

My old step-dad had a written check list that he used to get ready to go fishing. I thought, at the time, he was foolish. Guess he wasn't as foolish as I thought.

It had been a long day and I was trolling a Strike King Bitsy Minnow, hoping for a crappie or bluegill and something hit hard. After a long battle with an ultralight rod and 4 lb test line, I landed an eight pound catfish.

Outboard motor key.

We have stores, here.

Take the side plates off of that old reel and clean the old grease out of it, relube it and make sure the brake adjustment is clean and works smooth. They aren't the easiest thing to cast with, but they will work.

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If I'm on a track, either drifting a river or working a shoreline, I don't want someone cutting in front of me. I don't do that. I'll go somewhere else or a long way down the river so they can fish all they want and never see me, again. The other day, drifting a river, I had some bobber fishers go by me and then anchor in front of me. The third time, I said, in my normally quiet voice, will you leave me the heck alone. They turned and went back up river away from me.

I fish what works for me. I've watched the pros fishing and listened to them tell what they use. I've read this forum and tried most of what I've read about. I've bought more tackle than I will ever use, although, I have tried all that I have bought. What worked, I use, the rest, well I should just dispose of but for now it's dead weight in my tackle boxes. Fishing for pike, in Wisconsin and Michigan, I never heard of T-rig, C-rig, A-rig, chatterbait and a whole lot of other stuff, most of which is designed to catch dry land suckers. But, it's all fun to try and some actually works.

Spinner bait, firetiger head and skirt with a brass colored willow leaf blade.

I've told people how I was fishing and given them a lure and told them how to use it. I've actually been swore at because they still couldn't catch a fish and it was my fault. I don't tell a lot of people much about fishing, anymore.

One winter, on Lake Holcombe, Wi., the water froze to the bottom, in shallow spots (4 ft or less). As the water level went down, the ice sat on stumps, and humps and broke. We could walk out on it and see the bottom of some of that ice. Frozen in the ice were small (1" or less) bluegill. We broke some of that ice off and took it home. We put the ice in water in the kitchen sink. As the ice melted, the fish started swimming. They didn't live a long time, probably because there's no oxygen in well water and they may have been thawed out to quickly. I don't know. I just know that some fish can survive some very severe winters.

Not that one!!!!!

For one thing, I'm claustrophobic and I'll be darned if I will wear a blindfold for anyone for anything. Another thing, telling ANYONE a secret fishing hole is not good. Example, In Wisconsin, my step dad and I found a small lake in the woods that we had to drag a canoe through the woods to get into. We caught a lot of nice sized yellow perch in that lake. He liked to brag to his friends. That winter, someone plowed a trail in the snow to that lake. It was loaded with ice fishing shanties. I don't know of anyone that ever caught anymore perch in that lake. A bunch of people can clean out a small lake, in the winter, when you find where they school. If I have a secret spot I don't tell. I knew a guy that had a secret spot to find morel mushrooms. When I asked him where it was, he asked me for my wife. I got the point.

Or a small, streamlined trailer.

Texas rig worms I tie direct. The snap is more weight and even worse, they are weed magnets. I use snaps on all hard lures. Tying a palomar knot on a crankbait, with three sets of trebles, wastes too much time and line. I get a kick out of the idea that a snap is too much hardware when it is tied on a half ounce, or more, of wire, plastic, split rings, lead heads, spinning blades, and any other stuff lures are made of.