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I used to work in check processing and we received a similar item for the IRS once. Instead of using a shirt the guy wrote the routing, account number and dollar amount on a jock strap and signed it. Since it had all of the pertinent info on it and was signed we had to treat it like any other check.

The rod/reel combo should be fine. The bottom bouncers are for vertical presentations and really wouldn't do you any good from shore. Your best bet from shore is to fish shallow, rocky shorelines starting around sunset and fishing into the night. Jerk baits that mimic the local forage species would be my suggestion. If you can find an area where you can reach deeper water from shore, a night crawler or leech on or just off the bottom could produce during the day. We were chasing walleye last week and after several hrs of fishing artificials with no luck we switched to crawlers under a slip bobber with the depth set about a foot off the bottom and started slaying them immediately. This was in the same areas we had worked with the artificials. It was mid-day in about 20 ft. of water.They just weren't interested in chasing anything, but they were willing to hit the crawlers hanging right in front of their faces.

There seems to have been a drastic change in parenting styles in the past 20 yrs or so. Parents want to be friends with their kids instead of teaching them the difference between right and wrong. When I was a kid, if my teacher or one of the neighbors called my folks and told them I did something wrong, my parents believed them and I was punished accordingly. Now it seems like parents will always side with their children or make excuses for their actions. Either the teacher doesn't like their kid, or the teacher is just picking on their precious little child because little Johnny would never do something like that, or little Johnny is just expressing himself and the teacher just doesn't understand his creativity. There's nothing wrong with being friends with your kids, but when it's time to be a parent, that friendship has to be put aside for the moment so you can teach them that there are consequences for their actions. When my son was young I reserved spankings for more serious offences. Other punishments were also used but he knew that if he did something that resulted in a spanking, he really did something wrong.

Walleye will hang out in deeper water during the day and come into the shallows at night. At night, jerk baits worked in the shallows are a great way to catch them. During the daytime using a bottom bouncer or a lindy rig will produce fish. Walleye are great eating fish and a lot of fun to catch. They do tend to school up during the day and will usually be right on the bottom so if you hook into one during the day keep working the area because he will probably have friends with him.

Bottom bouncers are actually just a weight on a wire with a swivel you attach a leader to so you can get your bait close to the bottom while trolling slowly. We use them a lot in the summer during the day to get deep where the walleye hang out until they move in shallow at night. A lot of people will drag artificials behind their BB rigs but the most productive set-up I have ever used is with live bait. We use about a 3-5 ft leader behind the BB with a slow death hook and about half a night crawler and the eyes jump all over it. A slow death hook is a hook with a slight bend in it that makes the crawler spin in a sort of death roll while it is being trolled along. Very slow speeds (less than 1 mph) and keeping the BB in contact with the bottom is key. If you do a youtube search for bottom bouncing and slow death presentations you will find several videos. Whether you use artificials or live bait, a bottom bouncer rig is hard to beat for catching walleye during daylight hrs.

The only ads I see on this site are the ones on the right side of the page that are paid for by the companies that sponsor this site (Rage Tail, Yum, etc). I believe the rotating ads are Google ads and they are based on your browsing history.

Sorry to hear about that, hope everything works out. One thing to keep in mind about unemployment is that they will consider any money you got in your severance package as income. For example, if you normally made $1,000.00 per week and got a $5,000.00 severance package, they will not start paying you for five weeks. When I got laid off, I got no severance but I did have three weeks of vacation saved up. They started my benefits after the three weeks was up and told me if I got any money in severance it would apply to those funds as well.

Where's the option for both? I don't fish tournaments so my ideal days are the ones where I have a lot of action on the 1-3 lb fish and a couple of nice kickers to make it a really good day.

Mine too. My first eye was about 8 inches. Got him on a bottom bouncer and he was so small I didn't even realize I had a fish on. I dragged him around the lake for a good 30 minutes before I reeled in to check my bait and saw that I had a fish on. Nice walleye Jig Meister. How was your walleye dinner?

Everybody has given you good advice. If you're out during the day, target the deeper water. If you can stay on the water until right around dusk, they will start moving up into the shallows to feed. Suspending jerk baits in shallower water right around dusk can be very productive.

Most of the so called "bashing" I see in the resume forum is adults telling kids to get an education because the chances of them making a decent living on the tournament trail are pretty slim. I'm a mean old adult so I would consider that to be good, solid advice rather than bashing. Telling someone the truth by letting them know that the odds are stacked against them in a huge way might be harsh, but it's the truth. There's more than 300 million people in this country, how many of them make a comfortable living fishing in tournaments? The kids who think they are going to be the next KVD are no different than the kids who think they are going to be the next Michael Jordan. If that dream doesn't pan out, you better have something to fall back on or you won't be anything more than the best fisherman at the local Burger King.

BPS Lazer Blade. Great for walleye and cold water bass. Very reasonably priced too, which is good because if I'm throwing blades I'm going to leave several at the lake every trip.

for dinks it's well over 100 in a day. My best day for higher quality fish is more in the 35-40 range.

There's a lot more to it than a needle full of sleepy juice and a pine box. There's several appeals processes all of which require a lawyer(s) that has experience in death penalty cases plus the actual stay on death row which is not cheap. In the end, it costs quite a bit more to execute someone than it does to keep them in prison for life.

I watch it too...GET OFF MY NUMBERS!!!

There are some things a man just has to do on his own lol.

Only if I have a liter of cola to drink while I watch it lol. I'm watching it right now on Spike too. We have a couple of ponds that are on Federal land that are patrolled by US fish and wildlife rangers. One of the rangers is a real redneck kind of guy who is totally gung-ho about his job. We call him Farva.

When I target bluegills, my go to bait is a trout magnet. They're really small and the gills absolutely love them.

Up until about 10 yrs ago I was mostly a shore fishing trout and panfish guy who would throw out some bait and wait for a bite. I found a pond that had some really big bluegill and crappie and once or twice per trip I'd hook into a 2 lb or so bass on my nightcrawler. I decided that catching a few bass per day was more fun than catching a bunch of panfish and I started trying techniques specifically to catch bass. That one pond changed my fishing style from bait fishing for the easy fish and hoping for the occasional bass, to throwing artificials specifically for bass.

Agreed. I raised my son by myself starting when he was 11 mos old so I have a little bit of experience with this. From what I remember about your recent posts, you are just a few months out of a pretty complicated situation with your now ex wife. Take some time off and concentrate on your boys. It might not seem like a big deal to you, but to a couple of little kids whose family life just got turned upside down, the last thing they need is to feel like they are competing for your attention with the new girlfriend. Give things time to settle down. There's plenty of time for girlfriends in the future but you only get one shot at your kids childhood.

It's funny how far a lure will fly when it no longer attached to you line.

But could you throw it over a mountain? Uncle Rico was classic.

Individual chemistry can be a weird thing. I have taken percocet and vicodin for dental issues before and they did relieve the pain but I didn't experience the narcotic effects that others experience. When I broke a bone in my hand my doctor prescribed tramadol, which is supposed to be a non-narcotic pain reliever and it knocked me on my butt.

Not to play mother hen but pain pills and alcohol together is a really bad idea. Lots of dead celebs can attest to that. Now that I'm done nagging you, glad you got it taken care of.

I wouldn't even call Charlie Moore's show a fishing show. It's more like 10 mins of fishing and 20 mins of BS. If NBC Sports ever wises up and dumps him maybe he can take his "fishing show" over to the Food Network or Travel Channel.