Jar11591

I am a couple hours east of you. If you ever fish the Adirondacks or Albany/Schenectady county let me know.

I usually go with a lizard, brush hog or hula grub. Pretty much anything I would T-rig, I will also C-rig.

Try it. Can't remember last time I had an improved clinch knot fail on me.

Last summer, a buddy and I just launched on a small lake, right around dawn. The short channel to the lake had some fog, but nothing too bad. When we got to the main lake, different story. The fog was so thick we couldn't see a foot in front of us. We were literally in a cloud. We were so worried about not hitting the left shore, we almost hit the right. This lake has a somewhat unforgiving shore, but luckily we saw it at the LAST moment. To be honest, it was pretty scary. Once the fog cleared up we had a good laugh.

I got myself one of the rubber worm binders because I was having the same problem as you. Now I take my tackle bag AND my worm binder. I've found that when I keep them in a box, the colors will bleed out of them and they get deformed.

I use the jointed Jitterbug a lot. It's deadly, especially after dark. I've never changed hooks, mostly because Arbogast lures make it a challenge to do so. I usually just run mine on the edges if surface vegetation. Any topwater that I use on vegetation will be a frog.

1. Get good fishing with jigs and spinnerbaits 2. To catch more and bigger fish than last year 3. Win the "biggest bass pool" that my buddies and I started

Pflueger President 2500 Shimano Sedona 2500 2 St. Croix Bass Mojos Countless soft plastics Countless hard baits Fish Finder Rod Holders New net New tackle bag

There is a pinned topic at the top of this forum called "Rod Selection: The Basics". It's pretty helpful. I normally roll with 4-5 but probably more this year.

It is so frustrating seeing the trash that people leave behind. It's sad too, because I think people like us who don't leave trash are not the majority. This needs to change. Now that I have a small boat, I don't see as much trash on the bank, but I do bank fish occasionally still. The place I go to is just filled with broken glass, beer cans, food wrappers and cigarette butts. It's sad.

I hate it when people say "oh but everybody leaves trash so I'm going to as well." That's how people justify it to themselves. Just pick up your trash! If you can carry it in, you can carry it out!

Nice! Now I wish someone would turn the ice off like a light switch. lol

I bet it made his day!

This really looks like the most fun anyone could ever have! Awesome. I've looked at the pictures of these bass probably 15 times already.

Average depth 111' and max 283'? Wow! and only 19 miles long. Very surprised to here its Michigan's longest inland lake.

Black Lake

This will be my fishing partner this year. She's a 4 year old border collie mix, and she is terrified of fishing rods! But I will break her of that before we take to the water.

I always keep hand warmers with me if the weather is cool or rainy. Nothing ruins a day of fishing like being cold, or in your case frostbite. Congrats on getting your rod and reel back! That's funny.

Yep

Truck still on the ice? Man that must be so de-moralizing. A week or two ago I went to one of my spots hopefully trying to make a couple casts and when I got there, hoards of ice-fishermen still! But the end is near.

Here in upstate NY the temperatures are looking up this week. In the 50s all week with nights in the high 30s and 40s. I hope to be fishing by mid next week, maybe even the rivers this weekend. How is everyone else from the NE doing as far as ice out?

I'm one if those yanks with hard water

Yeah. It's in profile settings somewhere.

What he said.

ribbontail worms, senkos poppers brush hogs and the Rapala shadraps and DTs