MN Fisher

Today I'll be at the parents for a traditional Swedish dinner - potato sausage, swedish meatballs, sil, and other foods I grew up with. It's nice that at 84 (both of them), my parents are still living independently in a duplex they bought 30 years ago. They're getting slower and mom's memory isn't what it use to be...but they still manage.

The three main ones I use are 1/8, 1/4 & 3/8 - depending on how deep I want to run or how much weeds I'm pulling through.

Happy Yule and a Great New Year to all Already got/used one of my gifts - a TW gift certificate from the MIL.

Or at the very least...LOTS of 3700 boxes.

Carp are just oversized Goldfish - they're the same family...like Largemouth, Smallmouth and Spotted Bass are the same family.

Given the number of years my Abu Garcias have given me (my old Mitchell 320 lasted 25 years of hard use, my Cardinal 562 is over 30 years old and my Ambassadeur 500R is over 20) I'd have to say that Garcia is one of my two brands. My Pflueger 640 has also given me over 30 years of use, so Pflueger is my second favorite brand. This past year, added a Pflueger Trion spinning reel and a Garcia Avocet spinning reel to my 'hoard'.

Or impossible to get to the places where you CAN fish from the bank. Lots of the towns around Lake Minnetonka have instituted No Parking anywhere near where the DNR designates Bank Fishing. Public land on the shore - usually alongside roads. But for a mile or more in any direction - No Parking Anytime signs have gone up. So even where there's decent places to bank-fish, you have to trudge alongside the road for a long distance to get to them.

I agree totally with this. Even though I'm a canoe-fisher, I'm doing the same thing. Modifying my canoe based on my few outings this past year without mods. Test it, then decide what you want to do.

(faints dead away)

Sunglasses are for the eyes, the bill is to protect the neck.

It's called Crappie season.

The main bays of Minnetonka are still unsafe, but the smaller sub-lakes had quite a number of portable houses up. I still wouldn't go out yet even if I ice-fished. Just not sure.

(Shudders) I don't think I'd ever get to that point Everything I have - pan-fish and bass - fits in a single Cabela's Advanced Angler's Tackle Bag - 3600 size. I got that one because it fits 6 boxes in the main compartment and 1 more in the front compartment. And some of the boxes still have empty spots in them.

My wife doesn't like fishing, hates the taste of fish and wrinkles her nose at the smell when I'm cooking some in the broiler. At least she lets me go fish and 'allows' me to eat my catch when I'm in the mood for some broiled bass/trout.

Okay - I also got the electrical routed. Since the gunwale is hollow, I ran the 8-guage down inside that. A socket on the tail end will accept the matching plugs on both the trolling motor and the battery charger. Once I have the battery box, I'll terminate the front end.

Simple Green. Non-toxic, biodegradable. Mix to an appropriate strength - don't use full-strength, it'll strip paint - and wash with perhaps a grey scrub pad (metal polishing).

Center work table installed. Again, see my blog to show the steps I took to get this done.

I may have to learn how to tie this one. Sounds like a winner.

Raquel Welch, Sophia Loren and Nichelle Nichols were my three - sighs.

Sending swivels through the guides? Good way to nick the guides and now add even more abrasion to the line. I'll stick with double-uni or alberto for my leaders.

What's even more puzzling is that so many sites already have info geared to the beginning bass-hunter. @Glenn - our overlord here - has even produced a number of videos, linked on this site, that are geared to teaching you the basics about a wide variety of techniques, gear and other subjects.

That's part of the internal structure of the eye, not an external part. The exterior of simple eyes (octopus through human) needs to be kept moist. For water dwelling creatures this isn't a problem. For land animals, they either need eyelids to distribute the moisture across the surface, or in the case of some lizards - like geckos - they lick their eyes to distribute that needed moisture.

Actually, the reason most land species have eyelids is for moisture control. Blinking is an automatic reflex in any animal with eyelids, to distribute moisture across the eye surface. Bass live in a liquid environment, so don't need eyelids for that purpose.

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I have to agree with @Russ E. As someone who studied Aquatic Biology back in college (oh those many decades ago), fish...any fish...not having eyelids makes no difference as to whether they seek the shadows to keep out of the sunlight. Their habits are based on their food preferences, seeking the shadows lets an ambush predator hide from it's prey.