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Found this little critter on one of my geraniums a few mornings ago. Not a bad image for an inexpensive point and shoot camera.

Personally I like my tech but still love walking a shoreline with a nothing more than a jig and minnow, room for both in my world.

I've said it here before but I was always old school when it came to fishing and never got into all the fancy doodads that do everything but stick the fish on the hook for you. To me the fun of fishing was figuring out where the fish were rather than having a machine to tell me where to throw my bait. I had a pair of simple sonars to give me depth and where the weeds were and a basic GPS so I could mark points of interest and track my drifts. I've got nothing against someone spending a fortune on electronics to show them exactly where the fish are sitting but to me that takes the fun out of figuring it out yourself. Just my opinion of course but to me all the fancy toys make catching too easy and gets rid of the skill involved in figuring out where the fish are by a persons own knowledge.

It's certainly a grey area and difficult to know where to draw the line....either for your own personal ethics, or the gov't with legislation potentially limiting the technology. I have heard of reports from the US of guys Musky fishing with 4 to 6 ffs poles on their boat, and just cruising/criss-crossing the lake at 4 to 7 mph. They're not patterning fish (like looking for structure or weed edges), they're just looking for large individual fish they can sharpshoot. Often these are deep suspended fish that you would never find fishing traditional patterns (rock piles, drop offs, etc). Because they are deep, they are often much more susceptible to not surviving release, even when all precautions are taken. To me that's crossing the line...and I believe that's what the stewards of Eagle Lake are trying to prevent. Last September my buddy and I were jigging for Walleyes for a shore lunch on Eagle, when a bloated 55"+ Musky floated past us belly up. We could smell it before we saw it. One of the saddest sights I've laid eyes on..

I'm good with FFS, what I'm not good with is guys sharpshooting. This is on the same level as guys fishing redds for steelhead in a foot of water. I don't have FFS, but if I see a fish on my side imaging, I'll make a bunch of casts if that fish doesn't engage off I go to find another one. I definitely don't sit there and circle the fish for an hour dropping 100 different baits on its head.

Hi all, I had big plans for some BIG walleye to go out with a bang on the final day of Walleye season, well.....mother nature decided to throw a curve ball at my plans, near white out conditions and about 6" more snow than forecast. I just didn't fancy the trails as there are a couple creeks where the snow bridges had probably melted, making it unpredictable to cross by snowmaking, and did not want to travel 15 miles in deep snow on the quad, so opted for more of the same as in my recent posts. Got 4 small keepers in a couple hours, so mission accomplished, the big ones will have to wait till third Saturday in May. Still should be getting out for crappie in the next week, we'll see how that goes.