Greencoachdog

If I was goin' to take up huntin' again... it'd be for those damn flyin' monkeys!!!

What the heck you gonna do with that pic Cliffy???... that fish was caught too long ago to be entered into the tourney! ... btw, how do those big ol' lake O Wall-ices taste when you do them up Sushi style???

How clever of those floatation suit manufacturers eh!!! The snowmobile goes down but you stay up!... aint dat da cats azz!!!

Well it's aboot dang'-frackin' time!!! Beautiful fish!!! I notice how you put the long arm stretch on your fish to make them look almost as big as bly's! Thanks for takin' the time to post that Cliff.. much appreciated Bubba!!!

I wouldn't dream of it... yer doin' a darn fine job of it all by yourself!!!

I dunno HC... I think in that particular case... it could only help!!!

My what a cheerful little diddy that was! My hat goes off to the men and women in the armed forces! ... but traveling to foriegn countries, being in harms way and being away from thier homes and families is their job! If they don't like it , they shouldn't re-enlist. If they thought it was going to be a cakewalk when they enlisted the first time they were sadly mistaken. Maybe we should bring all the soldiers home of both our countries and just let them sit around and wait for the bad guys to take over the rest of the world and only worry about it when the bad guys decide they want our countries too? Fat and lazy with no combat experience, that would make a good fighting force eh?

Watch the video! Yeah, that pretty little sled suit of yours will make a nice anchor to drag you to the bottom when it fills with water and before your body even reaches hypothermic conditions should you ever happen to go thru the ice too! If you're taking your machine on the ice you need to wear a flotation suit!!! Not that I really care one way or the other... I just like to remind y'all of the horrible death y'all face when you do stupid stuff on the ice.

I know I don't want my goin' thru it when it's covering a lake!!!

Dr. Giesbrect is at it again! Floatation suit vs. Snowmobile suit

Gotcha covered Jack!!! WTG!!! on a beautiful fish Bubba!!!

This is true. An anti exposure suit (floater suit) will give you aboot 3 hrs. in 40*F water, with just a PFD you'll only have about 10-20 min. before you lose consciousness... but you will have an hour or 2 (maybe more) before you die.

As previously stated, it will be a lot better than nothing!!! The PFD will bring you back to the surface on the initial plunge, this is where most people drown from the involuntary gasp of entering the frigid water.

Yup! those are the ones I'm talkin' about Bill... bait each Sabiki hook on the rig with a little piece of shrimp or squid and they'll hit it faster if they're around. The Pinfish look a lot like Bluegill in their body shape, you might catch some Sardine type lookin fish too... they're Alewives or Pilchards and they're good bait too!

So was I. Glasseel is the larval stage of the American and European Eel while it is still in the ocean before it reaches it's freshwater estuaries, then it starts taking on color once it reaches freshwater and becomes a juvenile eel or Elver. When the Elvers grow up and reach sexual maturity, they swim back into the ocean and take on a silvery color and are called Silver Eels.... but they are all the American or European eel.

Not familiar with the area Bill, but use the same method you used last time (but you may need a heavier sinker at this time of year). Try using a live Pinfish (if you can get some) hooked thru the lips for a big Redfish, Black Drum, or maybe even a Striper!!!

... and if you'd read a little further down the page you'd have found this: Decline of the glasseels Glasseel No one yet knows the reasons, but beginning in the mid-1980s, glasseel arrival in the spring dropped drastically — in Germany to 10% and in France to 14% of their previous levels — from even conservative estimates. Data from Maine and other North American coasts showed similar declines, although not as drastic. In 1997 European demand for eels could not be met for the first time ever, and dealers from Asia bought all they could. The traditional European stocking programs could not compete any longer: each week the price for a kilogram of glasseel went up another US$30. Even before the 1997 generation hit the coasts of Europe, dealers from China alone placed advance orders for more than 250,000 kg, some bidding more than $1,100 per kg. Asian elvers have sold in Hong Kong for as much as $5,000 to $6,000 a kilogram at times when $1,000 would buy the same amount of American glasseels with gunfights at their catching sites. Such a kilogram, consisting of 5000 glasseels, may bring at least $60,000 and as much as $150,000 after they leave an Asian fish farm. In New Jersey over 2000 licences for glasseel catch were issued and reports of 38 kg per night and fisherman have been made, although the average catch is closer to 1 kg. The demand for adult eels has continued to grow, as of 2003[update]. Germany imported more than $50 million worth of eels in 2002. In Europe 25 million kg are consumed each year, but in Japan alone more than 100 million kg were consumed in 1996. As the European eels become less available, worldwide interest in American eels has increased dramatically. New high-tech eel aquaculture plants are appearing in Asia with detrimental effects on the native Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica. Traditional eel aquaculture operations rely on wild-caught elvers, but experimental hormone treatments in Japan have led to artificially spawned eels. Eggs from these treated eels have a diameter of about 1 mm, and each female can produce 2 to 10 million eggs You blame the Chinese solely for the decline and that's just isn't true! Your bias may be considered offensive to some readers on this board.

I managed not to fill my Depends above the <----------overflow--------------> mark!!!

*flatulence* ... excuse me! Y'all go look at the auction now eh!!!

Real nice nature pics!!! Thanks for sharing!

Very nice pics!!!

Looks great Jacques!!! ... you could go blind drilling all those itty bitty holes!

Hijacked is such a nasty word Shawn... let's just say "taken astray"...

RJ is prolly an ok guy, just havin' a bad day more than likely. Prolly slipped on some ice and skinned his little nu-nu and doesn't have anyone around to rub some ninny on it for him.