Mike Pike

Nice job again Josh and thanks for showing us pics of your successes!

By that account, you earned that fish Lorne. Congratualtions!

That is a terrific tutorial you made up for us Hammercarp!

And Goodluck to you Googie. That is as complicated as it gets, and it will defiantely get you into fish.

Now, if you end up reeeally getting into carping, you'll find no shortage of ways to spend your money on specialized gear, that essentially does the same as the stuff in Hammercarp's post! lol

With one of the lower payrolls in the majors, Rogers keeps telling fans that when the Jays are 'close,' that's when they'll spend the money. Well, when THAT happens, that's when I'll spend MY money.

Its all good, it happens all the time! You going to the fish in April 22?

 

 

 

Shawn

Ya, I'm planing on going. Sounds like a fun social with a bit of competition thrown in! I've never participated in a carp fish-in before.

...ooops, double post. Mods please remove. ( feeling great shame )

Thanks Mike, appreciated greatly - hopefully we can hook up this season for some lumps - if you have the time and are willing to take a visitor - feel free to PM me, well hook up some time....... this is Mike from the CAG right? we met at valley of the bullheads once recently?

 

 

 

shawn

Yup, that's me Shawn. And I look forward to joining you on the bank for some carping real soon. Just remember, you can't get mad when I cross your line, ok.

Mike hit the nail on the head!

 

 

Swim = spot

Venue = lake or river

Bivvy = tent

Boilie = chunk of dough or corn meal

Inline pear = big sinker

Gutted = upset I lost my fish

Chuffed to bits = Happy I got my fish

Maize = corn

Method mix = a bunch of oats and cream corn that can form a ball to bring fish in

Baitrunner = reel that can switch to free spool (loose drag)

 

 

Ex, I was in my bivvy at the local venue, in my favourite swim, fishing an inline pear with some method mix and maize with a single boilie when a proper common took my rig and the baitrunner wasnt clicked on............ my rod went in the swim and I was gutted but I grabbed it quickly and landed the fish and I was chuffed to bits!

 

That should get you started - the rest is downhill lol...... ps remember.... until you get a baitrunner....... loosen your drag or so say goodbye to your rod when you grab a sandwich, take a leak, check your phone, or have a nap!

 

 

 

Shawn

That's a hillarious read, Shawn!

And hey, finally got to enjoy your vid last night. Nice job and that's a terrific fish! ..err, I mean a 'proper' fish. lol

Yup, this early spring( or summer? )has got the carp going earlier than last year. An nice bonus for those of us who enjoy fishing for 'em. Good job by you and your buds, Mike. Nice, clean looking carp you guys hooked into there! And a good tip about not over feeding yet.

Hey thanks for that Gerritt! Saw them last night and it was pretty neat knowing what planets they were. Kinda makes me wish I new more about astronomy.

Good job there Bassmaster4. A lot of guys have been coming up empty casting for gators. Nice!

Ya, Cogeco in Hamilton doesn't offer WFN in HD either. I've still ordered it, though, cuz nothing is better than having fishing shows available 24-7.

I remember guys fishing for 'em in the 80's as schools of them would pass below the hut. Once the population dropped, I hadn't seen one caught in years. I actually forgot all about the buggers until last year when I caught a couple once again. Well, I guess the moritorium on fishing for cisco is working. Lots more reports of them being caught and seeing schools again. That's cool.

As for table-fare, I never tried 'em back in the day when you could keep them, but more than one person has told me they are an aquirred taste and a little oily.

Discussing about watching things in real-time and not recording them in a thread yesterday, I decided not to DVR the race and just stay up and watch it. Wow, am I ever glad I did! And my favorite driver won! Go 17!!!!!!!!

Unfortunately, I'm now at work... trying to keep my eyes...open...and stay ... ZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

What I do is record the first hour then start watching so i can fsat forward thru the commercials.By the time I get to the end of the race im caught up to real time. That im my opinion is what a PVR-DVR is for..

That's a good idea. Plus, your way you don't have to worry about finding out who won the race before you've had a chance to see it.

Who hoo! Rain baby rain! See ya tonght for the first ever running of the 500 under the lights! I hope....

tb4me, you have GOT to get yourself DVR( or PVR )and record the races. It's awesome. No more sticking around the house Sunday afternoons. Go fishing instead and watch the races at night! It's a beautiful world.

Daytona hourly forecast

 

Check this out. Click on "next 12 hours" for tomorrows forecast. Looking good for a late afternoon or early evening start if it holds up.

Great link, Dan. Unfortunately, now it says it won't stop raining until 8pm tonight!

seems most of the leaf fans "impressions" of the sens in the playoffs date back to the last time the leafs were in them.

The way the Sens perform in the playoffs, I'd say BOTH teams haven't been in the playoffs in a while.

lol funny.. I wonder how long till the sens come crashing back to reality?

Historically, it'll be the first day of the playoffs! lol

Fact is Leafs have the youngest team in the league and are currently holding down a play-off spot, with some depth in the minors finally. Lots of upside to this year's team, so whatever Burke is able to do, it will likely be with their future success in mind, as opposed to emmidiate returns for the remainder of this year.

Those are some beautiful photos, Justin. Curious, do you end up framing many of your photos and putting 'em up in your home? It seems to me that it would be very rewarding taking those shots and then adorning my house with them.

I too was a huge fan of his show as a kid.

Hard to think of it now-a-days but it was the only all fishing show on tv and, therefore, the only show like it. Watching it on my parents' snowy old black and white television, I hung on every word Red said and every fish he caught, hoping that some day I would catch fish just like Red.

Ooops, got caught showng my age! lol

Don't take offense.

Why? If you don't want to show or help the people here, just don't post, keep it a secret.

I've seen this on a few posts. Doesn't make sense to me. We've all seen fish before.

Send your pictures to paint shop on your PC. Once you learn paint shop you'll be surprised what you can do.

No offense taken, Fish Farmer.

To Lew and all the others who said they don't like pics or posts with blurred backgrounds, neither do I really. That's why I described it as an "annoying" feature. lol Nothing worse than a photo of a guy holding a fish with no story, no background, no nothing, just someone holding a fish.

Reason I was gonna look into using it was because I fish a lot of shore spots. It's probably 90% of my fishing. I feel like I don't contibute enough to this forum with my experences because I hesitate showing the pics where the locations are obvious. Stories without pics are kinda boring( to me anyway ), so I simply reply to posts on this forum without actually starting any myself.

So, I thought the blurred background option was something I could use. Share a tale and still show a photo.

Anyhoo, thanks for the help and all the opinions, guys! It's appreciated.

Sorry if this has been covered before but I could use this annoying little feature in some future posts. lol

So, is this a program that's purchased or is it a free download somewhere? Thanks for any help.

BTW are you going to be there for Mardi Gras.....if so take LOTS of pictures of those girls down there trying to get the beads....

Oh, and just make sure they're girls.