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More then possible trolling, again it all depends on the lake, time of year and what structure the fish are holding against. When those walleyes are tucked into the weed edges, you won't find a better approach then trolling those edges with harnesses, etc. You could drop shot, but you'd be covering so much less water.

Good point. One inland lake I fish with my dad in July has a weedbed that stetches about 300 yards along shore in 7-8fow, trolling spinner on the edge back and forth works well enough that's it's all we do and said lake

Had my first one today.....Ewwwwwww.

 

Was at work and the only thing I had to remove it was sidecutters! Seemed to work fairly well.

Lol. You do realize it's simple to remove by hand right?

Casting for me, 95% of the time.

 

I know the structure etc im looking for and can pick off specific areas of said structure.

 

If I was on huge water bodies, I'd probably change my tune real quick though

 

Only time I've trolling is if we need a quick lunch and aren't doing shore lunch

Ok I might back off my old ways and repel the ticks lol

I hope it's just out floating jer and it's recovered.

 

Best wishes man

 

We get the same around here on the river every other year or so with high water, docks and boats floating all over. Even found staircases and picnic tables a few years back

Yes!!!!

 

Looking forward to some wicked edits

Some big games coming up. Oils and Ducks game 7, Wash and Pitt game 7 and Ottawa has a chance to close out. I love the playoffs.

Your not the only one!

Awesome man! I remember meeting Grapes and Walter Gretzky as a kid while playing minor hockey in St.Catharines. They stuck around until every kid had an autograph. Lots of smiling kids that day for sure!

I remember seeing those pics Geoff! That's epic!

 

Hey Bill, when I was playing bantam, my grampa(who played professional hockey in Europe) flew me to Toronto for his eye surgery. Said he had a surprise for supper and guess who supper was with? Don cherry. Longest supper ever hahaha, but he is totally different off camera, super chill nice guy. The guy can literally talk hockey for days.

 

That was a big highlight for me growing up

Even good old Matthew Barnaby is a class act off the ice and I hated him, till I met him. I said please don't give me that $%^& eating grin you gave in fights or I'll have to pop you in the chin then turtle on the ground like a scarred little school girl. He gave the grin and said "go for it, naw lets go for a beer instead" and we did.

Awesome!

Dave that's the best post I've seen in forever ?????

I'd much rather listen to Cole getting all the names wrong then the feed from NBC. Albert and McGuire? Good god it makes my ears bleed!!!!!!!!!

Im with bill.

 

Also, this "classy" thing came up a few weeks ago when my mom heard about the suicide dood from the NFL. She started trashing professional athletes hard lol. Overpaid idiots is what she called them. I kinda took offense since our kids all play sports and are all doing really well. My oldest plays rep team and is basically a shoe in for the muskies that win NORWASA frequently. He also just got his second regionals gold in basketball.

 

Anyhow, I started telling and showing her stories from around NHL players and even juniors. Needless to say she was pretty shocked.

 

I mean yeah, they get paid alot to play a game. But if your not a big charity guy in the NHL or juniors, good luck with your team mates and peers. Nobody wants to be "that guy". They almost all do amazing work inside and outside of hockey. I'll say the same for the CFL these days.

 

NHL is just world class. Even the dood you "hate" on the ice, is more than likely doing amazing things for people in need

^^^pure class ?????

What geoff said, I tried this for leader material and you can't even set a hook. Just snaps

After a serious injury and many complications, I haven't wetted a line since Nov 25 2016.

 

Well today, after being released from the hospital, I went to the RRFN dock with my mom and daughter, full cripple style.

 

My gawd was it nice to wash some lures!

 

Unfortunately you could see where the pike would be, by the sucker spawn, and on crutches that wasn't accessible.

 

But I did manage two hours of casting from a chair on the dock. Missed 6 or 7 bites. Had sunshine(and heavy winds) but man was that the therapy I needed!

 

Being injured can take you to a dark place, and a simple fish was uplifting to the point words cannot describe!

 

Hopefully better weather tomorrow and I can get right back out!

 

Lots pelicans and some great scenery, a lil windburn, and the realisation my shore tackle is a disaster, made for some great times!

 

And of course, our lil lilybugs came with and was full of tales to tell Grandma! My mom's first time watching the lake sturgeon surface too! She was in heaven. "No wonder you spend so much time down here" were her words

 

Thanks for reading!

 

 

 

 

Fun part was teaching the wife today. She's never drove a truck in her life, so that was pretty fun offroading, hill climbing and parking lessons lol

 

Thanks again guys!

Horrible story, sad to say the least

 

I've taken in a big wave before and got really lucky I was 50ft off shore.

 

Lots of twist and turns on rainy river and the water was glass. Me and a buddy in a 16ft turned the corner sharp near shore as it's deep compared to the middle of the turn, actually everyone takes that route as it's marked.

 

As we turn the corned we know we're instantly in trouble as it was 60km windgusts coming off a flat feild and instantly it went from glass to a 6ft gong show chop, took Abit of water over the side as we veered for shore and almost took a 6 footer right over the bow. Seriously off by 2cm, we woulda sunk right then and there and probably been badly injured too, then in for the swim of our lives.

 

Got to shore, proceeded VERY close to shore back towards were we came from and ended up fishing the glass 100 yards off the launch lol

 

Scary stuff though how quick something dangerous could occur so quickly

 

We take the American side now,waaaày safer

Good stuff guys!

 

Im all for recycling. If it doesn't NEED to be in a landfill it shouldn't be!

Cool! I'll check into for the dogs!

 

Myself im cool with the bugs lol, 37 years of it im used to heavy bugs

 

I can attest to this. Professional Engineers hired to test product who need me, the Technologist who does an engineer's work, to set up tests and explain how to interpret real world results.

 

PS. Nice target... I mean truck. Got to keep a close eye on new trucks around here.

Thanks!

 

Not much vehicle theft here, so im not worried about that.

 

Too small of a town/area

Nice work Simon! Be well worth it when you're finished.

No I bought this truck.

 

I mean when I worked in the oilfield I always had a company truck. No personal vehicles allowed, understandably

How long do they stay on you for?

Basically until they die. Youde be well aware of it at that point, trust me. They expand about 10 fold their normal size

 

You sound like the guys at the Steel Plant that would never drive their good vehicles in there. OK to bring our frail human bodies in there but never our shiny cars and trucks, C'mon Man! If it's good enough foe me my Vette is fine.

 

 

That is one nice ride Rick, congrats. A coat of New Finish once every few or 3 years will keep it looking new forever. With the new clear coats out of the GM factories no wax required. Not for the unfortunate, for owners repairing daily (FORD) or the goat trucks. Imagine naming a line of tuff trucks Goats, bhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Lol, work trucks mAh man. Not even allowed your own vehicle(insurance related)

 

And she's home????