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Ralph Field

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  1. I fish alone most of the time (95%) and it is nice to have the river to myself. When a stranger comes along I talk to him politely and carry on fishing. When a friend comes along I will, usually , stop fishing and chat then resume fishing with them. If strangers crowd me I either stop for awhile or I move.
  2. Do they pay the brokerage fees?
  3. Great looking fish! Glad you had a good vacation.
  4. Congratulations! I hope the show goes over well.
  5. I went to the MNR fishing regulations and under Gear Restrictions it states that two lines may be used when trolling in most zones on the great lakes. They remind you to check the zone restrictions on the great lakes where two lines are not permitted. Two lines are fine when ice fishing. If you aren't ice fishing or are not trolling in a great lake zone where two trolling lines are permitted than you can only fish with one line. You may carry more but only one line can be in the water.
  6. If you want to be able to close the net I think I would follow Slowpoke's advise and buy extra hooks. If you buy a replacement net I doubt that your net will work as intended.
  7. If you leave the bail open you would see the line coming off the reel and the rod tip may or may not move. I would think that this method would only be feasible on calm days. I always fish with the bail closed and my index finger on the line similar to bottom bouncing for steelhead. I cast out and let the crayfish sink. If there isn't a hit on the drop I close the bail and with my index finger on the line I raise the tip of my rod from 9 o'clock to 11 o'clock, I then temporarily remove my index finger from the line and wind in the slack line,then my index finger goes back on the line and I repeat the before mentioned lift. When I feel a hit I open the bail and give the bass a couple of seconds to turn the crayfish in it's mouth before setting the hook( I like circle hooks).If I haven't had any hits by the time my crayfish is back to the boat, I reel in slowly as I often get hit at this stage, then I cast again and repeat the procedure.
  8. I love fishing crayfish! I like to hook them in the tail ( 3 sections up ), then toss it out and let it sink. If I haven't had a hit by the time it hits bottom , then I retrieve it very slowly with a slight lift drop action so that the crayfish doesn't bury itself in the rocks. If small mouth are present you won't have to wait long. Crayfish are easy to catch and fun to fish, and better than leeches IMHO.
  9. My guess would be between $2500 and $3000.
  10. I used the green epoxy sticks from CT and they stopped the leaks, of course that is after I replaced a lot of rivets. Do not try to tighten the rivets yourself it only caused me more grief ,take it to a marine repair store.
  11. Nice to see someone that still gets excited when they make a big purchase.
  12. The elimination of the spring bear hunt was during Mike Harris' rein wasn't it?
  13. It sounds like many of you tow tubes, and it does look like fun, but I think that I would look into injuries suffered by towing people on a tube before I ever got into it.
  14. The owner of the camp ground can get a nucinise licence and shoot the bear if it continually causes trouble , but I like the fire cracker idea better.
  15. My wife used a product called bug off and it did the trick, at least for now. As mentioned earlier many trees in our area are covered in them. With the dry weather and now the beadles the trees are very stressed.
  16. They sell glo in the dark paint at CT.
  17. I think Reliance Home Energy offers packages like the one you described, they call me all the time to sign up because I rent my water heater from them.
  18. $45 for 500 worms seems like a good price ,compared to what you will pay up north. Cheaper still would be going out after a rain and picking them yourself, however with the lack of rain you may be better off buying them.
  19. If you had known what they were doing you could have gotten their plate number and turned them into the MNR .
  20. Congratulations to those involved in getting these funds. I think that the students will learn a lot from this project.
  21. If you have a CAA office near you they carry Tilley hats and may be able to help you out by a simple exchange.
  22. When I tried it I used only one hand at boat side by putting pressure on my skirted spool with my index finger. Even though I've seen pros do this on US fishing shows I see no need at all for back reeling. I guess it is like a lot of things in fishing a matter of personal choice. I choose to use the drag that I paid for.
  23. Some newer spinning reels have the switch on the under side of the reel near the spool.
  24. I think that those who back reel when they have a large fish on are older and were taught to not rely on the drag system. The drags on middle and upper end reels today are silky smooth so their is no need for back reeling. I fish steelhead with a spinning reel and doubt that I could ever keep up to their explosive charges using back reeling. I have done it with bass just to see if it was better, but I concluded that there definitely wasn't any advantage to it with the reels I use. I think that people that back reel either grew up with it or use cheaper reels. I leave my anti-reverse on all the time because I paid a lot for a reel with a silky drag system, so why not use it?
  25. Another reason this award should be mine occurred on the opening of bass season on long point bay. We were fishing in the opening day tournament and in the distance we could see a storm coming our way. Instead of heading in when the sky turned greenish we stayed too long and got caught in a terrible storm. We thought we could hide in the rushes for cover only to discover the waves were every bit as high there as they were in the open. the waves were washing over our bow and filling my 35 year old boat with water. When my friend noticed that the water was up to my knees he panicked and flagged over a large cruiser. The water was too rough to transfer my friend to the other boat and I still had power so he left and we continued to limp in. We went to the old cut because it was the fastest way off the bay. While having coffee at the old cut marina we observed a couple of boats,which were about the size of mine being towed in overturned. We later learned that a 40 ft sailboat had been capsized in the storm. We bailed the boat out after the storm passed and headed back to the marina on the causeway where I had launched. I had to replace about 300 rivittes in the bottom of my boat as a result of our adventure ,but no one was hurt so the rest doesn't matter.
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