I can relate too. Grew up in Omaha, Nb. Dad and his buddies had found a nice farm pond about 20 miles or so out of town. It had some nice sized bass in it.

My folks were both born and raised in rural Mississippi. We would all go down there every year to see family and visit for a couple of weeks. Most every farmer had a pond or lake on his property. I seem to recall the State would stock them.

Big bass and bluegills (Brim or Bream) if you were from the South. Lots of local creeks too with plenty of good fishing.

As an adult, I went many years in a row to a fly-in lake in Western Ontario...............Super fishing for Walleye and eating walleye is about the best there is.

If you (score) the fillets prior to putting them on the stove, that will resolve and/or pretty much eliminate the bones.

That would mean.....making 45 degree cuts a half inch or so across the fillet one way and then repeating the 45 degree cut in the opposite direction the other way.........Poof...............no bones.

Watch this video and you will know what to do......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw_bbEOT_34

Those that suggested some type of doughball recipe are on target. Many years ago, the custodian at our office was an avid carp fisherman at the sand pits outside of Omaha. He would not give up his "secret recipe", but using cheap Zebco spinning reels and rods, he had great success catching big carp from the sand pits around Fremont and/or Valley, Nb.

He couldn't sell them to Joe Tess, Joe only used river caught carp. Although hard for some to believe, carp sandwiches are quite good.

Check out this site, ol Joes place has been around a long long time and based on selling carp sandwiches.

http://www.joetessplace.com/go/about-us/

If you encounter tangles after spooling the new line, (hope you have access to a boat). Remove any swivels and/or lures from the line and with the boat moving down the lake, pull off all the line from the reel and let it trail out behind the boat.

Once you have the entire spool unwound trailing the boat, grab the line with your thumb and forefinger just above the reel with one hand and then start reeling in the line.

Doing the above will remove any twists/tangles that were there before.

I agree with the use of two. If you're spending most time at the bow, you are at the mercy of the winds and to keep your boat where you want, you either have to have the shallow water anchors deployed or use your trolling motor.

I don't have those anchors, but my trolling motor has a transducer strapped to the bottom of the trolling motor. This gives you the best picture under the bow.

Good point. While my trips up there were more than 30 years ago, I can for sure recall what happened to some who chose to ignore the limits on catch and keep of certain species. For sure, back then there was a case where a guy with a pickup carrying a slide in camper and toting a boat behind.

He tried to exit Canada with way more than the allowed number of fish. Don't recall which ones. Anyway, the final situation resulted in him being fined and his truck/camper/boat/trailer were confiscated.

Just sayin'

Been a lot of years, but I would think the process hasn't changed. We would go to Sioux Lookout in Ontario and fly out of Knobby Clarks setup.
All those lakes up there seemed to flow from one to the next. They are kinda like "stair steps". At the upper end of whatever lake you are on should be some incoming rapids, same deal at lower end where the rapids are flowing into another lake that is (lower) in elevation that the one you are on.

From my experience, fishing the rapids and/or fairly near the rapids (either end of the lake) gave you fairly consistent action and catches. Two downsides to all that. Rapids are full of rocks and getting your beetle spins or whatever lures snagged in the rocks was quite common. So bringing along plenty of extra baits is a must (Can't drive to a local bait shop) when you're on a remote lake and got there via a float plane that won't be back till the next weekend. Other downside is "size" of walleye caught in and/or near the rapids are on the smaller side. Moving slightly downstream a ways from the upper rapids might lower your catch rate, but improve the size of ones you catch.

Small limbs down here in Sunset Beach, over 3" of rain. But South Port and parts of Ocean Isle Beach really got hit including some tornados.

Unless you are using lead core line or some kind of "down rigger" attachment, your lures are likely "barely" under the water surface at that speed. In effect, you are (almost) top water fishing behind a speeding boat.

Well, you would likely get more feedback and more specifics if you could or would identify just what kind of fishing and for (what) fish you are after.

If you're using a cane pole and a bobber and after pan fish or even other types, a live worm is a better choice. Same deal if using a bobber with a casting rod/reel.

However, if you aren't gonna sit a "watch" that bobber and want to cast and reel in and cast again, etc.
you don't wanna use live worms as they will quickly fall off the hook. Then you would want plastic worms if indeed worms are your choice.

Now, nothing beats a live shiner if you're bass fishing, but that brings about lots of other choices too.

I'm a little stunned at no one coming up with an obvious answer (assuming you have access to a boat).

To get the twist out of the line, remove any terminal tackle from the end of the line. No lures, no baits, not swivels.

Start the boat up or down the lake and keep peeling the line off the reel till it can go no longer. Let that line trail behind the boat for a while. Then keeping some tension on the line, begin reeling it in and refilling the reel.

You should now have a line that no longer has twist in it. However, switching to braid just might be a better option.

I'm somewhat amused as to concerns expressed by a few as to not wanting to eat something cause it's "ugly".

Gosh, I've got a pellet smoker and I love pork butts. I like ham sandwiches too. Never did see a pig or hog that I thought was good looking. I don't think Maine lobsters look very good either, but they are yummy.

If whatever you eat has to "look good", you may need to think about becoming a vegetarian.

As I recall, the answer is "scoring". Once you have scaled and/or cleaning the fish, You need to make cuts down the fllets at angles. In other words, make a cut at a left hand 45 degree angle thru the meat and then make another cut 45 degrees to the right.

This "scoring" as I recall the term.....should result in no bones once the pieces have been fried up in hot oil.

As I believe I have mentioned on this forum before. Carp are quite tasty. In fact, in Omaha, Nb. there is a guy by the name of Joe Tess that since likely the 1950's has been famous for his carp sandwiches.


Yes, there are ugly.