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Dec 26, 2020 16:02:17   #
In Minnesota we hear the Sheriff say that you have to have four inches of ice for people to walk on the lake. For automobiles, they say a foot of ice. Tge thicker the better.
Ice thins out near springs and other moving water. Be Careful !!
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Dec 26, 2020 15:56:48   #
Heck, in Minnesota we used to just chouse the offender back along the road to the gate to the field where the cow was supposed to be.
Our cows did not have wide open spaces to get lost in. We hgad lots of trees and cows ton't like trees for some reason.
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Dec 26, 2020 15:51:47   #
Mcgee, I agree totally with RJS - practice makes it easier When I was a kid we only had thick braided silk line. Braided line is much easier to cast on a level-wind reel, than monoi. Mono always wants to create a birdsnest.

However, talk to your guy at the sporting goods shop to get the best line and a casting plug (little weighted plug with no hooks) and try it out out in the parking lot to make sure3 you understand the reel adjustments so when you change lures the reel will still do what you want.

That all said, it's easier to cast an ultralight 5' 6" spinning rod with a 1/32 oz lure than with a casting rod.
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Dec 26, 2020 15:40:24   #
For Pike - Red and White Daredevil

For Crappie / panfish - Red & white maribou jig tipped with a small minnow or artificial that simulates a minnow
Jigs are normally 1/4 oz per 10 ft of depth, but you may want to go smaller - down to 1/32 oz in clear water. Poppers on a fly rod are also a great crappie lure, and a lot of fun

For Walleye or Sauger - Jointed or solid Rapala plug in perch colors trolled along weedlines

For Bass Shadrap or Fatrap in perch colors cast into openings in weeds, let all the ripples die out and jerk the lure to make a noise on the surface. You should see a Big Bass come straight up under the lure. Wait until the mouth is closed and set the hook

Good Luck
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Oct 18, 2020 15:34:38   #
That's wonderful -wonder what all those smells were like all mixed together.
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Oct 18, 2020 15:32:57   #
They are really toothy !! If you could get it out of the water, you'd probably only want to weigh it ad take a photo to send to the DNR to see if it was a record.
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Oct 18, 2020 15:28:59   #
There are footwarmers that are smaller, and he could put one on each side of his pants and wrap a heavy towel around his knees to help ho.d the heat in.
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Oct 4, 2020 16:37:59   #
flyguy wrote:
I have been, or I should say my wife has been thinking that we should get a pontoon. Not that I would give up my Lund Tyee, and it would be an addition. How are they to out of and how are they to trailer, load and unload. I have a fishing buddy that had one for about a year and I was on it but, never fished out of it. I never talked to him about how he liked it, but he only had it for about a year, so, I assumed he didn't like it. What do you guys think?


We had a 16 ft with a 25 horse Johnson on it in Tennessee. It is easy to launch and land, and as lopng as yopu drop and trice up your Bimini, it trailers like any other boat. Normally the front half is o-en and on a sport fisher version there will be swivel seats like yopur fishing boat. We woulod cast and also bobber fish from her, and sometimes even troll off the back, where there were two seats.
I think you'd love it - especially as you get older because there's no climbing down into and climbing back oput of a pontoon,or a tritoon.
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Jun 27, 2020 10:42:36   #
Graywulff wrote:
I'm glad for you Red, and just a little jealous, fishing with kids is just the best!!๐ŸŽฃ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ‘


Oh, Yeah - jealous as heck that you get to take kids fishing and catch Bass !! Then you feed them more baits so they can catch even more the next time. Then they can eave and go back to bug their Dad about fishing, and you get to take a nap and dream of a 10# LMB coming out of your lake on one of their tight lines.

Best of everything to you Red !!!
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Jun 27, 2020 10:36:41   #
Graywulff wrote:
You da man!!!!


That's really funny to us old guys !!
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Jun 16, 2020 15:29:26   #
Able Man wrote:
Yeah, "a 2-seater" CAN BE handy... ยกMUCH BETTER than "a 2-story outhouse", as I recall!


Ya don't hear about Biffys much anymore.
We had toilet paper in ours. Others used old Sears catalogs. If you scrunch up the pages and flatten 'em out again, they're mighty soft on yer backside, dontcha know.
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Jun 13, 2020 10:51:11   #
ghaynes1 wrote:
TC - hope you feel better. You are still a knucklehead and a ding dong. Doesn't get much better.


As the Brits sing, "Backside rules the Navy..."
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Jun 13, 2020 10:47:21   #
BadFisherman wrote:
An 85 year old couple, having been married almost 60 years, had died in a car crash. They had been in good health the last ten years, mainly due to her interest in health food and exercise. When they reached the pearly gates, St. Peter took them to their mansion, which was decked out with a beautiful kitchen, a master bath suite and Jacuzzi. As they oohed and aahed, the old man asked Peter how much all this was going to cost.

"It's free," Peter replied, "this is Heaven."

Next they went out back to survey the championship golf course that the home backed up to. They would have golfing privileges everyday and each week the course changed to a new one representing the great golf courses on earth.

The old man asked, "What are the green fees?"

Peter's replied "This is heaven, you play for free."

Next they went to the club house and saw the lavish buffet lunch with the cuisine's of the world laid out.

"How much to eat?" asked the old man.

"Don't you understand yet? This is heaven, it is free!" Peter replied with some exasperation.

"Well, where are the low fat and low cholesterol tables?" the old man asked timidly.

Peter lectured, "That's the best part...you can eat as much as you like of whatever you like and you never get fat and you never get sick. This is Heaven."

With that the old man went into a fit of anger, throwing down his hat and stomping on it, and shrieking wildly. Peter and the man's wife both tried to calm him down, asking him what was wrong.

The old man looked at his wife and said, "This is all your fault. If it weren't for your blasted bran muffins, I could have been here ten years ago!"
An 85 year old couple, having been married almost ... (show quote)


How true, how true. My Wife has forbidden me to die. I may never get there.
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Jun 13, 2020 10:45:24   #
badbobby wrote:
I am over 90(quite q a lot actually)and the government thinks I'm too old to track down terrorists.
If you are over 42 you can't join the military.They have it backasswards.

Instead of sending 18 and 19 year olds out to fight the enemy,they should take us old guys.
Old guys my age only think about sex once or twice a day,leaving us with 28,000 additional seconds to wreak jihade on the enemy.
Young guys think about sex every 10 seconds,which obviously means they lack the concentration they need to properly engage the enemy.
Also the young guys haven't lived long enoughto get really cranky,and a really cranky soldier is a really good soldier.
"My back aches,I can't sleep,I'm tired and hungry".
Old guys are bad tempered and impatient,and letting us kill some jihadists will make us feel better and quit bitching for a while.


Young guys don't like to get out of bed before 10 0r 11 oclock AM.
Us old guys have to get up early in the AM to pee,besides we can't sleep,and are tired of bed,and since we are already up,we may as well be out killing some fanatical SOB.

If captured,we couldn't spill the beans,because we would have forgotten where we put them in the first place.
In fact,name rank and serial number would be a real bitch to remember.

Boot Camp would be easier for old guys(a lot of us would have been there done that),we are already used to being yelled and screamed at,and we are used to soft food.We have developed appreciation for guns(hunting,Target practice and such).We have used them for years as an excuse to get out of the house,away from all that screaming and yelling.

They might have to lighten up on the obstacle course though.A lot of us old guys have been in combat before,I doubt if any of us ever saw a 20 foot high wall with a rope hanging over the side.
Nor did we ever do push ups after getting out of boot camp.
That running part is a waste of time too--you cain't out run a bullet!


An 18 0r a 19 year old has the whole world in front of him.He's still learning to shave,to start a conversation with an attractive girl.
He hasn't even figured out that a base ball cap has a brim to shade his eyes,not the back of hi head.

These are great reasons to keep our kids at home,to learn a little about life,before sending them to harms way.

Let us old guys track down the terrorists.The very last thing the enemy would want to see,is a couple million pissed off old farts with bad attitudes and automatic weapons;
who know that their best years are behind them.

Another Idea--recruiting women over 50 for the border guard?
You think us old guys have bad attitudes?
Just consider an elderly woman with menopause(OH,My God!)
They would have the border secured the first night
I am over 90(quite q a lot actually)and the govern... (show quote)


BadBobby - what a wonderful idea. Get those sniveling guys out of Afghanistan, old farts would think it's abeach party, and when they couldn't find the water's edge, would become even meaner - and want to kill more terrorists.
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May 31, 2020 18:46:07   #
I serviced the generator sets at the Navy facility there, and was told that the lake has no thermocline and is 1,000 feet deep. That's why they do all the sound testing for subs there.
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