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Got invited to a swap....I joined

Thanks G

Hey guys and gals. It has been a few years since I have contributed here.... Sort of disavowed all forums. Having received a happy birthday from crappie.com I thought to stop in and say hi & catch...

Nature Vision has sold out after a year of ownership of the showdown.The folks that made it now sell them and service them ...Vesra Electronics.
they work ,but I'd prefer the 3 color flashe showing...

yes it is...Michael is a great friend of mine.I had him sweating out of his jacket as the day wore on...he was toasty.
I got 100 bucks for anyone that's got balls to sit on a bucket all day in 30...

cold...32 below zero last Sat and we ice fished in my Otter Lodge.
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h209/palisade1kid/Ice%202010/2010icefishing037.jpg...

Ya know that's some fun rearing.

Good advice Joe.
For ice fishig you have to remember that the oxygen content gets real low,thereby causing a very negative attitude .Up here in the ice belt we fishers choose some small baits.

takes two John.....fishing is supposed to be fun right?

Can't we all get along? It never ceases to amaze me how guys like to take shots at each other......for what...ego?

We are here to help...

I'm so glad to hear your jig has developed Joe....keep it up...

I'd like to talk tonight about lifting fish, specifically crappies and gills. The most common mistake I've been noticing is that...

Those drill attachments work great!
WTG on helping out the kid's club....that there was a very fine thing to do.
Small baits with waxies tipped work great. There are also some small plastics that...

Before we do that I'd like a chance to say something about all of this poo going on.
Not counting gear I have 20 hours in double dotting eyes.
No other small jig out ther has double dotted eyes....

Welcome back to the fold.

Being from northern Mn. I ice fish a lot. Verticle jigging is the method for slab crappies. Working the entire water column with a Marcum flasher allows me to target fish as they show up on my...

Sweet slab....nice color too!

10-50 thousand eggs with about 1% actually making it.
Ya know maybe I'm all wet ...but I can count 5 lakes in my area that "had" monster slabs and now it's a struggle to find a 12" slab.Same thing...

All in one sitting Chaunc? LOL
Sweet fish bud.
Being a yankee and all I'd have mounted that one!

I think those are some big crappies....I know nothing of the fishery so like he said they have been tough to find.
What does that mean?

There's a good report!

Right on Grizz....
I'll spend 150-200 days a year on the water & ice....if I wanted too I could really hurt a fishery all by myself. They don't call me CK for nothing.
Between eating and gifting...

Like I was saying the DNR should get involved...if the lake has stunted fish the slot should say all fish under a certain length must come out. A slot can go both ways.


As to being legal. There...

To release or not..Now that's a question?

This editorial in not the opinion of the Voyageur Press, but mine alone and
from what I gather many others out there in the Minnesota Northland.
So I...

we hit 50 smallies today and a dozen pike.
I'm uploading the pics now...be back later with them.

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h209/palisade1kid/6-2-2009/DSC02882.jpg
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h209/palisade1kid/6-2-2009/DSC02894.jpg...

June is gone but here's a look back...
It was a cold June ....but the action was hot.
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h209/palisade1kid/6-2-2009/DSC02890.jpg...

Those are nice slabs in my book anyday!

It's a hair jig that I tie.Google up T.H.E. Jig by CrappieKeith

So now that I've found these monster gills I called pops at 11... said be at my place by noon.
Bagged it at work...ran home tied a few jigs for the day and off we went.
Saw this deer on the way...

Thanks and it was a great day....well worth the work it took to find them.
I know somebody heard me yell...Ka-Ching!