Supposed to warm up to 65 here tomorrow, sounds like a good day to get out

I might go cast net a few of my ponds depending on the wind. Hate ****ing wind. Time to start attracting the bait.

Plus I bought a newer boat and have already sold my old one.

Live fast, leave a big wake

Got out for a little bit late morning, nothing was biting but it was nice to get outside anyway... the lake is turning over, you could really smell the water today

I bought a new fish finder for my kayak. A pretty nice Garmin one with a 5 inch screen. I can't wait to try it out.

Caught a shit load of rainbows on Taneycomo today.

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I came home this afternoon from a night of fishing and I hurt so bad lol that's what the off season did to me I wasn't used to everything but it was also cold last night.

I need a montage to get back into fishing shape

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That's from the fires last week but the park itself is in tack and Manooka park is now open even to my surprise.

I'll be coming by to get my share. Thanks man

I have to tell someone about this and the fishing thread seems like the place.

A bought a used, not running 74' Johnson 9 1/2 hp outboard with an open title. After finding out the previous owner rebuilt the carb. in an effort to fix the no run problem I started with the carb. Long story short, he didn't have all the screws tightened and had the idle adjustment completely wrong. Tightening the screws and setting the idle adjustment right I now have a fine running motor.
The total cost for the motor itself and my repairs....$10

Very nice, I don't know shit about marine motors. Never had a boat.

Nicely done :thumb:

I'd kill for a freaking boat sometimes. Especially right now with the fish in deeper waters to stay warm. I about bought a boat once but then found out I'd have to pay property tax annually for the thing and it needed much work on it so I didn't figure it was worth the asking amount. I should have gotten the boat.

It doesn't sound like Stumppy does either, but he's got a kick ass '74 9.5 HP Johnson!

Hey....I know enough to know my short shaft johnson :D is the perfect motor for my friends alum. v-hull.

Nice. Perfect time to get out on the water.

I usually have the opposite happen to me. I'll get something thinking I'll fix if for about $20 and it turns out to be a huge POS not worth having. :D

Same here. I know the guy who owned this one and he is not mech. inclined at all. I figured worse case I only lost $10 if it was trashed.

$10 to make the motor purr?

Ya done good, stumpy

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No, I have $10 all together in the motor. woohoo

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new boat I will be taking delivery of in a few weeks!!

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Veeery nice, get your moneys worth out of it

Dude, I love that. If I were ever to buy a fishing boat, that'd be the one. That's really ****ing nice.

That's pretty damn sweet. Looks like a perfect boat for all those lake up north.
Looks like the same kind, well, one set up like that, I used at a lodge I went to in Quebec . Back trolling for walleye was a blast.

Beautiful boat. I believe my dad has the Nitro Z7. Those nitro's are badass boats.

I just google'd it, 37k dollars, sweet poon you must be cak'n patna!

no just old with my kids out of the house and graduated....

plus got the 200HP optimax.weeeeeeeeeee

He's using all that cash he saves on not buying health insurance

That's a nice one. Should have ordered it without the motor though. Stumppy probably would let you have a crack at that sweet 9.5 HP Johnson real cheap!

12 fiddy

2 kickers?

Going to be in Grove, Oklahoma in two weeks snagging Paddlefish. Can't wait!

Where in Grove are you snagging from? Or are you staying in Grove and snagging from Twin Bridges Park?

Yes sir. Stay at Four Seasons Resort and put in at twin bridges.

I've always been curious about snagging... how do you keep from snagging every other rock on the bottom?

Your weight is tied to the end of the line and the hook is about a foot above that.. You do snag trees and such though. Cruise slowly up or down the river, let the line get tight and then pull with a big sweeping motion. Let the line get tight and pull again. Sometimes for hours.

If everything goes right, all four of us will have our two fish Tuesday and Wednesday and today will be a get smashed day.

Ah ok, the way its rigged would definitely help

How do you prepare the fish to cook so it doesn't taste funky?

If you have had paddlestick that tasted fishy, the red meat wasn't apparently totally cut off of the white meat. The red meat is very fishy. However I have noticed if it has been frozen it can get fishy as well.

I usually just cube it up and put fish breading on it and fry it. Captain Jacks fish breading from KC is outstanding. You can also bake it or grill it. I've also boiled it in 7-up and dipped it in clarified butter - poor man's lobstah.

Especially now that you only get to keep two as possession, when I get home I trim it up and soak it in salt water for a few hours. Then I cook up what I want to eat and give the rest away because of the freezing/fishy factor.

You catching Crappie up there yet Iowanian?

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New PB. 5.8lb caught on a spinnerbait.

Theres a pic of that fish next to "lunker" in the dictionary :bravo:

Very nice! 👍

She was either cold (58 degree water) or full. Didn't put up much of a fight.

How did you weigh it?

Compared it to my D.

That's a nice hawg



Man I'm ready to head to the lake for couple nights I just need some rest before I go. I got to find some new spots because the lake is up that's a good thing but I can't fish same spots or it's just different. I'm looking forward to this year think it's going be a good year.

Any luck? I heard they were tearing them up in Miami last weekend.
They should be hitting Chetopa in the next few days.

So I'm at the lake got three poles set up just nothing biting . Last year the water level was way down and I was catching left and right but ****ing really want catch something. Night fishing is heavily bliss I love it. Just a tad cold.


I can hear owls and coyotes howl.

Not use to posting on my phone.

Here fishy fishy fishy.

Wish I could trade places with you

Which lake are you at ?

Lake Wilson. Ks

I've never seen water level this high here so I think the fish are just staying warm in deeper waters so it may be a couple weeks yet before shore fishing gets good. But I did hear a splash sounded like a lunker lol.

Oh man, I love nights like that on the water. Going to make myself go fishing more this year.
I'd be throwing a top water, maybe a black hula popper, while I am waiting on the other poles to get some action.

Night fishing is my forte. I love it. I switched to nights at work so I thought it be easier but work is a drag lol. I work 6 days rotation and end up working twelve hour shifts ****ing exhausting. I had to get out here. Nothing beats this. I decided also make myself go fishing every chance I get.

Best therapy ever !

Sweet baby American Jesus. Just caught nice chanel cat

Hell Yea ! What are you using for bait ?

Ha. Kind of a combination. I love using shimp it's perfect on a hook so much less snags. Also tonight liver and crawfish I got a bag of frozen red ones. Also never tried it but hush puppies because I think they would make good dough bait. Had to figure out how to keep them falling apart.

I'm stoked first fish of the year.

He liked the crawdad but I was lucky cuz I got him to shore and he let go but I had a grip on his body last time that happened a walleye got away from me.

Catching fish never gets old.

Cool, caught my first in the middle of Feb. One bait I'm going to try this year is hotdogs soaked in anise. I've heard from a couple people that it works pretty good.
Take a pack of hotdogs, cut them in to thumb sized chunks. Soak them in the anise in a sealed container for a couple days. Leave them outside in the sun so they get nice and ripe.

Have fun man.

Thanks for the tip :D

I came home pretty exhausted but exhilarated non the less just to go out and catch something. I planned another night but I didn't plan on being so cold so long and after retrieving my line out of the lake it was starting to rain and I figured the next thing I'm going catch is pneumonia.



That water was freaking cold. It's still going be a couple weeks before they start active biting anything.

Not happy I came home I already miss the lake but i do need to recoup and later I will have a nice fish to cook to look forward to.

**** yeah its good to get out fishing **** winter!

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He was no Daisy no Daisy at all

Nice. One of my favorite things about catfishing is you never know just how big a fish you're going to catch.

You look like a mountain man

A mountain man from the flat lands.

We use hot dogs soaked in cherry jello powder. leave it out three days, they eat it like it was going out of style.

Thanks for sharing a tip. I try anything to catch a fish.

Any of you guys do any sucker grabbing? We're getting all geared up and ready to head to our cabin on Norfork lake in northern Arkansas to do a little.

I used to, it's a blast but I always freeze my balls off

I hear that an actual constipated turd on a hook will have them biting like crazy. Its like a double potency stinkbait.

Nasty ass fish

I'm digging the beard, thats a good look for ya!

Tried to get out this morning to the Clinton outlet for some crappie.

I was able to fish for about 30 minutes in peace and quiet before i was swarmed by bucket people. How do people deal with these assholes? I honestly don't think they speak English. I had 3 people fishing on top of me in about a 25 foot area.

For those of you who don't know, bucket people are those Asian people who show up 20 at a time, with kikkoman soy sauce 5 gallon buckets, have no concept of personal space and keep every fish they catch no matter what. Creel limits be damned.

****, i hate them so much.

I walk. I walk far away from parking lots or roads.
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I typically fish the Kansas river, which doesn't have a lot of shore access and can be a difficult spot with all the sunken debris and heavy current. I normally don't deal with crowds, bucket people, or lack of room down there.

But i was just killing time before work today and wanted to catch some crappie/white bass. The only time you can have room down there is getting up before the Sun!

I would be surprised if these people even had fishing licenses, seeing as how ignorant they are to creel and length limits, snagging, number of lures you can tie on your line ect ect.

:cuss::cuss::cuss:

call a game warden

http://ksoutdoors.com/Services/Law-Enforcement/Who-do-I-call
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Gotta feed you round eyes somehow

Tried it before... baited a known catfish hole with anise and didn't catch shit.
However, one day we cleaned the sunfish we had caught earlier that day in that catfish hole. Came back at night and couldn't lay our poles down. I think we used hotdogs as bait That was YEARS ago. At least 20.