I have had them straighten out a ton of them.
IF I use one, which I prefer not to, but am also lazy, I use the heavy ones that are shaped like a footprint.

Yeah, I like to get down with Crappie.

Finally got out too the lake about 7:20pm & I was up nearly 28 hours cuz I worked Saturday night from 7pm to 10am and after work had to load up and took me longer than planned I still had to go to Walmart in Hays then a grocery Mart in Russell got me steak and eggs for morning breakfast. I must of zonked out for about five hours. It's now 2:30am and windy as **** and little drizzle.

The wind is blowing but I moved to another spot that will be better for me get out of it for casting. I still have to jig up.

It's 41 degree but I'm not cold got my IcebUrg coat on keeps me nice and warm.

I'd be surprised if I got anything with temps cold still but it's good to get out here finally. Had to call in last night I was jonesing hard to go fishing. Now I'm out here and it's the best drug out there when you get a bite at night what a rush.

:clap: let us know how it went...

I'll be here for at least next three or four nights I took two vacation time and have two rest nights I just couldnt wait any longer I had a fever so I called in. A fever for fishing is reasonable excuse to miss work I just didn't mention the fishing part. :D




I maybe slightly cold but at least I'm not hungry I fixed me four large (precooked) tasty shrimp a thin cut breakfast pork chop and an egg with cheese. I got a square copper skillet it's marvelous no sticking and it fits perfectly on my portable butane Coleman stove. This is the life for me.

Amen bruv, sounds awesome... that is indeed living

Pond super slow still had huge new flush of water

Fish have not been active so I've been just taking it easy but I'm just glad to be here. I'm only using one pole with liver and shrimp but I have a three pole license. what is cool this year a license is good for 365 days a year so it doesn't cut off at the first of the year it's good the date of next year you purchased it.


I didn't expect catch anything but never know. Temps need go up another twenty degrees to do any good.

Yeah thats how the licenses are here, good 365 days from date of purchase

Same here on the temps, still just a bit too cool right now... hoping it isnt yet another cold and rainy spring

Calling for snow Thursday or Friday. ****ing bullshit. Every year old man winter has to teabag spring and drag his nutsack across Kansas.

ROFL

Weather has been screwing up my fishing here as well.

26 ****ing cock sucking degrees and it's supposed to drop into the teens mother ****er. Got the ****ing weekend off but holy shitballs it's cold supposed to snow. :cuss:

Hey anyone Kayak fish? That's what I'm saving for to get me a Kayak and plan vacation just to kayak fish. Any suggestions or tips for this kind of fishing?

Kayak fisherman hooks into 8 foot sturgeon on the Snake River, in Utah

http://www.kvue.com/video/news/local...er/277-8066871

ROFL I know that sux. I'm planning to head out for a 2 weeker around April 17th.

Ol Man Winter isn't done ****ing Mother Nature he's giving it to her from behind & slapping dat ass. 20 degrees and snow.

Going on a trip next weekend to the White River in NW Arkansas. Doing a little trout fishing. Only my second time trout fishing, but it's legit beautiful down there and the fishing was very fun the last time I went. Hopefully I hook into a lunker!

:thumb:. Good luck and have fun.

I've thought about going Arkansas to fish. I may do that next year in April **** this Kansas winter/spring.

Boat batteries are charged. Everything is ready to pull out and go. Turned out to be a really nice day to get a bunch of this shit done.

Just waiting for things to warm up a bit?

Yeah and I have to cross a few things off the Honey Do list

Well priorities first... happy wife, happy life and all

I have searched abroad and researched the googles, and have found my ultimate fishing destination this year... gonna be checking it out for the first time this weekend

Its about 35 miles from my place, but is isolated as hell along the Illinois river

The nearest town is about 15 miles upriver, and currently has a population of 30 or so souls... some deft map reading has given me what I need to get to the perfect spot at the base of the river valley cliffs

Its really beautiful country for Illinois, the river valley hills remind me a LOT of Missouri... its pretty rugged, eagles flying around and shit... cant wait!

From there it will only be a short hike to the campsite I'm setting up, and since its all public land there will be no hassles... and thats IF anyone actually finds the camp, which I intend to make quite difficult

Gonna set one of these up, and finally once and for all, have my own little place to stay where the fishing pressure is non-existent... the river there should be about as pristine as its ever gonna be

It wont be nearly as fancy as what this 'ultimate woman' has put together since it'll be a summer hideaway, but you get the idea... already have the tarp, a hank of 550 cord, a few good nails and a hatchet to make it all happen

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Hope to hit the pond this week. Got my Turkey this morning, warming up has to help. My pons warms up slowly but im ready

4 cats at Texoma 3blues (6,7,7) 1 flathead (10.5)

Went to Pomme De Terre Tuesday. Caught a bunch of crappie, a couple nice Bass (17 in.).

Funniest damn thig was how it played out. While me and my fishing buddy were using the same bait, minnows on a bobber, same depth, fishing the exact same place, I caught crappie after crappie. He caught Drum after Drum.ROFL
I was ROFL my ass off. After about 4 hours he finally started catching crappie but it was funny as hell.

Nice stringer.

Hell yeah nice work Boss Hog. :thumb:

Gonna pick up a Kayak I put on layaway at Dunham's sports in Hutchinson tomorrow. Hopefully can take it to the lake one night next week but I'm gearing up for 10-12 days of fishing vacation and wanting extend money for it.

Hope youall having good times fishing.

Sounds like a badass spot. I hate people when going fishing.

Here' some moar ! Stripers galore. We cut the Rib cages and livers out for bait to catch the Cats in the earlier photo.

We tore up some crappie on Truman today. I was 2 shy of a limit. The first one I caught was a 15" monster. I also had a couple in the 13-14" range and my wife had a 14 incher as well (get your minds out of the gutter).

Easily the best day I've ever had there in regard to the quality of the fish. Great day.

Where abouts were you?

Put in at Bucksaw. Caught half of them west of the U Hwy bridge and the rest up in Cedar creek.

Spawn yet? I've been so busy I don't have a clue

Yeah, they were all just a few feet off the bank. The best bite was on the steeper banks. We were using minnows about 2 feet below the bobber. I did get a couple on a jig under a bobber when we ran out of minnows.

More poor wife only put 5 in the livewell while I had 13. It was just my day. She caught a bunch, just more dinks than I did.

:bravo: that is one mighty looking crappie, holy crap they grow big down there...

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Took my five year old on her second boat trip last weekend. Our first try two years ago didn’t work out. She freaked out being on the boat. She said she was ready this time. Woke her up at 530am and off we went. She didn’t catch any fish on her little kids pole but almost mastered casting it.

I’d catch something and if it didn’t feel big I’d let her reel it in. She ended up reeling in six, four saugeye and two white bass. She went five hours on the boat and didn’t complain once. Pretty awesome day for me. Saugeye must have been spawning or finishing as we caught close to 15 mainly in the same flat area.

I've heard they are slaughtering them on all the creek s and shallower water.

My spot is below the dam. Its a good one lol.

My buddy caught a limit at turpin cove this morning

It really is, pretty much have the entire area to myself for miles around

Got the shelter frame built, but didnt tarp it yet


Helluva day Hog!


Good stuff, Pop

Must be nice. I literally just talked to my 5 year old about going fishing and she said she didn't want to go because she was scared lol. She's in a terrible phase

So I called in last night and for Tuesday night to start my two weeks kayak fishing extravaganza on lake Wilson or wherever I may go.

Got off work @ 7am I've been putting in shitload of hours for several months just for this I've sacrificed nights off so I can do more of what I want longer period although it's been a rough start and took me longer than I wanted to get out here but I crammed my HHR of shit I needed and loaded my red Kayak on top. It was nice enough when I got out here but the weather stormed like a mother ****er and so far I think I hooked a big ass ****ing turtle but ended up breaking the line that mother ****er cock sucking son of a whore bitch **** turtle. He is lucky he didn't come to shore because I have a turtle buster knife to **** him up with. I hate turtles.

It's nice and piecefull now water is calm and I think I'll be trying out my kayak for the first time this morning.

This is too much fun I should have done this year's ago kayak fishing is the best thing ever.

Turtles suck for sure.

Love kayak fishing. Farm pond bass will troll you around.

There’s a crappie hole about a mile from me on the Sulphur, but every time I grab the pole and jump on the 4-wheeler, I get there and find people and just go back home.

Love to Kayak creeks and rivers.

Went fishing on Stockton last week and caught keeper Walleye, White, Largemouth, Smallmouth Bass and Crappie. Best day in a while!

For you kayak guys:

How is it when trying to land a fish? I don't know if I'd be stable while trying to bend over and grab a fish.
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Much easier than I thought and the boiancy (sp?) Much better than than I expected also and it's not like you have to lean over the edge to grab it like a boat I mean you can grab it right from surface.


Kayak fishing is best thing ever I regret not doing it sooner. If you're even thinking about it I'd sayso it.

Mine cost $169 on sale at Dunham's sports and it's the best investment I've ever made.

I find it very eloquent.
When I catch a fish my rod hand is the right. Steer the fish to the left of the kayak, grab and boom, you landed a fish.

I went out kayak fishing right before dark Sunday at the lake I live on. The park had been busy with fisherman all day so my hopes of catching fish were low.
In the 45 minutes I fished I landed 9 Bass all above 14'. All top water and all near the banks. It was freaking explosive.
You just don't get days like that very often.

Kayak fishing is like discovering pussy for the first time.

So it'll be like my 32nd birthday?
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A couple years back, a work buddy lent me the use of his cabin on a private, small 8 acre lake and he had a peddle kayak

Gotta say it took some getting used to landing fish out of it, but damned if it wasnt awesome to quietly peddle into a little cove and get exactly where you want to be just coasting into the spot with no peddling... sneak in on those fish like a ninja

Ah yes turtles, those little bastards have stolen more bait from me than I can recall... its particularly bad at the local lake, they've become so trained by the bank beaters out there, that you'll see 2-3 at a time slowly cruising back and forth at roughly max casting range

Just waiting for you to dare try getting something past them

Almost every fish I caught this weekend was within 2-3 feet of shore, they were apparently hiding in the shade of riprap... what was your topwater lure?

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If only that were possible at this lake, its far too close to town, crowded and regulated

You're not truly 'out in the woods' there at all

Now that’s awesome. Great pic.

In for another storm brewing I can't leave cuz don't want risk getting stuck on muddy road and get hit by the storm.


This is going be fun & or really suck.

It has been an awful fishing season for me. I’ve made it out twice. We’ve had to cancel several times due to storms. We can only fish on weekends. It will be nice out all week but when the weekend comes a storm will arrive.

Hhr you said? Can't you flip down the rear seats? Or take those ****ers out and put them in the tent lol

So...

...does anyone else enjoy watching Darcizzle Offshore?
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After checking it out you bet your ass I'll be watching her...uh...I mean the show.

Yeah, her channel is very...interesting.

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Don't know where your fishing, but Bass are late spawning here, so they are typically near the shore during spawn.
I fish with a fly rod and tie Frog patterns using deer hair. I goop them up with some floatant. Let this hit the water, then follow it by a tug so the bass fly dives under water then rises when it rest. I try to have the fly make a "Splooge" Noise on the dive, this seems to grab the Bass attention.

Thanks :thumb:

Taking my kayak on the road New Mexico bound for some trout fishing.

Ooh where? Eagle Nest? Costilla? Small mountain lakes?

Taos NM are you close by?

My dad is from there so im very familiar with the area. I ask because there aren't a ton of kayak-ish waters around there aside from what I listed in my previous post.

Out of curiosity, what brand and model of kayak do you guys have?

6 foot Adventure 102 by Future Beach


I love the darn thing best investment I ever made and cost $169 on sale at Dunham's Sports.

I didn't know the area was so mountainous but its awesomeness. Il find a place my lady friend traveling RN is down here and knows some places. God I love her.

Guess so much for Kayaking for this guy o.n this trip. Holy shit that was more than I bargained for. I underestimated the river and the rocks were assholes. So my kayak is against rocks and the current was too much for me to get in out that time

I was a human pinball in a pinball machine but at least I had fun but I conceded to the river and has to walk 3sh miles to the destination where my friend was waiting to pick me up.

Holy Shitballs that was nuts. Now I need a new kayak to do it again.

LMAO, did you put it in Rio Grande? That river is much too treacherous in the "Box" for casual kayaking and they're still getting high water from snow melt. If you head way up north to the "Wild and Scenic Rivers" area near the Colorado border the water is smoother, but at this time of year that might be difficult too.

That's like inflatable rubber raft water, not kayak...

Damn, that sucks.
Kinda surprised you'd jump right into white water after only just starting kayaking. As you've found out, not a good idea.
Glad you're OK and only your pride......and kayak were hurt.

Actually, it was really dumb (if he went where I think he did).

Dude, did you even research it before hopping in?

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This movie was shot on May 21, so conditions were most likely similar to what you experienced, right?

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From the road didn't look white water and it was shallow torain I didn't think it would be nearly that bad and I fought big waves on Lake Wilson with my kayak and thought to myself it couldn't be that bad. Wrong lol. On the flip side had I started just three miles is a location for kayaking taking it easy it would have been much better for me.

I underestimated the river that is all.

I didn't think it was that bad but bad enough and a few times I'd let my kayak go in front of me. It was a bitch to get the water out on the sides of the river. It was nuts. Probably up three top five dangerous or stupid things I've tried. But nevertheless it was fun.

So it was the Rio.....LMAO
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