Limb lining picture day #2

[NIMROD]

Mike asked me to take his son fishing because he is too busy. He could go because they home school him. Guess today was a fishing lesson or school trip. :D The boy had a blast and got a mess of Blue cats to boot. Told me his mother asked if they could keep enough for supper , so I let him keep them all. Biggest is almost 20 lbs but picture does'nt do it justice. We had 4 limb lines we could not find? I think the young man's big grin tells you what he thinks.Hands Clapping

[JigginPoleJoe]

I wish we had field trips like that!
Still baiting with bream?

[NIMROD]

I wish we had field trips like that!
Still baiting with bream?

Yep, I took up my lines. The kid did great using the dip net. Till we caught the biggest one. Got excited and forgot about dipping head first. It ran out of the net 3 times till he settled down and dipped it head first. Good kid and has great parents. His dad owns a machine shop and is loaded up with work , just does'nt have time to go right now.

[olduckhunter]

good for you for taking him nim. he'll talk about that trip for a long time and he learned about limblining too.

[LA yard dog]

Dipnet?? Your supposed to get 'em swimming along side the boat and SWING 'em in!!

Actually, that's the way I'd been doing 'em till I had an Op about the size of that 1 you posted yesterday come unbuttoned about mid-swing. I put my dipnet back in the boat the next morning. The ArkRiver is about to get right enough to set my lines back out. I'm tired of pulling up to all of my limblines and having to spend 5 minutes shining the spotlight on the tree/bush to see if a snake is in it. Running about 60% on there being a snake lately.

[DRPEPPER]

Great job CA!!!!
DP

[JigginPoleJoe]

Dipnet?? Your supposed to get 'em swimming along side the boat and SWING 'em in!!

Actually, that's the way I'd been doing 'em till I had an Op about the size of that 1 you posted yesterday come unbuttoned about mid-swing. I put my dipnet back in the boat the next morning. The ArkRiver is about to get right enough to set my lines back out. I'm tired of pulling up to all of my limblines and having to spend 5 minutes shining the spotlight on the tree/bush to see if a snake is in it. Running about 60% on there being a snake lately.

I use a gaff, made it out if a garden rake with a fiberglass handle.
A little cutting, heating and bending...
Had it for years and will have it for years to come!

[LA yard dog]

I use a gaff, made it out if a garden rake with a fiberglass handle.
A little cutting, heating and bending...
Had it for years and will have it for years to come!

You use a gaff hook to shake snakes out of your limbline bushes??? You are braver than me. I just move on to the next 1 and hope he's gone when I circle back in an hour or so. If he's still there, that one don't get baited.

[JigginPoleJoe]

You use a gaff hook to shake snakes out of your limbline bushes??? You are braver than me. I just move on to the next 1 and hope he's gone when I circle back in an hour or so. If he's still there, that one don't get baited.

Get the fish / move the snakes / whop on the minnow bucket thieves

It's a multipurpose tool!

[tommyboyrn]

Nimrod, your a good man to take his son fishing. Those types of trips are priceless