Got some for my birthday in October. :ThumbsUp:ThumbsUp
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Got some for my birthday in October. :ThumbsUp:ThumbsUp
So I'm driving down the highway and remembered a time when Don said he had a tire bouncing down the road off a vehicle in front of him.
I was putting along and seen a tire off the back of a SUV come off so i along with other cars slow down to only find out it was the cover off the spare tire :yikes
Still had to remove the shorts :Rofl
Christmas has come and gone but it's troubling me how little snow and ice we have, ice more than the snow. I mean how torturous it is to receive ice fishing gifts and not be able to dirty them up a bit. Here's hoping Michigan gets its act together because I want to freeze ice fishing.
It has been 5yr + since I quit ice fishing. Sold everything, and now boat and bank fish. Don't miss it at all. Too cold for these old bones. I do woodworking in the winter, in my basement shop, which is heated. :) I do hope you still enjoy it tho. Looking forward to Spring.
Got my Vicious Line order the other day. So i got the reels all spooled up.
Now the ladies are all dressed up with no place to go.
what size Vicious Line are you using? i got some of the 6LB in green love that stuff. and its cheap too
My wife and I just saw the movie "Unbroken" great movie I would re come t anyone who wants to see a good movie to go see it.
They are starting to ice fish up my way. It was 10 here last night.Quote:
Originally Posted by Michigan Man86
ive got 8lb in the HiVis. It's heavier than what I would normally use, but I'm gonna give it a try.Quote:
Originally Posted by g6463
for the bottom 2 feet, where the jigs will be, I'll have 4lb Vicious invisible.
My wife wanted to see that tonight, I talked her into seeing WILD instead. I might have to take her to see UNBROKEN anyways.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ashman
I've been ice fishing with vicious for about 10 years now. It used to be really hard to get and I would hoard it when I could find it. 2lb and 4lb is what I use on my ice rods. 4lb and 6lb on my summer rigs.
I use Hi Vis during ice season. Makes it so much easier when you can see the line. Both on the ice, and in the water to detect the soft bite. For soft water, I use both the hi vis and the clear. Some days they just don't seem to like the Hi Vis stuff.
yea you cant beat vicious line 2360 yards for 12.00 to your door. they don't have the i vis where i'm getting it from just clear, green, clear/blue in 4,6,8 pound test
We really like the Hi Vis yellow or green, summer and winter.
Where is a good place to pick up painted jig heads in bulk? I need to replenish my stock.
Grizzly Jigs.
litewire hooks has some nice jigs too
what size and how many do you want? I pour them all the time
I need (20) round head 1/16 oz. on #6 litewire in chart w/o eyes.Quote:
Originally Posted by wicklundrh
I need (20) round head 1/16 oz. on #6 litewire in red w/o eyes.
I need (20) round head 1/16 oz. on #6 litewire in yellow w/o eyes.
I need (20) round head 1/8 oz. on #4 litewire in chart w/o eyes.
I need (20) round head 1/8 oz. on #4 litewire in yellow w/o eyes.
I need (20) round head 1/8 oz. on #4 litewire in black w/o eyes.
Need them before camp please. I do paypal too.
Sickle hook or mustad lazer point? Red hook or bronze?
Seriously, you do big orders like that?
If so, pm me a cost and what colors you do.
Don's Mailbox is FULL!!!!
Don,
Are you talking about round head jigs without a barb, or are you talking about barbed jigs (IE, collars for keeping plastics on).
Reason I ask is that DO-it molds don't go down low enough in hook sizes with collared jigs. I've looked at every Do-it mold and I cannot find any of the barbed version that will support a #6 1/16 oz jig or a #4 1/8.
Best I can find in the collared version is a #4 in the 1/16oz and a #1 or 1/0 in a 1/8 oz.
Take a look at Do-it's website and let me know what you are looking for.
Rich
Alboy, PM sent.
If anyone else is interested, shoot me a PM and I'll let you know. Best thing to do is to go on the DO-it mold website and tell me exactly what you want. If I don't have the mold, I buy it! All my jigs are powder coated and you can throw them at the wall without them chipping. If I don't have the color you want, I buy that too. I have most everything including glow in the dark.
I don't paint eyes. Most of the time, when people want them, I use stick on prism eyes. They look really good. Eyes just take too long to paint and deal with. I also make bottom bouncers, sinkers, you name it. Like I said, go on the site and find what you want and I can make it. I get my lead in the 100's of lbs so having it isn't an issue.
BRRRR...
sent you a PM.
Anyone go to the Ultimate Fishing Show in Novi this weekend? Thinking of driving down in the morning for something to do.
Not really worth the trip. The claimed "largest fishing show in the Midwest". I wanna know how they got that claim. I didn't find there to be as many vendors as GR, and I didn't think the hall was that big. They had a lot of boats on show, but not many interesting vendors.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alboy79
I don't know that I'd go again. If it wasn't Bass, Salmon, or Walleye, it wasn't there.
I can't even tell you how many time someone said "Sir, you look like a bass fisherman. Come check out this gadget I sell"
Now im 5'11" and weigh in around 275. I was wearing cowboy boots and Wrangler jeans... Is that what a bass fisherman looks like? :dono:Rofl
When they asked "are you a bass fisherman", and I answerd "no", they looked like they didn't believe me. Or like I was putting them on. Like "someone at this show doesn't fish for bass?"
I don't purposely fish for bass(not that I don't have fun when I catch one, I just don't seek them out regularly), and I don't do much Salmon fishing(although this year I did try a few times). That left me with Walleye, and every booth for Walleye at the show, was basically the same stuff as the booth for walleye before.
It did beat sitting around the house daydreaming.
I did listen to one speaker talk about jigging the Detroit river for Walleye. That was a bit informative, not so much teaching me something new, but rather cementing theory's I already had.
The highlight of the trip was, by far, the Elk Jalapeņo and Cheddar Jerky sticks, and the ice cold Coors Light.
We also got coupons to Famous Daves BBQ, which is always good.
I've been to a show or two like that. Told a guy I have never targeted Bass in my life. He looked at me like I was crazy. I asked if he ate bass? The reply was NO. I said, "me either, thats why I don't fish for them". Besides, I catch them when I am not trying, how hard can it be? I was invited to fish a tournament to see "how hard it was". He had a 70,000 dollar boat (as did many others). I fished with one bait (all day) out of a 14 foot boat that probably cost 1300 including everything in it! In the end, I won with the bigest fish, and took 3rd place in the tournament. The winner was a row boat (I am not making that up) and 2nd place was a salmon fishing boat with guys that "had nothing better to do that day". FYI, none of the top three placing teams were "bass fisherman". Like I said, how hard can it be?
I have a sarcastic side.... If I would have heard "hey, you look like a bass fisherman" I would have asked if he was? When he replied yes, I would have then said "that is impossible, if something as awesome looking as this looks like a bassfisherman, we look nothing alike". Another good one would have been " I weight 275 lbs, you think I got this way from eating Bass"? Bass fishing? Anyone can do that... now sucker fishing, that is tough!
LoL.
Went and did some ice fishing on Muskegon Lake this morning. Seen lots of fish caught, just none through my hole.
Wind was wild. My wife and daughter shared the shanty with my buddies wife and daughter. He and i sat out side.
It was my daughters first ice fishing trip. I think she liked it.
How thick was the ice? Glad the daughter like it.
10" + easy. We parked at Harbor Towne marina, and the lot was full. There were vehicles in the road. I seen a handfull of quads on the ice out there.Quote:
Originally Posted by yankee doodler
Long as you had a fun safe trip on the ice. Did some ice fishing today too. Went to metropolitan parkway by the public boat ramp off to the left after you enter. Lots of perch. Some guys were catching gills over by the marsh area. About 6 to 8 inches. But there were very unsafe patches away from the canals. It was a good day.
Took some friends new to fishing and to being on the ice. Even had a biggest fish ever milestone, a 9.5" jumbo class perch lol.
A Request:
If someone is willing to teach and I catch a Northern Pike.....I would like to learn how to fillet it removing the "Y" bones.
Steve: My wife Sandy can show you at Spring Camp if you catch one.
Step 1
Place the Northern on its side and make a cut down to the backbone just behind the head and gills. Do not cut through the backbone--instead, turn you knife sideways and cut along the backbone all the way down to the tail. Leave the skin on the fillet because it will make it easier to remove the Y-bones.
Step 2
Remove the ribs from the fillet. Make a cut along the top of the ribs near the center of the fillet. Work the knife down along the ribs, keeping it as close as you can to the bones to avoid unnecessarily removing meat.
Step 3
Locate the Y-bones between the centerline and the top of the fillet. You can find them either by looking for a line of faint white dots or feeling for a series of spiny bumps protruding from the thickest part of the fillet.
Step 4
Make a cut along the top side of the Y-bones until you can feel them with the tip of your fillet knife. Continue your cut following the curve of the bones, taking care not to cut through them.
Step 5
Once you have made your top cut, make another cut on the side of the Y-bones closest to the fillet's centerline. Cut upwards at a 45-degree angle, keeping the knife as close to the Y-bones as possible, just like when removing the ribs.
Step 6
Grab the line of Y-bones. They will be held together by a thin strip of flesh. Pull and cut them free with your knife if necessary. With practice, it should become easier to pull the Y-bones right out after your first two cuts.
Step 7
Remove the skin from the fillet. Starting at the tail, work the knife down the entire length of the fillet cutting the skin away from the meat. Once the skin has been removed, rinse the fillet in clean water and place it in a large freezer bag.
Walleye can be done the exact same way as mentioned by Larry. Or salmon, or any other boney fish for that matter. If memory serves me, Jimmy (ready2fish) mentioned something about the "Zipper Method". I believe there is a youtube video on it. Might be worth a look.
Pike are awesome as boiled fish but my personal favorite is to pickle them!
Thanks, I'll sure be grateful for the lesson!
I've watched several videos but I'm the kind of person that needs to get my hands on the task.
The Zipper thing is to make a small cut on the tail end of the fillet on either side of the mud vein. Take a hold of each side and pull till you have 2 pieces of fillet leaving the mud vein.Quote:
Originally Posted by wicklundrh
I'm looking to bypass the zipper all together and just get right to wearing stretch pants :biggrin
......anybody else getting cabin fever?......
YES winter should be overQuote:
Originally Posted by Ashman
Hobbies often help. My winter hobbies to ward off the fever is to mold and paint jigs, build fishing rods, tie flies, rebuild trailers..... stay busy and it will be over before you know it