Jwl1

Looks like a couple good days on the bank...keeping you sharp on your knife skills....don't know how you do it so quick on the panfish

Nice....had a blast with my daughter last time with the panfish...fast and furious action all afternoon...looks like you guys made out pretty good

When I was a kid there was a group of Americans that used to frequent a spot I fished....they fished for crappie and used to call them calicos

Nice pics....beauty size to those pike

Haven't seen any in a few of my go to spots either.... water is too warm still or something...I been creek fishing a couple times in the last few weeks...only minnow action I have seen is way out.....I have my daughter on the lookout up there too Bill when her and friends go walk and chill by the river

Same as me last time Bill...only minnow action around there was way out....I may go try and dunk some worms again tomorrow and perhaps chuck some hardware

I'm almost 53 and have had decades of adventures up and down there...used to take my daughter there when she was little....watching her have fun yesterday trying to keep up with all the bites was pretty funny....although it's kind of like trying to play road hockey on the 401 now ......car!.......car!......car!.....😆

Its a spot I fished since I was a little kid....and a never know what you will catch spot as well.....I joked with my daughter and told her if I hook something big I was handing her the rod....lol.....it's also a good carp spot Tyler.....it was fun telling my daughter some stories of how me and a couple kids used to ride our bikes all the way out there since I was like 10.....and 43 years later it was a great trip down memory lane today.....I caught my first ever...smallies....large....pike...and bowfin in that spot over the decades.....no huge ones today but we probably caught about 50 little ones....lol

By the way ..happy Thanksgiving everyone....here's something I'm thankful for.....after spending a great weekend with my daughter sharing all weekend between a friend's giving type dinner on Saturday at my house...a family dinner yesterday at my brother's house...my daughter and I thought it would be a great idea to step out and do some fishing on the way to dropping her back home....we waited until the weather cleared up a bit and spent a great afternoon at one of my old fishing haunts.....we drowned some worms and had a totally action packed afternoon...bites every time a line hit the water....she had a blast catching a bunch of Sunnie's and the odd perch in the mix.....no trophies.....but my trophy was watching her have a blast catching fish all afternoon right until we ran out of worms......and I always know it's a great day and makes me a proud father when my young adult daughter wants to share some time with her dad....lol

Nice....thanks for sharing some of your old memories

Good way to improvise....if you in tangle the jumper cables you can make 4 of those custom holders. .lol...I shot you a pm the other day....and will be trying to get out more often ...we should meet up soon for a few casts

Got out today Bill...nothing major to report...drowned some worms...couple dink perch...a few bluegills and a gobie ..lol...tried to soak the minnow trap for a bit...no minnows to be seen close to shore....any baitfish activity was way out there.....didn't go searching around for bait though...hoping to get out again really soon... depends on the lil woman and my car on work days

Sounds like a great time man...lots of us guys on here who been with this site over a decade and then some ago have had a blast with various fun fishing derbies...always fun with a great bunch of people be it a boat derby...shore trashing it.....over nighters and cookouts to boot......thanks for sharing in the fun

Back in the " pike off " days...my chubs came from a ditch on the side of the road...sometimes even broke ice to set the trap.... was great until one day my trap went missing ( guess doing the right thing and leaving my name and phone number attached didn't mean much to them)...that and the fact that it's illegal to tamper with someone's legal means of catching bait.... unfortunately those couple spots I know are a bit out of my neighborhood since moving to st Kitts....lol

Ya .I got up and the wind was brutal so made the choice to go back to bed..lol...no test mission on the trap yet...otherwise...all my gear is set up ready to go

Didn't get out today ..the person that was going with me crapped out on me last minute ..so either way I'm going myself or not in the morning tomorrow...

Hopefully a nice pike or 2...lol..I have a couple spots in mind and some worms to drown also a bunch of lures to get snagged and lose while I'm waiting for the bait....lol....sometimes the bait catching mission takes way longer and more of a toll than the fishing part...haha

With a little ingenuity....and around 4 dollars from dollar tree....I built myself a minnow trap today!!!....I think I am going to test it out tomorrow morning for a bit...

I grew up fishing in there...we would ride our bikes from Stanley ave ...around the top and fish all over....nice rainbows in there too...we would catch all kids of fish down by the dam area..the workers would come out and say hi...remind us to be careful....we used to also put on big rubber boots early in the morning when the water was down....walk way out to check for big carp trapped in the puddles....then get all muddy seeing who could hand wrestle out the biggest one...lol ...part of the fun was the look on mom's face when got back home and walked in the house full of mud and carp slime....haha.....way too many spots on the lower river forever ruined by the almighty tourist dollar.....also a point in time it was nothing to land 100 smallies by the time the water went up in the morning at the maid of the mist....as for the rest of the gorge.... between the non fluctuating water levels ...zip lines....paid parking ..over crowded mess.....gone is the majority of all access to a year round world class fishery....

Cleaning some stuff up and getting ready for indoor beer season....lol

I'm not sure of the maker....one is a 177...and one is a 22

Now that fall is starting to set in....many of us get the "feed bag" on....be it your favorite fishing place.....your best hunting grounds......nothing starts the season off better than cleaning up for rec room season

Either way...looks like some good fishiotherapy

Those orange jointed raps used to crush the browns back in the day in port when the fish where being finicky

It's good to hear that everyone is ok...regardless it still sucks big time to be out of a home....and lost possessions ect.... specially if anything involved would be irreplaceable such as momentos... heirlooms ect...