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    Latex for bait, wool for cold

    If it's dangerous cold, your hands have to stay dry. Rag wool stays warm when its wet and you just cut away the tips for the digits you need. The fold over mittens and thumbs with handwarmer pockets...
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    Ponds

    I personally don't have a pond, but continue to ask around. It's a bit tricky with distancing these days. The Salato center in Frankfurt, might be open, and if there is so much as a fountain or...
  3. Thread: Boat ramps

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    Michigan

    They went to no boats under power restrictions AND everyone in a boat has to be from the same address
    Ohio shut down out of state license sales because of crowding om the walleye run
    Washington has...
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    A few years back we had a guide refer to,...

    A few years back we had a guide refer to, "Tourist Minners".
    Anything other than live kicking alwieves, taken from the same body of water we were going to fish. I think that if you were fishing in...
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    Gauge and River

    This is an incredibly dangerous and awesome part of the river. When I first got to Louisville and didn't know about levels and generations, I was dumbfounded for how much that lower pool can change,...
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    I have never used them, but I would just pick...

    I have never used them, but I would just pick them up and put a rubber band on it. Best guess
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    At the hatchery in Frankfort they said the same...

    At the hatchery in Frankfort they said the same thing about the pellet feed. Anything raised in the hatchery would eat liver.
    The regs have changed on live bait, greens were always fair game, and...
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    They move quite a bit in my experience, food...

    They move quite a bit in my experience, food mostly over the season, for spawning, and predator pressure. Up north on the great lakes, the creeks running in have year long residents and fish that...
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    I paused my guiding career 20 years ago and am...

    I paused my guiding career 20 years ago and am looking to get back in again. Tips went from 0, to over 100% of trip price. As Mr. Stewart pointed out there are many factors, but it primarily comes...
  10. Yes

    Yes
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    Went down yesterday, maximum discharge,saw one...

    Went down yesterday, maximum discharge,saw one guy get a largemouth
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    I was always a heck no, that river is a toilet. ...

    I was always a heck no, that river is a toilet. Then the guy pointed out how gross macdonalds is and I have eaten that in the past
    So I'm changing my vote from heck no to- as little as possible.
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    Who has eaten one

    Who has eaten one
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    In my thinking you are SUPPOSED to catch one on...

    In my thinking you are SUPPOSED to catch one on the first cast. The first cast of the day, the first cast under a dock, the first across a submerged stump. Are you fishing or just testing the...
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    Just got hammered in a downpour

    Just got hammered in a downpour
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    There are good amounts of wade access all over...

    There are good amounts of wade access all over the lake, adjacent to boat ramps are the most obvious, but just take a look at the WMA map and start there.
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    Thanks kingfisher, we met Steve and he put on a...

    Thanks kingfisher, we met Steve and he put on a clinic with corks and jigs
  18. Thread: muddy water

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    Beargrass Creek Louisville,KY

    Beargrass Creek Louisville,KY
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    When I have seen guys snag carp they throw what...

    When I have seen guys snag carp they throw what amounts to a drop shot rig, but much bigger. Instead of bait hooks they have huge trebles. They seem to prefer high ratio baitcasters. The rig is...
  20. Thread: Otter Creek?

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    I was there a couple weeks ago and it was great. ...

    I was there a couple weeks ago and it was great. I was surprised that it was open at 5 am for hunting. I fished all by myself until about 8:30 and when I left at 9:30 there were about five other...
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    I used to take all of my fly fishing things on...

    I used to take all of my fly fishing things on board with me, but as previously stated it really depends on the local TSA to make the call. Since 9/11 I check everything, and always someone goes...
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    Steelhead alley up in OH, or chasing big browns...

    Steelhead alley up in OH, or chasing big browns up in WI
  23. Thread: I Fish

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    I hunt

    I hunt
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    No gobies around those beds for sure. My...

    No gobies around those beds for sure. My question to bass anglers is; Is it ethical to fish for those fish on the beds? Seems like they would be easy to catch, but would open up the eggs and fry to...
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    Live shrimp under a popping cork, or a DOA if you...

    Live shrimp under a popping cork, or a DOA if you can't get any live bait.
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    Just go for it, we had a pretty good system:...

    Just go for it, we had a pretty good system:
    throw net
    bait jugs
    bring in the fish
    We were going to the same area and getting diminishing returns. We then tried different baits, depth, hook...
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    Re: C-land River Help

    Thank you, have to just get someone to look after the kids and head out the door
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    C-land River Help

    Trying to get a break and do some fishing later this week. Don't know what today's rain will make the TVA do for generation so here are my questions:
    What is the delay in the river fluctuation for...
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    Re: sliding cork fishing

    Amen to all of what Fishfry said, that sliding cork and bead go away when your line breaks at the wrong spot. You have to experiment with the bobber, sinker, tippet length at times. Sometimes when...
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    Re: Shad at Tville

    Back out tonight, saw a few good balls of shad, but very few and the water was glassy for a while when we were out. Used the back up bait and never threw the net, had some small Blue dinks. Got off...
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    Re: Shad at Tville

    Did you find them? I was out with a buddy a week ago up there to go for cats, and normally a couple throws with the net, one if we were any good at it, would be more than enough. We saw a few, and...
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    Re: Sunglasses.. Cheap vs expensive

    Solar bat, lifetime waranty great product, not too expensive.]
    No protection against loss
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    Re: How often do you go fishing?

    Labor Day to MLK day is the bow season for deer, maybe four or five times.
    THe other seven months, at least a couple times a week
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    Re: Cumberland smallmouth fishing

    Ouch

    One of the main factors that biologists out west have determined that in some lakes the stripers take over and in others do not, is that the smallies eat the naturally reproducing striper...
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    Re: Strange things that happen on the lake

    Was down in FL watching a group of guys fish an intercoastal inlet, the small ones they were tossing to the pelicans, after a while they had about ten pelicans waiting for lunch. A guy lands a small...
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    Re: Favorite Fish to catch?

    In freshwater, steelhead
    In the salt, redfish on the flats, grouper for dinner
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    Re: Dream Trip Poll

    Seychelle Islands, white bucktail jig for everything that swims and eats in the indian ocean
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    Re: Needed once in a lifetime fishing trip

    Four grand, that should be plenty for a week of fishing with your son. You said guided experience, and not much else, so type of fishing, and where you sleep each night, not to mention travel times...
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    Re: Floating non-navigable water

    Have you considered asking the land owner? The worst they can say is no.
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    Re: Would you take a 11 pounder for the wall??

    I don't have the cash to do it, I would rather let it go and have the funds to go try and catch another one.
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    Re: How many would eat Ohio River crappie?

    Between the chemicals and poop coming out of the rec boater heads, the trash all over the banks, and the open drains running from the singlewides up and down that river, I don't even like to put my...
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    Re: fishing with shrimp

    I like the cooked cocktail shrimp, when fishing is slow just add some cocktail sauce and eat the bait. Better than fishing with crawlers
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    Re: Favorite Fishing Quotations

    Can't catch fish sitting on the couch

    Shouldda been here yesterday/last week

    Beats a sharp stick in the eye

    Barbless so your guide is catch and release
  44. Re: New access to the Taylorsville Lake headwaters

    Gate was open last week, but when I went in on Sunday it was closed. Added quite a walk when you are brining along the kids. Sign said nothing about weekend closures. The access is great if the...
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    Re: Has anyone hung up and lost an A-rig?

    Someone shoot a video of a buddy diving into 50 degree water to get one of these things and put it on youtube already, I am waiting
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    Re: Polarized Sunglasses

    Solar bat, many styles, you can get them prescription, and they have a killer life time warranty
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    Re: Am i the only on who dislikes Fluorocarbon ?

    The only thing I can add here is that I use the clinch instead of the improved clinch for floro, AND it seems to weaken/break down much more quickly than mono in the sun. I use it for subsurface...
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    Re: Beargrass Creek

    It's waist deep at the deepest, but I don't know for sure, didn't want to get poop on me. It offers good panfish and bass, I have even seen a few small cats(bullhead?) pulled out by the bait guys at...
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    Re: Falls of the Ohio

    Nothing compares to looking at the river and knowing what the forecast is, it does not compare to looking at a graph. It took an entire season for me to know how to rig up before I got there, but...
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    Re: Falls of the Ohio

    For wade fishing at the falls, I don't go until it is under 14 and that would be high for me. I like to flyfish for bass during the summer primarily, so by then the flows are usually pretty...
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