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Finely done again Nate.
Anyone ever fished Lake Winnebago up there in Wisconsin?
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Here's what's on the menu for tonight. Roughly 14" long. Since I don't trust the ice, I was fishing from shore in the open water from the diffuser. I could catch one on every cast if I let the silver/orange Little Cleo spoon sink to the bottom before starting the retrieve. This is the smallest one that I caught, most were around 16"-18". They were stocked as 1# fish in October. 
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Two ponds, 13 and 15 acres on the Mattaponi River.
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Very nice Scott! Whaddya' mean you don't trust the ice?  ( I fished open water today on our ponds)
"Forget pounds and ounces, I'm figuring displacement!"
If we accept that: MBG(+)FGSF(=)HBG(F1)
And we surmise that: BG(>)HBG(F1) while GSF(<)HBG(F1)
Would it hold true that: HBG(F1)(+)AM500(x)q.d.(=)1.5lbGRWT?
PB answer: It depends.
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NICE TROUT!! boy i wish i could have goldens in my pond. is see them in the river all the time its nice cause you allways know where they are at witch makes it easier to irritate em with a spinner.
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NICE TROUT!! boy i wish i could have goldens in my pond. is see them in the river all the time its nice cause you allways know where they are at witch makes it easier to irritate em with a spinner. Maybe I missed it elsewhere, but I'm curious why you can't have goldens in your pond. As far as I know, they are legal everywhere in PA, as long as they meet state disease test requirements. The original gold mutant rainbow fish came from WV, but it was breeders in PA who propagated the goldens by breeding and interbreeding with regular rainbows to develop today's golden trout. Generally, they are readily available in PA, WV, and VA. If you have trouble finding goldens next season, send me a PM and I'll get you in touch with the agriculture/aquaculture in Harrisburg who can help you. Ken G.
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As i have said before we live in a old coal mining town so the ph of my spring is low 5.5 to 6 it varys when i addlime to raise the ph i do have acess to goldens the luarel hill trout farm in somerset pa have some pretty big ones I bouught some rainbow trout and tryed them before. and after stocking they died in 15 minutes while the brook trout did fine the rainbows were flying around the pond trying to getout the guy at the farm ssaid brooks can take a lower ph and the low ph was burning the gills of the bows.
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Hmmm. Serious bummer. And, as I guess you have unfortunately found, it would require near constant attention, and a lot of lime every week to make it habitable.
Sorry to hear that.
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FWIW, it was a Male. I wonder how much more color it would have had if I were feeding it the special food?
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First day of March... 32 degrees, fishing in the snow before work. Managed 4 one pound class HBG... 
"Forget pounds and ounces, I'm figuring displacement!"
If we accept that: MBG(+)FGSF(=)HBG(F1)
And we surmise that: BG(>)HBG(F1) while GSF(<)HBG(F1)
Would it hold true that: HBG(F1)(+)AM500(x)q.d.(=)1.5lbGRWT?
PB answer: It depends.
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Today's fish came on a 1/100oz jighead, with a 1" Finesse plastic from Custom Jigs and Spins...red. Tipped that with a couple of spikes, and hung it below a small slip float. 10' of water, fishing two feet off the bottom.
"Forget pounds and ounces, I'm figuring displacement!"
If we accept that: MBG(+)FGSF(=)HBG(F1)
And we surmise that: BG(>)HBG(F1) while GSF(<)HBG(F1)
Would it hold true that: HBG(F1)(+)AM500(x)q.d.(=)1.5lbGRWT?
PB answer: It depends.
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Two ponds, 13 and 15 acres on the Mattaponi River.
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Typical sprkplug beauty!! You should post a pic of your rig sometime sprk
I believe in catch and release. I catch then release to the grease.. BG. CSBG. LMB. HSB. RES. ![[Linked Image from i90.photobucket.com]](http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k247/jmilczski/Fish/PBSubscribe.gif)
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Ice out finally came today so I had to take my ulta light down to the pond to see if could snag my lost ice fishing pole, no luck on the pole but I did catch one YP and one SMB. Both looked very healthy. 
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Sorry, no pics this time but I really wasn't expecting to actually catch any fish. I spent most of the time dragging a jig with a curly tail across the bottom trying to snag the line from my ice fishing pole. Once I gave up on finding the pole I spent 10 minutes hopping the jig off the bottom, that's when I caught both fish.
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cool how big were the fish. hope you find your pole a friend was fishing at a local lake with lots of carp in it and he wasn't catching anything so he walked away from the pole and as soon as he did a monster fish took the pole and all. now theres a poor fish draging around a fishing pole at the bottom of the lake.
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SMPD, most of us old timers have fishing stuff decorating the bottom of a pond.
Two ponds, 13 and 15 acres on the Mattaponi River.
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Shorty:
Don't feel bad. I fished a spinning rod and reel out of a lake after it was underwater for about 9 months. I looked for it for a long while, and didn't find it until the ice went off of the lake the next Spring. The guide wraps were turned white, but after giving the Penn 650SS a good take-apart cleaning, it still works as good as before it went for an extended bath.
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I still haven't found my ice fishing rod but I did find two of these this morning. 
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Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:"
"She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."
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I still haven't found my ice fishing rod but I did find two of these this morning. NICE! Shorty, a trick that has worked for me is to take a fish stringer with metal clips - open all clips and drag across bottom. One of the "hooks" will snag the line or in one case for me - the fishing rod. Give it a shot - worked for me a couple of times.... G/
N.E. Texas 2 acre and 1/4 acre ponds
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The wife caught this nice little smallie last Friday evening. I'll set her up with a crawdad on a 2/0 worm hook. I always let her use live bait since she says she only wants to go fishing if she knows she will catch something. Go figure.... 
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