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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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Great pics and beautiful fish!
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Outstanding buddy!!!
Thanks for starting the yearly thread.
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Very Nice! WE benefiting from dock feeding program? They eating pellets or just feasting on the smaller YP feeding?
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great looking crappie TJ....I think they are beautiful fish.
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If there was a beauty contest for spec's, those would be the winners!
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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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outstanding group of fish and great examples.
Thanks Dave 1 acre pond.
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Beautiful fish, TJ. You say the walleye are benefitting from the feeding program... Do they eat the fish food or are they eating the fish food fed fish? (try to say that 3 time real fast)
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Repurposed BG chunks...have several trained HBCP, HSB, SMB, and WE that chill under the dock until feeding time.
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Great looking fish TJ. Looks like a lot of fun.
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Beauties TJ! I'm curious if they went for more BG chunks or did you use another bait?
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1/8 oz slender spoon tipped with small fhm mainly or slip float and fhm rig
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Thanks!!
Did you harvest any of the fish or was it C&R? I've never done much ice fishing but have wondered if the fish sometimes freeze on a really cold day before you can get them back in the water?
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Very nice TJ! That SMB is a chunk.
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I CR everything, to a fault, unless fish are low WR.
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Very nice looking fish TJ! We were getting some really cold weather there for a while, and I thought I might be able to try ice fishing, but it will be back in the 50s a lot of next week.
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9 yr old pond, 1 ac, 15' deep. RES, YP, GS, FHM (no longer), HBG (going away), SMB, and HSB (only one seen in 5 yrs) Restocked HSB (2020) Have seen one of these. I think that's about all I should put in my little pond. Otter attack in 2023
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Dude, those fish are incredible! Well done, very well done.
"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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Made it to 3", then melted off. Fished open water yesterday, supposed to be in fifties this week, no below freezing temps for several days. Crazy warm January.
"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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Tell me you lived on the ice when you hit 3"!!!
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So, you can't catch them unless you fish for them. A balmy 28 degrees this morning, and the water temp was 49. First HSB this winter. 3.5# Caught on an articulated BG colored fly. Typical of CNBG caught this morning. A little over a pound, and caught on a woolly bugger. I'm holding the CNBG this way to show the white tail fin tipping. I think this is a cross mix between my legacy Florida CNBG, and Todd's OTS strain. 6.5# LMB caught on a 9.5"(1.1#) CNBG, who was caught on a woolly bugger. The CNBG fins were caught in the LMB's gills, and it was quite the tussle on a 4 weight fly rod. I got the CNBG out without any visible damage to the LMB's gills.
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Porky fish.......like their "___________"
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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