Kev-mo

Nothing up here, the dry air/wind from the N/NE pushed it S/SW.

You have a fish follow in and turn away... what do you do next? It depends.... had a fish swirl once and let out 10 feet of line, stuck rod a foot or so in water and let the crank waffle in the current and he came back and ate it. Mostly just figure the fish saw me and go back to what I was doing. You have a fish hit and miss him..what do you do next? It depends... if I stop and think for a half second I do nothing and then continue to work the lure, maybe change the retrieve a little. When not thinking I reel up and recast. You catch a fish...what next. The happy dance of course! Recast hoping there are some more there. You get a couple out of one spot and then nothing..what next. Used to move on, now I'll change to a similar lure with different action or even slow down going from a crank to a jig. Although if I'm limited on time I'll figure I got the active fish and will move on to find other active fish. Glad to see you posting again. Always enjoyed your posts, questions, diagrams etc. and they made think more critically about how I fished.

Truly very sad. I didn't know him as well as others but glad to have known him. He'll be missed.

X2 on the lower Wisconsin! Did a trip with my boys/scouts I think it was 2 summers ago.... anyway caught fish and would have caught more had it been primarily a fishing weekend. Beautiful area! Probably less paddlers during the week.... if you do go on a weekend have a few options for which island/sandbar you are going to camp on as they fill up quickly. Maybe get there a little early in the evening. Also be sure to bring the long sand stakes for your tent. They saved us from a tent collapse during a pretty wicked storm.

Scott, do you actually need pictures or are you just looking to augment and/or get a few new ones in the slideshow?

Thanks Ed! Also was more concerned about restaurant. I would drive myself as might visit youngest man child while out there.

Is there maybe room for one more to make it a baker's dozen if things work out for me?

Welcome. Make sure you come to the Blowout March 3.

If the weather cooperates you could be fishing around here in late Feb / early March... one suggestion would be the driftless for trout if you are hankering to get away sooner than later.

Thanks Scott. The battery is probably shot. The unit does have a fuse on the power wire.

Don't know a lot about electricity but I would think the amp output from a car battery would be too high...??

Not sure if this is better posted under Gear or Open Discussion... Anyway, I have an older Hummingbird Flasher that I used to use for ice fishing and also on rental boats. I haven't used it in years... or charged the battery... The battery is a zercom 12 volt, something you would use with the more modern ice fishing flashers.. I threw it on the charger last weekend for a couple days and according to the voltmeter it is charged. However the flasher won't run. The only other time the flasher would not work is when the battery wasn't charged enough. I'm wondering if the battery is shot even though it reads charged. Kind of like my car battery that needed replacing last week, the interior lights came on etc. but it wouldn't start the car. Anybody have any thought/ideas? Anybody have a battery they know for sure works so I can test my theory? I suppose I could just buy a battery... really just want to see if the unit still works. Not sure when I'll actually use it again so don't really want to buy a battery and have that one go bad from sitting.

Nice catches and welcome!

Very sad indeed.

That's most definitely a deer!! You have recognizable hooves, antlers, hair eyes etc. It's not like some random skeleton that could potentially be identified as any number of ungulate species...

Alpaca what?

LMAO!

That's awesome!

Lol! At least he didn't post any deer photos ...

Uhh... I don't see anything...

That sure is some pretty water! Terry don't you have Jude?

Yeah it seems like the only way to access initially is through the Upgraded Forum email you sent. Pics upload again for me too as I added a few. Only one step instead of two. Seems like with the second step you could choose where in the post to add. I would assume you still can, just have to figure out how. They also seem to load at whatever size you have them at instead of that reduced image that enlarges when you click it.

I would check your junk/spam folder. Mine showed up in my promotions tab on Gmail. Terry, great job on the IEPA article!

Planning to be there.

Gobble, gobble! Hope everyone had a nice day!