larry

Dave, please don't break the light bulbs again and again and again. Chad can't be spending all his time restringing. Santas' watching.

Happy bday jer.

greg, he's going to disney so the new hat will probably have ears, don't worry between Pirates of the Caribbean and Mickey you and RayK could get a whole new wardrobe.

Wow what a pig!!! Did you get a clean shot? Let's hear the dirt. Come clean Rob.

Happy Birthday Muskybob,

I hope you get that new wardrobe you've been asking for in all the latest plaid colors that are hot this season. We'll be looking for you on the cover of the AARP - GQ edition. Best wishes and fishes.

Larry

Rick,

Very sorry to hear about your dad's accident, make sure he gets all the care and attention he needs.

Hope he makes a speedy recovery.

Tom,

Thanks for alerting the LOU community, hopefully we can all offer some comfort for Rick and his family as they face this ordeal.

Larry

Thought I'd pass this along to America's finest

http://www.applebees.com/vetsday/

Welcome to LOU, kids have short attention spans so don't be afraid to bribe them with candy and snacks, later it'll only take beer and pretzels but well worth it.

Two things I can think of that are not a routine part of the physical are the color blindness check, picking out colored numbers in colored back-round in dots and a hearing test. They want to make sure you can tell red from green on the water and hear a blast from a ship in the fog. Other than that a routine physical exam by your own physician. Cough and bend over.

Muskybob is a "Musky" guy so anything lighter than 80# test is light line, toothy critters like skis require a different tactic. Our standard charter line is 14# , gives the once a year fisherman a better chance of landing the fish, holds up to small nicks, tight drags, and poor rod handling better than the light stuff. Once the sea fleas show up it's up to 30# with light leaders.

Have a happy birthday Bill, and don't let your age make you old.

Don't forget the size of the bait the bigger fish will use energy on, one larger meal is less energy wasted chasing several smaller meals so the larger ski's will be tempted more by larger baits. Plow on ... fewer fish but bigger, usually, small ones will hit too but not as often.

You're one lucky grandpa to have that group, and they're lucky to have a grandpa who takes them fishing. What's a few tangles when you're rewarded with those smiles. Good work Tom!! See Musky for his Adirondack Karp recipe with Fruit Loop breading, kids will love it.

Thanks Tom, relatively speaking though, I,m glad fish don't fly or this speed thread could get surreal.

Some of the factors not taken into account for speed are listed below for your entertainment.

Changes in lure speed and direction will trigger fish to hit, dipsey's, copper, leadcore, the junk lines, have the biggest propensity for speed and depth changes and will get hits when the riggers aren't mostly because they create an erratic action on the bait closely resembling a weak or wounded bait at a wider variety of speeds. When you straight-line troll it is important to be at the correct speed for the baits your running.

Just remember that before you

get out bed to go fishing your already traveling at the speed of light.

you're on a planet that's evolving

And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,

That's orbiting a sun nineteen miles a second,

The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see

Are moving at a million miles a day

In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,

Of the galaxy we call 'Milky Way'.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.

It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.

It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,

But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.

We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.

We go 'round every two hundred million years,

And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions

In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding

In all directions,

As fast as it can go, at the speed of light,

Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.

Very honest fisherman are a rare breed but times are changing

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/09/21/ ... 253556242/

How many miles before the ramp did the tire come off? I can't believe that little log got in his way, it could have spilled the beer and spoiled the whole day though so it's better to be safe than sorry. Good to see that he didn't un-hook the boat till he reached the water, properly tied it off, launched and got off the ramp quickly so others could launch, very considerate. Thanks for passing along the instructional how-to video Stan, if that ever happens to me I'll know now that I don't have to fix the trailer before I fish. Do you have the other part of the video when he comes back to launch??

Have a happy birthday

Dave, your trolling too fast, setting the hooks too hard and using an axe to bop them when there in the boat so all your fish look like that. I don't think the fish is blind so it couldn't have seen Ray.

Could this be their posterchild?

Glad to see your back in action and back on the water. I hope you didn't spoil him too much he'll expect that every time.

Good luck with the new ride.

If at first you don't succeed try try again, you've already caught the highly elusive tough to land brown and rainbow trout which to a lot of anglers are more difficult to succeed in catching. This time of year is when your chances are increasing when targeting kings in shallow water at the east end of the lake. Last year was very unproductive east with the best salmon fisherman on the lake loosing to those who targeted brown trout in the pro-am, there just weren't any numbers of kings around. If catching kings was easy the satisfaction of the catch would be little but it's not and if you keep at it will you see what I mean. If you really want to be frustrated try musky fishing, average 1000 hrs per fish. Good luck on your quest and keep reading and learning you will eventually put it together and need a bigger boat.

Yes Hank, 25 hp and running like a top thanks to your technical expertise. He sent the pic with his I-phone so I don't know what he was using, temps or depths but you can see shore in the picture and the boat is only a 15' so he probably isn't out too deep and the riggers are manual so I don't think he's fishing too deep either. He was out with Jerry last night so whatever worked then he probably took with him today.

Fishing Report

Chad -

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TRIP OVERVIEW

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Date(s):9-3

Time on Water: out this morning

Weather/Temp: nice

Wind Speed/Direction: calm

Waves: calm

Surface Temp:

Location: oak orchard

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Chad sent me this pic at work cause I couldn't take time off to fish with him, notice the yacht he fishes out of!!

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I too used to be supersticious but that's bad luck. Anyhow, the myth originated from the cargo ships that exported bananas, every now and then a crew member would become deathly ill on board when transporting the fruit. A venomous spider that lived in bunches of bananas was the real cause of the illness but in days of yore the witch doctor blamed the fruit. Bananas were also banned from some cultures because the women were using the fruit as a substitute companion when the men were out fishing and hunting. So don't leave any home, don't bring them fishing and don't tempt fate eat pineapples, taste better, last longer and no other uses.

9' Light Action Ugly Sticks, more cushion for line, good steering 5 yr warranty used to be lifetime