sherman brown

yes, I believe the one on the right is a Johnson silver minnow. i still use these for bass fishing ponds sometimes. they work great as you choose the speed of retrieve from slow to fast or it can be stopped and let flutter down then retrieved again. but i think they would also catch pike and even a musky under the right conditions.

I will take it. find out the shipping cost. I will add 5.00 for pay pal fee. let me know the total and message me your pay pal info. if you want to be paid by, check i will need your address. let me know what we are doing.

that is a good price for micky mouse boots but at this time I have good boots. but I wore these for deer hunting on stand and used them for ice fishing for hours at a time. back yrs. ago and I still have my toes. The best think I liked about the boots was they were completely waterproof unless you get water over the top of them. I shot a deer on the other side of a river and had to bring it back across in water up to my chest and the boots got waterlogged then I used them for our ML season thinking they had dried out. but after a short time, my feet were wet, and I thought my feet was frozen off. but they are great boots for cold activities when not wet inside., LOL.

one thing to remember is the goliath grouper is catch and release only unless the rules change for 2023 as far as i know. but i haven't been down in a few yrs. but if you're just fishing for fun they are a hoot to catch. if you want good eating fish see how the red snapper fishing is over there. i didn't really care for king mackerel to eat but they do put up a fight. i have never caught or eat the cobia but my bil that lived down there said they were great catching and eating fish. so good luck and most of all be safe and have lots of fun. then report back on your trip.

you might want to check into a charter going to the dry Tortugas. or charter out for goliath grouper fishing if you just want a hard pull on your line. and I believe the red snapper fishing is great off the west coast with bunches of charters. they eat really good plus you may catch about anything while red snapper fishing. just search for fishing near Saratoga Fl.

she did the work and deserved to be blessed with a buck of a lifetime and on Christmas day. we should all get Christmas presents like that from the hunting gods. but the big God made sure it would happen for her. congrats on her buck and KUDOS to dad for getting her out there. I am really just speechless at the quality of her trophy buck. I do want to hear about what led up to her shot and what type of shot she had to make. because it looks like a perfect hit right in the boiler maker.

hey buddy i will be wishing you nothing but good luck today in getting the trophy of your dreams. stay warm and shoot straight.

I wouldn't even try to out your hunt or experiences on your hunt. but I just wanted to say always be prepared. I went ice fishing one day when the temp was around 20 with no wind so I dressed accordingly. after some time, the wind got nasty. then a short time later I got cold but hung on as long as I could as the crappie fishing was hot. it was a very long walk back to my truck. by the time I got to it I could hardly move I was so cold. fired the truck up and just set there waiting to warm up a bit before going home. turned the radio on and they said the temps had dropped to -17 with 20 to 25 mph winds. I wasn't even close to being dressed for that weather. after that I always checked the forecast before going out. but I had just started ice fishing way back in the late 70,s learned my lesson the hard way. and I need to say I'm sorry for getting off track and high jacking your thread, but no harm intended. loved the buck and all of your story. because I am a deer hunter that can only dream about a hunt like yours. I don't ice fish anymore but still hunt our ML season. started deer hunting back in 1980 and hunted gun bow and ML seasons for many yrs. but now at 71 I only hunt with my ML. I still love deer hunting but don't know for how much longer.

cisco tracks are just as good if not better than the rest for a lot less money.

I believe at this time the 6 fish limit is all that's needed.

I only found one item in your post I'm not sure about. you say you only kept 6 fish this year. i don't know anything about the lakes depth or how deep you catch your fish. but walleye over about 30' have a very marginal chance of surviving being released, and the deeper the fish are the lower chance they have. don't get me wrong I'm not saying don't fish but just wanted you to know the effects of releasing them from deep water. I fish Eries central basin in water 70' deep and regularly release smaller fish that's not of legal length that was taken down 60' or deeper. but as long as the fishing is sustained by putting limits on the fish, I plan to keep fishing until I can't fish any more. I'm 71 now and don't know how much longer that will be but I am always happy to share my info with others. and I've got to give you a big KUDOES for your report and this post.

if you're getting all those 10 pounders, what are you crying about. if you think fishing forums aren't for sharing info with others that love fishing, why are you even on a fishing forum in the first place? I started fishing Erie back in 1980 and the fishing was awesome. it started going downhill when the zebra mussel took over and the numbers dropped but with conservation efforts the fishing is the greatest it's been since I started fishing Erie. if the fish numbers drop in numbers, they will drop the limits to sustain the fishery just like they did on erie a few years back. now it's full of new walleye and the drop in limits has been removed.

the main reason I belong to fishing forums is to share information with other fisherman. I did belong to ogf where I got so much help from other people's posts. so, as I improved, I started posting to help other new guys to the sport. I'm proud to be able to share with others what I was doing to catch more fish. if not for reading so many posts on ogf it would have taken me many years to be where I'm at today.