What is your weather today?
- Thread starter RicinYakima
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Head south and you can fish pretty much 365 days of the year. No ice breaking/auguring is involved.
Cadillac Jeff
Well-Known Member
We still have ice so, yeah I been on the lake fishing but not alot o catching..... 14 above & Sunny this mornin
JonB
Halcyon member
Yesterday morning...Mine too (my alley and alley parking are thawed gravel), I just left it alone. I did hand shovel the 2 to 3 inches of snow off my sidewalks and paved driveway. I heard a snowblower running a few doors down. He was blowing his alley parking area, which has larger rocks (like 1"), instead of gravel. If you ever heard a rock crusher in a gravel pit? well that's the sound I heard yesterday morning, LOL.
JonB
Halcyon member
Another snow storm starting right now. Suppose to be done around 5pm. I have reservations for the sportsman Club Steak fry tonight. The Club is out a few miles on township gravel roads...I wonder if they will be plowed at Supper time? But maybe we only get another 2 to 3 inches? ALSO, if it's thawed gravel, like my alley, then driving on sloppy, slushy, thawed gravel, might be a 5mph endeavor?
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...thinking about that, seems I should take my ATV instead of a car, LOL.
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...thinking about that, seems I should take my ATV instead of a car, LOL.
Snakeoil
Well-Known Member
Well, it turns out that my driveway was still warm enough from the day before that the 3 inches I found on the lawn was more like 1-1/2 inches on the driveway. Put the blower in high gear and almost had to jog behind it to keep up. Wife made me pancakes with double smoked bacon and maple syrup for breakfast. So, I was well stoked for the job.
Kevin Stenberg
Well-Known Member
The same front that Jon B has is up here. It started snowing about 6;30 am and is still snowing. 9.25" on the ground at 4 pm. We are expecting more in the next 2 days.
The snow last week was about 8" of fluffy stuff. But it was sinking the ice on the lakes. When I drilled a hole there was no water on top of the ice. Shortly after cutting the hole, the bottom inch of snow became slush. Now this snow will make it extremely hard to get on the lakes, or drive around.
The snow last week was about 8" of fluffy stuff. But it was sinking the ice on the lakes. When I drilled a hole there was no water on top of the ice. Shortly after cutting the hole, the bottom inch of snow became slush. Now this snow will make it extremely hard to get on the lakes, or drive around.
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L Ross
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Started snowing again at 3 pm yesterday. Woke up to a fresh 3" on top of the 5" from the other day. We may just drive on it. Plowing is going to destroy my driveway and peel the seal coat off the town road. 34° and overcast, no wind.
I find spending money and fantasizing boosts my spirits. Plus a nice long drive with my honey, a audio book down loaded on my phone to play thru the car's Blue Teeth, lunch on the road. So burned up the Scheel's gift cards and bought my self a 6'10" medium light extra fast Walleye Series rod. I went to get a Fenwick Walleye Elite Tech, or a St. Croix something in the 150 dollar range. Surprised myself that I liked, really like the feel of the Scheel's in house rod best. Looked close at the build, every guide is in perfect alignment, the wrappings neat, the handle well done. I think I'm going to like this rod.
A less than stellar moment was peeling brand new line off a new reel from last Fall and putting it in the garbage. I fell for the social media hype on what I thought was a USA made product, and bought 1,000 yards of Beyond Braid fishing line last Summer. Turns out the line is crap. Repackaged, re-branded chinese junk, probably Hercules, (a pox on them for using that name), dressed up in new packaging with a big USA label on the back and phony reviews and testimonials. Makes me feel like the gullible college freshman that bought a chopped VW bug that barely made it back to my apt. all over again. Chumped. The still full 500 yd. package will follow the other line already installed on 5 reels into the dumpster. Oh well, it could have been bad chinese primers.
Replaced the crap with a product I have used for 35 years, Power Pro, a true USA made Spectra fiber 4 strand braid that is an industry standard. Only now with a fresh 8" of snow I cannot walk off my line on my shooting range to install it in my preferred method. Bah!
I find spending money and fantasizing boosts my spirits. Plus a nice long drive with my honey, a audio book down loaded on my phone to play thru the car's Blue Teeth, lunch on the road. So burned up the Scheel's gift cards and bought my self a 6'10" medium light extra fast Walleye Series rod. I went to get a Fenwick Walleye Elite Tech, or a St. Croix something in the 150 dollar range. Surprised myself that I liked, really like the feel of the Scheel's in house rod best. Looked close at the build, every guide is in perfect alignment, the wrappings neat, the handle well done. I think I'm going to like this rod.
A less than stellar moment was peeling brand new line off a new reel from last Fall and putting it in the garbage. I fell for the social media hype on what I thought was a USA made product, and bought 1,000 yards of Beyond Braid fishing line last Summer. Turns out the line is crap. Repackaged, re-branded chinese junk, probably Hercules, (a pox on them for using that name), dressed up in new packaging with a big USA label on the back and phony reviews and testimonials. Makes me feel like the gullible college freshman that bought a chopped VW bug that barely made it back to my apt. all over again. Chumped. The still full 500 yd. package will follow the other line already installed on 5 reels into the dumpster. Oh well, it could have been bad chinese primers.
Replaced the crap with a product I have used for 35 years, Power Pro, a true USA made Spectra fiber 4 strand braid that is an industry standard. Only now with a fresh 8" of snow I cannot walk off my line on my shooting range to install it in my preferred method. Bah!
Cadillac Jeff
Well-Known Member
Ha ha.....just bought 2 500 yd spools of 20 lb power pro, not 5 min ago!
Cadillac Jeff
Well-Known Member
Oh .... woke to low 20's with lite snowing, got a skif so far
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Getting lots of clouds and wind blowing back up here from the CA storms. Looks like another 3 o 4 feet of snow on the ridge behind the house.
fiver
Well-Known Member
man you heavy line guys,,, you gotta give the fish a chance of some sort.
99% of the time i use 6# clear/blue stren mono, sometimes with a 2-4lb leader for a Carolina rig.
then again i don't go around throwing my stuff in any Lilly pads either.
i do go bigger if i am trolling pop gear or the like of course, still,, pretty sure i don't have anything bigger than 12lb. in the line box.
99% of the time i use 6# clear/blue stren mono, sometimes with a 2-4lb leader for a Carolina rig.
then again i don't go around throwing my stuff in any Lilly pads either.
i do go bigger if i am trolling pop gear or the like of course, still,, pretty sure i don't have anything bigger than 12lb. in the line box.
Cadillac Jeff
Well-Known Member
Ah heck the 20 is braid 6 lbs size I troll with it.
I use 6 & 8 lb mono for steelhead , 10 lb mono for kings
I use 6 & 8 lb mono for steelhead , 10 lb mono for kings
L Ross
Well-Known Member
10# Spectra braid is the same diameter as 2Lb. mono. It is already fairly prone to some of the worst wind knots you've ever see. Limp as can be, but no stretch. A bite on braid with your finger on the line feels like an electric shock! I can feel when the minnow falls off the jig, a sprig of grass, the soft plastic lure not running straight after a fish hits and doesn't get hooked. The stuff is amazing. Lasts for years, but not very abrasion resistant. 3' mono leader fixes that.
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Rick H
Well-Known Member
I have 10 lb. Power Pro on my walleye rigs. I am ashamed to tell you that it has been on there for more years than it should.....but so far, except for the color fading it has been flawless. (Over 4 seasons on one rig) I'm going to keep running it until it gives me problems.
I jig the lower Detroit River and it is full of snags. I always tie on about 10' of 6 or 8# mono leader material so I can break them off and retie. Power Pro is good stuff.
I jig the lower Detroit River and it is full of snags. I always tie on about 10' of 6 or 8# mono leader material so I can break them off and retie. Power Pro is good stuff.
Winelover
North Central Arkansas
I don't use braided line. Tried Spider Wire, when it first came out. Didn't care for it. I purchase 20# Maxima (chameleon) for my HD Striper trolling reels, in 600 yard spools. For the lighter rods, I keep the #10 & #15 Suffix green mono in 3000 yard spools.
I change line just before the Spring...............which is on my to do list. Half the reels, the line is just reversed from another reel. Those will get new line. All the reels will hold 200 yards.
I change line just before the Spring...............which is on my to do list. Half the reels, the line is just reversed from another reel. Those will get new line. All the reels will hold 200 yards.
L Ross
Well-Known Member
I'd not even be a bit concerned at 4 years. And....you can reverse it on the reel for more mental comfort and get many more years out of it.
Not that I am a complete skin flint. When Sue and I were hardcore Muskie anglers this was out protocol. 36# braided dacron line, (this was in the 80's and 90's), cut and retied every two hours or after every fish. On the reels that got the most use, the lines were reversed after a month and replaced after two months. We bought line in 3600 yard spools. I never wanted to lose a fish due to equipment failure, and never did. I even used a splicing needle to make loops at the end of the dacron in lieu of knots. 100% line strength. I made my own leaders from single strand brown stainless wire. They got cut up and thrown out at the end of the season.
Looking back there are two things I wish we'd have had back then, Power Pro line and GPS. We night fished and used lighted land marks for triangulation.
Weather today? 27° snowed a little bit at bed time, made me grumpy and when I awoke it amounted to almost nothing. Still overcast.