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Offline livinbass

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just got back from Bakers
« on: Mar 04, 2009, 12:57 PM »
Just got back and allmost 500 between 2 of us getting 2 and up to 4 at a time what a blast.The tank is full again and im very happy ;D

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Re: just got back from Bakers
« Reply #1 on: Mar 04, 2009, 01:00 PM »
Just got back and allmost 500 between 2 of us getting 2 and up to 4 at a time what a blast.The tank is full again and im very happy ;D
so you should have about 1/3 of one smelt to sell to each person fishing Sabattus this weekend... ;)

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Re: just got back from Bakers
« Reply #2 on: Mar 04, 2009, 01:02 PM »
wow, that's a good haul. way to go
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Re: just got back from Bakers
« Reply #3 on: Mar 04, 2009, 01:02 PM »
Great Job!!.... I hope you have plenty of them for us for Pike Fest.....

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Re: just got back from Bakers
« Reply #4 on: Mar 04, 2009, 01:04 PM »
Nice work!
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Re: just got back from Bakers
« Reply #5 on: Mar 04, 2009, 01:05 PM »
Great Job!!.... I hope you have plenty of them for us for Pike Fest.....

i hope so if not there are frozen ones and some suckers its going to be a blast 8)

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Re: just got back from Bakers
« Reply #6 on: Mar 04, 2009, 01:22 PM »
Was this a daytime haul.... ???

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Re: just got back from Bakers
« Reply #7 on: Mar 04, 2009, 01:28 PM »
Was this a daytime haul.... ???


ya me and kev went from 7 am and left at noon

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Re: just got back from Bakers
« Reply #8 on: Mar 04, 2009, 01:50 PM »

ya me and kev went from 7 am and left at noon
SAAAWEET....I need a haul like that...

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Re: just got back from Bakers
« Reply #9 on: Mar 04, 2009, 01:51 PM »
Yeah it was a great time.  Some guy comes knocking at our shack " how you guys doing "   "Well we got over 200 "  Wow we only got 40 "  That is the way it has been for us this year.  Everybody around us is getting nothing and we are hauling in the smelt.  To bad shacks are getting pulled soon.

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Re: just got back from Bakers
« Reply #10 on: Mar 04, 2009, 03:42 PM »
Livin,

How well do those sea smelts hold in your tanks?

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Re: just got back from Bakers
« Reply #11 on: Mar 04, 2009, 03:52 PM »
Livin,

How well do those sea smelts hold in your tanks?
I've had sea smelts in my tank since near the beginning of the season....and I don't have dealer quality tanks....

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Re: just got back from Bakers
« Reply #12 on: Mar 04, 2009, 03:53 PM »
I've had sea smelts in my tank since near the beginning of the season....and I don't have dealer quality tanks....

How big are your smelts?

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Re: just got back from Bakers
« Reply #13 on: Mar 04, 2009, 03:55 PM »
How big are your smelts?
3-8 inches...

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Re: just got back from Bakers
« Reply #14 on: Mar 04, 2009, 05:51 PM »
Livin,

How well do those sea smelts hold in your tanks?

they hold up well only loose a few aweek.I have a big chest freezer and there about 3 to 12 inches long "the smelt"

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Re: just got back from Bakers
« Reply #15 on: Mar 04, 2009, 06:44 PM »
OK.  I have to ask, were you using jigging rods, jigging boards or the house lines?

I went for the first time this past weekend, and started getting more hits on my ratfinkee glow jig in size 10 than I was on the sabiki, so I switched to two ratfinkee jigs and did ok.  60 maybe?

How the hell did you get so many in only 5 hours?  Any chance you might give up your secret rigging?

I am hoping to go again this Saturday night.
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Re: just got back from Bakers
« Reply #16 on: Mar 04, 2009, 07:15 PM »
sabiki that is all we were using and the big secret is Vexilar !!!  Shows were they are in the water column and you can adjust

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Re: just got back from Bakers
« Reply #17 on: Mar 04, 2009, 07:50 PM »
Hell yeah! It's on for Friday!!! 4:30pm tide! Bring on the Knob Creek!! Kev, you should join us! Camp is already reserved since last friday!
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Re: just got back from Bakers
« Reply #18 on: Mar 04, 2009, 10:23 PM »
Great Job!!.... I hope you have plenty of them for us for Pike Fest.....

If we have frozen smelts, do they have to be whole and not cleaned out? That's all we have.  ???


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Re: just got back from Bakers
« Reply #19 on: Mar 05, 2009, 06:10 AM »
Man you guys slayed them  we were at Bakers from 3:00pm till 9:00 last nite, we got 90 between 2 not much on jig pole more on the homemade spring boards the other 3 camps from us had only 12-15 in each camp using house lines, The lady there said they may pull  them off on Sun. :'(
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Re: just got back from Bakers
« Reply #20 on: Mar 05, 2009, 06:13 AM »
If we have frozen smelts, do they have to be whole and not cleaned out? That's all we have.  ???

They will work just fine!!! ;D
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