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New Hampshire => Ice Fishing New Hampshire => Topic started by: Lv2hunt on Jan 29, 2020, 06:49 PM
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Just wondering how many guys chum and if it's worth the trouble also what do you think works best I used to use dog food years ago for hornpout and did great wondering how well it works for cusk or Lakers I know they're pigs and will eat anything.
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I Chum for Lakers all the time. I save all my dead shiners in a ziplock heavy salt and some garlic powder. Dice a few up and send it down the hole.
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Chum, sardines old shiner smelt. A lot of times I fill the bag of dead smelt with water shake it around give them a squeeze and then just pour the liquid down the hole it creates a wicked cloud. That way you're not actually feeding them. Depends what you're fishing for, I do everything but rainbows.
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I use sucker meat sneak a hook in a piece with a hook on a dead stick and get him almost every time
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Fish food works good as those flakes waterlog and sink it discourses scent and creates visuals and brings everything from the food chain in starting from bottom to top
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I fish a two trap lake and it bores me to death. So I set one trap then drill more holes and chum them. I hop from hole with the Vex if there's red lines on bottom start jigging usually if there in the chum there active I live next to a pond full of fall fish I freeze a bunch for Laker fishing
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Never have in the winter but summer nights looking for pouts a can of cheap gravy style dog food does well to bring them in.
Good call on the aquarium fish food Frank, gonna hang on to that one...
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Good call on the aquarium fish food Frank, gonna hang on to that one...
X2
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Never have in the winter but summer nights looking for pouts a can of cheap gravy style dog food does well to bring them in.
Good call on the aquarium fish food Frank, gonna hang on to that one...
Almost kept it to myself but I was feeling charitable tonight ;D
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Almost kept it to myself but I was feeling charitable tonight ;D
Must be the lack of ice depth questions keepin ya happy...
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Yeah that helps, I get these ones all Fall too it never ends ;D
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Fish food works good as those flakes waterlog and sink it discourses scent and creates visuals and brings everything from the food chain in starting from bottom to top
Interesting...... I'll have to give that a try.
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Disperses* not discourses
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Alot of good info guys. I have used the gravy style dog food trick before works great. I was thinking of buying one of those chum pots not sure if it's a waste of money. Sounds like might be just as well off chumming the hole and letting it sink. Alot like egging holes for bows thanks guys!!
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In Maine where I now live we can’t chum or even egg holes and ostrich fish Bows it’s crazy
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If you Chum they will come ;)
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In Maine where I now live we can’t chum or even egg holes and ostrich fish Bows it’s crazy
I thought Maine was the way life was supposed to be.
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One of the few things I don’t get here, and yet we don’t need to label our hunting arrows yet I do when I hop the river
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One of the few things I don’t get here, and yet we don’t need to label our hunting arrows yet I do when I hop the river
Always thought the arrow thing was strange... I don't have to label my bullets.
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Always thought the arrow thing was strange... I don't have to label my bullets.
Agreed, I hate putting new pretty fletchings on and then defacing them by having to write on them with a fine point sharpie.
Then what if you shot and say missed, or had a pass through and couldn’t recover the arrow and then someone else finds it and does something stupid with it? I just don’t get it
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Right... end up with your arrow in some dude neck 3 towns away 3 months later after you forgot you lost it...
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Yep
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Right... end up with your arrow in some dude neck 3 towns away 3 months later after you forgot you lost it...
I hate when that happens
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I hate when that happens
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Never understood y you can't hunt on sundays either its maine I figured a law like that would be a mass law.
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Yeah. It does, and it doesn’t. It doesn’t affect me because from the back of my land I can see NH so I just hop the river. We also only get 1 deer tag so shoot a deer any season any way and you are DONE. So I just strictly Bow hunt NH and I’ll fill my Maine rifle tag on a Saturday or something. I like how in my own selfish way it makes it so the deer get far less pressure because many work saturdays as well and could only hunt weekends so they don’t get out much to shoot tomorrow’s giants today lol.
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I talked to a guy fishing for perch on nuts pond in Manchester and he was keeping them because he uses the fish roe as Chum for Lakers and a filet to tip his bucktail... Makes sense to me I've just never done it... AA mentioned fish flakes, may have too stop at Petco before heading up to winni this weekend ;D
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Yeah. It does, and it doesn’t. It doesn’t affect me because from the back of my land I can see NH so I just hop the river. We also only get 1 deer tag so shoot a deer any season any way and you are DONE. So I just strictly Bow hunt NH and I’ll fill my Maine rifle tag on a Saturday or something. I like how in my own selfish way it makes it so the deer get far less pressure because many work saturdays as well and could only hunt weekends so they don’t get out much to shoot tomorrow’s giants today lol.
Makes sense I can see your point I've been hunting in nh for 30 yrs couldn't imagine not being able to hunt on Sunday especially when you have to work mon thru friday.
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I talked to a guy fishing for perch on nuts pond in Manchester and he was keeping them because he uses the fish roe as Chum for Lakers and a filet to tip his bucktail... Makes sense to me I've just never done it... AA mentioned fish flakes, may have too stop at Petco before heading up to winni this weekend ;D
Stop at the supermarket and get oatmeal, its cheaper. Initially it floats then just stir the water in the hole and it starts to sink real slow. Makes a nice chum line. Great if your jigging
works great for everything. ;)
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I talked to a guy fishing for perch on nuts pond in Manchester and he was keeping them because he uses the fish roe as Chum for Lakers and a filet to tip his bucktail... Makes sense to me I've just never done it... AA mentioned fish flakes, may have too stop at Petco before heading up to winni this weekend ;D
I've used white perch eyes and little white perch belly fillets to tip bucktails and they work well. Also looking to see if we still have that fish food from when my kids had goldfish
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Makes sense I can see your point I've been hunting in nh for 30 yrs couldn't imagine not being able to hunt on Sunday especially when you have to work mon thru friday.
Agreed, I’m glad I can still take advantage of Sunday hunting. Lived in NH for 31 of my 34 years
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I pay deerly ( pun intended) as non res now. 384.50 for licenses and another hundred something for wheeler registration etc
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I pay deerly ( pun intended) as non res now. 384.50 for licenses and another hundred something for wheeler registration etc
worth every cent after you get that stud on the ground I bet .
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worth every cent after you get that stud on the ground I bet .
Sure is! Put some good bucks on the ground this past season. Now if only I could enjoy some of it on the hardwater!
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I pay deerly ( pun intended) as non res now. 384.50 for licenses and another hundred something for wheeler registration etc
Ouch that makes the sphincter pucker!!
Thank you for keeping our wardens employed
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Out of state Illinois 450 for a buck bow tag fortunately unlimited doe for 25 after you get buck tag still worth every penny to see a rut unfold out there
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Out of state Illinois 450 for a buck bow tag fortunately unlimited doe for 25 after you get buck tag still worth every penny to see a rut unfold out there
Agreed, never been but more bang for your buck there.
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Almost kept it to myself but I was feeling charitable tonight ;D
But how much ice have you seen on...
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cottage cheese ;D
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Oatmeal huh? I already got some in the pantry hope Lakers like Maple brown sugar.
I foul hooked a yellow perch in the eye while fishing a small pond in the summer and the eye came with the hook. I caught more fish on that eye then any other bait or lure
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Can of tuna
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ha.. not to be a downer.. but they way things are going out there you'll be labeling your bullets (if we even have them) before we know it! ... ok.. that was my negative post for the week! back to fishing!
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But how much ice have you seen on...
The majority of those squirting a few about lack of serious responses in Ice reports will also be buying fish food as they hide in the shadows and hate LmAo it’s a vicious circle. Can’t get off the teet it’s just to easy this way to have others figure it out.
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The majority of those squirting a few about lack of serious responses in Ice reports will also be buying fish food as they hide in the shadows and hate LmAo it’s a vicious circle. Can’t get off the teet it’s just to easy this way to have others figure it out.
I expect to see more than a few scruffy confused looking dudes staring at fish food at the grocery store after you let that one go lol
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Lmaoo
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just checked 3 pet stores... sold out already and amazon too... nice goin! ;D
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Done it forever and have never seen anyone else do it
Just thinking outside the box when pet goldfish or something died back in the day
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Fish flavored can of catfood
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Can of tuna
Guy who works at a hatchery told me tuna works well. He also said to soak lures in it for a few minutes. Tried that with some trolling lures, didn't do a damn thing, but sounds good in theory.
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I’ve always liked doing it to whatever extend I can. Anytime I have live cutting suckers I always break them down in close proximity to some holes. I particularly like to prime a Laker hole by simply rinsing my blade off in the water water as I scale the sucker. Even biggish shiners yeild a lot of scales when you run a blade against them end to end. Plenty of visual cascading down and catching light. Scent. Without giving anything a free dinner. I’ll dump some bits too, but usually try to cut it real small. Save guts and bigger messes for Cusk holes when I’m walking away for the night.
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Alright, because I like you guys I will tell you what i like to do. I buy smelt at the grocery store and put them through the blender. Occasionally, I have mixed sea salt and garlic to experiment as well as Anise. Now all I'm saying is DON'T USE YOUR WIFE'S NEW NINJA BLENDER. Use her old blender, just trust me on this one..... You get all the attractant with giving them a free meal. Keep a little on the side to dip your lure in it too.
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It took me so long to put together why the Anise/licorice flavor thing is so big across so many species - it smells just like a FRESH bait slick. Yep, took me about 30 years of fishing before my nose caught that.
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Gotta stop drinking while on IS, giving away too many tricks of the trade. Might have to go back to the ice check threads.
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Gotta stop drinking while on IS, giving away too many tricks of the trade. Might have to go back to the ice check threads.
So do you drop some black licorice whips or jelly beans in that blender? Or do you reach for the Star Anise seed itself?
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My motto is go big or go home.
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Gotta stop drinking while on IS, giving away too many tricks of the trade. Might have to go back to the ice check threads.
Lol!! :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
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Sambuca tastes like anise. Pernod. A host of other cordials. Perhaps that should be my new choice in ice cocktail.
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Never understood y you can't hunt on sundays either its maine I figured a law like that would be a mass law.
Many states have "No hunting" on Sundays.
Here in MA I get to enjoy the sounds of hunters honing their skills at local shooting ranges near where I fish.
It's one of those sounds I look forward to hear, mainly because it reminds me of people exercising their rights to bear arms!
(OH, and it tends to mean they will be better, safer hunters in the end.)
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Yesterday, I noticed a definite uptick in strikes after I threw the leftover milk from my thermos (for my coffee) in the hole where my deadstick was - - I caught four pickerel in relatively short order out of that hole (which had not had a strike for at least the past hour) before the milk dissipated and the water in the hole cleared up again.
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Yesterday, I noticed a definite uptick in strikes after I threw the leftover milk from my thermos (for my coffee) in the hole where my deadstick was - - I caught four pickerel in relatively short order out of that hole (which had not had a strike for at least the past hour) before the milk dissipated and the water in the hole cleared up again.
Interesting!
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this is a recipe for chum that use for many years.. I don't use it much any more, because I don't jig as much as I used to …
I mix equal parts gold fish flakes, oat meal ( Quaker rolled oats) moisten into a sticky doe with grape soda ( strawberry works too, no citris), a few drops of oil of anise completes the concoction... I've used it in a chum pot for just about everything that swims in salt water ( except sharks).. and in fresh water ( ice fishing ) it goes in a a small chum pot and is left just below the ice, as the mixture melts away it leaves a trail if mixed scents that are pretty good fish attractor...
when I had my hard side on the Swampscott river, I caught a lot of smelt using that mixture,,
a fair amount of Winni lakers fell for it too...
it also is a heck of a good carp bait..
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Hmmmmm the soda part I have not heard of, interesting....
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Hmmmmm the soda part I have not heard of, interesting....
Not my creation, an old timer that hung out with my Dad showed it to me...
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Very cool, it’s funny you say Grape bc grape Kool aid powder over sunflower seeds or popcorn is one of my Bear Bait tricks, and it haseto be grape
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Very cool, it’s funny you say Grape bc grape Kool aid powder over sunflower seeds or popcorn is one of my Bear Bait tricks, and it haseto be grape
back in my youth, there was a brook that ran through the woods behind my Aunts house in Andover Mass,it was spring fed and started in the hills and ran into fish brook, which runs into the Merrimack, that brook had native brookies, I don't know if anyone else on the planet even knew it, I use to catch them all summer, one fall I got several that had distended bellies.. I kept one ( I never kept them because they were natives)to see what was up with their guts, darn thing was full of grapes... there were wild grapes ( a great deer hunting spot) that grew on the trees over head... evidently these fish were eating grapes, I never saw it again but I never forgot it either.
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Amazing, I know fish in the Amazon do that with falling fruit and nuts.
A roadkill animal hung over a brook with natives works great to concentrate them as the maggots fall
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Amazing, I know fish in the Amazon do that with falling fruit and nuts.
A roadkill animal hung over a brook with natives works great to concentrate them as the maggots fall
nature IS pretty amazing, I was blessed as a young man to spend most of my waking hours in the woods and on the water...
Roadkill .. chumming in it's purist form!
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I’ve spent countless hours doing the same. I’ve been fortunate to never live in a place that I couldn’t walk to the river in the yard. I’ve lived on the Bellamy, the cocheco, the isinglas, and the Salmon Falls. Something about Rivers does something for me that waterbodies never can or will. I prefer Rivers when fishing and think if you can master those it makes bodies of water a breeze, funny how the animals gravitate to them as well. It’s something about how it’s just everchanging and brings new opportunities each second that I love
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I’ve spent countless hours doing the same. I’ve been fortunate to never live in a place that I couldn’t walk to the river in the yard. I’ve lived on the Bellamy, the cocheco, the isinglas, and the Salmon Falls. Something about Rivers does something for me that waterbodies never can or will. I prefer Rivers when fishing and think if you can master those it makes bodies of water a breeze, funny how the animals gravitate to them as well. It’s something about how it’s just everchanging and brings new opportunities each second that I love
Water is life... Only 2 of my years have I lived not waterfront and I was miserable. I need to be around water and the critters that need to be around it as well.
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Water is life... Only 2 of my years have I lived not waterfront and I was miserable. I need to be around water and the critters that need to be around it as well.
Words to live bye today WATER IS LIFE.. Amen brother!
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back in my youth, there was a brook that ran through the woods behind my Aunts house in Andover Mass,it was spring fed and started in the hills and ran into fish brook, which runs into the Merrimack, that brook had native brookies, I don't know if anyone else on the planet even knew it, I use to catch them all summer, one fall I got several that had distended bellies.. I kept one ( I never kept them because they were natives)to see what was up with their guts, darn thing was full of grapes... there were wild grapes ( a great deer hunting spot) that grew on the trees over head... evidently these fish were eating grapes, I never saw it again but I never forgot it either.
To add to this, Mulberries = Carp.
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Saltine crackers and canned tuna or mackerel mixed up works for anything
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Saltine crackers and canned tuna or mackerel mixed up works for anything
You beat me to it. Have used crackers and tuna for years. Little dry flakes of crackers floating thru drive the fish crazy.
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I did try the tuna and it works first Laker puked it right up I'm sold no more expensive suckers for me
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Found a blender at the dump,i throw dead shiners and a can of sardines in oil and grind em up til almost liquid.when i fished for pike it was dynamite.works great for trout and pannies too.WARNING!!!dont use your wifes blender for this.!!!the couch is not as comfortable as you think!
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There are probably as many recipes for chum mix as there are anglers who use chum when fishing.
I do prefer to chum when possible and legal, but it's not always possible.
I found some cheap stinky chum at Family Dollar...$1 can of sardines (in brine). Each can has 2 sardines, which look better suited as cat food than human food, but they fall apart quite easily, and spread out nicely when dropped down a hole.
The only down side is that if you fish from that same hole your line will pick up and HOLD that stink!!!!
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There are probably as many recipes for chum mix as there are anglers who use chum when fishing.
I do prefer to chum when possible and legal, but it's not always possible.
I found some cheap stinky cum at Family Dollar...$1 can of sardines (in brine). Each can has 2 sardines, which look better suited as cat food than human food, but they fall apart quite easily, and spread out nicely when dropped down a hole.
The only down side is that if you fish from that same hole your line will pick up and HOLD that stink!!!!
You might wanna proof read that one... After all, punctuation and grammar is so important right?
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You might wanna proof read that one... After all, punctuation and grammar is so important right?
LMAO....
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Haha that just made my day!
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You might wanna proof read that one... After all, punctuation and grammar is so important right?
Oh my god i just shot my drink out of my nose after reading that don't you love auto correct!!
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Haha, he found it in the men's room, I hope.
I'm making some for Pike fishing next weekend. So far I have canned Mackerel, canned tuna (in oil), anchovies (in oil) and whatever is dead in my bait bucket. Will toss those in a blender & hold my nose. Bought some small plastic containers like used for jello shots. Will fill a bunch of those, cover & throw in the freezer.
I bought a cylinder-shaped wire bird feeder to place a few of the cubes in. Tie the feeder to a string & drop it down the hole in the middle of my baits.
I'm sure if some of the "special sauce" Tim found was added it could increase the attraction but I won't be looking too hard for any.
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Oh my god i just shot my drink out of my nose after reading that don't you love auto correct!!
that's what happens when someone spends too much time on porn sites and their phone does the thinking!
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i ground up dead bait numerous times and sent them down the hole never noticed that i did any good? but the next day it seemed to turn on or draw in the catties meow big ones thought it would turn on pike but catfish fo sure
GOD BLESS
mo
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If I can buy they cheap stinky kind there I must be in the wrong store..... Thanks for the laugh!
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Haha, he found it in the men's room, I hope.
.....I'm sure if some of the "special sauce" Tim found was added it could increase the attraction but I won't be looking too hard for any.
I can be desperate to go fishing, but not THAT desperate! ;D
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You have been doing that a lot lately pal.
You better slow down before you hurt yourself... ;D ;D
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I have High T Dom! ;)
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If I can buy they cheap stinky kind there I must be in the wrong store..... Thanks for the laugh!
Thank you for the laugh!!
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We got it!! new ice condition emoji how do we get that up with the emoji's
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Denny Will handle it
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I have High T Dom! ;)
Stud...
They say doing that a lot reduces your chance of prostate cancer .
Just had my yearly physical and im good to go..... ::)
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Stud...
They say doing that a lot reduces your chance of prostate cancer .
Just had my yearly physical and im good to go..... ::)
It’s like a literal fountain of youth, I’ll keep knuckle shuffling then :P
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We got it!! new ice condition emoji how do we get that up with the emoji's
Denny Will handle it
I can't do it I am afraid of emojis. They remind me of Pac-Man creatures.