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50 years ago my father told me something about my kids and money and it is kind of the same here.."don`t let them struggle but don`t give them so much they don`t have to work"..Thats the way I am with people as far as it is with fishing but with my kids and grand kids.. they get all the fishing knowledge I have ..
I have been a quiet member of IS now for 10 years. I have fished this lake for more years than I sometimes want to remember. When we first fished we didn't even use augers, just spuds. Spent most of the time fishing from the North shore out of Bernhards Bay and have seen years with 30 inches of ice where we put extensions on our 6 inch hand augers just to get through.. We used to take out hard side shanties and leave them there at night with our gear inside with no locks on the doors. Never had any issues. As time went on we drifted to other areas and pretty much fish the South Shore now for ease of access and a little closer to home. ATV, power auger, camera an old fish finder and sometimes my 92 year old dad as company makes up my gear today. Never in all of those years have I put up the numbers that some of you men do today. To be honest sometimes your pictures are what keeps me coming back. Keep up the good work and play safe.
Fished hard today, exclusely targeting perch, they were tougher than 2 days ago, I worked really hard to put 24 jumbos in my bucket, it was a grind, marked tons of fish, they zig zagged everywhere til they reached your lure, then they were mud, tried many things, but only got them too hit #3 raps. Perch tend to get that front hook stuck on the hole more than eyes, dumped quite a few larger ones at the hole, always a fun day trying to trick jumbos.
Guys taking eyes saddens me. There's a limit for a reason
nice to know there out there and writing tickets, when i asked they said most were one or two over lot of people from out of the area that think the limit is 5.