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I'm more than happy with mid February. If it goes to mid March like usual, that's a good month. But I sure can keep my fingers crossed for earlier!
which it better...if it knows what's good for it.
I may seriously take 2 weeks of PTO and do sales calls from my otter....assuming it freezes....which it better...if it knows what's good for it.
Are you threatening the king? You one crazy mofo
It tried to eat me twice so ya I am threatening....I have GoToMeeting on my phone for those...problem is I have a new sales team and I can't leave them to screw everything up.
I just moved my days to the third week. I hope it freezes!
Six trucks with boat trailers parked in the MDB parking lot this afternoon. Guys are getting antsy!!!
Do they still run the invasive checks and such during the winter at the boat launches?
Might have to convince my buddy to dig the boat out so we can go jig lakers. I have never done it off the boat suppose you would have to wait for a really calm no wind day to keep your bait in the cone. Iv drop shotted for smallies in deep water with the finer before suppose lakers would be similar.
yes. calm day and its easy. go to your favorite spot and jig away. We use our flashers just like ice fishing.
how do you set up your shanty and heater??
Down where I live I jig open water on the NYC Reservoirs for lakers and simply increase the size of the jig by 1/2 to 1 full oz to help keep the jig on the sonar in choppy/moving water. If it's dead calm, the vexilars work great, if not which is 90% of the time, we'll use regular sonar (Lowrance Elite 5 and 7) and just crank up the sensitivity and chart speed and you'll be able to easily track your jigs! Really cool watching a nice arch suddenly turn skyward to meet up with your descending Jig!!! Also, Power Pro Depth Hunter braid is great for open water jigging. It is metered just Leadcore with 4 colors; each color equals 25' and within each color, white hash marks signify every 5' of depth within the color so you'll know exactly where you are if you lose the jig on screen! I can tell you with confidence that the action on open water can at times be as much fun as the ice! You're constantly moving and jigging fresh locations which is along the same line of thinking as we do on the ice!!I'll be jigging one of my local spots on Thursday since winter apparently is over down here! Lol! MK