what I do when the duck season is closed

Huntindave McCann

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Beautiful morning. Pleasant temps, light wind, almost did not need the heater.
Had my camera in the water and was able to sort thru the fish as I caught them. I'd pull the bait away from the Bluegills in hopes of enticing the Crappies. Released many smaller ones back to the water for another day.
Brought home a nice mess ranging from 9 inches to 11.5 inches in length. Fun time watching them come up and chase the bait on camera.



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Looks pretty good to me Dave. Something about cold water panfish, I just love the flavor. Yum?.
 
tod osier said:
Looks pretty good to me Dave. Something about cold water panfish, I just love the flavor. Yum?.

Tod,
Yep, and folks wonder why fish on commercial boats are immediately thrown on ice, rather than drug around on a stringer.
 
Huntindave McCann said:
Brad Bortner said:
Dave something about that just doesn't square. Or were you getting a precisely square hole?

At least that one is better than Carl's remark! (made me smile) [smile]

Well we know you were a precision machinist.
 
Dave, you had a wonderful day fishing. What is your limit per day? I just want you to know it was darn hard to type this post to you because I'm still laughing about what the others wrote. I have to admit that this is the very first time in my life, I have ever seen a fish measured like that. Do you carry a tape measure for those 40"+ northerns?
Allan
 
On a more serious note, why did you not want the bluegills?
I love fried or baked bluegills, just scale, gut & cook!

What kind of jig & bait?
 
Brad Bortner said:
Huntindave McCann said:
Brad Bortner said:
Dave something about that just doesn't square. Or were you getting a precisely square hole?

At least that one is better than Carl's remark! (made me smile) [smile]

Well we know you were a precision machinist.

Brad,
(A) We all know one can get a bigger fish up thru a square hole than the same sized round hole.
(B) Round holes are for amateurs; it takes a highly skilled operator to auger a square hole in the ice. [whistle]
 
Al Hansen said:
Dave, you had a wonderful day fishing. What is your limit per day? I just want you to know it was darn hard to type this post to you because I'm still laughing about what the others wrote. I have to admit that this is the very first time in my life, I have ever seen a fish measured like that. Do you carry a tape measure for those 40"+ northerns?
Allan
Al,
The limit here is 25 per day.
For Muskie, I bring along a drywall square.

I just used the speed square because I was home, it was handy, and it showed up well against the snow. It sure was a tough sell with this crowd! [cool]
 
Carl said:
On a more serious note, why did you not want the bluegills?
I love fried or baked bluegills, just scale, gut & cook!

What kind of jig & bait?

Carl,

Due to the available size of the Bluegills. In my area large Crappie are more abundant than large Bluegill. I use the same cleaning method on both species, fillet everything. I'm not real fast but I don't leave any meat behind.
 
Huntindave McCann said:
Brad Bortner said:
Huntindave McCann said:
Brad Bortner said:
Dave something about that just doesn't square. Or were you getting a precisely square hole?

At least that one is better than Carl's remark! (made me smile) [smile]

Well we know you were a precision machinist.

Brad,
(A) We all know one can get a bigger fish up thru a square hole than the same sized round hole.
(B) Round holes are for amateurs; it takes a highly skilled operator to auger a square hole in the ice. [whistle]

Dave you must be referring to using the hypotenuse of the Piscisoran Theorem. Yes a larger fish could be brought through a square hole that a round hole of equal radius or center point/midline distance. This makes a great deal of sense when fishing for flat fish or panfish.

As a woodworker I?m sure you seen square mortises cut with a round bit in a square chisel. It wouldn?t surprise me to have you fabricate a square hole ice auger. And you are the square operator who could pull it off.
 
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