fishthumper wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Michael Best wrote:</div>
I am a Toyota guy but my work truck is a Chevy Colorado ZR2 with a diesel engine and I love it

I’m not sure I’m ready to make the Jump to a diesel. I have no experience with them. Isn’t most the savings on better mileage about offset in the difference in the fuel cost?

I am not sure what fuel economy the gas versions get. But let’s say they get 20 mpg. If gas is $3.29 a gallon. (That is what it is in the town I live in). You are spending 16.5 cents per gallon. Diesel in the town I live in is at $3.86 a gallon. If you get 30 mpg which I did on my SD trip on Monday. You’re spending 12.8 cents per gallon. Sure those numbers can fluctuate some.
But that diesel engine will have more power.

I am a Toyota guy but my work truck is a Chevy Colorado ZR2 with a diesel engine and I love it.
On Monday when I went to SD it averaged 30 miles to the gallon for the trip.
It can handle a load better than the 1/2 Ton gas trucks we have in our fleet.
One day last fall I pulled one of our car trailers with 7000 lbs of steel plate on it and it did ok with that.

I am in the SD archery public land draw.
I have to use my Kansas point this year or I loose it. Can’t make up my mind if I want to hunt KS or not.
Ne is going to a draw for Archery this year so I will be putting in for that. No more 2 Archery either sex tags for me any more.
I have gave up on Utah, Co and Az.
The units I want to hunt are just creeping away.
After doing a ton of research on MT I just can’t come up with a unit I want to hunt. So I have never gotten into the game for out there.
I should do a 4th season rifle deer hunt in Co but don’t want to give up Midwest archery rut hunting.

In today’s lite mobile set ups leaving stands on public should not be happening where it’s illegal.
My last sit in the oxbow area I like to hunt I spotted something blue on the side of the tree I hunted out of last year.
When I was done hunting for the morning I walked over to the tree and someone had screwed in 8 steps and left them.
Back in my younger days I used a lot of screw in steps and left them everywhere. Now days with lite sticks hurting trees should be a thing of the past.

My guess is they will be in post spawn areas. The lakes I fish on opener that means sand flats anywhere from 5’ of water to around 12’.

For flipping I would run heavy braid to a 20 lb floro leader.
For a crank bait rod I run 15 lb braid but I run a moderate action fiberglass rod so I get a lot of forgiveness in the rod.
For spinning I like 10 lb hi vis braid to a 10 lb floro leader.

Bearcat89 wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Michael Best wrote:</div>
Speaking of walking.
Thursday was my first day up there. Got to Birchdale around 2 pm. Put the boat in and had to park almost at the highway.
Started walking and a local guy came by and stopped and picked ne up.
Went to load the boat and the kid on the golf cart gave me a ride. The only cash I had was a $100 bill stashed in the truck. He was tipped well that day. lol

The rest of the trip I slept in my truck at Birchdale. Was able to park in the parking lot the whole time.

Next year I think I will do like Ron does and pitch a portable hub in the camping area.

If you go with a let’s have fun mindset it will be fun. Some people don’t like crowds and that’s cool too. My dad is one of them. It’s not his cup of tea.

We will have to keep in contact and try to get up there around the same time together. Always nice shooting the crap at the fire. I know you caught mine and the kids attention when we starting talking western hunts.

Sounds great to me.
Yeah let me know on the western hunts. I will help anyway I can.

Speaking of walking.
Thursday was my first day up there. Got to Birchdale around 2 pm. Put the boat in and had to park almost at the highway.
Started walking and a local guy came by and stopped and picked ne up.
Went to load the boat and the kid on the golf cart gave me a ride. The only cash I had was a $100 bill stashed in the truck. He was tipped well that day. lol

The rest of the trip I slept in my truck at Birchdale. Was able to park in the parking lot the whole time.

Next year I think I will do like Ron does and pitch a portable hub in the camping area.

If you go with a let’s have fun mindset it will be fun. Some people don’t like crowds and that’s cool too. My dad is one of them. It’s not his cup of tea.

The past weekend was a blast for me up on the rainy. Caught lots of great quality fish.
No real issues with other boats. Since I went by myself I had numerous other people offer to help with putting the boat in.
Got to meet a couple fellow IDO guys and other great people as well.

Great fish Kyle! Sorry about the bad luck with the truck. Hopefully it doesn’t cost you a fortune to fix.

I ended up with 100 walleyes since Friday. My biggest was a 28” with 30 over 20”.
Today they were sure liking the plastics pitched. Current was a little stronger today. Water temp is in the 42 range at Birchdale.

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I agree Ron great meeting you both as well.
Nothing like the comradery around a camp fire.

Back when I was 19 years old (1992) I caught this 32 1/2” walleye out of the Missouri River in Pierre SD.
Had it weighed at Oahe marina. 13.2 lbs.

Haven’t been able to crack the 30” mark since.

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Man sorry about your guys bad misfortunes with the break downs.
Do either of you need anything from town. I need Minnows. Went through 3 scoops. Yesterday half my fish came on plastics. Today I caught one a plastic and the rest in minnows.

Heard timber mill access is open now for anyone that wants to go that way.

Last I heard open water at timber mill but access still has ice in front of it.
Went by Vidas around 1:30 and the vehicles were half way or better to the highway. Frontier had a dozen or so trucks and trailers at it. It looked like a few were tandem axle bunk trailers.
Ended up putting in at Birchdale and dropped my first line at 2:00 pm. 2 minutes later a fat 20” was coming top side.
Set the depth offset at -5’ on lake master mapping. That got me really close to matching up what the depth finder was reading.
Ended up with 27 on the clicker.
Biggest I got was this 23”. But seen a dozen mid to upper 20’s caught.

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Nice fish!

Heading out now. Weather forecast looks great.
Nice fish Mike W!

I seen a post from First City that Vidas is open.
However both Vidas and Frontier don’t have much for concrete in the water with the low levels.

I have owned Big Agnes tents as well as the Cabelas Alaskan Guide tent.
Neither option is very cheap. Both have great quality. The Big Agnes is definitely lighter than the Alaskan Guide. The Alaskan guide is more of a 4 season tent.

The last I heard was Birchdale and Frontier were the only access’s open.
Dutchman said frontier is very shallow right now and not a good option for bigger boats.
Hopefully Vidas opens up in the next day or two.

BigWerm wrote:

FWIW rates should be coming down later this year, if you can wait. Or just refinance then.

With inflation numbers ticking up the last few months. The Fed has gotten squishy on dropping rates. I wouldn’t expect any loan rates to come down this year like they mentioned would happen.

Twice now I have heard on the JMO podcast about fish reacting negatively to FFS.
One of the speakers was Al Lindner.
So is it a matter of time before the sonar pressure the fish feel will shut them down?

All this talk about technology. It’s my belief that GPS and mapping has had the largest impact on fishing in todays technology world.

Good luck! Yes it does. Over night lows look to be above freezing by the end of the weekend.

I have 3 days of work in SD and will be heading up Thursday morning.
If anyone from IDO wants to head up there and want to fish together get a hold of me.

Just saw a video of Donnie Obert and the Dutchman out at the Birchdale access busting up ice with a Sherp.

big_g wrote:

I am an independent. Always have been. Voted both parties for decades… I am not pro Trump, just anti democrat. Look how they are going after him… what are they afraid of ??? That should be a question for all. If you want more of the same, your dollars sent to Ukraine and a wide open border, well keep voting the way you have been. You hear the term Never Trumpers.. put me as a never Biden. Trumps about as close to an Independent as you will see.. half the Republican party goons cannot stand him either. Speaks volumes to me.

(if RFK could have got Mike Rowe as his VP pick, they would have a real shot)

I agree with you.
I tend to prefer a government that is deadlocked. They can not screw things up that way. The problem with that is in todays age the 3 letter agencies tend to over step there bounds through the executive branch.
I hope Trump picks Tulsi (independent now days) as his VP.

Sounds great Bearcat I will stop by for sure.
Thank you

Thanks Bearcat I was thinking of using Birchdale.
My version of camping now days is sleeping in my truck. So that has crossed my mind as well.

I was thinking of going next Thursday through Sunday.
It’s probably going to be just me.
How hard is it to launch a boat up there by yourself?

The talking heads on SM don’t understand the situation at all.
Between the not understanding the logistics and dangers of cleaning the disaster up to not understanding why the bridge collapsed from a ship going 9 mph.

The Toyota Tundra hybrid has a single electric motor that is in between the engine and the transmission. So when the electric motor is what is being used it’s sending its power through the 10 speed transmission. If more power is needed the twin turbo V6 kicks in by sending power through the clutch that is in between the engine and the electric motor.
The battery doesn’t need to be plugged in to charge since it charges while you are driving the truck.
The hybrid model has 437 hp and 538 lbs of torque. That’s 48 more hp then the non hybrid and 104 lbs more torque.

The momentum of that ship going 8 knots is just shy of 4.3 billion lbs-ft/s
That is one heck of a force hitting that bridge.