I picked up a flambeau tactical rifle case for an ice rod case and it works awesome. Got it for $45 at farm and fleet. nice hard plastic outside and nice foam padding on the inside i have about 5-6 rods in there at a time and theres plenty of room in there. i see no need to spend $100 on a rod case that has a name on it
Fishing Hot Spots has one of southern Green Bay and the lower Fox river by Depere. 
Another vote for fuji guides never seem to have a problem and they take abuse. when buying a store made rod i always try to look for rods made with fuji guides and then i know that the rod has a quality set of guides on it.
there are no secrets anymore z-man 
and fished a few hours sunday one short and one legal sauger couple other bites but it was prett slow all down by the mouth area. nothing on plastics only bites on meat. water temp was 47
fished a couple hours today but all i could muster was whitebass pretty much everywhere i went i caught whitebass. water temp was 44 or so. hopefully it will pick up the next couple days and if the wind would not blow so hard that would be great almost to windy to fish almost all the spots i wanted to fish.
Thanks Guys! 
that will be hard to repeat, just an incredible night all around. 
Lure parts online has the best selection you can buy as many as you want in quantitys of 10. they also give a discounted price if you order a lot.
http://lurepartsonline.com/Shop-By-Category/Snaps-Clips/Double-Lok-Snaps.html
pretty good deal although i picked up a bunch of them throughout the spring at fleet farm for $2.99 and they have had them on sale for that price multiple times. so just a heads up to watch the fleet farm weekly fliers
Fremont area was slow for us sunday with only 1 21″ and a 17″ between 2 boats. saw few other fish caught as well fish all over the river rock wall, red banks, chicos, rat river pretty much everywhere we caught fish before. sounded like saturday a big group of fish made their way up river and everybody did well. should be more fish moving up with the rain. i would watch the wolf river cams as they show where there are the largest concentration of fish.
NICE! nothing like putting the beat down on some up north crappies! 
yeap i bought a pair of rockys last fall and they leak like a sive and are not that warm. have been extremly disappointed in them my glued together bass pro boots are way better than my pos rockys. 
Thats terrible i hope databoy is wrong and the river opens up by next weekend. Winter can go away any day now its march 15th not january 15th. 
purple or chartruse
total bag= 18.8 lbs
big fish= 7.8 lbs
glow diamond jigs, glow tungsten jigs tipped with a glow plastic and maybe a spike. dont forget pink/glow demon jigging spoons as i caught my biggest well after dark on the demon.
definitely the transducer had the same problems you mentioned got a new transducer and it works perfect now.
I’ve fished my friends fl-8 next to my lx-3 not a great comparison but the fl-8 was way louder and noiser while my lx-3 made no noise. I also had way better seperation on my screen while the jig on the fl-8 would show up as a big blob. I’ve also fished next to my other friend who has a fl-12 and the lx-3 still out performed it less interference, better seperation and no noise.
Yeah the only way to access mud is to walk from green lantern on waubesa then cross the tracks and then walk through the woods. I’ve made the trek a couple times in the past few years and a trek it is but it can be worth it.
My absolute favorite plastic for panfish is a purple wedge tail with gold or other flakes. for some reason i seem to catch way more fish with flakes than just solid color plastic. i usually rig them on a #12 or 14 ant jig. I have also done very well with shrimpos and ratsos both very good baits everybody should have in their box.
They show replacement parts on the uncle josh website.
http://www.unclejosh.com/beaverdam/modules/cart/navigate.php/nav_id/164
on my panfish rods i use stren hi-vis gold or trilene cold weather in 2 or 3lb test. usually never more than that and i fish crappies down to 30 fow and have never really had a problem with break offs or hook sets with the lighter line. some people will also say the bright line scares fish and fish can see it but i’ve never had a problem and always catch fish plus you can see it against the ice.
Just got back from the show! lots of vendors and some very good deals to be had throughout the whole show area. I picked up another rose creek jig box and some various panfish jigs and plastics.
for mobility dont use tip ups but you cant beat having a bunch of guys out with a whole spread of tip ups out fishing for pike or walleyes and chasing flags all day. its especially fun when u get a big pike on trying to get his head turned up the hole. it might also help in wisconsin we can use 3 tip ups at one time to cover more water
yea thats the only thing about white tip up line is that its really hard to find and when you find some you better buy a whole bunch of it
White tip up line is about the only line my dad and i use on our tip ups. not only do we get a lot of action once you get up to the hole you can look down the hole and see which way the line is going before you have to move the tip up. this helps in knowing where the fish has taken the bait. I have had kind of hard time consistently finding white tip up line though.
You can use electrical tape instead of heat shrink. Just put the spring bobber where you want it to be on the end of the rod and then apply the electrical tape. you can wrap as many times around as you want but usually 4 or 5 wraps is enough.
well if you decide to go to uw-Stevens Point let me know since I am currently attending and the fishing in the area is pretty good and we have a pretty good fishing team too
