Single best pattern, Len thompson flame and white coho pattern. Outfishes other colors 5 to 1. Crocodile gold/orange as #2.

I am not sure how you were planning on catching the alewife, but I think the regs say you can’t use a throw net until July at Mac.

I think that is why trolling with spinner baits with 3-4″ willow leaf blades is so effective there.

Funny. Caught a trolling plate at Johnson. They freakin tumble and weave and are heavy. I really thought it was a huge channel cat or something. I threw it back for the next guy to fight. “Get the net Joe, Its a biggun.”

At least there wasn’t a foot in it.

Tell me about it. My son has become a monster. He makes my wife who is off in the summer (teacher) take him to Cottonmill all week long for green carp and then fishes for eyes on the weekend.

He blew me this spring when I asked him what he wanted to be in life. He said I don’t know, I will decide that after I graduate from Texas….. I said huh, Texas? That’s across enemy lines. He said, I am going to be on the University of Texas bass team. Where that came from I have no idea, but he has fish on the brain for sure.

I have always just jacked the trailer up and spun the wheel to check for any sounds of roughness that might indicate pitting of the bearing or play. If they sound bad or feel rough, the trailer gets new bearings, if they sound ok I just repack. It has worked for my father for 35 years.

If you are planning on making a 800 mile trip somewhere and haven’t done bearings in a few years, it might not be a bad plan to replace them. The middle of BFE is not the place to find out they were not good.

If its like my bilge, it might just need to be primed. I have sprayed WD40 into it before and taken a plastic bottle and squeezed water back into the pump.

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Its just tragic when a guy just doesn’t know when to throw in the towel.

I was out on Harlan listening to the game with the in-laws and had not been to the lake this year, but came down to “listen to the game” as far as everyone else knew. I can’t beleive that no one said anything about me bringing my boat. I figured I would try the trolling thing for a while just to see if I couldn’t find a willing walleye. Whites and drum were all I could find. I can’t believe the size of drum that I caught troling cranks. One of these days that lake will take off. I am really anxious for ice season down there.

I actually haven’t fished there in a few years, but when the lake filled up in the 80’s, around Johnny Walker bay we caught some huge green carp. Walker bay is just west of Maclin bay. I am not sure if you can get back there with a boat now, but it was jam packed with crappie, LMB back in the day.

People were going way up west catching them in the holes back in the willows earlier, but I haven’t talked to anyone lately.

If you want to know about LMB out west you should get a hold of Kayakjack on the Ne game and fish forum. If it is green carp out west, he knows about it.

I went by the lake today on my way to Scottsbluff. It looked like all of the boats were in a ball off of Sandy Point. The water is freakin rollin in.

Nice smally B-Rob. Didn’t miss anything at Johnson yesterday, it was a windy “mother” didn’t do much but made up for it today at Sherm. I saw a post somewhere else which brings me to my current question. Could there still be stripers in Johnson? My buddy almost had a rod with lead core spooled by a fish Sat at Johnson. We saw it on the surface and it looked like a striper ?? It ran like a freakin tarpon. It straightened a hook on a shad rap and is still on the loose.

Glad to hear that some short fish were caught. You know those people who don’t fish for cash like to eat em. 26ers are nice to look at but don’t cook up as nice. Glad to hear no one is on the bottom of the lake today.

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My father and I made a late trip to Sherman and got out about 4. We didn’t even take the shelters. We fished for about two hours and managed a 13″ crappie and a 4″ walleye. Right at dark they would follow up 6 or 8 feet, but did not seem committed to strike.

With no football I will be spending some time on the ice. Its too bad its so late in the season. Fishing usually gets nothing but tougher for me anyway. The brother-in-laws family has a 65 acre private lake at Cbus with walleye, huge white bass and crappie. I am trying to worm my way out there. We will see what the weekend brings.

A few white bass a few crappie. If you are planning on fishing by the dam you better bring a snow shovel. The Jiffy was bottomed out on snow in the shallowest places to get through the ice. 11-12 inch crappies and 1/2 lb white bass, no walleye. The water is starting to perculate through the ice though. 12 – 14 inches of good ice, but I don’t know for how long. Ben, were all your crappie on lures w/minnows? We finally put away the waxies started using minnows later in the day. We couldn’t get a crappie without using a minnow.

I see there is still snow in your picture. You guys must have had a lot more snow back east. All of the snow on lakes out west has melted and refrozen. There isn’t any snow out west now.

Wish I could find more than one or two crappies that size at one time.

You haven’t burned through those crappie and been back for a new pile yet?

I don’t know why people are so stuck on those flashers. Have you ever seen a regular lowrance set up with the ice puck and kit? It destroys any and all flashers, especially when you combine it with the gps capability. My father has used his 334? for a couple of years. It makes a vexilar look stupid.

The great thing about the lowrances is that your lure is a solid line on the screen and it is so much easier to see how the fish is responding to your presentation. It does not make them bite, but it will tell you immediately when they aren’t digging your chili.

I would assume it has to do mainly with manpower. The CO’s in Nebraska get spread pretty thin, budgets are in decline. I think everyone needs to become pro-active in this respect and if you see it, you need to report it immediately.

I have no patience for these people and would say that they better hope that I am not on the scene when that stuff is going on. I have the Nebraska State Patrol and Nebraska Wildlife Crimestoppers programmed into my cell phone and would love to ruin some losers day.

I can confirm that sometimes It doesn’t all work like it is supposed to. I had updated my LGC 2000, 332 and 337 last spring. Things just did not work together very well last year and I decided to remove the updates and start over. I am not sure what I did wrong the first time, but all seemed to be well last fall.