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Location: Wishin I Was Fishin' | Wondering what keeps you busy through the long winter.
It's ice fishing for big pike and a few walleyes, maybe a family snowmobile trip up north with some ice fishing negotiated in. End of March and April it's Steelhead on the flyrod.
I will be working on the musky club stuff more, Milwaukee Musky Show and New London Musky Magic. Only problem is these don't help get my mind off of muskies.
Ya I know you Southerners don't have a closed season, but I don't need you to rub it in.
My current projects that I'm procrastinating right now are putting the trolling boat away, refilling the wood room, and I will be getting ice fishing gear ready this week. |
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Location: Brighton, Ontario, CANADA | A little ice fishing (pike, walleye and panfish)
Visit tackle stores to prepare for the upcoming season
Participate in 3 different fishing clubs (1 Muskies Canada, and 2 bass)
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Three muskie shows and the Madison Expo from opening to close; of course that's work for me, but it's good work. LOTS of ice fishing, we are contracted to shoot 30 videos this winter. I'm going to specialize on jigging game fish in the first batch, I think. Deer hunting until tagged out or Jan. 3 comes. Snowshoe hunting if the snow allows, we don't have a beagle and need to be able to move around easily in the swamps. |
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Location: Not Where I Want To Be | The world's largest Honey do List.
Musky Shows.
A little Ice fishing.
Hiking in Arizona
And a lot of dreaming.
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Location: South East Wisconsin | Muskie shows, lure modifications, kinkaid in march! Throw in alittle work 2. BM thats 2 funny! |
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Location: Southern Ontario, Detroit River and Lake StClair | Do some ice fishing to fill the freezer with dinners so during the season I don't have to and can spend my time chasing more important fish. Besides that I spend a lot of time in the field with my pet .22-250 chasing Coyotes and fox which helps pay for my summer expenses fishing Muskie. Then to top it off I'll make a few of my big (12"-14") trolling baits when I have time. Basically it all still revolves around Muskie fishing in one way or another.
Good Fishin'
Tim
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Location: janesville | ice fishing ice fishing ice fishing. usually go to the madison fishing expo. then in the spring its walleye time all over wisconsin. maybe snowmobiling if i get a chance with a friend as we dont own any sleds. |
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| sled ...
ice fishing ...
wrestling dad and coach ...
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| i workout.........fishing gets me really out of shape.....eating on the fly all the time and no workouts... alot of guys that do alot of fishing should really start working out too, see alot of out of shape trollers out there (diabetes?, heart attack?) you never know. High blood pressure is a silent killer!!!! |
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| December rest up! January Florida Keys fishing for bonefish. Early Febuary Costa Rica fishing Roosterfish.The rest of Febuary,Butler Musky Show & Ohio Musky Show.March Cave Run & Green River to start the year for muskies.April Spring King Salmon run Skagit River Washington State.May Peacock Bass in Guyana South America.
Capt. Larry
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Location: Lake Tomahawk, WI | Larry,
Need a cameraman? 
JS |
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| i'll be in costa rica in february if you need a place to crash jason ... come down for some imperial brews and chifrijo !!! |
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Location: Lake Tomahawk, WI | Working on a film gig that would put me in Chile for awhile this winter, might have to make a side trip over to Costa Rica!
JS |
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Location: North Central IL USA | Train dogs.
walking/hiking (untill there's too much snow/ice cover).
Go to boat and fishing shows.
watch my fishing videos.
No ice fishing for me.
Edited by gregk9 12/6/2009 6:05 PM
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Location: Sw Pennsylvania | Chase steelhead from Ohio to New York in lake erie and lake ontario tribs |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | - Try to finish the new bedroom downstairs
- Build a custom box in the front of my boat
- The usual go through lures, switch hooks, rings, etc.
- Customize some baits |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | I will shoot indoor Target archery, and hopefully get in a bit of ice fishing this year too. Do a little rod building while I watch the fishing shows on a Saturday Morning as well.
Steve |
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Location: Minneconia | Beer league hockey and sleds |
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Location: Kodiak, AK | I tie and build rods. I try to get my shelf stock built up so when orders come in during the fishing months I'm not spending that time tying. I'll be on the Equator for a couple of months starting in a three weeks, then back to get the boat ready and everything else in order for next year's season. |
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Location: Racine, Wi | Chasing brownies and steelies in the river, and maybe some ice fishing too. Oh yeah, playing dad too.  |
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| Hockey, Hockey and more Hockey we have at best 30 games planned for this year (from Dec. to Feb.). When not playing hockey I am planning on some ice fishing, getting ready for next year, and add a few muskie shows into the mix and the off season shouldn't be to bad. yeah right
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| Watch my kid play hockey and try to build some lures. Not much progress with the lures so far, but I'm no professional woodworker, that's for sure.  |
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Location: Sun Prairie, WI | Smoking almost any kind of meat or fish, finishing off the basement man cave, Madison Expo, Milwaukee Expo and finish details of or trip the Alaska next year. |
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Location: Southern Ontario, Detroit River and Lake StClair | I also forgot to mention I have have four children from 10-18yrs old, two boys and two girls. If you look at when their birthdays are and figure things back from then..........well I think you get what else I spend a good amount of time doing during the off season....
Tim
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| Sled, Where you going in Costa Rica? I'll be in Uvita on the south pacific coast.My wife's sister has 40 acres over looking the ocean there.
Jason,I guide when at the upper reaches of the Amazon River in Guyana S.A. for Peacock Bass in May.Also guide on the Skagit River in Washington State for king salmon in April & September.
Capt. Larry D. Jones |
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| Tim,
Now, thats funny. Somehow my daughter was born smack dab in the middle of deer season. You've inspired my to see if I was out of town sometime in Febuary 14 years ago. Come to think of it where the heck were you in Febuary 14 years ago. LOL |
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| Larry ...
our business is located just north of the airport in San Jose just up the hill from Carriari area in Global Park. i also spend a lot of time in the melon fields up in Liberia and Guanecasta. i'm going back and forth now but once mid january hits will be down there 3 weeks out of the month. i stay at the Double Tree Carriari when i'm there and hope to venture out to do some fishing next year.
i'm traveling throughout the Caribbean and Central America and would love to do both the peacock bass and the tributary tarpon thing. the offshore marlin thing sounds expensive and like something i wouldn't be as fired up about.
jason ... flights are cheap and you can crash with me. |
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Location: MN | - Studying for a graduate level test in June (on the MN musky opener...ouch) Studying Nov till June.
- During the off-season I spend more time focussing on my career and spending extra time at work. My mentaility is to work harder in the winter/spring and play hard during the musky season.
Edited by Mak51 12/7/2009 12:07 PM
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| Jason,I stay at Villas Río Mar is situated 21 miles (35 km) from the town of San Isidro del General on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, a short walk from Dominical Village and the unspoiled beach. It's a three hour drive on a good paved road from San José.My wife's sister is building three cabanas on their property this year.Tarpon fishing is best on the carribean side at river mouths,Sailfish is best on pacific side,from Quepos south.We usualy drive over the mountians to Dominical/Uvita the same day we fly in.
Capt.Larry |
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| you found "a good paved road" in Costa Rica ... LOL
holy pot-hole eh? i thought i got swallowed by one one time!! |
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| Looks like I will hitting the books to take the Captains test. Ordered the on-line course today. Now that the Coast Guard has decided to enforce the law on in-land waters guides will have to have the 6-pack license. Hope this old dog can learn some new tricks. Also working for Thorne Bros. and hitting the gym.
Good luck, Murphfiveroom |
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Location: Roscoe IL | Going to try for some Browns this winter for a change.
Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison & Rockford fishing shows. Need a few three rods & reels this time around.
Reels all need to be re-conditioned, replace all line on all.
Make leaders & QS rigs.
Replace hooks & split rings on a few lures.
Replace eyelet tips on 2 rods. Try to fix one with busted tip.
Clean out all tackle boxes, re-sort and re-pack.
Confirm a few trips for 2010.
look at Lake maps galore & mark best routs on the driving maps.
Fix or replace one depthfinder.
Find out why the OB motor trim suddenly does not want to work, then just as suddenly will work. That scares me!
Replace/Install new CD player/stereo & speakers in boat, add another set of speakers in back.
Install on board battery charging system.
Fix battery harness's so they are secure & are legal, replace broken strap mounting brackets. Correction, replace ALL strap brackets!
Fix existing prop & purchase backup prop.
Replace broken or burnt out bulbs on trailer.
Replace winch & strap on trailer.
Perfect, I just copied & pasted this on my to do list!
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Location: Loves Park, IL | Back up north to snowmobile. If the weather goes as forecasted, I might get to ride from Roscoe Sunday! Anything that gets me to the northwoods! |
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Location: Davenport, IA | Ice fishing, working on my old car and studying to get into grad school this winter. And of course, working like usual. |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | Ice fishing and writing.
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What do you do in the off season?