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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | My 2020 fishing season came to an inglorious end in Mid-September....but the boat is back (ish, it's now in the shop) and I'm ready for 2021.
What do to?
Going to make leaders, build some cool tube rigs...
What is everyone else doing to keep from breaking out the chain saw and carving the ice from your local ponds? |
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | I’ve been cutting wood and doing a little ice fishing! |
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| Couple wood working projects, ice fishing, reading thick biographies. But, I am retired and have more experience at being useless.
If you have not read Hamilton by Ron Chernow, I highly recommend. Very interesting book in that it gives a different perspective on a number of the founding fathers.
Only a hundred or so pages into another book by him, Grant, but it is a good read as well.
How the heck someone read Hamilton, a very dense, detailed biography and decided it would make a great rap musical is beyond me. One of the biggest hit musicals in history. |
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Location: Walker, MN | Tackle hoarding mostly. I learned a lot from that toilet paper shortage.. |
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Location: oswego, il | Go fish lake michigan. Troll and jig the harbors.
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | Drinking a Voodoo Ranger listening to Hank Sr Lost Highway, followed by Hank Jr whiskey On Ice, another Ranger, ended with HankIII County Hero’s.
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Location: new richmond, wi. & isle, mn | FishinXtreme - 1/14/2021 7:04 PM
Drinking a Voodoo Ranger listening to Hank Sr Lost Highway, followed by Hank Jr whiskey On Ice, another Ranger, ended with HankIII County Hero’s. Are you kidding me! I've found another fishing partner........ I just set my guitar down.... Were you listening? |
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | Maybe. If you got the guitar I’ll bring the vocals.
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | Any of you good ol boys play the steel? |
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Location: new richmond, wi. & isle, mn | Steel players are as rare as a 58" muskie. |
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | Add this one in too. Jason Isbell Last of My kind. Pretty much sums it up. Chris Ledoux Call of the Wild to finish it out. |
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | If you’ve never heard Chris Ledoux Call of the Wild, better take the 4 minutes and check it out. |
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Location: new richmond, wi. & isle, mn | Jason Isbell is and will be an iconic singer songwriter of his generation. |
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| lotta guitar talk here,,,cant contribute but I guess I wont "Fret" about it! |
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| I spend most of my time sharing my uninformed, yet strongly held opinions regarding COVID and election law. |
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Location: Vilas County, WI | Alot of ice fishing going on here in Vilas County. Snowmobile trails are open but are destroyed due to no snow. Ice fishing pressure is way up due to perfect conditions - solid ice, little snow, mild temps, no snowmobiling, and Covid. Its a perfect storm but I'll save that rant for a different thread.
Almost done finishing the inside of the shop. Switching my bait storage to wall racks like many have posted about on here. Then I'll grab a few baits for each outing vs taking my entire boat bag.
And I do love me some old school Hank!!!
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| Building baits and rewrapping guides on my rods. Buying a few more baits, cuz who doesn’t need more!? Ice fishing has been pretty decent as well. Building rods is a go to for me...be they musky rods, ice rods, or whatever...
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| I build way too many bucktails. Ive started tying flies as well, only problem is I don't fly fish. |
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Location: WI | Trying to create more room in my garage without adding on or building a second one. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | 1.Watched some College hockey.
2. NFL playoffs.
3. Put Christmas away. (except for a tree in my part of the house that will not be taken down till the Packers are out of the playoffs)
4. Too warm for ice fishing in the front range again this year.
5. NHL hockey.
6. Made some down sized leaders for rattle trap, 22 short type lures.
7. Repainted some things that got too close to bulldawg.
8. Made some more bucktails.
9. Buy Powerball and Megaball tickets.
10. Don't die of old age waiting for my turn for a Covid vachine. |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Well...due to unfortunate timing just before Thanksgiving, I have been tuning a new archery set-up as all my equipment was stolen right out of my truck...sitting in my driveway. Was all packed for the next morning to go one last time before wisconsin rifle season opened.
Lost the bow, the treestand, all my little items I take into the woods... Was not a happy camper and definitely was not looking to upgrade equipment.
But....long story short, the tuning and getting used to a new bow has kept me busy after work is done for the day. |
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Location: oswego, il | jb51 - 1/15/2021 7:36 AM
I spend most of my time sharing my uninformed, yet strongly held opinions regarding COVID and election law.
Now that's funny! Make sure you forward everything on FB with no traceable origin! |
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| Made some bottle openers, and some lures. Gotta keep busy.
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| Eastman03 - 1/15/2021 10:26 AM
Made some bottle openers, and some lures. Gotta keep busy.
Really think that if you have enough to sell, you could get big money at shows for those openers. Really well done, and the kind of thing folks would buy because it is different and would make great gift for fisherman. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | I'd fish with any one of those bottle openers. The hole in the lip may give it a unique wobble, and who needs hooks if you keep a tight line? m |
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Location: oswego, il | My cabin fever project last winter was making beetle spins, smaller bucktails and spinnerbaits for our youth programs and big bucktails for our meeting door prizes. About 600 baits in all, now sitting in bags to be used in 2022. Painted the jigs and bent the wire on the beetle spins and to my delight work way better than store bought. I found supplies in bulk and a few donations of supplies by others like Ghoti on this site. We do alot of youth giveaways at the sport shows.
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| I appreciate the compliments thanks. Yea the bottle openers are easier to make frankly, and have been far more popular than I thought. Bigger target audience. I started making them so I could practice painting. |
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Location: new richmond, wi. & isle, mn | Eastman03 - 1/15/2021 3:53 PM
I appreciate the compliments thanks. Yea the bottle openers are easier to make frankly, and have been far more popular than I thought. Bigger target audience. I started making them so I could practice painting. Your practice has paid off! If you need any field testers or setting up a pro staff let me know.;-) |
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| Been wanting to try forging and thought this would be a good time. These are first attempts so they are pretty crude. Throwing axe from leaf spring, veggie chopper from lawn mower blade and knife from coil spring
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Rebuilding a 77 KZ 1000 LTD...Total frame off Restomod . rebuilding the engine and trany due to me banging into 2nd from 1rst @ 9,000 RPM Haaha..
Going back to black rims and maybe the Kawasaki green frame and body parts.
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