The Spoonpluggers Forum

You are correct in your thinking. In every one of the Great Lakes, the largemouth are somewhere shallow. Lake St. Clair, all shallow. You never catch a largemouth out away from the bank. Canals, back water areas away from current. weedlines and always shallow. Mille Lacs is the same thing. I have fi...

Here is how I look at it(one way). Without Bucks guidelines, we would all be pieces of crap and would have no idea about anything. Totally lost.......... With his guidelines, we can catch fish any way we want to, and do it anywhere and at any time and for all species because we have an understanding...

Isolation is the best way I know of a spoonplugger placing limitations on themselves. There have been a lot of spoonpluggers out there that have wanted nothing to do with outings or newsletters or a club. I have often wondered why. I see them as being a big grouchy like I am becoming. There have bee...

In the heat of the summer, you have to pick it up, especially the shallower you troll. As you go deeper, the speeds normally go down but you always have to check it and the heat of the summer is the time of the year you must vary your speeds from slow to pretty fast, 2 to 6-7-whatever. John

Well hell yes you are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! John

There are still some things in this world we live in that are still beautiful. John

Your right Bink. Having lots of time to spend on the water means a lot. Not only can you fish more, you have more time to study everything you have ever thought about. If those are your goals. Yesterday was day 100 for me since the ice came off on March 9th. For me, taking the time to know all of my...

Bink, I will answer this for Fran. We have discussed how to learn this monster of a lake. This thing is 144,000 acres. His house is on the SE end so it would make sense to start with the structures near home. When this place riles up, it can kill a dude with a small boat so learning something about ...

If I make it out today, it will be day 97 for this season. Headed out to get my back re-aligned in hopes of feeling better. It used to be once a year, then twice a year and now quite more often. Just a slight missed step or wrong move can make a day on the water not so comfortable. Thank God and thi...

Took the boat to the shop this morning for update 34 transducer for the livescope. Also having a great deal of back trouble. Too fat and old is a big part of it. Yesterday I had to cut the day short because of it. Went over to Denny's for a visit because I was close. He said the bluegill are still h...

Hal, Cool videos. I would love to look around that deep hump of yours with livescope, especially in november December. John

Fran, Make it short. What was learned? With all straight line passes, can you draw your finger in the water and say where the contact point is? What's next on these same structures? What about casting? I realize the wind can hamper casting but some casting will have to come at some time during the l...

Your welcome David. :lol: Pretty sure Mr. Perry said with all species, they never do their thing all at once just in case something in mother nature was not lining up at that time. If done in waves, it protects the species. The fish didn't read the same book we did with the guidelines. Sometimes the...

Brian, Observing and trying to learn by what you see is a big part of getting better. I know that the livescope has given me a view that cannot be even visualized by the fisherman till they actually see it. You can visualize a structure in its shape when you go about mapping it but never before forw...

Frank Hamill used to say there are always one or two fish doing something the rest are not. I guess you could call them stragglers. Anyways, the bluegill always spawn in stages, 2-3-4-5 times a season. They come in by the hundreds right in front of my house for every year and about the time you thin...