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PostPosted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 9:38 am • # 1 
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I've been watching the 'Polar Vortex' (or, as we call it, Thursday ;) ) as it sweeps and swirls across the north and central (and some south) parts of the US. Seriously, that's some nasty weather, especially in areas not accustomed to it. I hope you're all finding warmth, shelter and booster cables as needed. Please take the frostbite warnings seriously - you don't want to be losing your extremities because when all this passes, you'll want your wading boots to fit and you'll need some digits for stripping line and reeling and such. And if you lose your nose and/or ears, your polarized sunglasses just won't stay on.

Hang in there. In no time at all, you folks below the Mason Dixon line will all be out fishing again, and I can resume hating you. :lol
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 9:52 am • # 2 
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This morning's temp in Dallas is 45 with the high supposed to be 50, I think I'll go fishing. :P


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PostPosted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 10:34 am • # 3 
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And by sunday temps gonna be almost 70........bone chilling.... but I may brave the cold and head to the lake .Looking forward to spring already. :lol :lol :lol :lol


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PostPosted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 11:45 am • # 4 
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It's a little below zero (°F) here in NH, but it's supposed to be 55° or so by Monday.
Time to scout some local rivers.


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PostPosted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 1:20 pm • # 5 
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:lol :lol Let the hating begin!!!
The last open water I saw was in a 'vortex' swirling out of sight in my toilet. And my bathroom's too small for even a roll cast.
Seriously, the fishing season here legally begins April 15, but it is a largely theoretical date. I suppose I could go down to the stream and cast at the snowmobiles as they pass by, but it just doesn't seem like the thing to do on opening day.

(On the snowmobile thing: those of us who drove them for work in the backcountry, especially a few decades ago when they were notoriously unreliable, rarely thought of them as a rational leisure time pursuit. One of the biologists at work had a big poster over his desk that read "If its snowmobile season, why can't I shoot one?").

Carry on
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 12:03 pm • # 6 
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70 here today , same as yesterday . The fishing here sucks but the weather is decent .


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 2:12 am • # 7 
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Temps back into the teens here in NJ so I went ice fishing. A version of our sport that I thought I'd never take up but turns out it's a blast.

Stay warm everyone.


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 8:45 am • # 8 
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Up here in the land of the polar bear our annual fishing season closes March 31st of each year so a few intrepid souls often venture out to the only open water in the province and cast a few flies. After that it’s an impatient wait until the open water season begins in early May.

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 1:09 pm • # 9 
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Free2Fish wrote:
Up here in the land of the polar bear our annual fishing season closes March 31st of each year so a few intrepid souls often venture out to the only open water in the province and cast a few flies. After that it’s an impatient wait until the open water season begins in early May.
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Is there a legitimate conservation reason to close for the month of April?

There is a bit of open water here in NB just below our local hydro electric dam, but angling is ALWAYS closed from the foot of the dam to a point well below where the river turns to ice.


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 2:14 pm • # 10 
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wheezeburnt wrote:

Is there a legitimate conservation reason to close for the month of April?

There is a bit of open water here in NB just below our local hydro electric dam, but angling is ALWAYS closed from the foot of the dam to a point well below where the river turns to ice.


Ostensibly to protect the walleye spawn. But when we have a late spring and the rivers are full of spawning walleye they don't open later.

Thankfully those of us with a serious itch can fish all year in stocked trout waters.

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 11:27 pm • # 11 
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Curious, can Walleyes be caught on flies? Or, maybe better posed, do you fly fish for Walleyes?


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 6:05 am • # 12 
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I’ve caught a lot of walleye on flies but would only fly fish for them in certain situations. The most common would be shallow water with a fair current.

I’ve never had much success in stillwater despite many attempts.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 7:50 am • # 13 
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What sort of flies are you using for walleye?


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 1:06 pm • # 14 
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wheezeburnt wrote:
What sort of flies are you using for walleye?


Fruit flies or tsetse flies.


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 2:46 pm • # 15 
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Fruit flies or tsetse flies?????
Neither, house fly or horse fly?


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 3:17 pm • # 16 
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If he's having fun, I suppose they might be time flies? ;)
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 6:41 pm • # 17 
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wheezeburnt wrote:
If he's having fun, I suppose they might be time flies? ;)
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Well you both happen to be wrong because I use walleye flies. :P

Here's my biggest walleye on a fly... 26 1/2"
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And here's the fly used to catch it.
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The pattern I use most often in going for walleye, sauger, smallmouth, etc. is a leech pattern.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 7:49 pm • # 18 
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Nice! Thanks. And next to yellow perch, probably one of the best 'eating' fish out there. Of course, a walleye that size is worth a dozen of the perch we catch around here, meat-wise.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2019 8:20 am • # 19 
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Harry nice fish and equally nice fly.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2019 11:38 am • # 20 
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Nice walleye!!!


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