Tips - Everything & Everything

[joes spot]

a good fishing spot is only good if you keep it to yourself

[lineman49]

Pa always said " Don't pi$$ into the wind, you'll get your sneakers wet" ! Also; "If A-Holes could fly this place would be an airport! And that's my tip of the day!

[bailey]

Pa always said " Don't pi$$ into the wind, you'll get your sneakers wet" ! Also; "If A-Holes could fly this place would be an airport! And that's my tip of the day!

I think Lineman just implied were all a$$ holes lol jk

[lineman49]

I think Lineman just implied were all a$$ holes lol jk

That's NOT true just quoting what Dad use to say..

[Lerie]

Been fishing for walleye for 50 years. While handling these fish, most of us have felt the pain of getting caught by a spine and especially the gill plates. About 25 years ago my wife bought me one of those Kevlar fishing gloves. Initially I started using it for cleaning fish. Then one day I had a brain cramp idea of putting it in the boat and use it to handle fish. It turned out to be the best brain cramp idea I ever had. Occurrences of jabs and gill plate cuts were eliminated. Have 2 boats and one in each. Last year I accidently discovered another excellent feature of using this glove. Netted a walleye and when it was placed on the boat floor it started to thrash about wildly. Since the head part of the fish was entangled in the net with the hooks, I had a shot of grabbing that fish by the narrow part of the tail. I was amazed at how I could handle and control that fish as the glove did not slip. Since that discovery, I handle all of the walleye I catch that way.

I always bleed out my fish and will have a future post about that subject. I use a pair of pointed tip game shears to cut the gills when placing them in the live well. That was not an easy task when holding the fish around the head, When I went to the tailing method with the glove, that task became very easy. After the fish has bleed out and expired in the live well I place them on ice in the cooler. When taking the fish out I tail them again with the glove and am able to shake the fish and expel most of the water off the fish. This way I don't introduce a lot of water into the cooler.