Thanks Greg, I just bought the Creek Co. ODC 420 for my son. I let him know about the getting in and out issues, he says he already knows all about that, says he has been all over the net one step ahead of me.

thanks again

Sure Greg! Lets be friends and talk fishin! Jim

Hey Greg...to be honest, I don't know what the criteria is for the 5 star, or any star, rating system. Might be a question to run by Bruce...he would know.

Hey thanks for the compliment, but in all honesty, I am not a world-class anything or anybody who is even remotely special just because I got a few articles published. I see and hear so many writers who act and claim to be something special because they have been published. I don't want to be that way...I just want to be blessed...and I am!

But thanks, all the same! Jim

do you tie flies? if so do you use knots or do you just rap the string around tight? i want to learn. ill reaserch how to do it also. just asking.

i like pic #S 12,11,1

Hey Greg...there are several ways to fish the jigs...
1- you can cast them and let them fall on a tight line and give them the ocassional twitch or lift of the rod tip, stayin in touch with the lure at all times for strike detection.
2- you can cast them with an attached bobber and use either a steady retrieve, a slow retrieve with sporadic 'pops' or twitches. Or you can allow the wind to bob and push the jig along a productive area.Use a bait to tip on this one and when the bobber goes under set the hook.
3- You can cast them with a slip-bobber and work them in a slow, tantalizing fashion that dictates for the day.

I fish most of my hairjigs with out a bobber and maintain a tight line on the descent as some cold water crappies will bump it on the way down. Sometimes, a simple 'lift up, retrieve down' tactic will get fish.

hope this helps Jim

Hey Greg...I think I answered some of those questions yesterday...check my Nov 27 comments on you comment wall. Jim

Hey Greg- I am certainly not deciding ,let alone desiring,to kill bluejays for their feathers!I've found them in the yard and in the woods.I can't imagine getting prosecuted for a found feather laying on the ground.Are you saying if I lived in Oklahoma that could happen?Thats unbelievable!!

THATS RIDICULOUS!!!it is an excuse for ripping off people that aren't even criminals in my view....now wonder if they'll work on yellow perch! Also, I found a bunch of Blue Jay Feathers in the yard today. I am sure a hawk got a sick Jay thats been hanging around our bird feeders the past several days

i know how she did that effect with the handie caped parking...do you? (jen) pic #2. (i like pics # 3, 6, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 31 out of 56.)

Hi Greg,
Didn't mean to be nosey and don't really know how I came across your question about rating pictures. I'm assuming (uh oh) it's about pictures on here and I probably was following threads on different pages. Anyway, you rate your own pics and can edit their rating. Go to your albums, open a picture and on the right of the page somewhere are those five stars and you can choose how many by clicking on them. Those five stars are also on the left side of the page but the right side is where you change them.

I only catch Florida Gators. The one in my pics is an Alabama gator. As long as the float tubes are made of elephant hide, Gators are no problem!!!!!!

On the rating thing, I swear I just moved my mouse across stars on one of mine and it got high ratings. If you're going to rate it yourself, it ain't much of a rating system is it? Now if they'd let us rate each others! The web platform this site is built on, Ning, is still growing and making changes as it grows. There are a number of things I wish I could do but it's just not possible. Yet. I hope.

Hey Greg, we've got perch in the great lakes and many inland lakes. They are usually found in the same type of areas walleye are found. These fish were in about 18 ft. right on bottom. They love minnows,wigglers,crawdad tails,or sometimes worms jigged right off the bottom. They seem to turn on when the weather turns cold in the fall.

I forgot to say that I was under a bridge with a rip-rap bottom.

You want them crickets posed sexy or what? I don't have any right now but will try to get you some pics maybe this weekend.

Whats a scamp?

You read I wouldn't be caught dead near the water without crickets!
I will get crickets. I miss crickets. I have been bad. I have been wishing instead of fishing lately. I will pose them for you. They will be super sexy! Ask any big bluegill you know.

Hey Greg...good to hear from you. I sent you some jigs today so you should recieve them next week sometime. Included a few 1/124 oz ties that are really simple but catch fish.

Yellow perch in the winter are always right on the bottom, whether its 15 ft deep or 35...we have caught them at all depths but they tend to always be near some kind of structure...weedbeds that are dying off, rock humps or mid-lake humps in deep water, rocky points that drop off quick, stuff like that. This is what we look for at Deep Creek Lake in Western MD where we have taken a number of 2 pounders in recent years. We use spoons and Rapala Ice raps and tip em with waxworms or maggots or Gulp. Jig em on 6 lb line with short rods with wire-tip indicators we make ourselves...something like a spring bobber only we make ours out of guitar strings and attach them permanantly at the rod tip. Fish them about 6 in off the bottom and keep moving til we find fish.

see ya Jim

You're correct Greg, it is a crime in Okla to possess hawk, eagle or songbird feathers. And the fines are quite stiff I hear. Also the music you added is outstanding. Nothing better than some good blues!

These sexy enough fer ya?!!!!!!

Hay Greg, I use 3 different shacks right now but have only set up one portable Frable so far. Look at the pictures on my page, I put on some pictures of my overnighter. Kinda sad to think there's only about three months left for icefishing. JR

Thanks for the kind words Greg.I am going to have to get into flyrodding .Dont know why I haven't done it more .I have a few rods and reels downstairs that need dusting off.
Do you catch multispecies on your flyrod? Is that spark bug lighter than 64th oz? I fish a small boat most of the time and dont bring the flyrod out but I should.

Thanks Greg! I will be a prototype engineer! Very similar to industrial design. I'm currently talking with Northland Tackle about a intership. I want to design and build prototype fishing lures!

Actually, Greg, we only had about 19 inches of snow. Got to use my new snow blower, which was cool. Looking forward to those lures of yours!

Our daytime highs are now in the upper 30's while at night we are around 20 F, that's enough to put a 1-2 inch skim of ice on some lakes, but not enough to walk on. I am going down to southern Delaware on Mon thru Wed after Christmas to fish some tidal creeks and millponds for some crappie. They are usually very concentrated this time of year and if we can find them it should be good.

Might be some skim ice on some of those ponds, but all of the tidal creeks and spillways will be open...just not cold enough and the tidal movement makes it tough for ice to form. It's gonna be bobber/jigs/bait fished around wood structure and deeper holes..6 to 8 feet is deep on the Shore and most ponds have a deep hole right at the base of the earthen dams and all species concentrate there in the winter. On the right day, fishing can be fabulous.

If we do any good I'll send you some pics. See ya Jim

Think he was eating a rodent, and I'm a poor judge of distance, but the zoom worked well on the camera

Hi Greg, 15 below this morning in WI. A buddy is stopping over shortly and it out to the ice shack. GO PAC JR

Hay Greg,
Been working hard all week so I can fish a 3 day weekend. Taking the wife iceshack fishin sat. Going to be a warm weekend. up yo 30 they say. JR

Thanks Greg. They are ice caught. I've been used to catching 15-25 fish lately, so things have slowed a bit.

Greg,
The fly is a size 6 brown Wooly Bugger with some gold flashabou tied in with the tail and I use a product called Rumphf opalescent root beer for the body instead of chenille. This pic was taken back in September.

that damsil that you gave is really awesome thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<3

i'm doing better with my tieing now... and those sites did help. now i juse gotta wait for the ice to leave

Hello Greg,
Indeed, I have been a member of the Dallas Fly Fishers for about a year now. I'll look for you the next time.
Richard Wayne

Yeah, Greg...its been a tough winter, and I am very glad I took the early retirement options, which weren't particularly great, but they were good enough for me.

Right now I am writing for 5 different publications and tying lots of jigs, and I have some seminars and shows to do next month along with some springtime instructional fishing classes. So, I'm busy trying to make a living at fishing...may get my guide license in MD and see where that leads. God is good...all the time! I don't have a lot of money, but I have been out of debt for 3 years and I am a very rich man, in many ways.

Thanks for the hollar...bless you Jim

Thank you Greg, I'll look into the Smallmouth rendezvous.

If you're talking about the big hybrid striper, I caught that on a homemade hand-tied brown wooly-bugger. I'll try to post a picture of it sometime.

I ain't a fly tyer so I ain't qualified to say. Send me a hundred or so of 'em and I'll see if they can go head to head with the original.

I ain't much of a fly fisherman either. Just rubber legged foam spiders every now and then. I looks pretty good to me. I'll agree the color is a little on the dark side for a cricket but it is a work in progress huh?

Hey, it's 47 degrees outside right now and feels like a walk in freezer. How do all them ice holers stand it? They should all be inside tying up little cricket replicas. Keep me posted, especially when you present it to the experts down under.

Yeah, I'm so used to buyin' 'em by the hundreds though. I saw something you posted in the fly tying group about a sinking cricket problem. I want mine to sink. I have thrown a handful of live ones out just to get the gills stirred up. When I do it on purpose, they always seem to make it to safety. When I accidently knock my cricket cage overboard, I pretty quick start hearing these suck-pop sounds. I wonder what the difference is? The splash of the cage hittin' the water maybe? They seem to know the difference somehow, when they're being set up and when it's manna from Heaven.
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I rated it 5 stars. Great hat, great smile, great eyes.

doomaflatchy. Do you have this word copyrighted? Cause I was gonna use it on Mayo.

Boogieman

Thanks for the input Greg, I think I,ll go find me some yarn at a craft store or maybe walmart. I will give it a go and see what I can come up with. Thanks alot for the suggestion, the wire should help keep em from getting eat up... or I mean tore up too bad

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Sorry you lost your purdy Greg. It did look good to me. Good enough I would have flipped it out there. Had a bad ole big ole bluegill tied it up in a brush pile, I would have gone in after it. 'Cause "Purdy Is As Purdy Does".

Since you know it is hitable, make another like it. Make a backup too! Make a 100! Crickets love company.


BoogiepileitonMan

How's the fishing down your way Greg?

Thanks so much Greg, I am pumped about this area! I hope to run into all of the "gill guys" and get in some great fishing!

Yeah if there is any left, I found that while googlin' (deep) for bluegill pics. I've seen all sorts of fish, but that's the first time I've ever saw hot squog before.

Thanks, dragonfly's fascinate me. By the way your "crappie spider grub" looks good but think ya might need a few more rubber legs up top. I was thinkin of tying one and using long guinea hackle up top. I'll have to see what I can come up with.

Hey Greg...back in the old days, shad were highly prized for their roe and flavor and were pickled, broiled and baked as a food fish. Since 1973 Maryland has had a moretorium on shad. However, the past ten years has seen a resurgence in these fish in areas of the Mid-Atlantic. As a result, we can now fish for them on a catch and release basis. This is great news for recreational fishermen. I have only been fishing for them for the last five years and some of my 'all-time' best trips on the water were shad fishing. They cannot be commercially harvested at this time.

When is that smallmouth get together?

By the way, I like the music on your home page!