Greg McWilliams's Comments

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!

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.

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

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

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!

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 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.

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?

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

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 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.

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 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.)

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

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!!

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

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

i like pic #S 12,11,1