2020 Hot Stove

One of my friends post his fishing stuff on facebook and he was out last weekend now this guy is a good hunter and usually does well when fishing,but it looked like he had a big fish at the top of his video,so we inquired as to what was his competition in the film,someone said shark but he said it was a seal to which I replied if I was a gambler I would bet you had a low count if any.

So then they railed him on trying to take on a seal and he did get shut out so then he mentions that a Game Warden checked him out on his way out and his story was that he told him he had a loaded Pistol under his jacket concealed,the Warden said to him well as long as it stays there we have no problem,which to that story a couple of us since he was on a State Park thought he received quite the gift from this guy.Of course they got in a bit of a disagreement over laws and a lazy Game Warden or he just had a friendly one so after he told the one guy that would not let it go to Fu** OFF they exchanged a couple post each about how wrong each was than the I am Sorry ones and that was a day on facebook for us from the same town.Have to do something when your bored at home besides taking .

Two Sisters from Chicago living together with one of them married who's Husband also from Chicago  is a Big Fisherman and is going out every chance he gets to fish.the Sister asks her married Sister if she is worried about her Husband catching the Virus and getting sick,she thinks about it for a min.and tells her,I do not think its a problem,

HE NEVER CATCHES ANYTHING.

Haha good one Jeg

sac the way I heard it was nothing about Chicago,I added that part in for you and ODB,

i saw that meme. lmao. i like your little twist to it. 

sac - you weren't happening to fish out deep quarry when you were mentioning musky, were you? i forgot that place is in carol stream. i was going to head there last week but it was getting too late by the time i was able to get out

Lake Mallard, next to the garbage dump

i saw that meme. lmao. i like your little twist to it.

ODB,thanks,I figured since I had 2 fisherman here that to reprint with the Chicago reference was much better,.

I'm hittin up Lake Geneva tomorrow odb. Hope the Smallmouth are biting. First day on the boat.

So far this year I've caught a 5-12 and 5-7 largemouth on a rattle trap. Got a 4-9 and a couple 4-1's on the chatterbait. A good amount of 3 pounders. 3 decent walleye as well. Most days were grinders from the bank. The 2 best days were the March and April full moons.

As of now all Bass tournaments in the country are postponed and a lot will be cancelled. A lot of people are predicting that Bass populations will have a healthy bounce back due to social distancing for covid19.

It's IRONic, a disease that transferred from animal/fish to humans is now improving animal/fish populations across the world. Mother Nature is doing it's thing. Life always finds a way. I see this pandemic as mother nature's human forest fire.

Also, many reports are suggesting that air and water pollution are at an all time low and getting better.

Did you know? Since 1950, the blue fin tuna population has plummeted by 97%. In 2017 many wildlife organizations pleaded to put the fish on the endangered species list. Donald Trump wanted no part of it. The Industry was too big of a $ maker.

This season was the first time something was done here in American waters, even though only 3% of the world market's blue fin tuna come from American waters. There is a 1 fish per day limit per boat.

Shark populations have also plummeted, nearly 27% in the past 5 years. This is mostly due to the Chinese thinking that "shark fin soup" prevents cancer and other diseases. There is no truth to this. Chinese fishermen continue to catch em, cut off the fins and dump the carcasses back into the ocean. There are videos and reports of the sharks still alive with no fin swimming for hours until their inevitable deaths.

Despicable human behavior

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”

One of my favorite authors, Dostoyevsky...

Nothing any animal does is cruel. It is all driven by instinct. When they kill it is either for food or self defense, or a perceived threat, and there is never any form of torture. The very term bestial is ludicrous, since no animal on earth does anything unnecessary for it's own survival. They are low intelligence creatures programmed for survival and pro-creation, nothing else.

Well said, Key. 

We really would do much better to stay on just the art of catching fish or any other old sport story and not get into how cruel Man can be,us old guys that study the old history of the forming of the USA heard things that did not make us look good as a founding nation,esp,killing anyone that tried to keep their land.

so fish or old sports.

I heard that Jeg pouches red snapper underneath the Golden State Bridge

Happy Easter everyone 

Glenn Beckert, Cub 2nd baseman has passed away. Beckert was part of the double play combination of Kessinger, Beckert and Banks.

Beckert was a 4 time all star. He was 80 years old.

A Pittsburgh guy.

RIP 

Hi

Well now sac, I suppose it is possible JEG poaches fish but if so he probably needs a pouch to put them in. Cut him some slack, he is a dago from San Francisco and that is about as Califruity as it gets. He can probably claim his ancestors came the long way from Euro-wop and did not trample the rights or property of any Native Americans before the truly white invaders had already done the major damage. Even Mussolini had excuses, and JEG has understudied him and Trump both. 

We have had nothing but Internet interruptions for three days and I will bet all you guys missed me terribly, with the possible exception of J**.

I'm back   

SF Bay has quite the diversity of different money crops from the bay bridge to Golden Gate,from Herring to Squid I believe they have a Salmon season to,Sea Bass and then the farms they have now from abalone or any other 50 bucks a pound fish,lol.

You sure that is Abalone or just plain old Baloney? Or the favored Italian spelling, Balogna? I didn't think there was anything between the Bay Bridge and Golden Gate but dead hippies and gangsters. Thanx for the enlightenment.