Slipbob's 2004 Walleye Chronicles!

[Grandpa Jack]

Slipbob,

Sunday night was probably the most romantic walleye dinner we've ever had & we've had a few. Its like that song  by George Strait, "THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIVING AND LIVING WELL".I just wish you could loosen that blindfold a little when we're riding out to X its cutting my circulation off.Walleyes are crossing my mind again. GJ

[big walleye]

Slipbob did you at least throw some drinking water in the trunk for Grandpa jack??

[wny angler]

at least you caught enough for dinner . the best fishing of the years yet to come.
 i'm gonna have to take a break from steelheading one of these days and see if i can catch me a walleye dinner.

[Bartman44]

Nice to see that you're still on them. Still empty stomachs?

[big walleye]

Well slipbob we did have a pretty good day. All pike.  6 for BW and 4 for the Grumpster but her caught the biggest pike. Man was it cold. My motor did not want to start and when I finally was ready to give up it started. I knew it was going to be rough when the drain plug was frozen at the bottom of the boat. All in all lot's of fun but we never caught 1 walleye. The pike were really hitting the lures. I had one nearly rob me of my rod. Well the boat is now parked for the winter. Wait it is nearly hard water season

[grumpymoe]

Slipbob...you bet this is the best time of the year....water temps yesterday were 41F and 42F where we nailed alot...not too many more days until it starts to freeze over...some of the smaller sloughs already have a light skiff or completely covered...aggressive feeding will last well into the start of hardwater until we start hitting -30 or more....2" perch was the largest in the ones i cleaned up....and alot of freshwater shrimp as well....Grump

[big walleye]

The ones I cleaned Grump had small minnows and perch also.

[TroutFishingBear]

My walleye reservoir has very cold water all year, I doubt it gets much passed 65. I have found stuff in the stomachs of walleyes year round oddly enough. The only reason the reservoir is so cold is because the water is pumped from an alpine stream, kannah creek, into this reservoir.

[big walleye]

Deer tick?? Is that like a woodtick that usually comes out in the spring? Grump you may be able to answer that one.

[wny angler]

thers only 2 things that freak me out big ugly spiders and ticks. luckily i havnt had any experiences with ticks here in western newyork   :)but was savagely attacked by ticks years ago in the woods of north carolina 

[Jigwiggler]

Whew, I'll second your report on the new moon shut off Slipbob!  We're a little behind you seasonally here in PA but the eyes were hitting pretty good last week.  Then WHAM the new moon rolls around and the walleyes got lock jaw!  I'm on vacation this week and have fished the last 3 nights with a total of 0 legal walleyes!!  Still getting some bass and other fish but that not what I've been after.  The end of the week should be better, if not I'm on vacation again the first 2 weeks of Nov. and I know it will be better them.

[Chucker]

thers only 2 things that freak me out big ugly spiders and ticks. luckily i havnt had any experiences with ticks here in western newyork   :)but was savagely attacked by ticks years ago in the woods of north carolina 

Most all of the counties here in Eastern NY that border the Hudson river have lots of ticks.  It get worse as you head down the Hudson towards NYC from Albany. 

I got nailed twice by deer ticks when I still lived in Dutchess County.  Got Lyme titers drawn, just in case.  They were negative (whew!)

[trapperdirk]

Well not to drag this thread off into tickdome but you lads shouldn't be pulling on those ticks removing them like that . It usually leaves part of the head attached to you and thats where the diseases get put into you often . Use some alcohol or anything to get them to release their grip then slowly remove them so as not to separate the head from the body attached to yourselves . If it never attached itself to me at one time or another then it doesn't live . LOL

[Trophy Hunter639]

HaHaHaHa Trapper i beleive you! swimming around in beaver ponds i can only imagine the things you've had attach themseves to you lol

[Jigwiggler]

Slipbob, if you keep your blood alcohol high enough they won't latch on in the first place!  I know it might be hard but prevenative measures will pay off in the end.