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I'll start:

I learned that on their 13th birthday all boys have their brains sucked out to be replaced at some unknown time. Knowing this has improved my parenting skills drastically. Help?

Rooster Cogburn wrote:I'll start:

I learned that on their 13th birthday all boys have their brains sucked out to be replaced at some unknown time. Knowing this has improved my parenting skills drastically. Help?

It's called puberty

i learned that when slow moving water hits fast moving water it creates a break. and that is essentially a walleye lunch line. has certainly made my life a little better.

HenryGale wrote:

Rooster Cogburn wrote:I'll start:

I learned that on their 13th birthday all boys have their brains sucked out to be replaced at some unknown time. Knowing this has improved my parenting skills drastically. Help?

It's called puberty

Thanks, I didn't know that.

RubberMallet wrote:i learned that when slow moving water hits fast moving water it creates a break. and that is essentially a walleye lunch line. has certainly made my life a little better.

Great one. i'll have to use it. I wonder if it is true for trout in streams?

I learned that having a 20 year old only son leaving the nest for a summer greatly improves my quality of life!

I learned that diet and exercise really does work.
over a long period of time

Let's see... Greg Norman folded during the last day of a major championship golf event, and OJ Simpson was in the news for crimes.

I look forward to 1997.

RubberMallet wrote:i learned that when slow moving water hits fast moving water it creates a break. and that is essentially a walleye lunch line. has certainly made my life a little better.

And now I have learned that.

Rooster Cogburn wrote:

RubberMallet wrote:i learned that when slow moving water hits fast moving water it creates a break. and that is essentially a walleye lunch line. has certainly made my life a little better.

Great one. i'll have to use it. I wonder if it is true for trout in streams?

i would assume so. i've caught most stream trout by throwing flys or inline spinners into slack water behind boulders or eddies caused by bends in the stream.

That is what I do , and I guess it is close to the same thing you said about Walleye? I love spinning or flycasting for trout in streams!

Well...I got married...so I learned that I do what she says.

AZjonz wrote:

RubberMallet wrote:i learned that when slow moving water hits fast moving water it creates a break. and that is essentially a walleye lunch line. has certainly made my life a little better.

And now I have learned that.

since it actually brought interest i'll expand upon it.

generally i walleye fish in the spring and fall. when they are stacked up near damns and its easy. after the spawn in the spring, females will head back down the river while the males stick around for a little bit longer. then after a week or so the males will move down as well. these fish will find slack water and will just ambush prey as it moves on by. i learned this from an old curmugeon who took me fishing in june. he said we are going walleye fishin and i told him he was nuts. We basically went down the mississippi looking for breaks...at each break we would start at the top and drift it with a jig and minnow....just real quick, no fish, we didn't stay....our 4th break we caught a fish....motor back up and do it again...we caught 5 walleye off that spot. a few small ones and a nice keeper. we hit about 15 other breaks and found fish on about 4 of them. we caught around 30 fish in 60 degree water...thats nuts.

we marked them on gps and hit them at night and had even better luck...

in the summer i don't generally fish because i fish mainly for crappie and walleye....well that (much to my wifes chagrin) has changed as of this summer.

RubberMallet wrote:

AZjonz wrote:

RubberMallet wrote:i learned that when slow moving water hits fast moving water it creates a break. and that is essentially a walleye lunch line. has certainly made my life a little better.

And now I have learned that.

since it actually brought interest i'll expand upon it.

generally i walleye fish in the spring and fall. when they are stacked up near damns and its easy. after the spawn in the spring, females will head back down the river while the males stick around for a little bit longer. then after a week or so the males will move down as well. these fish will find slack water and will just ambush prey as it moves on by. i learned this from an old curmugeon who took me fishing in june. he said we are going walleye fishin and i told him he was nuts. We basically went down the mississippi looking for breaks...at each break we would start at the top and drift it with a jig and minnow....just real quick, no fish, we didn't stay....our 4th break we caught a fish....motor back up and do it again...we caught 5 walleye off that spot. a few small ones and a nice keeper. we hit about 15 other breaks and found fish on about 4 of them. we caught around 30 fish in 60 degree water...thats nuts.

we marked them on gps and hit them at night and had even better luck...

in the summer i don't generally fish because i fish mainly for crappie and walleye....well that (much to my wifes chagrin) has changed as of this summer.

I've tried walleye fishing in northern Arizona and have caught only Pike - never could get one of those. Now I see that I had no clue what I was doing (which I suspected at the time). I hear Walleye is one of the better tasting fish.

And no, this not off-topic as I am learning something here right now in 2008!

Great Stuff, Mallet. Thanks. Now someone stock some Walleye around here so I can try it. I will try it with Trout.

AZjonz wrote:

RubberMallet wrote:

AZjonz wrote: And now I have learned that.

since it actually brought interest i'll expand upon it.

generally i walleye fish in the spring and fall. when they are stacked up near damns and its easy. after the spawn in the spring, females will head back down the river while the males stick around for a little bit longer. then after a week or so the males will move down as well. these fish will find slack water and will just ambush prey as it moves on by. i learned this from an old curmugeon who took me fishing in june. he said we are going walleye fishin and i told him he was nuts. We basically went down the mississippi looking for breaks...at each break we would start at the top and drift it with a jig and minnow....just real quick, no fish, we didn't stay....our 4th break we caught a fish....motor back up and do it again...we caught 5 walleye off that spot. a few small ones and a nice keeper. we hit about 15 other breaks and found fish on about 4 of them. we caught around 30 fish in 60 degree water...thats nuts.

we marked them on gps and hit them at night and had even better luck...

in the summer i don't generally fish because i fish mainly for crappie and walleye....well that (much to my wifes chagrin) has changed as of this summer.

I've tried walleye fishing in northern Arizona and have caught only Pike - never could get one of those. Now I see that I had no clue what I was doing (which I suspected at the time). I hear Walleye is one of the better tasting fish.

And no, this not off-topic as I am learning something here right now in 2008!

the problem with walleye fishing in AZ is you are pretty much limited to lake fishing where there isn't much current if any at all...

^^^

Pretty much.

I was told they like cold deep water here. Not sure on the accuracy of that as I never caught on one based on anyone's advice.

Fumblerooskies wrote:I learned that having a 20 year old only son leaving the nest for a summer greatly improves my quality of life!

i'll be sure to let jeff know that next time i see him!