Don309, I cover most of Eastern PA and act about like a retired guy squeezing paying work in where I have to. I’m going to be off later this coming week through New Years. If the weather isn’t favorable enough for you now I’m usually good for a few oversized trout in the spring or if Don/TC force me out onto stagnant water I can usually find an undersized biter or two.
In my defense I’m not a lure/spinner/BASS Pro guy so if God didn’t grow it I can’t throw it, at least not well. I’ve accidentally spooked fish into biting artificial but won’t try and play it cool like that’s my jam. If’n you can tolerate a bait checker let’s go fish! Travel isn’t a thing for me generally but with 4 kids, 3 still smallish Christmas might sort of clip my wings a little. I can probably squeeze in a few days travel here and there except right at the holiday.
My plan in the new year is to figure out the proper methods of bobber dogging, bottom bouncing, and jogging maybe though cutting a tiny hole to do the latter is most definitely not for me. All I want to do with ice is bust it out to steelhead fish or maybe if circumstances are good cut a big rectangle to gig a musky in the UP though I hear that’s not a single season thing, more like decades of trying and I’ve only a passing interest being an extension of a harpoon spear. Point blank harpooning is a rare obsession and I’ve been keen on spear hunting since boyhood but have yet to try beyond harpooning leviathans down south.,
. I won't be fishing again till spring, I'm now a fair weather guy. Travel is not a problem for me either.
