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Location: Winneconne | Purple Skeeter - 4/26/2009 9:45 AM
Jim,
Picking crawlers on Hwy 15 gives me an idea for a new Crawler Reality show... "Deadliest Catch, Crawler Style" Just imagine the camera crews following several teams onto the highway and filming the action, I gotta patient that idea!!
Dennis,
"Shut Up and Pick"
Got a good belly laugh from that one!
Purple Skeeter
This might work, we could film on hwy 41 during morning rush hour, more lanes = more crawlers = fantabulous ratings............i want royalties for throwing the idea out there |
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| wannagopro - 4/26/2009 10:21 PM
Shep - 4/26/2009 1:05 PM
Jim,
There were so many people beeping their horns at me, I don't know which was your wife! Let me know, and next time I'll launch a spatula full onto her windshield for you!
Im not one to point fingers or throw anyone under the bus, but i was suspecting it was you, afterall, it is your home town
Not my hometown. Just where I happen to reside right now. 5 more years, as soon as the daughter graduates, and I'm out of there.
So, what vehicle does she drive? Did she see me again this morning? I had the spatula locked and loaded! hehehe |
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Location: Winneconne | she has off on mondays, but if yer there tomorrow, ill tell her to beep |
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Location: Orland Park, IL | Has the late melt and all that food in the system, impacted the crawler spawn this spring?
Also can you put me in contact with the Buffalo NY Chapter? HA! |
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| I think OJ is the Buffalo Chapter Pres now. I'm sure it's because he is used to being on all 4's by now!
Bumper crop so far this year. The last couple of rains have yielded record numbers of fat crawlers on the roads. Easy pickens with my new spatula I got for X-mas from the in-laws! Only problem is the new truck sits higher, and I gotta lean out more than before. I wear a bike helmet now, just in case.
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| Anybody out crawlering after the rain? I haven't run any over yet so I'm not sure I sure start using crawlers on the river yet this year! |
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Location: Menasha, WI | I was thinking it might be a little early in the season but I found a few raking the yard. I guess it's time to pull the cool whip containers out. |
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| Any local crawler reports? Still too early?
I still need to drop about 10 lbs to be in better crawlering form. |
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | I saw tons of them the week before the snow storm. They probably are 10' deep now waiting for winter to finally leave!! |
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Location: Berlin | We got 8 dozen last night. Not as good as I thought it would be but I was out early. Going out again tonight a little later, will post the results. |
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Location: Winneconne | with my relocating over the off season to Oshkosh, I have not yet been out yet. Im still scouting the area but have a few spots that i think might pay off for me..........wish me luck |
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| My prime plot of land is so wet all the crawlers migrated south. The fishin is gonna be good in China! Vados is getting my business this year. Where else do YOU buy crawlers.
Good Luck
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| I get mine from the Amish neighbor kid. One dollar a dozen!!! |
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Location: Berlin | Punded them last night. My son had gotten a headlamp for Christmas. I used that last night and never knew how much the light itself can affect the catch until now. They were not spooked at all and you could keep the light right on them. It literally doubled my catch rate per hour. |
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| "They were not spooked at all and you could keep the light right on them"
Sounds like an old crawler tale to me....
Almost 15,000 views... you people really got to get on the water more! |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Purple Skeeter - 5/10/2011 12:56 PM
you people really got to get on the water more!
Word has it they're bitin' right off your dock... |
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Location: Winneconne | found a gold mine that has been under my nose for 25 years.......who knew that all i had to do was look around at my parents house right on Lake Winneconne?????? |
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| Hmmm.... who told you,
I have not had my boat in the water in 2 weeks. The Perch and Bluegill fishing has been really good. The Walleyes just started 5 days ago. It's getting harder and harder to sleep at night.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to troll on a 60 foot dock? By the end of the night, I'm tired from waling back and forth at 1.8 mph.
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Location: Menasha, WI | Purple Skeeter - 5/10/2011 4:51 PM
Do you have any idea how hard it is to troll on a 60 foot dock? By the end of the night, I'm tired from waling back and forth at 1.8 mph.
Ha! I heard about this new fangled device called a slip-bobber. Maybe you should give it a try... |
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Location: Menasha, WI | Anybody having any luck? Not often you get to pick crawlers in December. |
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| Can someone please take me ice fishing this year and show how to catch fish through the ice. I have 3 inches in front of my house. I have a jiffy ice auger drill, 2 hand drills, a tent, 6 tipups and 6000 crankbaits...oops, that won't help will it?
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| Starting to get hooked on this ice fishing thing... even managed to put a few limits of Perch and Gills in the bucket this week in front of the house. Watching the video camera makes the days interesting and sure eliminates a lot of dead water.
Purple Skeeter
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| As the current President of the NCA (National Crawler Association) I am considering filing a Federal Lawsuit against Quick Trip. Like many of my fellow crawlerers... I occasionally stop at Quick Trip to fill up my boat, 35 gallons of premium, and get supplies for a day on the water. I rarely leave the store without dropping $50-$75 dollars for a day on the water. But this has got to stop... $5.79 for 20 Nightcrawlers!! holy Buss bedding Batman!! Now I'll have to admit, I have been very lazy and crawlering has not been a top priority for me, but come on man, $5.79 for 20 crawlers.... That's Highway Robbery and that's where the Federal Lawsuit comes in. I'm calling for a complete travel ban whenever it rains. Just think of the Millions of dollars that are being wasted by careless drivers without any regard to our precious national resource. In fact, I've done some calculations and I'm pretty sure we could make a big dent in the national debt with every heavy downpour. (I was working on this while I was figuring out Axel's crawler harness depth chart)
Please me in the fight and support this Federal Lawsuit.. and also the boycott Quick Trip....
Dominic
President NCA
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| Does anyone know some good areas in Appleton, Menasha, and Neenah where I can catch nite-crawlers after a good rain? |
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| Crawlering on Christmas day... this could be a first.
On my way out to the deer stand for T-zone last week, the cut corn field was exploding with crawlers. I was tempted to take everything out of my bucket and start collecting... but in the end, I opted to "let em grow" till next spring.
I may have just discovered the greatest Honey Hole in the world. This 80 acres of soil had so many crawlers I was awe struck.
Dreaming of Spring!!
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