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Connor4501
03-07-2005, 11:36 PM
I mean to tell you, WHAT A DAY...Fished for over 10 hours today, including Metro's south marina, Venetian, Campau Bay, and a few other canals bordering the Clinton River...Caught an estimated 500+ perch, only brought home 16 and some of those were only 7" (buddy wants some fish)...The cold front took care of any chance for the nicer perch to bite on this evening...

I then get to my car. I'm exhausted after working all night Sunday night and being up all day Monday...I have a flat tire...Put some "Fix-a-flat" in the tire but can hear the air just oozing out...Drive the 1/4 mi. to the gas station and its flat again by the time I get there...

Ok, I'll just change the tire and put the spare on and I'll be on my way...Not so fast. No trouble at all getting the lugnuts off. Then when it came time to pull the tire off, it was just corroded to the bone and stuck something fierce...The person running the gas station at S. River & Jefferson gave me a can of WD-40 at no charge...It eventually works as I used my spud to poke and prod at the tire and finally get it loose...

A very big thank you to the person at the gas station. He made every effort to help me out any way he could...My hat's off to him, he saved me from calling either a tow truck or the fire dept. to get the tire loose...Make sure you patronize that gas station when your in the neighborhood...

All I could think of when I caught all those dinks today was:

Price of bait for the day: $6.00

Price of gas to get there and back home: $10-12

The look on my son's face when he catches his 1st nice perch thru the ice next winter: priceless... ;)



koby
03-08-2005, 08:53 AM
craig, its amazing that there are still no keepers to be caught

ive got to give it up to you for withstanding mother nature for 10 hours...that wind was pretty stiff...youve got to be insane

were you using the crawler chunks again??

koby
kbkrause
03-08-2005, 08:59 AM
big thank you to the person at the gas station. He made every effort to help me out any way he could...My hat's off to him, he saved me from calling either a tow truck or the fire dept. to get the tire loose...

Give his manager a call and tell him. Like the saying goes, when I do bad tell me, when I do well tell my manager.:)
ICEGUY
03-08-2005, 09:54 AM
Good report, thank you. Sorry for bad luck, glad it all worked out. I have been only getting dinks as well lately, but it will pick up as soon as the lake is open and the marinas still have ice. tightlinesyall
Connor4501
03-08-2005, 03:49 PM
craig, its amazing that there are still no keepers to be caught

ive got to give it up to you for withstanding mother nature for 10 hours...that wind was pretty stiff...youve got to be insane

were you using the crawler chunks again??

koby

Yep...and almost all the keepers caught on them...The problem is that the dinks just love em too.
Week End Redneck
03-09-2005, 11:38 AM
Fished the Venetian for about 5 hours tuesday. Caught a ton of dinks and one keeper 10". Heard the same from everybody else too. Going to try the lake Sunday. Probally SANG or Campua.
johnny white
03-09-2005, 07:06 PM
hey craig - your arm must be getting big from jiggin and pullin up all those fish !
Connor4501
03-09-2005, 08:25 PM
hey craig - your arm must be getting big from jiggin and pullin up all those fish !

Changing a flat tire was not something I wanted to do after all a long day on the ice... :dizzy:
fishing extreme
03-09-2005, 09:26 PM
hey johnny white:

i thought i was the only Sickboy on this site - or in this area, for that matter.:evilsmile
brianroy6
03-09-2005, 09:30 PM
Even though that attendent was nice, and gave you a free can of wd40, i wouldnt tell his manager. Im sure he wouldnt praise him to much for giving away his supplies for free:lol: :lol: .
Im heading up north for some steel head in a couple weeks:yikes:
Goodluck on the perch.:cool: