Rule #32:  Never answer the phone or text at the dinner table.


"CABIN FEVER" THOUGHTS


I've been reading how to catch winter smallmouth.

I think that's a bad sign.

Anyway, today, to keep myself from going down to the White and cast grubs across ice floes looking for a "fishy" looking area, I thought I would list the places I want to hit this spring with a vengeance:
And, once the season starts, I will take them one-by-one to present the way(s) I want to approach these waters this year:

1.  Fisher Pond
2.  "Keep Out" Lake
3.  Little Kentucky
4.  "Keep Out" Lake #2
5.  White River, upstream, from Treatment Center dam
6.  Mississinewa River
7.  Horse Pond
8.  Shamrock Lakes
9.  Buck Creek
10. The Rez
11. Small creeks, north-west of here, running under road bridges
12. Big Dirt
13. Doc's New Pond

I've got thirteen places to fish, at least.  As with the places I intend to fish, I'll tackle (haha!) each of these separately in a post.

1.  Fish at least once a week.
2.  Be on the lookout for a cheap john-boat.
3.  Check trolling motor or get new one.
4.  Make some new milk jug anchors.
5.  Buy/put together one more outfit:  This will be the ultra-light version of my last outfit:
     6' 6" Bass Pro Shops Micro Lite Rod
     Ultra-Light with the lightest weight Pfleuger President reel, model 6920.
6.  Put together a Medium--Medium Heavy outfit from the equipment I now have.  The rod Peg got          me from "points" at our bank is exactly what I need for this outfit.  I'll pick out the best reel for            heavier line, good drag, and load it with some heavier line.
7.  Become more proficient at cleaning fish, and subsequently eat more fish.  Also, when I'm fishing        cleaner water, I'm going to bring a cooler with ice each time, and kill some keepers, even if there        are only a few.  I'll clean those and freeze them so that I can build up enough for a meal.
8.  Buy cheap fly rod and learn to fly fish with new reel.  I got both at a rummage sale.  Now, I'm            going to try to find a store where I can buy backing, line, leader, and tippet, and have an employee     help me load it up.

There never seems to be enough writing about different gear and how to use it.  Though I'll treat these individually later, I will also try to identify the few ('cause I can't afford a $20 Rapala!!!) baits, lures, and gear that I will employ this season:

1.  Strike King Grub with Tiny Paca Chunk
2,  Larger beetle spin on White for Smallies
3.  [With Carly} Live bait on Fisher Pond
4.  Fly rod and automatic reel
5.  Wading the river with football cleets.
6.  White River bait fishing; standing in the river and casting upstream.
7.  Seining the river for crawdads, etc. to use as live bait.

+from Water Treatment Center, upstream
+shallow run just above falls across stream from Water Treatment Center--wading
+West Side Park and water down stream
+Between West Side Park and the High Street Bridge
+area around High Street Bridge
+shallow water around the Whiteley neighborhood
+area around the old wire factory