05-02-2015, 05:11 PM
"New moon middle of the month on a Monday is enticing or sometime around it. It is definitely time"
[#0000FF]The upcoming full moon is Sunday and Monday. My fave full moons...for walleyes...are June and July. Some good shoreline shallow fishing for the big hogs. Not sure about the May full moon. Water is still cool at Starvy and I suspect that will be about the time they finish their spawn over there. Give it a couple of weeks after that and things should heat up.
About that marker thing. I have had times in the past when guys in bass boats have thrown markers out within a few feet of my tube and then lay claim to all waters surrounding the marker. Sometimes I think they think my tube is just a big slalom marker. And other times it is a placeholder for them to move in and take over a good spot. Fair play and sportsmanship? Hey...biggest craft has the right of way. Right?
Since I always have my camera on a lanyard around my neck I love to pull it up and take pics of these guys...at close range. The reactions are priceless. They don't know if I am going to report them for something or what...and can't figure out what they might have been doing wrong. Some get downright belligerent. Gives me pleasure to give them displeasure. One of my favorite responses is to say "I'm putting together a book on #$$holes I have met on the water. I'm thinking you guys will probably make the cover." And, by the way, I have a pretty large file of pics I have collected over the years. Maybe I will do that book.
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[#0000FF]The upcoming full moon is Sunday and Monday. My fave full moons...for walleyes...are June and July. Some good shoreline shallow fishing for the big hogs. Not sure about the May full moon. Water is still cool at Starvy and I suspect that will be about the time they finish their spawn over there. Give it a couple of weeks after that and things should heat up.
About that marker thing. I have had times in the past when guys in bass boats have thrown markers out within a few feet of my tube and then lay claim to all waters surrounding the marker. Sometimes I think they think my tube is just a big slalom marker. And other times it is a placeholder for them to move in and take over a good spot. Fair play and sportsmanship? Hey...biggest craft has the right of way. Right?
Since I always have my camera on a lanyard around my neck I love to pull it up and take pics of these guys...at close range. The reactions are priceless. They don't know if I am going to report them for something or what...and can't figure out what they might have been doing wrong. Some get downright belligerent. Gives me pleasure to give them displeasure. One of my favorite responses is to say "I'm putting together a book on #$$holes I have met on the water. I'm thinking you guys will probably make the cover." And, by the way, I have a pretty large file of pics I have collected over the years. Maybe I will do that book.
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