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Last year, I ended up buying a pair of Danner Gila as well. Great pair of boots and hunted quail with them all season. So far, holding up really well and very comfortable. Perfect for hunting and hiking in the desert hills. Also took them on an elk hunt in GMU 1 in December. No insulation, but still worked fine. They replaced my old school Vasque Skywalks that were resoled 3 times.

Got mine. 15 left.

Hit for $45, NICE!!!

I use a Plano 1532 Pro Max when going back and forth to MN in the fall every year to blast some ducks. You're more than welcome to borrow it. When do you need it?

7/12 at 9.22 AM

Troll the coves with a Husky Jerk, Taildancer, Shad Rap, etc maybe an hour before sundown while looking for boils. Come across a boil, throw a swim jig or chatterbait with a skinny dipper trailer past the boil and reel it through the boil. You should be able to hook up with some fish doing that. Evening time, head up by the tires and/or the dam. Drop anchor, throw out a light and wait. Once the shad start circling, the stripers will probably show up. Dropshot a 1/0 circle hook and a 3/8 oz weight with a 1/3rd of frozen anchovy and you should be good to go. Drop it to the bottom and reel up about 6 feet. Start there. If you don't get a bite, reel up some more. Wash, rinse, repeat until you're on fish.

I hunt out of a 2008 FJ Cruiser. Never been stuck anywhere, full time 4x4 (so far...knock on wood). It's been great so far, has decent storage and towing capacity is good for it's size. I fish a ton as well, so I also tow a Champion 181 on a single axle trailer. No problems there either. It's a 6 speed manual, so when going up the 87 to Roosevelt, I just downshift to 4th.

Saltwater or freshwater? I don't have too much experience with saltwater. But freshwater, I fish braid with fluorocarbon leaders on all of my rods except for my frog rod (straight 65# PP) and topwater rod for small poppers (straight Sunline Super Natural Mono). Been doing that for about a decade and haven't had any problems with it notching or digging into any of the guides. Bloody Decks forum might have a better answer

Yes, I'll typically do them via sous vide. Everything from rib eyes, strips, tenderloins, tri tip, backstrap, etc. Even ribs. Really really good. Rub meat with seasoning of choice, vacuum seal with a 1/2 tbsp of butter, sous vide at 130* for 90 min (longer if you have time). Remove meat then sear hard and fast on a hot skillet or grill (or my preferred method, lit charcoal chimney with a grate over it). 90 second sear on each side, then done. No need to let it rest coming from the bath.

Wow. Last year up there duck hunting it was low and Soldier seemed to be ok....but looks like the good times are over now. That lake had the biggest crawfish I've ever seen. Some friends of mine have a cabin up near the Blue Ridge fire station and we'd fish Long all the time in the summer. Then duck hunt in early November. Here's a couple pike (C&R) we've caught out of there. Big chartreuse Mepps spinners were killer there.

Topwater Rico in Lime Ice early in the AM and then later in the day towards sundown. Dropshot always produces. Craw cranks banging off of rip rap as well as green jerkbaits always produce. Post spawn I have decent luck when pitching a T-rigged weightless senko (black w/silver flake) near the edge of tullies

Picked up a couple

Great info. Thanks for this. I drive an '08 FJ Cruiser and so far...(knock on wood) it's been good to me. Only issues were when I first bought the truck in late '07, I had to have the throwout bearing replaced twice. There was a recall on it. Curious, did you receive any other quotes besides from the dealership?

Rapala CD-5 in firetiger or black/silver

Picked up a few

Me as well. Was up in 5A and scouted several areas. Very, very windy. Couldn't hear any birds. Hoping this weekend will be different.

I'm pretty new to the forum and figured I'd share some success. I was up scouting for turkey today with a buddy of mine up in 5A and ran across these two sheds today. First ever elk sheds for me....and of course like a dumb arse, spaced on getting a pic of ATL. I quail hunt a ton and then only other sheds I've come across are chalked deer sheds. So, I was pretty happy with this find. Anyways...here they are. I'll be back up in 5A for the next couple weekends chasing birds. I can see how this is addicting. Found them early in the AM and was on the constant look for the rest of the scout.

I have used this method very effectively. I don't have a problem knocking off a feral or stray cat that causes havoc in my yard, but I don't need Sheriff Joe knocking on my door. Cheap cans of wet cat food and traps worked like a charm for me. Every morning I put the traps in the back of my truck and drove the cats 19 miles to work, which was an industrial area in Tolleson. Let em go and never saw them again. This. Harbor Freight medium trap. $20 and works great. We had the exact same issue with a next door neighbor. I keep my bass boat covered tight as a drum in a covered area on the other side of my house. Cats would still figure out how to get under the boat cover and cause major issues. Called the county, the city of Phoenix, then the humane society. They wanted $91 a cat if I dropped them off at their place. They then suggested that I bring them in so they can spay/neuter them, then place them back in the same neighborhood. HF trap with wet cat food. Trap still works as well as it did on day one.

Nice. Will do. Saw a few birds, but nothing to write home about. Ran across more deer than turkeys...definitely a first for me in that area. But the wind was definitely kicking today....hopefully that subsides next week.

Happened to watch the Channel 12 interview after work today, pretty sure she lived on mushroom tea and peyote while she was out there. But kudos to her for being able to survive for 9 days on limited supplies. One of the reporters asked her to recap the moment she realized she was in trouble...this was her response.

Any thoughts on upgrading your trolling motor batteries? We had similar situations when a group of us would do a cast and blast up near Long Lake years' back. We'd be there fishing and duck hunting for a few days and never had an issue. Didn't bring a generator, but did use a 15W solar charger at the end of the day to top off the trolling batteries. My setup for the trolling motor/batteries were two Deka Intimidator AGM group 37's run in parallel to power a 12V Minn Kota 55# trolling motor. Windy as heck up at Long in the fall, so I was on the trolling motor all day. Got done fishing in the afternoon and hooked up the solar charger. Worked great. If you're fishing for longer periods of time, I would suggest keeping the solar charger on the troller batteries while fishing. But definitely think about upgrading to an AGM battery (or batteries in parallel) for the trolling motor. They last much longer than a standard wet-cell deep cycle. Granted some AGM's can work for a starter battery too, but you have to ensure the CCA's are large enough to turn over the outboard. Deka AGM's can also be used as a starting battery. I've used them for starting batteries as well as trolling motor batteries in my old tri-hull with a 50HP Johnson and also currently in my Champ 181 with a 150 Evinrude.

I was up at Apache last Saturday. Towed my Champ 181 on a single axle trailer. Took the back way in from Roosevelt. The road was in decent shape. Didn't lose any taillights on my trailer this time around, so in my opinion it was a good day. Smallies were crushing green Pointers and 110's. Picked up a few on dropshot and spider jigs. But seemed that craw cranks and jerkbaits were the ticket.

Yep, those are ringys. Nice job! A decent eater if you cook them right. Brining is key.

Any chance you would like to sell instead of trade? If so, how much are you wanting for them?