Yo DB,

just sent in another batch of photos.

-kypaddler

Fast work.

.... wish I had that pair of walleyes from my buddy Mike right now. They'd make a hellacious dinner on this snowy day.

- kypaddler

solotripper wrote on Jan 27^th, 2017 at 2:56pm:


I HAD that exact same stringer for years as well. Then, a couple of years ago, another buddy and I were fishing on Glacier in the rain, and he catches a nice smallmouth from the bow, and he turns around to show me, and an unloaded MNII is a bit tippy, and he didn't hold the fish between the gunnels, so to speak, but proudly held it out so I could see it, and just like that we were upside down.

I hadn't yet clipped the stringer in, and it was among the things we lost (along with MY fishing pole). You'd think it'd perhaps float, but it didn't.

The amazing thing is that the dude hadn't unhooked his fish yet, and when we went over, he held the pole in one hand and the fish was still attached -- and he NEVER lost the fish.

We swam the canoe to shore (cold cold cold), had to climb up on a fallen log to empty the water (the bank was nothing but cliffs) and he never lost the fish. Even though the dude wasn't wearing a life jacket.

Anyway, that's not my stringer in this pic, which was taken just a few months ago. Unfortunately, mine is on the bottom of Glacier Lake.

(Every picture tells a story -- and often more than one.)

- kypaddler

I have the same stringer, too... a couple of them, in fact. 

I bought a second one when the plastic in the first one wore out with age.  I was occasionally losing a fish - usually a bigger, stronger one - while paddling back to camp.  For a while I doubled up loops on bigger fish just to be sure but, eventually, I bought the identical stringer which works just fine.  I like them better than the metal ones which I find  bigger fish can more easily pop or twist open.

In recent years I've gone back to threading fish I intend to keep with a simple needle & ring fishing stringer (see: (You need to Login or Register to view media files and links) ), especially the larger ones.  They have to tear their own lip or jaw to get that one off... though I don't put it past a really mean pike to do so.  As I will eat trout or walleye first, I don't find myself dining on pike that often... but, occasionally, they join me for dinner.  I probably enjoy their taste more than most folks in my camps.

Thanks for the new batch of pics, KYP.  Spring can't come soon enough!

Jimbo   

MuleLars wrote on Jan 27^th, 2017 at 5:15pm:


I can't tell you how many times we've imagined the same thing: What's on the bottom?

There's a cliff where people dive in Kentucky, I think it's at Lake Cumberland. Dude jumps in, comes up with half a fishing rod he found on the bottom of the lake. Tosses it back in. A minute later, he finds the other half, wishes he hadn't tossed the first half.

ha ha.

- kypaddler