05-01-2025, 04:48 PM
Twenty four years ago, having loved fishing all my life, I decided to learn how. I had been doing more or less the same things that had worked my whole life. My early bass, perch, and walleye efforts in Utah had been weak. I had never caught a white bass, three trips tp UL as a kid had us puzzled about catfish, wipers and walleye were for the elites, rhe same guys who k ow where geese and elk can be found, etc.
I have had a subscription to Outdoor Life NdField and Strsam all my life. I checked the boards at Anglers Inn and Cabelas all the time, even called the DWR week-late fishing hotline.
My success and knowledge did not budge until I came to theis site 24 years ago and met TubeDude, and the rest of y'all. The first thing I picked up from him was the main missing piece of the puzzle: when to show up where, and then do what. That's the one thing I somehow hadn't put together.
If anyone really wants to honor such a good guys legacy in the future, it shoukd be by answering questions, sharing knowledge, etc. I've told 30 people how to catch crappies through the ice at PV, and there are still crappies there. TD has shared so much knowledge and lakes do change, fisheries shift, but that's not because you or I helped a new guy. I'm still snakebit on walleye, but I have gotten a good few wipers.
Every month of the year, I now have something I know to go try,that I want o do, and can probably catch fish doing. MOST of that is from TD, and the rest of the good folks here pick up the rest.
I'd love to see guys like you never get old! You are appreciated and loved here.
I have had a subscription to Outdoor Life NdField and Strsam all my life. I checked the boards at Anglers Inn and Cabelas all the time, even called the DWR week-late fishing hotline.
My success and knowledge did not budge until I came to theis site 24 years ago and met TubeDude, and the rest of y'all. The first thing I picked up from him was the main missing piece of the puzzle: when to show up where, and then do what. That's the one thing I somehow hadn't put together.
If anyone really wants to honor such a good guys legacy in the future, it shoukd be by answering questions, sharing knowledge, etc. I've told 30 people how to catch crappies through the ice at PV, and there are still crappies there. TD has shared so much knowledge and lakes do change, fisheries shift, but that's not because you or I helped a new guy. I'm still snakebit on walleye, but I have gotten a good few wipers.
Every month of the year, I now have something I know to go try,that I want o do, and can probably catch fish doing. MOST of that is from TD, and the rest of the good folks here pick up the rest.
I'd love to see guys like you never get old! You are appreciated and loved here.