Curious how you folks will spend the winter in preparation for next season?? Winter is damn long so I am wondering how you will help it pass???

Me??? I will be working on many of next seasons plugs for folks to catch their quarry with in the New Year! Aside from the usual plug work I will be working on a small needlefish prototype that should be ready for next spring!:drool: I will also be working on rigging my new kayak and my canal bike so they are ready to go when the fish arrive! Winter will also be spent making notes and studying the same so I can plot my strategy for next season! Maybe some ice fishing if we get a nice hard freeze! Also will be trying to plan a Muskie fishing trip for sometime next year.....its high on my bucket list! Mostly I will be daydreaming of warmer, fish filled times to come!:uhuh:

How about yourselves??

Shell fishing, ice fishing, finishing the basement, drinking beer, cleaning up the garage, hopefully snowmobiling, and spoiling the crap out of my son for his 1st x-mas. And also finishing a woman's 64 Schwinn Hollywood for the canal. And hanging up those damned lights:wall:

I'll be hitting the Hard Water when we get a good freeze, Building a new Sled for ice fishing as my old one is busted.

Build a few plugs and I also picked up a bike to transform into a canal cruiser.

Doing my usual scout stuff too.....got an Ice fishing trip planned witht hem too.

also have to finish off an addition on the house....hopefully

Insulting my friends online.

Do the chores,turn the wood, shovel the snow and watch the Flap and Numby show.:)

Insulting my friends online.

ditto

Build a few new rods, insult Numbskull, and probably pick up a couple boxes of eel hooks. C'mon May 15!!!!

Catch up on some home projects and play hockey nonstop.

trout fishing, working, and drinking while I celebrate Yankee championship# 27!

Can't wait for baseball to start again next spring as we chase #28!

The usual, way too much sex, let my personal hygiene go, gain 40 lbs eating take out and junk food and ah......the drugs you can't forget the drugs.

Yeah it will be a pretty normal winter for me.:uhuh:

The usual, way too much sex,
Yeah it will be a pretty normal winter for me.:uhuh:

My condolences to all the small animals who reside on cape cod.

Learn how to walk to my new knee.

When I'm not online I have a bathroom I am gutting, a hardwood floor I didn't finish last winter and maybe a few plugs. I need a new rod, and maybe make my own plug bag, and maybe some teasers, and flies....and....:wall: too much!

Tons of family time. Play hockey 2-3 times a week. Getting the oldest on the ice this year.

Just found out I'll be playing in a game at Fenway this year following the Winter Classic! Can't wait.

going over notes from this year, replace all my broken stuff, buy new stuff. Ice fishing when it gets here, hot mulled wine and some grilled animal (doesnt matter what kind) on a cold day is fun.

Fishing wise: Trout, some plug turning, jig making.
Life: Work, Work, Work, Moving in January, helping a friend with massive amounts of work on his house.

Well .... Since I did the small needlefish last winter,,,,(1.25 oz 5" with 1/0 6x vmc's, casts very well and took a couple over 20# this year) I will be working on some other proto's.... I have a few friends that want me to make a couple classic plugs for them,,,,,

Going to pour some bucktails since they worked well for me this year in a few spots,,,, and just wish I was fishin til spring...

oh yea,,, maybe somewhere in there the airline industry will recover and I can go back to work,,,,,,:smash::smash:

After I get done catching my 40lb slob sometime around Thanksgiving I'll probably snap my favorite rod so I can buy another one, then...... burn a few dozen custom wood plugs. What? I get bored in the winter.

gym, redo kitchen cabinates (paint and hardware), get ready for some big changes around the house, mentally prepare myself to slide fishing down the priority list for next year

get ready for some big changes around the house, mentally prepare myself to slide fishing down the priority list for next year

Congratulations :kewl:

Good luck with that last one Josh!:rotf2:

Ice fish. My goal is to break 15# through the ice this year.

Moving to a new house in Feb., snowboarding (I'm 50 but I'll still get out at least a dozen times), tying flies, maybe chasing some fish down in FLA., downing a couple/few manhattans and falling asleep on the couch.

Snowboarding at 50!!!!! Bravo!!!:claps::claps::claps: I have trouble getting my rump out of bed for a morning stroll on the rocks at the ditch!!

I dunno, reading more DD posts from BigFish now that he's gonna have more time on his hands...:laughs:

Other than that, I'll probably spend some time in the basement sorting out all my mixed nails, screws, nuts and washers into baby food jars and labeling them.

Maybe alphabetize them, then arrange them according to size and such...or maybe most frequently used...I dunno...:smokin:

Hey, dude it's what old guys are supposed to do from what I understand, alright...:mad:

Okay, admittedly it's not much but I sorted out all my tackle last winter...alphabetized, arranged, etc etc

:hihi:

My condolences to all the small animals who reside on cape cod.



:rotf2:

A redo on a good portion of the cellar. Frame in a new cellar door. Repair termite wood damaged walls in my cave. Waiting to see if thier is any money floating around to update what I had in there. Build an 11" MH SSU and a 9'er also after the 1st of the year. Learn hopw to paint plugs better. Take more lessons form Bigfish.

Hopefully I won't be reading a bunch of stupid threads on fishing boards

plan to get my gear and tackle in order, and not do any of it until the day before I hit the water next year... as usual... snowboard, look for a late 60's BSA to restore

look for a late 60's BSA to restore
I have a Lightning, but you can't have it :heybaby:

my goal for the winter is to drop 20 to 30 lbs... Hmmm
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plugs, more sleep, and hopefully join a gym as my body is starting to feel old this year.

Reading the entertaining posts around here :biglaugh:

working and trying to convince my wife i don't fish too much

working and trying to convince my wife i don't fish too much

Can't help you with the first: working, but you can now blame the latter on me: Damn Buzz needs to get a job so he doesn't fish during the week.

BTW: did the Fed's pass the 20 week extension on unemployment, I've only got 3 weeks left on this extension?

plugs, more sleep, and hopefully join a gym as my body is starting to feel old this year.

Your body IS old, Paul. Better to use Sauerkraut's approach, just say F@!*^ it, pull your pants up to your armpits, and get on with worrying more about your bowels instead.

my goal for the winter is to drop 20 to 30 lbs... Hmmm
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you and me both.
nights at the wakefield 'Y'?

My plan:
To move my research forward in some serious steps... too much distraction lately!
spend the first x-mas with the little one and wait for spring...

with ski season just around the corner i will be getting ready for another long fish season by hopefully a long and snowy winter. i will be 55 this year, hopefully i will hit the 100 day mark skking this year last season i only managed 89 days.

working and trying to convince my wife i don't fish too much

You mean convince her that you do not fish enough!:rotf2:

Your body IS old, Paul. Better to use Sauerkraut's approach, just say F@!*^ it, pull your pants up to your armpits, and get on with worrying more about your bowels instead.

LOL. I took a vac. day tonite as 2 days in a row standing in the boat in the fresh air and working last nite has worn me out. it will be sleepy time very soon:uhuh:
sure sign of getting old, bed at 8 o'clock.

Buy a rowing machine and use it.
Since I too will be 55 in a few short weeks and want to be Faster than a speeding bullet.
More powerful than a locomotive.
Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
Maybe I'll just buy a pair of PF Flyers, remember how fast you could run in new sneakers?

Keep up at the gym, try to lose another 10-15 pounds before March. High on the list will be SABBIT (Second Annual Bomba Bro's Ice Tourney) which should be the third Saturday in January (brought to you by SB-Com) and then ice at the Cape come February. Maybe take a relational db class, as well. Can't wait to see everybody on the hard water.
Later,
Rick

look for a late 60's BSA to restore


MY BROTHER-IN-LAWS FATHER-IN-LAW HAD ONE BUT JAY LENO BOUGHT IT FROM HIM

I'm going to start pouring my own plastic.

gym, work, gym, bar :buds: and girls, lots of girls....

as far as fishing goes, get my canal bike ready and try to save some money for spring time essentials...

Setting up the new man cave in the new house........hopefully in time for some plug production.

Looking out the window at the snow, waiting for spring to arrive.

I'll be stuck in the same old rut somewhere......:hihi:

...mentally prepare myself to slide fishing down the priority list for next year....

:uhuh:...that was me Last fall AND this ENTIRE year...and possibly NEXT year too. It was self imposed though, some of us take our responsibilities more seriously than others.

Prepare yourself Clogston, ...I know I thought I did, but it was...and continues to be.....quite the adjustment.....:morons:

Congrats and GOOD LUCK!!!