snotpig - go for it!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> Having a place to stay for free really helps take the sting out of travel expenses, and makes the trip more enjoyable. When my wife and I went to Alaska in 90' we stayed at her uncle's place when in Anchorage. He let us use his truck with cap for camping and fishing around the Kenai peninsula - a really great time! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> I hope you make the trip!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crossfingers.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

That would be a trip of a lifetime for me.

The last week in April I'm off to Big Hill Lake in Kansas for a week of camping, boating and fishing. My best friend lives 2 1/2 hours north of me. My birthday is the end of April and his is the end of May. We try to plan a trip some time between the two each year.

Last year the DMDC was the primary knife for the trip. So which one I should take this year <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

A SOD and a ScrapMuk of course! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I have an SOD but I passed on the ScrapMuk. What is your second choice?

Man for me it would be the SOD and MUK too. I still would like to get a Bird Dog for the outing trips, but have to wait and see what comes along.

Before I got the MUK I used to take a Green River cheapy buffalo skinner and it did pretty well.

I have a Bird Dog. I can do the SOD and Bird Dog.

I can't wait until it warms up a bit, I've been wanting to go down to Turkey Run state park down in central Indiana. I hear it has some good trails.

Here is a pic of a bluegill I caught last week, I caught a bunch of them this size.

Here is one I took a picture of I caught about three that day in about 2 hours or so. Just chillin at the lake beind the in-laws barn, took thier lab with me. I couldn't keep him out of the water!

You guys with the fish are making me jealous. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />
The ice just came off the river in the last couple of weeks,
but is still on the lakes. Man, I can't wait! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Sumo,
I live in the west, so a trip to the coast is special, but not a trip of a
lifetime. The wife and I are taking a trip to Newfoundland on the east coast,
and that will be a trip of a lifetime for me. I've always wanted to go there
(since I was a little kid), so I'm not going to waste any time while there.
Plenty of time to sleep at work when I get back. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

b-clip, those pan fish taste great.