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Live bait provides advantages and disadvantages and there are circumstances when artificial baits will out-fish live bait. Ignore the naysayers. Fish the way you want to fish, within the law, and have fun.

The lockouts for both Football, Basketball only solidify my feeling that ALL professional sports is about nothing more than MONEY.... Gone are the days when players actually played for the love of the game. Today, it is about how well do I need to play to get paid? Not, lets play to win... Probably the reason I coach youth sports and would rather watch a high school baseball game than most professional sporting events. I cannot express how sickened I am at the amount of money these athletes pull in. No human is worth that much money.. Pay a teacher, or a doctor, or a firefighter/policeofficer.......

Hmm... I lived in Colorado for 17 years. Everyone I knew was a meat hunter. My pet smalljaws prefer farm raised green minnows to the native yellow tail (threadfin). I'm a big fan of live bait, "cathin" is a lot more fun than "fishin". :D

1.First pick a major university you would like to attend 2. Go to a community college, make sure that all the classes you take there will meet the requirements of the major university you would like to attend 3. Get a high GPA at a community college. I was Deans List at my community college and that opened up a lot of scholarship for me when I transferred. 4. Make sure college is for you. Don't waste time and money at college just trying to find out what you want to do with your life.

Use what you want as long as it is legal.

I would like to see Hank Williams Jr do the show

This topic has been brought up before, but I'll give you my answer. NO! Live bait fishing does not make you any less of an angler.

Grimlin PM sent. And as said before I 100% stand behind any product that leaves my shop, the whole reason I started making my own in the first place was I was sick of shoddy workmanship in everything else I could find in the stores! If anyone at anytime has any problems with my product I want and need to hear about it, I want to replace the product and fix any defects or weak spots in the manufacturing process, if its defective product on one of my vendor sides I want to know about that to so I can let them know about the defect or replace them. If we never hear of any defects or design flaws we keep producing the same product over and over, and that isn't going to get us as a company or you as a consumer better product, which is the end goal!!

The paddletail baits (Bastrix and their knockoffs) are kind of like a compromise. They tend to catch bigger fish then most guys are used to catching so guys are satisfied with them. They also occasionaly catch a trophy fish as all baits occasionaly do. Also "real" swimbaits do catch small fish wich gives fuel to the argument that paddletails work just as good. However if you could take he average size of bass caught on real trophy producing swimbaits and compare it to the average fish caught on paddletails or any other bait, the real swimbait would by far have the highest average. It is not uncommon to catch an 8-10lber on a real swimbait. I would classify paddletail type baits as kicker fish baits. "Real" swimbaits are harder to define then they used to be. It doesnt take a huge bait to make it a proven trophy catcher. It takes cacthing trophies with it. With all the "swimbaits" out there there are only a few that are proven producers of trophy bass. The Hudd is probably the all time trophy producing swimbait and I have no doubt that since it came to market, in that same time, it hase produced more trophy bass then any other bait including jigs and woms etc. I also think That my gills (soft and hard) are high up on the list of trophy producing baits. There are several others to, that just seem to have the IT factor. Big bass like to eat small fish. That is always there main forrage if given the choice. Many guys will say you dont need "real swimbaits" to cacth big bass. That the paddletails work just fine because they catch plenty of big fish with them. The difference is guys Like Butch and Mike and Fish Chris arent fishing for 10 lbers in lakes that have 20lbers. They are targeting the biggest fish in thier lakes. They are using the baits they feel give them the best odds at catching that upper 1%. There are guys doing this all over the country and world with the same "real" swimbaits. The biggest fish in thier lakes may be 10lbs and thats what they are targeting not just a bigger class. The Jappanese throw huge baits at those monster bass. When I target trophy bass I want a bait that matches what I think they want to eat. I want the right size, color, and action. I want a guy standing 20ft away from me to not be able to tell that my bait is not a real fish. If it will fool a human, it will fool a fish. I can spot a paddletail from 100+ ft. Swimbaits are not always the best choice but alot of times they are. I still fish plastics and jigs and I know Mike does to but most of the time its "real" swimbaits. Oh and BTW paddletail baits can be alot of fun. They are just a different tool that produce different results.

Gotta love how society caters to the lowest common denominator. I can't stand being held back due to others inability and conversely, I would never be so presumptuous as to wanna hold back others who are better than me at something.

I see this as the same as the slaughter rule in little league....fair. also, the kid in question is VERY cool with it..isent that all that matters? EDIT: also, its only when his team is ahead by two TD's can he not score again...not like he cant score all together, topic misleading. Edit2: Actually...the more I think about it? Screw it. This kid needs to run TRAIN on his opposition just completely demolish everyone in sight. Then maybe fat kid Billy will learn how to hit the heavy bag, work on his speed and not play Club Penguin 24/7 and eat Pizza Bites. Then maybe he could actually take down this kid. He has the same chances as anyone he plays to be as good as him and if other lazy kids dont want to follow suit? Screw em...they lose.