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Nice job guys ~ And surprisingly Matt's not wearing Any Camo ? A-Jay

32 years on the job is enough, today's my last day. If you see me on the Big O in a Big O come say high, most of my fishing will be during the week unless I'm fishing a tournament. Ill be going back and forth for about another year then I'm heading up to Okeechobee full time. I'm thinking about 4 days a week of fishing for now, hows that sound ? Gar-Tracker

I'd take the Core anyday over zillion, but for the price of either of those, I'd take the same features and a few more and go with - 2 - Lew's Tournament Pro's, same size as the lighter Core 6.7 oz., better drag 14lbs., more line capacity than the Core, and nicer handle and ergonomics! and be welcomed to the hole in the wall gang!! bring your posse, is that spelled correct??

I caught my wife on a ribbit. Still havnt heard the last of that one. I told her it was nice to find out she wasnt a bottom feeder. Found out she doesnt have a sense of humor about those things either!

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Clearly you are not going to be able to focus on your job there with this very serious situation going on at home. This makes you more of a hazard to your unit than any help. They should be helping you get home any way they can. Have your family or the Hospital Re-contact the Red Cross - Your situation is what Emergency Leave Is For. Go find your Chaplin (Or your Senior Medical Officer if there is no Chaplin available) - plant yourself in the office and tell them that you're not able to focus on anything but your situation at home. Have the Chaplin contact your Command while you're there. Don't leave until you have solid arrangements that get you home. What's the worst thing they can do - No Officer worth his salt is going to fault you - don't stand for this - We all understand "needs of the service" but this is your Life man - Good Luck and I hope your wife is OK. A-Jay

Well actually, I changed to spare pair of shorts before the picture knowing the BR consequences for wearing camo shorts in the picture.... LMAO Camo shorts make as much difference as bait/color selection but, should be hidden as often as possible like your favorite bait. Thanks babe and Shane.

Go deep young man, go deep!!! Try a Carolina or MOJO rig. Throw a drop shot all over the place. Continue to pitch and flip to the shoreline. Rig your worms and Senkos wacky. Flip and pitch to all wood you can find and among weeds, stumps,pads and stickups. A weed patch or lilly pad bed by itself can hold bass as can a lonely stump. Some nice bass have been caught next to a stickup all by itself a little off the bank. Do you know the water temperature? The bass will be seeking cooler and more oxygenated water which is deep right above the thermocline so you may need to throw baits that 1) sink slow and 2) are above the bottom. Bass love Senkos. If you are not getting bites on a Senko then downsize the size to a 4 or 3 inch Senko and start all over. Are you using MegaStrike or JJ's Magic on all baits? Do you think a touch of yellow or orange on your plastics will help? How about a little touch of orange oil based paint covered with nail polish on your crankbait bottoms and below the eyes? Also, have you fished the lake before and during sunrise with a Cavitron buzzbait or a frog? What about at night when the sun goes down? Same baits. You will have to try to find where the fish are hiding and what they want to eat. You will experiment with lots of baits and presentations until you find the daily pattern. Try crankbaits and spinnebaits and a Chatterbait. Shaky Head presentations on a 1/16 jig head may work as may jigs and pigs dragged across the bottom or hopped back to you. Fish s-l-o-w if possible. Let the bait fall slow and sit for about 30 seconds before moving it. Bass are inquisitive animals and they will hover and look at the bait. When you twitch it they will hit it. Throw to any wood you can find. Just remember, the bass will stay in the area but off shore to enjoy the cooler and more oxygenated warter.They will like an area with a deep dropoff into deeper water and near places where they can rush to the bank and chase down a nice morsel and then return to deeper water. Once you find the underwater humps, brushpiles, trees, logs, rocks, roadbeds, stickups, sunken boats, etc. you will catch them, if they are in the lake. Good luck and let us know what you throw and how you caught them.

Reels run from $40-400 and most experienced anglers looking for durability and performance look in the $100+ price range. The reel you cite has a graphite frame, which is more prone to torque distortion than an aluminum frame reel. They just aren't as durable and don't perform as well. My first baitcaster was similar. I wish I had just bitten the bullet and paid a few more bucks to get something better because it would have saved me a thousand backlashes.

I'm as pro-gun as they come, but this dosn't make sense. We have the right to bear arms, but a property owner dosn't have the right to tell you to stay off of their property if you are armed? That's an infringement on their rights as a landowner. If a resturant (for example) says "no firearms allowed" I should either abide by their rules or go eat somewhere else.

I usually make it a point not to post about things that I have never tried. But after reading your post I think I found just what you are looking for. This is a rig Matt Alan uses for night fishing in 30+ feet of water. It consists of a wacky rig hags tornado bait (8" or 12" bait) on a 3/4 oz dirty jigs pivot football head. Like I said I've never fished this bait but Matt Alan is a lunker catching machine so I tend to listen when he starts talking about fishing. Here is a link to the video where he talks about how to fish it. Good Luck Capt.O

Sorry Nap, Gotta work tomorrow . I live in Greenville. Might have taken you up on the offer. Next time. Thanks

I have mono on all my reels except for one that has FC. I prefer mono to braid and FC. It works just fine on all techniques, and i've never bought into the hype of the reasons to use other lines. No, braid is not a must for frogs, hooksets work just fine with mono. Sensitivity is extremely overrated, and i mean EXTREMELY OVERRATED when it comes to lines(and rods but thats another story). If FC is supposed to be near invisible underwater then i wonder how come bluegill attack my line. Stretch is only really a major issue on smaller lines, but then again i like a little stretch, it can be a good thing. Line stretch never caused me to miss a hookset, because really, setting the hook with 12lb mono into a 3lb fish isnt really starting to stretch your line at all. The supposed benefit of non-mono lines really arent that major or beneficial to me at all.

I can make those sizes in a Bullet head or a Finesse round ball head. Those do not have recessed line ties. Finesse http://www.siebertou...hp/finesse-jigs Bullet http://www.siebertou....php/bullet-jig The Brush is recessed but the only size is 1/4 or 3/8 in the small ones. http://www.siebertou...x.php/brush-jig Hookset on 3 (Thanks!) posted my Elite Swim which is a great jig for cover and comes in the Poison head or Bullet. http://www.siebertoutdoors.com/index.php/elite-g-swim

How's this... Fished a tournament Saturday up on Missisquois Bay (Where David Dudley won the Champlain FLW). We gave the reef a break at noon and went to the backwater. Sunny, very few clouds, water is LOW (77 degrees) and the weeds/pads are lacking this year. I threw into 8" of very clear water near an isolated group of pads and had a 2lber smack my frog. We had several more blow ups before we got sketched out about getting the 522 we were in stuck and moved back to the reef. Fish them anytime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You steal that from Long Mike?

you know its bad when this comes from the guide on the best bass fishing lake in the US. who dink drops 5 lbers. ..jeff was dink dropping 7 lbers,

For their 50th anniversary the husband bought his wife a very expensive negligee. Being a typical man, he didn't remove the price tag. Wife thinks, "OMG, $500". Well, you know she's not going to be wearing that too long anyhow, so, let's return the nighty, keep the $500 and just come down the stairs naked... Wife comes struting down the stairs, anxious and proud. Dude says, "Man, for 500 bucks they could have ironed it". Viewing is Tuesday.

Yep, sounds like you have pond fishing all figured out. Time to go back to the lake, nothing to see here at the ponds, just easy fishing for us simple folks.

Tackle warehouse. I'll buy stuff at bps if they have free shipping or if I have a gift card. Otherwise, their shipping is ridiculous.