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Keep the Loomis rods and go enjoy them!

:respect-040: Now you are talking! Great fish man.

Went to the lake today and, oh how it was gorgeous... Funny thing happened at the ramp, though. Pull up to the ramp to launch, ready to dump in. Pull the clips, undo the buckles, undo the winch strap, dump 'er in and in all of a minute and a half we're clear of the ramp. Park the truck, and walking back down, this guy starts just RIPPIN' me about cutting in line to launch, he was giving me all sorts of he*l. I politely pointed out that he was in the rigging lane, and didn't have his boat even remotely ready to launch, so I just went ahead and dumped in. He was furious that I had the nerve to put the boat in before he did. When I asked him if he was ready to launch before I was, he said that, "That doesn't matter, it's the principle of it." At this point, I was already back to the dock, and Jeeves was ready to chauffeur me on to the fish. I told him what had happened, and we both had a pretty good laugh. We ended up marking a TON of fish on a channel swing that was relatively close to the ramp, in hearing distance, even. Skip forward about half an hour and a dozen green fish. We hear the guy at the ramp screaming bloody murder than not only did we cut him off, but now we were catching his fish. This is comedy GOLD, now. It's getting to the point that we're both just laughing our butts off about it. Neither of us know the guy, but we've both seen the boat on the lake an awful lot. It's usually either within 10 yards of shore, or tied off to trees jerkin perch; so it's pretty hilarious that we're catching his fish now. Well, apparently, the guy was so frustrated that he couldn't even launch his boat. We moved on to another couple spots, only planning on fishing for a handful of hours. We wanted to cover some water and see what we could make happen in short time. Skip ahead to 1:00, when we're ready to head back to the launch. We get back to the launch and find that the entire ramp (I failed to mention it's a three wide ramp) is blocked by this guys van and his 18' Lund- IN THE WATER! Have NO idea what the guy did to manage it, but he had the boat floating the trailer, he hadn't removed the tie downs, and the van was in the water up to the drivers side door mirror. I figured the thing would have floated away, but it didn't. I figured there was enough room that I could back down close to the dock between where his rig was, and the wall. I made it in, loaded, and out in about 60 seconds. Before pulling all the way up the ramp, I asked the guy, being nice as possible, not even remotely condescending, if he'd like me to pull him out. Boy did I get an earful! He proceeded to blame the whole mishap on me, which I thought was hilarious. I figured it best not to take pictures, and just get out of there before it got ugly. So today, I'm thankful that I know I can launch and load the boat in under three minutes. It sure saves headaches at the ramp.

Dan Kenney and I hit up a local canal for the snakehead. This was more of a snakehead video but Dan seemed to keep getting bass. We did pretty well and had alot of fun. This show aired up in the NE part of the country and Dan was kind enough to put it up on his You Tube channel so I could share it.

IMHO, I hope we can meet members from other states, not just VA. I, myself, am a MD boy who would cross the river in a heartbeat to attend the VA M&G. So, I hope we'll see members from other states as well. We can't let these VA boys have all the fun....

It can work, just don't horse 'em. Definatly use mono. It's not ideal, and you may want to keep what you have anyway that is a great deal. I don't know anything about the PQ rod but the reel itself makes that a great deal. Mike

I think A-Jay is right that discipline is needed to work a bait or technique that is not one we prefer. I do think finding your own style and mastering it, is the key to being extraordinary. KVD can, and does catch fish on a wide variety of techniques and baits, but he will find a crankbait bite if there is one to be found. Even though he is using a faster moving technique, he may spend an entire tournament carefully working a very small area. The point is he will adapt his favored style to the conditions as they happen. Generally speaking, I am most comfortable working something bottom bumping and slow in deeper water. I enjoy trying to figure out exactly what the bottom structure is and how the fish are related to it. That suits my personality best. Someone else might accomplish the same thing with a deep diving crankbait. It's all good.

Gen 3 Revo STX, or a Gen 2 Premier. Both are much smoother than those coffe grinder Shimano Curado E's or the current Chronarch.

You can make your own for under $2.

If you go with me, I'll let you sit in the frabil flip over with the heater, I'll sit out side on a bucket........I have alot of "natural" insulation.

Watching my Pats play now... 3 TDs is 53 seconds!!!!!!!! They are crushing the Jets... ~knock on wood....

I FINALLY got some time this morning to put together a video of all the bass that clr9933 and myself caught around Southern NH in 2011. Check it out!

Happy Thanksgiving to ALL! One of the many things I have to be thankful is BR as a great source of information and for introducing me to some life long friends that share my passion for bass fishing. Thanks!

Last year I picked up some Northstar jigs that I really liked and now I'll be trying out some of your jigs in 2013 since you're an active member-sponsor on here. Plus it helps that your jigs look freakin awesome. Thanks for the free shipping!

I was excited for ice fishing till the other morning when I left to get chow and I was freezing teeth chattering I was so cold it was a meek 60* out and I went back to get a hoodie and beenie I was frozen lol. If I do go out im gonna be wearing like 10 layers with them heat packs taped all over my body lol.

I pitch with every single rod in my arsenal. It's just a cast. Learn to pitch with all your rods, and you will see what a handy skill it is. Especially if you're in the back of the boat.