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SILLY KIDS, CARROTS ARE FOR RABBITS.

Okay CPBassFishing. I'm feeling generous tonight. If it is okay with your parents send me your address over in a PM and I'll send you some lures and some new mono to put on his reel. Set him up texas rig on worms and lizards and such. That should keep him busy.

A few years ago when they first came out, you could have swore god made them himself, just by reading reviews from all the internet experts. And for about a year after all these instant "experts" were flailing about the lake with them, ready to go pro at any minute, and fishing was so easy for them I heard guys would just walk up and hand them their entry fee money rather than go through the pain and embarrassment of trying to compete against Carrot Stix ninjas. Today that bandwagon is pretty empty. But never fear, every year they seem to glom on to a new "wonder rod" and beat us senseless with post after post after post...........after post..of how great THAT rod is, and how everything you own sucks. All the while guys fishing plain, old, boring rods like St Croix's, G Loomis, Fenwick, Shimano, etc.....(you know, companies that are stealing your money by charging for things like.........gasp......a real warranty, and have a reputation built on years of making quality products) keep on fishing and catching fish on what are obviously junk rods.

Thats a special one made just for Basspro.

I'd rather get tazed anyday then sprayed.

Why keep fishing in the Dead Sea? Lots of water sucks, especially unmanaged public ponds. Some were never stocked, others have been poisoned and many dry up during droughts. We have hundreds of ponds in the Memphis Metropolitan Area, I fish three. Go to the lakes you mentioned where you know there are fish.

I did the same thing in the academy, twice. When I got tazed I got hit with one probe and the other misses over my shoulder. So I got 5 seconds of bad burning/shocking on the back of my shoulder blade then I got drive stunned in the back of my thigh for 5 seconds to get the full ride. I have the video of that and of me getting sprayed on a DVD.

My 2 cents is this......if you think catching a fish is fun. Wait till your buddy catches one with your help. It is one of the best feelings you'll have. Helping someone who has less experience will actually make you a better fisherman. You'll pick up on things he may be doing that isn't right, but if you pay attention and help him correct it, you'll realize that your own skills will improve. Have fun, get him set up with some Texas or Carolina rigs. It will make it easy for him. Good luck and have fun.

Next time you go to your local tackle shop, take him with you, tell him to bring like $30 and you will help him pick out some new line, hooks, and some baits. I bet he would like that and could use the experience of being in a tackle shop with you helping explaning what all the different baits do..

Hope to be heading to Lake Erie soon to do battle with a few Mutant Smallies - Decided to add some Natural Patterns to my Lucky Craft Pointer Jerkbait collection. Sweet colors too ~ Pointer 128 - Brown Trout Slender Pointer 127MR - Musky Pointer 128 - Musky Pointer 100 - Brown Trout Pointer 100DD - Aurora Craw Pointer 128 - MS Gun Metal Shad Pointer 100DD - Red Musky Pointer 100DD - Aurora Green Perch Pointer 100DD - Brown Trout Pointer 100 - Small Mouthbass Pointer 100 - Lake Trout - American Ame Masu Pointer 128 - Aurora Craw Pointer 100DD - Baby Bluegill Pointer 100DD - Keta Bass Pointer 100 - Aurora Craw Pointer 100 - Red Musky Pointer 100 - Walleye Slender Pointer 127MR - MS MJ Herring Pointer 100DD - Musky Slender Pointer 127MR - RS MS American Shad Pointer 128 - MS American Shad Pointer 100DD - Walleye A-Jay

So............maybe it's just me, but how is it a "high end" rod if it can't even stand up to being shipped, handled and displayed in the store?

Which one is Rick Clunn? jokes on you Thats cool tho, not a routine thing. Im still waiting to run into Jimmy Houston one day.

5am Sunday, 04/07/2013, I will be loading up my new boat with all my fishing gear and heading to Lake Konawa, Oklahoma. Currently the fishing reports are saying that the LMB are Excellent and all other bass are good. So we shall put this report to the test. I should be on the water by 7:30am, I will try and give a detailed report of my outing. Although, I am a terrible writer.

While we are at it, ban scents, salt and dipping dyes. Not. It's just a technique like any other. It doesn't always work and when it does, anyone can use it. I'm not a good jig fisherman, so lets ban jigs because at times jig fishermen are going to beat me. I think the naysayers should quit whining and just go fishing.

If they weren't breaking any size or creel regulations, what you did was uncalled for and could have been dangerous. If they are not breaking rules, they have every right to keep their catch.

I can abide it until they ask me for my catch. "Oh man, you're not gonna keep it?" "Nope, it's called "catch and release" you may have heard about it."

I did something one time a bit mean in hindsite, but I felt it was justified. A foreign couple were at a pond I fish hauling bluegill into a bucket. They had 5 already and I felt that was enough, so I gave them a "tip." I bent the hook behind the barb 90 degrees and told them they would hook more. LOL

Please don't eat bass. Nobody likes a bucket bass fisherman. Catch yourself some crappie and have a fish fry. CPR. Catch, Photograph, Release.

Hawgtech Hawg Handle

All the jigs I fish are hand poured, painted, and tied in the USA, by me

As soon as Rw replies to a pm I'll give you the word.

If you were a carpenter, would you ban your circular saw, just because in certain situations it works better than a cross cut hand saw? If you were a mechanic, would you ban air tools because in many situations then work better and are faster than standard wrenches? An A-rig is just a tool that both competitive and non-competitive fisherman can use to catch fish from time to time. From time to time it works better than other tools. (which after all, is the nature of tools, there isn't any single all purpose tool) I think that banning A-rigs is foolish, reactionary and short sighted. JMO

I think the local was trying to persuade you into not eating the bass. By and large, bass fisherman release what they catch. Which is why bass are plentiful and don't need regular stocking. I'm sure most of the people who post here release most if not all of their bass. If I could make a suggestion, if you want a meal for the family, try fishing for crappies or bluegill, they taste better than bass.

You forgot the #1 color for Erie, Baby Grennel. Jeff

Hey, buddy, trust the Gorton's Fisherman! Welcome to the board.

I guess i am in with most of them... Dont stop. Keep trying different things. If you catch anything at all, good chance there is bigger. Very unlikely to catch the biggest one in a pond. Full moon, night time , midnight to 5 am. I have heard the term the 1 am bite several times. Good chance you will not see me out there at 1 am though. 5 am yes, but not 1. i need my beauty sleep

Ok!! Good to know! Alot of officers here agree that being tazed is AWFUL and it hurts really bad but would rather be tazed than sprayed, because the pain in tazer only last for five seconds or until its over, but peper spray hurts and lingers for an hour or so and then shows up again when you shower. Good to know that the THIN BLUE LINE is strong on BR

Ive done that before, but it was on a dry taze, no cartridge.. thats what iget for jawjacking while doing an arch test.

Interesting first post

They grunt when they're alarmed by rubbing the base of their pectoral fins against the bone to produce the "grunting". It's neat with a little one, in the dark with a 40 pounder it almost sounds like growling.

A few years ago I bought one of Carrot Stix heavy flipping sticks. I sent in the warranty card and went fishing. On the second fish the rod broke on the hookset twelve inches above the handle on the fattest part of the rod. I called the costumer service number and the guy on the other end told be that because they had not received the card that they could not honor the warranty. I waited two weeks and called back again and was told that they never got the card and they would not honor the warranty. That dang rod now sits in the corner of my garage as a reminder to never buy one again.

I have fished about a hundred lakes over the last 10 years and there is one, the closest one to my house, that I have not caught a fish out of. I have lots of choices but I keep going back to this one every few months just out of pride. I will catch a fish out of it. Keep fishing yours until you catch at least one. Then you can "choose" to never fish it again.

If its highly pressured, find out what the local tackle shops and department store fishing sections carry and then make sure your throwing something completely different. Fish can get used to seeing the same lures day in/day out.

I wouldn't give up on it ever until I caught Hawgzilla that is probably living there. Public park ponds usually get pounded to crap by every Tom, Dick, and Harry in town, so you are going to have to be patient, possibly trying things you haven't yet, but most importantly... never give up!!

Take a rod out of the racks at Walmart and try to avoid banging it against the other rods in the rack. It can be done, but most people who shop in Walmart aren't going to be too careful about that. I would hesitate to purchase any graphite rod that had scuffs on it. If the rod is scuffed, it's not terribly unlikely that the rod has worse damage under the skin. Here's an excerpt from a very good (and lengthy) article: The full article can be read here: Gary Loomis talks about rod breakage

I e-mailed Carrot Stix and they don't have a website anymore, just a facebook. They wanted me to send the rod back on my dime (to Canada at that), plus pay 39.95 "shipping and handling fee" using my credit card through E-MAIL. I bought the rod brand new and registered the warranty when I bought it, I still even have the original receipt, and it broke just a few months later. I'd have way too much money invested in a rod that will probably just break again. If you look at their facebook it's mostly people asking how to get a rod warrantied. Lesson learned, no more Carrot Stix for me.

I assume you are talking about Wilson's Cove (across lake from Marina). It is an old rock crusher left from when the lake was a rock quarry. Looks kinda crazy on the graph due to it being a machine.

Yikes!!! So in other words, the homemade bullet proof vest I made out of an old life jacket stuffed with used power pro line is not going to work? Noel, that experiment we had planned for tomorrow...................it's off. Back to the drawing board.

Great stuff, JT!

Hey this is really nice write up JT! I'm honored you chose to include us in your article, and said such great things. It's really humbling to see our name in print. One quick note - you can directly access your content by clicking your name on the menu bar in the upper right, near the search box. You'll get a dropdown menu from which you can select many items, one of which is the "My Content" link. It's one less click than mentioned in your article, but I admit it is a little more obscure to find. Thanks again for the kind words. I'm absolutely floored you wrote about us! Glenn

Slow roll that spinnerbait around the wood. I picked up 10 this morning on a Booyah

Good deal Hootie, you're gonna really like them. I got 10 jig heads from Mike and I think I had them in my mail box 3-4 days after order. I told Mike what I needed the jig to do and he gave me his recommendations. Here's a jig head he sent that I made a switchblade with: Already a proven winner thanks to Mike.

In general: T-rigged: AS you know it, with the weight T-rigged weightless: Still use the same style offset shank hook and weedless rigging, no weight Florida Rig: T-rigged, but with the weight pegged or screwed into the bait

Another vote for the falcon bucoo micro rod.

To avoid spooking bass, I have found this tool to be very helpful.

The 6'9 ML fenwick elite tech smallmouth rod is killer rod for finesse tactics up to 1/4 oz.

falcon bucco micro .

I fish some dark coloured waters and I have a lot of success with dark coloured T-rigs and jigs. On the flip side, I also do well with firetiger and chartreuse coloured crankbaits and spinnerbaits.

Lamiglas rods.