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And when your done be sure to record your success by carving a very life like line drawing on the inside wall of the nearest cave.; and then ride your brontosaurus off into the sunset . . . . . On your way by, say hello to Barney Rubble for us. A-Jay

An Engineer dies and goes to hell. He looks around and sees that hell is in a state of disrepair and convinces Satan that he can make some improvements. Within two weeks he has air conditioning, elevators, and indoor plumbing throughout hell and the damned are starting to enjoy themselves. God sees this and goes down to find out what happened. He gets the story from Satan and tells Satan that the engineer was obviously meant to go to heaven. Satan refuses to give up the engineer, saying "I like the way things are going." God says "You will give him back or I'll sue the pants off you." Satan asks "Where are you going to get a lawyer?"

Saturday marked ten years with the company and when I got to work today there was a nice breakfast spread and lots of kudos from everyone, and then I look outside and one of the guys is towing a boat right up in front of the windows. Speechless! It's used but solid, 16 more feet of boat than I was ever going to own anytime soon, outboard, trolling motor, GPS, depth finder, rod locker, live well, plus everything I need to legally have on there; she's totally water-ready! I even got the rest of the day off to go with one of our guys who knows boats so I could start learning my way around it. Not a bad day at work. If you have to have a boss, you'd be darn lucky to have mine.

Giraffes didn't exist until chunk Norris uppercutted a horse.

People ask me, why is it that I fish so much... I give them a generic answer, like "because it's fun". This morning, though, I feel compelled to let out why I do what I do. I guess I can break it down into two main subjects; the sport/hunt , and the water itself. The first one is easy, as the pursuit of fish provides an entertainment value shared by many. The latter, however, goes much deeper than satisfying the need for fun. The water doesn't disappoint. When people let you down, the water won't. "Best friends" may never call, but the water calls me constantly, and never fails to answer my call. The water is always there for you, when no one else is. It has the uncanny ability to take whatever problems you go to it with, and wash them away. Like you, the water has secrets, if you take the time to listen to them. And oftentimes, the water will unlock secrets about you to yourself.

Don't have crawfish? I live in the northeast and there are crawfish everywhere.

Southern bass prefer Tabasco scented lures.

After a long day on the golf course, I stopped in at ‘Hooter's’ to see some friends and have some hot Wings and drinks. After being there for a while, one of my friends asked me which waitress I would like to be stuck in an elevator with. I told them "The one who knows how to fix elevators." I'm old, tired, and pee a lot.

About a year ago, one of the touring pros had all his tackle and rods and baits stolen from his truck between competitive fishing days. When his competition heard about it, a large group chipped in and lent him gear and baits for the next day of fishing. Things like that give you a wonderful feeling about the future of this country.

Questions" 1. Baitcasters - How deep do you want the crankbaits to run? The higher the mono test the higher they will be in the water column. I usually go with 12 to 17 pound test mono for baitcasters, depending on the depth I want the crankbaits to dive. 2. Spinning Reels - Fluorocarbon line in 8 pound test. As you know, always balance the line test and bait weight with the rod's parameters. Baitcasters are the most difficult to learn how to master. Open face spinning reels are the easiest. Give 'em a try and if you have problems with backlashes in your baitcasters give us a call back and we can give you some tips on how to avoid or minimize them.

There are certainly times when live bait is superior, but I will take something artificial in heavy cover every time. Truth is I will take something artificial in almost every case. I enjoy the hunt and the deception involved with artificials and am ok with catching less or nothing at all if that is my choice.

No artificial replicates live bait like live bait does.

The best and most manly way to do this: Go to a salmon hole. Wait for a bear to knock one out on the bank or trap one in it's mouth. Then wrestle that sum'***** to the ground and kill him with your bare hands. Eat the salmon while standing on his corpse to flaunt your superiority over the other bears. After your meal, you tear the arms off the dead bear and walk around the river with them to display your right to bear arms.

A cop is out on patrol, and sees a car parked in the local lover's lane, with the windows all steamed up. He knocks on the drivers window, and the guy inside rolls it down. The cop sees that there is a guy sitting in the front seat, fully clothed, and a girl in the back seat, also fully clothed. "What are you up to here, son?" "Well, officer, I'm reading a magazine, as you can see." "And what's she doing back there?" "I think she's playing a game on her phone." "Have you been drinking tonight?" "No, sir. I'm only twenty." "And how old is she?" The guy looks at his watch and says, "Sir, in eleven minutes she'll be eighteen."

When I started fishing this Kayak I was just over 300 pounds. I am currently 225. Have been comfortable on this Yak at all sizes.

Yes it has and my opinion hasn't changed. When fishing I don't take time to post pictures or read topics, I can do that at home.

That must be the technique my wife uses. I was under her thumb before I knew I was caught.

Chuck Norris could have this done in 3 minutes!

Carolina rig: personally I rig mine with a 3/4-1oz cylinder style weight, glass beads (2), swivel, and then about 2' of leader to a 3/0 hook. My FAVORITE all time lure on a c-rig is a black zoom trick worm. But pretty much any plastic will do GREAT on a c-rig. Trick worms and the like are great in clear-stained water, and I like creature baits and beavers in dirtier water. I find the c-rig is best in 20FOW or less, and a heavy football jig or drop shot seems more productive deeper than that. To fish, cast out to submerged humps, offshore bars etc, and drag it back with a sideways sweeping motion. Don't pivot too much at the waist, only pull the bait about 2'-3' at a time with your rod. This will keep you from being out of position when a fish strikes, as your hookset should typically be reel down to the fish and then a solid sweepset. Feel the bottom and make a mental map of what is happening down there. When you hit a piece of trash, shake a few times to click your glass. Then ease it over and continue on. You can occasionally lift your rod UP and work it like a t-rig, but doing it that way constantly hops your weight back to you and you lose contact with the bottom too much. Anytime you're throwing a c-rig, its good to have a jig and a crankbait that will dive to the depth your fishing nearby. This will change things up if your school stops biting, or if you find something on the bottom you want to probe more carefully with the jig. Your bite seems like its always either at the end of a drag ( that's why I try not to be out of position) or when you are shaking the glass on submerged cover. Alot of bites will be pick N swims, so watch your line. Other times it will be just like a t-rig with a solid thump. Alot of people like to go with braid as a mainline on their c-rig with say 40# braid to a 12-14# flouro leader. This is super sensitive and will translate the bottom to you very well. I did that for a while but found that my lead got hung up WAY more than my hook did, and so I switched back to. #15 yozuri ultrasoft and a 12# flouro leader. This lets me break off easier if I need to... But I feel still gives me more than adequate bottom sensitivity. Ymmv. As far as a dropshot goes, there are far more qualified people on here than me to advise you on that technique. I have used it time to time with fair success, but in the waters I fish, I find myself always going back to a c-rig. I like a trick worm, roboworm, zman finess worm or a senko as my drop shot baits. Same as what I use as a shaky head. Good luck! Hope I helped a little.

Rambo?

Ugly sticks are perfectly good fishing rods - tough, durable and I've killed a cottonmouth or two with them in close quarters.

I plan every day with thoughts of catching a personal best!

I'm liking this guy^^^

Ready for fall? Imagine how many can't wait until next spring and the spawn! Personally, the older I've gotten the faster time seems to slip by on its own. No need to wish away a day, a week, or a season.

We all collect things we may never use.

This summer hasn't been bad at all. I think we've had maybe 2 days in triple digits when last year we had almost a month straight of it. Our winters suck, I'd much rather be sweating than freezing. I shoveled enough snow to fill an Olympic swimming pool last year, not ready to start doing that again. The fall bite never happened last year either. I'd like to hang onto summer for quite a bit longer thank you very much.

The Ugly Stick lite rods aren't terrible. They're good rods to keep in your car with you in case an emergency fishing situation presents itself

Where are all these law abiding citizens with highest of moral standards, ethics and common courtesy? They'e on the internet backslapping themselves, I don't see too many in real life. By nature people are purely interested in what self serves them.

Someone should do this with a go pro on!

Haha bass hit hard! My friend you have much to learn! Sensativity is paramount! A bass can inhale your lure and spit it back out faster than you can blink! Worsted thing is if you are not watching your line, you wont even feel her. The easy bass are the ones that hang themselves on your hook. It takes skill to feel the rest of the bites. Yes a more sensative rod is helpful!

I'm only using your post as an example to make my point, I'm in no way trying to single you out nor am I insinuating that my opinion is any more valid or important than yours or anyone else. I see this type of post all the time regarding PP and 832 but I for the life of me can't understand why. I mean PP isn't even that much louder than 832. PP S8S is much quieter and at least for me handles better. I'll give 832 this, it does have better abrasion resistance than S8S. I don't think it has a single advantage over PP except the slight noise reduction. I have four almost full spools of Sufix braid (three 832 one Performance) just collecting dust in my tackle room right now. Granted I don't have a single "horror" story to tell about how Sufix braid let me down time and time again, it hasn't. In fact the times I've fished with it the line has performed just as it was suppose to. I just don't find anything exceptional about it. It just isn't my cup of tea so to speak. That's why there are so many different brands on the market though, there will never be a time when everyone likes the same line. As I said up front, this is only my opinion, it isn't right it isn't wrong it's simply an opinion.

When you have followers but no takers try using the same lure in a different color. You can also try changing your retrieve.

Fall is great, but here in Missouri, it means nasty Winter is right around the corner; and I'm never in a hurry to get any closer to that. I'm going to hang on to Summer as long as I can.

So a blind man walks into a bar. The blind man sits down, thinking he'd break the ice with the bartender by asking "Wanna hear a blond joke?" In a hushed voice, a man beside him says "Before you tell that joke, you should know our bartender IS blonde, or bouncer is blond, I'm a 6'4" black belt, the man sitting on the other side of me is 6'2, 250lbs, and a rugby player. The guy sitting next to you is pushing 300, 6'6, and he's a wrestler. We're ALL blond. So you think about it mister, do you really wanna tell that joke?" The blind man sat for a second, thinking over the odds and then replied "No, not if I have to explain it five times."

"Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?" - Indiana Jones.

Me too.... Me too lol

Got paired with Tim Horton!

Keep us posted on your results either way. I took a Dad and his two kids (my students) out on the 'toon today for a couple hours of fishing. All of us used crawlers....they did the ol' bobber/worm, probably 12-18" under the surface, I did a drop shot to the bottom...started in roughly 8-10 FOW on a submerged island edge (anchored) and eventually moved more shallow to a weed edge in about 8 FOW. None of us had any luck today.....sounds like the bite for bass, gills and many others is just tough right now. Marked a decent amount of fish on the FF, couldn't encourage any takers. I had all my plastics and probably could have thrown on senkos or other varieties, but figured (and have seen of late from shore) that even 'if' I can locate fish, they really only bite at crawlers right now.

luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

A Buff buff.

I can't fish frogs. I've been trying to learn how to walk them and they just hop instead. I trimmed the legs, I've watched videos, I've put time into it, and yet still can't get it down. I'm not much for frog fishing anyways, I like fishing trick worms.

I pulled another all- nighter on one of my favorite summer time lakes last night. It was warm, humid and flat calm all night. The complete stillness of these nights only makes them that much more intense. Conditions were perfect for tossing a jig & craw and that produced at least half the bass I landed. A single bladed spinner bait was the other half of this two pronged approach. The bite was slow to come on but once that quarter moon sunk behind the trees, both the brown & green bass found my baits quite appealing. I like that. Several fish coughed up whole and what looked like recently gobbled up crayfish, which gave me confidence to keep tossing the jig. Right at day break I started zipping a square bill crank around and managed a few more fatties. Didn’t catch anything really over-sized but on a night like that – they’re all good ones. On a separate note – Though I’ve been out with it a couple of times previously, this was the first night trip with the new Pinnacle rod & reel set up. I’ll be doing a review on it at the end of the month. Still need a bit more time with it first but my initially impressions are quite good. More to follow on that. A-Jay

It's a tough call. At 6'6" tall, 250 lbs, most fish look small in my hands. The fish in my avatar pic is 22.5" and I did not weigh her. If you look up length and weight of record smallies, you will find that few of them are much over 24", regardless of weight. If that guy is over 6'3" tall, he could easily go 350. He did force the perspective on the fish, but it looks about right to me. Considering all of that, if the fish died, why didn't he go back and go through the record process? So that he wouldn't give away his spot? A GPS number? I didn't realize that you needed to give up a GPS number to enter the record book. I would guess that the fish would have died anyway, if it wasn't fizzed and released quickly after he caught it, unless it was actually caught in shallow water. A lot of those lake fish look fatter than they actually are because they were caught deep and are inflated by decompression. As if you guys don't know that! Anyone serious about catch and release should do it. The IGFA has a new catch and release record book that is based solely on length, not weight. Catch, measure, photograph, and release. On the spot you caught the fish. That being said, if you catch and release all of your fish and you catch a potential record fish, I have no problem with someone keeping it. It is only ONE fish near the end of it's life cycle anyway.

Ask our local game commission people and they can give you the correct answer. Once again, I remind everyone what my uncle told me when growing up in south Louisiana: A snake and a leaky rubber have one thing in common. You don't ******** with either. A word to the wise.

The maid asked for a raise, and the wife was upset. She asked, "Now, Helen, why do you think you deserve a pay increase?" Helen: "There are three reasons. The first is that I iron better than you." Wife: "Who said that?" Helen: "Your husband." Wife: "Oh." Helen: "The second reason is that I am a better cook than you." Wife: "Who said that?" Helen: "Your husband." Wife: "Oh." Helen: "The third reason is that I am better at sex than you." Wife: "Did my husband say that as well?" Helen: "No, the gardener did." Wife: "So, how much do you want?"

T3 MX with Hedgehog dress parts and Air bearings, RX8+ Senko & RX8 Popping blanks / Customs......Oh Yeah!!

Top middle-Spro Little John Top right-Rapala shad rap, probably a #5 or #7 middle right-Storm wiggle wart, looks like it might be a pre-Rapala wart. If so, lucky you! bottom left-Poe's or a Bagley's bottom middle-maybe a Salmo Hornet? bottom right-another shad rap in the same size. Check the bills, some of these baits it should say right on them what they are.

Nightcrawler on steroids

Yeah sure, I'll be flipping a snake over to determine if it's venomous or not

I would suggest that you start off by reading the Beginner's articles posted on this site. There is a ton of good information there. http://www.bassresource.com/how-to-fish/