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Job Notice Gynecologist's Assistant A retired man went into the Job Center in Downtown Denver, and saw a card advertising for a Gynecologist's Assistant. Interested, he went in and asked the clerk for details. The clerk pulled up the file and read; "The job entails getting the ladies ready for the gynecologist. You have to help the women out of their underwear, lay them down and carefully wash their private regions, then apply shaving foam and gently shave off the hair, then rub in soothing oils so they're ready for the gynecologist's examination. The annual salary is $65,000, and you'll have to go to Billings, Montana." "Good grief . . . Is that where the job is?" "No sir . . . that's where the end of the line is right now."

Me, myself and I. So quiet and peaceful. Don't get me wrong ... I enjoy my fishing buddies but nothing beats the peacefulness of fishing alone to me.

Hasta la vista baby...

WARNING THIS IS A RANT. So I went fishing today. Before leaving the house I was thrilled that I was able to go outdoors to enjoy the wonders and excitement of nature. Just thinking about that beautiful sunrise, the water gently splashing on the bank of the lake, taking in all the fresh air, seeing the birds fly, deer run, and the fish jumping, yep, sounded really good in my head until I got to the lake. Then I saw it. Why? That’s the only question that kept running through my head. Why would anyone that calls themselves an outdoorsman do such a thing? Are you so lazy that you can’t throw away your beer bottles and cans? Your fishing bait cups scattered along the shore line. Is this what I defended your freedom for? So you could trash up this country? Most days it really sickness me that I share the same air as these people, these nasty, lazy, unappreciated, disrespectful scum. I really wish you could understand how good you have it here in the USA, and to see this kind of crap scattered all over a lake really disappoints me. Whenever someone finds out you have been in the military, you always hear “thank you for your service” or “I(we) support the troops”. Well that’s nice and all, but the best way you can support this troop, is to cherish what I fought for, our country. Pick up after yourself, I not saying you have to clean up everything(unless you brought it), but picking up a little is better than nothing. For those that are not that smart I got pictures for you! 1.Trash goes in these. 2. Pick trash up. 3. Put in can. 4. Done. Easy right? Kept this posting as clean as I could. Have a nice day.

Yes, because nothing says football more than a man who wears Ugg Boots...

100 years ago all the boys brought their guns to school, as they all hunted...no one was ever shot..so what's the difference between then and now? Parents and prescription drugs, kids are all doped up because they're too hyper, not hyper enough, not smart enough, too smart, whatever, and the parents put them on drugs because it's the easy thing to do instead of actually trying to understand the kid or deal with them. All of these mass shootings have one common thread..prescription drugs.

My dad when he was still alive. My favorite persons to fish with are guys that share the same level of intensity as I do. The more passionate they are about fishing the better. That way we all learn from each other.

My dad.

So who is fishing Melvern Saturday? I am bringing my neighbor who just moved here from Colorado and has never caught SMB. Black Lowe with a Merc on the back! Say hello if you see us!

This is The Short List ~ A-Jay

Lots of folks fought for our freedoms way before you & I did... Litterbugs abound, I don't like it either, but that's life..& freedom. Freedom comes with a lot of personal responsibility. Many folks make mistakes or exercise bad judgment. We have to take the bad with the good. There's no other way. That is exactly why America is the greatest country in the world.

We managed over 100 fish today, many of them small fish but we did manage to catch a couple of nice fish. T to B 2.5, 3.2 2.9 and 3.5. We had a blast and caught fish all day long.

Carbontex drag washers,pxr line guide, and worm gear upgrade for my px68l

I disagree. I use braid almost exclusively on my baitcasters. While I have some 50# on a couple of reels I have 20# on many and have a few with 15# and even 10#. I don't find it harder to cast the smaller sizes, nor do I find picking out backlashes any harder. I do agree that you need practice. Keep in mind that you don't need to swing for the fences. Smoothness and release point should be your focus after you adjust the reel settings as suggested.

Pond brass cruise the shoreline perimeter day and night, that is where most of their food comes from. Insects are blown into the pond on the upwind side and float down wind, the bluegill and baitfish feed on the insects, the bass on the baitfish. Your presentation in a pond during a windy event is casting into the wind so your lure lands very near store or on the bank and worked back into the water. If the wind has been blowing for several hours, the bass may move down to the opposite end where it's better oxygenated and baitfish or crawdads are eating the dead insects washed up near the bank. Keep in mind pond bass cruise the banks rarely stay put in one spot for long periods, unless spawning. Tom

New rod for my inshore setup:

Smallest bass jig I use is a 1/4 oz bitsy flip.

It's all about the Pursuit of Giant Bass, the late Bill Murphy.The wind from east, the fishing is least....high pressure ridge creates air flowing clockwise around a dome eastward. Wind from the west, fishing is best....low pressure creating westward air flow. The bass in a golf pond rely on terrestrial critters falling into the pond. Live large night crawlers are like candy to pond bass. At night soft plastic worms work very well and if the pond has any big bass a rat swimbait is hard to beat. Tom

Throw huddlestons on an extremely slow steady retrieve anywhere I think there is fish. Hudds seem better in the winter because they don't have as much action as boot style swimbaits. You have to have the gear to throw them though.

Not only Chatterbaits but spinnerbaits, remove the skirt insert a big curlytail worm or a paddletail soft plastic swimbait and you got yourself a good sized bettle spin.

Psssh if it was anyone, it'd be Brady's. Get a hold of yourself man!

Silent flat sided squarebills, living rubber finesse jigs with a pork trailer, jerkbaits (if the water's clear enough), and pitching baits multiple times to the same visible targets, especially if those targets are wood. Also, big swimbaits. SLOW. This is all I throw in the winter. It's also good to find spots with access to deep water.

A suspending or slow rising crank will both cover water and elicit reaction strikes, just choose one that will run shallower than the depth you're fishing. If you can find one without rattles, all the better. Crank it down and pump your rod tip to move it, or pause it regularly during your retrieve. Swimming a jig with a curly tailed grub like a Kalin's Lunker Grub is another option, but fishing from shore makes it difficult to NOT make bottom contact during your retrieve. Lastly, don't overlook a lipless crank. Even if you occasionally tick the bottom, a sharp jerk of the rod tip will normally clear the hooks and get it back up off the bottom. Hang on, because that sudden burst of speed and change of direction can trigger some aggressive strikes.

If you know that the fish had been relating to the weeds prior to them starting to die, then I'd recommend checking out the inside weed line, or looking for other types of cover (rocks/wood) on similar structure. The other thing that you should always keep in mind is; Where are the baitfish? if they're still using the weeds, that's where the bass should be. On the natural lakes around here, the baitfish will often move toward shore if there is an open area between it and the weeds (inside weed line). On many impoundments they may move completely away from the weeds seeking either another form of cover or deeper water with some sort of escape route. Not knowing what type of lake you were fishing, it'd be difficult to be more specific.

Anything is better than irene

Nice bronzebacks!

Heres a recent one from BR that has good info on football jigs. http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/144922-football-jig-retrieve/?hl=%2Bfootball+%2Bjigs

I usually rotate among a few though shakeyhead fishing isn't a primary technique for me. The Robowrom Shakin worms are also good for a thicker profile. The Gary Yamamoto Pro Senko is good for clear water or pressured fish. Also the Zoom finesse and trick worms work well too. You can even try craws, stick baits, and various craw and beaver style baits though what I listed above are my favorites.

Nothing wrong with a theory. Unless it's wrong! But then come the proofs. The natural world is a complicated place. Trying to distill it to single factors or dichotomies is (besides what we humans automatically do) a recipe for disappointment. Things are almost always more complicated the deeper you look. Make your theories AFTER you've fished. Works out much better that way. Until the next time you fish!

With the lipless I like to rip it through grass and fish a stop and go retrieve. STAY AWAY from riprap, you'll lose it. Square bills are for shallow cover and banging around stumps, riprap, etc. I prefer a square bill, but lipless is warming up to me now

X2 Wind has some real advantages, and some real disadvantages. But... they are in relation to real things: current, temperature, lighting, floating cover, prey availability or vulnerability, ... Sometimes these weigh in heavy. We cannot answer why you caught fish where you did based on wind direction alone. Wind may have had nothing to do with it. Some thoughts: -It's often easier to fish and detect takes in calm air. -On a small pond there are probably bass that use all sides of it, although I do have ponds that have the majority of fish on one area or side only, bc that's where the prime habitat (food, security, winter quarters, spawn substrate, ...) is. -I also have ponds that have areas that require certain techniques that I prefer not to fish, or am not equipped for that day. Lures aren't food. I mean, one lure, tackle, and technique may not work all the way around a given pond -even a small one. I often see two approaches to all that potential: Fish your tackle/strengths and pass up the water that doesn’t fit. Or, bring the tackle shop with you and cover it all.

I assume this is a baitcast reel. If so, then 20# fluoro should be fine or 40# braid with the same 20# fluoro leader. BTW, welcome to the forum.

Hootie

Not a pro, but I generally lay the smackdown fishing smallies wherever they are present. My partner Jordon, showing off two nice ones, from a win on Erie:

Awesome man! Just got my first boat it's a 17ft too

Today I went out on a little pond in Norman, Oklahoma that has lots of vegetation in it. I tied on a 1/2 ounce tungsten weight (pegged) with a Mustad 5/0 EWG with a pit boss. Dipped the tails in a little jj's and got after it. I've watched probably every video on YouTube about fishing including ones about punching matted grass for bass. On my 4th cast I felt something that felt a little different than the weight of me punching through the grass. I set the hook and I had a 2 lb fish on. Even though I had then caught a fish on the rig I didn't feel confident in deciphering a bite from grass. I went on to catch three more about the same size, but also set the hook on a lot that were not fish. It sure is a fun way to catch them, but I just need more practice to be able to tell if it's a bite.

If I'm bank fishing a pond in the winter a suspending jerkbait is what I fish 90% of the time. A big reason for that is so many ponds around here are covered with weeds or dead leaves on the bottom so it becomes the only real option.

I like to hold them like this. http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/uploads/gallery/album_71/gallery_12184_71_31258.jpg http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/uploads/gallery/album_71/gallery_12184_71_4474.jpg http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/uploads/gallery/album_71/gallery_12184_71_33056.jpg

I've practiced flipping into buckets. Also, whenever I'm trying out a new knot, I'll practice tying it a bunch at home, so that I can tie it up quickly and properly when I'm out on the water.

Time on the water is #1 for sure... nothing competes with experience. BUT -- Time BEFORE the water is highly important, especially if you are fishing new water. So my #2 way to improve fishing would be research. Putting in due diligence, before fishing new water especially, is key in my opinion. Approach your day on the water with a solid plan based on research of the lake (internet, old magazines, tackle shops, friends, and map study) and appropriate for the seasonal pattern, so that when you get there you're not trying to figure out where to start. Being able to get good start based on the map, and where the fish "should" be is a great step towards a great day. Practicing that when it doesn't matter will help when it does. I also do the whole "yard fishing", and it's a good way to improve certain skills. I've also done the "only take one type of lure" fishing, but I think that kind of get's tricky. If the conditions and bite are right for lure x, then you will have better success then if they aren't regardless of technique, etc. If you want to work on your topwater skills, but it's a bluebird day, no wind, high sun, clear water... chances are your success will be worse than trying early A.M., on a foggy morning, with a litte wind out of the west. I would suggest practicing how to effectively fish structure vs how to fish a lure. Take a dock in 12 feet of water, for example. You can learn so much from that first doc you come to IF you can fish it effectively. You can spend a lot of time trying different techniques to throughly examine that structure, and even if you don't catch fish, you will be learning "how" to approach it for the best coverage. Where as if you are just trying to learn lure "X" you are giving up a lot of opportunity to find fish quite often. Replace doc with offshore hump, or secondary point, or inside creek channel, etc. etc. Yeah, I know that not every (insert place) will be full of fish, but I think you can learn more technique by learning how to throughly vett structure then you learn by only throwing lure "X". So I guess my practice suggestions are research and to spend time practicing specific structure.

Like this ~ or like this A-Jay

Fishing is the best fishing practice I've found

Grip & reel seat reamed and epoxy smeared. Grip slid in place. Reel seat and winding check installed.

You can hook the baitfish up through the bottom lip then up through the roof of the mouth. #2 horizontally through the nostrils. You will detect a bite either by a traditional "strike" or the bait will just get heavy. Sometimes your line will move out, but that's pretty obvious. The key is NOT to ever set the hook and that can be really hard for bass fishermen to get use to! FIRMLY lift your rod tip and reel, the fish will set the hook. Constantly keep pressure on the fish with a tight line. 95% of the time the hook-up is in the jaw joint.

Yep, pretty much.. I actually do better in the fall.. Less fisherman on the water/ bank = more fun, more fish

Does your teacher know Squirmin Wormin ? ? A-Jay

It is the Ugly Stik. Not sure which one. Hootie

Monsterquest tourney on st clair today was won with a 5 fish limit of just over 28lbs of smallmouth. 4th place was 24lbs 12 oz. Awesome fishery.

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO I cannot stand them. I do use snaps, duo-lock snaps. What I do is I remove the split rings off of the front of my hardbaits and then just use a one of the duo-lock snaps. I use a smaller size because a lot of metal hanging in front of your lure is not only a visual turn-off, but also because it can negatively subdue and ruin actions of crankbaits and jerkbaits. It also can make topwaters sink/work improperly. You would only want the swivel if you were fishing a lure that causes line twist like a spoon. Otherwise it is just extra, unwanted, messy hardware.

Owner mosquito size 1 hook for nose hooking or wacky hooking and Owner #5133 down shot hook size 1/0 for weedless hooking. Don't over fish a drop shot, let the worm do it's own action by slowly jiggling the rod tip into slightly slack line. The drop shot rig is a finesse rig and works best with finesse 4" to 6" worms. Tom