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Might be my favorite combo. My first custom rod. 2-piece St Croix legend Elite. Was a 7ft medium light spinning rod. Converted to casting, now 6'3, full cork, and spiral wrapped. Paired with the Conquest I was throwing 4 inch senkos a mile...

I can't read print, only cursive..

So I'm sitting there, its almost dark, and I'm about to give it up when WHAM! This guy starts taking line off my reel like its nobody's business, by far the best fight I've had with a freshwater fish. I love fishing for bowfin and this was awesome, don't know the weight but I do know he is the biggest I've caught. I know there are bigger ones in the spots I fish too, and I'll catch em soon! Had 50lb braid and a 14lb leader with my drag set at about 4-5 lbs and I still couldn't get him in very fast.

Yesterday I was out on a lake I haven't fished in while and was dragging a blade bait deep. It was an overcast, wet & kind of nasty day with only a few bass to show for my efforts. I had gotten snagged a few times and my plug knocker was getting more use than the net, never a good sign. However, on this one particular retrieval attempt, besides getting my bait back, I also got a surprise. A-Jay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icYqGaEqmDY&feature=youtu.be

Sorry but no, I can´t post pics of my PB, but I can post pics of my second largest.

Numbers don't lie but statistics can be, and are manipulated to satisfy the agenda's of one side or the other. Guns are not the problem. Better gun control isn't needed, better values and better parenting are. Children are being raised on Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty instead of fishing and baseball. Why should we expect any different when social skills are learned in the confines of ones basement or bedroom and not out in the real world? There wasa time when people who had mental disorders were removed from society and housed in hospitals and asylums. Now, we just medicate them and give them a monthly stipend. Common sense isn't so common.

I think there is a correlation with the end of cursive writing ...

Supertune gives you the potential for more beuutiful and complicated backlashes. WORKS OF ART

Sirsnookalot 2 logical errors with your opinion. First, you are comparing GUN related deaths between us & countries that don't allow guns. Of course ours will be higher. We also have more automobile deaths than countries where most people don't own a car Second, there is a very famous study that shows the murder rate in the US & Great Britain before Britain had gun control & after. Britain's rate has always been less than ours, with or without guns & the difference didn't change after they instituted gun control. Their conclusion was that a society's murder rate has more to do with its culture than whether or not it outlawed guns.

Hey Matt, I know where u got that from....

FYI Dead grass during winter can be a killer spot...it holds heat!

Thank you Deep for the acknowledgement and posting the link. Jim Moynagh reintroduced football jigs with his Roller and upgraded Rock jig. The original football jig, to the best of my knowledge, dates back to the early 60's when west coast tool maker Larry McCain came up with barrel head jigs, that morphed into being called football heads by Bill Haddock who marketed the jig with vinyl skirts. The football head was and is ideal for fishing deep rocky structured lakes we have out west. The early jig trailers were Pedigo pork rind who offered black, brown and purple color 3" and 4" lizards, actually a 3/4" wide split tail design. This is the jig I learned to bass fish with; 5/8 oz football jig with Pedigo trailers. Pedigo was bought by Uncle Josh and the lizard was changed to have front legs and doesn't work like the simple original design. I redesign the football to slide through rocks better and stand up in '71 and this jig is what I have used since. Since everyone already knows everything about football jigs, just thought I would add a little history of trivial nonsense. Tom PS, Larry McCain also came up with the mojo cylinder weight design before retiring from JPL and moved back to Arkansas where he grew up....thank you Larry!

My wife.

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.

I posted on here a while back about wanting to go after my masters and get my teaching certification. Haven't posted in a while about it so i figured i would give an update. I am currently on the last day of a class and only have 2 more to go and then it is off to student teaching. Everything is going according to plan and i should be done by the end of this coming school year. It was not without struggles though. I lost my job back in May that i was hoping to keep until i was student teaching but it is what it is. I am about to start another job as a customer service rep for online issues for another major bank. I started out on the phones in my previous job and i know it will suck but you gotta do what you gotta do. The one positive is i can keep the job while i student teach. Those 12 weeks will be brutal though as i will be teaching from 7:30-2:30 then to my paying job from 3:30-12:00....It's gonna suck but nothing worth having is easy. Oh and in the midst of all this turmoil, i married my fiancé in a beach side ceremony in the outer banks in September. I will be very happy when the student teaching is done and i have that masters and teaching certification in my hand....

Talk about a redneck recording

Went out this morning and caught this...

Nice bag there! Now ditch the steelers hat! Seriously great fish!

Bearings cleaned and lubed with a low viscosity oil, check. Carbontex drag, check. Brake drum cleaned and lightly oiled, check. Supertuning? Guess it depends on how much is done and the effect it has on your particular reel model. I don't expect night/day difference and if it does, it might make your reel too fast for you to cast reliably. Worth a shot if you just want to experiment but I'd ask DVT what to expect in added performance. Consider: If something will get you 10 extra feet of casting distance, that's the same as keeping your foot on the trolling motor for an extra 2 seconds. But I understand the urge for guys to "hotrod" anything they own, from cars to fishing reels. Sometimes it's more emotional than practical.

It's the wrong people that are in position of them. There's more people who own guns that use them for defense and hunting than there is for gun violence, if you look at the statistics for gun use you'll see much more good is done with protection than with associated violence.

Yikes, luckily not many are!

Yeah he does, but she ain´t like yours.

Chrome blue, chrome black, craw patterns for pre-spawn in orange/red, something with chartruese in it, and then a firetiger, bluegill color...I also do well with gold and have a few gold spots with barely any paint left on them that I would not trade for anything. On cloudy days I find Gold to be killer anywhere I go. The Rippin Rap in gold is a great Lipless as it has a ton of flash and falls with a nice shimmy like the Red eye shad....Also check out the Sebile flatt shad suspending versions, they can be fished over grass as long as you hvae 6" of water and they need better hooks, but I put a short shank on front and a t3 treble on back and it is amazing where you can get this lure to go and it has flat sides witout rattles so it is great all year round, and the glitter liquid inside is effective, I would say that is my favorite lipless crank in the 77 su model, gives fish a new look and not overbearing with sound as many times fish will hit the Flat Shad suspending or sinking when they won't touch a one knocker, low pitch, or high pitch. If you like to yo-yo a trap, the Yo-zuri vibe and Red eye shad are good choices for a slow shimmy on the drop and the Vibe has higher pitch then most others in that category.The Clackin rap is good if you want a gliding fall after ripping through weeds but it has 0 action as far as a wobble or shake, It sounds trivial but I usually am most concerned with action on the fall as I rarely just burn a trap....Reaction Strike makes a good lure that has a nice action for the price point, just awful hooks.

First, we are a Republic not a democracy. Second, there many other countries that allow gun ownership and do not have the killings we have...what they do not have that we have is prescription drug overload. Google and read the side effects of many of the drugs our citizens are taking..suicide, manic thoughts, aggression, bizarre thoughts, mood swings, discomfort, hallucinations, the list is literally 100 effects long, and thats for just 1 of the more popular mood "lifting" drugs. Give someone a gun that is hallucinating and having mood swings and acting aggressive, and what do you think is gonna happen? Keep the guns, get rid of the pills. A side note is that over 40,000 people die every year from prescription drugs, accidental or otherwise, guns kill around 12,000, accidental or otherwise.

Ha - loved the video. Guess we'll be seeing that Zebco on the Fishing Flea Market Forum soon...

As said too much sag. Good idea that needs some tweaking

One mans pond is another mans tank. How big was Waton's pond? Minnisota, land of 10,000 ponds or lakes? To me a small lake is over 100 acres, up to 3,000 acres. You can't use depth as a criteria, there are a lot of shallow lakes. Tom

Don't you have a wife? Lol

Imagine my distress when you land a 7lb-7oz smallie on that thing. The NRX is going for a swim.

Yep, the day will come when you forget the drain plug. Just don't panic when it does happen. If you notice it at the ramp and have access to it from inside the boat. Just stick it in, load it back on the trailer and let it drain. If it not so deep in the boat it's dangerous, you can just drive the boat, once it's moving fast enough keep the water off the back of the transom (about 10 mph or so) it creates a vacuum an pulls the water back out, then just put the plug when it's all out. As mentioned, the best time is to make it part of the hookup procedure. I hook to it, connect chains and lights, trim the motor up (I keep my motor down when when parked) and putthe plug in. Now, when I take the tie downs off, i always double check to make sure the plug is in. Several years ago, we came in late, was going back out befor daylight, so I didn't disconnect the boat. Since I didn't go through my normal hookup procedure the next morning, and I always take it out when I load the boat. It was not until we stopped some 15 miles from the ramp the next morning I heard the blig pump come on that I realized I hadn't put the plug in. The problem with that was mine screws in from the outside and a foot back under the transom. So guess who had to strip and go swimming on a cold morning in some cold water.

ATTENTION PARENTS! Go spend some quality time with your children! Teach them how to be good adults by setting a good example with your own lifestyle choices. Your words mean nothing. Your actions are what your children will follow. Spend half the money and twice the time with them. After all, you will need someone to care for you someday when YOU CAN'T DO IT YOURSELF!

I agree that a jig is a jig and I never understood why a jig made just for swimming would be better than any other jig until I tried one. Hook orientation is one aspect that really makes a jig good for swimming, most swim jigs have a hook that uses a 30 degree bend, this allows the jig to come through cover and open water with the hook riding level or slightly up, regular jigs end up with the hook riding slightly down from level. The hook angle also make for good hook sets as the bait is moving, this isn't a noticeable thing to most casual anglers, myself included, but was told to me as it was how designated swim jigs came to be. The other thing I really noticed is when coming through weeds and brush, most jigs will list to one side a little bit, swim jigs are very good for running true, and since I started using them I have really come to see how the design elements all work together to make it perform best while the bait is moving. Skirts also tend to be shorter and thinner than other jigs but you can easily fix that part with a pair of scissors so it isn't a big deal. There are a few different kind of swim jigs, you have the California swim jig which range from 1/4oz to 3/4oz and even 10z models are now showing up, then you have your Coosa River swim jig, which ranges in the 1/4oz to 1/2oz range and has a thinner skirt and shorter hook than the California but it is still a stout design, and then there is the Northern style swim jig, these are normally in the 1/4oz to 3/8oz range and feature a thin skirt like the Coosa River style but these use a lighter wire hook than the other two. I use the California style in 1/2oz size for heavy cover with larger swim bait trailers, like 5" models, this is mostly for dirty water with moderate to heavy cover. I also use the Northern style, this is my all around swim jig as I use it for moderate or sparse grass, light brush and boat docks, this is also a good one to use with a 3.8 Keitech swing impact or 4" easy shiner or really any swim bait that is 3.5" to 4", I prefer the River Rock Bait Striker which is similar to the easy shiner and Gene Larew Sweet Swimmer. Choose the swim jig based on the cover you are going to fish and match the trailer to it, Strike King Menace grubs and Rage Craws also make great trailers so try that too and match the color to the forage, it is that simple.

When nothing is working I stick to what is known to work best in that location/conditions and fish it hard all day. Switching up sometimes frustrates me more. Imo

Depending on what techniques you are using would I be concerned with how tight the braid is spooled back on to the spool. Heavier applications, the line will re-spool itself just fine when retrieved. Lighter applications, however the line will re-spool itself loosely. If your fishing the latter application you will have to be more conscious about what line is doing more often than usual and correct as needed. If your fishing heavier applications just fish, and periodically check how your line is doing. Besides... when you catch a nice bass, all that tight line or loose line business goes out the window anyways.

Couldnt help myself, lol. My parents recently bought a house on a small creek in Pa. Will be fishing for some smallies now

What other country has had 87 school shootings just since Sandy Hook? Only the school shootings, other mass shootings and acts of terrorism get our attention, but with about 30,000 total gun related deaths per year no country comes close to that. If this study is accurate the US has 88 guns per 100 people, with 10 gun related deaths per 100,000 people. Only South Africa comes near that 9 deaths per 100,000 all other civilized countries are well below 3 deaths per 100k. These other countries have everything we have, 24 hour news, video games, higher education, but they have less guns and less deaths due to firearms. Lots of guns and lots deaths seem to have something in common.

Haha, Steve does great work. May have him do a k2 for me in the future.

Know what it is? Not enough fishin'! Not enough being by yerself and going back to nature and solitude.. Not enough time to reflect about if any of this craziness is at all important Too many frustrations no outlet no reflection = volcanoes ready to explode..

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.

Used to be my Dad, but since he has passed on I still feel his presence in the boat when I fish alone 98% of the time.

If you're willing to fork out the dough for the Dobyns then that is what I would get. It'll handle a wider variety of big baits if you think you want to get into SB fishing.

Clyde the glide would agree about the sharing is caring :-P But you're so right. At many of the spots I fish at, its rare to find any other guys fishing and releasing their catch. A place like that you would have a whole lot of guys sitting in lawn chairs with their worms and bobbers looking to catch dinner 7 days a week in the nice weather.

beautiful fish bro and definitely the kind of catch worth having a vid of! The best bass fishing I have ever done was in a smaller pond than that

Parts 1 and 2 of my BFS combo. A Loomis CR721IMX will be next.

When I used flouro I really liked the berkley 100%. It handled great and was plenty strong. That being said. ....I couldn't really find a significant advantage to using it in MY fishing- and I went back to 15# yozuri. *shrug*

Will still go with the Silver Thread. Not as expensive as a lot of others but have great success. Have caught many large smallies on eight pound fireline with a 6# Silver Thread leader. Use other pound tests too and a great bang for the buck.