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Nice perspective ~ Disagreement does not automatically include Disrespect. Adding it is a choice. A-Jay

This is a Veterans Day bass (and my current PB) from Last year. It was an 11-11 caught on 11/11 A-Jay

After some rather detailed PM exchanges with a couple friends let me see if I can bring a few things into perspective. Matt Lures and my discussions go back many years and though they get quite heated we have both kept them quite civil. I grew up with some of the legends of catching bass, the bass's environment, and bass behavior. The majority of my experience comes from the southern United States; Texas to Florida, the Gulf Coast to Tennessee and with limited experience from Mexico. Matt also has quite the experienced Bach ground as we'll. While one might disagree with Matt or with me, that is not important, y'all need to pay close attention to both sides of the discussion! I may not agree with Matt 100% of the time I do however take his viewpoint and compare it to mine and make the proper adjustments that give me a greater opportunity to catch bass as well as bigger bass. This does not apply to Matt only but Bobby Uhrig, Paul Roberts, Roger (ROLO), Raul, WRB and many other long time members. These are the guys I learn from!

Good stuff, but what will i do at work tomorrow????

What prompted this public response was some here think there is some type of animosity between Matt and I. Of all the adjectives and adverbs used to describe myself and others arrogant was the mildest. With the level of experience obtained by some us comes a self confidence that can be misconstrued as arrogant.

The USDM Curado lacks mystique and will not elevate your social class status.

Hey folks, We're going to be updating the server software tomorrow (Thursday) morning, which requires us to pull the site offline. This is a major OS update, so it's going to take all morning and into the afternoon to complete. We expect the site to be available again late tomorrow afternoon. Note that we're NOT changing the forum software in any way, so the updates will not affect what you see today. The updates will improve response time and security, as well as provide us with a wealth of new features from which we can build upon at a later date. Thanks in advance for your patience. Glenn

Don't all the packages now have the big warning label that says "This is product is know to contain a chemical that if used outside of California will cause skunkiness". I just figured this was California's way of getting back at us for all those products that only cause cancer in California.

I'm feeling withdrawal symptoms already.

I think I probably learn the most through new members. Their questions seem basic,fundamental, and sometimes even silly on the surface, but thinking about these building blocks of fishing, and teaching others can lead to self reflection, and remind of areas we probably taske for granted. Look at all the knot threads. How about guys that can't seem to fish a jig through weeds? Why do we use braid? Why do we use leaders? When is a crank better than a plastic? Dovetail that type of sharing with the elevated conversations Catt is talking about, and a lot of these new anglers are going to simply shorten that 90% bell curve of anglers - the old 10% catch 90% of the fish thing.

USCG Boatswain Mate 1987-1994

And.......? We all learn from others all the time. Sometimes it is good; sometimes it is bad; and sometimes it doesn't matter. The old saying, "Keep Your Eyes and Ears Open and Your Mouth Shut" applies more than we can imagine, especially in bass fishing.

Not sarcasm, I use comic sans font for that.

United States Coast Guard 1970-1974 -- E5 Radioman when the Morse code was still used. The Coast Guard produced the best Radiomen ever made. Semper Paratus Old school basser...

I ended up going out to melvern yesterday getting there at 9am. Fishing was rough with the high winds and white caps. I stayed on the south side till 3:30 catching 3-4 per hour. Cranks/ned/jerkbaits nothing particularly ruled the day. Mostly looking like this: http://s48.photobucket.com/user/RJ_986/media/20141110_135719_resized_zps3dd7c211.jpg.html http://s48.photobucket.com/user/RJ_986/media/20141110_153117_resized_zps456cf87f.jpg.html The wind lightened up considerably 330-530 turning on the fish and allowing me to fish the dam/north sides . The dam produced a mixed bag of 30 whites/smallies. Biggest of the day was a 4lb1oz smallmouth. http://s48.photobucket.com/user/RJ_986/media/20141110_163822_resized_zpsf860e766.jpg.html http://s48.photobucket.com/user/RJ_986/media/20141110_163735_resized_zps610d5523.jpg.html It was great to get out after two months off the water (baby/moving).

A man wakes up from a coma. His doctor asks him what he remembers. - All i remember is getting on an elevator with a gorgeous woman and her husband. She had a beautiful cleavage and i couldn't stop staring at it. She then looked at me and told me "Can you please press one?".

Catt, being somewhat new to these forums, I have read many posts and responses from the long time members. ALL of you have pro's and con's on your views and experiences. But that's the best part. I get to see what point of view from South Eastern fisherman, see the views from the guys out West, up North...etc. See the discussion that incurs and learn or add points of view or questions that we may view viable to the discussion. There are times we all get a bit heated in our discussions....we're fisherman and most of us are pretty hard headed. And the good fisherman ALL may come off arragant because of our sef confidence. But from your list of members, each have their strong points and excel in the way they fish and techiques they use. ALL of which lend their time to posting and letting us learn bits of knowledge and experience we can take from each member where we are lacking and make us more productive and able to share with others that are up and coming in our great sport.

Yesterday in Erie (this one was not big, but fun to catch)

Based on the couple responses already made to this I expect businesses all across the country will experience a spike in productivity tomorrow.

Incivility is revamped in today's behavior on the internet, in social media and politics. The ability to debate your thoughts without being uncivil leads to compromise and a good learning experience or agreeing to agree to disagree, shake hands and move on. I have learned lot from Catt, we don't always agree, our experiences maybe similar with a different perspective. Tom

You need civil disagreement to prevent things like the Abilene Paradox and Groupthink, the key word here is Civil. Once it becomes an argument neither side hears the other and begin to think more about how they are going to respond than digesting what was said.

Blade baits, spy baits & LJ crankbaits didn't work for me at all. They just plain sucked.

Good possibility that wasn't by accident. Any of the regulars can text or PM me and I'll tell you where we were

EMS delivery is usually 3-5 days.

A little while ago(when the Hedgehog spool pin remover was brand new) I ordered a reel and the Hedghog tool from Japan Tackle. I ordered some terminal tackle from Cabelas the same day.The order from Japan beat the Cabelas order by three days.

You think that's a southern thing? It's even more a thing up here. It's pretty hilarious, really.

Thank you all for your service! My signature under all my post is for those in our armed forces, and my brothers and sisters in blue here at home

AF/ANG 3P071-Security Police/Security Forces 1981-2005

I'm going to be throwing 1&1/4oz loads of #2s @1550fps at some lesser canadas

USMC 2003-2007

USAF - munitions loader F-15, F-16 (1988-1995)

I got out yesterday and made sure I got out one of these last two nice days. I didn't have much luck on the bass front either, the yellow perch is another story

Thank you all for your service, allowing myself and every other American to live life according to our own terms.

The newest additions. Been waiting on the 50th and the Ito for some time. The custom painted Fuego has a TDZ 100 spool in it. The Type R is, well , a Type R

Every type of casting motion has it's time and place. Overhead is fine if you're bombing away for distance. Not so much if you are trying to land a lure right on top of a fish holding spot.

Was talking to the wife last night about how much plastics and extra lures I have laying around (like she's interested). Anywho I just threw it out there that since the laundry room is unfinished and the studs are exposed on one side, that I should put up some peg board in the laundry room so I can hang all the baits up and keep them organized. I figured she would come at me with a "NO, I don't want all your fishing crap hanging around." To my surprise she said "Great as long as you get the bare studs covered I don't care what you do." WINTER PROJECT !!! WOOT WOOT!

Today was the last day of warm weather before the temp is going to drop 20 degrees in the next few days. Water temp ranged from 53-56 while I was there. I was waiting to see when the topwater frog bite was going to stop and it may have for the most part. I caught a few pickerel on the frog today but no bass. Not digging the cold weather ahead. A few weeks ago while throwing the frog near a big branch sticking out of the water it got hung up and eventually I had to cut the line. Today I throw another frog in the same area and it got stuck also. A little bit of yanking from different angles and the frog popped loose. As I'm reeling it in I can see the other frog from last time hooked to the frog from today. Strange luck but I'll take it. Even with the water temp around 55-57 the only way I caught bass today was slow fishing with a 5'' worm rigged weedless. I'm limited to what I can use due to the thick grass and muck that is on alot of the surface along with all the leaves. This is where both frogs were stuck on.

Tried one last time to get out this past weekend. Between 4 of us we could only muster 2 dinks running the banks of a reservoir. Time to pack it in I guess.

Luckily I have a nuclear power plant lake to play with when it gets cold and everything freezes up

I hear you! My bass season also has just ended in Michigan, but now with my house in Florida ill be there for two weeks in december as well as in february and april!

I agree that many people over embellish the size and weight of a fish, though I do not believe there is any malicious intent to do so. Quite simply I believe that many people are so excited to catch a big bass coupled with little to no experience with landing decent size fish, that they figure it must weigh more than just a few pounds. Then you have those that just like to tell fish stories. Many of us fall into both these categories at some point in their fishing career. Or even week. I had the very opposite of this initial thread happen to me, and wonder if it has happened to anyone else. I always carry several scales. Mechanical and digital, so I can get a true weight/length measurement for my own log. It was spawn and I was fishing 20 yards off shore with a wacky rigged GY senko, and had been slaying the fish in the early morning. A guy on shore was fishing with his wife. I landed a few fish in front of them, and then ended up landing a nice fish a little over 5 lbs. I was fishing solo, and went Ike during the fight/netting of this fish. I took some pictures and weighed the fish. As I was revving the fish, he guy from shore asked me how big it was, and so I told him, just over 5lbs. He apparently believed I was telling him yet another fish story, and quite candidly told me no way, it was a 3lber tops. I was approx 50 yards from this guy at this point. Part of me wanted to tell the guy to feel free to swim over to my boat and he could see by himself, instead I said that's what my three scales said pal, I don't know what to tell you. Really left a bad taste in my mouth...until I hooked up with another fish and forgot about his comments.

I don't think the new Scorpion is the way to go for getting into JDM. However, I saw Metaniums for under $300 on jpangler and I think SS SV's might be getting around $250. Thank God I had someone change my Paypal password when the Yen started to drop. I'd be like Scrooge McDuck diving into a vault of fishing reels.

Yes, I have been looking to elevate my social standing. I do have an image and reputation to maintain on the lake I fish. Can't let my followers and fans down. K V Hootie

Nice Bass ~ I've become a fan of The Blade myself - It's been a Brown Bass Magnet this fall . . . . . A-Jay

Nice fish. 10 points. 10 points deducted for posting the video.

Great report & really nice bass. I was out yesterday fishing 30-46 fow on erie with blade baits & they produced in the dirty water.

Way to catch 'em and possibly end the season on a high note, those are sine nice deepwater bass

Nice coldwater fishes! They are mostly deep where I am as well.

I bet that really bugged you.

That is a black crappie. White crappies have the spots, but or in a more vertical pattern