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A new supermarket opened near my house. It has an automatic water mister to keep the produce fresh. Just before it goes on you hear the sound of distant thunder and the smell of rain. When you pass the milk cases, you hear cows mooing and you experience the scent of fresh cut hay. In the meat department there is the aroma of charcoal grilled steaks with onions. When you approach the egg case, you hear hens cluck and cackle, and the air is filled with the pleasing aroma of bacon and eggs frying. The bread department features the tantalizing smell of fresh baked bread and cookies. I don't buy toilet paper there any more.

Caught my personal best this weekend fishing from a dock on a small pond at our deer lease in Centerville, Tx. We didn't have a scale but compared it to pics and videos online and we estimate 7-8 pounds. Caught on a 1/2 oz. Booyah spinnerbait during light rain in about 3 ft of clear water.

Every bass is crazy about a sharp dressed man, Tom.

Depending on the body of water and the structure & cover in it, trolling for bass can be very effective. The rise & popularity of tournament angling (where trolling is prohibited) has by and large made the method almost obsolete. This hasn't changed the fact that both good numbers & size of bass still can and do take trolled lures readily. One thing that's interesting is every bass boat on the planet comes with a trolling motor but no ones trolling with it . . . . A-Jay

my socks dont even match

Trolling with crankbaits = guys who camp all day with sniper rifles in call of duty.

Merry Christmas to all! Our largest sale to date! We will be running a 15% off sale on every product on our website from Nov 24-30 2014 all of our products are 15% off with the use of code BR15. With this sale we have added new products. For starters we have added new packages to help out trying products or getting into a new fishing style expanding our Stocking Stuffer kits http://siebertoutdoors.com/Stocking-Stuffers_c30.htm The newest jigs to the line up is the Grid Iron jig: The Grid Iron Football Jig is a radically new designed football jig. It incorporates a recessed eye for knot protection and angles on the bottom of the head. These angles help kick the head over structure minimizing hang ups. I have tested this jig extensively and there is no comparison to a standard football. The Grid Iron Football Jig out performs it in all aspects. The Grid Iron is made to handle big fish and fish where those big fish live. The Gridiron Football jig is an great jig for ledges, rocks, chunk rock or any time you need to drag a jig. As the jig falls it points the trailer about 45 degrees up and lands with the trailer at this same angle. First we use an Owner Round Bend Widegap hook. Owners Description: Flip 'n' pitch jig hooks, with a 60° eye-bend and a heavy-duty, forged XXX strong shank, ideal for horsing big bass out of heavy cover. Features include Cutting Point® and black finish. The paint is a powder coat that is heat cured for an extremely durable finish. The skirt is made from approximately 55 strands which you can choose if you want it wire tied for long lasting durability, banded for easy changeability, or rattle banded for extra noise for those murky water conditions. The Grid Iron is also available in Brush and Arky. While supplies last. Merry Christmas Mike Siebert

I came across an article that had an interesting quote from a book that from what I can tell was written in 1881. What say you? "Most fishing reels are suspended from the bottom of the rod, since this position requires no wrist strength to overcome gravity while enabling the angler to cast and retrieve without changing hands. The baitcasting reel's unusual mounting position atop the rod is an accident of history. Baitcasting reels were originally designed to be cast when positioned atop the rod, then rotated upside-down in order to operate the crank handle while playing a fish or retrieving line. However, in practice most anglers preferred to keep the reel atop the rod for both cast and retrieve by simply transferring the rod to the left hand for the retrieve, then reverse-winding the crank handle. Because of this preference, mounting the crank handle on the right side of a bait casting reel (with standard clockwise crank handle rotation) has become customary, though models with left-hand retrieve have gained in popularity in recent years thanks to user familiarity with the spinning reel"

Caught another one! Nov 15 it was about 30 degrees and snow flurries!! this one was 24 inches in length and 15 inches in girth. ">http:// ">http://http://s1292.photobucket.com/user/dherbert2004/media/IMG_1059_zps1ae3f063.jpg.html'>

This is true, they have the best video equipment in the league!!!

Had a pretty good 3 hours. Caught between 10-15. Nothing big but had alot of action! Caught everything on a cottom candy 4" Fat Albert. Eventually I know one of you will buy a house out here!

Another reason to be very THANKFUL, Results just came back, negative. Thanks again for the all the prayers and good thoughts. My family and I are very appreciative. I wish you all a wonderful holiday.

Try joining their mailing list.

Raiders cell mate?

As a Bills fan... Need I say more?

No snow predicted here in San Diego, but the water temps are down to 64! Might have to stop fishing top water!

Bassassassin Shad Assassin, my personal favorite.

or this

Nope. Jeff

Bass do have a calendar season; cold water period or winter, pre spawn or cold water warming, spawn or cold water warmed to 62-67 dergrees, post spawn or bass completed the spawn, summer or warm water period and fall, water cooling to cold water period....1 year cycle. Ponds are not big enough to offer bass many places to go, they adapt to their environment. Shallow calm sun warmed water may be a few degrees warmer than any other water in your pond, bass seek the warmest water during cold water periods. The weather has a direct affect on bass location and their prey, it all works together. Tom

Are you guys sure it is not the Ebola?

Huh, seasonal patterns, uhh nope aint in my my play book! I don't give seasonal patterns a nanosecond of my time! Weather patterns & water conditions yelp, seasonal patterns nah

Finesse jig or shakyhead with a trick worm. If I can't get bit on either of those two there aren't any fish to be caught

We were discussing this topic in another forum and when I started reading about it I came across these pictures. I found them very cool.

Save time and money. Get your son one of these. Grown men have been known to flee from its presence.

The # 1 Defense would not be # 1 if they played the New England Patriots every week. That was a bit of a Beat Down. A-Jay

Pinnacle is now producing some great products, but have overlooked the need to update their website to promote these great new products. A marketing gaffe - big-time. I sincerely hope they update their site soon.

If i could afford to I'd live on Lake Sherwood , but i can't afford to do that yet. so i'd live on westlake village , and fish Lake castias. Ive fished Castaic, Pyramid , Diamond Valley, and none of them compare to lake casitas for the ability to consisently produce fish I catch 5-8lbs , period. its because its so close to the ocean and its underwater topography and its pristine wilderness area. all other lakes are like mcdonalds to me. so iu'd live in Oak View right near lake casitas

Both of these fish came from the north fork of the Rivanna this spring after torrential flooding. Brookie was 12" and ate a 5" senko

Didn't pick up any 20 lb but 17 lb wil show you everything you need to know. Another thing to also consider about this video is that the Abrazx is brand new bought yesterday and has never seen any water besides the cup. The Smackdown is three months old and has been spooled on and off three different baitcast reels and has been put through utter hell. I also had to really bear down to break the Smackdown. Didn't take much effort at all to break the Abrazx. I'm sure a naysayer is going to try and dog this video somehow, but if you can't see which one is more abrasion resistant for some strange reason then try it for yourself.

Stick with one proven cold water bait and fish slow. Odds are, worm color and shape aren't keeping the fish from biting.

Excellent catch! Next purchase - a scale!!

Fish is closer to the camera than his eyes

I've never had an issue with mixing colors. To date my most successful combos have a been black jig with chartreuse trailer (smallmouth killer) and a brown/blue jig with an orange pork rind. These are usually the first thing I'll throw if there's a jig bite. I'm not even sure what a bass thinks it's eating when it hits a jig, all I do know is that they eat them.

There is 1 thing I'm interested in at BPS this year, and that's another Carbonlite rod. I plan on buying a M or MH casting rod. Other than that, Spring Classic is where the BPS deals will be mostly. DSG - haven't seen what they're offering yet.

I usually like to match because my OCD hates it,but I guess you can try to mix colors.

I think it was his wife's idea Nah, he woulda picked up some of this

Great soundtrack! Some really good stuff on that one, like:

Welcome home!

I have witnessed large schools of adult size bass working together to heard prey on several occasions that resulted in phenomenal catches. I wouldn't limit wolf packs to juvenile bass. Also watched large schools of bass traveling across wide deep expanses of water,both largemouth and Smallmouth. Standing on a high bluff above the water at lake Havasu a massive school of largemouth bass, several hundred, swam across the lake from the opposite shoe to where I was standing, it look like a cloud shadow. When the giant school of bass neared the shore they split up, some swimming up the lake, some down the lake and into coves. Mass migration? Lake trout fishing on lCrow lake in Ontario Canada, we were jigging for lakers about 5 miles off shore when a big school of Smallmouths passed under our boat swimming toward the opposite shore, another mass migration? Spend enough time on the water and you will discover bass behavior isn't always predicable. I watched a strange behavior at Little lake near Fossil Falls north of Mojave.little lake is about 1 mile long maybe 1/8 mile wide water filled volcanic fissure that is over 1,500 feet deep in the fisher crack that runs about 1/4 mile long in the center of this lake, the rest is shallow about 3' to 10'. The largemouth bass in Little spend most of their time in the deep fissure along the walls, then move out toward the shore to herd baitfish back into pockets along the shore, feed and return to the deep fissure crack that supplies the lakes spring water. Adaptive behavior that suits the ecosystem. Schools of big bass feeding on planted rainbow trout is another example of adaptive behavior. Tom

I grew up around Junction City, lots of good catfishing around that area. Milford is starting to produce fish that are getting close to state record size (blue cats) and is packed full of eating sized fish to mid range size fish in the 20-40 pound range. Pott. 2 is a great place for eater sized channels with some bigger ones (my dad caught a 17lb channel there long time ago). Tuttle Creek is a great catfish lake for channels and monster flatheads. Republican River can be really good, as can the Big and Little Blue rivers. Rocky Ford is good for channels and the occasional flathead. My dad and I used to catch lots of catfish by putting on old tennis shoes and shorts and wading those feeder creeks and smaller rivers with punch bait and sponges, good memories.

Just messing around I used a pupillary distance measurement of 60MM as most adults are somewhere between 60 - 65MM. When you use that as a scale, this fish ends up being a lot closer to 23-24 inches. I think you brother caught himself a very nice fish, and it's length and weight are largely under estimated.

Greetings and Welcome to the forums

Welcome aboard!

Welcome to the forums! Jeff

Hello and Welcome to Bass Resource ~ Good Luck with your Catfish fishing. A-Jay

Welcome!

I like to make my hand fall asleep first, I call it "strangebaiting"

I usually have my wife hold it, that just feels better.