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Picked her up this week... - 2018 Ranger Z520L w/G2 - G2 w/ upgraded power steering and hot foot - Atlas hydraulic plate - Ultrex 112 - (2) Solix 15 Mega's (1 flush at console, 1 on BBT mount at bow) - Humminbird 360 - (4) Northstar/X2 31 series AGM's - tilt steering and dual trim levers

This year we are starting a new series of jigs. We are going to release a new custom color each month. This month is the Chris Craw. The series will be available in the Extreme (Trokar) Dredge (Owner Deepthroat) Grid Iron (Owner XXX strong hook) Swim Jig (Mustad Ultra Point) (http://www.siebertoutdoors.com/Chris-Craw-1619.htm

Species: CATFISH, FLATHEAD (Pylodictis olivaris) Species seperation 1994.) Rank Weight Angler Where Caught Date Caught *1. 95.0 Roland Lasseigne Wax Lake July 2007 *2. 66.0 Harley Rakes Red River July 1998 *3. 52.04 Michael L. Guimbellot Red River February 2000 *4. 50.44 Ricky Gauthier Cane River April 1998 *5. 41.0 Mrs. Joyce Engolia Irish Bayou April 1995 *6. 38.0 Bill Dickinson Cane River Lake June 1994 *7. 33.50 Lucien A. Robert Lake Cataouatche June 1975 *8. 33.13 Justin Burbank False River May 2005 *9. 31.94 Michael Wiley Bayou Decade July 1997 *10. 26.13 Cody Normand Bayou Terrebonne April 1994 They're a blast to catch. I used to guide for them and have spent a lot of hours targeting them. Not many meaner fish out there in fresh water in the US.

Went out for a couple hours today and threw a worm. One strike, on my second cast. Lost three inches of my four inch worm. The other inch had a hook in it. Enjoyed just going. Ken

I fish my frogs with a MH rod with no issues, but I do throw them on 50lb braid. I don’t think I could get away with throwing them on mono where I fish.

Keep a separate reel with heavy braid (65 to 80 pound test) and you're good to go. If you like froggin' then you might want to get another rod at that point.

That rod will work for frogs and light to mid punching, but the line won't. Mono stretches to much and isn't strong enough for winching (and controlling) big bass out of slop and setting beefy frog hooks into their strong jaws. You're definitely going to have to swap that over to heavy braid in the 50+ range depending on how heavy of slop you will be fishing in. All around line for frogging, punching, c-rigs, and jigs would IMHO be 50 pound braid with or without a leader on jigs and c-rigging.

He's holding the guitar upside down!! I'll give it a 9. A few things I've learned from this thread is classic rock is the choice for the majority and that @halochef does not know how to play the game.

Brees vs Brady ?

All home teams this weekend will win.

Please do not listen to the “add a drop of oil to the bearings before each trip” suggestion. That is extremely overkill. Bearings do need cleaned/flushed and re oiled (1 drop) but only a couple times a year. That will vary based on how often you fish but if you only fish a few days a week it’s plenty.

My Tracker 175 txw 2014 It does what its made to do. @18RangerZ520L No I will not trade you boats.....Well okay I guess I will

Picked up a Cabela’s Tournament ZX Crankshaft 7’ 10” Heavy Fast as a rod to throw my new Norman DD22 HD’s. I might go exchange it for the 7’5” model so I can also throw medium divers.

KVD Line and Lure and here is why: Line & Lure is a special polymer blend that becomes part of the fishing line it is applied to. Other line treatments you find on the market are primarily silicone oil and solvents. Silicone oil only temporarily coats the line and solvents can damage line. Silicone oil rapidly comes off the line (on your hands and in the water), requiring re-treatment of the line after just a few casts. The special polymers in Line & Lure are hydrophobic (water repelling) and very slippery. It doesn't allow water to draw back on to the reel spool, which eliminates the line drag that a "wet" spool has. It also protects the line from wearing out as quickly as un-treated line because it resists the abrasion that wears line out. It contains no oils or solvents as in Reel Magic that can build up and collect dirt like silicone/oil treatments will.

Currently 64* and light rain with a predicted high of 67*. Later this evening a cold front arrives and the leading edge will produce heavy rain and thunderstorms. As the front moves in temperatures drop 40* into the mid 20s. Rain turns to sleet and then to snow. 1" of ice covered by 3"-5" of the white stuff. The stores will run out of bread and milk before noon today and the city will be shut down tomorrow.

Get basic jigs and use the trailer for flair. No need for 100 color jigs. Gman uses black or brown. I add green pumpkin because I'm a rebel

I'll go Patriots, Steelers, Vikings, and Falcons. My confidence is in that order to, not so sure about the eagle/falcon game. Could be a good one. BTW, I'll right down everyone's predictions tonight so no-one can edit the winners in

Patriots, Steelers, Falcons, Vikings

I'm in and am new to the site. Thanks guys

You might get a little more free spool time with TSI, at the bench, but on the water, the difference is going to be negligible. Either product will treat your bearings well.

60° yesterday and this morning. By tonight, back into the teens.

I'm up for the challenge but remember I picked the Cowboys and Raiders to be in the SB soooo....here goes nuthin'. Philly, Minnesota, Pittsburgh and New England.

Bullhead make excellent live bait for flathead catfish where it's legal. We've used them up to about 1.5lbs for live bait on limblines. It only takes about a 10lb flathead to eat a bullhead that size.

Clean the reel. Colder weather will increase the viscosity of the oil used to lubricate your reels spool shaft and bearing, any contaminates will also create friction. Tom

Oh no!!!!! It's the apocalypse. Lock the barn. Get all the women and children in the storm cellar.

Keep this on the down low, but rumor has it that Glenn is negotiating with Pan Am to provide the winner with air fare for a LMB fishing trip in Alaska, with George Perry as the featured guide...

Getting used to properly loading a fly rod has helped me a lot with understanding how a rod loads and the dynamics of casting in general, regardless of what kind of gear I have with me that day. A heavy 8wt fly rod, for me, is by far the most exhausting because my technique is still nowhere near as good as it is with conventional tackle. Still, if you think about it, regardless of tackle, the more work you can get the rod to do, the less you have to. Part of my goals for this year is improving my casting. Part of that, for me, is mechanics/technique, and another big part is cast selection. For example, while I think the two handed overhead cast is better than the one handed overhead cast for maximizing distance and throwing heavy baits, I'm going to prefer a roll cast (with casting gear) most of the time because I can do it with less fatigue, with better accuracy, and smaller splash regardless of whether I'm using one hand for something close, or two hands for heavier lures or more distance. This whole efficiency thing, for me, is huge because it minimizes the effects my back and neck have on my fishing over the course of a day and whether I'm good for a weekend or seized up in spasms after 4 hours.

Well that Pflueger President combo I ordered Monday from Cabela's was on my doorstep today with the standard shipping. The rod is a nice surprise, it has the feel that it will be nice for pitching plastics.

Only 2 fish Monday, but they were both nice ones. First one just barely missed 6 pounds at 5.92lbs, on a Savage Gear Shine Glide 185, love that bait. Tuesday I took a member of the Kansas State University fishing team with me. We had a steady day, catching fish or two every half hour for most of the day. Most every fish we caught was in the 3lb range but Zach's first fish of the day was 5.08lbs. It's been a good year already.

Not the "latest catch" but thought I would post since I thought I lost the pic. Heck of a fiasco On this day. Up for 27 hrs straight, forgot the net, sheared a pin in the trolling motor, dropped pliers in 20ft of water so couldn't replace the pin. Was throwing a kvd sexy frog On my 6'6 Shakespeare medium heavy with 15Lb mono. Forgot my braid setup. I believe this is my 4th biggest bass. And I have caught it once more 2 years later after it was spawned out and not nearly as big. We tagged this fish after I caught it the first time.

I am back at school and caught my first ice bass today after class. My friends and I caught over 50 fish, mainly bluegill but a few bass and crappie as well. Looks like the weather this week is going to make the ice unsafe so this might be the only ice trip for a while!

Aww man- I figured out it’s easier to skip from a bass boat and at the same time I found out it’s harder to explain to your wife you bought a bass boat...

Epic day today out at the hidden spot here in arizona. Biggest bag of my life 30lb 10oz. My previous PB bag was also out here. 27.5lbs. Finally beat that. Epic day. 11 bass caught. Strike king 6xd in chilli craw and an unknown brand my buddy had in tilapia were the tickets today. The picture with my buddy holding the small bass and the big one was one of our serious culls lol. We ended up culling a 5lbr out too later.

Does anyone have any low profile casting reel recommendations for inshore fishing as well as freshwater bass fishing? My budget is $200

@deep I thank you ... and the Bait Monkey thanks you since I was going to use my gift card to just buy hooks and trailers.

Nope, no problems at all. I twitch, rip, jerk, pull jerkbaits to the side from the yak all the time, and the fish haven't complained yet. I don't have a rod shorter than 7'5"; so I do the same deal from the bank or a boat too...

I have the 7'5. It's a very versatile rod. I use it for carolina rigs now. But have used it for 1/2 ounce traps all the way to 8xds

I hope it misses Virginia but the weather maps have the storm as coming through our area tomorrow and into the weekend. Today it was a beautiful 64* in Richmond, Virginia. Could be down to single digits, soon.

Awesome! Since I'm going to win it, I wonder if Mr. Perry and I could try for the giant Peacock bass that everyone is talking about up in Anchorage?

Without knowing more detail and the size of this creek arm can't help you. Tom

KVD L&L I also like the Reel Snot with the java scent. The reels I use it on smell like a cup o' Joe.

Reel Snot is a good one too.

I am 16. I started fishing for bass heavily in 2016 during the summer. Come winter, I began to look into new lures, then I found youtube. Most of my basic knowledge comes from there. Later on, I found bass resource, way more informative, that is also where i noticed the little details that make all the difference in the world. Instead of learning what rod to throw a spinnerbait on in the spring from youtube, here I learned how to retrieve it, when hand why to fish it. Stuff like that. It also explains why I caught 100ish bass in 2016 (one 50 fish day) to 752 LMBs in 2017. Without this site, I would still be on Youtube right now. When I first started watching the "Big Channels", they all had like 17k subscribers. Back then they made great content. They actually taught me how to fish. ow I stopped watching because it is a joke about making money and telling kids to quit school. I sense that this sudden change in the lack of content will make dropping out of school a regretted decision in a few years, but I will be the first to say that I hope it works out for them. There is nothing better than being your own boss and waking up everyday and loving your job.

You should also consider having a custom rod made from the high end blanks and components. Contact site sponsor DVL and my rod maker ALX and get their input. Don't over look off the shelf rods from Lamiglas Infinity series. Tom

Also do not forget live bait. Hech they use live bait and balloons in Florida all year. They also catch some of the biggest bass that way too

When I was learning, my bass fishing success was very, very minimal at first. But it exploded once I started doing three things: 1) I studied up on bass seasonal behavior -- what are they doing, where, and why, depending on the time of year 2) I stopped worrying about WHAT bait I was using, and starting paying more attention to WHERE I was using it -- location, depth, cover types, structural features. 3) I learned how to fish a plastic worm on a texas rig -- how to be patient, select my casts carefully, feel the bottom, feel obstructions, detect strikes, proper hooksetting technique. I use all kinds of lures, but becoming good with a plastic worm made me better with everything else.

This is where a good seeing eye dog comes in handy. You can just wipe yourself on it and then take it to the groomers.

Even with a bidet though I would still think that the person would have to be able to see ? Or have someone else see or ?

Not a trickle charger, use a battery maintainer. There is a huge difference and a trickle charger will burn a battery up if left on for long periods. A battery that sits for months must be charged at least every 6 to 8 weeks if not on a maintainer. A battery self discharges while sitting, some rather quickly. Once they get below approx. 80% charge, they start to sulfate. A sulfated cell can not transfer electrons so that part of the cell is useless. After a few months they can become so sulfated the battery is total junk.

Wow, I just caught a Largemouth Bass about an hour ago! It took very long to find and catch it, but after finding where they were and then using my lure the right way, I caught it! Since I was using a watermelon-colored Texas-rigged lure, they were paying attention to it being reeled from some plants. They seemed a bit confused at first, and I think I know for sure why they were. I guess that the problem was that I was reeling it in too slow and they intended to get it when it was off the ground. I wasn't just reeling it slow, I was also twitching it and making it look random, too. After I found out reeling it slow wasn't working, I cast my lure to the right side of the plants and reeled it in a little bit faster this time, and it worked because I guess they could actually put it in their mouth now. Bottom line, I think I caught it because I reeled it in a bit faster (so it was off the ground more), or I was using it in the right place (close to vegetation), or both. It was about 1-2 lbs., but that catch showed me I was making progress! Also, I would show a picture of it, but the .JPG file is for some reason 803 kb. I'm pretty sure I did something wrong, but I have no idea how to fix it.