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Anytime, anywhere there are rocks you can slam the bait into, any crawfish imintation color. Just cant go wrong with them.

Yup not only are State Feds and families loosing money but I mean come on, when I was going, if someone told me nope, change of plans, I would have been devistated! I might have just said forget it and stopped fishing. I feel sooooo bad for these kids and there families. Even though it is still on, it will be nothing like it used to be. Just the Classic Atmosphere was unlike anything else, the oppurtunity to fish with your hero, the winners going on stage and getting driven around the arena on the final weigh in day. Just sad. :'( It is just one thing after another and I see more states going over to FLW/TBF.

In very bad taste imo, 3 months before, after all travel arrangements and such are made, B.A.S.S. "canceled" this years 2008 Junior Bassmaster World Championship. Instead it will be fish along with the Federation Nation Championship in November to go along with its whole "grass roots" movement. Wow, is that a way to smash a kids dreams who always wanted to fish with a KVD or Mike Iaconelli or what? Just plain wrong if you ask me. >

It was against the Dolphins!!!!!!

LMAO!... and dont blame it on the weather.

It must be something about that name, thats my sis's name and she a die-hard. She thinks nothing of doing 70 in a boat on a 40* morning.

No, they wont beat the Dolphins till the 23rd. :) :)

Lol, Video camera on the Patriots side. Wasnt that 12 straight wins ago?

You HOPE**** lol

Pats are out to prove the last two games were flukes. Moss and Wes Welker will come back big after last weeks sub-par performance and Maroney is due for a big game running the ball. 45-20

For fishing that thick grass and timber, you cant beat braid. Like you said, no stretch, thinner diameter, abrasion resistance is amazing, it is also very sensitive, IMO you dont get as many backlashes, and on a reel with a mono-backing it is fine. After I put the braid on, I tie on a hook, set the hook into an immovable object, walk away until all the braid is out, then put a lot of tension on it and reel it in. So I have no issues with it on the spool, but dont do it so tight that it cuts down into the line already on the spool or casting will be tough. The only issue is with knot tying, if you are flipping with a hook that doesnt have a completely closed eye, on the hookset the knot can slip down to where the eye has an opening and the hook and line will seperate. Only happened to me once though.

Winter can sometimes be fun if there is enough snow. Like 531 inches at Jay Peak a few years back.

A 4" or 6" Aquamelon Zoom Lizard with a chartruese tipped tail but the key to it is the 1/32 oz bullet weight and the shallow stumpfields

Speak for yourself, lol. Its been two weeks and I'm climbing the walls, playing with gear, moding rods, and ready to check in to a place that has white padded walls.

For the treble baits liek the Hula Popper and Bug go for a rod with a medium action and fast tip or if you perfer a moderate. For the Kermits, go for the Heavy action. Buzzbaits or single hooked baits go to a medium heavy action. imo

Makes a lot of sense now that you say it.

Congrats!

You really have too have different rods for different lures and presentaions. You can give a topwater or jerkbait a lot more action on certain rods and such. So you can work certain baits better on certain rods. There are also things you have to do with certain lakes. For example if a lake is very clear but has thick cover in certain areas I will have the same bait rigged up on two seperate rods that have different types or strength lines on them. The other big reason is if for follow up baits. I might have a topwater on and get a short strike, so you have to have another rod ready to go with a fluke or stickbait to try get that fish that made the short strike. It is also good to have the same bait rigged up on the another rod when fishing in lakes where smallmouth school up. If you have one on, chances are one, two, or three other smallies will follow it to the boat because they want what the other has. So you flip the initial smallie in the boat, drop another bait in as you are flipping the first and and try to get one of the other 3. It is more common than you think on certain bodies of water and it is soooooo much fun. lol And finally, as I have mentioned before in tourneys, time is everything, so I might have the same jig rigged up on 3 different rods, just so when I'm fishing something specific and might just happen to break it off I dont need to get another one out and retie, I just pick up another rod.

I'm thinking in Pennsylvania in the same area that big foot was sighted :

Definatley the best buy for $100, but with a rebate that Citica is hard to beat. Either one you would be pleased with.

What is the transom rated for HP wise? Will you be running both at the same time or trolling with one? Will you exceed the weight limit on the capacity plate?

Ok, I'm one of the nuts that is 75% a tournament guy. From April to November I'm fishing atleast 2-3 tourneys a week and the rest of the week I'm usually pre-fishing or "paying my dues". The rare times on not doing on of the two I'm just having a good time with LBH or Matt 5.0 out fun-fishing. I have to say I really miss just being able to go out and not have to worry who has what in their well and to be where at wha time and what not. But now it is just in my blood. I started competitive bass fishing as a sophmore in high school 4 years ago and just started living for compitition. Even before tournament fishing I was fishing 5 days a week out of a Coleman Crawdad with 3 rods and a few plano boxes of tackle. We would just cover about 200 acres of a local 600 acre pond and we learned soooooo much. I realized that when I joined thr RI Jr. Bassmaster program and I ened up winning a spot for the B.A.S.S. National Championship in 04'. When I went down to the Classic it just hit me, wow what a way to make a living! Now it is just a goal to be able to fish one Bassmaster Classic in my lifetime. And I wont let something like $$$ stand in my way. Whatever "tool" I need to ge the job done, I will buy. Since then, I have a bought a 17' BassTracker and at any given time it probably has 8 set-ups and a minumum of $500 worth of jigs and trailers in it alone. And I absolutley love it. But there were days after a tournament I just wanted to sell my boat and quit bass fishing because in the early stages it was getting frustrating. And it seemed like I was wasting my time and money. But now I'm in a position where I am consistantley in the $$$$ in tournaments and it is just an amazing feeling. So I can spend more in on the things I need and fish higher entry fee tournaments. Modified b/c I must have misunderstood the question. :-[

The last half of that game reminded me on last years playoff game with the Pats and Chargers. The Pats didnt win that game, the Chargers lost it on stupidity, just like the Raven last night. Then just like LT and the rest of the Chargers did, in the postgame interviews the Ravens blamed it on the refs and how the NFL wants New England to win, and blah blah blah. NO, your team just let their emotions get the best of them and blew the game on stupid penalties! Yes I can see some of the issues, like Gaffney"s "reception" but either way, if it wasnt complete, the Pats still would have had 2 or 3 more chances to get the ball in the endzone. Who knows....

In RI on some of our heavily pressured bodies of water senkos just dont work like they used to. I think the fish have figured them out. Tourneys are FINALLY being won again on jigs and other plastics, for about 2 years, every tournament was being won on a senko. It was getting frustrating because people who could never catch fish before would give everyone a whoopin on them. As soon as this happened, it seemed like EVERYONE in the state started throwing them. I remember at one point, both Dicks Sporting Goods, Sports Authorities, and most bait shops in the state were just about out of senkos or the selection was really picked over. But this year, the senko guys didnt do so well and it seems like the stickbait craze is dying off. :o Anyone notice that Yamamoto senkos are not as soft as when they first came out? They used to have a completely different feel.

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