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Ummmm.. yea. Lots of people are getting jobs right out of school. If you do decent you can get a job doing whatever. I can think of a dozen friends right now who I had classes with last year, graduated, and have GREAT not good, GREAT, jobs despite the economy. Five or six of which went for business/economics/finance and still got good jobs right out of school. One of them had just under a 4.0 a is making 70k a year as a financial advisor at Met Life. If you are going for any career in justice or medicine you have people throwing money at you as soon as you get out. My girls cousin earned her degree in criminal justice with good grades and just got a job in the state court system making great money. Employers come to you. Second there are so many ways to pay for school via grants, scholarships, work/study programs, loans with little or no interest, or loans that you don't have to be paid back until 10 years after you are out of school (most of which are state or federal) it would be stupid NOT to go to college. My sister is an ok student in regular college prep courses getting a steady 3.0 in high school got accepted to Johnson and Wales University and instead of paying 22k a year in tuition, she will have just under that to pay back in loans when she graduates in 4 years. So many people don't want to, don't know what they want to do, or don;t think they can pay for college that it is making life easier for those who want to. There are more grants and scholarships available, and schools are even lowering their standards for accepting and extending deadlines to fill empty seats. Do your research and get your ___ straight because college is not as hard or as expensive as you may think.

If you want to be a teacher come to the northeast. It is insane the money they are making. My best friends dad is a public school teacher with a degree in Engineering so he can teach math or physics. He has only been teaching for about 15 years and makes over 110k a year. All salaries must be shown so you can see what they make. My Physics teacher I had who was also Department Chair at a public school with almost 30 years in was making over 130k. Most start at around 50k. If you want to be a teacher just be sure to go into the Math/Science areas, they really need them. Where as there are a lot of people up here with English/History degrees up here who cannot find teaching jobs anywhere.

Hit a wake on Lake Norman from a ferry in the Junior World Championships for BASS and just about blew up one of the first Verado's. Came out, heard the prop buzzing, and beyond redlined it. The worst is when you come out of your seat and things fly underneith you when you come back down... :-X ;D

4.5" Smithwick Suspending Rogue, chrome with black back and orange belly and the Spro Aruku Shad Jr in perch.

Flouro...

My mom would kill me if she knew that I associated with people like you. ;D I'm majoring in Pre-Med. Awesome, my girl is Pre-Med and in the Bio program. Just a heads up, Organic Chem is a $^$^%$^#^^&&*@...

I have been lucky enough to have fished with Tommy Biffle a few times and thought he was really laid back and easy going, except when driving the boat. But I read this in an interview he had with another site about BASS and how they go about determining who will fish with the past two tournies having canceled a day... "They need to get their act together and do everything the same all the time, because it's real unfair. It's nothing but for TV. It's nothing like it used to be." Hope he doesn't get in trouble for that one...

Congrats Hookem.....be sure to watch Animal House and learn many beer drinking games before you start in the fall. ;D Thought of a major yet?

Still rockin' the orange .... 8-)

Hold them all, imo the Curado is too small for me to palm comfortably, and the weight difference between the STX and PT feels like a lot. I would take the STX...

I found a pile yesterday, on my own, and have a T next weekend...should I fish it? ;D

Phillies and Tampa will not be what they were. I'm still in shock about how just Tampa let people go. Red Sox/ Yankee will play in the ALC, and the Dodgers/Mets in the NLC.... Manny will come back to Boston in the World Series.

Yup, just really have to saliva it up...

I have the total opposite approach. I will fish the tourney with him, and see how much he runs, how his etiquette is then I decide on tip. Even if he backboats me I will tip him, but not as much. I also tip depending on how much running and what not. Last year when gas prices sucked I was giving 30, but this year I will offer 20. Also offer to wipe down his boat. I thought you were banned from the BFL's after numerous sexual harassment charges were filled against you by your boaters.... :-?

Wood and grass = braid and flouro could also be used without much issue. It is just really easy to winch in a fish with 65 pound braid than 20 pound flouro. Anything concrete, docks, and rocks it is all flouro for me.

Yea, they are both living in exile together in Burley's shed...

I'm 20 and fished the Bassmaster Weekend Series as a non last year and all I can say is work your butt off and save up. I had one good ride the entire season that knew what he was doing. The others were kind of clueless and just loved drowning senkos. The Weekend Series tourney I won on Champlain I found the sweet spot, pattern, and bait. I went nuts working to buy mine and got lucky that I'm going to have Federal Loans and Grants to pay for most of my college. So now I'm saving up for a new truck. I agree 100% with Robby, if you pull an . who thinks you're just there to net for him than do what you have to. Senko 77 and I have spent hours talking about boaters we have drawn and have come to the agreement that fishing as a non-boater is not always fun because a lot of the guys are truely clueless. It is kind of scary. I had one guy try to make a 40 mile run in a 19' boat with 4-5 footers one day, then a guy trying to get up on pad and fly in 6 footers the next.. But you can learn a little trick every now and then. Last...I'm convinced to be a successful non-boater you need to know how to finesse fish and find fish just about anywhere.. Senko does it with his shakey heads and does great, and I do it with the drop-shot and 2" tube. (now bash me for being an arrogant *****)

I think it would be a horizontal line that intercepts Y at 1. :-?

Could easily be broken on Champlain for a season...

Nothing is more of a pain than limits in Calc. One problem can take up multiple sheets of paper. X! problems can suck too...

I'll buy them all...

On lakes on than X....

;D Beat me to it by a minute...

All my rods with the exception of my frog and heavy duty grass rods have either Trilene 100% or Seaguar Invizx. Stuff is great, abrasion resistant, and I'm convinced I get more bites that with mono because of it's light refraction properties. When I put it on I soak the spool in water for a while, then just put it on coming off the bottom of the spool, and before it goes onto the spool I have a cloth with KVD L + L on it that I run it through. Then I tie a hook on, dig the hook into something, walk 75% of the line off, and put it back on real tight. Works great for me.

One of my big go to baits around here is a 4" Power Grub. Most people throw big Culprits so when they see a little texas-rigged grub they just eat it up. And Berkley's PB and J color is amazing looking...