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Make hooks rust a million times faster, yes.... welp, on last day of 3 days of fishing.... need some hawgs today....

Thanks Raul dang good explanation! But it wasn't my reason heh And yup knowledge is king. I tried to make the question a no wrong answer question, but one way or the other question.....as far as, are you aware if there is something you key on on first, or do you generally key in on different things first each time ya go.... It wasn't about constraints, either you're aware, not aware of it, or have no key thing lol heh guess i'll give up on trying to clarify this question and just go back to lurker status, some of the responses were real good though, but i'm not positive they understood what i was asking, and i'm sure some didn't get what i asked at all, sorry thanks anyway though. p.s. debating hitting the lake in the morning, just realized, would be the first time in probably 5 years i've went out on the boat alone, think i'll do it!

I didn't want to get that detailed though, tried to make it plain, and relate to fishing So, when you look at the whole scenario, what grabs your eye first, or what are you looking at first , heh ..... tough crowd here.... Kinda surprised about the water temp responses. May try to start to factor it sooner in my mind for awhile and see if helps.

I'm asking for a different reason. But now i got another question too, heh How many different largemouth species. I think i've seen 3 in north carolina alone.

yah, I know. But I think we all have sometihng we look for. Kinda like everyone knows how complicated a day in life can be, some us get up and put our pants on, some get drink a cup of coffee, some use the bathroom. And after awhile it gets to more of habit than importance of how we do it. I was trying to stay away from best, important, but more of personally important. Like my cousin, he is going to some kind of big structure first, no matter what anything else is doing...

Do most all these lakes stock alot with trout?

Maybe I'm not asking it right road heh. I think I should have worded it, What "most" determines what you do, instead of how I put it. Like for instance, I can't tell ya how much I take into consider when I go fishing, temp, depth, basically everything, but I don't start considering everything else till I figure out exactly what the wind is doing. basspro seems to get what i'm asking, he goes temp, and then basically everything else he feels is dictated by temp. Not that temp or wind or anything else is the main thing, just something you seem to always look at first, to get your a sense. May not even factor at all in the fish you catch... see what i'm asking? edit, for peter. yah i understand there is no on thing that catches fish, I realize people use a formula of anykind, whether is be flp or whatever. It's not about all the things you look at, it's about if you feel like there is one thing that comes first personally.

Thanks, I've tried looking, and there is some stuff on tubes, I was hoping to find out more about hollow bodies though. Seems it's more complicated for backyard builders. Only technique I could find really was squish molding...for more complicated bodies. Think i'm gonna start with tubes first though, and get a feel for hollow bodiy stuff before going to far.

roadwarrior (list of 10???) heh, cool i guess Since you listed current first, i'm hoping that is the thing you notice about yourself that seems to hit you first..... My dad sees it like that also. He wants to feel the current, and i'm like huh, I don't feel it! Think even when we fish the bank, he wants to at a part that's getting current or pretty close.... He's always wanting to be near current. Peter, no big deal if there is no one thing for you personally that stands out..... just something that develops over time, not something you choose to notice first, but realize one day it's the dominating factor in your style of fishing? Not sure if I asked it right.... I guess your response meant, no, there is not a 1 single thing that steers my style. And no, you can't list a bunch of things and call it one heh

This is mostly about personal awareness, preference. Not exactly what's best. But still would love to hear the pros and cons of each of yours and maybe why we should or shouldn't let one thing be such a factor. I know everything plays a role, which do you think affects you the most? Or what do you think of first before anything else? For me, I think it's wind. I think wind plays more of a role than anything when it comes how, where and what I fish with. Since I mainly fish plastic worms, I think maybe letting wind dictate alot of what I do isn't so bad. Though, there have been many times which I couldn't do exactly what I wanted because of the wind. And I would prefer, there was never any wind so I could work or present the lure exactly like I wanted.... But the fact is, sometimes it's gonna be windy, so I try to use it to my best advantage. I do prefer to throw into the wind so it's easier to keep contact with my lure. But for all the determining factors, is seems for me, it's always, wind + whatever? It's the first thing I consider no matter what...

cgs2004, It's a pretty clunky interface. see arrows on side of the map? oops, forgot to add, once you got the spot on the map , click the zoom icon above the map and then click on the exact spot to center... I don't use it much soo, could be wrong I like the live local, switch to aerial and you can get a pretty dang good look at any lake you want.

Of course, she may be planted to the bottom with that 3lb weight they tossed in her and we'll never see her

heh guess I'm the only one with no

Ah that had to be an awesome feeling. 22 lbs..... Imagine how technology was back then, Wonder how long it took for the news of the catch to get to bass fishermen across America.... I might look into the standing state records across the country to see how much bigger it was, than current state records. Wonder if thiere any sites that have data that old.... Bet you'd have to do some serious legwork to find out all that kinda stuff back then. heh I think I need to start spell check before posting Oh and lemme add before I get banned or this gets locked, heh, The igfa didn't officially take over record keeping from field and stream until 1978.. I didn't know that.

nonono, those are cali bass !! They done strained the florida out of them with those trout lol Just curious, anyone here ever fish Dixon, and if so, do you know if they installed the huge fish aerators? Just wondering, lake I go to, at times of the year, those aerators are a sight to behold, the amount of shad and 2-3 lb bass flopping all raround in the bubbles is truely a crazy sight to watch.