George Welcome

Rent-A-Reel: what a deal.

We have had a combination of cold and wind which has the fishing up and down. Hopefully the worst cold is by us. Beds are started but fish moved with weather. Water temps: 50's down with 60 surface

How else are you going to control traffic?

My exact thoughts, and that the body of water has plenty of secondary points to play with. Did I mention the boat flying to the south?

Do you actually think that you have a spot in Florida that is secret?

In order to qualify someone as a great fisherman, the qualifier has to be better than those he/she qualifies.

Easier and cheaper solution: go to Wal-Mart and pick up an air horn. Louder and will last a long time.

When a gator sees you images start flowing through his brain. Boots, belts, pocketbooks, and such, are thoughts that keep them at a safe distance. However, a people-fed gator becomes quite a different creature. Do not feed the gators!

Remember, it's the new farts that stink. Us old farts have mellowed out.

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It's a Minn Kota: composite shaft, not metal, so bent isn't the answer. Tension adjustment could be an issue. Cable could be an issue.

Your motor has a plug-in harness for the tach. Get a Yamaha tach and you won't be cutting wires and trying to figure things out.

Congratulations to you and the entire family. May you all have many happy events and memories developed over the years. I will tell you however that as great as kids are, grand kids are better.

Sadly, below 60 degrees and they are toast. These cold sessions come through periodically, and it back to southern Broward and Dade county for a while.

One of the assumptions being made in these threads is that being caught is a major negative experience for bass. Do bass know fear? Do bass experience pain from the experience? Most animals who experience fear cower once they know what caused that fear. So much to think about - so much research to do. I'm going fishing, and the ones that bite I will enjoy, and the ones that don't, I don't care about.

Your subject matter needs to be narrowed. Pick one topic and center your study on that. For example, pages can be written on the impact of lead on the eviornment and ecology of an inland lake, caused by its usage by the fishing community. Further you would have extensive studies already done, with pages of documentation from many sources at your fingertips for such a project.

Gotta love it: let's not get overwrought with emotions here.

In any bass fishing tournament some always come in with more bass and bigger bass than most of the other participants, and someone always wins. Perhaps the winner has learned how to find the dumb bass. Perhaps there is some cover or structure that is more likely to hold dumb bass than others. : I've yet to see an autopsy on a bass that didn't yield a stick, a stone, a shell, or some other inanimate object in their stomach. Perhaps there are real scientific papers out there that address how bass live, hunt, and eat. Do bass actually select what they eat by size, shape and color through some learing process. Perhaps our southern bass are truly cast into the lot of dumb bass, as we continue having days of huge numbers, and huge bass caught on a lake that is highly pressured, quite small compared to many, and one that everyone is using the same baits day after day. I am short on experience chasing this critter, only 50 years now, but to me bass are dumb as rocks.

"it's one or the other y'all. logic dictates that. i can sleep easier at night believing choice "b"." Interesting word choice. I wonder how many animals on earth have this attribute? Perhaps, there is some sort of scientific response to that question that in some way brings enlightment to all of this? Wouldn't you agree that in order for an animal to learn, logical thought processes must be attributes they possess?

"Also you have to consider that some lures would be easier to learn then others. For instace. You may have eaten 500 burgers in your life. You go to MC donnalds and eat a burger and get sick. would you stop eating burgers? No. But if you started getting sick every other time you ate one from any place you would learn that something is wrong." The serious flaw in most of the responses on this subject. This animal is not a human being. Also, it is not a trout, catfish, or some other species of fish. This animal is a bass. However, these responses demonstrate what keeps bass fishing interesting. This species of fish is an enigma that lives by no rules, and two that are side by side might act quite differently with a given set of circumstances. Most fish have a given set of rules that it will respond to, but not this guy. Such fun!

Spawn: maybe some activity, maybe not. Basic lures: Various plastics in dark colors 4/0 Offset Worm Hook (We Prefer Gamakatsu) Small Barrel Swivels For Carolina Rigs Bullet Weights (3/8 Ounce for Carolina Rigs) Storm Rattlin' Chug Bug 3.5" 3/8oz (Chrome & Blue, And Your Other Favorite Colors) Any Of Your Favorite Top Water Lures Bill Lewis 1/2 Ounce Rat-L-Taps (Chrome Blue w/ Orange Belly, Craw Dad, And Fire Tiger etc:) Buzz Baits (White, White And Chartreuse etc:) Spinner Baits (Fire Tiger, White, etc:) We Use Terminator T1 1/2oz With Thumper Blades Flukes (Watermelon, Salt And Pepper, ) Hard Jerk Baits (Bomber Long A (B15A) 4 1/2" Shiner Pattern) Wind: it can get rough on even the smaller lakes Depth: all are shallow

Ah, opinions, we all have them. Some fishermen believe in the brain of the bass, and others think they have none. Perhaps some fishing down time, and time spent studying text books would benefit some. Your personal experience makes it a rule for yourself, but it doesn't make it a rule. Dr. Keith Jones has one objective and one objective only. As he does have a good sized brain, and can quickly learn, he had the ability to learn that Berkley writes his paycheck.

Spawn starts here in December, but it is a long way from its peak.

? come on! let's go! Yes LC, it was stocked with Redfish. They can do quite well in fresh water, however it didn't work in the Marsh.

I will be wearing a pink lacy - oops wrong forum.