Bluebasser86

Left for spinning, right for baitcasting, not interchangable. I might as well be using a cane pole instead of trying to reel lefthanded with baitcaster, just can't do it.

They are probably carp,buffalo, or maybe even large shad. There are tons of carp and buffalo in the lakes around here and we see the same activity where they jump alot in the mornings and evenings but not as much in the heat of the day. Gar will also rise to the surface to gulp air. My favorite way to catch carp is with an arrow but if you really want to fish for them try a simple slip sinker rig with a couple pieces of corn on a small hook. Nightcrawlers can work also but you'll have to deal with bluegills and catfish a lot more.

I have a really old Pfluegar baitcaster that has the silk line and the reel handle turns when you cast it. It's mounted on a casting rod made completely of metal except for the reel seat and handle. I took it out once just to try to fish with it and wow that was rough! I caught a couple but it made me really glad to have the equipment that I have!

Did something pretty similar with my Dodge Dakota sport I used to have. Jumped it on a sandbar that piled up along the edge of the river during high water. Didn't seem to hurt it until I got home from the trip and tried to turn into the driveway and my axle broke. Truck was never the same after that. I was so mad because it was a nice truck and I let my idiot friends talk me into doing it.

That would have been a fine around here. I fish one fairly often that is trolling motors only and 535 acres and you're right it's crazy. At the same time though it keeps lots of anglers off the water. We have some lakes that you can pay 1 dollar extra per HP over a 10 HP motor. So if you want to put your 250 on the lake you get to pay the lake permit plus $240! If you decide to pay all that extra money you still have to stay under 10mph too. It's insane but I guess they want to keep big motors off the water and it works.

Nice healthy fish! Just further proof that you don't have to live were 10 pounders are common to be successful with swimbaits!

That does suck. I was fishing with a friend from the bank and had my half grown mutt with me. My friend wasn't paying attention with his jerkbait hanging in the air. My dog saw it and grabbed it out of the air and got hooked in the top lip. I caught him by the collar and tried to hold him between my legs to hold him still so the bait wouldn't hook him anywhere else. He was pretty good sized even as a puppy so when he dug his back legs in and squirmed backwards I couldn't hold him. I tried though and was rewarded when the front hook of the bait sunk into my index finger. So I was hooked on the same bait my dog was on who was freaking out trying to run away and tearing at the hook in my finger. Thankfully I was able to tackle my dog and lay on top of him to hold him down and got the front hook removed from the bait so I was at least not stuck to him anymore. The hook was easy to get out of him, just cut the hook and pulled it back out. I wasn't so lucky, I got to go to the emergency room and get mine pulled out!

Fishing a small electric motor only lake in Northeat Missouri with a friend for the first time. We were fishing out of his 16ft jonboat on the edge of a deep treeline. I was flipping a beaver bait on a 5/0 Mustad ultra bite hook and 25lb floro when she hit. There's muskie in the lake and I'd already had one chase my bait to the boat. Felt the thump and set into an extremely solid fish. I got her moving up from about 20 feet of water when she really dug in and started to spin the boat towards deeper water. I really thought it was a muskie until I saw the biggest bass I've ever hooked appear and continue to try to bulldog into the trees. She made a hard dive and I had to duck to dodge my bait as it flew back at me. She had straightened my hook and left me shaking my head. I've never felt a bass that powerful. My PB that I caught in Mexico was 10lb 2oz and this fish was at least a couple pounds bigger than that. I'd guess at least 12 and maybe bigger. The lake has a reputation for producing large fish because of the right combination of low pressure, the right water, plenty of food, and a moderate population of fish. That fish still haunts me but it also is part of what keeps bringing me back for more!

3 hours of work left. I've got a 16oz AMP and 64 ounces of coffee in me after getting 4 hours of sleep yesterday, I think I'm going to make it.

I was down there Tuesday, flat calm water and bright sun was not a great combo but we caught plenty of fish. We had all 3 species of bass, white bass, walleye, and a flathead. Water was a little low and pretty clear. I was pretty surprised but most of our fish came on either a black trick worm on a shakeyhead or a 4" black/chart tail power worm. Couldn't get them to eat GP,watermelon, or pumpkin but they were on the black pretty good. Caught a couple on a shad colored square bill and one on a sammy early. My buddy had big fish with a 5lb 9oz largemouth off the dam right by the outlet in about 7' of water swimming a 3" gulp minnow trying to catch walleye, so it was pure luck and accidental but on a light action rod and 6lb test it was a pretty funny fight to watch. We caught our bigger smallmouth once it got hot flipping baby brush hogs under the docks on the boat ramps, just have to use good line because those docks tear it up with a fish on the other end. Had to flip it under the docks though, they wouldn't touch it along the edges. White bass were everywhere schooling in the middle chasing shad. Not what we went down there for but when they're blowing up on shad and destroying super spook JR's it's hard not to catch a few of them!

I like the Berkley power minnow. Similar in shape to the Gulp minnow but more durable and fish don't swallow it as fast. Doesn't seem to attract catfish as much as the gulp does either.

Still got 4 1/2 hours left at work, wishing I'd slept later today!

I don't know if she did it on purpose or if maybe it was an accident and she tried to cover it up but I believe strongly that she did it. I think what bothers me most is the fact that she will probably get rich off of it and that money is bound to attact someone to her along with the chance to be famous for a minute with her and potentially produce another child. I have to agree with an earlier poster that they might have hoped for a little too much by going for 1st degree murder. If they'd gone for 2nd degree with the option to plea out to manslaughter she would have still done significant time and we would know what really happened. I think the jury did what was expected of them and did not convict her because of the lack what they saw as solid evidence. I think they had enough for a lesser coviction but when a persons life is on the line it is hard enough for someone to vote guilty for fear of feeling like they had blood on their hands if that person goes to the chair or takes the needle. I don't agree with it, but I do understand it and I'm not surprised at all.

Anyone have any idea how long this sale will last?? I want to get a couple but the funds will not be there for another week! I'm sure I could scrape up enough money for one but it may require me not eating for a couple days

Like the title says my motor or part of the steering is squeaking when I'm turning. I have a 60hp '06 4 stroke Merc and it is only squeaking when I'm turning at slow speeds. It has only done it the last couple trips and doesn't seem to affect the handling at all but just wondering if anyone knew what it might be and if it's something I should look at getting fixed?

Looks like a DD22

Sounds like a ton of fun to me! One thing that drives me crazy with those smallies down there is how they're here one day, gone the next. I'll be down there in September chasing them around the lake though!

I hooked a really thin piece of slate rock about a foot across on a crankbait one time. When I set and it shot off into deeper water I thought I had a big smallmouth. It kept gliding along into deeper water and really felt alive. It was pretty embarrassing when it got close enough to see, I called for the net and everything! My buddy that was with me will never let me live that one down.

I've caught green sunfish on several different bass baits and have caught crappie on DD22's and 1/2oz jigs. They will hit about anything a bass will it's just a matter of them getting the hook in their mouths.

Despite my constant requests that she not get me one, my wife bought me an I-phone for my birthday this year. On very few occasions have I actually used it for anything that I couldn't do with my old phone and at the end of every month I get almost sick to my stomach to know that I'm going to be paying almost $80 for a phone bill for a phone that I really don't need! I'd like to go back to my Samsung Magnet and my $30 phone bill but I'd never hear the end of that! The only good part about my I-phone is that is has good games on it so I have something to do when I have to go to my mother-in-laws house.

I'm planning on ordering one tomorrow. I've already got a 50e on my jerkbait rod and thinking another one would look reel nice on my spinnerbait rod. The one I have casts a mile and is super easy to palm. The only thing I don't like is the small grips but I put reel grips on it and it's not a problem. For half price there is no way for me to pass it up!

1/4-3/8 most of of the time. Down to 1/32 and up to 1oz if the situation calls for it.

Man there are a bunch of gators in that one spot! I don't think I could stand there and fish it like you were!

Actually yes it is! Every keeper I caught 2 weeks ago was on it along with several shorts and one of my keepers last week was on it too. It works great for fishing a buzzbait and that's what the fish have been wanting right before dark and I'm more than happy to do that for them!

I've had my best success fishing them in the same places I'd fish a spinnerbait with a steady retrieve. Sometimes messing with the bend on the blade seems to help you catch more fish also. One of my go to baits around scattered weeds.