KU_Bassmaster.

From Perry's great, great grandson .................. w/ no pic of course. ;D

I done a little research in the past month or so for a depth finder in your price range. From my findings the Eagle Fishmark 320 is the best bang for your buck out there.

I personally think you only need two colors. A shade of green and black. Then there are variations with sparkles, swirls, etc. All of last year I only used two colors of senkos and it cut down on a lot of the clutter in my tackle bag and made picking a bait a whole lot easier. It was either Watermelon w/ red sparkles or Black and blue laminate.

I don't think he has a problem with Georgia holding the record. He has the problem with the RECORD itself no matter where it was. The record (story) just happened to come from Georgia.

I personally think the record is . But I also think it's kind of cool that a hobbie or sport (whatever you want to call it ;D) that is known for "fish stories", has the biggest fish story of all time as the current world record. It's like those big bass hunters in Cali are chasing a ghost everyday.

Back when I was in grade school, middle school and the first parts of high school all of my buddies along with our dads went down there for a father/son week of fishing during spring break. We usually rented 2 pontoons and always had a great time. Ironically the worse the weather was the better the fishing. :

That's kind of what I was getting at. I stated that mine was huge cold fronts in the spring. What I mean is when the water temp starts to get about spawning temp. Then one of those huge spring time cold fronts come through and drops the air temps down into the 40's and 50's for a day time high. That's when I really struggle. Bass that were on beds get pushed off and are lock jawed because they are still in the spawn tranze and prespwaners shut off, but are catchable (but extemely tough).

I had been looking at Jon's for about 4 months before I finally bought MO_Tick's boat from this site.(14 ft.) It will be hard to find a 16 ft Jon, but it can be done. I think you will have a REAL hard time finding a 17 or 18.

That's my opinion as well.

OK, OK, OK, OK, OK. If we could call it something like ........................ The World Bass Championship ......... or maybe a tour that would visit a bunch of different countries over a year period ........... The World Bass Tour........... something similar to the Ryder Cup in golf or Wold Cup in soccer ...... I'd be for that. But IMO, Bass fishing needs to stay out of the Olympics. It would be an insult to many of the "real" athletes there in my opinion. Think about the athletes there that put hours and hours of blood and sweat in the weight room or on a treadmill practicing to make themselves better for their sport. I am sure their preparation is a lot more physically demanding than the practicing a bass competitor would have to go through. I mean can you really compare a day on the lake to a day in the weight room. They wake up at the crack of dawn every morning and go to the weight room or to train. Bass competitors wake up at the crack of dawn every morning to head to the lake and fish .......... oooooo that's tough ;D . As far as competition ......... ;D ................. Japan for sure and I think (correct me if I'm wrong) bass fishing is popular in South Africa.

I agree with you to a certain degree. When you have water temps that are in the high 30's or low 40's, seems to me that fishing for the most part is extremely slow no matter what the trend. Now get the water temp up close to 50 and I think your theory holds true.

Your parks department electro-shocks lakes to see what the fish population is like. Like whether the stocking programs, size limits, etc. are working. It's only to help us as the angler. All fish are released unharmed and they are only stunned for a couple minutes I believe ........ if that. Now as far as other people doing that for their own gain, THAT is HIGHLY ILLEGAL

Yeah, I knew I was going to. But surely there has to be somebody here that feels the same as me. :-?

That's what I am hoping for!!!!! ;D

So ...... are professional anglers athletes? Can you and I really call ourselves athletes because we FISH?

Clean and lube all my reels Change Line Clean cork handles on my rods Try to come up with a better way to store my tackle : Search high and low for topo maps of my lakes that I fish on the internet unsucessfully > Here's another suggestion (I personally did this for a demonstartive speech). Show how to tie different fishing knots and the advantages or uses of each. For visual purposes I used a about a 3" ring that I attached foil to, to make it look like a hook. Then I used some fairly thick rope as fishing line. I think it would be kind of hard to demonstrate your original topic in my opinion.

You're crazy!!! If they can pass curling off as a sport, why not bass fishing? I've been trying to figure out this curling thing and the best I can tell it's simply shuffleboard on ice. ;D ;D ;D Yep, you're right. Like I said, these so called "sports" liike curling are an ebarrassment to the Olympics.

I might catch some cr*p here but ................... Bass Fishing is NOT A SPORT ...... it's a hobbie. It takes darn near no athletic ability to catch a bass. Golf, by far closer to sport than fishing and I still call that a game (almost a sport). I think all of these so called sports are an embarrassment to the Olympics IMO.

10 year old boat ............ probably go with a Ranger. May I suggest you take a look at maybe a 5 or so year old Stratos. You get the most bang for your buck IMO. Hopefully I will be buying my first bass boat in the next couple years and I think that's what I am going to get

I have heard numbers similar to Nick_Barr's. I think I have heard something like up to 30 mph when striking a lure. Now that's not a sustained speed, just a burst. I think I either heard it on Angling Edge or In-Fisherman. Who knows. :-/

I don't think to you can reel faster than a bass can move no matter how hard you try. Now whether they actually want it that way is a different story. Sometimes they want it slow sometimes fast. Just experiment with your retrieve speed until you find out how they want it.

Never seen that. What's an Alabama rig? I've rigged two poppers to one another. A small shad patterned one in front with a larger bass patterned chasing it. It's caught me a couple bass on the same cast a couple times. Never 3..... ;D

I had a few white grubs that I mixed in with a bag of Chartreuse grubs and left them in my trunk one summer. When I finally cleaned my trunk out that winter I discovered a whole new color. It was kind of like the color of ......... welll.............. pee. I thought it looked good, but the bass didn't seem to like it much.

I've experienced the same thing in the past. It seems to be really hit or miss. Fortunately last fall it was more hit than miss. 8-)

I FEAR NOTHING ...... just kidding. I, in a way, kind of like when the conditions get tough. It separates the men from the boys. I guess the thing I struggle with most is early spring (right when you start to see a lot of bedding bass) and a huge cold front comes through. I mean average highs in or near 70 for a a week or two, then out of no where a cold front comes through and drops the day time temps into the 40's. It's bound to happen every year and I have really struggled during them.