KU_Bassmaster.

1) Pitchn'- any plastic 2) Flippn' - any plastic 3) Crankn'

The more I look at that pic, the more I am puzzled. The body shape of a smallmouth. The coloring of a largemouth. And from what I can tell, the jaw line of a spot. Wish you had a picture of it's tounge. Then you could really tell if it was a spot. If it was classified as a spot, I believe that would have broken your state record. The current is 3 lbs. 10 oz. The coloring is what I am having a hard time with. Usually with spots the lateral line is extremely vivid. You can hardly make it out in the one in the picture, but that jawline says spot. I think I am changing my vote to spot. The new unofficial Virginia state record. ;D

Oh, that's what the bait monkey is. Thanks for the clarification. And by the way, I understand bait-monkeyese very well and didn't even know it ;D. He's always tricking me into buying that stuff I NEED! That's him. You see how tricky he is. He has been with you all along and you didn't even know it. Oh Oh, you just woke him up.

And yes, you should be afraid. He is known for going absolutely nuts when he is out of his cage.

The little voice in your head that tells you to .............. BUY, BUY, BUY, BUY. It convinces you that you NEED all this fishing stuff. Every fisherman has it in them.

That bass has some real potential. Just looks like a healthy largemouth to me.

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Oh yeah, and probably .............. well definitely the best thing I did all year was join this forum on Jan. 12. This forum really helped the learning curve.

My year started off with a bang. In the month of March alone I caught more 4+ lbs (what I consider a qaulity bass around here) than I did all of 2004 including 2 new PR's. On March 25th I caught my new PR of 10 lbs. 8 oz. in Texas and then came back to my home state of Kansas, and a week and a half later and caught my new in-state PR of 8 lbs. 3 oz. I continued to catch numbers throughout April, May, and June with a few quality fish mixed in there. Then at the end of July I fianlly bought a digital camera and the 4+ lbers literally almost disappeared. Call it a curse. I only caught 5 more the rest of the year and 3 of them were on one outing. That one outing was a night fishing trip, which I also tried this year for the first time thanks to LBH. Then August came and school started and I was only able to fish about 3 days a month until October when it started getting pretty cold and school stuff was tking away from my fishing time during the weekends. All in all I call it a pretty good year. I learned to become pretty good with a crankbait which I never thought would happen. This fishing season was also the longest it had ever been for me. I caught my first bass of the year on Feb. 21 and my last on November 14. In the past my season was typically from mid-March to early October depending on the weather. I really looking forward to 2006. I think I am going to join a bass club and may start fishing some Pro-Am tournamnets and get to see what tourney fishing is all about. This past year I was really trying to prepare for fishing a tournament trail and become a more versitlie angler that way I could be comfortable fishing whatever style of the boater I get paired up with that day. The spring can't get here soon enough.

1)KVD 2)Swindle 3)Davy Hite honrable mention: Brent Chapman - a Kansas man. He kind of lives in my area too.

Sounds good Might have a neighbor some day ........ LOL.

I agree. I had a game for Super Nintendo, I think, that was awesome. You had to work your way up from a Amateur ranks and then onto pro. You also had to use your winnins to upgrade your equipment. EVEYTHING!!!! Rods, reels, boats, eletronics, baits, etc.

No problem in my book. 8-)

I got an email the other day that said they had free shipping for 3 or 4 days next week??? I am not really sure of the dates, but I know it was for a limited time.

Where do I start..... ;D One that come to mind was the first time I went night fishing this summer. I had a world record largemouth .................. well at least a state record .............. lol .............. actually I have no idea because I never saw it, I just heard it. I was fishing with a HUGE jointed jitterbug. I hear the loudest attack on a top water I had every heard and the fight was on. Then all of a sudden nothing. I reel in my jitterbug and the whole back end had fallen off. That one has stuck with me a while. I have nightmares about it.

When the water turns hard everybody starts coming back. ;D Welcome Back!!!!

What's the fun in that!! ;D

2, and this one by FAR is the best. The only reason I joined the other one was to get some local advice on a lake that I fished last spring. I only look at the other one maybe once or twice a week.

That's something that's on my winter to-do list

Kim Stricker. Did a quick search, but couldn't find the videos. There is also the Bigmouth video series by Glen Lau. Awesome videos that follow a Largemouth Bass through its life cycle. I am pretty sure that this is where Kim Stricker got the idea to make his video.

LOL! This is going to be so different for everybody. For me it's the spinnerbait

I see it. Is this like a birds eye view.

I can only dream of hotwater right now. ESPN fishing shows or Outdoor Channel Fishing shows

To rig them : I use Gamakatsu wide gap finesse hooks, they also have a weedless hook I use when fishing around some heavy grass. I seemed to catch quantity wacky rigging and qaulity t-rigging them.

Yes the live bait thing was kidding around. When the forum was down Matt_Fly and a guy on another forum got into a heated debate about the topic. I'm with you. A 13 lbs. bass is a 13lbs. bass. If it's going to help the future of a lakes gene pool, who cares how it was caught.