Bankbeater

hahaha ;D

The prices haven't made me change where I fish, but I have changed the way I drive there.

My dad bought one when they first came out and had the same problem.

Make sure that there isn't anything behind you that the hooks can catch on when you bring the rod back. I've never had a backlash as bad as when I hooked a bush in back of me when I was casting out.

I picked up a 6'6 BPS Bionic MH over this past Father's day sale. I started off with a Abu 3600 black max on it, but that was too light. Recently I put on a 5600C4, and I am able to cast crankbaits from 3/16 to 1/2 ounce without any problem. I was really surprised that this new set up could handle baits that small.

I don't like to use other people's tackle, especially crankbaits. I am always afraid that I'll hang one up and lose it.

I gotta go with the plastic worm. I've caught bass in 3 feet of water on a 98 degree day, and bass in 15 feet of water when the high temp was 42.

Sometimes I tie direct and sometimes I use a snap. It depends on how many crankbaits I brought with me and how much lure changing I am doing.

The smaller ones fight more.

I have all Abu baitcasters right now. (1) 5000 (1) 5600C3 (1) 5600C4 When these wear out I'll either look at getting some Shimano reels or the Abu Revo.

For two years now a sedona.

I like to trim the guard even with, or just a little above the point of the hook. As for the skirts, I really don't shorten them that much. I do trim them so that all of the strands are even and the same length.

Oh thank goodness.

I have seen this several times, but the bass are always on the small side and swimming in a V formation.

I caught this 4-11 yesterday on a watermelon candy superhog. I didn't notice it until I was looking at the picture but he seems awful thin. I have only fished here once before so I'm not sure what type of baitfish are in this pond.

Rat-l-trap 1/2 ounce black/blue. T rigged plastic worm.

Around here the dinks like to bite off the tails.

I've been using Booyah and Strike King Bitsy Bugs.

And stay away from trees on small islands out in the middle of a lake!!!

I usually go in the mornings. I try to be on the water between 5:00 and 5:30.

Maybe it was rabid ;D.

So Avid, do you ever get a chance to fish in the weeds???? ;D I like the creek beds that run right through the middle of a shallow flat.

A LM that went 5-4 on 5-26-07. I got him on a watermelon candy Zoom z-nail.

I have caught most of my LM this year on soft stick baits. In fact this spring I've done better with soft sticks than with rat-l-traps.

Catfishing about 25 years ago I laid my rig down on some rip-rap and for some reason walked away from it. Next thing I know its getting a bite, so I start running across the rocks that were about the size of my foot and one turned over on me. My right knee came down on rock with a sharp point and it punched a hole in my kneecap about the size of a penny. By the time I got down the ER, my knee had swollen up twice its size and I couldn't bend it for a week. The most painful thing I remember about this was when the nurse told me to bend my knee so they could x-ray it. I told her it wouldn't bend, but they bent it for me. My dad said he could hear me scream out in the waiting room.