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What kind of plastics do you use? Just reading your post Flukes would be good to try, or worms like a zoom trick worm or senko. try them in a shad or baitfish color, try them weightless, texas or carolina. see what works. IMO you will catch fish on the trick worm weightless and bring it in really really slow, they might not be the biggest in the pond but you will get a few atleast. I always do, I use it as my last resort when I just want to catch a fish.

Nice catch! So what did you catch her on?

Sorry its wasnt that obvious. U talking about I40.....Amarillo, Lubbock?? Lots of bean fields but I hear you. It is good country and good folks up there. Maybe a littl too cold in the winter and a little too rural for me and no beach. That is the only part of Texas I have actually set foot in. But what sports teams lol

Houston is nice. My buddy works there, He lives in Katy, I looked into a company or two in that area, the suburbs out that way are really nice, homes are affordable too compared to NY and where I am from VA/MD. Best part you will be able to keep your saltwater habit in addition to big bass.......Dorado!....San Antonio and Austin are also very nice places to live.

Yeah man the difference in taxes from NY to TX alone is worth it IMO. I tend to stick with states that have no state income tax, FL and NV I have lived in and can recommend as nice to live, but schooling youngins is not so good. Lol whatever you decide Clayton good luck.

Man sounds like you had a very good morning! Nice fish.

I've moved 5 times since 2006 and I am not military. My kids are born in three different states and none are the one my wife and I where born in. Lol This last move was employer paid, but we did a uhaul. Had no help, go to movinghelp.com and you can find help we paid $200 (had a piano) and two strong brothas in a beat up car who were very professional( don't judge by looks) un loaded the whole thing in an hour. As far as finding a job, what skills do you have in oil? Attack that two fold contact a few recruiters get them looking. Also search yourself, indeed.com is a great start. No recruiter fee helped with this recent move. Start as soon as possible, it took me about 6 months to find work and move and I had 10 yrs in the field was willing to move where the good Lord sent me. The purpose of this last move was we finally realized where we wanted to be and knew our kids where getting to school age and wanted to settle before they started school. I think it is a smart moved to get it done while they are young. I also got a buddy working as a consultant for oil companies in TX, his father retired from oil companies, great pension from what he said. He really was happy when he was able to start working close to oil. Natural gas industry is hot now too.

Berkeley trout worms, salmon eggs....live bait hellgrammites are what my uncle swore by.

^X2 can get more fish with a trick worm than any other

Yes sir, read about that in an article talking about using pin fish. Don't fish live bait much, ocasionaly when with my kids I will throw a tiny bluegill they catch under a float. I always mean to try it but never recall at the moment. But I prefer lures and to work all areas I can, you know keep moving instead of sitting around. The whiting bite was on at the beach today. tide was out, the people that where catching crossed to the sandbar and cast out from there. They were catching them almost every cast.

Zoom trick worms are good weightless floating, stays up off the bottom, culprit make a great ribbon tail and senko sink on the fall very well and can be worked deeper. Color is up to you to figure out what works in your area. Red Shad works well here in Florida, junebug and shad/baitfish are good too. some work better than others in each pond I fish.

That is what I hear. My boss laughs and says wait til then and you won't fish bass ever again. Most people don't even fish freshwater up here except the river and that is mostly stripers. They love their sheepshead and kingfish in addition to the reds.

Sam said it so well. I have a small pond, about a half to three quarters of an acre in size, that I fish and have pulled a 3 and a 5 pounder out along with dinks and bucks in 3 times fishing it. There will be nice fish in there just have to work harder and they are less numbers than smaller fish you are hooking. Keep at it you will figure it out.

Nice catches! Looks like you have a great spot. It has slowed in a couple spots but one is still fishing good. And when I say slowed I can usually get 1 or 2 instead of 4 or 5 in an hour.

Nice catch sounds like you had some fun getting him in.

That is a awesome catch! I have some artificial shrimp too, I keep hearing go live on the reports locally, but I have seen it done on either way. I was at Guana Lake about a month ago just to checkout the action and they were getting barely legal reds and trout on live shrimp, artifical shrimp and swim bait. they didn't seem too picky. I hear Sept or Oct. is when the action really starts.

yeah that is like after market tuning, not something that should be standard....jailbreaking like on the HTC to increase battery, turn off and delete sponsor apps is stupid. that should be standard. the iphone give you more flexibilty out of the box to me. and if you not all tech savy it does everything you need, pics,vids, emails, net, gps and phone without any mods. Router? it already does a hotspot. I dunno, that is out of my league lol.

just wondering if there are any other users on here. What version are you using, how long and for what?

I never have with one of the 5 me and my wife have owned it does everything i need it to. jeeze what do you people do with your phones? LOL I couldn't image it doing any more.

So in retention ponds with no structure do they head to the middle? ( bottom is flat from toe of slope to opposite sides toe of slope) or would they hang out closer to the toe of slope closer to the bank because it is the same depth in the middle? Their only cover so to speak are weeds and culvert pipes. If I ventured a guess they would be dispersed in the weeds at the deepest depth and one would have to look for the openings or edges they wouldn't be in any particular spot. What is best for this? Carolina rig, if you cannot see the since I am shore bound? And some of these ponds are small enough I can hit the middle with a cast. Most of these ponds I am gonna to be pretty sure and say they are 6-10 feet deep. Most being 6, I have see aerials of them being built and know the biggest is not deeper than 10.

Gonna try out the little jetties Friday if all goes to plan. Reports say trout are hitting live shrimp under float rigs, reds are near creeks and structures. I saw another post you said a gold spoon might entice them.

Exactly my point. You rooted, you had to change a bunch of crap etc etc because it sucked in its original state out of the box. Why bother. iPhone's are better out of the box, they are better period lol

Awesome fish, nice work.

Welcome. I am in Jax now but lived in St. Pete and worked in Tampa.

maybe they didn't fix it then LOL but yeah it isn't enough of a reason to make me switch to a droid or windows phone or whatever they are.