Raul

We had antibiotics in the mid 20 's, penecilin and sulphonamides ( which back then were very toxic to the kidneys ), we have more and better antibiotics nowdays, we do have better healthcare however better healthcare is a debatable issue, better healthcare depends on where you are, you are in the American continent, yes better healthcare is available in most countries except the poorest, Europe, yes sir, Asia and Africa ? nah, I don 't think there 's "better" healthcare in most countries, at least not comparable to ours. Also you gotta see the situation through the historical context, 1918 is only 90 years ago and still looks so far away for most of us, in 1918 we didn 't have our extra fast massive means of transportation, but in 1918 the population of the world was mostly rural, nowdays half of the population of the world live in cities ( crowded ), the healthcare systems can get overwhlemed very fast and it 's like not having them. On the antuviral drug subject, antivirals are not only expensive, they are hard to manufacture, there are very few truely effective antiviral drugs and those that really work are very specific ( like cicloferon against viruses from the herpes family ). The only true antiviral drugs are hyperinmune serums because they contain the specific antibodies against the disease, where you obtain them ? only from blood from people who have suffered the disease so in order to obtain a cure you gotta have people who already got sick. There may be vaccines but vaccines need to incubate before they are effective, they have to provoque the inmune system in order for it to create the antibodies and generate inmunity that takes 15 days, how long does it take to travel around the world nowdays ? Epidemiology is not as easy at it seems, we got everything against ( time, people, resources, environment ) and when it comes to viruses precautionary measures are taken and recomended because our technology is insuficient and hasn 't developed to the point we can deal with anything. A few decades ago the hotshots of the World Health Organization predicted that by the end of the 20th century we were going to be free of most diseases, yeah right :, the only viral disease ever to be erradicated has been small pox and that didn 't happen until 1979. Take your sanitary precautions, wash your hands regularily, don 't touch your mouth, eyes and nose unless your hands are recently washed, avoid crowded places, cover your mouth and nose and until the CDC says: ALL CLEAR, then it 's not all clear.

Food source for bas in a bass only lake ---> baby bass.

Expensive taste ya know.

You are welcome ! Imagine why they are scared, let 's take the 1918 influenza outbreak as a starting point, it affected 20% of the world population ( how many are we now ? 6 BILLION ), it killed about 5% of the people who suffered it, estimates indicate that the 1918 outbreak killed as much as 100 million people in the earth ( more than the black plague in the 14 th century ). In 1918 there were no airplanes, there were no roads, our modern super fast means of transportation did not exist back then, that means that back then there were not only fewer people in the planet, it also meant that the disease could not travel so fast and still it managed to kill an estimate of 100 million people. Imagine what it can do now. Simple math, following the 20% morbility and the 5% mortality parameters of the 1918 outbreak if we got affected by the same disease now: 1.2 billion people sick 300 million people will perish Now you see why the "state of emergency." So far schools are closed until May 6th down here.

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Flu viruses can get pretty scary, why ? because they are RNA viruses that mutate very easily, in the case of the influenza virus it doesn 't limit itself to humans but can jump from humans to swine or to birds ( domestic or wild ) and viceversa, in all these interespecies passages it can incorporate DNA material from the species it 's currently residing to it 's RNA creating a mutant that can cause a more severe illness than it usually does. This is what happened in 1918 with the Spanish Influenza outbreak which caused hundreds of thousands or fatalities all over the world, the allied forces in Europe suffered more casualities by the flu than from all the combats that occurred in WWI. What makes the CDC loose it 's sleep with influenza viruses is that they can be transmitted very easily ( direct/indirect contact and/or airborne ) from person to person, also, they don 't know what kind of damage the virus is capable of doing and by the time they know what the virus can do it could have been easily spread to a large number of the population. The hype is for real ( the sate of emergency )l, it 's not invented, the sky is not falling but they aren 't kidding when they say you should take precautions ( the normal precautions you should take with flu ) until they can figure out how dangerous the strain is. Some cases have been reported here, several people have died, but you know how it is, who knows how sick those people were before being hospitalized, even a cold if not treated properly in the right time can turn into a life threatening pneumonia. It has already happened ( in 1918 ) so they don 't want to take any chances. Now, back on the 1918 influenza outbreak, recent discoveries by DNA sampling from material found in tissue samples taken from soldiers from the WWI who died of influenza ( the US Army has samples stored in their vaults ) and from samples obtained from cadavers ( in Alaska and Siberia ) of people who died during that period of time indicate that the influenza virus of 1918 had avian DNA and that it most probably originated in Asia ( considered by the virologists as the cradle of all influenza viruses ) and from there it spreaded all over the world.

I don 't see how beavers compete with fish, they are vegetarian ( not like otters which are piscivorous ), they dam creeks, reduce the flow speed and create beaver lakes. Waterfowl would never visit or reside in that place if the beaver lake/pond did not exist.

You too ? One wekend is "Shimano weekend", the next weekend is "Daiwa weekend" , ya know, we don 't want to have quarrels between them.

For crankbaits ?---> Katsuage.

T-expose the hook.

Trash them and get Zoom.

I got the GLX and the IMX, can 't feel the difference so when I purchased more rod why I should shell the extra $100 ? I ended up purchasing IMXs.

Without thinking it too much.

Dude a "weightless" 5 inch senko weights 3/8 oz with a 3/0 hook, any decent baitcaster can cast it a country mile away.

Why I rigged it upside: Very cloudy, colors like Black Sapphire and Red Ruby have large size metal flake on the belly with a black back ( Blue Sapphire & Midnight Chartreuse ) or dark red, almost black, back ( Black Ruby ). That very large metal flake is like minute mirrors so I rig it upside to capture all the available light I can and make the bait look flashy, waht are you showing ? a flashy blue, a flashy red or a flashy gold. Watermelon/gold has very fine and tiny gold metal flake, kinda like dust, all over the worm, if you have never tried it you have not noticed that the watermelon color of the worm doesn 't show, what shows is the gold metal flake so you are in practical terms fishing with an almost solid gold flashy worm. So the presentation was: 1.- Flash from the metalflake on a low light environment 2.- The scratching sound of the sinker rubbing against the bottom when I dragged the worm. 3.- The Trickworm if rigged upside now has a keel, it darts sideways like a Slug go.

Get the crankbait series, I used to have one and if it weren 't by the lousy Batson reel seat it had I wouldn 't have sold it, the blank is fantastic for topwater cranks and crankbaits.

Don 't know Kent, that 's a really lousy POS rod .... of course that dog will hunt and it will be a fun hunt; those 3 inch Baby Assassins, 4 inch grubs, 5 inch reefers, Finesse worms, 3-4" inch stickbaits are what I fish with my 1 and 2 power rods. Really fun !

Well, I 'm one of those stubborn sob 's that don 't believe you have to match anything for your bait to be effective, as long as it looks "alive" and an easy prey the fish will bite it. My friend Pedro is firmly into the color theory, he don 't catch fish ---> it must be the color of the bait; screw the depth, screw the light penetration, screw the rigging technique, screw the speed of the rerieval, screw the presentation and location, he don 't catch fish ---> the bait doesn 't have the right color :. In one of our trips we were fishing a point about 60 ft in length and 40 ft in width, point sorrounded by a vertical dropoff that plummeted into more than 80 ft deep. He tied a watermelon 5 inch senko weightless, I tied a Zoom Trickworm in Sapphire blue, split shot rigged it upside down ( the blue flake on top ) and proceeded to cast it, 4 casts = 4 fish, meanwhile he kept fishing with his bait with no results and then he begins with his "right color theory", while I ( the stubborn ) told him that it was not the color, to prove a point I changed the bait color, from Black Sapphire to Black Ruby, 4 casts = 4 fish, yadda, yadda, the "right" color this, the right color that, ok, change again, you using watermelon ok ?, then watermelon it is, now it 's going to be watermelon gold, 4 more fish. The rocks ain 't red, nor blue, the rocks are whitish gray, so I wasn 't matching the bottom with either of the colors, bass there eat tilapia, so me "matching" the color of tilapia with blue/red/gold is debatible. Match ? ------> match whut ? In very few ocassions I 've fished color has mattered, same aplies to "matching", so I don 't pay attention to it.

In Wi ? well, your water gotta be in liquid form for starters. Down here ? from Jan 1st to Dec 31st you can crankbait all you want.

GLoomis CR721/722 IMX + Daiwa Sol/Chronarch 50mg/Curado 100D + 6-8 lb test YoZuri Hybrid. Wanna make it enthusiast ? just change the reel for an Alphas Itö/ Liberto Pixy/ Alphas Type F/Alphas R edition/TDZ105H/Scorpion 1000Mg and you got your enthusiast setup.

I don 't anticipate what I 'm going to rig until I 'm there, depending upon the water conditions ( water temp, water clarity and so on ) and climatic conditions I select what I 'm going to throw, never before.

What I use when they don 't seem to bite ? the same stuff I use when they are biting in a different way.

Not really.

Those 5,6, 7 pounders are the mommies of those 8,10 inchers; when there 's nothing in between it means there 's a bunch on 8,10,12 inchers eating everything they can and bulegills can 't keep up with the demand of fry, there 's not enough food for them all, many of those 8-12 inch bass have an appointment with the frying pan. In my neck of the woods the best lakes and ponds have tilapia, unlike bluegills which spawn once a year tilapia in warm waters like ours spawns twice or more than twice a year, they produce a lot more fry and bass have an almost unlimited supply of food year round.

To you there might not be anything to learn, to hundreds of new fisherman there 's a lot to learn from him.