Raul

Nowhere in the IGFA regulations says that you have to present a corpse but if it is required in case there 's a dispute or the IGFA smells something fishy is going on it may kill the animal to perform a necropsy in search of foreign objects to ballast the animal. Obviously that some records require the animal to be killed to be presented, you can 't take a 4+ ton white shark alive to be weighted.

Bow, I 've been fishing for 33 years, the accident I talked about happened 10 years ago, as I said, I wear glasses because I have to, but wearing glasses that day saved one of my eyeballs, 1 accident in 33 years but CRAP HAPPENS, if there 's one infinitesimal chance that things can go wrong you can bet they will go wrong. It 's like not wearing a PFD while you are in a boat, specially in a boat in motion. You may be Mark Spitz but you can also drown. One of my uncles drowned in Lake Avandaro and the man swimed like a dolphin, that day the boat turned over and hit him in the head knocking him out, he was not wearing a PFD. Wanna see more gruesome stuff ? I can send you a mail with a very interesting presentation on what speeding can cause.

Fall, in TEXAS ?......that 's a new one.

Scaring you guys crapless was my intention. Now get some eyegear and protect you priceless eyes.

Maybe that chair belongs to the lady who 's underwear I caught once, XXXXL size, man you could easily put those on a hippo and they would fit. ;D

Not accidentally, but ya know, you gotta do what you gotta do when you see your friend 's rod flying through the air. :

Since I 'm as blind as a bat I 've been wearing prescription glasses since I was at kindergarden, some years ago while fishing with a friend of mine and his 8 year old son we had a little "accident", my friend 's son made an underarm cast, the lure flew until the line in his spincaster tangled this caused the lure to stop suddelny and form an arch straight towards me, wihout any time to dodge it the lure smashed on my face, if it weren 't for my glasses the hook would have hooked me in the eyeball instead of hooking me in the eyebrow and cheek, lesson learned, now I have a pair of extra large glasses exclusevely for fishing. This can happen to you: Hedious, gruesome, gross.......yep it is, but one image tells more than a thousand words.

I don 't see why it would not be worth it, the catch is not to think like baitfish, it 's to think like a bass.

No dealers near, I made the comparison at Academy, they had both outboards, that 's why I said the 2 stroke looked like a toy right next to the 4 stroke, 75 pounds is what the 9.9 stroke weights vs 110 pounds of the 9.9 four stroke.

I 'm having the crazy idea of upgrading my outboard from 6.5 to 9.9 HP, sell my 6.5 milkshaker and purchasing a 9.9, the difference in price isn 't THAT great, 2 stroke $1675, 4 stroke $1800; but the difference in size and weight was quite noticeable, the 2 stroke looked like a toy right next to the 4 stroke and there was a difference in weight of over 20 pounds. I don 't have the problem of EPA regulations but I do have the problem of the weight issue since I cartop the boat while the outboard goes in the bed of my SUV, at 110 pounds the 4 stroke 9.9 becomes immediately in an unmovable object for me, the outboard weights as much as I do and I ain 't that strong.

I would check what that NO INFLATABLES sign really means, too vague to mean something in particular because at least there are 3 watercarfts that are inflatable: belly boats, pontoons and inflatable boats, the sign could only be refering to other type of inflatables. There are some places where skin/water contact is banned so that immediatley rules out belly boats and pontoons even if you wear waders.

What Matt said.

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You can 't carry a fishing rod around when you have to dodge T-rexes and velocirapotors in order to get to the lake. Back then this is what we caught:

It 's more than a zig zag or than simple right to left; it 's the dart, splash and glide from one side to the other motion of the lure, some baits perform a better action than others, it 's difficult to make a good walk the dog with the original bait it was designed to do it ( the zara spook ), it took a lot of effort and practice to make the bait walk the dog properly, fortunately there are baits that make it so easy that I wish they were available back then over two decades ago when I began bass fishing.

Begin fishing with swimbaits and you no will no longer have cook your brains and begin to worry about if a big splash is going to spook the fish, there is no way you can make a 6-12 inch, 1.5- 8 oz swimbait enter the water "quietly".

Cormorants are not what I 'm refering to Matt, maybe they call them the same, we call cormorants water hogs; the water turkey I 'm refering to is the anhinga a much more efficient and larger predator than the cormorant.

Growth and life expectancy are two factors that depend greatly on average water temperature and forage. Bass in Cali have no water turkeys, gators or snapping turtles chasing them for a meal; the water is cold enough to hold trout so being in a "frigid" environment protects them from the effects of high methabolism rate found in warm waters, they grow quite large because they have plenty hatchery raised very nutritiuos abundant easy to eat dumb trout.

I am not one of those environmental fanatics There 's nothing wrong or fanatical about not liking to see trash where you fish, it only means that you are not a swine and don 't like living in a pig pen, aside from the looks, it 's infuriating to see for example a dead heron just because the animal never stood a chance from escaping just because it had a bunch of mono line attached to it 's feet. I don 't mind seeing cardboard, it may not look pretty but being cardboard it 's going to degrade and dissapear with time but plastic.......man that thing is going to be there for ever. >

You can chum for bass inderectly, dough balls or pelletized food attract minnows to the area where you place you chummed.

Aint Texan ain 't kiddin ', it 's for real.

Just to be more scientifically accurate Ken, the scales are translucent, it 's under the scale, in the skin where chromatophores ( cells containing melanin, a pigment ) are located, the explanation on you gave on how they work is pretty accurate.

Nope, it 's the color of the water and depth what determines that, for ex: Lake El Salto, Jal 3 weeks ago; the water up to 1/3 of the lake near the bank is clear, bass are dark with marks, at 2/3 of the lake the water is a lot less clear, bass caught there are light green all over, at the upper third of the lake the water is muddy, bass caught there are almost silver.

The first structure you will find in any pond is the dam, then you can start by knowing the history of the pond and how was it built. Many times the dam of the pond is formed by bulldozers pushing and accumulating the soil from the terrain to form the dam, in that case the bottom of the pond is featureless, the only two structural elements are the bottom and the dam. In other cases the terrain on which the pond was built didn 't have enough soil to make the dam out of it, therefore the dam is made from soil that was brought for that purpose, this means that the structural features of the terrain are there, looking around the pond the terrain above water level will tell you where those structural features are, what you see above water level is the same thing that 's underwater. Weeds will also tell you, looking closely you will see that weeds gro in very distinctive patterns, if the pond 's bottom is featureless weeds wil form an expanded weedbed and will grow as deep as they get enough sunlight to grow, if you see an expanded weedbed the bottom is featurelss but in the other hand, wes gro on patches that means that there 's a change either in depth or bottom composition that 's causing the weeds not to grow like a carpet, the spaces between those patches is where the structural feaures are.

Are you a Veterinary Surgeon ? I am, dogs can see green.