Raul

If you want to believe so...... : My kid is three and a half years old, he 's been a BaitMonkey victim since he was two, I don 't see how having more kids is going to help, on the contrary, imagine yourself with three or four kids with baitmonkeyitis........it ain 't a prutty thought.

Drop on your knees and thank the Lord they don 't have much........BPS or Cabela 's, that would have been a slaughter.........your slaughter. It just gives me the creeps to even think about that with a fat check in your pocket, yikes !. ;D

It didn 't turn out so bad, last time the BaitMonkey took control of me was when I purchased a 3 gal gas tank, the last thing I remember was picking up the tank, then I realized I was at the cashier with a Calais 100 reel, several packs of senkos and kuttails, my credit card in my hand and a big grin on my face. :-?

Don 't get me wrong but I can 't find a justification to limit yourself to a senko all the time, I got a big bunch of them however I rarely tie one on.......am I the weird one ?

All you need to know is that 99% of them came out of them Kaliforny lakes. ;D

The problem is not purchasing the stuff, she never knows, my CCs are adressed to my clinic, the goods arrive to the clinic. Where I have to get creative is figuring out how to smuggle them in. Here 's one, my wife goes to sleep around 10-10:30 and she just dies, but I have to wait a couple of hours before I can be truely sure she 's dead asleep, then it 's time to do the comanche stealth attack. Another one, after purchasing a bunch of goodies and them being delivered to my door the next day I bring a tacklebag, she looks at me like trying to figure out what 's going on....."I 'm going to clean a couple of reels and do some hook sharpening" so when I get back home she doesn 't know there are a bunch of illegal aliens inside. Another way is also after a fishing trip, after the trip is over I come to the clinic before going home, pick up my stuff and she doesn 't figure it out, she doesn 't know if I went fishing with 3 rods so 4 doesn 't make a difference. Those are some of the ways I smuggle in tackle.

They have to start somewhere Skwerl, it 's training camp for the things to come.

Here we go........again :, you guys talkin bout swimbladders have the slightest idea on how the swimbladder works, from where the gas inside it comes and to where it goes ? you are just speculating on what the swimbladder does. The swimbladder's main function is that of a hydrostatic organ. Neutral buoyancy, the ability of an organism to use little or no energy to stay at particular levels of water, is achieved through the expanding and shrinking of the swimbladder due to varying gas pressures. When a fish dives, it 's swimbladder is compressed as a result of the increase in pressure at greater water depths. So in order for the fish to return to its former, higher level in the water, the swimbladder must be reinflated. Therefore, the most essential function of the swimbladder is the regulation of gases coming in and out of the fish's body. Thus it is necessary for fishes to be efficient controllers of their buoyancy. DEFLATION: On the posterior wall of a closed swimbladder lies a network of capillary beds. Next to these capillaries is a muscular valve, the oval, which has the job of controlling gases exiting the swimbladder. Within the oval there are two types of muscles-- circular and radial. When the circular muscles are relaxed, the radial muscles are contracted in order to stretch the swimbladder out, which in turn creates a greater capillary surface area for diffusion. Gases from within the bladder diffuse out to the blood through these capillaries. When sufficient levels of gases have been removed to create a new level of buoyancy, the circular muscles contract. Now the oval is no longer in contact with the bladder and so the gases are not able to diffuse from one area to another. A fish "knows" its buoyancy through the responses of nerve endings to the stretching and shrinking of the bladder wall. So with any change of pressure within the swimbladder as a result of diving or surfacing, a message can be relayed to the brain to initiate the deflation or inflation of the swimbladder so that the fish can maintain neutral buoyancy. The movement of gases from the bladder through the oval is a slow process however, taking over several hours to adjust to just a small pressure change. INFLATION The swimbladder has an interesting way of retaining gases. The inner lining of the swimbladder consists of numerous gland cells collectively called the gas gland. When the gas volume within the swimbladder is low this gland reacts by releasing lactic acid into the blood, acidifying it. With acidification, the blood releases oxygen where it accumulates in the rete mirabile.The rete mirabile ("wonderful net") is a bundle of close-lying arterial and venous capillaries that diffuse gases between one another as blood is carried through them, in and out of the gas gland. The rete mirabile, much like the oval, requires a large surface area for optimal contact between the arterial and venous capillaries.The diffusion of oxygen out through the bladder wall is blocked by a thin layer of crystalline guanine, thus also maintaining the volume of the swimbladder. In order to restore gases to a deflated, closed swimbladder, the rete mirabile and the gas glands must create a combined pressure greater than that pressure within the swimbladder. Oxygen, having been forced off hemoglobin by lactic acid, is retained in the venous capillaries of the rete. Because of the rete's parallel arrangement of venous and arterial capillaries, a countercurrent multiplier effect occur. This is when gases are able to diffuse from a higher oxygen volume in the venous to the lower oxygen volume in the arterial capillaries, therefore keeping more oxygenated blood within the loop of the rete. When the pressure in the rete exceeds that of the swimbladder, oxygen diffuses out of the rete and into the bladder. The idea of multiplication comes into effect when we look at the varying lengths of capillaries that make up the rete. The longer the capillaries are, there is a greater surface area for gas exchange. So, with longer capillaries, a greater oxygen pressure can be created.This can be most important to those fish who spend the majority of their time at great depths. With an increase in swimbladder pressure as a result of the greater water depth, the fish would have a harder time keeping gases from being lost from the system. Therefore, those fish found in deep waters, where the pressure is greatest, generally have longer capillaries that make up their rete so that there is a greater surface area for gas exchange.

Are there any fishery biologists out there who have definitive evidence regarding this? Weeeeeeeelllllllllll, I 'm not exactly a fisheries biologist, I 'm a veterinarian that has worked in Mexico 's fisheries department and who wrote his graduate college thesis on bass, so you can say that I know a thing or two in anatomy, physiology, behavior n ' stuff like that about bass. Fish have always fascinated me and I 've been a fish hobbyst since I was five.

Rolo, how come you say what I was going to say before I say it ? just wonderin '.

Aside from Rolo 's advice you need to add something to keep them under control, certainly I don 't like pesticides, cutting and burning solves the problem in the very short term, the catch is to have something controlling them while they begin to grow back again---------> domestic geese and domestic ducks eat the newly grown plant. That 's how I control cattails in many of the ponds. Ducks and geese eat the vegetation growing in and around the pond and fertilize the pond with their dropping.

How big is big for you Papa ? just curious. I saw a TV show the other day in the History Channel about boats, yachts n 't stuff like that, they talked about the mega yachts also and showed one of the most fantastic mega yachts you could imagine called the Lady Lola.......man I want one of those and something similar is all yours for around 60 millions.

Didn 't get it, never leave home without what ?....... scissors or a good sharp rock ?

What made you think you were alone ? ........we are proud members of The BaitMonkey brotherhood !.........and his victims also.

No structure ? it 's physical impossibility, the structure is the contour of the terrain where the lake is built, the dam is a structural feature and so is anything below water level, averages 10 feet deep, its about 30 feet deep in the middle, it has an active creek, but no visible creek channel. There are no slopes or ledges: there is slope because the lake slopes from 0 to 30 ft deep. You know the terrain before the lake was filled ? I'd drop a christmas tree Christmas trees are not structure they are COVER.

Now we just have to try and figure out how to control him! Hey, I don 't perform miracles !

Low_Budget, that 's the best example of how the same fish can show two different coloration patterns under different conditions. Excellent !

If you want to put the blame on someone........... here I am !, I 'm the one who coined the expression several years ago.

If I were you I would be dead worried........you never know what malignant plans he 's got for you in the near future. :-/ Muahahahahahahaha !!! ( evil laff xtreme ) Can you hear him ?

Don 't know.......that sounds pretty familiar..........I needed a 3 gas gas tank for my jonboat, entered Academy, got the tank and suddenly 20 min later I was at the cashier with the tank, a Calais 100, several packs of senkos and kuttails with my CC on my hand and a big grin on my face :-?........how this happened ? ! ......... :-[

Yes sir they do, they even change color depending upon the location and cover in the same impoundment.

Lil Raul is 3, took him a couple of months ago to a pond in a dairy farm that belongs to one of my uncles. The place is very nice with lots of trees planted around the pond with plenty of shade, lots of bass and 'gills. Pretty cooperative fish because nobody fishes there except for me and even that is ocassional. I casted and hooked the fish, he reeled them in ( can 't ask a 3 year old to cast like a champ ) but he actually enjoyed it very much, the one who didn 't enjoy it was his mommy, when she saw him with cow patty on the shoes she almost fainted, but hey, he wanted to go and see the cows, can 't refuse him that pleasure, he had never seen a cow in the flesh before.

Down here if you fish from the bank you don 't need a license, from a boat the fee is 45 dollars per year and your license is valid in all the mexican territory, it doesn 't matter in which state you paid the fee.

If a drop in air temperature doesn 't affect the water temperature neither does a drop in the atmospheric pressure, water is 800+ times denser than air.

If you can get mesquite.........that thing lasts forever !