Raul

GobbleDog, thinking it carefully........it may be fun to catch one of them jetskiers, they must put one heck of a fight. Just in case you consider it in the future, I 've got a Penn Senator 5/0 reel that hasn 't seen action in years with it 's 8 ft rod, it 's the gear I used to fish for marlin and yellow fin tuna when I was younger and could go saltwater fishing whenever I wanted. For what I can tell it can land a 590 lbs marlin without much effort, just give me a holler and I can lend it to you.

Thinking it carefully.......... I 'd better close the business and turn off the computer before I do something stupid like purchasing more tackle :.

........and that New Rapala Twitchin Rap......

.........and those new Team Daiwa Floating Cranks......

Hey, BPS has those DT Flats........

Go away you evil spirit !

Help !!!!..........something hairy and nasty is knocking at the door........

Here are I am all by my lonesome with nothing else to do except watch this screen and surf through the net..............got any idea how dangerous it can be ? The worst BaitMonkey attacks come in days like this. :-[

Saying you don 't need them is absurd, you do need them......for your collection, so it ends up being the same, you need them. Overwhelming logic don 't you think ?

And what makes it terribly sad Marty is that the first thing I always say when someone talks about lost fish is " Check your hooks, they must be razor sharp ". Don 't know, those "rookie" mistakes must be Alzheimers or some sort of nasty stuff like that, ya know, like leaving the keys inside the SUV and closing the door with the safety on. ( done that too....several times )

Just let me give an example on how terrible the BaitMonkey is: My daughter is 1 year old so she needs anywhere from 2-4 disposable daipers every day, me spending good bucks in something my kid is going to pee and dump on and then that goes to the trash can ? no way no how; Darling, get those cheap ones ! I need the extra money for lures. Man, that 's sad !

He didn 't follow you all the way to Japan............ he lives there ! Like a lamb on it 's way to the slaughter house, that how I can describe that trip to Japan.

Choke Canyon Reservoir !

1.- Rick Clunn 2.- Bill Dance 3.- Jimmy Houston 4.- Roland Martin Oh well, I know.........I 'm an old fart.

Is it something I should be afraid of? Oh yeah !........ be vewy, vewy afraid of The BaitMonkey. And be careful.............he lurks around the forum.

We don 't have shad in Mexico but we do have other kinds of forage from the Aetherinid ( minnow like ) and Ciprinid ( shiner like ) families. Find them and bass will be very near. During the rainy season they congregate where the rainfall runs off into the lake.

Ok Will, here 's something more to make you laugh a little bit more: Went to Loonkerland in March ( I call the lake that way because there 's MONSTER BIG MOMMA basses there ), grabbed a jig, dressed it with a plastic frog, made a cast to a very bassy looking spot, the moment I lifted the jig a BIG MOMMA hit it, well she pulled I reeled in........then about 10 ft from the boat she made a jump and spit the jig on my face, man the fish was BIG ! ( caught plenty of 10 pounders and she was BIG ), the only really big fish I 've caught in months, grabbed my jig and to my surprise I noticed that the hook point was completely dull so actually I never hooked her, the absurd is that I carry a bunch of jigs and I grabbed the only one with a dull hook, and to make it worse, I hooke the trailer to it and never bothered in checking the the sharpness just because I was stupid enough to assume that the hook was sharp, duh !.

Terrible ! > , my biggest fish was 7 pounds, which I caught in February and from there not only I didn 't fish as much as I was supposed to, only fished 25 days, when at the peak of the fishing season I started the repairs of my house on my own so I couldn 't go fishing, then I moved, it 's incredible the ammount of stuff you accumulate over the years, so my house still looks like a war zone, had to lift the existing garden and place new turf and I 'm not through with the house yet. Oh well, let 's see what happens next year.

Man without an education you will be nothing, don 't you know that a college degree even at technician level can mean the difference between being on welfare or having a good well paid job.

Rick Clunn, nuff said.

To me the geographically strategic town is on the border; MacAllen, Mission, Pharr or somewhere around those, you 've got: Padre Island, El Cuchillo, Vicente Guerrero, Emilio Caballero, Choke Canyon, Falcon less than 2 hour drive from those towns.

Imagine that you are in one of Mexico 's BIG BASS meccas, where a 10 pounder is just a good fish, to brag a little you have to be in the teens, you make a cast witha a zara spook and send the bait flying into the next lake to work between those monster elodea patches where you now BIG MOMMA lurks, so there you are with a slight breeze ( just enough to ripple the surface ) twitching your rod tip and walking the dog when suddenly you see a huge wake approaching your bait at warp speed, 30 ft, 20 ft, 10 ft ( oh boy!!! oh boy !!! ), your palms get sweaty, you begin to perspirate, your eyes start popping right out of their sockets, the emmotion is overwhelming !, 6ft, 4ft ( you 're about to dump a brick right there on the boat ! ), the sound of the music from JAWS starts pounding your ears, WHAAAAAAAAAM !!!!, the strike is vicious, water and elodea splashing all over the place, you wait a couple of seconds and set the hook hard.......the MONSTER starts to pull, you 've got Nessie on the other end of the line, it runs to an elodea patch you turn it 's head, it sees another patch and it runs for it you pull and punish the critter, this battle goes for what seems endless hours ( actually minutes ), it pulls, runs here, runs there, the drag screams and slowly but surely the KREATURE starts gettting closer and closer to the boat, ten feet from the boat it suddenly realizes thet the boat is near so it takes a good pull and goes underneath the boat, there you are running all over the boat like a monkey with pequin pepper smeared on it 's rear end trying to pull the beast from underneath the boat, finally the beast gives up and................... HOLY COW ! just as you 're about to lip it you realize that the beast has more teeth than a chainsaw and an ugly mean look on it 's eyes. Ever caught a 12 pound really ticked alligator gar ? One thing is for shure, they do fight with a lot of spirit.

Abstention syndrome can be a killer, I was going . Don 't know much about "cabin fever" but I can bet it feels pretty much the same.

Looks strange but finally we 've got the forum back ! My fingers are all swollen, no more finger nails, glad to see we 're back ( just when I was going to start with my toe nails ).

Well I don 't need a bigger boat, most lakes I fish are small ( up to a couple thousand acres the largest one ), most don 't have paved road, nor ramp to launch the boat, access is by a dirt road and it 's gonna be somewhat difficult to lift a 1 ton boat between 2 and cartop it. But no electronics ? no sir, I do carry dephtfinder and trolling motor, plus my monster 6.5 HP and a 3 gal gas tank, plus cooler plus seats, plus my and my partner 's tackle, plus my partner. Gee, no wonder why it never goes on full plane with all that weight.