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He has one monster bass on the end of that spear!!! I remember I once found a string of bass on the side of the lake. There were 9 of them all over 15" and the biggest being 20" just tossed on shore. :/

I laughed soooo hard when I saw this on TV. It made my day.

Congrats man!

Yeah..... the Christmas demon scared the crap out of me. As for the other one, I was tempted to shoot through the door but I was gonna wait until they came to me. I really didn't want my dad to rush home from work to find the cops and a dead body in the garage. If he burst in though, he would've lost his head. As for porcupine boy, I assume you saw my other post?

Hope y'all aren't planning on sleeping tonight. I've had my fair share of experiences. I'll go weakest to scariest. 2 years back my buddy Reece and I were hunting frogs around 10 at night at a pond in the woods. (there are THICK woods directly behind my house. we were in the middle of nowhere back there) Heading back home without a light sounds scary but we knew the woods inside and out. Reece and I were joking around about demons and ghosts and then we saw a light over our shoulder. We turned around and saw nothing. We were slightly freaked out, and at the exact same moment we both had sharp pains in our side. We started running back home and I heard someone behind us. We hid behind a huge tree and heard a tremendous THUNK right near us, we ran like hell. The next day, we head out to see what made the thunk. The thud was caused by a 7 inch throwing knife, embedded in the tree right in between where out heads were. I still have the knife. Our sides both had odd circular bruises on them for days afterward. Last December my friend Griffin and I were joking about bloody Mary and his mom said not to because the trick had worked for one her friends when she was 12. Her friend needed therapy and stuff she said. We though it was a load of crap and dared his little bro and his young friend Nick to try it. Well, they did,and they both ran out of the bathroom screaming and telling us "something" tried to kill them. That.....was terrifying. All I saw was a shadow that disappeared when the bathroom door opened. Last July Justin (porcupine boy) and I were camping on an Island in the middle of the lake near my house. We were sitting on the beach after cooking fish, and Justin jokingly yelled, "Bloody Mary!!!!" This was 11 at night mind you. In the distance we heard an absolutely blood curdling scream that seemed to get closer and go on for a good 10 seconds. We called my mom, said that other people showed up on the island, and left. Alright, if you don't want nightmares leave now. January of this year. I was home alone around 8 PM watching a documentary on Michael Jordan and his legacy. I heard a knock on the door, and being cautious, said, "who's there?" No answer. I said once more,"who's there?" and the knocking became more persistent. I called my dad and he said to go upstairs. So I listened as the knocking became pounding, and the pounding became beating. I'd had enough of this crap. I loaded my dad's .357 mag, called the cops from behind the door. This obviously didn't scare the person, they just beat harder. I yelled," Who the &%$# is there?" and cocked the gun loudly. The knocking stopped cold. When the cops got there, there were massive muddy boot prints int he garage leading in and out. I wear a size 12 shoe and these were easily 15-16. The odd thing was that there were no tracks in the snow outside, just in the garage. That meant the person had to have already been in there. I suspect this to be the same entity as in my final story. Christmas Eve of 2010. I was my usually sleepless self on this day. I would doze off from time to time and wake up a few minutes later. I saw a shadow leaving my room and was like, What the heck? I tried to sleep, figuring that I was just imagining things. About 10 minutes later, I heard a demonic voice saying, "open the door! Open the door Carter!" I can't even describe this voice. It was dry and low and angry. I started crying and the voice laughed. I got the courage to walk across the hallway. My parents heard it to and we all were pretty scared. My dad gathered the courage to go downstairs and ask who was at the door. The voice stopped immediately. HE ran back upstairs and we had peace for about 10 minutes. A high and shrill voice now began asking to be let in, he loaded his gun, ran downstairs, and threatened it,and "they" left for good.

d**n it.

Carcass is gone. I went searching today and something obviously got it. I guess I have a doctors drip in my future. I actually fractured my jaw (not too badly though) at a basketball game yesterday so next time I head to the doctors for that(tomorrow) I'll talk about the rabies.

Try a dropshot. It's weird but it works.

So here's the deal. My friend does not have rabies, but he has to go back for subsequent treatments to be sure. I'll try and call the IFW department in Maine today and see what they say.

My dad is actually laughing about it but he hopes my friend is OK. That was smoother than expected. I'll update with the news when my friend texts back about his hospital trip. Assuming he is smart enough to head the advice....

Dang it. I just texted my friend and apparently his parents already knew and they don't care that we killed it. He's headed off to the quick care center down the road I hope. I passed on your advice. I'll tell my parents too. Better safe than sorry. They shouldn't be too mad if they knew it was in self defense. I didn't personally come in contact with saliva/ fluids because I was pretty careful to begin with, but I hope he doesn't get rabies from this things.

So a buddy and I were out fishing for trout and we weren't having much luck. We grabbed some mesh from his bag and quickly caught enough crayfish for a delicious dinner later on. That's beside the point though.... after we had hauled out the 20 or so crayfish and only one trout, we were walking up a wooded path. My friend says,"A bad day fishing is better than a good day at.... WHAT THE HELL!!!" He feels a sharp pain and looks down and has a porcupine quill sticking out of his leg. He's now on the ground trying to rip the quill from his shin, and the porcupine is coming back for more!!! The little beast, showing no sign of fear, prepares to ram into my buddy for a second time. My friend scuttles back and jumps into the stream, and I am suddenly a very lonely man. The porcupine is quite PO'd now, and he comes backing up at me. We were gonna hunt some squirrels for dinner too, so I was armed with a .177 cal pellet rifle. I kinda panicked and without even thinking put 3 shots into the porcupine. He limped full circle, and came back again. 2 more shots to the head and he was still trying to get us for stepping on him. I read online that you can flip 'em easy. SO I used my gun to flip him on his stomach. I plunged my knife into the little buggars neck. After he spazzed out for a minute and tried to bite me once, I slit his neck and bled him out as an act of mercy. We decided porcupine stew was on the menu. If we killed it, we were gonna eat it. The 25 pound beast was slain and gutted. We slit his stomach and began to dress him out, but to our horror a bunch of wiggling yellow worms came out of him when we were dressing him. We decided not to eat him because we weren't overly sure if it was safe. What could've been wrong with this guy? He wasn't rabid, but he showed no sign of fear. He had yellow worms wiggling out of his stomach too. My parents aren't too supportive of my "eat anything" outdoors lifestyle so they actually don't know about this. They freaked out when I ate squirrels and crayfish so if they knew I killed a porcupine things would not be good. Instead of my dad, I talked to a trusted adult friend who knows a lot about the outdoors and he said that while stomach worms are somewhat normal, the fact that the animal was seemingly unafraid is very odd. Could he have been rabid? I didn't see foam or anything. Or did we just annoy him to the point that he didn't even care about getting killed?

Rask should NOT sit. The Hawks have a dependable backup goalkeeper. The Bruins have a good backup netminder, but he is young. Khudobin is what Rask was the year the B's won the cup last. A good goalie, but still young. I'd worry about him cracking under the pressure. Heck... I remember watching him play with the providence bruins just last year. My analysis of Crawford: Great goalie but nowhere near as good as Rask. There GAA are about the same. But if you look at the shots they've faced, Rask wins hands down. Also, 90% of the hawks goals have been off of one timers or garbage goals. When those easy one-timers happen, it's a mistake by the blue-liners to turn the puck over. Most of the time, that is. 2 mistakes have to happen for a team to score a goal. One by the defense, and one by the goalie. As it stands, Rask is pulling his weight and his defense is letting him down. The Bruins scored 5 goals glove side last night. I believe the other goals they've scored in the series have mostly been shot glove side. Crawford literally has no glove hand. The B's just need to keep putting the puck on net and good things will happen.

I just use a good ol' backpack. I grab the tackle compartments that I need in my flat sided boxes and throw them in a backpack.

Bruins are gonna kick @$$ tonight!

Also.... although you can fish it a few different ways, a square bill crank on a straight retrieve will do great in shallow water. Also, shallow water is easy to fish. Just toss her out and reel in the fish! It's hard to go wrong with a texas rigged worm. Just grab some powerbait 7" ribbon-tails and let the fun begin! Like I said in a previous post, Senkos are 100% idiot proof. They're wicked easy to rig and there's now wrong way to fish it. Live bait is always an option. Tubes are fairly easy to work. A Yamamoto fat Ika is very easy to catch fish on too. Stick an octopus hook under the collar and slowly bounce it off the bottom.

Toss a senko rigged wacky!

Just saw a post about Jagr's facial hair... That was an absurd beard he had going on there. I almost fainted when I saw it. He pulled it off well though. Anyway... I have a Jaromir Jagr wood stick from a long while back in his career. I can't believe that dude is still playing. Seeing that game go into triple OT was crazy as heck. Being a goalie myself, I cannot even imagine how exhausted Crawford and Rask were. They basically played two games back to back.Goalie is the most exhausting position on the ice . (for me, asphalt. Roller hockey FTW!) No breaks... up and down and sliding post to post is quite a workout. Also, wearing 50 pounds of gear isn't fun either. That blocker and trapper are like 6 pounds each. Imagine holding six pounds up in the same position for almost an hour. And then every so often you have to use your reflexes to get that six pounds well above your head in a split second to make a save. Maintaining that balance and reflex for almost 120 minutes is crazy.

I feel for you man. While LM bass are fun, smallmouth fight meaner, longer, and jump higher! Pound for pound they are harder fighters.

Same here! I really want to make a youtube channel.

No pics. I have a flip-phone. I am investing in a waterproof camera soon. I have witnesses though!

Judging by your avatar I would say you're a Bruins fan? I go for Bruins in six. They SMOKED the penguins and the Rangers. They ain't crappy teams either.

So I live on Lake Arrowhead, a relatively well known Largemouth lake. I was out on my little boat alone last night, and I had some time to kill. So I maxed out my tiny motor (actually just a powerful trolling motor attached to a BPS pond prowler type boat) and ran down lake until I found smallie heaven. It was a channel connecting the Limerick side of the lake with the Waterboro one. The lake is in two towns FYI. When the water draw-down happened, I mapped out this whole channel because I knew there would be big fish. There was an eroded clay bank that immediately dropped form 2 ft of water, down to 12. The bottom was sand and gravel for reference. I tossed my jig down and caught an 11 inch LM on my first cast. Second cast, a hit, and a lost fish. My cellphone rang just as I made my third cast and I dropped my rod to the deck to answer it. I didn't open the bail, so no more than 20 seconds into my phone conversation, I hear a, katunk donk katunk! sort of noise as my rod is being bounced on the deck by a fish pulling. I say, "hold on, Dad!" And did a casual little one handed hook set and yelled, "Holy SH#T!" I drop the phone to the deck, and two minutes later I am looking a gorgeous 20 inch smallie. There were some pleasure boaters that stopped to watch the whole incident. Totally made my day.

Honestly.... to answer all your questions. I have caught bass with topwaters all day long.... Not just in low light. Color plays into the equation, but not as much as with a sub-surface bait. That's just my opinion. Dead calm water you say? I'd fish a stick type topwater. The Matzuo Hunting Dog is my favorite topwater EVER for all-around. It is great when the water is flat like glass.

Believe it or not.... a jig! Up until a few months ago a jig was a weapon reserved for the pros in my mind. I tied one on and BAM! The fish came swimming in. It's my go-to bait now.