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My take on the whole deflate gate thing; the deflated balls were definitely the least of the colts problems considering they were flatter than the balls and lost by almost 40 points.

I just retired the storm jerk bait I caught my pb on.

thanks bud. Let me know how they are. They look like the perfect size to match the frogs in the smaller ponds I fish from time to time but I've heard of a huge durability issue. Let me know how they work for you,

definitely. Last week they were killing the frog over the mats. I figured during this part of the year, on Sunday days in the high 70's I figured they would be sticking under the moss to get away from the sunlight, and they came right through those mats. First time I had ever fished a frog in April. And tonight it seemed like they only wanted a popper.

After 3 pretty hot days (80 is hot for where I'm from), I headed down to a local reservoir that is very highly pressured. Started the out with a jerk bait but as the sun started to set I decided to test out my new rod and throw a jawbone popper that I had just picked up from work. In a span of about 30 minutes I hooked up with 10 or 11 fish, all between 1.5-2 pounds. Not huge in size, but top water is fun no alter what size your hooking into. On a side not, the dicks brand "jawbone" makes some pretty nice poppers. Considering I get them for about two bucks they're unbeatable in my eyes. I plan on making a video about them soon. Fished a 1/4 bone colored popper. The only catch with these are that you need to replace the hooks. I went with size 6 vmc in red.

Give me a few more days to really get familiar with it and I'll send you a pm, or possibly write a review since I couldn't find any on the forum. Going out on my friends boat Friday so that should help out it through its paces. love the ghost. Myself and most of the guys I work with have come to the conclusion that for 99 dollars the ghost is hard to beat. In my personal opinion it's one of the best value rods there is. By the end of June I hope to pick up one of the heavy power versions.

I retire them to the bottom of the pond or to the tops of the trees sometimes. not willingly.

Theres a large sea wall with a cove thats about 25 yeards wide, and 50 yeards long at the beach of my local lake. I know theres tons of smallies around. Im just going to keep going every night and throw a popper or a spook until I get into something. Trying to catch my first smallie. All the ponds and reservoirs ive been fishing only have large mouth.

For whatever reason this sometimes happens to me with my quantum. Make sure your knot on the spool as as small as possible, an when you begin spoiling make sure that the feeder/eye/whatever it's actually called that goes back and forth, is all the way to either the right or the left. Don't start spoiling in the middle. Make sure you spoil with an even speed for the duration. Hope this fixes the problem.

No luck guys. Even with the heat today the water was 52, which apparently is too cold for topwater, even for the smallies. :,(

I agree. However I wish the repeats would be a little more in depth. It's kind of annoying to keep getting the same "what colors should I use" "how to fish a senko" and "what's the best lure" questions. But hey, if there were no repeats there would be way less forum traffic which would make us all sad.

Came home from work with another rod to sit in my living room. My mom wasn't happy.

Theres an 82 degree heat wave in Ct today. The popper bite usually doesn't start until next month, but im wondering if today hot weather will turn that bite on for this evening. Any thoughts? tips?

Ive never been huge on using a trailer for my spinner baits, but a lot of guys use soft plastic swimbaits. Keitechs are a popular one, some guys use flukes, and many use various brands and colors of regular paddle tail swimbaits. Usually in the 3-4.5 inch range. I suppose if you wanted to keep your spinner on the lighter side some sort of senko would work as well. I would stick to any plastic that is long and slender (ie. swimbaits, senkos, etc). As far as colors go, I would say use what youre comfortable with. I personally prefer greens as well, but I will occasionally use white plastics as well as plastics with a touch of chartreuse. I think if the conditions are right the bass will bite on just about any color.

I wasn't around back in "the day" but I heard hula poppers were a big deal

Im a big fan of the rapala dt line. especially the dt flat side line

Just put together a cranking combo that I think has a really good cost to value ration. I have a 7ft medium cranking duckett ghost paired with a lews carbon fire (I work at dicks and this is our exclusive version of the lews speed spool (somewhere between the lazer and lfs series. Put the whole rod together for 130 with my employee discount and spooled it up with a half spool of p line I had laying around. cant wait to hit the water tomorrow.

I never head to the water without my Ka-bar. A little more than your desired price range but theyre beautiful knives, especially with the classic leather sheath, and theyre a part of history.

Im sorry, I meant to ask; does the hollow space under the deck go all the way to the stern?

this might be an unpopular decision, but I feel that you can't beat the abu garcia vengeance combo, 7ft medium fast action, for the money. Cost 79.99 retail (I may like it a little more because I get them through work for 59.99), but Ive had it for a few weeks now and im very impressed. however, I do feel that building your own rod would be the best option. especially if you can find an extra 20 or 30 dollars to go on top of that gift card.

does the hollow spot in the deck go all the way to the front of the hull?

Ive only been bass fishing seriously for a little over a year, and I feel like Im pretty well rounded in my technique. I feel like both hardbaits and soft baits have their time and place. I use hard baits such as cranks, jerkbaits and spinnerbaits when im fishing water with large structre and not a lot of weeds. When I fish smaller ponds with a ton of vegetation, I tend to mostly use plastics, frogs, and depending on the water level; some topwaters lures with trebles. My theory is that If you tend to fish the same spots - say you only fish two or three very weedy ponds- youre probably going to get into a habit of using the same techniques.

Searching around the forums, haven't found anything on this boat. Any one have any experience? I was hoping to pick one of these up with summer, get an old john boat trailer, a small out board and a trolling motor. I have a few concerns though, the front deck looks almost too small to put a foot control on, and their looks like there's a large rectangular hollow spot under the back deck;I was hoping to build a plywood rod locker that would go into that space and open up into the middle of the boat. Any experiences, knowledge or tips would be helpful.

I would say yes. With the climate of completion and lack of jobs in our economy, it would be foolish to forgo college if you have the opportunity to attend.

I think this question has a lot to do with the types of pressure a pond has experienced. I am fortunate enough to live next to a man who has a large pond in the back of his property, a pond my grandfather and the original home owner dug out (construction is the family business) and stocked themselves. Since that pond was filled and stocked in the 60's, there have been maybe two dozen different people to fish it, so the fish swimming that pond have most likely only experienced any sort of artificial lure pressure from me and maybe a handful of neighbor hood trespassers, so there are tons of methods that work. For me, its a finesse worm as well as a 7-8 inch worm that produces the numbers, and a frog in the summer that produces the size.