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I was so shocked by the size of the turd, all I could think of was to get it out of my boat. Only later did I think I should have taken a picture of it. I'm sure all those who have had a hand in getting technology to its current state would be proud to know that I wanted to use a smartphone to take pictures of a fish poop and then utilize the internet to tell the world about it...

Strippers are often attracted by a rod... and dollar bills.

Most of the fish we catch are pretty cool, they do their part putting up a fight and swim away quickly when released, apparently holding no grudges for the experience. Some fish may be a little inconsiderate, getting some slime on your clothes or hocking up a freshly eaten shad. A few others have a bit of attitude, slapping their tail on the water as they swim away in an effort to get you wet & give you a "fish middle finger". Then there is the rare fish that is just flat out rude, one like the one I caught yesterday. My little Pond Prowler is only a couple of months old and the carpeting I installed a few weeks ago is in pristine shape. I treat it like one treats any new vehicle, obsessing with keeping it clean & sharp. Early yesterday morning, a 12 lb. channel catfish (picture below) interrupted my bass fishing when he chose to eat my Roboworm. I was if I was water skiing as he dragged my boat around the cove I was in and peeled the 10 lb. test line off my reel. His big mouth was an easy target for my fish grips and soon I was holding him up for a picture & weighing. What I didn't expect was that this was the Al Bundy of catfish, a rude, crass individual who had no respect for others belongings. Without warning, he suddenly dropped a deuce right on my brand new marine carpeting. Now I'm not talking some little fish poop, this was a road apple that would have made a Clydesdale wince!! I bet the fish lost a pound of weight after relieving himself on my boat. I got him back in the water & I could swear he was giggling as I let him go. Luckily the mess cleaned up easy and my pride & joy fishing deck is no worse for the wear. Have you ever encountered any fish that had no respect for you?

Q - Did you hear about the delivery driver who accidently locked his keys inside his truck outside of a Planned Parenthood facility? A - Apparently they get very upset if you ask them if you can borrow a coat hanger...

I was going to respond to Tom in a similar, but less snarky way, however you beat me to it. My experience with Roboworms is that you are both right. As odd as this sounds, they will float until they start to sink. I have had Roboworms thrown off the hook while fighting fish & most of them will float on the surface. However, once I try to snag it with the tip of my rod or something else & part of them become submerged, down they go. Kind of like those bugs that can skate on the surface of the water, but once they get submerged, they drown. Lesson learned, always get close enough to a floating Roboworm to pick it up by hand...

I have used a small postage scale, pretty accurate for how inexpensive it was.

Actually it does, for ignorance is defined as the lack of knowledge. Being informed and making bad decisions isn't ignorance, it is stupidity. Neither ignorance nor stupidity is a good quality for a potential voter or a bass fisherman. Partisanship, voting along party lines ignorantly, is like making lure choice based on manufacturer. Rapala makes a lot of good crankbaits, but limiting yourself to only the DT series & never even considering any other models from Strike King or any other manufacturer isn't the best way to determine what is the best lure for the situation. I'm trying to keep a fishing angle to this political discussion...

I agree, go vote, as long as you have taken the time to review the candidates and issues on your ballot. An uninformed voter is like an ignorant fisherman, polluting the lake and keeping everything he catches, regardless of size or quantity. They basically mess it up for those who know what they are doing.

The boat is in the water, so pulling the drain plug out is not an option. In theory, I could pull it up on to the dock to allow it to drain, but it is my brothers dock & his community has rules against storing boats on docks (typical CC&R's for Southern California). I never thought of supports for the cover, that would allow eliminate the billowing effect which allows the water to collect. I use PVC for work all the time, I see how it could be easily be used to create a skeleton to tighten up the cover. Thanks for the info & advice.

Earlier this year, I boat a 10 ft. Pond prowler & the inexpensive boat cover for it offered by BPS. The boat is always in the water, kept docked at my brothers house & the cover does a good job of keeping dust, dirt, birds & dew off the boat. This past Friday evening, Southern California got its first rain in months. When I went fishing Saturday morning & pulled the cover off the boat, I found that the boat had about 3" of rain in the bottom. The cover is a one-size-fits-all & is a little billowy, so I think when the water collected on the cover, it would then leach through into the boat. No damage is done, I used Marine Grade plywood when installing the carpeting, the trolling motor battery is in a case and I keep everything else off the floor of the boat when it is covered. It is not a big deal to spend 10 minutes bailing out the boat in the darkness before going out, but it might be less fun as winter approaches & the water is colder. Therefore, I am looking into a true water proof boat cover, trying to determine if they exist and if the cost is worthwhile considering what it is covering. I thought the experiences of other boat owners would be more valuable than advertising claims and ratings found on product websites. Has anyone ever found a water proof boat cover that they would recommend for a small boat like this? Based on the area I live, I do realize I might be overthinking this. If we get 30 rainy days in the next 9 months, it will be considered an extremely wet year. More likely, there will be maybe 10-15 times I have to bail out the boat before next summer.

Well, there are times I kissed a large green female when I was out ...

Sounds like a fun day, those are some nice fish. Did you get a chance to look at the deformity on the tail of the 6-10? I can't tell if it is some kind of birth defect or if it looks like other fish have been nibbling on her tail. What is odd is the rest of her looks perfect, great color & a well defined lateral line.

Like so many things with bass fishing, it depends on the situation and/or the body of water. On my home lake, inactive bass often set up under docks during the middle of the day, typically facing the seawall. Casts around a dock in this situation rarely produce strikes, the bait must be skipped under the dock, the closer to the seawall the better. I have hundreds of experiences where an okay cast that barely makes it under the dock is ignored and follow-up casts that skip under the dock & bounce off the seawall are hammered. It sometimes gets the point where you can call your shot.

There is no grass or reeds on the lake I fish, so this is a question, not a statement. Being that he is throwing a Texas rig, wouldn't it be better for his cast to be long than short? If the bass are back in the reeds, I would think it would be less likely they would come out a few feet to chase a lure than be spooked by something that apparently crashed into the grass. The only experience I can compare it to is some retaining walls (seawalls) with part of the concrete undercut at the base on my home lake. Often the fish will hold tight to the wall & if I am throwing a T-rig, my goal is to hit right at the wall so the worm drops to their hiding spot. However, I make sure that if I err, it is long, so that the lure ends up on the bank & I have a chance to pull it into the water. I can't do that with crankbaits or other lures with protruding hooks, but the T-rig rarely gets hung up on anything.

I have a tradition that my wife is hoping will stop someday. When I return home & greet her with a kiss, I make sure to slide my thumb under her nose when she isn't suspecting it, so she can get a good whiff that I am not lying about the number of bass I caught that day. Often I have to be tricky, distracting her from what she knows is coming & sneak the smelly thumb to her face or feigning that something is wrong with my hand & I need her to look at it. I allow myself 30 minutes from the time I get home until I make her do the unwilling smell test & I succeed in most instances. She always crinkles up her cute face, winces and says "Gross!! Stop it". Only then do I wash my hands. How she has stayed married to me for 28 years is a complete mystery...

Visited my brother in Breckinridge over the weekend & they have a small lake near their house. Unfortunately no smallmouth, only trout. Used a canoe to catch six browns on Saturday, but the wind was gusting 20-30 mph on Sunday. I tried to take the canoe out & it looked like a 3 stooges movie. Absolutely zero control. After 45 minutes, I gave up, beached the canoe and walked up the inlet stream. Found a few nice pools and caught 4 more browns. I am a horrible stream fisherman, I probably spooked 20 fish. Looking foward to getting back to my Pond Prowler, calm SoCal days and largemouth bass. Trout are okay but they fight like a 10" Senko rigged wacky style.

1) Lesbian Cove - A large sunken Christmas tree is at the entrance to a cove where the first home is inhabited by two beefy gals with extremely short hair. 2) Stupid Point - A year round hotspot, the house closest to this point was once rented by a man who spent a couple hours one evening yelling at his girlfriend for us all to hear "Don't call me stupid!! I'm not stupid!!". He was drunk. 3) The DT-10 brushpile - It has about a half dozen of my D-10's buried in its middle.

Sirsnookalot 2 logical errors with your opinion. First, you are comparing GUN related deaths between us & countries that don't allow guns. Of course ours will be higher. We also have more automobile deaths than countries where most people don't own a car Second, there is a very famous study that shows the murder rate in the US & Great Britain before Britain had gun control & after. Britain's rate has always been less than ours, with or without guns & the difference didn't change after they instituted gun control. Their conclusion was that a society's murder rate has more to do with its culture than whether or not it outlawed guns.

I actually have a lot of respect for little fish like this. Any bass that has the huevos to try to eat something his own size deserves our care. I want that fish breeding in the future.

I had the discipline to open it but not read it.

These would be the fish that run the pond, no?

I think you may be preaching to the choir with the original post. I would wager that nearly all of the members of this site take good care of the environment for the selfish reason that they enjoy using it. Its those who don't fish or hunt much or at all that destroy the outdoors and those folks aren't here.

I used to use 4.5" & 6" Roboworms exclusively on drop shots, don't know why I never tried them rigged any other way. This past summer I tried a 6" Aarons Magic on a T-rig with a 1/8 oz tungsten weight and it was the final piece of a pattern puzzle. Weather conditions stayed the same for about a month & I absolutely slayed them, including the 8 lb. pig in my avatar photo. They would hit it on the drop, they would pick it up the bottom & they would hold on to it for a long time.

My Aunt & Uncle (my mom's older sister & her husband) taught me to fish & let me fish with them, but most of my bass fishing was self taught. They showed me how to catch my first bluegill while they were fishing for stripers at the California Delta and later encouraged me that I could reel in my first big fish all by myself when I was 8 years old (it was a 5 lb. catfish on a little spin cast pole). They rarely used artificial lures, kept & ate what they caught and were some of the best stewards of the environment I have ever known. The did smile & shake their heads when I told them that I catch & release bass, knowing it was a generational difference between someone born during the Depression & someone born in the 60's. Bassmaster magazine, circa 1975, was my bible of information for bass fishing. I eventually ended up fishing a few times with guys my parents age while I was a teenager and it quickly showed me how little I really knew. These guys showed me how to flip, how to fish plastic worms and that those different looking bass were indeed spotted bass that some homeowners smuggled in from nearby Lake Perris.

Skipping Senkos under docks often leads to immediate strikes once the bait stops, although I did have one bass who caught the lure in mid air between skips. I am guessing she was 1/2 bass, 1/2 border collie.