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That has a nice ring to it We'll see bout that when kstate pwns KU in both the Bram and the field house.... Oh, Bramledge ..... the building we have never lost in. I mean, you would think you'd have to win at least one sometime??? Wouldn't you : :-? It really is an amazing streak. I know it will end someday but it sure has been a fun ride. The kitties have been all pumped up (again) on all the basketball boards but I just don't see the streak ending this year.

Never too early to talk basketball. ROOOOOCCCCKKKKK CHAAAAALLLLKKKK JAAAAAAAY HAAAAAAAWK KAAAAAAA UUUUUUUUU !!!!!!!!

Welcom, great place to learn and to share.

Eastern Oklahoma has tons of water (now). Grapes of Wrath was and still is my favorite novel. That being said, if Oklahoma wasn't there, it would be four hours closer to Fork for me! ;D

Well, there is a basketball school about 40 miles west of you than was pretty impressive against not too bad of a team. However it is early and we'll just have to wait and see. Could be interesting in Arrowhead later

Man, I miss that lake. Used to live between there and Clinton and fished it all the time. Many days of 'bleeding thumb'.

Lowrance I-finder H2O $169.00. I have one with the Mapcreate6 that I use in my vehicles and another one with the Navionics hot maps (?) south chip that I use on the boats. You can use it the way it comes and then add those chips later. Really comes in handy and is easy to use for us that are tecnologically challenged!

Welcome to the forum. Great place to share and learn. There are several 'regulars' from the KC area as well as the rest of Kansas and that "M" state to our east.

He must be vacationing up here. Went to bass pro is Springfield yesterday to get a prop. Found out after driving an hour and a half that they don't carry them in their store anymore >. So went ahead and bought a new life jacket, boat caddie, new air horn, new floating key ring, new front pedastal and seat, four packs of senkos, six packs of swimming senkos, some jig trailers and a yellow majic. Oh, I just got through ordering my prop from Midwest Prop in Olathe, Ks. on line and it will be here tomorrow. Now go away bait/boat monkey!!

justfishin, I hear ya. A couple of weeks ago when I was going to work @ 5:00 AM, I walked down my back steps and stepped on a sleeping raccoon's tail. Lucky thing it scared him as much as it scared me. I screamed like a little girl!

All things said are true. I am a firm believer that sometimes when a bass clamps down on a worm, jig, trap or whatever, the hook(s) NEVER penetrate the skin. They just clamp down on it and hold on till they let go. I know I have 'crossed their eyes' and have had them throw it back to me or land em and the hook just fall out.

Welcome Hoosier, great site, great people.

Welcome aboard.

Welcome to a great forum. Lots of good info and the people I have met on here are super!

KU, Milburn, love that course. Actually better before they redid it but good anyway. The way they do it here is they have 30 or so boxes filled with sand and stuffed with 25 to 50 (depending on size) poly tubes from 2" to 8" in diameter. Then there are 10 barrels with 12" mortars in them. Great show, lasts about 30 minutes, but one mell of a hess the next day. :'( We average one or two unfired mortars per year with the rough mowers. Big boom, scares the hell out of the operator, and usually causes some damage to the deck.

I have fun plans! I'll get to work about 5:30 AM, get greens mowed and other fun stuff. Then I get to patrol the border of the golf course the rest of the day to keep everyone off, as the city shoots the fireworks off on my 16th too box! :'( My whole staff comes back at 5:30 PM to help patrol the rest of the night. By the time the fireworks get done and people get out of the area it will be between 11:30 and midnight. FUN FUN FUN :(

Avid, I have been in the golf business a looooonnnggggg time and am pretty good with predictions. First, like learning fishing, is T.O. (time outside). Secondly, go to NOAA weather and study the whole site; jet streams, fronts, upper loft winds, etc. One of the best sites I have found is weathertap.com. The radar is a compilation of 4 or 5 different radars from each site. It has storm tracking, temps, wind direction and speeds, etc. The rest of the site has everything from aviation weather to more statitistics, facts, and charts than I care to look at, but informative. Oh yea, it's $6.95 a month, but well worth it. It's sorta like learning to 'walk the dog' with a spook. You try and try and it wears your arse out, then one day it just comes easy and you don't have to even think about it. Now I have to go and hose off a green that has been under water the last 18 hours from the 18" of rain I've had the last month that I DIDN'T predict!! ;D

Fished Bone Creek Lake up here yesterday from 9:00 AM to noon. Water came up 6" in those three hours. Caught fish on frogs over newly submerged vegitation and senkos up against the bank. They had a forty boat tourney and looked like everyone was catching fish that was fishing shallow.

Welcome, great place to share and learn.

I've had 14 + inches this month. > There are parts of two fairways that I haven't mowed since mid May!! Geuss what, it's raining right now.

I always have a jig AND a brush hog tied on. On tournament days I'll throw the brush hog first. If and when I get a limit I'll go to the jig n pig and put the brush hog away.

Golf course superintendent/manager here. Been doing it in the grass for 30+ years.

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Too good!

Wow, sounds like the beginning of a novel. But here's my 2 cents. When I started bass fishing, my dad and grandparents had pretty good equipment for the time. Johnson spin cast reels, fiber glass rods, a couple of lazy ikes, hula poppers, spoons, and pre-rigged worms with two or three small hooks and a little spinner on the front. I was probably around 3 or 4 when I got 'hooked'. I've gone from the Johnsons, to zebco spincasts, to 1310 mgs, to high dollar shimanos. I think technology has definately increased my ability to catch fish. Flashers to gps/fish finders. Wimpy fiberglass rods to composite. Castability and drags on reels. Cotton line to whatever you want line. Fishing forums instead of learning from one or two people. Trolling motors instead of oars. Fishing has a definate impact on my life. 90% of my vacation time is spent fishing, mainly in Texas. I live on an old mining strip pit with my boat dock 23 steps from my back door. I own three boats and two tow vehicles. (Wife won't let me put a hitch on hers) I used to play golf 5 to 6 times a week, now maybe once a week. Two thirds of my internet time is spent on fishing stuff. Our storm shelter is "Jon's tackle shop". I used to fish a lot of tournaments, but now mainly just enjoy getting out. Fished for two years "professionally", but got tired of sleeping in the camper shell of my truck half the time. LOL I think in general fishing has improved. However, with all the idiots any more, finding new ponds or tanks to fish has become practically impossible. I believe fishing has improved my quality of life. I can get away and not think about any thing but trying to fool a bass into biting. My wife loves to fish now, which gives us quality time without doing other things men hate to do! My daughter in law has gotten into it as well as one of my grand daughters. I guess I am grateful that my dad and grand parents started taking me fishing at an early age. There are values to be taught, quality time with family and nature, and a break from the stresses of work and life in general. I hope this is what you wanted. Like I said, I think you could write a book on these questions, and I'll be interested to see what other responses you get. SE Kansas grass grower

As a general rule, yes. However, that theory is just one of many factors that go into bait selection. Wind, sun angle, water clarity, depth, along with dark/light days, in my opinion, are all about equal factors in determining what colors to START with. Eventually the bass will tell you what they want. Sometimes it can be no rhyme or reason as to what they want. Some of them just don't read the right books and mags. ;D