Bubba 460

Well I got the drift that you want a new computer, everything else went over my head. I've seen designations like that but usually on the side a jet fighter and always near the "RESCUE" panel.

Skunk ~ not a good sign on a fishing trip.

My wife knocked down two moose in Alaska on black ice roads while we lived there. I don't think they were hurt, it was a slow motion impact. I was lucky, came close a couple of times but avoided them.

They are almost as crazy as squirrels

Yeah, that counts. Could have been a lot worse!

A couple years ago I was on my way to a lake at 5 am. I was driving a full sized Ford F-350 and pulling a 17 foot jet boat. I was traveling at 58 mile per hour in a rural area with woods and hay fields. Heavy clouds blanketed the sky so no moon. The first thing I see is a doe's head just above the hood and lit up brightly by the headlight, then the impact. She went under the left front tire, the back tire then the boat trailer tire tossing the trailer 3 feet into the air on that side. I was doing a bit of the Watusi all over the road for a few seconds but finally got it straightened out . Pulled over and got a flashlight and checked the deer. Luckily she was killed instantly and probably felt nothing. The truck muffler was twisted and smashed and would need to be replace. Front bumper bent and the trailer was slightly damaged but usable. As you so often hear "It happened so fast." I was still able to make it to the lake but I sure felt bad for the poor deer....

Dana "Lash" (Loesch) has his time slot but no one will ever replace Rush.

When possible I listen to conservative talk radio going and coming back from anywhere. I am a news junky and keep up on current events that matter. I would not listen to anything while fishing, I'm there to fish and I enjoy it. As soon as I'm back in the truck it's news or talk radio. I don't listen to modern music on the radio but do have disks of good, older music that soothes the soul I occasionally listen too if I'm in the mood.

In Vietnam I was around a lot of South Korean soldiers (ROK troops). Unfortunately NONE of them looked like that.

That was a sunrise ~ got there a little early and had to wait about five minutes before I could see well enough to back the boat in. I hope they work as well for you as they are for me.

Animals turtles, and birds can get caught in discarded fishing line and die. Either at the lake, pond, river, at the dump, wherever it ends up. Always discard fishing line properly. I wad it into a tight ball then wrap it in duct tape all the way around before I toss it in the trash There were several other great ideas posted here as well on safely eliminating old line.

Sweet, should do well in DC.

It seems to do well when I slowly hop it along the bottom, particularly around grass. It should do well this winter. I've always used the small standard Ned baits but this seems to work better. Using it around the shore as a surface/sub surface bait with just a hook as produced well too.

YES, I agree with that ~ I cast better at longer ranges 50'+ than I do up close. In fact I don't even like being up close, I don't want the fish to know I'm there. I'm pretty good at Hail Mary bombs right up to a big lay-down or the bank.

I hit a rabbit with a frog, luckily he didn't croak.

That's dang good!

Casting is so important when fishing for bass around structure. Sometimes getting a bass to commit comes down to lure placement in inches. I'd say I'm better than average but I doubt I'd win a professional casting competition inside a building. There are always variables in accurate casting to consider; wind or deviation left, right, up or down do to wind resistance on lure angles to name a couple. Picking up a different rod takes a few cast to get zeroed back in for those "finesse" cast into a small tight spot. Skipping also requires "stopping" just as important as the skip, compounded along with accuracy. The only thing that improves casting is years and years of it. "I don't often visit a bush... but when I do it's to get a lure off it."

Don't know what your intentions are for the use of the rod but for bass fishing 8 foot is kind of over-kill unless you throwing big swim-baits The reel is a tad small for the target line weight of 12 to 20 # and up to 3 oz lures. So for that rod I'd say get a bigger reel, at least a 4000 or a smaller rod.

Hunting and Fishing Depot Pepper EWG. I bought them off of eBay.

It's a ewg ned head

I went fishing yesterday morning and had a decent day. The bait that produced the best was the 4" ZMan Streak Curly Tailz in the "moodring" color. I put it on a Ned head, ideally the hook should have been 1/8th of an inch longer in order to lay in the grove better but it was working fine. I started out catching some small bass on a wacky around cover then went to a point and started throwing the curly tail Ned rig around patchy grass or on the outside perimeter of the grass line (5 to 10 feet of of water) I was catching bass every five cast or so. Nothing big, 2 to 2.5 pounds was the average. I did loose a nice drag burner that that pulled off and I watched a big boil come to the surface~ grrr. I had a buddy there in another boat and he was not doing as well and asked what I was using. I told him to come over and I'd fix'em up. He had been throwing a crank. He ties one on and on the first cast caught a two pound bass. He quickly caught six more and I told him I needed the bait back. Shortly after that we had to go. I ended up with 16 bass and a five pound catfish~ always a let down because at first you think it's a big bass, again ~ grrr. My buddy ask me to order him 4 packs of the StreakZ and I'm down to one bait myself because he would not give me the bait back. I'm going to order the 5" StreakZ as well. Anyway, I'm sure there are several here already using this bait in some forum or another, I just wanted to give a heads-up to others that might want to give it a try. It would make a great drop-shot bait as well and there are many other applications for it's use. It's got great action, it's kind of a half fluke, half grub. The only thing I will add is do not skin hook this bait... The ZMan TRD soft baits are a different animal and if you shin hook it you will loose fish because the hook will be "trapped" in the TRD elasticity.

Or any bait for that matter, particularly when they are in a feeding mode. They eat whatever is available, be it live or a bait/lure. A big solitary bass will eat when she is hungry and if something too good to pass up presents itself (an easy meal in a realistic manner) she may take it but she didn't get big being stupid. When they are not fired up to feed then you have to work at it a lot harder, reaction strike, teasing, annoying, curiosity etc.

Fire & Ice and June Bug... can't go wrong with black either.

Bummer ~ Anything over two pounds I net. Any under I either swing up or grab the line and lift up. Not really wanting to lip a big bass with 9 hooks showing, belly lift.

What's an Ollies?