ww2farmer

It's a wonder that I get any fish in the boat.

I am a pretty boring dude. When I am not fishing, working, or doing stuff with my kid , I am usually here.

"Get the **** away from me"

Had a couple x-raps that took on water, and the typical broken bill on DT's problem.

I saw that too, and I took it as that is the new perminate price. I was wondering why, then I saw a picture of Ike's boat at the classic with a bunch of white rods with new handles.....I bet they are trying to get rid of as much stock as they can, because it looks like a new one is coming soon.

I'll try them. I have relaxed my anti-Rapala policy...since they are so dang effective and purty. I just know ahead of time now that if they break I have wiped my backside with the money spent on them due to their poor at best customer service.

I was thinking the same thing....LOL

Same here, and the Vendetta's were "only" down to $65, and they are not flying out the door. I'll wait till they lower them some more.

Yeah, just terrible. He only won MLF, and was 3rd for B.A.S.S. AOY. The bum ought to hang it up, it's clearly passed him by.

I could have had a new boat with all the crap I buy between seasons over the last 10 years. Just when I say..."okay that's enough" I go and buy more. It's a sickness, but it's not the end of the world.

Overall thoughts. But it's too late......I just bought two of them 5 mins ago....I decided to play the dumb kid tonight and ask about stuff after I bought it LMAO . The 6.3:1, and 7.3:1 lefties are what I bought.

I have not had a Daiwa in a while..... I used to have a couple of the old TD Advantages, Tierra's, and had Fuego, they were always reliable and performed well. Thinking about getting a few Daiwa's again, and the Exceler has me interested.

Same here

K.I.S.S. green pumpkin and black/blue for your worms, trailers, creature/craw baits, and white for a fluke, and you'll catch bass anywhere. Shiny metal flakes, and the rainbow of colors catch more fisherman than fish. For all we know, under water in might all look like one dull shade of grey to the fish.

I struggled for a while tournament fishing, until I basicly said "F-it" and just treated a tournament day like anyother day on the water and just went fishing, I do a lot better since adopting that mentality. Don't take it too serious, it's just for beer/play money and bragging rights.

Mid April trough mid June and mid Sept. through early November are the busy times on the farm, I can not get away,we often work 6 days a week, 10-14 hour days during these periods. Besides, during those months the fishng 10 minutes down the road on the local lakes is fantastic, I can go out for 2-3 hours after a 12 hour day, on a day we get rained out, or on sunday and catch them good so that keeps me sane and occupied.

same here. I use the one on the far right in your pictures.

Too late.......I told a page or two back.

the ww2 is in referance to a few things..........my granfather on my dad's side was a navy vet of WW2, my grandmothers brother on my mom's side was an army combat vet of the ETO. I also collect any, and everything related to the the US armed forces during WW2........uniforms, field gear, weapons, etc......for many years I also traveled the eastern part of the country doing WW2 living history events for public education. The group I belonged to is one of the few in the US that is fully sanctioned and reconized by the Veterens association of the unit they represent..........the 5th Ranger Infantry Btn. I am no longer activly envolved, it's too time consuming with the travel, it's mega expensive, and I have kind of gotten a little long in both the tooth and waist line to accuratly look the part, but I pop in to a few of the local events they do from time to time and make a fool out of myself............and the farmer..........well that's what I do. I should change it to trucker though, as it seems I do more truck driving than farming now a days.

I don't know if this bait meets, exceeds, or fails to live up to my expectations.........but it just drives me nuts. #1 it catches fish, #2 it's affordable, but #3.............once the stock hooks and/or split rings are trash, which is usually after 2 fish, I might as well toss the whole bait in the garbage, as I can NOT find hooks/rings that will keep this thing suspending.....It's gotten so I would rather have them slow float then use bits of suspend dots to make them suspend....but even that is a guessing game, some take a full dot, some take a have a dot, some take a booger from the left nostrile, some take a boat anchor..........I almost want to give up on them.............but they catch fish LOL...... I am talking about the Luck-e-strike STX CLunn jerkbaits.

You say your not in thick grass, so I would go 7'3" or 7'6" MH/F or MH/XF. 7:1 reels are great for this, zip it back in quick and make another pitch.

My favorite shaky head of the moment is the VMC "Ike approved" Rugby heads. I hate screw lock types, and I am not a big fan of the giant barbs on other hooks. The Rugby head has a EWG hook and you just t-rig the baits on them like you would any hook. The head stands the baits up well, comes through rock/wood/dock great.......and fishes decent in grass, which in the past was a not a strong suit of other heads I tried. Some people (not me) think you need floating baits to shaky head, I'll stick to the stuff I use( zoom trick/finesse worms most of the time)....it's been known to entice a fish or two hundreds of thousands.

I have always liked amber as a "do all" color. I have never liked grey or green tint, it always seems like I see more with amber.

yeah.............any body ever teach you to keep your trap shut? Now get the heck out of here with that.....LMAO

one out of three right......................I'll let you figure out which one, BUT c'mon man.....you do realize ww2 was 70 years ago. It was a little before my time.