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i think before you get a small watercraft, you should make a smaller investment and buy yourself a good scale! but that is a super great fish man! definitley looks like a 6lber to me! but i thought i told you to keep those green pumpkin chartruese laminate trick sticks a secret ;D

nice fish but i still dont see why using braid is such a bad idea? :-?

Don't worry bout the slump. I'm in a massive one. I've had alot of zeros this summer on lakes that I know really well. It happens to everyone. A combination of you continuing to fish and the water cooling down is gonna bring you some good results soon. Keep on keepin on dude. yup this is so true, thats why i havent given up for a while. i just think of it this way: it can only get better

yussssss

oh i never went to the clerance page on their website.

wow i must have got a different email because i didnt see any reels! all i saw were spinnerbaits, buzzbaits, hardbaits, soft baits, and a little bit of terminal tackle. and clothes too.

5" green pumpkin chartruese laminate trick stick 7" ripper worm junebug rapala DT FAT 03 rapala DT 4 small swimbait (giron would be a good one to try)

i got the email too and the savings aren't even that great :-/

rapala DT6

i've really been in a slump lately. i am not catching much and what i do catch is nothing to get excited about. im gonna have to go down to the farm pond this weekend and see if i cant fix that school started today

this guy right here is the bait monkey:

just you

wherever the water is too shallow to fish any other crankbait

i was unable to cast this lure on a baitcaster or my medium spinning setup. i used my ultralight setup w/ 6lb line.

went to the local lake which has recently suffered low oxygen levels and a big shad kill because of it. the fishing absolutley sucked. my friend hooked one bass that looked to be about 6-7" long and it came off the hook when it jumped. highlight of my day was having ONE hit on my shad swimbait. i was tuning the swimbait by bending the line tie, and i was reeling it in to test the action when i saw a big shadow follow it. there was a bass right on the tail end of this swimbait. so i stopped the swimbait real quick and it turned 90° to the left and the bass just chomped on the back of the swimbait! i could clearly see this 12-14" bass take two bites of the swimbait and turn around. i was excited and mad at the same time that he didnt get any hooks! anyway, thats my fishing report for today :-/

i use Tyco Adhesives Nashua Tape. im not sure where i got it, some local hardware store, but it is ULTRA sticky and has always preformed well for me.

trey i hate you! you have now convinced me to go buy a mattlures bluegill ;D this 9lber is very pretty! good job buddy!

today is my last day of summer :'( boo hoo

i caught a few bass at the farm pond on the original hand painted bluegill. oh, and, check your mailbox in a few weeks

next time try smoothing out the edges of the foil/paper more

you may have seen the thread about the new pond i was going to last night. well we went, and the pond is very nice, its very open, you can walk out onto this point (you get your feet wet...wear sandals ) that juts out into the very middle of the pond, so that is nice because you can cover a lot of water from the point. there is submerged vegetation, hydrilla i think, that makes fishing trebel hooked lures a nuisance. perfect grounds for big pickerel though but despite the great pond we didnt catch anything there, so we walked 5 minutes over to the next pond (a proven pond for us) and we each fished a green pumpkin chartail trick stick. there was a spot where the lily pads curved in and there was some open water in a pocket of the lily pads and i told my dad to cast there and let the trick stick sink. well he did and sure enough he hooked into a bass! but he was unable to land it because there was about 10 feet of lily pads and matted grass between the bass and him. that bass got off the hook. probably 20 minutes later, i had moved to the other side of the pond and he had moved a little bit down the shoreline where he started. he asked me if i thought that bass in the pocket would bite again and i said it sure will, so he casted into the pocket again and hooked up! he landed this bass. it was about 10 inches long. no picture becase i had the camera and i was all the way across the pond. right before he was about to release that bass, i hooked up with one on the other side of the pond. mine measured 9 3/4". please excuse the rediculous picture, its for the *** contest

reminds me of a swim senko that is designed to be wacky rigged instead of t-rigged. nice

stay away from eagle claw. they are dull and they rust. gamakatsu's are my personal favorite but owners, mustad, and VMC are good too. 4/0 is a good general size for most baits for bass. offset means it has that little bend behind the eye that helps hold the bait on the hook. ewg means extra wide gap and that is good for tex-posing because the hook point is inline with the hook eye. my favorite hooks are Gamakatsu G-Lock 4/0 EWG. quality hook right there.

see all that red in that basses mouth ,, more on the lips ... a guy told me when you catch a bass that has a red in the lips and mouth ,,, its a sign that the bass has been smashing the baitfish ... im not sure how true that is ,,, but you did catch that fish on a gill bait ... looks like you were fishing what that bass was looking for ,,, nice one ... i have to go soulth or to cally in serch of these giant bass ... i heard/read that when their teeth are dull and their lips are red it means theyre eating hard food like crawfish, and then their teeth are pretty sharp and they lips arent very irritated it meant they were feeding on softer prey like baitfish...

thanks guys, im going in the evening, from about 5:30 or 6:00 to dark. i will probably just end up experiemting with several lures and just fish around the whole pond. i hope there is good access on the east shore, for some reason i remember it having a lot of saplings and brush. i think there was a trail though. im really not sure if i want to use a jig, because i have zero confidence in them, and when im trying to locate some fish, i think i might do better with something i have confidence in.