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Thanks for all the replies, I am trying to really concentrate on a good hookset when bass fishing now. It is still really hard, I mostly fished for flounder before and you can't set a hook on them when you feel a strike, you have to let them take it and run. That has been the hardest thing to overcome for me as when you get a mindset on one thing its a hard habit to break.

This may sound stupid to a lot, but when you are putting a creature type plastic on as a trailer, do you thread it like you would fish a t or c rig, or do you just put the hook in the center. I haven't fished a jig, but am wanting to try it. Thanks in advance.

I have caught crappie before, well atleast black crappie, I have personally never caught a white crappie so that it could have been but I don't know. I am going back in the morning with a camera so hopefully I can catch another one.

After I was done with work today I hit up a local pond on base. I took my fly rod out today and was fishing with a cream colored popper. Wind was blowing pretty good from the east so I got back in a cove where it was a little bit calmer. The water is low, but way clearer that I have ever seen it. First cast about a hand size blue gill comes up and attacks it. I catch three more blue gills, then the water blows up, I am thinking to myself this could be a bass. I get it up and was baffled. I am not too up on all freshwater fish but this had the shape of a blue gill, the color and markings off a bass and its mouth was just a bit bigger than that of a bluegill. Any clues. I wish I would have had my camera, but my wife had it due to one of my kids having a school function this afternoon. I plan on going back in the morning.

What pound setting do most use for their drag, I got really specific about this when fishing for king macks and completely understand that.

I only keep saltwater fish. Not that I think that harvesting freshwater fish is wrong, I grew up only eating ocean fish. I had friends who's parents would eat bass and crappie and catfish, but I always thought that was wierd I know its not, but my family never ate freshwater fish when we fished ponds it was for fun. I will say whatever type of water you fish that harvesting fish can be a touchy subject. Get to the southeast area of the states and start talking redfish and people will start fighting. ;D

Thanks for all of the explanations, WRB that made sense to me. I am talking about Kerr Lake in northern NC southern VA. I thought that with the water cooling the fish would be making the transition to shallower water and when I read that it threw me for a loop.

I thought bass were always structure oriented. Today I received my states outdoor magazine and for a lake I usually fish, it said to forget structure for the most part that the bass would be in open deep water feeding on forage. Maybe I am reading into it too much, but I thought that a bass would never stray far from structure.

KU I wasn't implying that USC isn't good, I was just saying that if you put them in a different conference I don't think the results would be the same.

Thanks for the replies, that is what I was hoping to hear.

Muddy you are absolutely right and thanks for that insight.

Yeah, Jimmy V was one of the great ones. I just wish that at the end of his career he wouldn't have had the point shaving thing. Most remember him for the good, but there are some who won't let that go.

I have been bass fishing a few months now. Before that I fished saltwater. For the most part ( redfish aside ) you don't do a hard hookset, especially with speckled trout and flounder just a small bump will suffice. I am having a real hard time with a snap hookset from my years of salt fishing and it is getting frustrating. I am not going to sit here and say that I have lost lunkers ( that would be a lie ) but I am loosing bass. Anyone out there saltwater fish and have some advice. ?

I have never understood why USC is always rated so high. While they have won a few championships and had some outstanding players, I think the PAC 10 is one of the weakest conf. in the NCAA. Send them Cali boys to the SEC for a year and see how they fare? Just my .02 worth and no I don't get paid for my opinion. LOL ;D

sorry if this is a little off topic, but in general for plastic trailers (such as *** beaver craw) do you guys spray scent on them or just fish them as they are.

I love college B Ball, growing up in the heart of the ACC it can get down right nasty during basketball season. Now I am not a Duke or UNC bandwagon fan, I was born and raised to pull for the NC State Wolfpack. We have some good teams everynow and then, but god I hate a bandwagon fan.

I just started fly fishing this past summer. Man what a blast. I landed about a 1 1/2 to 2 pounder on a top water popper in the shallows, what a fight. While I don't think I could go to a moving stream and have much luck, I bought a 6wt floating type and had a blast with the bream and bass.

I have about $50 bucks worth of assorted plastics that have gotten mis shaped. I.E. senkos that are square versus round :-[ Is there anything I can do, are they salvagable? I really want to kick myself in the rear on this one.

Man thats a sweet looking pit, I had one but she attacked my wifes chihuahua, so I had to give her up, I still want one. Belle was a blue and sweet to all people and kids, but she was animal aggresive.

LOL, I remember growing up, you were either a Redskins or Cowboy fan. I had an uncle that live in Maryland so I guess I was pressured into the skins. Not my favorite team now, but I still pull for them

I did, I was PADI cetified and spoiled in Okinawa Japan while I was stationed there, the visibility here in the states sucks so I haven't been since 2000. I would love to take a refresher and try some of the German U boats sunk off the coast here in NC.

First I want to say congrats, I bet you feel a whole lot better. I will say the biggest thing to dropping pounds is diet. You can exercise all you want but if you don't feed you body you won't show results. Instead of eating three meals a day eat six small portion meals. Give your body the nutriets it needs and your matabolism will shoot through the roof. If you have been doing this already change the exercise regime up. If you have been lifting 3-4 times a week and doing cardio 2-3 then switch that up. Go from heavy weights to light but a lot of reps. Also change up between jogging for distance and sprinting for exhaustion. Just a few ideas.

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I hope you guys can fish better than you play ff ;D J/K In all seriousness I ended up with a pretty crappy team and I was lucky this week. While I will continue to talk smack, I will more than likely take a few a** whoopins. Good luck to all.

I thought it was " Hold my beer and watch this " ;D