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Thanks LBH I thought it was a nick name.That looksa like a lot of fun. we have Makos and threshers out here that jump but I havent chesed them yet.

so is a "spinner" a bull shark?

I want it! If it doesnt work for you I will trade you an expesive swimbait for it. BTW I have no idea if the bait is colectable or anything like that. i just like the idea that it screaches and I would like to try it.

I think most of you are right. I personaly believ you realy need to be in touch with your water to "know" when to put your swimbait down. Most rookies are not even close to being that dialed in. It takes a lot of time on the water throwing swimbaits do develop a feeling for when and when not to throw them. I also beleive unless you are dialed in, you should just keep chucking away, you will be rewarded. Sometimes I feel like I am dialed in and I just "know" I am waisting my time but even then I get suprised. Other times I just "know" I am going to get bit and I almost always do. Theese feeling are strongest when I have been fishing alot especialy on the same lake. If its been a while I will just keep throwing. It breakes down to this. If your dialed in enough to know when not to throw swimbaits then by al means throw something else. If your not sure and especialy if your used to catching small (keeper) sized fish keep throwing the swimbait. I always try and stack the odds in my favor. I am fortunate to have some very good sticks around me so I usualy have a clue before I even get there. without that luxery I always start with the swimbaits unless I "know" its time to change

Thanks for posting RW. When guys ask me how to fish the baby bass, I tell them to think about where baby bass hang out and hide. Then I tell them to think about where a baby bass should NEVER go. Thats exactly where you threw your BB. that big fish just coudnt hepl it self to that pour little lost bass! I am glad you are having fun with your baits. Avid I have more

They only weigh 2.5 ounces. Dan thought I was wrong so I double checked. I put 4 of them on my postal scale and they weighed 10 ounces. Soooo yep 2.5 ounces each. as for them costing 35$ I have actualy had quite a few guys thanking me for making them so afordable. Remeber these are wood baits that are hand carved and the paintjobs are extensive. I honestly beleive they are a good value.

I can probably hook you up with what you are looking for. Send me a PM telling me what you want and I will try and help.

Spinnerbaits for me too. I realy have no desire to learn them eithr. The Dances eel is the biggest let down ever. The bait looks great! it has a ton of action and the design was cutting edge. I KNEW this was a great bait back when I was a teenager. I never caught anything on it though. I do have a theory as to why it sucks. When I was a kid I would use crawlers and minnows and crawfish for bait. They all caught bass. I would even use bullfrog tadpoles but they didnt work. I had a small pond with pet bass and they would only eat the tadpoles if they were starving and they would spit a lot of them out. I think there is something about the taste of a tadpole that repells bass. The dances eel looks and swims like a tadpole. THATS WHY IT SUCKS!!!

Cali has Mike Long and Butch Brown and GA has Randall and Adam. You sir are a stud and I thank you for posting about all the fish you get on my baits! If you ever come out here to Cali I will show you how not to catch those fish

Sorry Randal I have to say that theese pictures prove its a diferent fish.(your still my best friend though ) I am looking at the markings on the bigger fish. look at the top markings above the lateral line. The first 3 or four top markings are high and then the next 3 are lower and then high again. Now look at FC's fish. its markings are even through out the body. Also on the bigger fish look at the second marking along the lateral line. It looks like a big V. FC's fish does not have the big V also the facial markings are diferent. This tells me its not the same fish. Remember FC also said he saw a bigger one next to his. Plus this guy said there was a bigger one too. I guess this lake just grows BIG smallies. Maybe the next WR will come from there.

What makes you guys think thats the same fish that FC caught? I dont think it is at all. That fish is a pound heavier and caught after the spawn. That fish is much bigger than the other bass. NO THE FISH DOESNT DIE IF YOU MEASURE IT. you takr a few good pictures. You get a lenght and girth mesurement. You weigh it on a certified scale with witnesses and then you release the fish. That fish actualy had the potential to challenge the world record next year when she was full of eggs, but not anymore

Proper fish names has always been one of my pet peieves. That fish is a red eared sunfish. there is no such thing as a bream or brim in north america. Bream are a european fish. Yeah I know a lot of folks callem bream and brim and perch but their wrong. I dont even know why it bothers me. To me calling a bluegill a bream is like calling a bass a tuna. or even worse calling all species of bass(not true ones but the ones in the sunfish family) tuna. Oh well I just need to get over it :'(

What a beautiful fish CONGRATS!! I do have to disagree with a lot of you though. That fish looks exactly how big it is. Most people grossly over estimate their fish so when they actualy catch or see a big fish like an 8lber they cant believ its not 11 or 12 lbs. They think the scale must be off. An 11lb bass is huge and it lookes huge just like that beatiful toad in the picture.

its proven.

Although I am not a sponsor I will definatly go through this sites links to BPS or cabelas. I know that isnt much but If everybody did it than it should help Glenn out a lttle.

Glow will repell LMB especialy at night. Its a gimmik. I have logged literaly thousans of night fishing hours and have done a tone of experimenting. I have proven to myself that glowing baits(I used swimbaits and worms) dont get bit. Night fishing has some general rules. #1 dont listen to people who say the color has to be black. They never took the time to see if any other color works. They all work! (except glow) Black does work fine but so do all the other colors. #2 Always start with topwater. generaly paralell to the shore lines with a very methodical retreive. #3 The bass tend to move up shallower at night. #4 Big smelly plastics #5 Start big then then decrease the size of your baits. Start on top and work your way down in the water column. You should find a patern. #6 many times when I was fishing at night the bite would turn on from out of nowhere and it would also shut off like a switch. You could work hard for 2-3 hours for nothing and all of a sudden its wide open. This can make finding a patern a little tricky but with time on the water you can usualy figure it out.

Nice report. What is that fish in your avitar a koi ? were did you cacth it?

Yeah badhabit swimbaits dont work in florida! OK umm what ever. They sure seem to work great in Georgia. HMM come to think of it I sell a lot to florida and many are repeat customers. I guess they just got lucky when they caught there big bass on swimbaits. Randall must be the luckiest guy ever as he CONSISTANTLY catches them on swimbaits. He just recently got a 15+ BUT YOU OBVIOUSLY MUST BE RIGHT after all you have caught hundreds yourself : Live bait? Shinners? I dont think any bass out of Florida should count, after all the lakes are only a few feet deep. Its like hunting a lion in a cage! way to easy to be any kind of challenge!! REAL bass come from lakes that are at least 50ft deep. To all the non jealous(hater) Floridians I am sure you realize my coments were sarcastic.

Randall you sir are a stud. I heard a national bass fishing magazine did a ful length write up on you! you are becoming famous!!!!

What a thick fat pig! That has to be one of the coolest 2 pics I have ever seen with you holding the fish in the water and then her soaking you. It is my goal to copy you now! Congrats FC on true monster and it was kinda late in the season.

Soft plastics---Robos and big power worms plugs-----Rapalas Jigs and swimbaits----Mine(no I dont sell jigs) Buzzbaits----custimized terminators Spinnerbait---HA I woulndt waist my time

I think most of the "INFO-Lures" are weak. They will all still catch fish if you fish them long enough. Now with that being said I think the Hydro lure is the very worst of all of them. If you want that style bait get a big hammer or a fishtrap with a small lead head. they are cheaper and 1000x better

Very nice Bizz, your killing me. I realy need to get out and fish!

The fry were baby bass. The bass you saw were males gaurding their fry. It wont belong before the male turns on them and starts to eat his own babies

Wow I am very suprised at some of these answers. I dont know if they could be MORE WRONG!! First and formost getting sponsers is about marketing. If YOU are marketable then sponsers come easily weather your a trophy hunter or not. Mike Long is sponsered by Ranger, (I beleive his boat was free) and many, many other sponsors. Pretty much all the big named trophy hunters out here are sponsored. Heck I am, and I aint that good but I am marketable. Fish Chris is sponsored by G3 and Okuma. Trust me there are millions of tournament anglers who have none or small sponsors. Its not how big or many you catch or how many you win its how much you sell. If you market yourself properly than sponsors will come to you. Can you get your products recognition? will people buy these products because of you? if the answers are yes than you could get sponsered catching bluegill.