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Sorry Paul, the girl has a bikini and a Carrot Stix. LOL

Yup, all funny until you awaken the Pond Hopper. I had a nice sponsorship with Croix a couple years ago until I started breaking Legends and Avids on the first cast out of the tube then they wanted $50 a piece to replace them. Croix and Loomis are becoming obsolete by the minute. Company's like Dobyn's, Kistler, Powell, and Shimano will be moving a lot more rods in the next 5-10 years. Pick up a Cumara and you will see.

Oooh, I think I know.... :-X

Little irony here... My club was actually planning on going to get a permit for one of those weekend nights for a tourney at Wallum. Things are still in the works but when it is finalized I will post and everyone is welcome to attend. Myself, along with Basshole, Bassnajr, Bassinri, and Jigga318 are all club members as well as members of BR so we will all be there.

I just really want to see Lance win one more time. This one just seems really personal after all the drug rumors and stuff.

Mass/RI border off Rt. 100(?) Burrillville area

Whatever you guys want to do. Just throwing it out there. Maybe a 3-10 type deal or something.

Just start eating those Bustinut Bars and you can be awsome too. They just were not schooled and up and it seemed as though most fish were concentrating more on craws than smelt. Give it a month a the grass gets up it would take 25 over 2 days. But then again, weights have been down in the past year. I think you're both special So Mike, not the usual bags from the Sacandaga,eh?

I'm sure it's fine.

When I look at them and feel them I want vomit. I just wish they made some ML actions and such for my finesse stuff and were not orange. And those guides suck. So does the reel seat. And knowing how many people have busted them swinging 10" fish in the boat makes me not want them. Then when I see that $200, I mean $150 price tag, I have to buy them.

My aunt lives in Canaan and the Housi flows in her back yard. I wouldn't go near that place with all the snakes on the bank. I'll stick to Twin Lakes when I visit. ;D

Football = fall = cooler temps = winter is coming = ice and snow are coming. No, I'm not ready for football season.

Burley knows Best... Because he's good enough, he's smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like him.

i do that every time i fish , have you tried it ??? mine works perfectly 8-) Nope, mine never made it past mono than it broke!!!!!!!!!!!! Yea usually, people who don't know how to flip a fish into the boat or enjoy setting hooks into immovable objects have problems with rods. And I vote Muddy for ownage of the year....

Thanks for the laugh guys... Hopefully Hooked on Phonics doesn't jump up in price.

My buddy has been up there since Sunday, says it was a lovely 14 hour drive from RI. :

I wish they would allow you to fish that series so you could be humbled. :

I get them but it is usually after a few long days on the water and is always the leg I don't use to control the trolling motor. I was getting them last week but now I'm fine.

First or Second weekend in August on Wallum again? Who's up for it?

Yup, Russ you need to start fishing the Heart Breaker.

Just start eating those Bustinut Bars and you can be awsome too.

I think he has already done that. Time to keep trying to fish the circuits and trails to make "your name" and show "your skills" as Glenn said.

I think it is called a Fake/False spawn, we were seeing it on Cape ponds last September.

This is really depressing to hear. > Good for him though.. Still love and have not had a problem with mine though. Maybe next he will dump Lazer Lure. ;D

Had the TBFRI State Qualifying Tourney on Great Sacandaga last weekend and it was brutal. The smallies were still in that post-spawn transition phase and were not schooled up at all. The were scattered and most people had to cover a lot of water to find them. Most people actually fished shallow grass in 5' of water or less with frogs and flipping baits to catch the smallies. I fished pilings in 40-70 feet to get mine. The first day I did ok (dropped a smallie that was a solid 3 pounder and I had a 13" fish in the livewell I never got rid of). I had only 8.4 and was in 4th place, leading was 9.5 pounds. The next day I pull up on the pillings and there are 6 local boats fishing for trout and walleye but all of them said the crushed the smallies earlier...wonderful : My third drop with the drop-shot into a pillion in 47 feet I have a 4 pound smallie eat the bait on the drop. When she comes up I see the bait and hook are 14" above her mouth and she ate the weight. She came off a few seconds later. Then I pull a solid 2 pounder out of 67' and the bait was on the bottom. Then the wind kicks up and there was a 100 boat party on one of the islands so I was getting hammered with waves. I lost another fish around 2 pounds because I never really felt her and couldn't get that little hook to pinch. So trying to fish the drop-shot that deep just wasn't happening. Even with a 3/4oz weight. So I resorted to the shallower pillings and pulled off 3 small 12-14" fish and called it a day. I only weighted in 5 pounds day 2 but it was good enough to qualify for the TBF Eastern Divisionals next year. It only took 15 change to win the tourney, so I clearly had the fish on to win it but oh well. There is next year, and I probably couldn't dedicate the time it would require to be the State Team captain so it's all good to me. A little note, almost every fish hit the bait when it was on the bottom being worked in that 40-70 foot zone. And in seconds the fish would rocket up, I never gut hooked one, and I never had to to fizz one because I brought it out of too deep of water too fast. If not this tournament I don't know when I would ever have to fizz them. :-?