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Nitroman, You can go to www.boaterexam.com and sign up, take the online class and the online test. Once you pass the test you pay the fee and they let you print a temporary card and they mail you the permanent card within a few weeks. I took the exam in June 2007. Everyone will be required to pass the exam in the next couple of years. Here is the phased in schedule: PWC operators 50 years of age or younger and motorboat operators 20 years of age or younger by July 1, 2011 All personal watercraft operators, regardless of age, and motorboat operators 30 years of age or younger by July 1, 2012 Motorboat operators 40 years of age or younger by July 1, 2013 Motorboat operators 45 years of age or younger by July 1, 2014 Motorboat operators 50 years of age or younger by July 1, 2015 All motorboat operators, regardless of age, by July 1, 2016 Ron

My wife used to act like that and now we have agreed that so long as her honey do list is taken care of she is fine with me fishing as much as I want. Just sit down and discuss it with her I am sure the two of you can work it out.

Dan, Congrats on the new smallie PB

Congrats on yet another hawg Man I sure wish I could fish wit you. I can only dream of hawgs that size around here.

I just bought the "XPS Stalker Tackle Bag on Wheels" from Bass Pro Shops. It holds 5 370 boxes and it also has numerous storage compartments. It can be carried, worn as a backpack or pulled from behind like a suitcase. This is a really sweet tackle box and I am now more organized than I ever was before.

Awesome, that is one huge hawg.

Congrats on the hawg

Nice catch.

Those are some nice looking bass, looks like you had a good day fishing.

Nice job catching all those bass.

Wanye, they did not want our vehicles parked in their parking lot. I don't know who the company was that owned the property (there are multiple companies surrounding the pond) or else I would have asked. They did not get upset with us they just politely asked us to leave their parking lot and we did. The other locations had no problem with us parking or fishing their ponds. The security guard even waved to us and watched us land a few.

Actually we fished three different ponds today, we went pond hopping.

Nice Hawg

What a shame, hopefully her offspring will get just as big if not bigger.

Good report as always Jay. I had a really good time fishing with everyone as well and hope to have another get together again soon. To bad we were asked to leave the first pond, I have a feeling that place has some hawgs in it just based on what we were seeing in the 1 hour that we fished it. We will have to park on the other side of the pond next time so we can fish it again. We just learned that you can't park in a government contractors parking lot. We still have another 4 or 5 ponds that we spotted today that we need to check out and see how the fishing is. Andy and Dan don't forget to let me know what your schedules are like so we can get out on the Potomac one day.

Nice Hawg

Cool, I'm in so long as it is not starting May 18th. I can't fish mothers day, the wife would have a fit.

Good job hooking Ben up with those hawgs. Those were some nice looking bass. I have yet to catch one that big. Where do you guide?

Nice hawgs

Nice catch

to the forum and congrats on the new PB.

I have read that salamanders work really well because Bass are afraid they will eat the eggs. I have some in my tacklebox and I will have to try these next time.

I had similar luck tonight although I did finally get the female to strike my bait three times. She caried it a few feet away, I set the hook she fought a little and then threw the bait, a YUM crawfish. I have since remembered that the best bait to throw in the bed is a salamander. I had to throw that craw repeatedly at the bed before the female got mad enough to strike.

Are you going to take and post some pictures?

I went out to a local pond in my are and saw numerous bass on beds. I decided to try and see if I coulld land one of the big females. Man it is really tough to get them to strike. After dropping the bait right on top of her and in front of her numerous times she finally took it and then fought for a minute and threw the bait. She did this three times in about a three hour period before I finally gave up. I guess fishing beds is really tough and I still have a lot to learn. The male would not even think about hitting the bait but he sure was chasing away all the bluegills.