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Roger, if you don't get your boat back soon I still have my 17.5 triton for sale in the yard if you need to borrow it.

I fish about 25- 8 team tourneys with my son, 10-12 ABA tourneys, and 5-6 open team tourneys with my daughter or wife....

And welcome to the forum even though you are a pain eerrrrrrrrr, cane.

you need to pm rollo. He lives on it and writes a weekly fishing report for his geezer community newsletter..

I can only help with the stained water part. As you know in FL we have heavy grass and stained water just like much of your river. I would choose as smaller area, say a backwater creek and concentrate on it. I do lots of high speed flipping and pitching in the matted grass patches. Take your favorite crayfish imitation bait with a 1 oz penetrator weight, rig it Texas, set your trolling motor on med/high and start working the edges and holes until you get a bite. Slow down and work that area carefully. Pay attention to where it came from ie holes, points in the grass ect and find other similar areas in the grass. FYI I have several spots in miles and miles of identical grassy shoreline that alway produce fish. There is just something about these spots that the fish like. Keep searching and you will find some of those also.. Lee

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WOW! Ok but I have some questions.... Florida strain LMB. They live, for the most part, in lakes that average 6' deep at most. There are only a few waters in Fl that have over 30' depth and those are reclaimed phosphate pits or the occasional sink hole/spring. And the temperatures on the surface vary from (observed) low 60s to 90+. 1) How much temperature variance can you possibly have in 6'? 2) If they do not move laterally and only vertically in the water column, can they actually get relief? 3) Is dissolved oxygen content not the most important factor affecting their location in the water column? 4) What do they do when we have a 10* drop in surface water temperature in a 24 hour period. (sunshine showdown 08). 5) How does the barometric pressure figure into the equation? With a dramatic drop in air temperature cause by a severe cold front it is usually accompanied by a drop in the barometric pressure. How does this affect fish location? My ten largest fish in the last year all came out of 3-4 ft of water. About 1 a month over 4 lbs with an 8.3 in August, 10 am, clear blue sky, 85* water temp. Lee

That's criminal. I wonder what Ray Scott thinks about this. Maybe a call to BASS is a good way to start.

This was a great read. Thanks guys.

Great pics..

Howdy

Quality makes a difference, not brand.... As for the depth finder, I don't function without one. Even though I just started bass fishing last year, I have had boats for years. All of them have had depth finders for safety reason and most have had GPS. It is very cheap insurance.

It would be pretty arrogant to think that of the billions of stars and possibilities that WE are it.....If so this universe is in BIG trouble....

Is it considered "violent" if you just walk up to them, smile, and pee on them?

this time of year it is peeps, although I'm almost sick of them again...

I have run FF for years now on 3 different machines and never had a problem. I would delete IE from my pc but there are still some websites that don't support FF, so I keep it to get to those.

I look for post counts just to see how new someone is to this site. It tells me nothing about their skill, only if I should welcome them or not....I remember being welcomed and it's the reason I'm still here. I do notice that there are some who shall remain nameless that seem to have a lot of posts in a short time...but all that means is they are most likely like my daughter and can't keep there mouth shut... ;D

Sorry about your B-day, come to fl and I'll take you fishing.

What Sam said X2

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WOW!

The chainsaw motorcycle was cool too.

That was funny..

Micro - you NEED another hobby......geesh