RobbyZ5001

Speak for yourself.

i recommend using the featured product as ive noticed that when i use a home made version it tends to fly off the hook on the cast. With some R&D work I have found that if you put it in nylon stockings it works quite well...

Gsplash, Skitterpop, chug bug, (Rico's are on my list)

I actually have an area designated in my apartment to make my own. I have been meaning to post pictures in the tacklemaking section, but I have been busy.

When I read that book I couldn't stop laughing. People thought I was a nutcase... He came up here to Penn State a few months back when the video first made headway. Some favorite stories include- the breathalyzer, hotel lobby, and when he drove the girls car through the donut shop.

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You wrote quite a bit I would like to comment on. Thank you for your input also. I'm not sure if I missworded my first message or not, but my main point is that since the womens tour was cancelled why not fish the bass opens to climb the ladder to fish on the elite series. You spoke about men's ego's and attitudes. Do you believe that those men with the attitudes only offend women? You spoke about being forced off of your spot. Some people don't follow typical fishing ethics. I have been forced off of spots, and had to defend spots in the past. This is a nuisance while on the water to everyone not just women. I would love to see women fishing more trails.. I think that would be awesome. I have been beaten by females in the past. I don't see why females being good at fishing would throw anyone off. Fishing is one of the few sports where physical strength/size plays little role. I am glad I didn't ruffle any scales.. ;D I just remembered a big thread about the womens series being shut down and thought for awhile to myself "why don't the women just fish the opens?". I wanted to make a thread and see other thoughts on the situation. Sorry if my sentence structure and word choice is poor.. I just spent 14 hours studying for stat/ochem. PS- you sound like a heck of a fisherwoman

I would also like to know the reason for pegging? I peg my weight when I am flipping and pitching in heavy weeds. Pegging keeps the bait attached to the weight to get down through the thick cover. http://www.***.com/Top_Brass_Peg-It_Pegging_System/descpage-TBPI.html http://www.***.com/Bullet_Weights_Rubber_T-Stops_18pk/descpage-BWRTST.html http://www.instawares.com/round-toothpick.r820.0.7.htm?LID=GGLE&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=R820

Are women allowed to fish BASS opens? I am 99% sure they are, but reviewing a few opens I only found a handful of girly names and they all turned out to be men. Why are these women not fishing opens to try to make the elites? I see no reason for men to have the upper hand in fishing over a woman. So what gives? Why can't there be one route in BASS? Why should there be a special tournament series for women? I am just looking for some answers, hopefully without ticking too many of you off. I don't see any reasons why females cannot enter the bass opens and climb the ranks like men do. Why was there ever a women's bass series put in place? Is it because the women couldn't climb the ranks? One potential issue I could see which makes sense is the sheer number of men interested in the sport in comparison to women. Is this the big x factor to why there was a womens bass series?

resize that beast.. it takes up my whole monitor.

That is the problem 99/100. I go as a non-boater and I always need to remind the boaters. I have seen them go as far as ripping the cover off of their 250 hp motors mid lake.

Fairly sure he meant Dubai.

Is that even feasible to make money off of?

Is this Burley and AJ?

I had to look at this picture for a little awhile, but I think I found what I should have been looking for... ;D

He probably paid more then I did! ;D

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I used to have a really hard time with finding fish when the known spots don't work. I am starting to get a lot better with finding fish, because often I have to find them on new water 20,000 acres plus in a day or less. When you are pressured to find fish you will learn quick. I look at specific details before hitting the water. I think about what season it is (prespawn, spawn, postspawn, summer, fall, and winter). I think about fish movement in each of these seasons as well as prey movement. Next I think about the past week and the current air temps, weather, and water temps. I also take into mind what type of water I am fishing such as lowland reservoir, highland reservoir, river, tidal water, etc.. You also need to take into consideration as to where in the lake heats up first, industry on the water source, and what happens throughout the day to change fish movement such as change in wind/weather. Something as little as leaves blowing into a corner could hold a big fish. I am sure I missed some thing, but this is a huge chunk of information to process. I think this is where experience comes into play the most. The hardest part is to find the fish.

I am with you on the fact that big fish can be raised in a private pond, but it doesn't count for the state record does it? I thought it needed to be out of public waters.

Your girly muscles couldn't handle a little carp?

Thanks for taking the time to read this long post... I could have added a lot more details, but for 5 days it would be 3 pages long. This trip was neat for me, because my mind was in overdrive from the start. There are so many variables in bass fishing and you need to be the human super computer to figure out why or why not. It is neat to learn overtime and keep thinking about what happened in the past with creeks warming, rocks warming, fish moving, fish staging, what quality of fish and why.. I don't know if others think so much into it, but I definitely do.

Well I have been short on time since I got back from my spring break trip to Alabama. Penn State had spring break from March 6th to the 14th. My buddy Derrick and I decided for spring break we wanted to fish a tourney down south. We chose to fish the Southern Collegiate Series. The tournament was held on Pickwick Lake, but it was off limits until Thursday. So we decided to fish Lake Wilson Tuesday and Wednesday then spend Thursday on Pickwick. Auburn was the host and a great one at that. Sorry for this long winded post it breaks down 5 days of fishing and thoughts . We spent March 8th driving down to Florence Alabama which was about a 12.5 hour drive. We got down there and didn't realize the time change from Eastern to Central so we boat the boat in on Lake Wilson late in the day and picked up a few quick fish. Tuesday March 9th was our first full day of fishing on Lake Wilson. It was a partly cloudy day water temp 51-53, and raining occasionally. We fished the lake blind. We ran to the Wilson/Wheeler dam just to see what it looked like. We began fishing an island and in about 5 casts I caught the first fish which weighed 5.3 lbs caught on a lucky craft 75dd pointer. Throughout the day we absolutely tore them up. We caught a ton of fish many around 3-4 lbs. My partner caught a 5lb even smallmouth on a white grub on a jighead, a 4lb smallmouth on a jerkbait along with another 4lb largemouth on a jerkbait. We found the larger fish near the mouths of creeks, and some others in a creek that was just stacked full of shad. They were chomping. We weighed every fish over 4lbs and our top 5 would have went 23-24 lbs. 5lb 4lb 5lb sm big drum Wednesday March 10th we decided to explore more of the lake instead of fishing the areas we knew held big fish. We caught even MORE fish in a large creek near the dam. We didn't catch many chunks, but flat out tore them up. We around 50 fish our total bag would have probably been around 13 lbs. It was again partly cloudy temp was 55 in this creek and there were a ton of bucks up. Thursday March 11th was our first day of practice on Pickwick Lake partly cloudy water 51-53, but found 58 deep in Cane Creek. Being from Pennsylvania a 35,000 acre lake is a good size to break down. We first ran toward the dam, but did not fish the dam (mistake). We then decided to check out specific areas we found during map study and talking to locals. We fished below seven mile island near Cane Creek. There was a lot of fish activity in this creek, the water was ripping through, and it was warm. We found all the fish at the mouth of the creek. We then checked out an awesome looking spot recommended by Roadwarrior. The first section we checked was next to the 20 ft channel and came up to a one ft deep flat. We sat in about 8-10 foot of water fishing the stumps near the flat. We couldn't catch a cold, but it looked like it had great potential. We sniffed around there for awhile, and eventually decided to check some other areas. We ended up finding some docks in about 5-8 ft of water chalked full of fish. The only problem was they were all smaller fish. We estimated that we could catch a limit for around 10 lbs with what we were on. Fish were caught on jerkbaits, Spro Aruku Shad, Red Eye Shad, shaky head, and a jig. Friday March 12th 1st day of the tourney, conditions unchanged. We decided to check the mouth of Cane Creek and then check the docks and pull a quick limit. My partner in the front of the boat was fishing a jerkbait on the point so I decided to throw a Hunter's Creek Cheeseburger Jig. Two tosses on the point and I hooked into a 3lb LM. At this point there were 4 other boats that saw it and then it was defense time.. (the not fun part about tourney fishing). We fished for awhile more catching one more dink and went to our docks. We caught a limit fairly quickly, but no good fish. We had around 11lbs at this point. We fished about 30 yards off the docks in about 10-15 foot throwing deep cranks crigs and came up empty. Those females had to be somewhere, but we couldn't find them. We weighed in this day with 10.87. Fish were caught on jigs, jerkbaits, shaky head, and traps. I caught one keeper on a jig, two keepers on traps in about 1 foot of water on pebble bank, and my partner caught two on jerkbaits around 5 feet at the docks. Saturday March 13th 2nd day of the tourney, the water temp remained similar, rain and occasional hail was present. This day we had a later launch number. We went to cane creek and it was covered with boats, so we hit the docks for a quick limit. We caught a limit in about 45 minutes for about 5 lbs. We quickly looked at each other and said let's get out of here. The weather was consistent and the temp didn't change these females were not up yet on this spot. We used GPS and maps and went fishing. We pulled up on a good looking spot and I caught a 8lb catfish on a crank fished down and we culled all of our lb fish for two lb fish on jerkbaits in about 8 ft of water with pea gravel. We bounced around to a few more spots and culled some two lb fish with 3lb fish caught on jerkbaits/traps. We then decided to take a chance and went to the Wilson dam and with about 30 minutes before weigh in we caught a 3.5-4 on a jig and a 3lb SM on a jerkbait. We weighed in 16.22 lbs and was good enough for 17th/48 teams. Our boys from Purdue Tournament info http://www.auburn.edu/student_info/bass_fishing/entrypick10.html http://www.yourschoollive.com/event.php?event_id=273 yourschoollive also provided tournament weigh in coverage which is great for the families that couldn't make it to watch. Our coverage is in about 43 minutes if you have a fast internet and want to check it out. The way we attacked both lakes were first we thought seasonally what these fish are doing then we looked at the weather pattern in the past week and present week. Prefishing we used the standard springtime baits (jigs, jerkbaits, shaky head, and traps). Going into Day 1 we knew we weren't on fish to win the tournament. After getting a limit we should have moved looking for bigger fish. Day 2 we resolved the little fish problem and went hunting in deeper water. Thank you Auburn and Florence for being such great hosts and providing us with a great time!

I forget do they release those SAL or keep them?

lol tenderloin, beef, roast back hurr, and fish in the neck thurr.

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