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I guess it could be worse. There is "reservoir" by me that is used for drinking water. It was created sometime around the 40's and ever since they built the dam, no recreation what so ever has been allowed on this lake. I have always wondered "What's down there?" I've never heard anything about bass but the rumor mill has it that divers have gone down to inspect the dam and seen catfish that were almost as big as the divers. : The point being, if they ever open this lake to fishing, the dam would be the last place I would ever look for a bass. ;D

I think it could go either way. Are you dedicated to your sport or did you join for other reason's? If you could run a 5:00 minute mile and are dedicated enough to turn that into a 4:30 mile, that might look good. If you join cheerleading because you know that they will place you at the base of the pyramid and you can "look up"... : That might not look so good. (To the sponsor, not you, perv! )

Come on, LBH! Two out of five ain't bad. Is it? :-/ "Granted a snapping turtle or muskie may get one every now and then, but it is generally not a real threat." I wish to retract and rephrase my original statement to reply # 4 as it seems we have nittpicker's here. ;D Soo... This is just for LBH. New #4. 4: If a big fish has teeth, a bird has a large beak, or you have snapping turtles, they may put a hurting on your bass population. Carp may still be a problem and so is disease. ;D

Avid, Maybe one of these would work for you. http://www.odysseybatteries.com/battery/pc1200t.htm Just don't charge them to fast. Wear them down and get a trickle charger to recharge if this seems like a good battery for you. I had 2 of a very similar type (Reactor) that I killed pretty quick in a car using alternator (200 amp). Pretty much no discharge rate and a super fast recharge rate. I can say though, I had one that was new in a car that I was driving. The alternator died in this car on my way to work. I drove 30 minutes to work and 45 minutes home on just the battery. Not bad, huh? Here is the rest of the story. The car was an 87 Nissan 300Z. Computer controlled and fuel injected. It used a little power to get to work. Well when I left work it was dark, raining, and the windows quite fogged. So I had the headlights on, wipers on, and the blower motor running. The car made it home and after I stopped it in the garage, I figured I would try to start it for S&G. Fired right back up. No problem. 78 minute reserve at a 25 amp load and only 37 pounds. This maybe the battery you are looking for.

All of my replies are towards largemouth bass but may also apply to smallmouth bass. 1: What is the average life expectancy of both a Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass? In northern waters up to 15 years and in southern waters around 10. They also grow faster in the south than in the north. Females live longer than males. 2: What do Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass do in the winter for food sources when the bodies of water they frequent in some states are frozen solid? Same thing they do in the summer, only slower. Their metabolism slows and they don't eat as much. If the water freezes solid they will die. Also even if just the surface freezes and the body of water is small enough, especially if there is rotting vegetation in the water, all the oxygen in the water will be used and the fish will die. It's called "winter kill". 3: What can a person do to help a Largemouth and Smallmouth Basses habitat in which they live in, are there things you can do maybe cheaply to make em say spawn more or improve their overall health that arent very costly or time consuming? Uh, Good question. I'm not real sure as far as spawning more. As for health, you can provide them with some type of cover. Sunken christmas trees, old tires bolted together, railroad ties piled together to form a "crib shelter", concrete blocks piled together, I hear the like gutted out cars, buses, farm equipment....etc. 4: Do Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass have predators (wether it be birds or other problem fish) that can ruin their numbers in a given body of water? Not really after they get over about 10 inches. Granted a snapping turtle or muskie may get one every now and then, but it is generally not a real threat. Carp can sometimes be a problem as they can root up the bottom of the lake and make the water dirty, which can create a lot of problem for everything that lives in that body of water. Again that is rare. Disease would be the biggest threat I can think of. 5: If yes to the question above do you have any recommendations or solutions on getting rid of these problematic things? Kill the turtles and make some soup! ;D 6: Do you know something about Bass in general that people might be suprised to know, if so what? Bass will relate to anything different. In a study bass where placed in a plain, all white tank. They swam around aimlessly. A board was placed over one edge and all the bass stayed under the shade of the board. The board was removed and rocks where placed on one side of the tank. The bass immediately where attracted to the rocks and hovered over them. The rocks where removed and a black stripe was placed in the tank. Even though it provided no cover, the bass still hovered near the stripe. In another study bass had their eyes covered and where placed in a tank with minnows. Within a few hours the bass had eaten all the minnows. Showing that the bass would use their lateral line to hunt and not even need their eyes. Pretty cool, huh? 7: How long can you keep a Bass out of water before doing damage to the fish itself. I'm not sure if there is a certain time. Get them back in the water as soon as you can. Make sure you handle them with wet hands and try not to let them touch anything like the ground or the deck of a boat. It washes of their slime coat which protects fish from disease and abrasions. If you ever catch a big fish, over maybe 8-10 pounds, try to support it from under it's tail when you pick it up. Just lipping a large bass can break it's jaw. Do you think all Bass should be released back? If yes or no are there certain circumstances aside from legal that would effect your decision? I release all of the bass I catch (I'm a nice guy, though. I even release the ones I haven't caught! ) but I don't have any problems in the waters I fish. One of the problem's I can think of would be a small body of water that is overpopulated with bass. In that case it is wise to remove a few so there is less fish fighting for food and lets a few get big. Hope this helps.

Hmm. Tom Bass lives in N.C. Wonder how I figured that out? Oh, he posted it under his avitar. : Yep. I live in O.H. Wonder how you figured that out. Oh, I posted it in my signature. You too can also post where you live if you want to. ;D Back to the original question. As far as I am concerned it is cool, not too sure it is kosher though. :-/ (I'm not jewish) If you want to go fishing with me, just ask. I could stand to learn a thing or two.

Darn, and I liked Ben... ...but, I am glad to see that Glenn could make sense of it all and still keep this the "friendliest" B.R. on the W.W.W.

The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Gordon Lightfoot It's always been. Cause I'm the most boring sonsa birch you ever seen. I dress in blue yes navy blue.

That would be a HUGE list for me. We have how many members? To name a few in no real order: Glenn, the_muddy_man, LBH, JT, Cowie (Oh how I want to fish Italy), Marty, RR (Rouge), all the member's from NE Ohio, KU, and there are so many other's that I can not think of right now. Honestly, I like to fish and would be more than happy to fish with any other member of the BR.

Hangman Jury. Permanent Vacation. Aerosmith. Along the coach roads I did ride. A sword and pistol by my side. Many a young maid lost her marbles to my trade.

The bait monkey is the little voice in the back of your head that keeps telling you "Buy that lure, IT WILL CATCH THAT LUNKER!" "Buy that rod, YOU NEED IT TO LAND THAT LUNKER!" "Buy that reel, YOU NEED IT TO LAND THAT LUNKER!" "Buy that extra large, no one in there right mind could fill, tackle bag. AFTER I GET THROUGH WITH YOU IT WILL BE FULL AND YOU WILL STILL NEED MORE TACKLE." That guy is the monkey. Personally, I hate him. : GET OUT OF MY HEAD, MONKEY!

Another reason to solder along with crimping is to get rid of air gaps that create voltage loss. Granted the loss is minimal but why not get the best connection you can. Sounds silly but it is true.

I don't know the rest of the lyrics but the answer is Pinball Wizard by The Who. Good luck with this one. "I am Govenor Jerry Brown. I always smiles and never frowns." Hint: Think California

Ben covered that really well. The only point I will make is to make sure the connector is hot enough to melt the solder and you are not using the heat of the torch. You do not want a "cold joint"

Metalica: One. Dam, now I have to come up with some lyrics, huh? Got my pills "gainst" mosquito death. My buddy's breathing his dying breath...

LBH, e-mail sent. I wanna be in them thar moving pictures! ;D

Hey, langs15. It's cool. I doubt anyone thought you where an @$$, just a normal 14 year old. ;D J/K. Besides, you said "sorry". It takes a (reel) man to say that. You are well on your way, young man. Flyenzo Rodinnelli, You ain't right. : I like it! cowie, Your going to come here and stick your tounge out at me? It's not my fault you can make better gnocchi's than my wife and out fish me. ;D

I wonder what this thread would look like if we where posting on the troutresource.com fishing forums. :-? "I have one rod and one reel, set me back about $150.00 4 years ago. I tie my own fly's. Spent maybe $30.00 this year. Had to buy a new vest last year though. Set me back another $40.00. Fishing permit. $20.00. No boat because I fish streams from the shore. $0.00. So in the last 4 years I have spent about $240.00. Glad I don't fish for bass. I hear some of those guys spend that in a week!" ;D

langs15, Give the guy a break. He is legit and probably has a hard time speaking English let alone writing it. Can you post something in Italian that make's any sense to cowie? https://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1135330667 Check it out. Very cool stuff from cowie. cowie, Someday I will make it to the motherland and fish with you. It seem's so odd to me that you want to leave Italy and come to the U.S.A. and fish for bass and I want to leave the U.S.A. and go to Italy and fish for bass. : I guess "the grass is greener (sp?) on the other side of the fence."

Welcome aboard! You will learn more than you ever wanted to know here.

LBH, I am sort of slow to catch on. I get it!!! I found the hidden meaning. Do I get a sponsorship? O nevar minde. No sponcership 4 me. I speld mosta tha wurds rite. I all so added corecly that I have too frends. Yah me! To fiends. I rok! Thanks for showin me tha lite, lo budjit hookerz. I thunk I herd my fone ringin 2. Mae b zume this tym!

Man, I need to read the tacklemaking section more often. Sorry this is a few days late. I also thank you. I really think ReelMech is one of the unsung hero's of this board. There is a big difference between being dedicated to your business and being dedicated to your sport. You are 110% dedicated to both. Who own's a business and gives free advice anymore? Not many people, I can tell you that. I am willing to bet as your partership with BR grows, so will your customer base. Not because you advertise here and not because of what Billy bob bo jim bucky said about your great service. It will be because of customer service. Good service is hard to find. Here you are providing it to people that aren't even customer's, yet, and for free. I know where I will send my reel's when they need a fixin. It really is the little things that count. I remember 6-7 months back I was looking for a new reel and I know who set me straight. I know ReelMech took the time to look up a schematic on a reel he had never serviced and said "Yeah, it should be good. It uses a lot of parts that the other reels do, they are good reels, and parts will be available if you need them." Granted, it maybe took 2 mins. to look up the schematic and confirm that it had part numbers that where familiar but that was 2 mins. not spent working on a reel that someone paid to have fixed. It was a little thing that meant a lot to me. It was good service for someone that was not a customer, who was buying a new reel and would most likely not be a customer for at least a year or two. I jumped on that reel and I hate it! ;D Just kidding. So far so good. Thanks again, Dave.

I like fivebasslimits idea. ;D

Madhouse27 is correct. WD-40 and also cooking oil work very well for removing left over sticker adhesive although the WD seems to work better. Not real sure how good it will work on something with a heavy metal flake content though.

bass89fisher, I would guess something in marketing. That's basically what you are doing when looking for sponsors. You are marketing yourself and when you get a sponsorship you are again marketing a product to other people. Keep in mind I have never been sponsored and am just giving some friendly advice. To add to the list of dont's. DO NOT MAKE YOUR RESUME LOOK ANYTHING LIKE MINE! ;D http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1146307194