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Bass Pro has that wish list feature. You just add specific items to your wish list and you can email it to whomever. that way they can order the exact model # you selected. I do that all the time for bowhunting stuff or bass fishing stuff. No messing it up that way. My family likes to get presents versus just gift cards sometimes. So they like that they can get an actual item and I like that it is the item that I actually want.

Bass Pro has that wish list feature. You just add specific items to your wish list and you can email it to whomever. that way they can order the exact model # you selected. I do that all the time for bowhunting stuff or bass fishing stuff. No messing it up that way. My family likes to get presents versus just gift cards sometimes. So they like that they can get an actual item and I like that it is the item that I actually want.

Bass Pro has that wish list feature. You just add specific items to your wish list and you can email it to whomever. that way they can order the exact model # you selected. I do that all the time for bowhunting stuff or bass fishing stuff. No messing it up that way. My family likes to get presents versus just gift cards sometimes. So they like that they can get an actual item and I like that it is the item that I actually want.

Do you keep every fish you catch ? Show and tell kinda guy huh ? Well keep showing and eventually your local lake won't have any fish reports to tell about ! Jeeeezus, suprised it took that long for the Bass Militia to chime. Keep all the fish you want dude.

St. Charles guy here, I-70 and Cave Springs. Used to live off 94 & Harvester.

I made a portable fish finder from an older "non portable" model. Think it is an old hummingbird x-40. I took a bracket from an old transom mount trolling motor. I cut a piece of pressure treated 2x4 to fit in the channel of the bracket where the trolling motor shaft would normally fit. Length was about 34 inches. The bracket that usually mount to the boat it mounted to a piece of 2x4 that is screwed to the top of the long skinny 2x4 that is screwed in to teh trolling motor bracket. That top 2x4 is attached with just one 3" deck screw so that the Fish finder can be rotated. The fish finder bracket is screwed to the top 2x4 with some drywall screws. The transducer is zip tied to the bottom of the 34" 2x4 that is mounted in the trolling motor bracket. The power cord was modified with 'c' connectors to mount to my trolling motor terminals. The excess cord was bundle and zip tied up. So it mounts like a typical transom mount trolling motor. I will get some pics. Of it. Pefectly portable for pond prowlers and a local Wildlife Area that we can rent boats on.

I was fishing with a friend. He snagged a spincast rig and reeled it in only to realize that the spincast rig had a fish on. Reeled in a channel cat that went about 3 or 4 lbs. We were bank fishing, and that cat must have dragged the rod in ealier that day or the day before and we snagged it. I dropped a spinning rig one time off a dock when I was trying to catch a bass I had dropped and was flopping all over. I went shoulder deep when reaching in to grab it, I woulda gone in head first if necessary to get that rig. It wasnt especially valuable, but very precious to me.

Bowhunting for me. Give me a crisp fall day when the deer are on teh move and that is about as good as it bets next to a good day of fishing.

I have two tactix rods. I like them both alot. I got them from a local shop for $25 a pop originally $50, berkely had a $10 off rebate. So when it was all said and done I got $100 worth of rods for $30. I think the guides are less that stellar, but I have no complaints that is for sure.

check www.basspro.com/classic for info.

You can get the previous models of the XPS Extreme rods for like $63. Got my first Baitcasting model yesterday.

I am left handed so I am used to working bass ackwards. So holding left and reeling right is what I am used to. Also, I have light gear for the smaller cranks, this would be more for the heavier plastics.

OK been doing some reading and I am looking to set up my first BC combo. I have $100 in cabela's gift cards and $50 in bps from christmas. Cabelas has the Shimano Citica E 200 reel for $120. They are running a $20 off any $100 or more purchase, so basically that leaves me a reel that I just have to pay tax on. I was looking at the BPS Extreme Series rods, they have some on clearance, most specifically 6' 10" MH on clearance for $63. This combo would retail for $183, and after my gift cards I am only looking at like $25 out of pocket once figure in taxes. I fish mostly soft plastics (senko, t-rigged worms, lizards, brushhogs), medium to small crankbaits, a little spinnerbait, and starting to learn how to fish jigs. I have plenty of lighter duty spinning gear for the lighter tackle. Would this rig work well for weighted T-rigs and senko's? Or would a 6'6" M in teh same rod be better. I am almost 6'6" tall myself. Thanks for any insight

Strengths are t-rigged plastics, worms, lizards, brushhogs, senko style baits. Shallow running crankbaits, I love em and have a ton of confidence in them, especially in a crawdad pattern. Teaching what I know, I don't necessarily know a lot, but I am a teacher by profession (enjoyed a snow day today) and I have learned how to communicate ideas and concepts to make them easier to learn. I think my son is already a much better hunter/fisherman than I was at his age.

I like many already stated am a bank beater, so fishing out in deeper water is my weakpoint 100%. Need to add carolina rigs, and dropshot rigs to my arsenal. I can say this website has helped me improve the quality of my gear and get into the "senko" style baits.

As far as hobbies bass fishing and deer hunting, especially bow hunting, are tied I think now. I also coach high school basketball, that takes A LOT of time from hunting in the fall/winter and eats a lot of time in the summer with camps.

First was right at 23". Caught it on a Bomber Model 5A in brown crawdad. On 8lb test. Took a while to pick it out of the gills. Just a little bleeding snapped a quick shot and back into the water. This one was right at 22". Caught on a watermelon with red flake baby brush hog, 8 lb test again. Same one, set camera on a paddle boat and used timer. First attempt at self photo...also released to live, spawn, and fight again.

Roadwarrior has a great post that he usually copies and pastes into these types of threads. I will see if I can find it.

Two specifically but the originate back to this site. Listening to recommendations of folks like Glenn and others more experience guys and upgrading my equipment. I still don't have top dollar stuff, but a couple of rigs push $200 with one going $200+ and that is a lot for me. Really enjoy using better equipment. I bought some senko a long time ago and never used em. Last spring I was fishing a small pond kept getting hits on a TRigged Lizard but they were short striking and I couldn't get them hooked. Concluded I needed a slower fall, and t-rigged a weightless senko and started slamming them. Last summer I know I caught between 150-200 bass on senko style baits. The increase in strikes couple with the higher quality equipment has lead to a lot of bass being caught in the past twelve months for me. Now I anticipate bass fishing as much as bowhunting, and that is saying A LOT.

Heading to LOZ april 16th-19th. Will be looking forwar do to more info and will provide a report when I get back. Last year was a muddy mess, but I ended up having some success on crawdad wiggle warts.

It varies for me also. Sometimes I am all about solo, or pretty selective who I ask along. I dont have my own boat but I do fish a CA that rents boats. I also do a lot of shore fishing. Just kinda roll with the punches. I think last summer I didnt more solo than with a partner. My kids require a whole lot more attention and thats a different animal all together. But like others, there are times when I dont want anyone around. I go solo even if its just for a couple of hours just for myself to try and land a few decent bass. When I come home I am 10 times more relaxed, cooperative, and ready for the day to come. I teach high school and coach high school basketball. I also have 4 kids. I have lots of things that demand my time so I sneak away for just a few hours when I can. Same way with bowhunting. I have worked hard to secure some decent spots within 45 minutes from my house so that I can take those short little trips whether it be fishing or hunting. My favorite trip is one where I go with my dad and 4 brothers. 6 guys and 3 bass boats for a long weekend at Lake of the Ozarks. It is some kind of fun, but we also get pretty serious into catching bass and crappie. It is a total blast....leaving in a little over two weeks. ;D

I'll keep my ideas focused on scientific ideas and won't dabble into faith/religion. Looking for evidence of intelligent life elsewhere is a very low percentage task. SETI is the acronym for the organization that is the leader in the search for 'E.T.' The can break it into a mathematical equation. Basically looking at and estimating the odds of several factor being favorable for life to exist AND make contact. It's called the Drake equation. As many have already indicated the conditions needed for life to exist are very very specific. If the Earth's properties (meaning distance from sun, size of planet, size of sun, etc) changed hardly at all or where different from the get go Earth would be inhospitable to humans. So the conditions we have on earth are very very specific and rare. Second, intelligent life. How likely is it that IF life COULD exist, that it actually did again spontaneously start as it did on earth. So lets say it did what are the odds that intelligent life developed and that they have technology capable of contacting other planets, or could detect evidence of life on other planets, or are even looking, or have technology that we could even detect? Third, time. As others have stated. The distance issue is huge. Other civilizations could have developed sent out radio signals that we theoretically could detect. But they made be 10 billion light years away. Well all electromagnetic radiation travels at the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second. So it will take 10 billion light years for there 'signal' to reach earth. It could have passed earth 500 million years ago, or not get to us for another 5 billion years.....either way we didnt or wont have the capability to detect it. When one considers the sheer vastness of the universe it seems very hard to logically deny the possibility of life existing elsewhere, the odds of us finding it unfortunately are quite remote. The numerical answer to the equation isn't important as the fact that it illustrates the extent to which odds are stacked against us detecting life on another planet.

I went to the St. Louis BPS the other day. I checked out a rack clearance rods. The have some johnny morris signature series rod originally $170 on clearance for $70, I had $50 in gift certificates. So I got a 6 ft med action spinning for just twenty bucks out of pocket. They had a 6 1/2' foot MH as well. May have had some casting rods also. Matched it with pflueger president, can't wait to try her out.

........ or we as parents could get involved in our children's education. Kinda silly for parents to never open their children's books or review their homework and then complain about the education they received after it's too late. The original post is comical, but completely inaccurate. I teach high school science. Today's kids are no better or worse than when I was growing up in the 80's and early 90's. Lots and Lots of teachers today are the same ones from a long time ago. From my view the biggest issue is parenting. I see it with my nieces and and nephews and students in my class. A couple of conversations with the parents usually explains the issues in the classroom. When someone starts a sentence or conversation with a statement similar to "the problem with today's kids is......" it just means they are old. ;D