Josey Wales

Anyone know the water lvl right now? Ill be up there this week, and there is supposed to be constant rain *sigh* oh well. Hopefully the weeds are down still and the water is high.

Fishing has was fantastic for me and my partner last week. caught quite a few bass ranging between 2-4 pounds. Big silver lake the bite was good on shakey heads on seawalls and docks... The fish were just starting to move in. Seen a monster on that lake I swear she will go 6+ pounds. Also seen a pair of bass spawning on Little Silver lake. Pontiac lake was ok if you could get out of the wind and into the canals, while Maceday proved to have the largest fish of the week... A 5 pounder off a jerkbait on a windblown seawall... I go to fletchers for a Pike tourney between 14th and 17th. I will be on the lookout up there.

hence my question.

weekly bass tourney's on pontiac lake, the first tournament was in april. I dont know the sponsor if there is any. I think its a guy who runs the launch over there on the southwest side of the lake. I fished one over there last year, and he must have gotten my info from that.

As I understand it you are not allowed to keep Bass untill memorial weekend here, however catch and release started roughly 2 weeks ago. How is it then that I recieved a letter advertising a tournament before memorial weekend? Is this practice legal?

what was up with that bass's eyes? when they get that big do they bug out like that? Freaky lookin IMO

Water was WAY down, went out by the dam with a guide and caught 1 10 lb striper... then a COLD rain came in and shut the fish down... Didnt get a bump or bite the rest of the day... quit @ noon due to rain. Then the storms that ripped atlanta came in, and I never went back out. Didnt get skunked tho I guess.

And being the excellent student that you are, the reason for this is? Is it like the fat guy that eats alot at golden corral vs the guy who is more active in finding his food? that may be a bad example, but im looking for the college awnser.

I have a lightning rod that I use as a back up... When I brought it off the bench last year, it delivered just fine. All Star is making some good rods at a decent price, and if you can get to a bass pro shops, those extreme series rods are only $59.99 right now. An excellent deal IMO

We bought a rapala digital scale, and didnt like it at all. The fish had to be perfectly still all the time and it always seemed the fish were smaller then we thought (this is a common fisherman problem) So we bought a digital scale from a supermarket meat dept, and found that the rapala scale was almost always a pound off. Ive yet to buy another one for that reason. I have considered the grip and weigh style that Roland Martin uses, but then again he also endorsed the helicopter lure. *sigh*

There were 3, 8 pounders caught outta fletchers pond last year that I know of, and I know there is a 10 or larger in just that lake. There are some real toads out there. We have the water here for it to be possible.. we have WAY more water then the other states in our region. Minnesota might have more, but you see my point here... The only problem may be the winters here. Ohio, Indiana, PA, and the eastern states thaw quicker then us. And that fact may mean not only more opportunities to catch DD bass, but also a longer growing season. I will say that there may be a DD smalie in erie that will challenge that TN record... I believe that is out of Dale Hollow?

I agree... Post pics of those Mountains of tackle... I will take one of mine as soon as I get home from Vacation.

The gray ghost can get a little crowded.

#3 only with a rattle.

3.45 while im visiting Cincy.... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!