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Nice catchin' Burleyman!

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Thats a good'un Rolo! That spot your on looks great!

Nah, I think more people hate my Flyers. Goes all of the way back to the Broad Street Bully days of the Seventies. Growing up I was a Flyers fan. Bernie Parent was a goalie god, Bobby Clarke was my absolute favorite player and Dave Schultz handed out beatdowns on a regular basis. The good ol days. 8-)

Thats it. I'm moving to Guntersville.

Maybe you, AJ and the other boat that got DQ'd can all pitch in and get the TD a bullhorn. Probably wouldn't hurt anything.

I use the Spit N Image's a lot, especially while the shad spawn is going on. Great bait.

Good stuff Roger. The water is mid 70's now and although I didnt get on Smith this weekend I did get a report from a good friend that he was able to catch a couple real good ones yesterday on one of my brushpiles and thats the best news I've heard in a couple weeks. This may be the week that they all arrive on their summer spots. I'll send you a pm to further the conversation about those GPS positions you listed, that are now mysteriously missing.

Seems the hockey gods are always smiling on the Wings. They have a solid team year after year and they know how to win in the Playoffs. I cant stand the Wings but what can ya do? I see them taking out the Penguins again this year. They got off to a great start last night and are leading 2-1 right now at the end of the 2nd period.

With the lack of this information before my first response, please disregard it. I WOULD HAVE FLIPPED OUT ON THE TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR, WITHOUT A DOUBT. HIS DAYS OF FAILING TO NOTIFY EVERY MEMBER OF A TIME CHANGE WOULD BE OVER. FOREVER. And after my tirade, if they didnt allow me to weigh my fish, I would have come back home with my entry fee too.

WRB- It is a highland reservoir, threadfins and alewives galore. Lower end is very clear, upper end clear but not as clean as the lower end. Rolo, yeah, its big and deep. I havent seen any maps of SML that are in one ft increments, ever. I spend most of my time on the upper end (above Halesford Bridge, mid lake). There are several major feeder creeks up that way.... Stoney, Indian, Grimes, Beaverdam, Lynville and of course the Roanoke River (main channel). The upper end is narrow and 'river looking', with steep banks, bluffs and more vertical, fast dropping type contours. The lower end is surrounded by flatter land and the bottom contours are more horizontal with slow tapers. For example, some places up the lake you can be sitting 30 ft off the bank and be over 40 ft of water while 30 ft off the bank on the lower end you might be in 20 ft of water.

No. West Virginia.

How would the "local boys" know that they were getting their butts kicked by a couple of guys in a tin boat if ya'll didn't even get a chance to weigh in? Have you fished with this group before and whipped them? Yes. Jimzee and Pitchin Kid have been taking their money on a regular basis.

So when you showed up 'late' and got DQ'd, I hope you asked the TD how some guys were informed of the time change but you and a few others werent. A lot would have been riding on his answer to that question. If I had ANY fish to weigh , well, I'll just say it wouldn't have been pretty. Clubs are based on points. Being DQ'd because of a lack of communication from the TD and getting NO POINTS after paying to fish is BS. The TD would have definitely, without a doubt known before he left the ramp that he screwed up and my true feelings about the situation whether he liked it or not. And I'm 110% sure he would not have liked what I had to say. People like that just need to be knocked down a level or two every now and then. I would also file a protest although with small clubs, the protests dont usually go very far. Is this the same club you've had issues with in the past? If so, I'd find another club or start my own with the members they keep screwin'.

Good stuff here guys. Keep it coming. Rolo, I'll try to post a contour map sometime tomorrow or maybe my buddy Burley has one he can flash up here in the mean time. There is a shad spawn pattern going on now but that's mainly a night thing. The shad get shallow around 10-11pm and the bass just suck shad all night. They are fairly easy to catch at night but the bigger fish are GONE during the day. Like CJ said, the shad are key now and I know that....I fish around shad religiously no matter what season it is. But in the transition it seems as though the bass dont care what the shad do during the day. The shad here will move out a little deeper into 12 - 15' during the day after they run the banks all night. The smaller keeper bass are still shallow though. I'm constantly fishing the 10 - 15' zone with topwaters, crankbaits, jigs, senko's, spinnerbaits, you name it, I throw it all. Like last weekends tournament, after fishing all the likely spots where they should be, when we went back to the weigh in I had 12 rods on deck and never caught a fish over 3#. That was my sign that the transition was in full effect and my annual hiatus was looming. I've got tons of brushpiles around the lake in water from 10' - 30' deep and I've been real selective about where I drop my brushpiles. Still, they are not much help during this transition. The shallower piles hold fish from time to time (during the transition) but usually during my daily rounds, I may get one fish from a pile even though I hit it and a bunch of other piles several times during the day. But once the fish commit to summer, the brushpiles are loaded with fish and everything is a lot better. On my home lake, right after the females drop eggs, they will move to the nearest docks and hang out close by the nest for a day or two and relax in the shade. They're hard to catch then too but it can be done. Once they recuperate and leave the docks, they leave for real and other than a few strays here and there, the biguns dont reappear until they go deep to stay. It's a tough time, no doubt.

I'm just about to take my annual summer transition 'break' from bass fishing. I dont really want to but this time of year has been hard on me for years upon years on my home lake. It's a deep reservoir, no grass to speak of, lots of rock, upper end usually has some color, lower end is usually very clear. I can catch them on the way in to spawn but the fish apparently take a detour on their way back out deep. The spots I catch them in prespawn are void of any fish activity after the spawn. I generally do a lot of crankin' during this period, basically just to cover water and the jig, along with the crank will get me some good fish from time to time but it's not a stable bite at all. It's very random at best. Nothing I can duplicate elsewhere and never catch more than one in a certain spot and I throw the book at 'em on these spots. I know exactly where the fish are going to hang out for the summer months but this period before they arrive there is very tough. I'm talking quality fish here, I can catch 14 and 15" fish 'til I'm blue in the face but the bigger ones have done a disappearing act. This is my weakest time of year as an angler. I just cant locate the bigger fish once they have spawned and left the shallows. I guess I'd like some feedback on what you guys look for or do to catch better fish during this period. I'm very comfortable fishing deep, probably more so than fishing shallow....I just need to find 'em in between so I can shake this slump.

You can't go wrong with either one of those as a trailer. I have great results with both the chunk and the craw.

Neither you or I are qualified to give advice on "Lil butt" seats. I hear ya cart! ;D

I will. I actually lost a 5# female twice one day last week, once under the dock, then again right at the boat.....threw back again for the 3rd time and got her in. I figured I had another shot after the first time I lost her because I didnt stick her real good but the second time when I got her all the way to the side of the boat before she shook it, I thought that was it. I was really surprised when she smashed it the 3rd time.

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I'm not sure of the exact years they made the FICHT motors but they do not have good reputations. At all.

I watch Cold Case files all the time, those shows are addictive. This has turned out to be very interesting....especially now that they may have found some Nike Air Concrete's down there.

Thanks for the report and EXCELLENT JOB fellas!

Check out knuckledownlures.com Pretty much any kind of jig you want in any color you can think of. My favorite is the Knuckle Dragger Pro football jig.