Siebert Outdoors

Here is my suggestion for what its worth. Yes if you join on now you will learn alot if you join a club with guys willing to teach. Sometimes this is hard to find. Also if you can fish with someone who is alot better then you. This is where you can pick up a great deal of knowledge. 1. My recommendation is during this winter read as many of the articles on this website as you can. 2. Pay perticular attention to the ones on locations and seasons. This is the key in bass fishing. Learning how bass to relate structure and time of year locations. Remember 90% of the bass are in 10% of the water( I believe this old saying) 3. Read up on all of the lure presentation articles. You might not like all the techniques but it is handy to know them and how to execute them. 4. Get off the bank fish deeper structure when big fish are not cruising or bedding. 5. Water time! (see #1) Print off some of these articles and go out and practice them until you feel comfortable in fishing that perticular technique. Once you learn the keys in locating fish during a perticular part of the year. You can locate fish on almost any lake with the same conditions. Fish have patterns that coordinate with the time of the year. Learn these patterns. You will need to know how to fish clear water, stained, and muddy water effectively. Also you will need to learn how to fish the whole water column effectively in all times of the year and conditions. You can read all the articles you want but you will need to know how to put these articles and posts to good use. Someone in TX may have a suggestion in march of throwing a shallow crank but if you live in IL where the water is still 40 deg and he is fishing 60 deg water, it wont help you until your water temp reaches a similiar water temp. But once that water temp hits approx the same, give his technique a shot. Some lures I would strongly suggest to be able to fish with highly effective results Hard jerkbaits Tubes Jigs spinnerbaits cranks (lipped or not lipped) soft plastics

I have a 1000 and for the money you cant beat it. Its a smooth reliable little reel. I have it on an ultralite for crappie, perch, and trout.

Its going to be like christmas. i have no idea what the color is. All I know now is its a DT4. Thanks Muddy. Why does this one have to stop? We only have about 5 months until baseball starts again

That is a great idea, you know most great inventions were found by accident or trying to develop something else. Keep the ideas coming. Do you guys have any pics of the your benches?

Has anyone used either one of these lines. I'm looking at spooling up with them next year and need the scoop.

I look at threads multiple times usually. I read alot of them atleast once and if I have anything intelligent or not to add I will. : Some threads I have no clue on the answer so I just have to let them go. Others I will respond and I will check on them just in case someone asks me a question about my answer.

I am to the point in remodeling my house where I need to put a work bench in the basement. I need help in things to put into my work bench for making fishing lures/reel cleaning and reloading rifle/shotgun. Thanks

not looking good for tonight. its been pouring rain all day long :'(

What actually quit working. Sometimes I have to disassemble the thing and clean the cd turner so it will read again. BTW Ebay

Do you guys know what A-Rod and I have in common? We are both watching the WS on TV ;D

I thought my post on weaver pitching in the cold was low, but Muddy that was just a blatent low blow.

I would say it smells a little like this

Got my vote 8-)

Awsome dude, congrats

I would have to agree

Its been raining all afternoon since my last "its not raining post" so I bet the game will be cancelled

Well I started as Jig Magician on here because I love throwing jigs. To make it easy I went to Gloomisman like on other forums. Then everyone started calling me Gman so I just shortened my name to that. Nothing exciting here.

One of my favorite production jigs is an eakins. These are the ones I used mostly before making my own. Now I make all of mine. Some others that look real good Micromunch PJ's Never used either one but they look like a great jig.

Good when he was playing the Mets. (Yep, I went there)

I missed the game last night and it sounds like a good one. Its not raining here right now so hopefully it will be Game on tonight.

2-1, We are on our way. Go UNDERDOGS woohoo.

You guys that fish braid for everything, have you noticed a difference in catch ratio to flourocarbon in clear to ultra clear water? Me personally, I have. I've been handed a few whoopins, and then switched to flouro because of this flouro to braid catch ratios.

I love smallie fishing but unfortunately I have to take long trips for them. I voted smallies but fish more for largies.

great read thanks for sharing.