simplejoe

to the forums. Gibsonia is about an hour from me. joe

That bait looks like a darn bird in the video. ;D The tube and the dog are the 2 I wanna try joe

Were going down on Sunday to watch the final weigh in. I would say Ike is going to win.

I fly fish in a river up camp for Smallies, It's a blast I mostly use poppers and Wooly Buggers. joe

My wife's addicted to that game, she now got her friends online playing it

You'll be good in the morning to walk on it. As a flooring installer no one realizes what we go through on a daily basis. IT SUCKS, but you gotta make a living one way or another. Joe

I got the black bag. I got it at Dicks Sporting Goods for 15 bucks. It's a thicker vinyl than what Bass Pro uses. No holes in the corners yet like alot of the other ones on the market. joe

Thanks Kent.

I transfer Batteries back and forth until I save more money for the new boat to get new ones and I took the Tm off the one boat for the new one until I find one. Other than that I got 2 of everything. joe

They might be up on the shoreline eating up the baitfish. With the runoff from the rain it's pushing bugs into the water starting a feeding frenzy with the baitfish, in turn it's going to turn on the bass to the baitfish. Try to throw a crankbait parallel to the shoreline about 2-3 feet away and run it back it to you.

Yep that's what I mean you're on the right spot don't go somewhere else. Also depending on the time you're there try to throw a popper out there and let it make some noise. joe

Depending on the size of the bluegill ( if there small) the bass might not be that far from them waiting to strike. Try throwing a bluegill color crankbait. Throw it where the bluegill are and crank it into the deeper water the bass will let you know if they're there joe

Do a google map search for locations to fish, It might help you a little bit. joe

The boat project is going good got the new floor in, 2 seats mounted, all the bilge and livewell pumps in. I bought a Garmin color fishfinder/ gps for it and it's in. Still waiting for the carpet to come in and getting a trolling motor next weekend it's a Motorguide 55 thrust 12/24 volt. It's been raining a lot here so I'll get some pics soon. If it keeps up raining I'll just put it in the garage. joe

PM me your address Glenn I'll send some out to you. My wife buys them all the time for my kids. joe

Where's the shotgun at.

Congrats Wayne. Have a good time in Jamaica. joe

The baby minus 1 in Baby Bass color is always on one of my rods.

from Western Pa joe

If he did I'd send them back ;D Just Kidding those 2 are my fishing buddies. Aj my son is one heck of fisherman, and Marlie is starting out this is the first year I'm putting a hook on the rod. Allen that is a great post and everybody should read it. I needed to read it a few years back. I learned my lesson on the very first boat I bought. It looked nice but underneath it all it was junk and after a few thousand I had it the way I wanted it. The boat I just bought was off a friend of mine that's in the bass club that I'm in. He needed some money and I wanted a tournament boat. I checked it all out besides hearing it run at his house so I knew what I getting into and really it's not all that bad it just needed cleaned up. I got alot of stuff on order and my budget has been blown, I got all new seats, 3 new batteries, carpet, new bilge pump, and 2 new 800 gph livewell pumps. Plus the odds and ends things. Still needed is a Trolling motor and fishfinder. I didn't need all of this but if I'm doing a rebuild I'm doing it right. I'll post some pics tomorrow after work. Thanks for the concern Allen and Jack but I know what I'm getting into. If I don't get it done this weekend I have my other one to go on. joe

Wow what a difference between the before and after.

Nope the stringers and transom are good, I put the motor up, stood on the motor and jumped up and down no flex or cracks, I had this thing ripped apart looking and checking that's how i know there's nothing wrong with it. the brown you see is the nasty water I was just in 20 mins before. Last years project looked like that and I had it down KY Lake for the Road trip.Either way I bought it for 400 put 500 into it run it till it dies or breaks then junk it.

That looks good Mike, when you doing your Bass Tracker like that? Joe

I went out and got this boat for tournaments. It's a 83 Hydra Sport X260 with a Evinrude 110. It's a decent boat just needs a little help I'll have it done by next weeks tournament. I started it in the yard to make sure it sounded healthy and it did so I took it out to the lake real early when there were only a couple boats there to see how it ran across the water and from holeshot to top speed it never hesitated. So the project starts. joe