fishingrulz

Funny posts so far ;D...nice job! Your first fish is always great.

Nice fish for any season especially winter!

Lol you got me as well. I've heard of that game, never played it. lol...I thought you were serious I was just skimming the threads and i was like...16.6 pound bass......16.6 POUND BASS!?!?!? and then I looked at it and I was like....it sounded to good to be true. lol

Thats so cool

(vehicle described with optional equipment) Nice ;D Not a fan of toyota but it was a cool video.

I just watched a video of it...the man that helped create it talked about performance specs. It can't dive much deeper than 3ft or the engines would run out of air. Still cool though.

I think I figured out what fishingJ is trying to say here. I'M NOT TAKING SIDES I'M JUST TRYING TO HELP CLARIFY WHAT HES TRYING TO SAY BECAUSE YOU CAN'T HEAR HIS TONE OF VOICE SEE HIS BODY LANGUAGE ETC. BECAUSE OF THE INTERNET. Now, I don't belive he is saying that Bush planned the attacks on 9/11 and that he tried to cover it up or anything. What he is saying is Saddam could have done it, Bin Laden could have done it, or Bush could have done it. Your never going to know 100% because you aren't either of these men. Hes saying that its up to everyone to decide for themselves. Maybe if I rephrase it. fishingJ let me know if this is what you meant or not. Saddam and Bin Laden could have done it, but what makes you so sure? Bush could have planned the whole thing. I'm not saying he did but its a possibility and something to consider as well rather than just tossing it aside and ruling it out before you look into it. I think thats what he meant...or something alone those lines.

I fully understand the emotional appeal of this sentiment. If we were talking about my son or my daughter I would go "medievil" on the bastid. But as the great power in the world. A country with a proud history of enlightened self interest, compassion for our defeated enemies, moral leadership, and itellectual freedom, can we lower ourselves to excusing barbarism on our part because the object our disdain is in fact a barbarian? This paradox is at the core of my ambivalence. What do you think? My first reaction to the conviction and hanging was, justice has been done. He clearly deserved what he got, but I think avid makes a great point. Webster defines ambivalence as, a simultaneous attraction toward and repulsion from an object, person, or action. This sums up how I feel about this execution, or maybe any execution, very well. I do not rejoice in the death of another human being, and am afraid that government sanctioned killing does put us in the position of using a barbaric punishment to penalize a barbaric act. Alpster is also absolutely right that it is the Government's responsibility to maintain order. As avid said it is a paradox that is not easily resolved. While this is true...I would rather be called barbarric and have the SOB dead as opposed to running around or even on trial. Did anyone watch that on T.V. while it was going on? It was a complete joke! Saddam and the judge would start going back and forth at eachother, on a personal level. They were like little 5 year olds. Like toddlers. And you see these freakin nut jobs on the news that actually go to see this guy and kiss his casket and all that garbage. He brainwashed them so well that they were actually grieving over him. And while his death is important...he was so far out of the picture that it was almost like they were making a statement IMO. These same people are just going to flip out more over this. They are gonna try and take his place, but thats part of the reason we are there. People say, what are we there for? and I say its to late now! We went in to set-up their gov't. Our guys died for that misson. Now whether you agree or disagree it doesn't matter because pulling out now means that 3,002 of our soldiers, our countrymen were killed for nothing. NOTHING! This isn't gonna be over anytime soon because its gonna take years for them to get set-up. We can't say oh well if we kill him then the violence is gonna get worse and worse so lets just let him live. We gotta show that we aint takin no **** and your not gonna get away with any of your terrorist BS. Its gotta be stopped. We can't let them run around blowning crap up and flying planes into buildings. We can't sit here as obl or any other terrorist makes a blatant and direct terrorist threat to us and just say...yea right he isn't goin to do anything. What could he do he lives in a cave. You can't watch obl on the news with one of his tapes saying i'm gonna attack here here and here and then just change the channel. These dirty SOBs gotta be stopped. And I say we are over there now so no point in pulling out and having everything we just did go to waste because then its all gonna collapse and the same A-holes are gonna take over again, and then we are gonna be right back in there all over again, trying to get the same thing that we already had started and put 6 years worth of money, blood, sweat, tears, and then just say oh well this is pointless. I don't understand??? The point is you can't sit around while these ba****** wreak havoic and terrorise the world.

lol it would show up as a huge fish on thier fish finder ;D

RIP

Another one bites the dust.

Lol its ok here not much noise.

Its offical! Happpy New Year guys and gals at Bassresource!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy New Year everyone!

KVD, then Ike, I like them both. KVD more though. Ike seems to be catching up, but he always seemed one step behind KVD. But like I said that is starting to become less and less with every tourney. 1 thing is for sure, they are both Bass gods.

lol, I've played that, my best is 800ft.

Sorry didn't catch the last post, I was doing a lot of stuff at the time.

Ditto mudds, I didn't listen to his music much but I definetly knew who he was. Then again, who didn't? RIP James

Pause it until it buffers completly. I was just watching videos and they were breakin like that, so I paused it and it buffered then it worked.

HOO-AH! Thanks to everyone whos doing their jobs so well over there or anywhere around the world. You guys are the best. America is the best! THANKS GUYS AND GALS!

I'm sorry to hear that. Some people are just so low down. Listen, in the end it will work out. I hate theives! I can't describe it. And I can't use the words here. I'm sorry though. Good luck with the investigation.

Al couldn't be at PRACTICE...After all, practice is silly. It makes your players a team. It gives you TEAM CHEMISTRY! Thats just silly. To silly for a player like him. Now beating your wife? thats what i'm talkin' about!...What a fool. It shows what money will do to you. I'm rich so that gives me the right to disrespect everyone on my team, in the organization, in the NBA, in the media. What a freakin fool.

I'd say most definetly all of the above. But this site definetly taught me everything I know about bass fishing. I found this site just after I went fresh water fishing for the first time that I could remember. I've made every purchase of tackle and fishing related things based on info from here. Then I took that knowledge and applied it while on the water. So its a combo of both of those that were the biggest factor in me learning everything I know about bass. But I have used all of the others.

Exactly my point! Bass behaivor differs so much from pond to pond. Your bass will eat lures while your standing in front of them in plain site. The bass in one pond I frequent have never done this for me. They will sit there and do nothing. Eventually after many casts they will lose intrest or bite out of aggrevation. But its almost like they are looking at you like....I know what that is, I know whats going to happen if I eat it. I know exactly what your gonna do with it. And they watch you as you walk up and down the bank trying to fool them from way far away thinking that, well if a walk away he won't see me. Not the case. This is what I mean when I say you can only give very basic, shallow not so in depth info about ponds over the internet. Because if you ask me how to catch a bass in a pond, I could be like well you gotta use a worm at 4 in the afternoon, I always catch at least 4 keepers like this. And then you'll go to your pond and try it and get skunked. Ponds aren't hard to fish if you know what your doing. I Your gonna have to take the very basic advice that we can give you here and apply that. But the only real proven method is to fish your pond(s) over and over and over and over until you know every inch of it. The great thing about these tiny little ponds is that since they are so small you can learn every single thing about it within a season. That is if you really put your mind to it and fish the same pond or ponds A LOT. The 5 or 6 ponds that I fish, I started on. These ponds taught me how to fish, its where I learned to fish. I know them like the back of my hand. I know where the bass are going to be on certain days. It just takes basic knowledge and real good effort and you will get it. A lake and pond are not the same thing. They are IMO the 2 most opposite types of fisheries in fishing. There is a reason why that old timer down at the local pond can just pull bass out for hours on end right next to you while you pull put 2. Over time you start to reconize, the fish in here really like the bait retrived this way in this color. Some ponds also have that seeminly "magic" lure. What I mean is as you fish your ponds, over time you'll realize that while so and so told you that the bass will kill a worm that if you take that worm and fish it just like they said you will catch fish. But one day you'll stuble upon a retrive that the bass like that much more. Heres a good example. I was at a pond i've been fishing since I started. There was another man and his son there. Thy were using live worms and doing ok. Now I was throwing a wacky rig. I would take it, skip it up the sewer drain and give it 3 quick twitches and let it fall. The bass were eating the little bluegill that where schooled around the drain eating the little insects that came down the drain from the street. So he was like WOW! how are you pulling out so many bass etc etc. So I gave him a few circle hooks and a few octopus hooks and said i'm using the circle hooks but sometimes they want the red octopus hooks a little more. I gave him some 2 and 3 inch BPS Stik-Os in Pearl flake and some other white offshoot colors. I taught him how to rig it how to fish it etc etc. He was very greatfull. So I ended up having to leave right after that. Well I saw the guy again like 2 or 3 months later at that same pond and sure enough hes throwing the wacky rig. Prior to me telling him about lures and what not he had never used artificals. He was throwing them like a pro. He was like, yea I never fished much before that, but now I realized how much fun it was with these things. I'm down here all the time now fishing. So we were fishing for a little. I had been throwing a wacky rig to no avail earlier in the day. Now i'm tossing a Pop-R. Hes throwing a Kinami in white...wacky rigged. So after like an hour I have 2 and he has like 10. I was shocked. I was like what the hell are you doing with that thing. Turns out. Over time, and with enough experience he had figured out that, while the normal wacky rig was great, the bass in this particular pond seemed to like a softer worm. I was like thats it? He said no way. Heres what I did. First obviously he got the Kinami's...a much softer but less durable worm than the BPS ones. He had also gotten them in 4 inches and not 3. Now heres the big thing. He had taken scissors and just sliced the worm on both ends about 1/2 and inch to 3/4s of an inch in. He found that by doing this, the worms had a much slower fall rate. This along with all the other changes, actually uped his catch rate by almost double. He had been fishing 5 times a week at this pond for 3 months. IMO that is the perfect example

Pond bass certainly hit fast moving baits! I have one pond and everytime I go there you can get fish on spinners anytime of the day. I agree with you when you say most ponds do not have schools of bait fish...minnows, shad...etc etc. But what almost everypond has is bluegill. And A LOT of them, thus you almost always have bluegill fry up on the banks all year round. The bass will cruize here and eat them all day. Throw a spinnerbait with a bluegill skirt on the banks you'll see. It also depends on the pond. A lot of human activity can mean that the bass won't sprint off when you walk up but they sure as heck won't bite anything. They will just freeze, kind of like a deer in the headlights. The little bluegill aren't going to be swimming out in the deepest part of the pond, they know better, instinct tells them shallow water gives them the best chance. Also small ponds run a high risk of over population. A lot of ponds have way to many bass and bluegill of the same size in them. When bass are young(0-12 inch range) they are still feeding heavily off of insects, Dragonflies etc. Also the little water flies that swim on top when they are really little. They feed on the bluegill fry and then move off and concetrate around the edges of pads. You can see them busting on top and sometimes getting completely airborn for a juicy dragonfly. They aren't doing this when they are little though...they are eating the smaller insects. They aren't going to be out in the middle of no where eating insects...the bluegill out number them greatly. They will get a couple but not many. A lot of times you find them under trees. They are sitting and waiting for something to fall off the tree so they can grab it. You can say that pond bass are going to behave a certain way. Its going to apply to your pond. How much pressure does it get...fishing or otherwise. What other species are in the pond. How big is it? There are so many factors that you have to consider. You can't really pinpoint it. I fish ponds 90% of the time. You have to figure out your ponds. This is why its so hard to give advice over the internet for someone's pond that they fish. I really bellive that because of all the factors that you must consider while pond fishing that bass in certain ponds are totally different than bass in other ponds. Take this example. You have a 2 acre pond in NY. A 2 Acre pond in PA. Both pond have the exact same population of all fish. Everything about them is exactly the same, except one thing. People pressure. In the NY pond hundreds of people go there to feed ducks and fish everyday. Noisey little kids stomping and running around on the bank. Also the pond is on a very busy road. Everyday all differnet types of cars go roaring by make emense amounts of noise. All of this noise creates vibrations. These vibrations are transmitted underground directly into the pond. Its like a Metallica concert all day underwater in the pond. Now the PA pond is the exact opposite. It is a private pond located on farm land. There is no major road for 20 miles all around. Its in the middle of no where. It gets fished once every two weeks by the owner. You don't think the fish in those 2 ponds are going to behave differently?