Low_Budget_Hooker

You need to visit your mother more!

51% left 49% right. I'm a pretty "balanced" dude huh?

I was watching this morning and was wondering if "Hunning" is the same thing as "hunting"? I may omit my "R"'s but the letter "T" is important too you rednecks!! ;D

With the dollar declining, the site will be changed to showmetheEuro.com ;D

Did you read that somewhere? Everything I can find on the subject says otherwise. IMO- there ain't nothing trashy about a Pickerel. I read an article a long time ago about different "body styles" of saltwater fish and one thing that was pointed out was how the long , skinny fish have a double hinge meaning the body can "S" itself. This gives it a "double pump" with every tail thrust. Think about a bass that is flexing to the side, it can only make the shape of a "C". Single thrust when it uncoils. Pretty cool stuff, I'm going to try and dig that one up and scan it in.

Yea,...I have a friend,.....lol....has a beeeautiful boat full of beeeautiful gear and a horde of boxes packed with beeeautiful baits. He sure looks good in a picture, even if he's rarely holding a fish,lol. It's not the car, it's the driver. Pretty baits are nice, I just don't think they are necessary. I'm sure not knockin' them, if I were rich, I would be the same way, but I'm not,....I'm LOW BUDGET and I'm still catchin' fish

As for size-35 no question if you are using it primarily for LM

Shrink wrap it. It's cheaper than most think for small boats. The trick is to bring it to a marina that does lots of BIG boats. They look at yours as a quick side job-low $$

At UPS, there are maybe 30-40 things that are continually pounded into the drivers. Matt's answer was one of them It refers to 3-6 "seconds of travel"

OMG!!! You'll need more than that to be in the money of you were up North here !! (for the YEAR that is!!) Nice Job!! FYI-Camera may be junk but the media on it is often fine. Art dropped his camera in the lake at the last CAST event. He brought it to a camera shop and they got the pics off it for him If it's digital, just bring the card in to any CVS, Walgreens, etc

Happy Birthday Cliff!! She's a keeper!!

Matt- Looks like I won't be getting anything from Matty,..... :-[

Again, the topic is "should live bait qualify for records" not "live bait-right or wrong"

GW- That was my last experience with them on our lake, what can I say? lol This was back a few yrs before they dropped the dam but still, in roughly 1 hr, we were out of shiners and moved on to artificials, which, believe it or not, Nick was "into" more. He likes to cast. Haven't seen the need to buy bait after that. Maybe I should try again this yr. If I do, I'll have it all on video for the nay-sayers ;D

Nice tutorial GMAN

Channel Buoys are different. A simple way to remember them is "red on right-return" 2 colors, red and green mark each side of a channel. Heading towards shore, you keep the red on your right. Leaving shore, green is on your right.

That's how you are supposed to do it If there is NO yield sign, DON'T YIELD

It won't make the crack bigger, but it will not stop the crack from growing. 3m 5200 marine adhesive/sealant is the product. It is a temporary fix once the crack has been stitched as shown in the other post.

What you are saying makes sense Tin but it is all theoretical. Anyone , even the kid on the shore with a rooster tail and a worm on the back treble can win. His odds aren't the highest but theoretically, anything is possible. RW is saying live bait or artificial, you still need to know where the big fish live. But even still, this isnt a "bait" vs "lure" thread, the question is in regards to a record qualification.

Great reply MD!

Very cool and we have the same watch!! SFC- Speaking of supporting the troops, you have an incoming package from your friends here at BR. Hang tough. We made sure to include all the military families in our prayers today at the family gathering. I'm sure your family misses you and the many others by your side. You are in our thoughts this holiday and every day. Thanks guys. And a big "Kudos" to Mr. Tippen

Maybe it's just our lake but if I challenged one of my fishing partners to a $500 event, me against him with my boat using live bait, I would put the same $500 down that I won't have any takers. But this is besides the point, the topic is "should live bait catches be listed separately" and I vote a big fat YES

When it comes to the salty critters, I've used live bait that was bigger than my PB Largemouth Nothing beats a baby lobster though. Saltwater is different to me, it's about getting paid. Bigger fish, more fish= more $. In freshwater, it's much more about the angling ability and the prestige of tricking a pressured, smart trophy into biting. The guy that figures that out is the one who should be in the book IMO. Our lake is just nuts with live bait. It can get boring. I think live bait catches ALL the fish, not just the big ones but I know if I hit a state record (which is the actual topic here), and I caught it on a shiner, I wouldn't be so boastful of it. I would prepare to get my chops busted for the next 15 yrs,lol. Not saying I wouldn't be proud of the catch but I would take a lot less credit than if I caught it in late November on a finesse worm,...or even better,..a fly rod. I think (freshwater) live bait has it's place and it isn't in a record book. I feel it's great for getting people into the sport and for father/son trips a few times a yr but as a gauge of a person's angling ability,....not so much. To say you can still get skunked using live bait is a cop out to me. I would bet a pro (High angling ability) could show up and put at least one in the boat on the same day. Add angling ability to live bait and that's a dangerous dude right there.

My landlord really is a great guy. The system is old and antiquated. He has done many improvements recently (new windows, etc and this house is HUGE). He has just run into a huge cost. If you remember, we had a fire at a club here in RI where 100 people died, "The Station" night club fire. Since then, the codes have been revamped and many land lords are learning they need HUGE upgrades. My landlord owns 21 properties in this area . (it's somewhat affluent) In THIS house alone, he had to change all the sills on the new windows (old ones had lead paint), and he has to hardwire the whole house for smoke and heat (about 40k). He has deadlines that this all has to be done within. Like I said, he's a super guy. The oil, he has the guy downstairs monitor and order, landlord just pays the bill and then looks at the meters and splits it up according to who used how much. I just think the system is homemade. Can they still come check it for me if it's out dated and possibly home rigged? I pay $400/mo for rent and I live on "main st" of an antique, seaside town. Apartments on the edge of the ghetto , this size, START around $850. I got it made, this place is beautiful (The house and the town)I don't want to make waves but don't want to go poor staying warm either. (When I said I don't want to make waves, this is the view from my kitchen. If you look closely, each one of theose boats is on a school of Bluefish. My boat is kept on the other side of those trees.....400/month!!!) I really appreciate all your input KYBass

Well, the way it works here, our stripers head out of the bay to the mouth where it meets the ocean. They spend a few more weeks out there as the schools get bigger and bigger. The problem is that they stay deep. They are eating but "congregating" seems to be the main goal. we use the same old stuff as always to get these fish. This entails wire line and trolling (not much fun or sport) Soon, they will be gone on their winter migration back to the Chesapeake to spawn. This means they will be coming by your neck of the woods but I'm clueless if they are catchable or not during this period. Sorry.