Low_Budget_Hooker

Yea, it's definitely a drag of a situation but .........he asked for it. He obviously didn't care what you thought or felt so,...

Band of brothers....now THAT was a great series.

Absolutely, that's larceny and distribution of stolen goods. The other person will only get in trouble if he falsified the paperwork to get it registered. I'm assuming, if your name is on original title and not on bill of sale that he did. If so, he deserves to be in trouble to because he obviously had to know he was buying someone elses motor. This is complete BS and I would be fuming too.

This is something I am trying to stay more conscious of. I don't "double set" but my "jerky" type style is pretty much putting me in the same situation as if I had. I don't lose many fish but that doesn't mean I'm doing it the most productive way. VIDEO is a big help. I didn't realize I had this issue to I saw myself on film a few times.

Is VHS the largemouth bass virus? (the one that damaged Fork a few yrs back?) same thing or 2 different culprits?

[move]NEW PB IN THE HOUSE!!![/move] WAY TO GO BUD!

Sweet! I see you have the Avid pose with the lightninrod, double grab (fish and rod) NICE! (you need BIGGER glasses to be Avid though )

NICE FISH HUSKER!!!!!! (ps- REAL easy tutorial about posting pics in the FAQ's, made it myself )

A little more,.......little more........That's good! ;D Squirrels,...Mom, you're a hoot,lmao

ok,....YOU drive tomorrow,lol ;D That got a peanut hitch on it?

Hell yea, we get the picture,...awesome

Matt- we do the same with schooling Stripers (saltwater). The bigger fish sit below all the hustle and bustle, saving energy and feeding on the leftovers of the assault going on above. Definitely not easy to pass on the first tick, takes discipline but pays off if you can do it. (as your pics illustrate)

Hence my screenname

Memphis? JBL? I don't know, I'm guessing. I always felt the same way about Rockford and kicker, always felt those were aimed at selling to the kids,lol Not knocking their prducts, much like you,...just an opinion.

SOMEONE did, that's for sure! ;D That particular fish was about 10-12 minutes. He/she was one of the first to arrive, exhausted, I'm sure. Fighting a tuna too long "burns" the fish, reducing it's value at market. "Burning" simply means that much of the fat gets burned off during the fight and the muscles fill with lactic acid. The gear we are using is a big help in getting them in quickly. 130lb class rods on a 2-speed Penn 130 international. (glorified wench,lol) I'll tell you what, if the hair on the back of your neck has never stood up, you've never been in a boat when a Penn 130 goes off. It's like a fire drill,lol. I remember our very first fish. My partner was driving and I had the fish in the bow mounted 180 degree holder. With the small boat, we reel the boat to the fish and then reel the fish up. Once you are over the tuna, the do a figure 8 as they come up. The first flash I saw of our 1st fish actually scared me. Volkswagen? I believe my exact words that day were, "holy $h1T....dude, we hooked a Cadillac" I honestly wasn't sure WHAT we were going to do when it got closer. Makos are definitely a blast. Blues are a pain in the butt, however Threshers,...well those puppies pay out VERY nicely.

so,.....what's his email? I'LL fish with him, no problem. Doesn't mean he'll be making it home that night,...but sure,...I'll go pop his float tube in 30 ft of water fishin' with this guy. Sickening. :-/ >

Absolutely. When the water rises, so do the fish. When it drops,....so do the fish. This doesn't mean that they will DEFINITELY be at the bases of the bushes though. That all depends on the terrain of the edges, if they are not appealing, high or low, the bass won't use them. Flats that HAD 1-2 ft on them before,however, may now hold much more bass than before.

Have you tried NOT setting it harder? Just a nice upsweeping pop is all I give it. And definitely not over applying the pressure after that either, this may only increase the hole, affording her the opportunity to throw it and as I'm sure you've noticed,hehehe, they often catch it perfectly in the lip or roof of the mouth. If you happen to get the part of the lip with the thin membrane and not the jaw, you can make a pretty good size hole with too much of a hookset. Just some thoughts. Usually, getting the bite is the hard part in this game we call fishing,...but as we see, time and time again, the variables just never cease!

Eclipse Ti's? BD1000's? Yummy. I love the audiocontrol products too but couldn't afford the 2 yrs of schooling to learn how to set them up properly.lol I DO love the line driver though, what a difference.

great video KU!! At first I was like,...this guy is gonna get hurt! He took a wrap around his right wrist,...a HUGE no no, then when they landed it, it made a lot more sense,lol. ;D ;D ;D

Check it out! LINK

When I finally became a driver at UPS (full-time), I sold that boat. I used it to fish and rake clams to supplement the income when I was working part time loading. I sold it to my mate. The tuna season was terrible the year after. Th yr after that, he hit 4 fish which paid for the money he put into the boat. Now it is used primarily for lobster/clamming. He would borrow my rods which have siince been sold. Then, 2 weeks ago, another fishing partner of mine bought this and told me to get the gear ready,......Oh man.......wishing I kept them now!! Also, the price fluctuates drastically and if you don't hit a fish in 5 or 6 days, you are now in the hole for quite a bit (gas,bait,time,etc)

AWESOME Croatia!!!! Thanks

lol,....NOPE!

She was beautiful but not very fat. We get paid on fat/oil content. The fatter, the better, these get overnighted to market in Japan for sushi and she brought in 1/2 as much as much smaller fish that came in a few weeks later. They are in Cape Cod bay to fatten up for the trip back across the Atlantic. This was our first fish of that season, they just got there and hadn't had time to start packing on the fat. She still paid the bill due on those 4 rods w/ Penn Internationals on them but there was a fish that came in the end of the next month that sold for just under 18k. Imagine that. It was the only fish graded A+ for the season and happened to weigh in just under 1100 pounds. Cha-ching.