Low_Budget_Hooker

Thanks guys (and girl,....yes, In can see you looking,lol ) Jeremy , If you buy the "Team shirt" than,...absolutely,...you''ll be properly represented!!!

My "Summer Groove" video for '08 ENJOY! GHETTO BASSIN'

Another good point. In MANY states, it is illegal to keep a game fish in captivity w/o the proper license. The Chinese restaurant near my house found out the hard way. After the fines were paid, they bought a few Oscars,lol.

Yup, and good luck affording THAT!! A bass eats 2/3 it's body weight per day. It will survive on much less but do you want to do that to a WILD animal?

well done to all!!

Same here. I get more than enough of the social side right here on the board. THIS is my club, ....and it's a big one Paul, The LBH crew is always looking for another "small boat, big fish kinda guy". Friday night,...we'll get back to what it's about bud Bring the big sticks

I'm with you man. Hang tough RIP friend of my friend

Mega, you are preaching the "Low Budget" creed and I absolutely agree with you on principle,...but there are a few rods out there that DO have the capability of raising your game. This particular steez is one of them. This piece of refined angel's hair is something to go use before commenting on it. I have always preached "It's not the car, it's the driver", so I know exactly where you are coming from but I have had the pleasure of actually using this rod (redlineroberts) and of all the high end gear in his boat (40+ rods in the mega buck range,lol) THIS rod did not leave my hands for 3 days straight,lol. When I went back there this yr,...which rod do you think I claimed IMMEDIATELY! Seriously, this one's a winner and for $310,....THE Low Budget Hooker is even tempted ;D

and $7-10 dollars is acceptable for a coke and some popped corn????

Noone knows "Low Budget" better than me but a medium rod just won't throw these baits.

No hole,....I am what I am,....Low Budget.

no,no,no,......y'all wait,......woodshop 101 is kicking in,....no $50 price tags for this guy,lol (B-what's mine is yours dude,...that's a given ) (seriously, if you need something,....holla)

This is a fine example of how your thinking needs to "change",....to be OK with the negatives that come with this presentation. Normally, 6 misses after a night like last night, would have me thinking along the lines that I need to modify or change something because I am close but not "dead on" with my presentation. In the past, If I had been using a double bladed prop bait and gotten 6 misses, I would switch to something slower, a spook or a popper, something that stays in the zone longer. NOW,..... I see it as even though there is no bite whatesoever, SOME fish STILL have to come investigate,...pure instinct. I also think,....Those were probably smaller fish considering the bait....... I think everything BUT the negative. Changing up is not an option, with these baits, they either commit or they don't. When the big one is ready to eat, this bait will surely be attractive, no need to change, just keep throwing and wait till SHE'S ready. When she is,....your bait will be engulfed. OWNED. So call me an optimist but "near misses" are now not something I messed up on, it was a fine enough bait in a fine enough place but the fish wasn't ready to commit for whatever reason,....nothing I can do about that but keep chucking and wait for her sister, mother, or even better yet,....grandmother. She's out there and I KNOW this is a bait she is willing to eat. Knowing this allows me to throw endlessly,....hoping,.....waiting,.....creeping...... CRANKING!! GET THE NET!!!

Probably the route I would take also. Documenting it with a few dozen police incidence reports will help your lawyer and will show you took the right actions by not taking matters in your own hands and following the proper procedures. Good luck, don't do anything stupid in your heated state though Keep it calm,....breath in,.........breath out......

Eric is catching far more fish than me,....and I'm waaaay ok with that. (Mine want to eat his ) Dude,...you ever see my vids? I'm 5'7", 130lbs wet. The floating ones don't beat you up any where near as much as the submerged ones Been on the water all weekend, I'll have something done this week.

So someone turned me on to the swimbait. Like a drug dealer, I was given just a taste,....try it, you'll like it,....well, in my weakness, I gave in. AND MAN AM I HOOKED!!!!!! lol I have been consistently finding the larger fish in the lake and it's got me to a point (already) that I EXPECT to catch these fish on each trip,lol. Snob? Spoiled? Enlightened? I'm going with "enlightened". You hear it all the time,...the recreational angler just wants to catch fish, the tournament guy just wants 5 keepers or better but the swimbaiter fishes all day for 1 bite,...many days, for zero bites. This is something that is accepted by swimbaiters. It is something that is explained (warned of) to new anglers to the scene. They say if you are not okay with getting skunked, don't bother, it's part of the game, it's part of the discipline. So here I am in RI, throwing these for the first season and I can't put them down. The difference is that the action is constant, not intermittent!! AM I SPOILED? I have been out 5 times with great success all 5 times,.....till this morning. Yesterday I landed 16 fish. 14 were over 3 lbs. This is RI, keep it relevant, that's a heck of a bag around here. So back out this morning, should be even better, the weather has stabilized and theres a bit of wind that we didn't have yesterday. 6 blow ups, ZERO hook ups, 6 hrs of fishing in pure dark. (10p-4:30a) So it's true,....it does happen,....do I still want to do this? ABSOLUTELY!! After about 3 hrs of casting and creeping, I grabbed a spare rod and threw a jig. 2 fish in 20 minutes, solid 2 pounders,.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................and they don't cut it,lol All I can think while I am throwing this now "dainty" set up is that I could be missing THE bite. The one that counts. Am I now a Big Fish SNOB? I hope not, it's not a part of my M.O. Like I said earlier, I am enlightened. It's a much better suited word I think. I would never knock someone elses version of fishing but if you've been putting off swimbaits like I had for the last 3 yrs, now is the time to break that chain!! Get out there and give it a try, there is a new excitement in my fishing now and I am really enjoying it. I'm still a rookie but we learn every day. Last nights skunking still taught me a few things I hadn't known yesterday so it's still easy for me to consider that a successful trip. A few things I have learned and can pass on are .... 1. Start off learning with a wake-bait. You can see it, hear it, and understand it, but the biggest reason to start with one of these is because they float. Should you snap off as you learn to cast these new larger, heavier baits, you are not out $40. 2. Be patient. Slow is slow but slower is better. 3. It's all about the "pause" MAJOR trigger 4. You don't NEED the tail on an MS Slammer. I lost mine on the 1st fish yesterday,...they still kept coming. 5. To "quiet" the clack of the hardware (a nice trigger in my opinion) simply add a petroleum jelly based scent to the grooves 6. You don't NEED to go buy a wide spool reel, I am using my stx and loving it. I learned the hard way however, that a full spool of braid is a bad idea. Back it with mono and add some braid on top. Thsi is a tip for those who would rather hold a low profile reel that a larger, bulkier round body. I'm certainly not saying the low Profile is a better way to do it, I'm just saying it can be done. The rod however, DOES need to be a swimbait rod. Long and stiff to throw these lures. That's my experience with this swimbait scene so far. Follow along as I learn and progress and hopefully one or two of you will think to yourself,...."If THIS character can do it........SO CAN I" I have been getting great input from some of our classic big fish hunters here, Fourbizz, brokeju, leftcoast, etc, thanks for all the tips, you guys are aces. NOW GO GET YOURS!!!!!

Paint 'em black Megastrike- you may want to consider moving that dot forward or to the rear. The fish use the dot to tell which end is the front as they consume other fish, head first. This is why certain species, like most Oscars have developed dots on the tail, to confuse the attacker for a split second, often, enough time to escape.

We catch Giant Bluefin Tuna to 1000lbs on a hook not much larger. Much thicker, but not much larger. You'd be surprised, reminds me of the first time I saw a 1/64 adams fly,....I was blown away at the though of that being the only thing between myself and a nice size trout

Nice fish man! (You forgot to delete the background )

Another swimbait secret,...you're going to need another job to establish a decent arsenal of these type baits!! ;D I had the choice this week,....1/2 a tank of gas or another swimbait,lol. (waiting for my ride to pick me up for work, )

"Cleaning Rusty Hooks" You coming over or do I have to bring her to you?? (My tricked out Whaler) 8-)

See, now If I were your wife, I would have cut that to fit perfectly over the screen of the Lowrance on your boat and then have told you,.....sure,....go fishing, never know how long that's gonna last..." ;D A joke you won't get till you try to find the first hump. (hookemdown- don't you dare,....leave this one alone pal,lol) Congrats Brother!!! Best of luck

Gotchya covered.......Opportunistic zones Often proven in salt water where "tidal level & strength" are added variables in basically the same equation. EX. The sand bar in the video below is not noticeable at high tide,...just looks like 3 piles of rocks in a triangle shape. But look at it NOW during outgoing tide. The bar doesn't hold fish during the slack period,..it needs current. Once it gets rolling, there are 5 or 6 "sweet spots" either in back eddies, behind the larger submerged rocks, etc. Very fundamental and great to be able to pattern.

He's looking at them as a cool momento, I don't think he's looking for them to get him to the classic,lol.

Your daughter teach you guys this stuff? The hip boot family seems to be short one on this trip, what happened, did she start out-fishing mom & dad?? SUMMER CAMP FOR YOU!! ;D