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Picture is hard to tell, but I'd say 5LB 10 OZ, could be 6 though, good fish man keep em coming.

Never seen it before myself here in ARK, but I do know from working up in S.D. that is a good bass for up there!

Mid summer or there around back in my home state of ARK is the time to take the kiddys out. The bream are bedding that time of yr and action is fast to say the least! Me and my buddy even got a thrill catching bream this past summer, about 300 or so in about a week and half of fishing and they taste great too. When I say bream I mean shellcrackers, redears, big bluegills, ect. I've learned they call them diff. things in diff. places. Black backs, and burnt orange bellys.... bream. We didn't find the big redears this summer though and those things get even bigger than the breams. Either way, it's a great time for kids and a great way to get them hooked too, just a suggestion.

You'll get a lota tail slaps that imbed the trebles into their sides while topwater fishing. I"ve had them pop the bait 2 or 3' off the top of the water trying to kill it before.

Glad to hear it. Back home in AR its been a thrashing frenzy out in the middle of nowhere for sometime now, all about 12 to 14"ers! I'm ready for the bigger ones to put on the feedbag for the Winter.

So how'd u do Mottfia? I was stuck working a shutdown here in Decatur, AL and saw all the boats wondering what big tourn. was going on? Fish em while u can before the life of work begins!!!

He's a channel 4 sure.

My buddy called me while I was on the way to a job 3 states away yesterday to give me a fish story. It all began when him and his dad where topwater fishing with zara spooks. He said I cast way out and gave it the side to side action about twice when this crane came swooping down from the trees to pick the spook off the water....The fight was on after that >. He said it looked like I was flying a kite : as my father yelled cut your line. At $5.00 the bait had to be retrieved though he said. I finally brought the bird down with the aid of 15LB P-line and reeled him up to the side of the boat where dad had to paddle ready and began persuading the crane to give up the bait. He then said "It wasn't a pretty site for the ol bird". He finally retrieved his spook and was on his way. Has anyone ever had an aerial attack such as this??

Thanks for the advise man. I took it to a boat man i've used before. He did the EL test on wiring and said it does look like the relay on the motor, top side relay, is bad. This makes the 3rd one i've put on now. He couldn't seem to tell me why or what keeps blowing them though. I've been told that if you have a switch going bad it will burn out the relays until you fix the switch. I've replaced the trim switch on the motor and the console, so only one left was the rocker on the front of the boat which he said was only like $10 and he recommended replacing that one to rule it out. I left the boat with him since he is also putting a fish finder in at the console, and ordering me another 3bank charger to put in as mine has a dead bank. I've had tons of problems with the boat this past yr. It's a 90 model and I don't have the extra cash to replace it now or i'd have done sold it!

Almost sounds like there might have been a fish kill recently and then a re-stocking. The kill could have been planned or just natural. Thats just a thought. I have a lake nearby where the crappie are like that, all stunted. I've heard that crappie when placed in small water do that... this lake is 13miles long though and gets a lota pressure but still has loads of crappie under 9"s for some reason.

RW had all the right stuff I'da said to throw. Fish that can be seen are tough sometimes. I grew up fishing creeks and catching floating bass so I know. We used to use plastic worms w/o a weight. That was before senkos though. I'd say wacky rig that senko on some light line and be patient. Find a good overcast day to go also, that might produce more hookups.

Long as she's catching fish like that she could be my partner anytime. You may have a good luck charm there, I'd take her more often!

I caught a rod and reel once and as I was pullin it in I seen it had a small catfish on the other end of it. My buddy said he caught a catfish on the C-rig last weekend and his partner caught a crappie on a lipless cb so ya never know what ur going to catch sometimes.

Well I had to go it alone this evening, nobody wanted to go and I thought all them fish to myself! I got out to the small lake around 5ish and thought I'd try the 1st point from the ramp there. Typical summer pattern right off, swams of baitfish all over the surface and bass that would come up way out in the middle just a thrashin only to go back down within seconds, SUCKS! I've tried it all to pattern a way to catch them too. I did manage 7 or 8 fish but all were small. I hooked one about a pound or so and as I was reeling him in my reel broke right at the seat where it connects to the rod. Kinda tough to reel one in when your reel isn't connected to the rod anymore. It had broke only part of the reel off and I was able to put it back in....who knows how long it will last though. It was an older reel. May be time for daddy a new fishing reel! That wasn't the only problem I had this evening, trim wouldn't go up on the motor. It only goes up when it wants too. Once I got back to the ramp it was the same procedure all over again, pull the top off the motor and cross-fire the relay to make it go up. I'm getting tired of doing that crap. I've jiggled every wire on that thing, put 2 relays on it and 2 trim switches on it. Still the trim demon causes me problems.... anyone ever fought with a trim problem like that before, please help! It's very annoying! >

Ok, bluegills u want eh. Try live crickets. Although, this yr. down here in OK we used a small bettle spin and tore them up! I say them, I meant the bream, but there were some bluegills mixed in there, sunfish, and goggle eyed perch. All if large enough are very tasty when fried in extra hot greese. We used many colors but the solid yellow seemed to work best along with the blk/chart and yellow/white tail. All 1"tubes on around a 1/8th to 1/16th oz head. It wasn't the problem of finding them, rather finding the bigger ones worth the time and trouble to clean. 4lb line on a 6' spinning pole was a fight at times though! Good luck.

I've got all the confidence in that C-rig I need. I just need an oppertunity to go to a place like El Salto to get my line broke a few times! That would truly be a trip of a lifetime, great pics.

I've heard of plenty of guys blowing up their motors, but to have one fall off in the middle of the river is a new one! I bet a pic of the driver once he figured out what happened would be priceless! WHAT THE ****! :-/

Don't they still use rivets in their boats. Trackers are like from the stone age compared to alumaweld, express, and other sim. boats. So to hear about transom cracking probs. yeah, I believe it.

4-strokes are gutless wonders, heavy too. I used to build Ethanol plants in the mid-west. The key ingredient in ethanol is water, so no, neither would do well on ethanol. 4-strokes are quieter running though. If it was me, I'd get a 2-stroke.

Yeah dude I posted a hook in my lil finger on here not 3wks ago. Same story as urs, caught fish on a chug-bug, went to take him off and he flopped sending the hook into my lil finger to the bone...IT SUCKS! I took my buddys needle nose pliers and pulled it myself. I've talked so several people since that said all the docs do is the same thing u would do, so save ur money and grit and bear it, they will come out. Now the tet. shot is still probably a good idea.

Ur not the only one. I've had my share of problems with mine too this yr. Can't afford to replace it and don't want to fix it. I'm just happy I can still use it at this time. I wonder how some guys afford to have a new boat with a good warrenty.... must be nice!

Enough of that length and girth crap.... I'd say she was real close to 6Lbs. Good fish though congrats.... tell us the whole story, where at, what on, what time, ect.

I'm fine with rules being adheared to but half the time there isn't a casting violation in the first place. I mean we all watch it there on the tube and majority of the time it's close, maybe borderline, but the ref. gets carried away most of the time. I would be good with you pick the spot one time and then next spot is #2mans... and as long as there isn't line contact let them fish at will. Afterall if I contol the boat and I know I'm going to get my pick every other time as to the place I get 1st chances when we get there. Ref. takes the fun outta it seems.

Good fish anywhere, but the ponds do seem to offer bigger ones. Lake fishing can be tougher, but hey I wouldn't give up a chance to lip a 6.2 lb fish where ever it was caught. As for the jitterbug, not used these days very much, but an awsome bait. Mine is black and I don't use it enough given my past history with it. They work, I usually throw the chug-bug or the spook instead.

Even though I said winter may offer less baitfish. I'm not sure I believe that theory. I'm sure the larger fish make a dent in them all throughout the summer/warm months. However, you can look on your graph when out on the water and see those large wades of bait still down there. I know guys round here that spoon fish for the whites every winter...not so much for black bass though. They are finding the baitfish with their graph and dropping into them. Every fall, like I seen this morning the small bass go to schooling really heavy on those baitfish and it's tough to catch them because you never know where the bait will surface next, bringing hungery bass with them. A well placed chug-bug into the thrashing mix is almost always a hook-up though. Too much forage= less fish caught, but healthy fish. So I'm ok with that.