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Metal bats suck, it is why I no longer watch Little League,High School and College Ball. A bad break from tradtion, I do not care about the reasons, not one of them is good enough. College Basketball blows the NBA out of the water College Baseball, if you want to call it that is no match for a Minor or Major League game. very evil

Hey : Thanks Fish 4 dollars: a fine assortment of hard baits Tom H.;; for the supply of cranks ***;;; as always thanks Brent you go above and beyond Ghoti;; for all you sent this way I have 2 rods, From Wisconsin, a Shakespeare Aglia and a Berkley Lightning rod , I FORGOT YOUR SCREEN NAME, can you ID yourself and take a bow LBH: for your particular Stash Sppedbead: Always in there Sharkbite: my partner in crime this year PICS WILL FOLLOW WHEN SEASON OPENS Thanks :from the fellas 8-)

NO WAY! We stink in 20 year cycles ;D

Yea I guess 6 years of decent and championship level baseball might wipe out a 45 year of choking by the Red Sox for some, not this Met Fan though.

Mr.Munster, I feeling that completley. IF Elaine didn't get seats from her company Citi Park ( Shea's Replacement) would cost as much as a weekend in the Bahama's >

As well as chemicals that change PH and dissolved O2 levels.

Thanks Catt; Dr.Jones works for a bait company, I place little faith in what his end results are. They were not published in a peer reviewed scholastic paper anyway, but a book. I am interested on observations around the country , by fellas here. This has proven to be an interesting topic to me.There may be no definitive answer, but evidence abounds on all side of this question. Bass will spook other bass, when agitated or frightened, many of us including me have seen this, Fish respond to danger, especially schooling fish, which explains their cooperative formations, much like flocks of birds when they are being attacked

Minor league ball rocks, I like going to Coney Island to see the Met's minor league team the Cyclones!

Make your basic popcorn Sprinkle: Romano cheese,Tony Chachere's Creole seasoning and shake it all through the popcorn Top with freshly melted butter Get some napkins! ;D

How did the red sox do? What they didn't go to the series either? Gee you coulda fooled me, but then again it takes a long time for sports news to get to Arkansas, especially if the mule is sick

162 games, lots of days at the ballpark, what more could a poor boy do?

FEB 1 SUPERBOWL FEB 8th Pitchers and Catchers Report Superbowl marks one week til Spring Training 8-)

So conversely Catt; If a bass is a bass no matter where it swims and what their surroundings are like, and have absolutely no memory of dnager/lures >>> then one, bait and one presentation would sooner or later catch all the bass, that's not right either.

Cabelas Pro Line Mono , 2 reels with 10#, 2 with 12# and one with 15#. I never have an issue with it.

I think you have to throw this in the mix Catt; If a fish can remember, how long can it remember and how is our concept of memory in line with what ever it is they have?- What ever this "learned/memory" is how dooes it stand up against thier instinct to eat?

Thanks, Yea a few years younger. I am trying to find out from long term fisherman, in different parts of the country and on different types of water, if there is any correlation to bass getting accostomed to not bittting lures Thanks for taking the time to answer.

Great,perfect person to ask this to. Hey Mr.Snook since I see your age, you can help with some of the puzzle Are the Lures you are using older than 20 years old? Are they lures that typically Bass would not see regularly today? When were those lures hot historically, are they as hot today? Do you notice some lures typically being effective in cycles? Are those same lures catching basically the same size/age bass in bodies of water that have fish of various size/age on them? Thanks I am curious for your answers oh and what Lures if you do not mind Dominick

I never got into this. It really is pure Fanatsy, and does not reflect real time sports. It is obvious I guess, that is why they call it fantasy. What I find so unreal is ,the competition is so unlike the game itself. The people who build the teams seem to get the competitive feeling as if they can actually manage a major league team. They plug numbers in on how their player did against other pitching and other teams, in other parks. I don't get this at all. Something I noticed during divisional play when a strong team is playing 12 games at home against much weaker divisional rivals, Stats go way up, good time to trade is right before or after these home stands. Whats weird is these stats go into formulas against a model team, this is too weird and unreal for me.

Next up will be PERKINS, followed by ALKA SELTZER!!!!!!

. Where does this stuff come from? Resist primitive impulses, Gimme a break WOW!!!!! :-/

Excellent! I think we Humanize fish too much

I absolutely am feeling you 4 bizzle I have 4 years of logs that suggest that fish on smaller public waters, HEAVILY PRESSURED and seeing a certain lure over and over again MAY FOR SOME REASON AVOID THAT LURE! And then when the nest class of bass say reach around 11 to 13 inches that lure comes hot for those bass mainly. We have to be careful about putting human traits on to fish like the power to reason , and if they have long term memory You want to know if fish feel fear; Ask anyone who fishes gin clear water, catch or spook one bass and just their movements along can spook the rest of the fish. How do you know they are spooked: their gills start to flare, the dart rapidly around and literally try and bury themselves in cover Every lake is not the lake we fish on. Every lake is not Toledo Bend or Mauch Chunk and if you deny the fish can act differently from place to place, Then one pattern would catch every bass in all the USA> I absolutely respect you Catt, what you have taught me is invaluable, sooner or later a student has to think for themselves, and teachers can miss things. You do seem to be changing what some of us are saying, as making a number for pressure on Toledo Bend and when I used it you increased the number bu 4,400 fisherman which still left t Toldeo vastly under pressured when compared to the Chunk, on any given day I think since all the men in this discussion are reputable that it is pointing out that on different bodies of water we see different things, there is no denying this. Please lets keep this civil, this is a great topic with much to learn

THATS A GOOD POINT

It is really heartwarming to see all the polite and well intetioned chatter that makes a whole lot of sense on these forums. Then again I guess thats only for the other fellas here :-/ Quote from another thread, where a few of us were having some fun at Burley's expense from one DD: tough to wade through all this senseless and/or ignorant chatter, but....what is the commonality, Burley? I have been called senseless and I have been called ignoratn but I have never been called senseless and ignorant on the same day I HUMBLEY ACCEPT THIS STATUE AND AWARD and I would like to thank those who made it possible The difference is in that thread there were a half dozen posts "at Burley's expense" and that's it. In this thread, I was giving my opinion on the topic in question. And I wasn't calling you ignorant and senseless. The comments as a whole were ignorant and senseless (if it makes you happy, the ignorant comment was not made by you. ;D) But enough about that, back to the topic. I DEMAND CREDIT FOR THE IGNORANT REMARK, IT'S THE LAST YOU CAN DO FOR A FRIEND

It is really heartwarming to see all the polite and well intetioned chatter that makes a whole lot of sense on these forums. Then again I guess thats only for the other fellas here :-/ Quote from another thread, where a few of us were having some fun at Burley's expense from one DD: tough to wade through all this senseless and/or ignorant chatter, but....what is the commonality, Burley? I have been called senseless and I have been called ignoratn but I have never been called senseless and ignorant on the same day I HUMBLEY ACCEPT THIS STATUE AND AWARD and I would like to thank those who made it possible