Bass Dude

How do you know this to be true?? There are ways to manipulate wanted characteristics and breed that characteristic into the species. Dog breeders do it all the time.

The only thing that happens to a bass during a typical fight is temporary exhaustion and a small hole in the mouth. A bass is wet in the water and your hands should be wet when you handle a fish. The fish are then stored in a wet livewell. The fish are carried to the scale in a wet rubber bag and the bucket and plexiglass lid used at the weigh ins are wet too. This is all to protect the bass' slime coat. Letting a bass flop around on the dry carpet of your boat removes the slime coat, which, as someone else already said, protects the bass from diseases/infections/parasites. Without this slimecoat they are much more susceptible to a fatal diseases/infections/parasites. Oh, and all the fisheries biologists that I have met have taken the necessary precautions to protect the fish that they handle. When we did our studies we used rubber gloves, but that was to protect us from the eletric current used in electro-fishing, it was not to protect the slime coat. I don't know how you can pluck scales off a fish without removing the slime coat! We obviously didn't do anything intentional to harm the fish, but we didn't handle them as if they were the last known fish of the species either. Stomach analysis is even more fun. You have a syringe full of water and then force the water down their throats to make them regurgitate whats in their stomach.

I think this subject has been beaten to death. Let's wait until next year to bring this up again. No-one is changing anyones opinion, so let's get over it and move on. The season starts in a month, let's start looking at Amistad!!! >

Do any of you know what "Skeet" means in slang (it was also in a song by Lil' John)?? If you do, you would find this thread very funny!!!!

You should see this thing in person. I have a pic of my wife standing next to his truck when they visited Oneida last year. The tires were as tall as she is. The trailor is SWEET!!! It has a bunch of lockable storage all the way around it.

I really like your idea of giving the WBT Champ a spot on the Elites. Then again, people would complain that she didn't earn that spot because she didn't make the Elites through the Opens!!!!

Marriage Counselors help with marriage. Bassfishing Resource helps with bass fishing. I think you may have come to the wrong place!

I went to school for fisheries management, we shocked fish (electrofishing) to stun them and make them come to the suface. Then we scooped them up in a net, not one at a time either!! Then we would toss them in a holding tank. After all that, we would then pull them out, measure them, pull scales and jam a tag in their back. After all that, they would finally be released back in the water. To me, the pros aren't any rougher on fish than the biologists that study them.

It's strange how evertime they showed Ike he was tossing the tube. It's like KVD when he says he's using the Sexy Shad, then ESPN shows his rods and he has one Strike King crank and 5 Lucky Crafts tied on!! How come everyone isn't going out to buy the Crazylegged Chigger Craw!! The addition of those two legs really changes that bait

I like the 3/8, 3-1/4" size. It's a smallie killer up here.

There is a good pic on the Bassmaster website of Steve Kennedy using a push pole to get himself out. Then the next pic, the push pole is in half!!! One half still in the water and the other half in Steve's hand. He's got a nice grin on his face too!!! He's quite the character

Meaningless. For $50,000 everyone on this Forum would fish any reel they were paid to promote, regardless of good or bad. Just about every reel looks and feels good right out of the box. That too is meaningless. 8-) Althought, Rick is the only one that I've seen actually use his signature series rod and reels and with his BPS sponsorship he could be using any of the BP reels. KVD doesn't use his sig. series Quatums. But I do agree with you in that every brand new reel feels smooth. And yes I would use anything for $50,000.00!!

When they hit cast after cast!!!

Also I am NOT a marine mechanic but I have been told that a steady diet of low RPM running is harder on plugs than normal running.

For those of you that say the Banjo works because it catches pike and pickeral.....Anything catches pike and pickeral!!!! And if you have Babe Winkelman in your debate, you've lost the debate!!! ;D ;D ;D

5 years!! I change my plugs twice a year. Am I doing it too often??

Dances Eel---Does not work

I would love to see him win out of that rig!!! They say the motor was his dad's and it's about 20 years old. Then he rigged it with the jack plate to get him throught the stumps. I think he might win this thing--from some of the things I've read, he seems to have something going.

I haven't used them, but they do look nice. For $3 a piece, I would've just bought them and if they didn't work--no biggy---My baitmonkey does love his crankbaits though! I'm curious to see other posts as well.

That Verizon check is AWESOME!! I think Roman numerals would be enough to mess up those morons!!

Or...get something really nice and if your wife decides to switch back to spinning gear, you'll have yourself a new casting combo!!!

The BPS rods are a great value. Any of the "store" brands should serve the purpose--- like BPS, Cabelas, Gander Mtn---they are all great rods for the money. Also, like someone else posted---the new Berkley Lightning rods are a good rod at a good price too.

I am able to contain the bait monkey on plastics, but I have a REAL hard time passing up crankbaits---The monkey seems to get very loud when he sees those things!!! I think he likes the cool paint jobs

I use Hula grubs for trailors on my football heads. The twin tail gives it action and the "skirt" on top of the grub adds a little more color to the skirt on the jig. I use the Smallie Beaver as a trailor too.

Just another thought, take into account where and when you're fishing. You can decide what rods to bring by what techniques you would be using. Bring them all, and see what your boater has planned for the day and narrow it down from there.