Hammer 4

Check your PM's re: SD rivers..

Saweet..congratz on your PB..Megastrike..yup!

Think I'll go with the trout....thanks for the heads up..

Keeep in mind, that if your gettin the hard bluegill, sinker, or floater, they won't cast all that far due to the shape of the lure, compared to say a 6 or 8" trout swimbait..I have the floater, my rig is a Chronarch 101 BPV with a 7'6" Calcutta mh/f rod, rated up to 2oz..my hradgill weighs 1.65 oz. The hard gill can be worked a number of ways, from burning it, to walkin the dog, with mine, I can twitch the rod and make the bait do a 180* turn, not sure if you can do that with the sinker. PM Matt, he can give you the best advice on how to fish it....

Well, I'm totally envious..nice goin guys..wish we had lakes like that around here... :-/

Nice...

Never tried that. But, as a kid we use to use sparkplugs as sinkers if we didn't have $$$ to buy real ones...lol

Well, I'm losing my confidence at a pretty fast rate..went to a well known bass lake yesterday and got a big SKUNK!..even though I was "trying " to target larger bass, i.e. throwing jig's, larger worms, swimbaits ect. where I thought the bigger fish may be..My buddy was tossin 4" worms on a dropshot, and got all of 3 fish, in water 10' or less, while I worked the deeper water. I'm pretty sure I coulda got a couple of fish IF I had worked a dropshot, but chose not to. I'm startin to think I have a bad juju or something..? :-[

Burn em, slowroll em, jig em, a fast retrive, for a few feet, stop and twitch, you can do tons on variations..experiment with depts, fast and slow retives, mix up the twitches. Note: on a long cast, I'll reel 2 or 3 cranks then in a side motion, I whip my rod as if I were setting the hook, sometimes I keep my rod at 1 to 2 oclock, reel a few times, then let the spinner bait die, then give a jerk or 2 upwards.

That sounds about right....cept, which bass was his first..???

That's why I was asking, cuz it makes no Sense to me either.

I'm confused, you caught 25 lmb's and you "took off your 1st bass"...? took it off what..?

Great vid...That Hobbie yak is awesome..and so is alot of other stuff... 8-)

Alll my reels are...... Most all my rods are......... Baits...have a bunch!

30 mins to the nearest lake, 60 or more miles to a good lake.. >

I searched like crazy, and couldn't seem to find it...I thought a few months ago there was a vid on how to remove the hook from a gut hooked fish, or am I If anyone has a link, I'd really appreciate it..

Wow!!!! some really cool stuff...like them yaks..of course all the item are nice..thanks for the pic's Glenn..

He's a cute little guy....or girl, whatever... ;D

Welcome...dvl can be a challenge, keep at it, read all the info. here and you'll be catching fish. In fact we are headed out to dvl this wed.

The Ragetail bait monkey is callin my name...

Wave worms, Senco's, even Roboworms..

I ain't gonna guess no stinkin weight, But at's a nice fish..

Food..?

Good for your mailman...and lucky you..

Abolutly........