kajun

I am a smoker also JD and I wouldn't worry about it. I think the gloves are a little much. If you are worried about the smell just use a artificial scent to cover it up. Thats all I do. I would think the talcum powder would be more offensive to the fish than the smoke.

What concerns me the most is that the guy is suing not only Evers sponsors but the sponsors of B.A.S.S and the sponsors of the classic. ESPN, B.P.S and others. If this guy wins alot of money through this suit it might deter some sponsors, IMO.

Has anyone been following the lawsuit that was filed against him by a man who rode with him on his boat as an observer during the 2003 Classic. This may be old news for some of you but I just heard about it on a replay this morning of Basscenter. Not only is this guy seeking damages from Evers but also from all of his sponsors and from the sponsors of the classic. Supossedly this guy was injured to the point where he had to have a lower back operation. I was just wondering what everyones thoughts were on the subject. Do you think any adverse affects will come about from this?

Thats kind of what I was thinkig JD except for the fact that the people that told him this were the people that were selling him the Florida LM strain. There's an article in this site about that same subject, about how you just can't tell by looking you have to have a genetic test done to really find out. If maybe we just noticed them not spawning that would be the case but the salesmen told him this. I know what ya'll are thinking and I wouldn't have stocked a fish that wouldn't spawn either. He has catfish in this lake also.

My wifes uncle has a small farm pond(2 ac) on his property. A couple of years ago he had it stocked with a Florida-strain LM. When they stocked it they told him that these bass would not spawn. Does anyone know why or if this is true. Is it maybe because of the size of the lake? Thanx Kajun

I just got done reading it also. Very good article JT. I want to start fishing tounaments but I know nothing about them so learning the unwritten rules is probably just as important. Thanks

I watched it this morning. I liked it quite a bit. I really liked Schooled by Denny Brauer, I have never seen it before. Basscenter was good. They talked about a couple of things that was new to me like that snakehead thing or whatever that was, never heard of that. Like skipper I could also do without Byron Velvick. All in all it was pretty good though.

And as far as trailers go I use them 90% of the time because most of the waters I fish are muddy with very low visability so I try to attract all the attention I can. I usually use pork or rattlesnake twin tails.

Most of the time I use the cheap Wal-Mart spinnerbaits. I've used the name brand spinnerbaits like Terminator and others but I just don't think that it matters. I've fished them both on the same day before and one brand has never proved itself to be suppieor to the other and the cheap Wal-Mart ones(the ones that don't even come in a package) only cost me a dollar. The only thing I usually do is sharpen the hooks.

Most of the time when I fish I'm either using a jig or some type of soft plastics or spinnerbaits. I rarely use crankbaits. Thanks, Kajun

I am going to be honest with everyone here. I have never in my life given a crap about the type of rod I purchased. I never cared about the action, size, or anything except for price. By reading different articles and post on this site and others I now realize that I am missing a very important piece to the successful fishing puzzel(so to speak). In my readings I have come to the assumption that a good starting point would be a medium heavy rod 6'6" to 7'0". At some point I hope to expand my collection to include a rod and reel set-up for every application but, I have to crawl before I can walk. So is this rod a good starting point?

I snagged a muscrat one time. Also like mike I've wounded myself flyfishing. I pierced my uncle's ear when I was 8.

My year started off pretty slow. I was working two jobs most of spring and summer so I was lucky if I got on the water twice a month. By mid summer I was down to one job so I got to do more fishing. My goals this summer was to put everything that I had learned from this website and others to the test and see if they could work for me. One of my goals was to learn how to fish a carolina rig. I did catch my fist bass this summer on one so I was satisfied; and it was a carolina rigged lizard which was also a first for me. Another goal was to get better at crankbaits, which so far I am still no good at but I'm working at it. :-/ I also wanted to stop just fshing and actually go after some big fish this fall and so far I've been havig a really good fall catching alot of 4lbs+ fish which is good for the areas I fish. So for the year as a whole I would have to say it has been a really good year for me, although I didn't get on the water as much as I would have liked I did learn alot this year and I think I made myself a better fisherman. This January I will be moving to Kentucky and I am hoping that with all the things I've learned in the past year I can enter some local bass tounaments on Rough River and maybe some on Kentucky Lake just to get a feel for tounament fishing(also something I've never done). My New Year's resolution this year is going to be to improve my overall fishing everything from equipment to attitude. If I can do that I think come next year this time I should be able to answer some questions on this site instead of just asking them.

Hey JT, I would be interested in something like this, but it would obviously depend on the membership fee. For a recreational fisherman like myself the fee would probably have to be under fourty dollars annually for it to be worth it. In a typical year I generally only make 8-10 trips to an actual tackle shop. So I don't spend a whole lot of money on tackle. I am starting to build my own lures and soft plastics so if I could get some pieces in bulk at wholesale then it would probably be worth it. Just my opinion though. Kajun

As far as a bad trip when I actually made it to the water. I was floating a creek in a small canoe in western Kentucky one time and obviously since it was a bad trip I wasn't catching any fish and I was having a bad casting day and was losing lures in the trees and brush at a rapid pace. Not only that but I made the mistake of listening to the weather man who said the chance for rain was slim to none. Well he was wrong the chance of rain was good because it started to thunderstorm and I had no choice but to ride it out because I had to float the creek until I made it to my truck. After two more hours of floating the creek in the rain I finally made it back to my truck just to find out that I had had my drivers side window busted out and my 7mm and my TC .50 cal stolen along with my CD player and CD's. Anyway that trip is one I definately wish I had not gone on.