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Nice to get a report from you, Randall. Hybrids are fun! Do you have any pictures of the white fish?

Congratulations, and I suspect you will be sending us pictures of even larger fish soon!

Nice fish! Congratulations.

Nice looking fish!

Missouri Largemouth: 13 lbs 14 oz Missouri Smallmouth: 7 lbs 2 oz Missouri Spotted Bass: 7 lbs 8 oz

Understood. Thanks, Speedbead and RW. I was actually just seeking a tentative list of those who have indicated their intentions to go. I know that list is liquid and can change quite a bit before the actual event.

Is there a list of individuals who have indicated their intention to attend next year? (Other than going back through all 14 pages of this thread. ) I'll PM Long Mike if there isn't one.

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Welcome to the community, Jim!

Welcome to Bass Resource, Brent!

Citica Ds are good reels. I have a few but if they are selling them for the same price as an E, who is going to buy them? I would think that they will eventually have to come down in price, but maybe they are picking off enough buyers who are new to the sport or uninformed to keep the price the same for awhile. (A long while. )

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Welcome to the forum, Larry!

Actually, WRB is one of our more informative members.

Welcome to the forum!

We have a great free resource in this website and forum. A welcome to new members is the least we can do.

Welcome, James!

Welcome to the community!

Welcome to Bass Resource!

Welcome, Shawn!

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I agree. However, for butts that are thrown in the water the leaching of chemicals into the ecosystem may have already occurred and the damage is done. See the link I posted above. We need to pick up what we can, but it would be great if we could influence some people to just not litter with cigarette butts.

I'm reading this from this PDF on line. (www.lakesherwoodarrow.com/articles/0709/CigButts.pdf ) Quotes: Against popular belief, cigarette filters are not made of cotton. They are made from cellulose acetate, which is a plastic. Most filters decompose in approximately ten years, but it can take up to 22 years for one filter butt to decompose in some situations. They're NOT biodegradable and they don't just blend back into the ecosystem. They remain as trash for decades and the poisons collected in the butts, bleed into the lakes and fish and children who swim in the lakes and play on the beach. It only takes 5 milligrams of nicotine per pound to poison a pet. How do cigarette butts contribute to water pollution? The chemicals contained in tobacco litter contribute to non-point source pollution when carried through storm drains by rainfall and urban runoff to our lakes, rivers, wetlands, coastal waters, and even our underground sources of drinking water. Non point source pollution has harmful effects on drinking water supplies, recreation, fisheries, and wildlife (Source: www.CigaretteLitter.org ). How do cigarette butts impact aquatic life? The EPA's aquatic bioassay studies provide evidentiary conclusion that one cigarette butt per 2 liters of water is acutely toxic to water fleas a planktonic animal that occupies a critical position in the food chain of aquatic ecosystems by transferring energy and organic matter from algae to higher consumers such as fish. Water fleas are widely used to determine acute toxicity of chemicals in aquatic invertebrates. The toxic chemicals that leach from a cigarettes' cellulose acetate filter and remnant tobacco are a biohazard. One hundred percent of the animals died after 48 hours in the concentrations that were equivalent to the chemicals found in two or more used cigarette filters (Source: US EPA, Aquatic Invertebrate Acute Toxicity Test for Freshwater Daphnids, 1996).

I think it is a sign of how jacked up this whole process is that the guy has to take a lie detector test. An honest person can get nervous and fail the test and with the world record on the line, I know I would be nervous. If there is no good evidence to discredit the fish, people need to accept it. Period.