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A few cold days in a row will cool the upper few inches of water and the bass will often move deeper. It isn't so much the coolness that moves them deeper but the instability in the water temperatures in the upper layer when temperatures jump from 90 to 50 for a few days, then back up to 80, etc. A bass is cold-blooded and it's body will adjust to whatever temperature the water is; however, if the temperature of water is quite unstable and changing dramatically and quickly, bass will try to remove themselves from that unstable environment. Cold-blooded creatures prefer stable temperatures or slow changes in temperature that allow time for acclimation. Since it takes a long time for air temperature changes to reach deeper layers of water, these layers are more stable. How deep the fish will go depends on how much the unstable air temperatures affect the upper layer of water and how deep that effect is.

Florence has my votes. Wow! We have a long way to go before we catch those at the top.

Those are just some beautiful fish, Dwight. I'm sure you will keep the trophy pictures coming. Great job!

Dwight, you continue to amaze. You've definitely got a bead on what it takes to haul in those Lake Erie hawgs.

Wow! What a panfish! That's one of those radioactive mutants. Maybe the state government is hiding something down there. They did install some radiation monitoring equipment a few years back in Lake Havasu City though the official word was they "didn't have any particular reason to put the equipment there." Check out the link below. http://www.havasunews.com/articles/2007/08/09/news/news01.txt

I have to go with Sam on his number one choice. Pound for pound nothing fights like a redfish. You hang into a 30 to 35 inch redfish on regular tackle and you're looking at 30 plus minutes, more or less, to bring it in.

Big-O, congratulations on a day that you will always remember! You have accomplished a feat that 99.9 percent of us will never accomplish. Seven fish averaging over 10 lbs each on one fishing trip is an extraordinary accomplishment.

Yeah, I left out a bunch of people. There are just too many to name.

Congratulations, Mike! I'm sure you will make a great moderator.

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My largemouth PB is 7 lbs 5 oz on a Booyah Spinnerbait. There are no smallmouth that I am aware of in Northwest Missouri and when I have fished lakes with smallmouth in southern Missouri I haven't caught anything that I believe weighed more than 2.5 lbs. Come on, Chris, give us your awesome PB!!! I would like to see Paul's too. And let's not forget Randall and Senko77. They have caught some hawgs too. Kent needs to regurgitate his story about those huge smallmouths in his avatar as well. Great story!! I think I left out Mattlures and WRB also. We have some guys on here who have nailed some huge fish!

It is the same for me Kent. I fish lakes with a lot of timber left standing and a lot of timber on the bottom. As the years progress I trim my guards less and less. I have to agree. As mentioned above, I fish a lot of highly timbered lakes. I am to the point where trimming the weed guard in some cases is useless.

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Welcome to the community, Jeff.

Welcome to the forum, Peter. You can use any photo editing software to resize your pictures, but probably the easiest way to post pictures is to use the gallery on this site or use a photo hosting site like photobucket. Below is a link to a tutorial on how to use the Bass Resource gallery.

It looks like it is turning into a battle. Evers and Van Dam are neck and neck.

It is likely I will have just as difficult a time reaching 10 lb 2 oz as you will reaching 15 1/2 lbs. They are both 73 percent of the size of our state's biggest fish. If Dwight can do it, we can. Never say never!

Dwight's on a roll. Seventy two percent is going to be hard to beat. I don't want to say game over, but he's making it pretty tough. I just calculated 73 percent of the Missouri largemouth (13 lb 14 oz)and smallmouth (7 lbs 2 oz) records and I need to catch a 10 lb 2 oz largemouth or a 5 lb 2 oz smallmouth to pass him.

Dwight, you continue to amaze! You are the smallie Guru. Those are some beautiful, bronze babies!

Nice smallies, Chris! Maybe you, or someone else, has explained this before but why are the smallies in California greener that the smallies back East?

Welcome to the forum, Brian.

Wow, what a fish! That's what it is all about.

Welcome. I was a long-time stalker ... uh ... I mean lurker, before I ever joined the forum also.

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