bigtimfish

Has anyone ever ordered from this guy/company? I was just looking at the website and he/they have some very beautiful lures. I especially like the J fusion and sabre frog. Pretty much all of the next generation lures look good to me. Let me know if anyone has used any of these lures from this company. Custom Lures Unlimited

Bandit seires 100-300 and Strike King series 3

I don't fish tourneys, and my family doesn't depend on me to catch bass so they can eat. So yes, I will tell anyone about a good spot. Why not give someone else a chance to have a good day. Besides if someone is on my spot when I get there, that will give me a better reason to venture off to a different part of the lake that I normally wouldn't try

Dude, you can't pull a fish in without hooks.

Definatley 5/0 or 6/0

I agree Tx rigs are great I have been fishing them for 25 years. But believe it or not, that bullet weight will still catch weeds. Try the swimming senko weightless.

gator is pretty good. Same with turtle. i hear turtles are goods but after watching les on survivor man cook the legs and how they look i was like nah no thanks. didnt look good haha, but the snakes did! man it nothing to cleaning em too. just peel away and everything falls out. There is a lot of animals like gators and turtles, and other things you just would'nt think about eating that taste very good if you have a good roux and stew it correctly. I have eaten some things in stews that I probably would'nt have, if I knew it was in the cooking pot. If you ever come to southeast Tx,La,Mississippi,or Bama a lot of times it's better if you ask what's in it after you ate it. Especially home cooked food.

Anger ;D

Ever try them weightless?

Wow, I have never even heard of an atlantic croaker. We catch what we call golden croaker and they don't get that big. They look just like a little redfish but with a purple and gold color. I am going to have to look those up.

I drive an 04 explorer (58,000 miles) and pull my Sea Chaser 175 RG (bay boat) just fine.My boat weight is 1310lbs and a galvanized single axle trailer. I don't know the weight of the trailer. I don't think I would pull a travel trailer or a 20' bay boat or c.c. with it though. No problems yet. But my buddy has pulled his 22' blue wave classic c.c. (big boat)with his wifes explorer.

And yes, they are very good to eat. A lot of people waste a lot of the gator though. Usually eat just the tail. IMO the meat on the lower jaws is the best tasting. There are tons of ways to cook them. From gator on a stick to a good ol sauce piquant(pronounced pi-caww). Ask Catt if he knows anything about a sauce piquant he will varify.turtle sauce piquant is good too.

x2 on the gators and snakes. The gators are just curious,they will hang around and watch you. Some lose interest and leave, some get REALLY curious when you have a fish on the line and it splashes. But it's the cotton mouths(moccasins) around here that make me nervous. Quiet,sneaky,and flat out mean.

When did line twist become an advantage?

Bayoubassassassin a member on here used to have (maybe still does)a pic on his avatar or icon of a good red(a bull red)

Very nice

I am not a spinning reel guy. I am just wondering if some of you spinning reel guys talk enlighten me on some things. Other than easily slingshotting baits under docks, what is the benefit of a spinning reel? What can they do that I can't do with a BC? And yes I can skip,flip, and pitch craws and creatures under docks with my BC's just fine. I can drop shot and cast light lures without a problem.

Thats pretty sound advice. I have found an exception to this. It is true that you must find the fish. I have experienced bass busting on shad. Both LMB and Stripers in Power Plant Lakes. You will see huge pods of shad just busting the surface. You can throw topwater baits at it and maybe get a few. For some reason without exception a Rattletrap in a Shad pattern will only catch numbers and usually the largest of the bass present. In my mind that is a perfect example of matching the hatch. That's because the lipless crank swims below the school of shad and gives the bass a different thing to look at. Wheter it be sound,vibration or color. That trap stands out

Get a baitcaster. And remember when you are learning to use a baitcaster, start with the brake a little to tight at first.Then loosen a little before every cast until you have it dialed in correctly for that line and lure weight.

Don't forget just because you bought line 3 months ago( lets say at Walmart) does not mean that the line is fresh. It could be a lot older than that. I am not sure how quick it goes from production to store shelves. But I pretty sure some stores that stockpile the stuff still sale old line.

Hey Catt, anymore input?

NO

Please don't start on the pointers.

Around here the teens are bored, other than sports like fishing,golf, and school sports there is really nothing for them to do. So it's either get caught up in a positive thing like sports or turn to drugs.So I think it's great to promote fishing.I myself have went down both paths and luckily did some growing up and decided to live and fish than do drugs and risk going to the pen or worse.

I caught that one. ;D You beat me to it