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6.13 on a jr bronzeye spro frog 12.6 striper on a fluke jr. stripers count?

yeah drag is definitely key, especially when using #55 braid.

i want one. is that falcon craw color?

I do pretty well getting fish to the boat or bank with Owner worm hooks, but still have a good amount of fish throwing the bait after a good tug-of-war. My theory is that these "cutting edges" are cutting and slicing the hole i've made in their mouth with a hookset, bigger. I don't ever play em too long but those headshakes above and below the surface, along with diving back down in all directions, tears the flesh around the hook entry, allowing the hook to come free. Thinking about going back to my gammy superlines. You guys think this is a valid theory?

happy birfday buddy...hope there's many more for you.

alot of times pics on the interwebz are taken with bright lighting, bringing out colors that seem different than what you see when you open your package in a dimly lit room

holy crap what's that thing eatin?!?!

i think this lake will probably become a lake of fishing spots instead of patterns again. fishing this year is not going well.

well i just found out that its hyacinth, alligator weed and hydrilla getting the sauce. and i think that since the hydrilla grows in the pads the pads die when the stuff gets sprayed. and that's their main cover in the summer time. but i'm talking football fields worth of pads are gone because of this. this is a 33,000 reservoir system so that's really not much. winning weights in 2011 tournaments to date are in the 17- to 19-pound range for a 5-bass limit, which when compared to annual averages seems, well, about average. but, comparing late winter and early spring events to an annual average does not provide an accurate picture. Early year weights are always the heaviest of the year, offsetting low summer weights and boosting the annual average. A media bass tour director said his winning weights in February to April the past two years have averaged between 20 pounds on a slow day to 30 pounds on a good day on ross barnett reservoir. in three events in 2011, he said nobody has topped 20 pounds. the winning weight in the March 2010 BFL event was 25 pounds, 13 ounces. The April 2011 BFL winner toted nearly 8 pounds less (17-14) to the scales. Obviously other conditions have to be factored, but the results are odd.

I know it depends on whats being used but whatevers most effective on hyacinth, which spreads so badly. And I believe that's all they're targeting here but a tremendous amount of pads have disappeared as well. So if spraying is the reason tournament results have been especially low in contrast to the recent past when cover was abundant, is it because it is affecting fish populations or health, or is it because the change in available cover has changed fish behavior and fishermen haven't successfully adjusted? I suspect the latter is partly to blame.But the big fear is the long-term impact on populations. The loss of cover means less protection for hatching bass. Anyone else have experience with fishing in these types of scenarios?

actually the shallower ones would be darker complected, don't know what i was thinking, still....great fish

that there's nothin to sneeze at. nice bass and welcome!

Dwight never disappoints. looks like that second smallie was caught a little shallower no?

you're fish are incredible. evryone of them are just as gorgeous as could be. i would have guessed it was a smallmouth. still haven't completely ruled it out. could it be a hybrid?

it's not considered invasive but we have on over abundance of alligator gar on the river i fish. a guy almost completely severed his foot off running his foot down the spine of one of them while he was barefoot skiing

wow yeah i wouldnt be worried about it. i'm sure they will ultimately appreciate you understanding

lake fork swim shad or yum money minnow. are you throwing out in open water or in the shallows through heavy or light cover? it sounds like you should use what you caught the pig on. you just want a more durable swimbait?

lol everyones mad. i'm with grey wolf. he's here because he's a member here and has every right to read whatever thread he wants. i didn't see anything negative with his post, in fact it was straight truth and the truth will make you angry sometimes. there's always going to be people who either don't see eye to eye with you or are always looking to take advantage of someone else so i know it's easy to pick on the neutral guy when you don't know who to blame. well crap, by the time i could type this up, everyone was cool again.

honestly i wouldn't mind giving this a go. not sure about skiing through the woods though

i guess this is one way to do it.

i like your idea of south on the river even though it could take alot of time. are there no backwaters further upriver with some relief from the current? i would say stick to those backwaters and find flooded grass and areas that would normally be above water. how high is the water? the water may be real murkey i'd break out the chatterbait.

one frog,one buzzbait, one spinnerbait, one lipless crank, one square bill, one jig, and two packs of bama bug game hawgs.

what makes it gimmicky? aren't these guys BR sponsors? i actually think we may have ran em off

no i have not had experience with these frogs, but they do look like a frog swimming when in action. i used to use scum frogs and went to spro cause it was the "hot" thing to do. well i went back to the scum frog when i found out the spro only worked as well as my scum frogs did, which was brilliantly, and for 3-4 bucks cheaper. i will admit i can't cast the scum frog as far as a spro

another vote for Norman. bandit's eyes aren't that close together