Matt Fly

I'm sure as these ball hogging pros cash their checks, they are worried about a few fans opinions. As for Lebron, he's home grown product, playing in front of home town crowd. Its his pep rally and the fans eat it up. As for Kobe being Clowned, he's dished up more than hasbeen served to him. lol

Eating fish is a problem everywhere. Some fish for sport, some fish for supper.

Pictures don't come close to doing fish justice most of the times.

Was curious, saw a post on an 18.5 lb bass out of the Satilla river. The man was from Georgia, I googled the river as well, shows to be in Georgia. Any stories on this past weekend bass?

I know guys who can flat out fish that don't care about tournaments. Based on a few of these posts. Does this mean when someone gives advice, it would be okay for us to ask them to post their tournament resume, I mean why take advise from someone who don't have any tournament resumes on file for us to view? lol That would eliminate alot of advice or opinions given on here. I'll flip the script and just say I'd like the opportunity to be on the list of those that tried to best him, I'd be in good company on that list, and have no shame in being on that list. Ain't skeered!!!!!!!

Both sides have witnesses to validate their stories. Langill said Duckett saw his bent rod pattern during practice as he was passing by. Duckett said he fished the spot in past years, and he didn't want to stop there in practice because he didn't want to tip the spot off to others. Duckett's protest day one, Langills marshall said they were never within 2 casts of each other. Hmmm.

Concur with that 100% Jack. Football never entered the picture the whole day, and we know that Catt and myself love college football.

Not only was he DQ'ed, he was suspended from the Elites for the rest of the year. He has filed an appeal through his attorneys. This one is ugly arleady. Either way it goes, its ugly for all involved.

I thought they had landed another blue chipper unexpectedly. After RW's input, that would make more sense. ;D

I gotta say stupid would have been no lifejacket and no kill switch. It looks like performance testing gone very bad. If I cross someones wake, its at a distance, and I'll trim down to get more boat setting on the water to maintain more positive control. At that speed, and trimmed up to where the boat only rides on inches, it don't take much to upset the boat as seen. Guys lucky to have not broken his neck.

I believe the perception is amoungst the tournament fishermen, there is no skill in trolling. For the most part, you aren't doing the work, the boat is. When you cast a crank, you can stop it, bump it, burn it, pause it and such. You are giving it the action. You are doing the work. Its kinda hard to do all the above when the boat is gear and the boat is doing the work. Specially when the rods are in holders. There are 100 techniques for trolling different kinds of baits. We talk about becoming versitile with different methods of fishing. Drop shot, wacky, split shotting, C rig and etc... same as with trolling, becoming versatile with various forms of trolling. You still need to be able to find productive areas, and select correct colors based on seasonal patterns and given conditions. Its just another method or style of presenting a bait.

The largest male ever donated to the Texas SAL program was 6 lbs.

I like to add scents when water clarity is highly stained to muddy.

Denny made me want flip some jigs. We got muddy to stained waters. Most DFW lakes are full as ticks. Nice post Catt.

The two biggest factors that turned me off about baseball. The ongoing witch hunt that has consumed years and years of the same rhetoric. The same horse has been beaten to death 1000''s times over and the final chapter still hasn't been written to end it. Its still on going. Roids as a whole has not effected the game, what it did do was taint the record books. How many homers did Sosa hit with a corked bat? Who knows? How many pitchers slipped in a vaseline ball here and there? Cheating was around before Steriods was invented.

When I'm on a lake for the first time that is old, the timber has long erroded and serves no purpose of helping sustain life, lack of vegitation of any sorts, the first thing I start looking for on my graph is planted brush piles. Common sense and experience tells me that crappie fishermen love bridges, and where you find bridge pilings, you'll find dropped brush. Where you find brush, you'll find bait and smaller forage seeking security amoungst the cover. Hello, big bass love crappie and the buffet that bridges hold during most times of the year except the spawn. A bridge provides shade 100 percent during the day and offers a buffet 24 hrs a day. next, i look for docks that aren't recreation, wake boats and jet ski's would not be good indicator. I look for docks that have trap doors in the middle, lights close to the water, fishing rod holders, bait traps, minnow buckets, fishing boats, and such. If those docks don't have brush under them, then they'll be in casting range from the dock. When I come up on a point, I will go up and down that point looking for "the sweet spot", and on most occassions, will find planted brush. When I go into marinas with large boat docks. I notice if its a floater that rides up on poles, or one that is on a cable system. The floater moves vertically and is stationary, up or down, the other is positioned due to lake levels. Normally, when lakes drop, the marina has to be pushed out to deeper water using pusher boats or small tug. Marinas are known to have lots of brush out. Marinas on cables may have brush spread out 200 yards due to the dock being moved ever so often due to lake levels dropping or rising. Heres my take on the cheating issue. All being legal in your area. If you haven't fished long enough for these places to be common sense, you probably would not recognize good funnel points to put brush out anyway that would hold or attract fish. What most don't realize, over 2/3 of the brush in lakes are put there by pleasure fishermen. Not tournament fishermen. Learn to read the signs on the wall, they are not hard to read if you just look for them. Whats the difference in setting some brush out or fishing someone elses you found on your own? Cheating. lol

APR system. Their standards, gets one point for being enrolled and one point for passing 20 percent of degree plan in a year. Wow, you only gotta pass 20 percent of your classes. Also, maintain 6 semester hours each semester to be eligible. Current APR requires colleges to open the books on all athletes to be public, except the names are withheld. There is a college athlete who was standout at George Washington Univ. Omar Williams, remember, GWU is noted for being a tough college to get into. APR would like to know how a player, who didn't graduate from HS, has went to 3 prep schools and has no transcripts(grades) from any, has maintained eligibility at such a prestigous University. GWU is not known for "JOCK MAJORS" like other colleges. APR would just like to know whats going on behind the scenes. Arizona will be the hardiest hit BCS college with the loss of 4 scholarships. APR said USC only graduates 50% of its football players.

You would think that MLB would have doctors on the payroll that know what can be subscribed. Going to personal doctors and being prescribed banned substance is becoming old excuse fast. ED is no excuse.

We had a female clerk on our slide, she was red head, and extremely over weight. After a year of clerking, she wanted to be on the slide, after another year, I thought she was a new girl, wow, did she look very good. Our Austin Hub had 13 slides, She was move down on the other end of the building. I left UPS to finish off my degree in late November, by the end of Dec. I had gained 17 lbs from holiday eats and no exercise. yep, you'll burn calories working for UPS.

WRB, the tagged big bass study on Rayburn confirmed the same. It was noted that the tagged bass when hunting at night paralleled the shoreline out in 4-8 ft of water. Author noted that she rarely got any shallower than 4 feet to seek prey. I was just assuming that a Texas college did the study, thus Texas standards when talking records, but even 16 lbers would be rare to shock up for La standards. I know the study on Rayburn is on the net somewhere.

I believe Rayburn is at pool now, probablely over pool at this time, which means the buck brush has been flooded. Changes the game, the grass that was near the surface a month ago is now under water by a few feet. I'd say stay in Buck, Buck didn't dirty up a few weeks back when she came up a couple feet in a few days. I do know the water above Buck got real dirty coming from the upper bayou and some big fish came from Buck's cleaner water to win money. Great choices, Needmore point, Farmers, always local hot spots, great grass.

There is one big difference in football and MLB. MLB has been trying to cover this crap up for years and years. No testing, and they didn't want to test cause they knew the outcome ahead of time. NFL hasn't needed congress to govern them like MLB has. Texas High Schools have manadatory testing in place. How many other states can say the same. Not random, but mandatory testing for all HS athletes. Muddy, as for the NFL, I was aware of that abuse as well. Lyle Alzado put that spot light on alot of teams in that era, the 70's due to his untimely death. Its never talked about, but check out how many of the starter from the great Steelers era are alive from that offensive line. And their deaths just didn't happen, they've been dead for along time, way before they hit 50. So, yes, I have been aware of the problems in the NFL. The problem is, the NFL hasn't been in the news for the last 5-7 years with the same on going investigation of BALCO and Barry Bonds.

Most UPS drivers, don't load their own ground packages, that is done by morning pre-load crew. A few factors to consider. The season, come Oct, the holiday rush is on at UPS for Xmas. The normal pre loader for that route was out for what ever reason and a new guy had to load that truck for the day. Package wasn't in the right location and when the driver found it, it would have caused him to back track to deliver it, and that would have caused him to be late on his commercial pickups that he has to do to end his day. There was a new sorter for that slide today, old sorter was on vacation or whatever. Package got sent to wrong area for loading and when this happens, its tossed on bottom belt and goes all the way to the back of the house to be resorted again, amoungst the other 1000 packages put back on the bottom for resorting every half hour. The weather was bad 1000 miles away that prevented it from being shipped as expected. So, it never left from its origin on time. Your normal driver was on vacation, and his replacement is familar with businesses, but not too swift for residental areas. At UPS, at least in Austin, we had alot of college students who preloaded, preloaders are part timers who work about 4 hours in the early morning hours. Finding guys who are willing to work 4-5 tough fast paced hrs and come in everyday at 4am is hard to keep the same crews every day. Been there, done that. Go Brown! If you are looking into signing up for a gym membership, forget that, just join UPS preloading crews or unloading crews in the evening and get paid to loose weight.

The number one reason to own a BassCat, it has some of the deepiest livewells on the market. Look at older Cats as well, they had some of the biggest and deepiest long ago, and they haven't comprimised that for Compartment space. When I saw the livewells on a Cat for the first time, it was the selling point that changed me for life. State limits are set for eating purposes only, they never factor in livewells for tournaments, and be glad they don't. If tournaments in other states are conducted like this, then its up to the anglers to voice their concerns to the director about fish care. If they are club tournaments, then the club needs to vote on a limit that doesn't raise the mortality rates due to overcrowding of livewells.

When prefishing, a normal day would have 3 bites I'm looking for. I'm gonna use a lake that has no vegitation, is old, tons of docks and retaining walls for an example. Early morning, which means topwater or sub surface, I'll concentrate behind the docks close to the walls. I'll throw small baits to locate active fish. I'll throw something else to determine if a bigger bite can be had. Catching 20 fish barely legal or short fish don't win on of my waters. Next, is after the sun has gotten up, I'll back out to the first break lines, which maybe docks and work those till mid morning. From there, I back off the docks and hit the 10,000 brush piles that owners have put out away from thier docks. If you get bit off retaining wall early, you might try other areas of the lake with the same patterns. You never know how many boats will be fishing on Sat, tournament, pleasure, bank fishermen, or dock owners fishing from thieir docks. You never know what number you will have drawn, you could be on the same pattern as half the other guys, and they beat you to your first two spots. Prefishing should give you alternative patterns, locations, and most of all, help you locate the right fish to get in the money. If you catch 15-20 in a tourney, but only manage a couple of keepers, then you need to change your area. Catching is nice, but on tourney day, catching keepers that put you in contention is the name of the game. And if you go to the same area all the time and get the same results, its time to do something different, move deeper, or find better fish.