Matt Fly

Go see Carl, owner of the Anglers Lodge down there, he should be able to put you on current pattern and good location.

Pretty dumb for crossing over to the Mexican side, US authorities can't cross to help you out no matter what goes down. This is why I am against any money being spent out of the tax payers dollars for improving fishing on our 2 border lakes.

Great show. Can't wait to see Brooks and Dunn come back for a few special guest performances in a few years. They have some great music to listen to.

Its a business, and I don't fault them for not wanting to continue to dump money into something that isn't selling commercial air time. The vast majority has been EPL soccer.

I will be working First Monday Trade Days in Canton for 5 days, good place for the ladies to come if they don't get to wet a line on Fork during that time. Always some great Skeeter Pros to talk to during the Owners Invitational.

I took the boat to areas that I knew the bottom content. Like the boat ramp, its solid concrete, sandy swim beach, the dam and big rocks, passing over a tree, soft mudd, submerged vegitation, known xmas trees or brush. Once you have seen how these things appear, you will start to learn what are hard bottoms, soft bottoms and so on. Once you have seen what these appear like, then you can adjust intensity up and down to see what that does to your picture. I like to go to bridges, going slowly parallel to the bridge pilings, how many feet past the column does it take to show up on the screen? are you ten feet past the piling when it shows up on the screen, note your boat speed. Easiest way to learn your graph is to use it in areas that you know what is down there, that takes guess work out of what you are reading.

I have seen the crossover and understand the stick bait terminology. To me, a stick bait was always a hard jerk bait. One of the first actions imparted with plastic type stick baits was twitching them like jerk baits, thus another type of stick bait. The hard rogue type baits will always be stick baits to me.

Using gamefish in the state of Texas is against the law.

Any reports?

Like mentioned, gar have very tough boney mouth. We always just put a minnow on a cork/bobber about 18" under water and let the gar take it for a few minutes, give them time to work it into their mouths, this may require them taking it 10-15 yards to work that minnow into the softer part of their mouths. Same with Aligator gar, I have allowed them to carry it a good 30-40 yards before setting the hook, again, this allows them to get the bait into the soft part of their mouths.

We take them and hang them with baleing wire already in the "hangin tree". We cut the tails and bleed them, they will die in minutes. Draining them also will aide in a better tasting fillet. Plus, you don't need two hands to skin one. While hanging, make a few cuts around the dorsal and gills. when you pull the skin down, work your way around to the belly, the strip of skin will split the fish down the middle with out the knife. Once you pulled the skin off in one piece most of the time, bust the head off and the remains will stay with the head and you don't have much to do on the inside. Easy to clean 50 with a few guys in short work.

Some of the biggest bluegills and crappie are in those Santee RCP pits/San Diego river bed. Fished them from 1980-94, half those years you could drive to them, the other half we carried our float tubes in. Very deep! Since minnows back then were 5.99 dz for crappie minnows, I elected to fish with 5 cent feeder goldfish. Some good bass, 6 crappie over 3 lbs came from those pits. Just an ole navy guy who lived in Lakeside/El Cajon.

Those conditions would have me putting baits tight in cover, working shaded sides of cover and structure. Catt, love working a Quad Shad spinnerbait on the tops of the grass flats when they are chasing bait in those periods when a top water isn't getting the blowups.

I do believe there are now 60 lakes that have produced 13 lb bass, 20+ private lakes. First time in along time, 2 bass of 16 lbs weighed in. I honestly believe if all the prime canidates keep getting steady shots of rain for the next 5 years, we make a run at the state record, if nothing else, more lake records to fall. We haven't had this much rain in years in the southern half of Texas. Squaw Creek is re-opening, been 10 years since its been open to public, 9/11. The future for my grandson looks promising.

Thats nothing more than bait on a c rig at Falcon.

+1 on no payments

Seems to me, there are methods available to take someone down without chasing to far. We have small caliber weapons with net throwing adapters that can take 500 lb lions, deer and other loose animals down on the run and having one on hand at the games seems easier than sending 10,000 volts to a teenage on national TV. Even a pair of bolos would take him down on the run. There have been associated deaths with the use of a taser. I think I provided two alternatives that would be more entertaining to the TV viewers and fans than tasing someone.

washer ;D washing machine

I went to repair an older couples washer the other day. Note on washing machine said it "licks honey, don't use". Sorry, just not gonna correct people I don't know, to assume that we all have the same education is ..... I'd expect the grammar cops would have corrected the 70+ year old couple though.

Alot of cheaper spinnerbaits that used copper blades were "plated", and they start rust eventually in the tackle box. I still love to paint white, chartruesse and international orange colorado blades, in the 70's, it was common to see painted spinner bait blades every where to buy. You don't see as many these days, but highly stained and muddy conditions, depending on water temps, are still great colors to throw at certain times.

A good bic lighter repairs the majority of plastics specially expensive senkos. Simple dunking in the livewell cools them in no time to be used over and over. Better than glues.

Some very good ideas on how to isolate this problem. I'm sure you have a good warranty, so use it while it lasts. There shouldn't be any corrosion with a new boat, but sometimes looses connections, a little corrosion, or the inline amp breaker could be tripped.

Anything mesh, even a net is an attractant to getting barbed hooks burried into them and takes time to get them out or cut them out. Mesh equals trouble sooner or later. I do have a buddy that uses old pill bottles for small terminal tackle, split shots, C rig beads, different size finishing nails for weights to insert into worms to add weights and etc. I told him, my small planos do the same, except I dont have to open up multiple containers to get rigged like he does.

How about a new Lake record of 16.02. Will post picture later, she's a beautiful toad.

KVD won the classic this year, enough said. It may not be an Elite series event, but it was the biggest win of this year, he'll take Classic win #3. by the way, a swimbait wasn't even on the classic radar for the biggest win of the year.