Matt Fly

First couple of hours, a 9.15 is leading with another 9 and 3- 8's holding down the 5 big money spots overall. The first of the even weight bass, 3.00 have been hit for 5 grand, but the 4 and 5 even are still on the table to be won. They said, if you don't have a 5.5-6.5 lbs, you will not get one of the 12 checks. AVerage is down, most of the time, if you don't have a 7 lber, you don't go, you wait it out hoping for the weights to drop. Good luck BR bassers, make some memories.

The magic number in Texas for the Hybrid's to enter the creeks and rivers is low 50's with out mud, 55 seems to be the ticket for spawning even with heavy stain. Lake Twakonia has a dam, but no gates, when the lake is full pool, it spills over the Dam and creates massive currents in the old Sabine river channel. I know Catt and I are a good 3 hours away by road, and don't know the miles and turns the river takes through bends and stuff, but, no matter the temps, if we get current, in a day and half, 36 hrs, I can take a white storms swim bait and catch hybrid any time directly behind the dam. These hybrids come from Toledo Bend, 100's a miles away. There are two river stystem in Texas that STriper do successfully spawn in according to Parks and Wildlife. One is the Red, and I think the other was the Brazos.

For the past month, they have been running. That saying, "its so easy, a caveman could do it" applies to my grandson and a his batman rod. We use rooster tails and roadrunners for non stop action. You can't beat an ultra lite spinning rod with 2-4 test.

I can't see the screen, I have too many tears from laughing. ;D ;D ;D

I'll be listening on the Radio tomorrow for some lucky BR basser cashing in. I hope to be backout there in a few years with my grandson. He's in training

While we are mentioning Ivie, My Dad coached at Miles Tx in the 70's after leaving Comstock. I have always had great success prior to Ivie being built in all parts of the Concho and Colorado on Purple worms, ie Manns jelly worms and mister twister. Firetails, orange, yellow, white, they were the magic baits growing up. Watched Dad prove that too many times. Even Fayetteville, I guess anything LCRA, purple would be good start.

In the middle of the timber, it looks like a boat lane marker on top of the timber sticking up about 4ft. next time my butt runs that lake, it will pucker a little bit more. It does that with age I think.

Short version or long version? okay, short it is. She filled up. She's got water.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/outdoors/stories/041510dnmetfishcheat.248274c0a.html Couple of quotes down in the middle that floored me. "he wanted to deliver a right cross to their jaw" and "I wanted to embarrass the sport"

Robby responded in an interview. Not what I expected. I expected remorse from a fellow christian angler. Wow!

My first thought was to suggest you borrow the Nitro boat and eject the soon to be son in laws one at a time, but in the end, you'd be stuck with 4 grown ladies, and that shopping x's 4, that would come out in the long run more expensive than 3 weddings. ;D

Its been awhile since this one surfaced. What do ya'll think now? DEAL OR DUD?

There are some great Co angler, sometimes titled Co boater threads buried in this section.

Practice, practice, practice. Matt +1, growing up, we had the cheapie zebco's, lite line and we caught any species willing to play, most of the time, carp was an easy boredom killer.

I lost a fish in 2008, 2nd day of the 2008 Media Championship on RC first cast into dropoff into a creek channel with a brush pile sitting on the edge, 20 lb McCoys mean green, 14 inch custom plum, 7' 8" Falcon, Abu 4600c, I set the hook and the drag went zip zip and the rod went double and she pulled free in the end. We only took 4 fish to the scale that 2nd day, 14+, we ended up 6th, very nice check, but we didn't miss the new BassCat and 1st by much that one will haunt me till I get the bug to go back out and doit again some year.

I saw that later on the same day that I figured a friend posted the 16.72 from Fork, that was April 1, by the way and I'd assume, since this was posted during that time frame, 4/1 that this one fits in that catergorey as well.

Gotta love clean jokes. Grandpa an grandson sitting on a chair together talking about respecting your elders. Grandpa looks the part, old established gentlemen. Grandson asks what an elder is Grandpa answers, well, thats some one who is older than yourself Grandson's reply, grandpa, you must not respect very many elders then.

If you took longitude and latitude on a map, or dug a hole from Cowboys stadium straight down, you would find China. Have we not see in recent months, were an earth quake across the ocean caused an Tsuanmi days later 1000 miles away in another country? Heres my thoughts. This morning, two days later, China gets hit with earthquake. Did all that weight that came crashing to the ground send shockwaves to China? Or is the big guy up stairs mad cause Jerry Jones wants him to pay for the NFL Ticket before he opens the hole up so the big guy can watch his favorite team again. I think he was just angry cause Jerry did away with "his" big screen view from the sky. ;D

Sorry, missed that part some how. When your line breaks, can you tell if it was at the knot? or way above your tie? if at the knot, what kinda knot do you tie with? First off, what type of line and LB test are ya throwing to have all these break offs due to your line. We need some data to help you out.

I used to lose a ton of cranks during tournaments, I never tried to retrieve half of them not wanting to spook the area, just break it off if the area had produced. I'm not afraid to put a crank in the middle of a brush pile either, rules of thumb generally tell ya where you need to be on certain conditions, ie.....blue bird skys, fish tend to be tight to cover, thus I'll throw into cover more than other times. Pleasure fishing, a very good lure knocker will save a crankbait fishermen 100's of dollars over the year. Invest in one, its worth it. To answer your question, it depends on the lake and cover I'm fishing. if you fish a lake with tons of snags, its gonna happen, specially if your putting your bait into tight cover where bass live.

Skeety, that Anchor Marine Big Bass Event on Choke isn't a Bass Champ event in the first place, its hosted by Anchor Marine, Bass Champs just facilitates it for Anchor Marine. I said team events and your experience is a hourly weigh-in BBS tournament and you talk about limits and your fishing a one fish per hour tournament. By the way, you said BC has 5 divisions, its only been 4 for ever. South, Central, North, and East. So you called me a liar cause you fished a Big Bass Splash event when I clearly said the team touranment trail was given free product. If you really fished Bass Champs team trail back then, you'd have known that and you would of met Tony and Lane. I did post the link in an old thread where it said they gave free product to all entries at registration, by the way, I got free product in the North as well. Ignorant, lol, you don't even know a Bass Champs team event over someones elses event. That shows your tournament knowledge of trails in TX. There isn't one single large trail in South TX that holds 7 events in your neck of the woods. Thus why you CAN'T name one and why you didn't. Talk about fish tales and whoppers. I'm beginning to think when you posted on one thread, you said two years tournament fishing, on another you said 3 years, I'm begining to think its been an hourly splash event maybe once or twice.

I had mentioned in a thread that Sure Life gave away free product after the BASS event on Falcon during Bass Champs event. If you go to this site and look up resutls in 4/26/ 2008 on Lake Falcon, in the Story, Chad Potts is thanking Tony and Lane of Sure Life Labs for providing free prouct to all teams on the bottom of the page.

But its gonna be a classic.

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