NateFollmer

Awesome photos! I love B&W with one color. Thanks mod, I needed that sunset after the day I had lol

Last nights trip to the lake (no fish AND my Bill Dance Select baitcaster finally died after it met my Jeep hatch). I was bummed after all that but this made it all worth it: And this morning on the river...didn't think it was this cold yet:

No lol it I picked up a clacking rap, deep xrap and about 6 bags of rage baby craws. I really needed hard baits, but I couldn't pass up $3 baby craws... I am set on the rage front. Ive been going to all the local stores and snatching up the clearance ha. Last weekend I got a few bags of shads and anacondas

All, Just wanted to give you a heads up. I found a coupon online - $10 off any $25 purchase from Dick's and it turned out to be a fake. It even came from a place I have gotten other good deals from, so be careful when using these things. The cashier told me they have seen a TON of them the past few weeks and the only valid Dick's coupon currently running is some % off any $50 order. Just wanted to let everyone know in case you found it, so you don't feel like a tool when you get ripped in front of a line of customers

Nice! Great fish. What did you catch it on?

Battlefield 2 and Battlefield2142 are no doubt the best war games out there. We ought to play together sometime My name on there is xDarthxNaterx

I love my X-Raps, but just about anything else they make can be beat by someone else. The price is what kills me. I can get 2 SK or Bomber cranks for the price of 1 Rapala.

I would spoon with Speed..... Just sayin'!

That..... IS...... AWESOME!

DVT does great work on reels and rod making, but man, he is a TERRIBLE fisherman... HA just kidding!

Never had an issue either. Maybe it's because I run my soft plastics up my line. I push the plastic up past the end of the hook and have about a 1/4 inch of the line in the plastic.

No! I hate them and I don't want them to win anything! If I think they will win, then they will, so NO! NO! NO! .....Go Ravens!

I would throw a flouro leader on there. I have had pickerel bite through braid so I'm sure a Pike could snap right through it no problem.

Thanks Nine Miler - PM sent! Susqy - I think I know where you're talking about. Is it near that little area of cliff? I know exactly why you caught that pike off the launch, you were probably close to the creek channel (or whats left of it). I'm going to try first where the creek enters (the one you across when you come in), then I'm going to move down and parallel the dam and make my way back up to the launch on the right side (launch side). Going to try some spoon trolling while we move from spot to spot too.

garry - I'll ask him, he has all kinds of stuff. He even casts aluminum and lead so there's some other weight options Susqy- I import the model (an .obj file) into Aspire. I then set up my material, lay out the model (I just laid out the 1 side, then mirrored it to make the second half). Then, you pick your bits. I did 3 cuts, 1 rough cut with a 1/2 bit, then a pocket cut (the dead space around the object, with the same bit. Finally, I did the detail cutting with a 1/16 bit. I probably could have used a 1/8 bit though too. It took about 30 minutes per model to cut.

I think I may ha ha I really want to start pike/muskie fishing. It looks like too much fun.

Love nostalgic photos Great link!

Thanks! They average about 1.3 to 1.6 million vertices. The one DBatey posted that I did was sitting at 3 million at one time. I had to back off a bit because the file size was MASSIVE. That's what I hate about sculpting, you need to have the same amount of points regardless of detail or it will turn out goofy in the end. I can then cut back the points after I'm done sculpting. I could probably have made them look as detailed with about 300,000 points, but it takes awhile for the computer to get rid of 'useless' points so I don't bother with it.

The new battlefield on 360 is great. Getting ready to put the boat away aside from maybe one trip a month and look foward to hibernating with this game. I'm more of a PC gamer myself because I like games that let you create custom stuff. I knew a few guys that made some really cool stuff for Battlefield 2. I made some random items for Unreal Tournament, but nothing worth while HA.

Oh post as many photos as you want. I just didn't want people coming on here posting an entire album of their dog haha. I too get confused with the trout sometimes. I thought that rainbow I posted back a few pages was a brookie because I never saw a rainbow so dark. Freakin' trout and their color changing ways!

If I get a pike over ten, I will take a photo with it in the nude... LOL I just want anything over 2 ft. HAHA I'm sick of targeting toothy critters and only catching juvenile pickerel... While they are fun to catch, when you can lip them without getting bloody, it aint big enough

Thanks for the info RoLo. This puts even more confidence in a few spots I wanted to try. All have deeper water that were once close to vegetation (obviously dead now). This lake is pretty small, so I shouldn't have an issue finding them... I hope It just concerns me how many pike they have stocked in that lake. I could be looking at this wrong, but if they are putting almost 2000 pike in a year, and it isn't a 'well known' Pike hot spot, wouldn't you think that they aren't really surviving well?

It's 3 inches long. The top, 'lip' area is 1/4 inch (1/2 total when it's assembled), it then tapers down to roughly an 1/8 of an inch (so I'll have a 1/4 of an inch total). I was messing around with weights and things last night because my buddy gave me a reloading scale. It looks like there was only 158 grains of lead in the lipless crank I took apart (head weights and rattles included) which is close to 3/8 oz. That PVC is actually a little heavier than I thought it was, so it shouldn't take much to get it to sink. 2 or 3 .22 cal lead balls should do it

Walker Lake... They stock a ton of Pike and Walleye in there. I'm making it a point to find them I have the Walker map Boatnik made up, so I think I have a few key spots picked out I need to hit. BTW, where the heck have you been? HA

About the only thing they did was remove their Youtube video on how to do it, but there are a bunch of 'clone' videos by now. Crazy stuff... apparently it wasn't even hard, I didn't see the video though.