NateFollmer

If vampires can do that to grown women, I think that just tells you how bad it is...

Another tip: Don't use a hard quick hookset when setting the hook. Give it a nice steady sweep to the side. Good luck! Swimbait fishing is right up there in excitement with flippin'

Depends. I think the sun has more to do with it than the actual time of day. If's its cloudy out, the fish may stay shallow all day long. If you get up that early, start shallow and work your way out, once you find the fish, stay there until conditions change.

Thanks everyone. I swear every time I open any thread I see 10 more people from Pa haha. bassfisherjk - You need to go back, it's been a great bite lately. Do you get to Raystown much? I haven't been there this year and I'm wondering how it's been so far.. Seems the Stripers have been on this season, but I haven't seen any other species reports.

Get yourself a pack of either Shadalicious swimbaits or some YUM money minnows and burn those babies fast enough to either run across the top or just under the surface like a wakebait. Swimbaits can be deadly at night (heck swimbaits are deadly any time of the day). At night/late evening I concentrate swimbaits in the top 1/3 of the water column. In the afternoon I'll keep them in the bottom 1/3 of the water column and in the morning, I'll run them at the top and work my way down until I find where the fish are. EDIT: I see you mentioned hard swimbaits, I never really use them, only because the soft plastics have been so successful for me. I'd assume you can use these just as I mentioned above though.

I still don't understand why people are paying to see this flick. That chick is one of the worst actresses I have ever seen in my life. Because Vampires are 'cool' now. They can make people like anything if they put a boring love story in it... I'm waiting for a someone to fall in love with a zombie but they can't be together because every time they touch the zombie loses a limb... Give it time, it will happen!

Awesome! Lunkerville is about the only show you'll find on my DVR I didn't catch this one yet, guess I'll have to watch it here at work... I mean when I get home tonight.... I wish more show's would also have an online format, then I could ditch the dish!

Right, I have seen some HUGE bass come from as deep as 60 feet. I personally have not ever fished that deep. I don't think I have ever heard of any fish coming from much more than 60 ft. but I'm sure they could go further! (I'm talking large and small mouths).

There's two things I always see shore anglers do and it needs to stop! 1. They stay in 1 spot the entire time... MOVE PEOPLE! If you were in a boat, you'd be moving (sometimes), so start walking. I'll stay at a spot for maybe 10 to 15 minutes, if it isn't producing, I'll move. As I'm walking to another spot, I'll cast every so many feet and see if I can feel any changes in the bottom or even find a fish. 2. Cast straight out into the water... I bet 90% of my fish were caught from shore when I was paralleling the bank. If paralleling the bank isn't working, begin to fan cast the area, change your cast by maybe 5 degrees at a time (get out a protractor and measure...). I could go on and on about this, but I think I'll stop there... I've been working on an extensive article about this so I don't want to write the entire thing here HA.

Ah, another fine side effect of backlashing... I lost 2 Rapala Clackin' Raps this way... I love when 1 cast costs you $8! About the only thing you can do is make sure your brakes and dial are properly set to prevent a backlash. It's going to happen a lot until you learn how to cast with a baitcaster. It's very different from casting spinning equipment.

A little bit of everything you mentioned. They will look for anything out of the ordinary on the bottom. Maybe a rock pile, a lone rock (doesn't even have to be very big), grass, a dip, a hump.... I think you get the idea They will also look for fish on the fish finder. On bigger lakes (like Erie for example) this is almost a must. My favorite 'open water' place to fish is just a long thin flat of grass. If you didn't have a fish finder, you'd never see the grass, because its a good 8 foot underwater. It's surrounded by a steep dropoff that drops from 10 to 20 feet pretty quickly.

You guys see....do you see.... THAT STUPID TWILIGHT MOVIE IS MAKING EVERYONE CRAZY! Stupid Vampires....

I think it's a Channel Cat. The Juniata is a great place for Channel Cats and Smallies. I'm not 100% on that though because I haven't cat fished in years.

Clear coat is used to make things shiny or give them a nice protective coating. I used to put 3 coats of color, then like 12 coats of clear when I used to make those little CO2 dragsters (like boy scouts little derby cars, only cooler ). It just comes in a spray can like any other paint, only its clear.

Man you are good! I think we're taking this thread too far off topic I looked through a few forums of people that keep 'odd fish' as pets, a few of them had bass, but I can't find any info on this. I found a bacteria that makes their mouths red, but not their eyes...

... And the initials still hold true to the 'drug' they claimed they aren't singing about! We should form a band and redo Beatles songs in the form of bass fishing.... WHO'S WITH ME!?

Check out this nice cat my cousin caught the other day on the Juniata. He was using a crawfish pattern he tied himself: I've never seen a cat so dark. I might start targeting Cats with my fly rod, I bet thats an awesome fight!

I think people don't recommend braid for cranking only because there is no stretch to it and you can rip the hooks out of the fishes mouth. Braid works fine for cranking as long as you don't give them the samurai sword swing! Just a nice sweep to the side is all it takes to hook a crank on braid.

That's what I do too I bite the last two sections off the body and toss it on the jig. Rage Tail's craw trailers work well too, but I figure, why buy both when you can use 1 haha. Wait until you start flippin' grass with a jig and you wait a bass dart out of the grass and nail your jig before it hits bottom. There's nothing more exciting!

Bacteria? The Juniata River had a big smallie kill here a few years ago because of bacteria. They would act really odd if you caught one (of course they didn't have odd eyes like you stated). ....Largemouth in the skkkyyy with diamonds..... Sorry, I love the Beatles!

Geez man up and use popsicle sticks and some duct tape! Ha jk, anyway, what is the extent of the old injury? You may just be able to get away with a nice tight wrap and those little brace things you can wrap in them? I do that with my wrist sometimes (broke it snowboarding like 8 years ago and it still bothers me) I realize your ankle will be taking a lot more stress than a wrist will though...

I think you have to be blunt and straight to the point to mod a forum. I think the saying "give them an inch and they take a mile" comes into play. You can't let stuff slide or hold their hand or they will expect it everytime (that would get hard to do for a lot of newbies). I try to answer everyones questions or at least point em in the right direction and let the mods handle the dirty work I've been crawling the interwebs for a really long time and I still mess up.... I've even had 2 threads deleted in the past month haha (sorry whoever killed the one day.... forgot it was sorta an advertisement)... Anyway, there will always be n00bs, some will get it right, some will never learn, just have to deal with it.

I don't know how long the actual site has been around but the domain has been around since March of 1998. Ah, I miss the way the web looked in the 90's

Smallies can be unpredictable at times, they don't seem to hold to patterns like largemouth can. Maybe they are holding deep and only coming into the shallows when it rains to ****** bugs. I'm not too skilled in fishing for smallies in lakes though, so I could be way off!

That's a dead fish.... Ah man that was a bad joke... I'm gonna agree with J Francho's last post and say it was a small pike or muskie.