VersatileFuturian

I think Iaconelli was supposed to come out with a show like that. Haven't seen any news on it though. http://www.mikeiaconelli.com/news.php?id=106

I flat out catch more fish with fluoro. So as for me, I will not be going back to mono for jerkbaits. Just try it.

Fished those conditions today. Surface temp of 50deg. Had 2 bites, caught both on a greenpumpkin jig with the tip of my chunk dyed chartruese. A 2lber and a 4lber. Was nice to finally get the boat out.

Thanks. I'll definatly give those things a try this spring.

Think coffee with cream. Haha. Hog muddy. Sometimes you can maybe see 8" if that.

Left the hook in. Didn't want to do more damage. I have found it is better to leave the hook in the fish when hooked in a bad spot rather than try to get it out. Most of the time the fish will work the hook out on their own.

Left the hook in. Didn't want to do more damage. I have found it is better to leave the hook in the fish when hooked in a bad spot rather than try to get it out. Most of the time the fish will work the hook out on their own.

Left the hook in. Didn't want to do more damage. I have found it is better to leave the hook in the fish when hooked in a bad spot rather than try to get it out. Most of the time the fish will work the hook out on their own.

Had an important tournament last month. Fishing was tuff. One of my fish got hooked on the back of the tongue and was bleeding. I poured 8oz of 7-up on it. Put him in the live well and thew a couple cap fulls of rejuvanade in the well. Weighed him in at the end of the day live and well.

Had an important tournament last month. Fishing was tuff. One of my fish got hooked on the back of the tongue and was bleeding. I poured 8oz of 7-up on it. Put him in the live well and thew a couple cap fulls of rejuvanade in the well. Weighed him in at the end of the day live and well.

Had an important tournament last month. Fishing was tuff. One of my fish got hooked on the back of the tongue and was bleeding. I poured 8oz of 7-up on it. Put him in the live well and thew a couple cap fulls of rejuvanade in the well. Weighed him in at the end of the day live and well.

Thanks for the advise.

I am trying to figure out how to catch these smallies. Every year in the spring there are a lot of tournaments I am in on the Ohio River and we get those spring rains and the water gets really muddy and swift. I can catch a few smallies sometimes on black tubes but thats about it. The area I fish only has a few small backwaters that will get packed with a lot of boats in a 150 boat field trying to catch largemouths. So those largemouths get too much pressure and won't hold up for 2 days. So I need to figure out how to catch those smallmouths in the mud. Once the mud is gone I can tear the big smallies up consistantly. Any suggestions?

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1/8oz from 1ft to 40ft...the heavier the weight the more you get snagged

The 3 pack of 4" osprey talon inline like on TW. Do they come with hooks and swivel, etc? Or do i need to order those too. If so what size of everything do i need?

This isn't me but I can't imagine anything worse. Always wear your sunglasses.

Yea. I wanted to model it of the swimming ninja but what kind of line did they use? It doesn't look like braid. And what are the black connectors they used to make the loops?

Is there a good way to have 2 trebles on this line through bait? I thought braid somehow but if the fish gets the back hook it could tear the bait with the front hook. So maybe wire would be batter. I don't know. Any help and how to make it? I want to make them for the 4" style too for smallies that just slap it.

if i buy an EAGLE ® FishElite 642C iGPS Fishfinder/GPS Chartplotter. when i mark spots on the sd card. can i use that same sd in a lowrance hds-8 and it show the spots i had marked?

I haven't read all 13 pages of this post but I thought I would put my 2 cents in. I was one who started in the youth and worked my way and am still working my way up. I started when I was 8 years old when the Bassmasters casting kids was a big thing. I won the state championship 4 times. I got too old for it and the junior clubs became the big thing as the casting kids dwindled. I won state 3 out of 4 years and a 4th place finish in the national championship 1 year. Then I joined a men's club. Tied for second in the largest club in my state and even qualified for the state tournament all in my first year. Went to college and started a club. We won the first qualifying event, finished 5th in the regional championship, and qualified for the national championship. Aside from all that I have done well in many team tournament schedules with my father. Throughout this whole time though I would see kids actually receiving sponsorships. I couldn't figure it out. Of course some were professional angler's sons but others weren't. I didn't know how they were doing it or how much of a sponsorship it was. It may have just been a couple free baits and a logo on a shirt but 1 year in the juniors Berkley had a deal. If you wore their hat each day of competition and then won the tournament. They would give you a 1 year sponsorship. We would sit through seminars as kids as some guy in a tournament shirt would tell us that it is more important to look your best on stage and present yourself well because potential sponsors are watching. I really disagree with what they were teaching us. But just look at all the problems with the different tours right now. Who is the last person they are worried about? The angler and even more the amatuer anglers. They are only caring about sponsors. I am not saying they have done everything bad but they have priced themselves out of the everyman's market. We can all honestly realize that it is impossible to become a professional angler without a significant amount of money. Most young anglers who turn pro, that are in their early 20's, have to pay their own way. I don't know of any 21 year olds with $50,000 boats and hundreds of thousand dollars socked away from mowing grass and summer jobs to pay for the entry fees and travel expenses to fish these tournaments now days. I know I cannot afford it. A lot of really good fisherman young and old, some better than the guys you see on TV, cannot afford to fish professionally. So how is a person supposed to capture this dream? I have no idea. If anyone knows, then please tell me. There may be a guy out there that can beat KVD 6 out of 7 days a week but cannot afford to fish the elite series. So who's autograph do you everyone will want? So yes kids look for sponsors and that's what we were always taught is that you cannot do it without sponsors. But sponsors are not just going to hand you money and say "here go fish every tournament and finish last place, it is all on us" but these kids don't realize that. You have to work on you fishing skills and the sponsors will fall in place. To make it pro though you either need a big break or a family that is rich enough to back you. I am 21 and am on 2 "pro staffs" of 2 different companies. 1 a rod company and the other a bait company. I'll get some free baits every once in a blue moon and a percentage of every sale I make. I get 50% off rods and a percentage of every rod I sell and when I reach a certain sale amount I get a free rod. Nothing big but that little bit helps and it is a start. I did not look for sponsors. I did not know how. I fished and work my butt off every day to get better and better. Those just fell in place. I am one of those guys looking for 1 big break.

Ok so i am looking to get a locator with gps but i can't afford one that is too expensive. I have looked at hummingbirds, lowrance hds-5, and eagle. my question is can you take your memory chip from a hummingbird or eagle locator with all the spots you have marked and put it in a lowrance hds-8 and it show your spots? And is it a navionics chip that i need or an mmc/sd chip? I am really kinda lost when it comes to this. Thanks