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Devil's Horse in yellow/black back or a wounded spook in frog.

A weightless ZOOM trickworm and a t-rigged GYCB Kut-tail worm pitched into beds have been really producing for me lately.

Now that is a beautiful fish right there.

Nice fish, I bet you'll be throwing swimbaits more in the future

Whoo son I think you might have the lake record there ;D ;D

Yeah we ran into that today out on Diascund Reservoir. The fish were sunning themselves in very shallow water, they weren't quite ready to spawn yet, but every single fish we threw to either got spooked or just wouldn't budge.

hit my favorite pond with my dad after practice this morning, and we were pleasantly surprised ti find that the first wave of spawners had moved up. Right off the bat I spotted what had to be an 8+ on a bed with a 2lb male. I pitched in there several times with my trusty black/blue jig and with a Netbait Paca Craw but I kept spooking the big female so I left that spot. On the other side of the pond I spotted a big female on a bed so I pitched my jig in there and she ate it, I set the hook and she came flying out of the water and made a strong run and a couple more awesome jumps before I pulled her in. She went 6-3 with her big belly full of eggs. After that we fished for a few more hours and mt dad ended up catching 5 with a 3.5lber as his biggest, I caught 4 more dinks and a nice 2.5 on a tube. It was beautiful day to be on the water and would have been even better had we not forgotten the camera > > > All my fish were caught on a 3/8oz black/blue Persuader jig with a Netbait Paca chunk trailer, a t-rigged Netbait Paca Craw, and a t-rigged BPS Megatube. My dad caught all his fish on a weightless white ZOOM trickworm and a senko.

voted a big fat 10!!!

I was watching the reports the day it happened and it was said that when the guy entered the engineering building he casually walked into classrooms and just unloaded on everybody in the classrooms. I don't see how it is possible to do something like this, how can you just run into a building and kill another human being? How can you just massacre innocent people? I have even caught a glimpse of acts like this in my town. I live in Mechanicsville, VA which is in Hanover county, now Hanover used to be a mostly rural county, until the developers got through with it. Now the only rural section left is the part I live in, and soon there will be a subdivision in place of the farm right down from my house. Now all of this retail space and low budget housing projects has brought the all the low-lives in from surrounding counties, TWICE this year my high school has had to go under lock down for ARMED ROBBERY right across the street from my school. During one of the incidents two armed suspects crossed the school grounds before they were arrested. Also, now a student at Boston University has been arrested for threatening a copycat shooting like the one at VT

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pics cont'd... 4lber out of lake Osborne Osborne 5lber A 3.5lber caught on a live bream in the front canal And I don't know if I stated this before or not but I caught most of my fish on either t-rigged weightless junebug senko, a 3/8oz chart/white chatterbait, 5/16oz chart/blue.white spinnerbait, and most of my big fish came on either a black Gambler Cane toad or a black Stanley Ribbit. My dad caught most of his fish on a black back/gold glitter fluke and bass assassin shad, and he caught all of his bigger fish on an 11inch Case Plastics big mama paddletail worm in black/blue with an 1/8oz weight.

Ok here are the pics... first fish of the trip gar caught on a chatterbait, not sure what the weight was big cichlid that also hit the chatterbait Junior's first cichlid 6lber Again (and if it looks like I just woke up, I did)

Shimano Citica 200C (the old one) spooled with 50lb Stren Super Braid. I have had this reel for 3 years and have done limited maintenance to it and it is still as smooth as the day I bought it.

Here's a couple of my favorite cold water baits... 1. 1/2oz western melon Terminator football jig with twintail grub trailer 2. ZOOM trickworm in watermelon/gold glitter, green pumpkin, or watermelon on a 1/4oz Dave's Rockhopper jighead. 3. Lucky Craft Pointer 100 suspending jerkbait in chart. shad, Aurora gold, and Aurora brown 4. 1/2oz speckled shad spinnerbait with two big willow blades 5. 1/2oz chrome/blue rat-l-trap I can consistently catch fish in cold water around here with these baits. But remember you should base your lure choices on the type of forage, water clarity, water color, water temperature, and the type of cover/structure you are fishing. For example, if the water is stained, visibility 3 feet, 42 degrees, and the main forage is shad then I am going to throw a chart/white spinnerbait with big willow blades, a white jig, and maybe a chart. shad jerkbait or rat-l-trap. And I will fish all of these baits S-L-O-W, even the rat-l-trap.

Well I got back at 3am sunday morning from spending my spring break at my grandpa's ranch in Florida, wish I could say I was happy to be home We left on friday the 6th I believe, and we got to the sunshine state at about 9am saturday morning. My grandpa's ranch is in Wellington in West Palm Beach and it has a big canal out front, a smaller shallower canal out back, and two small ponds, one in the front of the house and one in the back. As soon as we pulled in I pulled out one of my rods and started throwing a 5/16oz blue/chart/white spinnerbait in the back pond and at about 9:30 a nice lunker inhaled my spinnerbait. She went 4.75lbs, not bad for the first fish of the trip, my dad and me continued fishing for the rest of the day and caught plenty of 1-2lbers until dark. Woke up late sunday morning, went to church, got back to the ranch around noon and I decided to fish thre back canal for a little while. The back canal is shallow, very clear, and has lots of thick grass mats in it. So I took a rod rigged with a junebug senko and a rod rigged with a black ribbit, after walking back there I found a few small fish still on their beds so I pitched the senko to em and caught 3 or 4 of em. Then when the clouds came in I picked up my flippin stik with the frog and started slowly buzzing it across the mats, my fifth cast was greeted by a chunky 2lber, then a few minutes later a 3lber ate the ribbit. The bite stopped after that so I left the back canal and did a little bream fishing with junior in the front pond, we caught a whole pile of bream, a couple nice catfish, and junior landed his first cichlid on his zebco rod. My dad and me went out to the front canal before dark but didn't catch except one dink I caught on a LC sammy 100. Woke up late again on monday and missed the topwater bite, so we went out to the front canal and I was paralleling the bank with a chart/white chatterbait and my dad was throwing a black/gold glitter fluke. After paralleling the whole canal I only had three 14inch bass to show for it, meanwhile my dad was tearin em up down on the oposite end with the fluke. But when I came to the very end of the canal I threw the chatterbait parallel to a weedline with a drainage pipe in it and a chunky 3lber shot out of the pipe and nailed my chatterbait. Continued fishing for the rest of the day and caught a few more keepers but that was it. When the sun started to go down we headed to the back pond again and I proceeded to absolutely slay em on my sammy 100, that is until a nice 8 foot gator started to take interest in my sammy. My dad woke me up at 5:30 tuesday morning and we went out to the front canal. I caught a dink on my first cast with a smithwick devil's horse and my dad caught 1.5lber on a Mann's 1-, but that was pretty much it. Until about 6:45, I picked up my black ribbit again and made a long cast parallel to the weedline, the frog plopped down on a weed mat and I started buzzing right on that weedline. Then right as the frog reached a small branch in the weeds my frog was absolutely destroyed in the most awesome topwater strike I have ever seen. The fish exploded on the frog, throwing a huge splash, and scaring the **** out of me because of how loud and huge the splash was. I set the hook hard and the fish immediatly started peeling 50lb stren super braid off my spool like a freight train, it ran out to the middle of the canal and flung itself completely out of the water. At this point I was screaming to my dad "This is the one!!!!" and franticly trying to turn this fish that I thought was 10lber. I finally got him coming my way when he jumped again and took off down the bank, a few minutes later I got him in and hoisted a beautiful 6.54lber in the air. After recovering from that fish I continued until about 9 but didn't catch anything else that morning. Me and my dad headed over to Loxahatchee Bait and Tackle at 10 and talked to a really nice guy named Tom I think, he actually grew up right around Mechanicsville and the Newport News area. He told us about Lake Osborne, which is located by the Palm Beach county airport north of Boynton Beach in a huge park called John Prince park. So we headed down there and fished there until about 5, I only caught 4 small keepers on a senko but my dad caught a 4.5, a 3.8, and two 2lbers all on a black/blue Case Plastics big mama 11inch paddletail worm t-rigged with an 1/8oz weight. For the rest of the week we continued to fish Osborne and the local canals, catching tons of bass, bream, catfish, cichlids, and one little 3 foot gator. On thursday we went down to Ft. Lauderdale, had lunch with my other grandpa and dropped another $150 at BPS, but the really cool thing was BPS had a new custom embroidering service so I got them to make me hat with my BASS club name and a bass on it. I didn't get to do any fishing saturday, the last day we were there, because I went with my grandpa, who is an equine vet, to the Gulfstream race track and stayed for a couple hours, got back at 1 and had to leave for home. But it was great trip and I can't wait until next year. I am at school now so I can't put the pics up yet, but I will when I get home. And sorry about the really long post.

Like Raul said, flippin stiks are usually longer, have a stronger backbone, and have a heavier backbone than general purpose rods. But you can use your flippin rod for other things too, I use my 7' Heavy action flippin rod for flipping, pitching, and throwing topwater frogs. I also use my 7' Medium Heavy action flippin rod for flipping/pitching in moderate cover, throwing jigs and t-rigs, throwing big jerkbaits, and for big spinnerbaits and topwaters. The flippin sticks thst I own and highly reccommend are a 7' MH Kistler Graphite Special, and a 7' Heavy action Daiwa Coastal Tournament Special.

The most productive colors for these baits in the waters I fish are... Tubes: pumpkin/green pepper, watermelon/blue flake Flukes: white, Arkansas shiner senkos: watermelon, lemon, black/blue flake/blue tail

I really like the Gambler Cane Toads and the Stanley Ribbits, last tuesday I caught a 6.5lber on a black Ribbit. But I also like Cavitron buzzbaits, LC sammy's, and LC G-Splash's.

Wow man them are some beauty LM's, but if I lived close to the New man I'd be there everyday hunting for those huge brown bass And I bet it was awesome watching that smallie attack that jitterbug.

I have 2 main rigs for flipping and pitching... 1. Shimano Curado 200B 6.3:1 gear ratio reel on a 7' MH action Kistler rod 2. Shimano Citica CI-200 6.3:1 gear ratio reel on a 7' Heavy action Daiwa Flippin' Stik. #1 is used mainly for pitching jigs and light t-rigs around thick cover with 15lb test fluorocarbon line. #2 is used mainly for flipping heavy jigs and t-rigs into heavy cover and for throwing frogs over heavy weeds with 50lb test braid. That being said I prefer a fast reel, like 6.3:1 or faster, for flipping/pitching because it allows you to remove the bait from unproductive water and get another cast into a good spot much quicker.

I would want it to be shaped like the jig made by Dr. Death bait company in Alabama. These jigs are absolutely SICK, they have the perfect shape, skirt, and the perfect hook. The only things I would change would be to make the weedguard out of fluorocarbon ,like on the Megastrike jigs, and add a wire trailer keeper like on the Terminator jigs. I will post a pic of the Dr. Death jig when I can.

they do, but I have never had to deal with the warranty because my Kistler is still goin strong.

Wow man great info, I am going to have to try this

I usually swim a jig when everybody else is throwing spinnerbaits. I especially like to go behind the guys that have been beating the banks to death with their spinnerbaits and throw that swimming jig and catch all the fish that they missed because they were throwing the same thing those fish have been seeing for years.

wow sounds like good stuff, any pics?