Nitrofreak

No matter how unhappy you are at Roland's, The smile on Nicole's face is pretty big so some of the trip is going well it looks like, looks like a beautiful place to fish too !!! Really nice pics and thanx for sharing !!!!

I saw that boat too, almost thought about going after it myself, but back to your post, how far are you willing to travel to get to it, and how much are you looking to spend?

Cool, If the meet and greet ends up there I look forward to eating a few if we get some, somehow it seems to be plausable that we will.

Looking forward to more from you Shimmy, nice job, really nice job !!!

Sounds like you just like taking pictures of yourself LOL !!!

X2 Love your title as well, not many of us have a plan to get skunked LOL !!! Congrats on your first boat !!!!!!

Nice job SP !!!! Have you eaten any of the snakeheads? I hear they are an awesome fish.

Same to you !!!!

NO DOUBT !!!! I love seeing all of the video's, as always Glenn nice job on the video as well, sorry to hear it gave you such a fit but it sure turned out well !!

Gordon Lightfoot and Jim Croche are a couple that come to mind, it's in between folk and contemporary but still it's good stuff if you like songs that have words with meaning, John Denver also has some good folk music with a country twist in some of his stuff.

Well, now I know why I get so many each year, and here all this time I have been using them for lift blocks to store my relic's in the back yard.

LMAO !!!!!! Merry Christmas Bobby and I hope you have a great new year as well !!!!

I too have the best ever family, I did not get any fishing gear for christmas, but I got a lot of everything else, I got to spend time with both my daughters which was to me the absolute best part of Christmas, my youngest daughter got me a leather Redskins jacket with the embroidered lettering and logo, she kept wanting to give it to me after every skins game since she knows how pumped I am about their season especially after the way they have been winning, I do not have a pic of the jacket but I do have a pic of me getting ready to open the package, we were goofing off while my wife was searching for batteries for the camera, thought you all might enjoy it. My oldest Daughter gave me a gift that will stay with me for quite some time as well, she got me a leather wallet with an embossed bass on it, both gifts are bad a## !!! I love my girls !!!!!!

Welcome to the forum !!!!

Potomac 8 SML 6 Res 3 Chick 2 Here we go, one more week to decide the location of the meet and greet, The Potomac is still out in front by 2 votes, we have picked up a couple since last week !!! Good luck to everyone !!!

Beautiful !!!!! Glad to hear SP finally got his rig up and going, at least you all found a few for your troubles nice job Quan and SP !!!!!

Who knew you had it in you to post things of this nature Mr. Grinch lol !! Awesome, simply awesome, i'm glad you took the time to share that, thanx !!!

I will give it a go Sam I don't know that I can find all of the ingredint's but I will try, the ones I may have problems with are the red velvet madelenines and the mascarpone cheese, and maybe the liqueur, the liqueur will be hard to keep around "hiccup"...if you know what I mean lol !!

Merry Christmas to you as well...and try to stay away from Mrs.Clause's leg this year would ya !!! I'm tired of getting boxes of frozen monkey dung from her because I havnt' spoken to you about this yet. Have a great Christmas and we will see you back here soon.

You are such a tease !! You did not even tell us a round about date, these things must be like a NASA project "Top Secret" ooooooo I can't wait the suspense is killing me !!!!!

You will love these baits, if you experience any trouble or are having problems with the baits, go to the tackle section and post a question, I can promise you there is an answer, most likly it will come straight from Big-O too !!!

Fishing structure is not that hard, it just takes a little time on your favorite waters, I think back when I was a bank beater like many others here and often wishing for my first boat, I found that once I made the investment, just like many others, I was still a bank beater, I just fished from the opposite direction, then one day I got pushed out of my spot by a local tournament angler, litterally, it did not end well for either of us, then it clicked, I started to fish deeper and more open waters, no one else was so I figured what the crap, at least no one would bother me, after a few years of searching and reading books and putting together my own little pieces, I found this site, and one feller in particular tought me a ton about fishing structure, his handle here was Catt, one of the absolute best at making you do your homework and giving you hidden tips as you go along, it seems as if he knew my favorite lake as well as I did, he was forever making me think and work, light bulbs would burn bright inside my head when a hint he would drop comes to light on the water, him and fish for dollars were two of the best there ever was here at least I think so, there is a time and a place for everything, one thing remains true, fish relate to structure all the time, it's their highways and byways, it's how they find cover, it's how they get to spawning grounds in the spring, you name it, the fish use structure in some way to get to where you find them, look around the next time you pull up a nice fish and you will soon start to put together pieces of the puzzle as to why that fish was there and where it came from to get there, as for deep structure or deeper structure, when the fish are in a group on the bottom is my absolute favorite time to be on the water, drop a marker out and there are days when you can fish for hours in one spot with a mixed variety of baits like the jig, a spoon, a C-rig, just because I like fishing deep structure when this opportunity arises, does not mean that we should forget how deep is deep and how structure relates to the water depth, 10 feet is plenty deep to find continiously productive structure, spend time on the water and start looking for those flat areas now that the fish use to spawn, keep looking and you will soon see the channels and such they use to get to those flats, once spring gets here and the fish start to become active again, go to those flats you found and see if you are catching the smaller males, if you are, then get to those channels and such, the big girls will be coming soon and they are there on those ledges working their way to the flats, it could be 10 feet deep or 30 feet deep, you simply have to get out there and look. Good luck and be safe !!!

Nice job deep !!! For those who want to fish Anna, I can't stress how important it is to go slower there this time of year, take your time with her and look around, fish all of the available patters you know, even the most simple ones can be very productive, find the fish first, bait fish, then you will find the bass.

Weakness, hhhmmmm I have so many, just like papajoe, my memory is fading, faster than I want it to, words and their correct spelling are getting tougher, putting together puzzles on the water when things change is getting tougher. My greatest weakness is spending too much time in one spot, I will try everything in my tacle box to try and key in on what the fish want instead of moving to the next spot and locating the more active fish. Crank baits were a struggle for me as well, 3 things I will suggest that has helped me with cranks, this includes spinners as well, 1) find the fish first, 2) use them in the hopes of getting them hung up on something, if your afraid to loose them, then don't use them, 3) no matter what make them change direction, stop the bait, yo-yo the bait, if your fishing a rock wall bounce them off the rocks with your retrieve, if your fishing brush, make sure it makes contact with the brush, if your fishing in an open area, make sure you are in contact with the bottom, or very close to it, i'm not saying use a 25 foot bait in 15 foot of water, use the ones that are in the depth you are fishing, just cranking will get you bit, but making it change directions and contactacting the structure and cover you are fishing will help you to become productive. Good luck and be safe !!!

RW, thanx for that link !!! a freind and I were having that very " conversation " last night on facebook. Very good read !!!