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Nice story! Sorry it got away, but at least you know you were doing the right thing! Keep at em, and maybe she wil bite again! Jeff

This! Chasing wiring problems will drive you absolutley crazy and it sounds like it would be a good time to replace them anyhow! Jeff

OK, well after seeing some of these monsters, I am a little ashamed at posting mine, but here it goes! A buddy of mine, with whom I fish with quite regularly still, had been going down to a good friend of ours pond and fishing a couple of times. It was about 20 +- acres and FULL of buck brush and a lot of flooded timber. My kind of place. The very first time we went there, I caught a 4.6lb bass. We thought it was big, but most of the fish we caught that day were much smaller. Little did we know, we hadn't seen anything yet! This place turned out to be the best little fishing hole EVER! Within the 6 months or so we fished it we lost count of how many 5+ lb fish we caught out of there, and many were on topwater! If you have ever had a 20+ keeper day on topwater, you know what I am referring to! So here's the story: We had been fishing this one "pocket" of buck brush where I had lost a monster on a jump, that I swore was over 10 and no one believed us, so we fished it hard every time we went in hopes she would bite again! I was fishing a black/blue jig ( imagine that) and my buddy was fishing a t-rigged Bieber(RI Sweet beaver, but we call em Biebers because the big girls love em). I had caught some and he was catching more, but that was OK, because I love my jig. He hooked into a nice 6 lber and it changed my mind! Thank goodness. Literally about 5 cast later I pitched the beaver right next to a thicket of buck brush and let it sink. Nothing on the initial fall and I bump it one time and it felt like the rod was gonna come ripping out of my hands! BAM BAM two hard taps before I knew it and the rod was bending with each one! I slam the hook home and it was one of those hook sets where you set the hook, but the rod just loads and all you feel is a head shake, rod never goes past 3 o'clock! Yes sir...I knew it was a big one! After a good little battle, our plastic coleman 2 man boat had spun around backed all the way up into another patch of buck brush, but we landed her. Quickly removed hook, weighed her with the scale we already had out after his 6lber the fish before. too 3 quick pictures and let her swim away! She was caught 3-30-11 and weighed 8 lb 9 oz. Told the owner about it the next day and he was mad because I didn't keep the fish to mount it. I told him it's ok, I am having a replica made of it! Should be ready real soon.....hope the wait pays off! My buddy caught an 8lb 1oz exactly one week later about 100yrds from the spot! Jeff

Unless I have si and know 100% the bass are there, I have fan casted the area with a couple different baits in the different zones of the water column, I am headed to the next spot to do the same thing! Jeff

Either a bad ground, or your plug is wired wrong. Is this a new problem, or has it always been this way? Does it act the same way with a different trailer/ Jeff

I have heard of Kevin Windham and Chad Reed! I want a red bike with a number 1 on it! Jeff

I like Jeremy Mcgrath! Ok so now ya'll know I havent watched motocross since like the early- mid 90's.......... Who is riding a Honda, and I will let you know who I want to win! Jeff

Congrats on the trip....down river or up by the dam? Thats a huge cat....did you catch it on a sauger/sm setup? Jeff

Curado e7's on both of my jig rods! Jeff

That one is no juvenile...its full grown! Jeff

AVC70mf, but I AM biased and it is about $20-30 more than your price range! You will get a TON of opinions! Just wait! Jeff

You dont want to see my organization of stuff, or lack there of! LOL Jeff

Down river Jeff

A friend of mine once told me fish that jump are just educated, smart fish! I agree! Jeff

Good luck! Just let us know how you did! My guy caught 2 limits of 17'' fish in 3 hrs! Jeff

La-a. pronounced ladasha! Jeff

I'm not a tournament fisherman, so MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE PART OF CATCHING FISH IS THE JUMP! I wish every fish I caught from now on jumped at east once! I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! At least that way when they do get off, at least you saw em! Jeff

Hey crankbait. I bought my first tin boat (1236) and modded it myself and had less than $1000 in it. You can do the same if you have the time and want to! Jeff Had storage up front for all required items and seat poles! trolling motor mounted up front and was very fishable! Just make sure if you want to fish with others you at least get a 42" bottom and preferably a 48". Much more stable and easier to fish out of!

Last I heard, this past weekend the sauger were biting good on darker colored jigs tipped with minnows! Good luck and let us know how you did! Jeff

Swing for the fences and cross her eyes! They are free, unless you loose your lure! Jeff

umm....casting would be my core 50mg, spinning would be rw's stella 2500. One day I will own one of those! Jeff

Right handed retrieve is reel handle on right side and vise versa! Jeff

I about pooped my pants when I read this! LOL Jeff

One of my great friends and fishing buddies fishes out of a polar kraft. It is his 2nd or 3rd one and the only aluminum boat he will own. He loves them and has been fishing out of aluminum boats for 20+ years. I have an aluminum boat, but did not go with polar kraft even though that it what I looked for at first per his recommendations. Not a ton of used ones around and the local dealer I went to was a jerk, so I actually traveled 2 states away and 4 hrs to pick up my new boat at a different dealership, and only save $100. But it was worth it to me to buy from someone who appreciated my business! You should check them out as well. They are much closer to you, right down in Alabama. Backwoods landing. With 13k budget you should be able to get a real nice tin boat! Jeff

ummmm....yes. But mainly they eat small forage fish, worms, bugs, sculpin, mudbugs, crawfish and smaller trout. Stockers generally will not eat other trout until they have been in the wild for a while and gotten the pretty pink hues to them and all of their fins are full. The easiest way to tell a stocker trout is their general grey color and most of their fins have been rubbed down due to the concrete tanks they have grown up in. At least in my parts! Jeff