Bluebasser86

Did you get a length and girth? That makes guessing a lot easier. From those pictures I'd guess 6-7 pounds, really good looking fish.

I worked at Cabela's in KC for 5 years. We had a great group of guys in there that complimented each other very well when I was there. Then they started moving guys to different departments if we were slow and they were busy and making the part time guys work a minimum of 20 hours a week. I was part time with another full time job where I was already working 40-60 hours a week, still I tried to stay because I enjoyed working with the guys there. Once I started getting moved to footwear, hunting, and even retrieving carts a time or two, it was more than I was willing to deal with. I know I had a lot of customers at first that avoided talking to me since I was only 18 and I'm sure they felt there was no way I could know anything. After my first year or so I had regular customers and even became good fishing buddies with a couple of them. Now they've pretty much run off everyone in that store that is very knowledgeable about anything other than where to find something if a customer knows exactly what they're looking for. A couple of the guys I worked with are still there, but the others I've tried to get help finding something look at me like I'm speaking a different language when I ask if they have any sexy mouse War Eagles or lime-purple passion Pit Bosses.

If you're looking for something towards the lower end the Academy Ethos cranking rods are great rods. I have a 7' MH/M that has been a great rod for me.

I use the uni to uni and never had a problem. Tie it carefully and tighten it slowly, making sure to give a good pull test once it's tightened down.

I've had guys about lose their minds when I drop a keeper walleye back in the water. I don't have a problem giving a fish to someone I know is going to eat them right away and only wants what they can eat in 1 or 2 sittings, not much for contributing to someone "filling their freezer".

21 minutes is pretty dang impressive for a nearly 40lb grassie in a canoe with 10lb test! You seem to have the touch for snagging those big grass carp

If you delete a photo from your PB library it will not effect subsequent pictures. I've deleted several photos that were duplicates or photos of the same fish and none of my other post with newer pictures were changed.

They make great muskie and pike reels, or for tossing big baits for bass. I use a newer Abu on one of my flathead rods but I wouldn't want one without a bait clicker. They'll still work, I just have a tendency to fall asleep in the boat when I'm on the river or lake at night fishing for catfish.

I catch good smallies, and even lots of little ones, on 3/8 or 1/2 ounce brush jigs. Smallies will attack big baits despite the notion that you have to fish small baits for them. One of my PB smallies had the tail of a 8-9 inch crappie sticking out of it's throat.

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Rangerdanger was looking for a partner, not sure if he found one or not.

I've fished Lake Quivira many times, really fun lake to fish. I've never really tried to pattern it too much but the bass there will behave similarly to the bass in the surrounding lakes. They should be moving up into the pockets and under those docks in the shallower water. I've also caught a lot of bass in the canals out there this time of year, bladed jigs and traps will catch them well back there it seems when they start to push the shad up. The south end of the lake is where I'd start looking (like the boat ramp cove south). Last time I was out there they were eating a pumpkin brown and orange with few strands of chartreuse jig really well as well as a spinnerbait or bladed jig. The trick to both of those baits was to let it sink to the bottom and then reel it slowly along the edges of the weeds. If you started reeling before it hit bottom it seemed like they'd completely ignore it. If you're fishing lakes other than Quivira, find the shad, find the fish. They're moving up into pockets and on cover or structure that is near shallow flats and waiting for baitfish to come by and ambushing them. Moving baits tend to dominate this time of year for me, squarebills, traps, spinnerbaits, bladed jigs, walking topwater baits, and flukes are all good options about now. I fished a topwater walking bait all day long last Sunday despite the calm weather and bright sun, and they were blowing up on it almost ever cast.

Should be starting any time in your area. I'm a few hours north but our water temps have been dropping and fish have been moving shallow quickly these past few weeks and I've seen guys from northern Arkansas reporting the lakes turning over this past week.

I can't see any way they'd put an end to such a popular brand. Hopefully they keep them just like they are, just start putting the PRADCO name on the back of them.

I have one color bandit that is like a carp color that is the fish catchingest little bait that I can't find anymore. I found this one in the first place but I get nervous fishing it because it's been such a great bait and they don't have another color even close.

I'd never caught a striper until last year. I caught a 7 pounder that was my biggest of the trip on the final day until I caught a 20 pounder in the last hour before we had to leave.

Love doing floats, just not much water to do them on around here. Fun to just put a small crank on and catch a little bit of everything.

Any kind of fresh water coming into a pond is usually money!

If I had the time to pick I'd be reaching for my 870 with birdshot. Like others said, just the sound of racking one into the chamber is going to send most scrambling. If I had to use it though, a single shot from a shotgun at close range, even with birdshot, is far more devastating than most handguns and it's going to stop in the first thing it hits.

My old Parker Mag Hunter is a heavyweight and loud, but it still takes it's share of deer It isn't a tack driver either but still does okay for itself.

I have a plan before I get to the lake and make adjustments accordingly once I start fishing.

I've got plenty of baits out of trees with short lengths of braid attached to them. Bad thing about braid is it will dig into the tree branch too, and it only takes a wrap or two to do it. Then you have to cut it since it's almost impossible to pull and break. Sometimes if you have to break a bait off in a tree with mono that rubberband effect will knock the bait out of the tree, which is good or bad depending on the trees location and if your bait floats or sinks

Got hooked in the back of the calf, had to push it through and cut the barb off, it backed out easy them. My dad drug a deep diving crankbait across the top of my head on his backcast. 3 points went in and drug from the crown of my head to almost my hair line on my forehead, thankfully the force ripped them out as fast as they went it, burned like crazy and I had the worst headache. Left a jerkbait crossways in my PB brown trouts mouth for the pictures. She flopped and buried the hook into my finger, flopped again and ripped it back out. Little duct tape and TP around the finger and back to fishing. Worse was when my dog decided to grab my buddies original Rapala while he was talking and it was hanging from his rod tip. He was still a puppy but 40-50 pounds. Only got one back hook clean through is lip so I grabbed his muzzle with both hands and tried to catch his body between my legs to hold him still so he didn't get hooked any worse. Dog panicked and shot backwards through my legs, burying one of the front hooks up to the bend in the side of my index finger in the process. So then I was hooked to a panicked dog, not fun. I tackled him and laid on top of him to hold him still while my buddy cut the hook point off that was in his lip and he was free. I wasn't so lucky and ended up having to go to the ER to have mine pulled back out, which took a considerable amount of numbing and pulling.

I was excited to catch it, disappointed it was so skinny, she could have been 13-14 pounds if she wasn't so skinny.