Raider Nation Fisher

Hope you get to feeling better soon Brother. I feel your pain brother, I've completely abused my body in my 27 short years here. Things will get better just keep your head up.

How exactly do I attach images from my phone to my posts? Everyone I try to it keeps telling me my device is not supported, or that I don't have any images on the device. Is this a problem on my end or what am I doing wrong. My phone is a HTC Sensation 4g.

I thank you for bringing these to my attention. I just ordered a pair of them. One of the funnier things I've seen in a while. Oh and most importantly. Welcome to the site homie.

Cranks, jigs, and more cranks.

Bombers and H20's. Bombers in either silver and black, chart, or purple. H20's in either tilapia, baby bass, red, or blue gill.

A six year old crank in a purpleish gray color with black tiger stripes. It looks similar in color to the tilapia colored h2o baits. Just has more purple in it. It has never failed me spring, summer, fall, or winter. I've gone swimming four times to get it back too.

That's rough homie. That post got me all misty eyed. I know that its gonna be rough for Yall. But hey everything will work out in the end. Again thank you for your service homie. And take care of yourself.

The one I caught today just barely got the knuckle on my pinkie. Dang thing hurt like hell. Just kinda grazed against it. Left three little marks on it. Here I was trying to help him out by removing the spinnerbait from his mouth and head. (thats right a spinnerbait, only thing I have ever caught on one.) And the dang thing tried to bite me. Had my brother in law not been holding him down, he very well might have gotten me good. Then again the pair of Calcutta pliers in his mouth, may have helped also. I got the remains of the spinner bait out of him, and then he doesn't want to go back in the water. Dang thing sat there hissing and snapping at us. We eventually persuaded him to get back in the pond though. Had it not been for the braided line I was using, I dare say He would have gotten away long before I got him up on the bank. Again, I should have photos of him up sometime tommorow.

Dude I'm not even lying. I caught a smaller one today. Still over a foot in length. Once I figure out how to put pictures from my phone on here I'll get them up. I have never tried turtle before. I hear its supposed to be good though. As for people buying them. I would imagine they Chinese restraints and employees would pay for them. It's supposed to be a delicacy in their home country. Heavens knows they buy the mess out of carp.

I second that. Looks like a small mouth. I also believe his name is Charlie and he has been missing for two weeks.

That is quite the nice sized turtle. I really have no idea how to handle them either. Best idea I had was to club it or shoot it. Maybe if I'm lucky I can catch another one when I go fish in a few.

A thumbs down?!?! What the Heck did I do to to deserve that?

This man done broke it down into steps! LOL.

The lure was actually still in good shape. Had to retie, but I kept fishing it. I thought for sure that tube would have been destroyed. The durability really shocked me. Back when I was a kid my buddy and I found a alligator snapping turtle in the creek by the house. He wasnt but about a foot maybe foot in a half long. That was the meanest turtle I've ever met. We found some metal grate and shoed him on it with some pipe. We were trying to bring him home, don't really remember why now. Probably to try and keep him as a pet. Anyway, I slipped and the turtle fell off the grate. Dang thing about took a chunk outta of me. Haven't been that close to one again until yesterday.

Holy dang dude. I just snorted coke out my nose when I read that. LOL that just made my day. Dang I needed a laugh today. Anyway as for the op. Heck Naw I wouldn't get bored with it. I already fish over 300 plus days a year. I'm too strung out on bassing to get bored with it. Bassing is to me what heroin is to a junkie.

I never really gave much thought to the definition before. Seems odd to me it would be classified as illegal but not vandalism. Anyway you are absolutely right about illeagal graffiti being vandalism. If I recall correctly, we used to do it for just that reason. It was a game if you will. A very twisted game but a game to us. The big thing in that underground community was called "tagging the heavens" also "paint and destroy". In tagging the heavens the goal was to put up the biggest, most colorful, and skillfully drawn tag, in the highest place possible. This was where the cru's came in. It's impossible to paint a huge tag by yourself in one night in a public or very visable place. So you have numerous painters join in. Paint and destroy was simply what its called. The person with the most tags, and most property damage wins. The whole purpose was to vandalise everything you could. This was a long long time ago that I partook in this, and we/I paid the consequences for it. You are again correct in that the removal is expensive. Especially when your the one paying to remove it. It's also very tiring. This was also before we discovered what asking and paying for space can provide for you. Amazing things can be done when you do it the legal way. It's also surprising how many people and small business owners will sell/rent you space to paint. We did hundreds of walls all over the place that were legally paid for. We even had some people pay us for what we painted on there walls. (mainly logos and shop names) So yeah I have been on both sides of the graffiti spectrum. From illegal vandalism, to removal and paying restitution, to paying and getting paid to do it. Oh and in case anyone's interested my cru won at tagging the heavens. We paid 400 dollars to have a homeowner on a mountain overlooking the city let us erect and paint a twenty by thirty plywood and drywall canvass on his his hillside. We also removed it at the end of the month.

Im impressed with the responses my question has gotten. Seems that It all comes down to personal opinion of what an individuals tastes are. That is assuming it is done in a legal and honest manner. It would appear that the art form done in a legal and appropriate place is becoming more accepted in modern society. Maybe that's because the media and advertisers are using it in their ads more and more. I think it is fascinating how much modern societys opinions have changed in a mere 10 years time.

Not really my cup of tea. But I daresay quite the original idea. Plus as mad as it would make the HOA at my condos, I would gladly let you do it. Son I'll let you paint it banner style across the front of my house. Heck i'll even buy you the paint. I think part of what makes this form of art so unique is the form of expression it takes. I have seen murals of everything from patriotic murals (especially after 911), to urban and cultural murals, to insane multi crew murals that took weeks to complete. I think that part of the attraction to this form of art is the rebellion aspect of it. I mean you paint a wall or train car and you know it isn't going to last. Yet you do it anyway, either for the thrill of being "bad", or simply to try and bring some beauty to the bleak urban landscape. Again I'm not talking about some idiot scrawling letters with a spray can. In no way do I condone the destruction of public or private property, but I dare say it is more visually appealing to see a mural on the back side of building then the nasty ill cared for bricks and trash that usually adorns them.

I can honestly say I have learned more about bass fishing from this site then from anywhere else. So I want to say thank you. Thank you Glenn for putting this site together and for all the work you put into it, and keeping it running. Thank you Moderators for all you do in helping keep this site up, and helping to make it run smoothly. Thank you to all my fellow members for all the advice, stories, and what not. Thank you to the sponsors for helping to keep the site running. This truly is the best bass fishing site on the internet. Without this site I would have given up on bass fishing a long time ago. So again to everyone here Thank You.

If you make it down to Al. especially around the Birmingham area. I'd be more than happy to take you fishing. Any questions you might have your more than welcome to pm me or post here. I'll help you out and answer them to the best of my ability. I know what you mean about not having any help. When I started fishing I didn't know or have a single person to help me figure it out. I honestly can say, that I learned 80 some odd percent of my fishing off of these forums and articles on this site. The rest I either figured out on my own, trial and error, or learned from my fishing partner. We started fishing together in March. It will come with time. And remember ask as many questions as you can.

I was out at my usual pond fishing a tube around a tree, and wow. I had a small bass hit my tube and set the hook like I normally do, and thought I had him. (normally I fish braid or fluoro, today I was using mono.) I drug that fish around for a good twenty or thirty seconds. He started to run for another tree and when I pulled to turn him, the tube shot back at me. The hook hadn't even been touched. He just grabbed the back end of the tube, and used me as a carnival ride. A bit frustrated (it was the second time today I didn't set my hook correctly) but none the less enthusiastic I continued to fish this tree. About my fourth cast to it, the line yanks I don't mean a lil tap tap, I mean it yanked like a human was pulling on it. Not to make the same mistake again I swung up on that rod like a angry gorilla. For a good ten minutes I fought this thing. It was like I had hooked a swordfish, only on a pond. I figured I had just got a new PB bass, until it got within four feet of shore. I caught the biggest snapping turtle I have ever seen. This beast was every bit of two feet from front of shell to back of shell, and had a head like a base ball. Man was Mr turtle mad. As I was trying to figure out how to retrieve my bait, we were eyeballing each other. I swear that turtle was saying come on big boy lip me like a bass. You know you want to. I'm sitting here thinking, wish I had my gun or a dang big stick. I reached for my camera to get a photo, and the line slackened enough that he popped the lure out of his mouth an swam off. Man was that a dang rush. Normally I woulda been bummed that it wasn't the huge fish I had originally thought it was, but hey I caught a giant snapping turtle.

As the question states, what are your opinions on graffiti and tagging? Having ran with a paint crew, and painting on my own, I feel that graffiti is an art. You can't deny that painting murals like some of these artists do using a spray can does not require skill. I'm not talking about when someone scrawls a bunch of letters with a spray can or a sharpie. That kind of tagging is just ugly vandalism. So what are yalls thoughts?

Naw, those US officers aren't fat. They are just wearing heavy duty body armor under their uniforms.

Drool drool daroooolll. Sweet ride homie. Enjoy it.

I don't mind wolf spiders or them cool garden spiders. Matter of fact I'm quite fond of those two types. I remember looking for wolf spiders when I was a kid. You take a flash light hold it up on your head and look around the ground, if you see a small shiny dot about the size of a pin head. That's the spiders eyes. It really works. Other than those two varieties. If its smaller than a tarantula, I don't want anything to do with it.