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Maybe you always do anyway, but bring a net. The vertical lift of getting a fish of four pounds or more onto a dock puts a lot of strain on your line. I was assuming you meant you will be fishing from the dock.

You shave before going fishing? But seriously the best part is I'm not in the office.

Tom Osborne. College football coaching legend, big time fisherman. Might let Bobby Bowden come along to.

Absolutely.

Maybe I just got a bad batch, but I tried it again with new backing and only about 100 feet on the spool. It broke on the first cast. It has never broken at a knot and I have no problem with this rod and reel with mono.

Has anyone tried this stuff yet? I headed out with it for the first time yesterday. It cast well, and I had no problem with knots, but I had trouble with it breaking somewhere around the bail on my spinning reel. The usual scenario was that after catching and reeling in a fish I would get my line again and find my jig falling in the water with about six feet of line on it. This line is tough, I can't cut it by biting it and it's even hard to cut with a dull pocket knife. I've never had a problem when using this rod and reel with mono. Anyone have an explanation?

I know that this is a bass board, but I would like to see a little more variety, kind of like the articles in InFisherman. I'd like to see someone fishing for two pound bluegills and red ears, crappie, big carp, hybrid striped bass whatever. Like someone said constantly watching someone catch 2 to 5 pound largemouth bass bores me to death.

Honestly that sounds pretty good. The bass can't all be huge and if you are getting some 5 to 8 pounders in a five acre pond I wouldn't complain.

I think that a pond with no fishing pressure will tend to go toward a balance. However it depends if you like that balance. A pond can be managed for big bass or big bluegill but it's hard to get both. Head over to pondboss.com and you'll get a lot of good advice.

Yes, since I fish mostly in my own pond. Ever see that episode of the Simpsons where Homer buys a really small lobster, fattens it up and it kind of becomes his pet, then cries while eating it? That pretty much sums it up with fish in my pond.

Watch this video by Mike Webb. It helped me a lot.

I'd like to buy someone a baitcaster for a present. What's a good one for under $100

Saturday evening my daughter and I were fishing from the shore. I was about 200 feet away from her when about a 3 pounder hit my jitterbug. My daughter said from the sound of the splash she thought I fell in the water.

I used Real Magic last year and liked it. I haven't noticed a difference this year, using the same bottle. Does anyone know if the stuff looses effectivness when it gets old or freezes?

Tell that to anyone who works in a big city emergency room.

After 15 years of trying, I'm beginning to lose confidence in my Roland Martin Helicopter lure.

I think that Mattlures has the right idea, except that a couple of the species he mentioned aren't going to make it in Colorado. Yes, you'll have to cull predators, and it is going to take a while. Just dumping in a bunch of forage fish adds up to nothing but a quick snack. (I know I've done it). Go to www.pondboss.com and read and ask questions in the discussion forum. Pond Boss is the magazine published by the aforementioned Bob Lusk.

I am just getting started this year on using baitcaster (Abu Revo). I'm getting decent but still have the training wheels on (piece of tape across spool about two casts in). Right now I'm using 8# Suffix. Would a braid be better, worse or the same for a beginner baitcast operator?

Go back and watch The Lion King where Mufassa tells Simba about the circle of life. You've go too many lions (bass and crappie) and not enough gazelles (bluegill). If you add very small bluegills now, most will end up as nothing but a quick snack for the bass. You may have to add larger ones and let them spawn. I agree with he who said go to pondboss.com

Did she say to you "Rescue me" ? We have a winner. A-Jay

I have on bass that comes to eat when the fish feeder goes off at my pond. I have named her Fontella. Some of you over 50 will get that.

Ive seen two dead calves kayaking down the river..pretty disturbing lol praying to god i dont some how flip while over one of those How did they hold the paddles with their hooves?