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I won't be able to check until this evening, but I believe it was one of the last two issues. If no one else confirms the exact month, I will later tonight.

There's a "how to" article in a recent issue of Bassmaster mag that shows how to make a lure retriever using a piece of copper pipe and short pieces of chain (the type of chain that hold the weights inside old window frames).

Really, just any chance I get to fish, since I can't as much as I would like

Unofficial standings from the 2009 Bassmaster Classic Updates from BASSTrakk as of 2/20/2009 4:07 p.m. EST By The Editors of Bassmaster.com (Archive) Updated: February 20, 2009, 4:09 PM ET Rank Angler Weight # of fish 1 Michael Iaconelli 20-10 5 2 Scott Rook 20-05 5 3 Boyd Duckett 17-10 5 3 Jami Fralick 17-10 5 5 Aaron Martens 16-01 5 6 Randy Howell 15-12 5 7 Fred Roumbanis 15-00 5 8 Kelly Jordon 14-13 5 9 Bobby Lane 14-05 5 9 Edwin Evers 14-05 5 11 Mike McClelland 14-01 5 12 Bill Lowen 14-00 5 12 Dave Wolak 14-00 5 14 Brian Snowden 13-10 5 15 Alton Jones 13-06 5 16 Skeet Reese 12-15 5 17 Bryan Schmidt 12-00 5 17 Mike Burns 12-00 5 19 Greg Pugh 11-14 5 20 Dean Rojas 11-08 5 21 Davy Hite 11-00 4 21 Greg Hackney 11-00 5 21 Steve Kennedy 11-00 5 24 Brent Chapman 10-14 5 25 Rick Clunn 10-06 5 26 Kevin Wirth 10-04 5 27 Jay Evans 10-02 5 28 David Williams 10-00 5 29 Mark Davis 9-08 5 29 Matt Herren 9-08 4 31 Todd Faircloth 9-03 4 32 Kenyon Hill 8-04 5 33 Shaw Grigsby 7-08 5 34 Bernie Schultz 7-02 3 35 Timmy Horton 7-00 4 36 Waine Pittman 6-10 3 37 Ish Monroe 6-09 2 37 Ken Baumgardner 6-09 4 37 Terry Fitzpatrick 6-09 3 40 Casey Ashley 6-05 3 41 Peter Thliveros 6-00 3 42 Terry Scroggins 5-15 5 43 Kevin VanDam 4-00 4 44 Kim Bain-Moore 3-13 3 45 Gary Klein 3-06 2 46 Kotaro Kiriyama 1-05 1 47 Byron Velvick 1-00 1 - Bryan Hudgins 0 0 - Dustin Wilks 0 0 - Rick Morris 0 0 - Scott Parker 0 0

Thanks for the great story, drath... and a good lesson, too!

Very cool...!!

Chalk up another great tip to one of the fine folks on BassResource.com!!!

LOL... I got the hook from a Spook caught in the meaty part of my palm, just below the thumb. Cut the treble off the lure, cut the other two hooks off, put some ice on it for awhile to get it numb and a buddy used this technique. Worked like a charm.

i dont know abou apperal but i emailed them about buying a sticker, week later i had one in the mail, no charge!! I did something similar with both Shimano and Yo-Zuri a couple years ago. Contacted them via their web sites, they both sent me hats, no charge.

This might help: http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1233711056

Congratulations!

Stewart is truly one of the greats to ever grace the silver screen... and if that wasn't enough, he distinguished himself in the military also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stewart_(actor)

Thanks Bass Fisherman... it is a lot of fun, even for someone as mechanically challenged as myself! And they now have races for girls, called the Powderpuff Derby. My daughter's race is in a couple weeks. Tom

I was never in the Scouts growing up, but now that my 8 year old son is I'm getting to experience the Pinewood Derby. He raced last weekend and just missed finishing in the top six and going to Districts. Oh well, we had fun building his car together. Following are a couple pics of his car, and one of him.

I rented it a while back, thought it was very good.

There are no rules; just general guidlines that someone smart wrote. Fish don't read Probably a poor choice of words on my part... guidelines is more accurate. So these would be pretty good guidelines to use when fishing any body of water. That was really my question. And I'm not so sure about the "fish don't read" thing, based on previous posts on the forum, fish have eyes, so they must be able to see, so they must be able to... Ah, never mind

Great info all, thanks! Just curious, do the general rules cited above regarding what areas to target hold true on most bodies of water? For example, do they apply regardless if it's a very deep, clear reservoir as opposed to a shallower, stained or even muddy lake?

I caught it for the first time last weekend, they were in Nashville. Very cool show! By the way, while the Seattle show airs 3 times this weekend, according to the VS. website it will air several more times after than, even into March.

An excellent explanation and even better video about the rig... Thanks!

I only fish TRL once a year and never for crappie, but what the others have said for bass has worked for me. I do plan to give drop shotting a try this year, though. Also, last year the grub bite seemed to be on, 4" green pumpkin single tail on a ball jig head was the ticket. Of course, the water level last spring was VERY high, probably won't be that high this year. My trip is in mid-May, so needless to say I would be curious to know how you do in late April.

Very interesting narrative... Thanks for sharing! Tom

How utterly unfortunate that he's a human being and made some mistakes... thankfully I haven't made any in my life. Hopefully he will start to make better decisions before something with more serious, long-term effects happens.

Funny thing happened while I was watching the game... my brother brushed up against me as I was standing in the doorway, and someone threw a flag on him for "roughing the beer drinking guy standing in the doorway". He barely touched me, but still got flagged. Oh well, at least the halftime show was lame, as usual. Reasonably entertaining football game, though.

Sam, I picked them up on eBay, got all four for $20... Interesting thing, though, the first Mud Bug's I bid on were two brand new one's, still in their original packaging, and I stopped at $18... and believe it or not, they sold for over $50 for two!!! Ridiculous. By the way, thanks everyone for your insight into these intriguing lures. Tom

Well, I'll definitely give them a try. And they all have a ball inside, so wondering why you guys would need to put BB's in them...?