KenDammit28

I posted in a thread not too long ago about the largest bass ever documented with a picture of what Montgomery Lake looked like sometime recently. It looked more or less like a pond, very narrow and not very long and also not very deep..but very bassy looking.

changes my perspective, sorry for the harsh tone of the first post.

neither a stringer nor a net are good for "storing" fish and/or keeping them alive. Stringers just maul the gills, nets can rub all their protective coating off. If you are catching and releasing...you shouldn't be using either one. Pro's don't use stringers in the livewell..they use a culling system which either clips on to the fish or is hooked on to the fish. They don't do this for "catch and release", they do this for ease of determining which fish is the smallest that they can get rid of for the bigger fish they just caught. That is like what pro's use for fish in livewells...nothing invasive, nothing harmful, and nothing to "keep" them. I hate to say this but whoever gave you the info you stated is a fool. And like KU said, if you're releasing them..then why would you be wanting to use a stringer or a net to begin with?

Lake Cumberland(man made) 65,530 Acres 101 miles by 1 mile(widest) max depth 200 feet Cave Run Lake 8,270 acres dunno max depth..Its somewhere in the 150+ range Laurel River Lake 19 miles long 6,000 acres 280 feet max depth after that, most of the lakes get smaller, and I fish Ponds as well.

people been doin it for years with blades to make em bulkier. The second skirt will rarely, if ever, come off. I fish spinnerbaits this way when I feel like the fish want a bigger profile...the bait will also ride higher because of the added skirt.

Just wanted to say that I wanna fish GreenBo and a couple other of these smaller lakes in Kentucky pretty badly. Can't ever find the time to travel to em during the warm weather months, though.

I use a right-hand retrieve and pitch with my left hand, the handles are down when I pitch. The handle of the rod goes outside my arm and away I go.

you shoulda done a follow up on the first question and asked him why he chooses to fish alone.

you could also have the reel tilted to the left instead of perfectly horizontal or to the right. I do it all the time. Since I reel with my right hand, my reel naturally will tilt towards the left as I hold the line with the finger and thumb. That causes the line to pile up more on the left side, soI just make an effort to tilt to the right and even it out. IN the end, you make a few casts and everything is back to normal.

Taking tournament fishing and sponsorships and the like out of the situation for a minute...what is it about fishing that draws you in and keeps you in? If someone asks you(not a competitor in a tourney) "what are they bitin on today?", what is your response?

i use the 3700 boxes(or 370 as BPS calls them) for all the things I use A LOT. I have one box full of different soft frogs, and one that is all stickbaits. Anything else I can't get in those bags gets stored in the zipper compartment in their original packaging. I have things like Trick Worms, surplus stickbaits, craws, lizards, things like that which are more specialized in the zipper compartment and I have a box from walmart that fits in the side pocket of the XPS 370 bag which has things like grubs, trailers, more finesse worms. thats the ad bag on bps.com but my way of storage is pretty much the same. I have ALL that I'll need for a day of fishing in that bag...no need to stock up on a 100 bags of one kind of lure at one time.

I think I read somewhere that pea's help when goldfish are having some sort of problem with their swim bladder.

I've been thinking that an offset shank round bend might be better than an EWG when fishing something on the bottom, like a Paca craw or a Speed Craw, and also might be better with worms. All I've ever really used is EWG with pretty much everything, so when do you guys that use both apply the round bend?

just behind the lower lip, through the slot created by the gill plate. You won't be actually touching any gills, just the "meat" inside the mouth. Thats what I do with my berkley digital scale. Just take your time and make sure you get the hook in the right spot and everything will be ok. Another trick that Low Budget suggested one time was to use a plastic bag. Wet the inside, put the fish in, weigh it, then take the fish back out and release it.

spots can also get a reddish colored eye. The best thing to look for is the jawline and the dorsal fin. If the jaw doesn't give it away, just look at the dorsal and if there isn't a noticable gap, its a spot.

# is the pound symbol so anytime you see it mentioned with fishing, its referring to pounds.

tackle

yeah, I already got all the regular stik baits covered...just wanted to switch it up a little a.k.a. spend some more money on lures. Its too bad that I really won't get a chance to try em out here for at least another month.

use a 1-2" finishing nail.

Anyone fished with the Yum Forked Tail dingers? I had a little money to spend with a gift card at Dicks, so I got some tonight. I picked up some Swimming Senko's in black/red flake. Fat Ika's in Pumpkin/Black Trick Worms in Green Pumpkin and Black 1/8th oz Spot removers Forked tail Dingers in Watermelon and Pumpkin/chartreuse tail and some 1/4 screw lock sinkers. The only thing I don't really know about(but they sure looked good in the package so I had to have em) is the dingers..so has anyone fished em and are they fished the same as any other stickbait or more flukelike or what?

lol, Flyrod your posts are always good for a chuckle. Flechero, I was thinking more along the lines of "the tackle store" or things like that. The jig and stuff was just an example of questions that never get asked. How often do we stop to think about WHY someone made these things we love today the way they did....who chose to put a skirt on a spinnerbait... Who was the guy or gal that shaped the blades the way we know em today? Who decided that using nylon line was better than rope or string?

lol, thats a good one. Leave it to someone from Texas for a football reference!

well "fishing tackle" encompasses everything..rods, reels, lures, hooks line....although you are probably still right as to why we call everything tackle, lol i think its interesting to find out about the "history" thats never told about the sport we love. Who stops to think about why its called "tackle", or why is that thing called a "jig"? Just random questions that are part of why we do what we do today.

why do they call it tackle?

is there any chalky, powdery looking substance on the line? If you crimp it, does it break or does it more or less "bend"? Line CAN go bad but if it has been kept in good environmental conditions, it can last a good while. Not too hot, not too cold, not moist, not a lot of UV light. A quick test I would do is to tie a length off to a sturdy base of some kind..tie the other end to an object you can hold in your hand..then see how much pressure it takes before the line fails. I know its kind of a "hillbilly" test(don't get offended, I'm from KY....hmm, maybe thats why I would use this test!) but it gives you an idea.