Bankbeater

Hey leave Missouri alone! At least they're consistant.

Excellent show. I love when they have the marathon on.

Sorry, not on Facebook.

As long as there is no ice I will be fishing for bass.

Congrats!! Hope you and your family are doing fine.

I usually start with 3/8 and go up or down from there.

Nice bass, but I would have made the guy taking the picture go in.

I was skunked plenty of times while I was learning how to bass fish. IMO, if I only catch one dink in an afternoon that means that I have successfully started to put together a pattern and given enough time I will be able to find the larger fish in that body of water.

Congrats on the twins! Do you have any power plant lakes nearby?

Nice crappie. The ones I catch are about 1/2 that size.

And my family wonders why I don't like pumpkin pies.

Glad to hear everything went OK. Try sleeping in a recliner and lean it back about 1/2 way.

You caught some nice fish!

It depends on the type of weeds your going to be pulling through. I will use a 3/8 jig when the weeds are not so dense, and a finesse jig when I the weeds get real thick. If the bait gets tangled I will take up the slack and give the bait a quick jerk. Usually the jigs comes right out with little or no weeds on it.

It all depends. If I have confidence in a bait I might use it for 30 min or so and change. Then I might go back and put the same bait back on again. If I don't have a lot of confidence in the bait I may only keep it on 5 or 10 minutes.

Thoughts and prayers are with you.

Good luck!

I have either heard these or spoken them over the years "Where are my pliers" "My trailers gone" "He's off" "A swing and a miss" "Ouch" "You've cast across my line" "didn't see that tree branch sticking out over the water" "Watch out for stumps in the water so we don't hit one with the boat" "I told you to watch out for stumps in the water"

A lot of the city parks in St. Louis have lakes that you can fish. St. Charles has Busch Wildlife. All the lakes see a lot of pressure especially during the summer weekends. Mark Twain is around a two and a half hour drive, but the last I heard the bass fishing was not all that great up there. Lake of the Ozarks is a pretty good bass lake, but you have to watch out for floating parties in certain branches of the lake. Bull Shoals and Tablerock are pretty good also if you don't mind the drive.

Raider, Thx for the info. Guys, I sympathize with your pain. I had my right shoulder operated on in '10, and my left on operated on last year. My surgeon said that I lost cartilage in both shoulders from the injury. The right one is healed up pretty good, but the left one lost some of the cartilage where the socket joint is. When I move it a certain way its like hitting a pothole in the road, and I can feel the bump.

I have stopped using trailer hooks. It always seemed that when I was pulling the bait through weeds, or timber the spinnerbait would make it through OK but the trailer would get snagged.

If I am fishing in open water and haven't caught anything then no I don't check my line that often. If I am fishing a jig around timber or rip rap then I check it about every 3rd or 4th cast.

I usually just pull on the line, but I pull it from the rod tip and not right out of the reel.

Nice Smallies. They look real healthy.

Good to hear, but sorry about the camera. Nice to know the fishing is good in some parts of the country.