Hyrule Bass

last year i started wrapping elastic thread around chicken livers to help hold them on, worked pretty good at holding the livers on during the cast and under water...

Wow, some of you really seem to love to WASTE line, then probably complain about the price of it later on. Ive had mono on some of my reels for 4 years and its still as good as new. Line doesnt just all of a sudden go bad the minute you spool it up. it doesnt go bad because its been used a few times. i refuse to respool a reel because a few feet of line got ran over some rocks, or just because it got wet. cut off the abrased portion of line and keep on moving. when the spool gets low then i change line, or if a certain line isnt working too great on a reel, ill change the line. or if i just really want to try some new line ive never tried before. yeah then i will waste a bit of line. i've never had my line dry rot or fade from use or even being spooled up over several years(stored inside). i just think its ridiculous to change lines every two trips, even if youve caught nothing or caught something. But hey, its your money. As for me, most sizes of mono i have, ive had spools of for 3-5 years and there is nothing wrong with them, ive rarely bought line in the last 3 years. and havent had a fish break my line since i hooked a 40+lb flathead on 8lb mono 5-6 years ago

never broke one of my 30-40 dollar rods

used to have a Mossy Oak camo hate my moms husband bought for me after i killed my first deer ever several years ago. somehow that hat got lost, misplaced, stolen, grew legs and walked away, but it never turned back up, just disappeared one day. that hat seemed pretty lucky to me. then i ended getting an all black panther brand hat with the lights on it built in, that hat has been pretty good to me for awhile too. i did lose it for awhile but found it when i moved last year and its still got that lucky feeling. also, one day looking back at some old pics of me and fish, seems i do pretty well when wearing a red or some shade of red, t-shirt...

are you keeping the line tight enough when they jump? is there significant slack in your line when setting the hook?

it wouldnt surprise me at all. im not sure how legit it was, but i also read somewhere that people died when SML was flooded because they refused to leave their homes...

nice fish, cant wait to see the new bait. but hell, i cant even find rage craws at BPS anymore, i been twice this year to two different BPS(richmond, baltimore) and neither had craw or baby craws...

i hear there are barns, houses, silos and all kinds of stuff that got flooded when they made the lake...

sounds fun, i like to catfish myself. shoulda seen me the time i hooked a huge flathead with my old zebco 33. i had just casted out, felt something pick my single nightcrawler up, set the hook, and said "THIS IS IT". darn thing swam right to me, i had to reel really really fast to keep the line tight, then it shot under the boat(the boat was in the dock slip, i was fishing from the back of the boat. i pulled it back out via the rod which i was sure was gonna snap in two, the fish surfaced in front of me and went into a death roll on top of the water which snapped the 8lb line i was using at the sinker...

is there an easy way to tell the difference between a florida strain and northern strain?

i figured they were a different species, but dug back to share that thread anyways...

thats a huge lake to be going around just searching for tires. i can confirm ive heard one story of a guy sinking tires a few years ago off a point in a cove of the roanoke river arm, but thats about it. i would focus more on docks, rocky points, humps, and underwater tree stumps and fallen trees...

by all accounts a couple years ago, dude has yet to even bait his hook, much less cast and fish...

hard jerk baits and shallow diving cranks should work...

The classic really needs live coverage on a station willing to give it the time of day, ESPN is too much in a hurry to show another rerun of sportscenter back to back to back in a row. I really dont care to watch it after all the results have been known for a week

in the summer just walk around the banks of the pond, you can use your eyes to see if there are fish in the pond. That should work most of the time, though i have seen the occasional pond that i know has fish where none have been around the banks. But a few good plastic in ponds for me have been Kinami Flash baby bass color, Berkley Powerbait 5in and 7in red shad shakey worms, and anything by Rage Tail has been killer in ponds for me. Also you cant go wrong with some Zoom lizards especially when pond bass are on the beds...

another vote for patience...

how come the fish in the third picture doesnt appear to have a big hump above its head like the other three?

i agree that fish shouldnt be handled like rag dolls. but then again, fish arent as fragile as some make them out to be...

hard jerk baits, shallow diving crank baits, slow rolled spinner baits, lipless cranks, and soft plastic lizards

i got a pair of prescription polarized ray-ban sunglasses, atleast the frames are ray-ban, i think the lenses are made by coppertone. they were quite expensive, but my aunt bought them for me in exchange for some computer work i did for her. they ran over $400. theyre great for fishing. and great for those morning rides going east to work when the sun is rising and shines right into your eyes and literally blinds you so bad that you cant see the car in front of you especially with a dirty windshield, well thats not a problem anymore either since i got these glasses about two years ago. before i got them i never wore sunglasses because i couldnt see well enough to satisfy me without the prescription and i dont like those clip on things or the things you put over your glasses

ummm, ive had times where i had to stop reeling because the fish is taking out line regardless. happened to me with a striper and with a honest to goodness 20+ inch crappie. they went on amazing runs and reeling did no good as the fish continued to strip line off the reel. you just have to know when to start reeling again, you have to feel the fish wearing down near the end of their run and then get them turned around. but as for when a fish jumps, i never put my rod tip down or in the water, it really doesnt matter so much to me. i love to see a fish jump, the real key to me is keeping constant pressure on the fish and keeping your line tight the whole time through the jump, and i havent lost any fish in a long long time because it jumped. the key is keeping your line tight whether the fish jumps or not...

while you dont like it, its their right and choice to keep a big bass. you can scowl and be mad all you want, youre probably wasting your time. Its possible your scowling could cause some people to keep big bass just to get under your skin for not respecting their rights to keep fish... anyone who doesnt want a man to have his trophy of a lifetime sounds pretty selfish too, as well as jealous/envious...

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