janalon

Maybe it is just me, but I would have tossed that one up to a mistake 3 pages ago.

I wish I could help, but this has never happened on my President reel.

December. Our tourneys start back up in Febuary.

I like the 7.5 culprit, crawdad and junebug

Jimmy has been around longer than most of us here. We can pray that we will experience the catches he has. If not, we can always put him down and call him a has been. Everyone feeling better now?

Gosh you would think the whole topic was written by fish themselves. Yes they feel something. So we jab a hook in our lips and pull the line taught and yell, ouch! They feel pain, I know they do, cuz I just felt it. And when I touch it it wiggles. The topic itself is completly relative. I'm gonna start a topic "Do bass feel rejected when we throw them back?"

Human. The only species that can reason. Deduce, sorrow, worry and relate pain. Is that truly what makes us human? Or is it the fact that we can make the call for other species? Can you feel my pain?

Pain is relative, bet your pain is different than mine. If pain in fishing is truly the question, mayhap you stop eating chicken. If you do, we feel your pain. You will probably starve! cluck cluck. moo moo. Peta should get a knock outta this. Nice posts from some of the members. Just makes me wonder, is peta here among us?

2 days a week my friend and my lady is there with me. And you gotta like that!

I think most everyone loves to have a great chance to catch a lot of bass. I like fishing the bigger lakes, it is more of a challange to find the fish to me. My 23 year old daughter loves it too, maybe that's why she has said for the past 15 years, "let's go hunting daddy!" I always thought it was funny that she considered Bass Fishing a hunt. Indeed.

I rather be the fooled, than the fool.

1st off, I am catch and release 100% But if someone else wants to keep a fish, no matter how big it may be, it is really none of my affair. It is the State's. And as long as they have paid for their license like I did and it is legal, it's not anyone's. Make it your affair, it becomes everyone's affair. And that includes those whom do not think we should be hooking them in the first place. Now that's a can a worms to open up, is it not?

Yes, how far a bass will commit to chase a lure, varies

Yea, we thought you fell over board or something!

It will take you time to learn when to set the hook. Pink has it down packed for his own reflexes. This is something you will have to learn from all the info you are fed. And yes, you will gut hook fish in the process. It will subside.