Swamp Girl

I loved your trip report, Bob. So happy you caught two tankers! I like all the details too. I wish I had a mind for remembering every lure and color name like you and so many others do. I just checked another two nearby ponds. Still ice.

It would be an auger if I owned one.

@the reel ess, I've paddled again' the wind for hours too. Game knows game. In a perfect world, your fish's adjusted weight would be 9 pounds, 8 ounces. Into the wind doubles the weight. Fighting a fish in rapids triples it. Fighting a velociraptor while fighting a fish while going over a waterfall in a kayak octuples the weight.

She's gorgeous!

I'm as impressed by paddling against the wind for three hours as I am by the bass.

Hot diggedy dog, Dwight!

Whoa! Congrats!

Alex, the YouTubers that I prefer to watch are the ones who show the lost fish. I can relate to them and I can't trust the ones who only show that every hooked fish is landed.

Dang it, Woody! You know spots and you know big spots, so it might have been the state record. Certainly a new PB. Heartbreaking.

@king fisher, thanks for some details of your fishing life. I found it fascinating.

I love seeing the pics. I love seeing that @Team9nine is crushingly consistent FROM THE BANK, with and without wind, and @Woody B is too. I love seeing @AlabamaSpothunter's roller coaster ride, where he catches 50 bass in a day, then it fizzles, and then multiple 4 and 5-pounders in a day. I also like hearing the descriptions. There are top rate storytellers at BR, like @PhishLI, and the photos enhance the stories. And if seeing one of @T-Billy's muskies doesn't make your day, check your pulse as I doubt you have one.

@PhishLI, you are a good writer. Thanks for taking us along on your wading trip. I enjoyed meeting Danny. That carp is gorgeous. I caught one that big, while fishing for smallmouth, on the Whitefish River on Lake Michigan's north shore. I can see why Danny fishes for them. It's like hooking a train.

I try to make it look like I'm picking daisies. In my canoe.

Oh, trust me, I never forget this when peeing in my canoe.

I accessed one pond by knocking on the door and baking pecan chocolate chip cookies when I fished it. With another, another door knocking and I thanked them with a gift bag.

The no posters are trying to counter-balance the oh so many posters like Woody and me. They are the yin to our yang, the Abbott to our Costello, the peanut butter to our jelly. However, in 2023, I am a no poster as opposed to an oh so many poster in 2022, so maybe I'm the peanut butter and the jelly. I'm confused.

Hey, chefs don't burn toast unless...unless...unless they're distracted by disco music! By the way, I checked the nearest pond this evening. Nothin' but ice.

@Darth-Baiter, you are so right about the WP diving. In mid-cast, I can almost hear its klaxon. When I watch wanna-be Al Lindners on YouTube explaining how to fish the Whopper Plopper and see them start to retrieve as soon as it lands, I think, "Amateurs." You have to let it pop back to the surface after it lands unless you want the first five of your retrieve to be underwater. Thanks for the info on the Spin Walker. I have two loaded into my shopping cart, but now I'm going to empty that cart.

Has anyone tried the Spin Walker lure? If so, what do you think? I can't decide if it looks gimmicky or cool.

I went. I saw. I was WOWED!

Gorgeous fish! Thanks for nudging me into this thread, Tim.

Come July, when it's 74 degrees with low humidity here, I'll be giving you the Daily Maine Weather Report. Atta boy, Pat!

BoB is an abbreviation for Best of Bunch.

Another good rebuttal. It's fun chatting with you smart fishers. I was hoping you did!

But your outlook is the same as the bass's outlook. Hmmm. Now I understand. I had always misassumed that you were in background of your thumbnail photo. So, that's you in the foreground! Well, I hope you bit that guy in the red jacket for hauling you out of your home.