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No. You couldnt pressure them hard enough to completely stop eating before a new year class was brought into it. Nice try.

Pastrami. A lot of it. Toasted bread. Thats it.

i assumed thats what you meant paul. but i would still assume that some people would fish from the bank, and people tend to stand in the same spot, if any fish wanted to sit in a foot of water, i think thats the only place they wouldnt. Generally speaking, i dont think that fishing pressure moves fish, just turns them off the bite.

I do believe that for the most part they will postition the same. excluding the super shallow areas of the pressured lake, where people always stand. not all the shallows, but you know, those spots where the grass gets worn down

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Paul just did work on the non believers! Of course I would take the unpressured lake, just like every bass angler that is not in denial. That being said I will fish any ten acre pond that has 20 doubles in it. I dont care if I'm elbow to elbow with the next guy. 2 doubles per acre gets me there ;D

"You gonna skin that smoke wagon, or just stand there and bleed?" The even better movie quote from Tombstone ;D

Spring fed, or runoff. That will be the main question. If it is a spring, it likely is the same temperature at the source all year long. Also, a simple way to look at it is the smaller the body of water, the closer it will be to air temp.

Well that answers that then. What the hell have you been up to stranger?

certainly

When they first came out, there was no other 6" hudd/hudd knockoff available. I bought 3. Two swam poorly and even with nail weights, i was unsuccesful in getting them to track straight. The third one got bit one time, missed her. Both eyes fell out and the paint basically fell off the bait. If you are paying international shipping anyway, you might as well get the huddlestons. They are much much better, and cheaper to boot. The abt's swim to to bottom nose down at about a 45degree angle just like the ROF12 Hudd.

Junk paint, often swims poorly.

The doctor that delivered my brother, by C-section no less, was Dr. Slice.

According to IMDB.com there is more Clint coming... I am the Clint commander!

Yep our big dumb aquarium fish... I have seen many things the last few years with big baits that make me believe as fiercely as I do, that these fish learn, and have some degree of intelligence. Many times, I have had days where just having a size one stinger hook rigged on a bait would prevent it from getting bit. Change to just a jig hook and start getting bit. Has this ever happened on the delta? Hell no, because that is a giant piece of water, that is not clear, and has stupid fish. Lets look at lake Dixon, I know somebody in this thread fishes there and maybe he could confirm or deny what I'm saying. That lake is 76 surface acres at full pool. The visibility is 20+ feet. So during the spawn, you could effectively eliminate at least 1/2 of its acreage because it is too deep to hold bed fish. So that leaves us with 38 acres of fishable depth, assume that at least a third of that is inhospitable to bedding fish, and you are down to 25 acres of productive water. Now put the worlds best trophy sight fishermen on their head, to the tune of 10-20 guys a day. Yeah, one acre per fisherman. There should be a 18+ caught every day right? No, because the conditions presented these fish have made them very aware at our attempts at subterfuge. You might not see these effects on a 160,000 acre reservoir, with nowhere near that kind of pressure per acre. But I KNOW that it exists here. 38

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I did not know that about the capillaries. It really looks like some kind of fungus. Very similar to the fungi problems you see in aquariums. Just kind of ... "feathery" looking. But it would seem that they would have to have the injury first, so that the fungus, if that is what it is, had a damaged area to get ahold of. I have never seen the feathery crap on otherwise healthy looking areas. If it was more random, in location, it wouldnt seem so baffling to me. But it is almost always on the lower jaw and more often than not, on the right side

Could be. But all in the same place? Just weird. None of those were from during the spawn, but all were from march-july

THATS IT! I have thrown hundreds and hundreds of dips into that lake! Good call Tin! Guess I'll start using a spitter when I'm on the boat from now on.

Or maybe its cause I kiss the big ones before I let them go, and they make little stid babies ;D

You answered your own question In an environment as large as even a small pond, you could never pressure every single fish hard enough to make them completely stop striking. But you most certainly CAN turn them off to certain lures to a degree that you are less likely to get bit than you were the first time they saw it. You ever shot a turkey as soon as they come down from their roost? Bet you the rest of the flock won't pick that spot to land tomorrow.

So at one of my lakes, a good number of the bigger fish have this nasty fungus or rot on their jaw. Many of them are in the exact same place. I have caught at least 15 fish over 5 here that have this. Upon comparing their lateral line markings none of them appear to be the same fish. What do you guys think causes this? Very typical of what I find You can clearly see where this fish used to have it and it has healed.

Or you could just be smart and fish Northern California the whole time ;D ;D Since everyone wants to show off their states fish, we might as well have some california fish present All of those with the exception of the one with the worm on her face were from march and arpil '08.

Spoken like a true professional. "efficient" ;D

even better, trim and caulking ;D