fourbizz

I got a Christmas card from him too. The only card I am expecting to receive that is intended solely for me. ;D Big softee.

line with "no" memory (i.e. well worn braid) is very very prone to tip wraps. set the hook while its wrapped and you will probably break your rod.

My little brother has been trying to get out of SeaTac since noon. He's had three flghts cancelled on him and "MIGHT" get out tomorrow. Feel bad for him.

The fishing gods must hate you! That is cruel!

Just the biggest for you... everyone knows you have hundreds that fit the criteria. Nonsense lol. I Can't get a single smallie over 5. Ive got a 4-15 and 4-14 though

Should we post ALL of our fish that fit the criteria, or just the biggest? ;D

for the kind of music we like a fast clean hitting 10" sub in a sealed box is perfect imo. i run memphis components in the stock locations in my truck.

you mean the world of nerdy virgins? man, dont want to be there...

since dsl is finally available, im in hog heaven. been on youtube, streaming movies, looking at those "other" sites , and google earthing for 3 days. got my network cable for the xbox and am ready to rock. playing cod4 at the moment. id is fourbizz. add me.

Sucks. As a carpenter, when the housing market is the suck, so are my hours. Been real patchy since last november. Work 50 hrs a week for three weeks, sit around for a month has been the normal way it works. last winter i worked 0 hours in carpentry in 3 months. Pretty ugly. The greater sacramento area has been in the top 5 hardest hit areas in the country for home prices. Got a few months of work lined up, but its out of town, so i'll be living in a hotel 4 or 5 nights a week Great pay though. Pretty ugly.

i like sending people to get me the "piston spring compression tool" ;D

Mudd, maybe just avoiding a hard line stance on the schooling/not schooling thing will make it easier to grasp. I, by no means, am any kind of expert. What little things I KNOW are things that I have seen for myself. I generally dont fish bait balls unless I am spooning or throwing a spook. I choose to take a stance of general disinterest when it comes to bait balls around here, because the reservoirs that I fish all have very small shad/pond smelt. I feel that the bigger fish GENERALLY are not going to waste their time chasing these and work really hard for small meals. I think they are much more content to stay on their structure, and ambush bigger meals as they pass. I choose to focus on the trout/kokanee interaction in my fishing, but I believe that this applies when they are after panfish/bass/carp/hitch/etc. Maybe they arent true schooling fish, they definitely dont move in a "school" in the pelagic sense that the term probably denotes. They DO group together, thats not in doubt. I believe that they hunt together as well. Maybe its just a coincidence that what they view as self interest ends up helping the group, i dont know. I must however, call BS on the genetic make up thing. If this specific trait is purely genetic, and not present in bass, I pose this question: What about bass fry? They most definitely move as a group and use their numbers for defense and security. So if genes are neccesary for schooling, fry have them, and obviously so do adults. If they are not neccesary for schooling, then what is? Is it merely the presentation of a situation where schooling becomes beneficial? Is it something that is perhaps learned by a localized population of bass, say in one lake, to thrive in their own special situation? I dont know, all ANY of us have are our own observations and other peoples word. Neither of which should we trust implicitly. ;D I resort back to my original position that some fish have the innate desire/ability to work together to capture prey. In my waters, big fish do not consistantly chase shad/smelt over open water. This is just how I have chosen to look at it, and it has made me practically ignore these bait balls when I have big fish on the brain. Very rarely i will go and spoon these balls in the winter, just to remember what a fish feels like but I have no confidence in getting a big fish out of them at my normal lakes. Clear Lake and the Delta are an exception for me because the bait gets much larger there than at my reservoirs. I will often fish boils with a spook, for smaller fish, just because it is too much dang fun to watch shad jumping everywhere and bass smacking your spook around, lol. Thats my take on it, for what its worth.

Daiwa Tierra. Its the reel that the stradic wants to be when it grows up. $119

#1 no #2 not unless that ball of shad happens to be over prime big bass structure <---- in my experience

i couldnt point you towards anything mudd. all ive got are my own suppositions and those of my fishing buddies.

Im not saying bass arent schooling fish, but they definitely work together. It is not completely uncommon to have many large bass work in a wolf pack in our trout lakes. Sometimes they will get trout pushed into the back of a cove. Some fish will close off the opening while others go in and kill trout. Then they switch. Pretty cool.

I absolutely believe that there are open water/shad chasing fish and structure oriented fish. Of course they will do the other thing occasionally, but for the most part i think that they prefer one or the other. I dont fish shad balls and expect to catch big fish.

Yeah, its quite a bit of fun, despite Brandon being there ;D ;D

In response: Little baits do catch big fish but only once in awhile when you are where big fish swim. ;D Besides every big fish I have caught on the d-shot and shakey heads, I just consider it luck. Now when its on a big bait, most of the time, THATS ON PURPOSE ;D

i agree. i really like black grape and junebug too. but a 10" worm that doesnt come in black? come on now! ;D

1? no thanks. ;D 3:16 Wake Jr.

13lbs 1 oz 10" BLACK Power Worm

Read the fn post people. He asked what color you like best. My favorite three are Trout _______ Chartreuse Shad ;D

I dont know muddy, wouoldnt use it if there was though. I'm like spidertaint I guess, I like my big worms in only one color: black ;D