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You've never had spotted bass then. Better than crappie.

At one time I had a MG and two chronarch b's. I got rid of the MG.

My vote was for the Vixen. I've got a Jackall Bowstick on the way that I fell in love with. Their Chart shad just turns me on, lol. Also kinda like mine too

I kill spotted bass. They are delicious and I hate them. Good way to end up dead Smallmouth and Largemouth are zero kill for me.

Whats that? Oh yeah that junk browser I used before I saw the light that is Firefox ;D

On elk and muleys, probably 200 average. Have taken a deer at 75, and an elk at 320.

Where do you think River2Sea lures are made? And with the exception of the Bottom Walker, THEY SUCK!!! LOL I attribute the Bottom Walker to a blind pig finding an acorn once in awhile ;D

Only made one order. Took advantage of TW's sale prices, along with the 10% off coupon, and got over $300 worth of terminal tackle, softbaits, and small hardbaits, for $8.97!!!!!! Oh yeah, had a $200 gift card too ;D

WRB, I just wanted to clarify that I DO think they can attain record size without trout, i know they can. It is just my opinion that certain lakes are completely dependant on them, due to the very high concentrations of large bass and low availability of other food. Dont Otay and Hodges have lots of large shiners? I have never seen a shiner in the lakes I fish normally. But I have in a few ponds, and the Delta. As far as Native trout, dont forget the Lahontan Cutthroat, which is not hard to find, and the sea run cutts and stealhead. The Redband trout and the Paiute Cutthroat are markedly more difficult to catch. Steve, you know how worthless those 4lb mud slugs are right

Denial..........

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They keep playing this junk on the radio like its something great. I shall refer to this album as "Chinese Turd Taco" from here on out.

The massively condensed version is: Some students at stanford, backed by various wacko organizations, filed a suit against DFG demanding an EIR to determine the impacts of stocked trout on native amphibians like the yellow legged mountain frog. The court ruled that DFG must conduct the EIR, and DFG shut down their planting at "selected" lakes. The lakes chosen are baffling to the users of logic and reason. They shut down lakes OUTSIDE of the native range of the little frog, and shut down MAN MADE RESERVOIRS to trout planting. Common sense would indicate that shutting down a man made lake is a direct contradiction to their aim of "protecting the frogs native range" if they were to shut down planting in natural lakes within the frogs range(which they did do in the late nineties) then im ok with that. But you cannot expect that net to encompass reservoirs that were not native environments for these frogs. Its a big load of bulls$%t as far as im concerned.

If there is a collection taken up, that could go to a bunch of G'man's jigs, or a rod, or *** or something, im in.

Did you retain the front or back hook? I am using a back hook on the baits that i have already changed.

Oh, this is beautiful. Grebes? Here in Virginia, the Grebes don't give a rat's arse whether you are on the lake or not. I saw dozens of them this week and they have this weird ability - they swim out of your way when you come towards them, and back after you leave. No joke. There are hundreds of thousands of them on Clear Lake in the winter, pretty much 40 or 50 an acre, for 40,000 acres. I dont think the population is struggling, lol. Commie vegan wackos. Only in this state.

muddy, what i meant was fishing a typical, 2 hook crank with only one, much larger hook on the front or back, like replacing a size 6 with a 2, etc and leaving the other hook hanger unused.

That was the crappiest article i have ever read btw. The way it is is that SD has been producing gigantic bass more prolifically since the mid-90's, regardless of how many people are fishing for them.

I have no doubt that they will still work. I have caught many bass on them in waters that have no trout. I am also acutely aware of the fact that in my lakes, when there are no trout, they dont work ANYWHERE near as well as they do after they start stocking.

So im sitting here looking through my hardbait box, and I'm looking at some of my small cranks. The little tiny hooks on these things are a joke. Does anyone remove the front or back hook and replace the other with a larger version? Meaning that it now has only one.

It will devastate some lakes, have moderate effects on most, and completely unhinder a few IMO. Some small lakes have populations of big fish so high, that without the protein supplements, many big fish will die. Most of these lakes have a prey base so otherwise low, that it is just impossible to sustain the number and gargantuan size of fish there without trout. I believe that in these lakes, the biggest fish only know how to kill trout, they havent tried to live off bluegill and craws for years. These are the lakes that will be crushed. Coincidentally, most of the lakes that I am referring to are the ones most likely to kick an 18+ in California. The majority of the lakes that this effects, I believe, will survive ok. I dont think there will be as many obese fish, and the swimbait bite will go to shlt, but there wont be some giant fish kill. The lakes that I fish most, fall into this category. To me, that tells me that next year will be a year of jigs, giant worms, and sight fishing. This year the big fish were so keyed on trout, that I went all spring without bed fishing. Thats why I had 6 sacks over 34lbs in march. I dont see that happening this year. It goes without saying that the fish in the 5-9lb range that eat the majority of trout, are not going to grow as much this year as they should. Even if, by some miracle, trout planting resumes on these lakes, there will be a few years where there is gap in the year classes, all those fish that should have been 10-15 have had their growth retarded. There are a few lakes that have been receiving trout for years, that I dont think will be affected, due to the availability of mass amounts of other large bait. Since I have decided to stick with bass fishing, these are the lakes that I will be directing the majority of my attentions to. Like brannus said, for the most part, SoCal escaped unscathed. It stands to reason that their lakes, having avoided the axe, will be receiving the current trout that were alotted elsewhere, giving their bass even more protein bars. If we get good amounts of water this year, and those SD and LA region lakes get even more trout than usual, I foresee a banner spring for them. I am just concerned for the well being of our 15+ fish that could have attained truly gigantic proportions, having their food base ripped out from under them. I do not know if they can adjust to scraping after bluegill and craws in our poorly managed, half drained reservoirs. Remember these are not big gorillas, they are incredibly old and fragile fish. If they reached their size on gills craws and shad, which they absolutely could have, I think they would be fine. All I know is that I have around $5,000 worth of trout imitating baits. Wonderful. I hate this state with an indescribable passion right now. Bunch of wacko Stanford ****** bags have caused countless cities, counties, and businesses, to have their heads under the guillotine. Not to mention boning my only source of enjoyment, all in one fell swoop. I need a beer....................and some cute little bluegill swimbaits I guess.

My vices are chewing tobacco, strong drink, and fast women.

x2!!!!!! LOL. There are SOME very attractive girls in the south, specially in Texas, but that might be the only redeeming quality of California, the girls here are unparalleled. When I moved here, i was blown away at just how many really gorgeous women there are.

I REALLY like that bottom one!

I have decided to make half my recommendations baits that I really like and the other half baits that are terrible. I wish more people here would fish all that chinese garbage, would make it a lot easier to get bit on real baits ;D