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You're right Russ, he resembles you much more... at least in stature OH!

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I am. But my mother wasn't.

My mother always told me not to recite stupid cliches.

I have no interest in these Elton Rods. I dont get off on all the anodized aliminum and bright colors and crap. I'd way rather fish a turd brown, full grip, IMX.

Rods just keep getting tackier and tackier. Its like Fast and the Furious goes bass fishing.

lexan is a brand name for the material polycarbonate

the cd cases will make the bait swim. but they are extremely brittle and will break easily. your local glass shop will have some polycarbonate. 1/16" will probably be the best fit. you can probably talk them out of a free scrap. plexiglas will work, but it is very brittle too. install with 5 minute epoxy or superglue

Take it to fisherman's in Sac. over the counter, for free, or $10 shipping.

sounds like vaginosis.

Cool! When I was really into hunting, you could only take 1 deer a year. You guys in the south are lucky! If you played your cards right in Colorado though, you could come away with two elk a year (1 reg season, 1 land management). That fills up the freezer pretty well!

Best all around swimbait rod in the entry level prices. I might re-write that article to reflect my current tastes and newcomers to the swimbait rod marketplace. If there is a demand for it anyway. I wrote that so I wouldnt have to reply to these kind of posts and pm's anymore ;D

Great fish Paul! <------------jealous!

Well, yeah, 2lbers will eat 8" baits sometimes, but the gill is 5.5"

Yesterdays trip was alright. Went to my favorite little dink lake. Ive fished there probably 30 times, and my biggest fish is a 4-15, so suffice it to say that it doesnt really kick big fish. Stepped off the dock, onto the front of the boat and picked up the gill. Put it out over a deeper weedbed and got it moving. Within a few seconds there were 2, 2lb smallies and a largemouth the same size smacking it around and fighting each other for it, lol. I set the hook and the LM at the boat and missed her, but it sure was entertaining, i was laughing like a little kid. Ended up with 3 smallies in the 2lb range and missed a bunch of them. I would pull 3 or 4 of them out of an overhanging bush or laydown and they would smack it around and basically make a spectacle of themselves. It was so cool. Once the sun got up, the fish went down, and with all the laydowns in this lake, I didnt want to let that little BG sink out of sight, given my recent bait losses at other lakes, lol. Dropshotted and threw rip baits after that for a dozen little fish or so. To be honest, and despite paul's evidence to the contrary, when I pulled that bait out, I went "SMALL!!!!". But the way it fishes and the way it moves, I have a bunch of confidence in its big fish potential. All day yesterday I would have little epiphanies of where or when or how that baits fills a perfect big fish gap in my arsenal that I didnt even know WAS a gap! I WILL be getting more of these in other patterns and sink/float/billed floater versions.

35lbs Ive got that 13, and not only was she released, I will get a bigger one, and Im not a pro.

Bucketgrabber by AI

You are guys after my own heart! I figured I would get a bunch of "sick you found a Loomis?!?!? posts, but no, its all the about the new swimbaits, lol. Its one slick moving bait! Its been in the pool for about an hour total now, lol. Tomorrow it meets mr.smallmouth.

Had quite the trip yesterday with Branuss04, started the day off by breaking the tail on a 3:16 Armageddon. I shook it off, no big deal, 3:16 will repair it for free. I had just built a pretty cool big bait, the finish had cured the day before. Get it snagged in a bush, yank on the line and it comes shooting back at us in a nice lazy arc. In defiance of physics, it came all the way back and crashed into the bow of Brandon's boat, breaking the bill. Fantastic. I also lost $119.97 worh of baits. Brandon was catching a few swimbait fish and knocked the tip top insert out of his swimbait rod. No big deal, I let him borrow my Loomis 955C. He catches a fish around 3lbs and it gets out of his hands, lands on my 955 and crushes the stripper guide right out of its wraps. I cut my losses and sit in the drivers seat and take a nap. I am rudely awakened by Brandon calling for the net. I got up very disoriented and stumbled around to scoop that 2lb monster . Now fully awake, im sitting in the seat just relaxing and looking at the bank. This lake is CRAZY low. Lowest I have ever seen it. Throughout the day we spotted multiple umbrellas, lawn chairs, 12 volt batteries, shoes, 5 gallon buckets, wal-mart rods, and trout trolling gear. As brandon fishes along, I notice yet another wal-mart rod about 20 feet up the bank. Huh... its a 1 piece rod apparently. It is covered in silt and dried grass and such, but I asked him to troll us over near it. I flipped a crankbait up the bank and drug the rod down to us. After the disaster that was my day, it was nice to get this! Cleaned up the rod and sanded down the cork, and did a major clean on the reel, which seems to be in pretty usable condition. When I got home, I had one more present waiting that really helped to make the days losses seem a little less depressing. Loomis GL2 MBR 784C w/ a Shimano Citica 200D. The lake giveth, the lake taketh away, lol.

I used 4 different baits during that bite. Since this one is discontinued and prohibitively expensive to most, thats the one I'll show, lol.

ive used those to cast giant worms through the rocks with Definitely worth it in grass, you'll use the same one all season.

Sometimes its the oposite, lol. I was on a very good swimbait bite this spring. At least 34lbs for 5, every trip, for over a month and a half. My ribs were black and blue from setting the hook, and my hands were literally bleeding all over from bass hand. Wrists were all screwed up from throwing and retrieving big baits with a passion all day. Kind of reminded me of those stories of marines getting grazed by a bullet, and in the heat of battle, not even realizing it. At the end of all that though, i sure realized it, lol. But yeah, normally speaking, my body is much more unhappy when it didnt set the hook much

You can kill nuisance animals in many states Glenn. Even in California at least in some counties, it is legal to shoot domesticated animals. Not saying that killing them is the best way to go. I certainly would. But just playing devils advocate here.