Smokinal

Mr Ned gets me the most bites, hands down, no contest

Getting giddy? Are you kidding? I'm driving my wife and everyone else around me nuts with talk of fishing, air hooksets, baits all over the house etc... We are still frozen over here but the ice is pretty black. With the forecast of 50's and 60's and rain this week, we'll be open by the weekend. I'll let it get some sun on it for a week, let me heal up from surgery for another week and we should be jerkin some baits on the 20th!! Man am I pumped!!

Thinking about you bud.

^^^Thank you for the link and some info on your experience; much appreciated. I'm confident everything will be fine. We'll see how it goes. Take care and good luck with your lifting. I'd love to hear some updates!

Get out! I'd love to hear more if ok with you. Open or lapro? How long before you felt like you could set a hook? How long before you could do a light gym workout? And at this stage, weight restriction comes off at only 4-5 weeks?, so you could do hard weight workout? I'm most concerned about when I can squat and deadlift again (after setting a hook of course). Hope you are doing well!

Many different things can help. The massive, massive info and archived info on this site for starters. The vast knowledge and willingness to share this knowledge by the members here for another. Joining a local bass club as a non-boater would be a huge help. Go, fish tourneys with a partner with no intent on winning but just watching and learning. Watch the vids that interest you from the tab at the top of the screen; pic one type of bait/presentation you want to learn, read up on it, and go apply what you have learned; tweek as you learn. Don't think about learning everything at once; 1 topic at a time. Most of all, have fun doing it.

lol...couldn't be more true! He puts a hurtin on em for sure! Prayers to you Dwight.

I remember you mentioning that. What did you have done and how are you doing? Thank you Dwight. I'll be thinking about you.

2014=shoulder surgery to shorten clavicle 2015=tricep re-attachment 2016=bilateral inguinal hernias to be repaired Scheduled on March 7th, and probably going to be the earliest ice-out on record. If things keep going, my home lake should open around the 12th or so. The bigger bummer is I have a spot on that lake where, right after ice out for about 2 weeks, is some of the best bite of the year; absolutely stupid bite. I'll be out in a girdle if I have to.... I'll send pics...of fish...not me in a girdle

3 people literally drowning and one holding a camera....Merica

I will never do this again! I have 2.....things......I do. Not sure if I would call them superstitious; but I just like to do them. First off, I keep a baggie of baking soda in the boat and wash my hands with it before I touch a bait. 2nd thing is, last year I made sure I was in good position/spot for my first cast of the year; and I caught one on my first cast of the season; then had a heck of a numbers year last year. You can bet I'm doing the same thing this year, same spot.

Dangit Glenn!! Now you got me all pumped up to try this thing again. I bought all the stuff for it last spring, tried it twice, didn't catch anything on it and put it all away. Just wrong timing, I'm sure. Seems like a good "hard day" technique. Thanks for posting.

I don't understand how people put their fingers in the gills?! I tried that once; once. My fingers came out like shredded carrots. I almost went to the ER for it; blood everywhere. What did I do wrong?

On a lake I didn't know I'd be doing the same as all of the above^^^ But on my home lake, about 5 yrs ago, we found a shallow cove where the inlet stream comes in and you can't put down a jerkbait. You have to hold them down low in the bottom of the boat when you tie one on. We go out, 2 boats, 2 guys each and will catch 40-50 each in 4-5 hrs. Seriously, it's stupid; absolutely stupid. And all you need is 1 rod with a jerkbait on it.

My scientific method has been that I've been out on glass slick, bluebird sky, post front conditions when the moon scale was supposed to be jacked; and the bite was horrible. And I've been out on "poor moon days" in weather patterns that favor a good bite (cloudy, rainy or pre front) and had some of the best days of the year. So, my scientific method of collecting data tells me the weather on a given day has far more control over the bite than the moon does.

Tom, I'm sorry to hear about your brother. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

I do believe the moon effects the bite but I firmly believe the weather far overrides the moon's effect. Basically, I wouldn't schedule or change my fishing plans because of a 96 on the moon scale.

So I'm doing some winter repairs and fixes and noticed there is some slop in the throttle lever on my 3000 series control. Are there any good vids that show how this comes apart? Is there a parts refresh kit for these? Maybe just an adjustment?

First thing I thought of sorry. Good to have you!

Good to have ya.

Nice ink although I don't wanna know where that is. I see short hairs on the left....

Dedicated or stupid...not sure which one yet; depends on who you ask I guess. And I'm not saying that I'd miss my son's graduation or something like that to fish. Just saying that weather, injury, sickness, "not feelin it" are all out of the question if it's a day that I can go, I go.

I don't get to fish nearly as much as I like so nothing, almost literally nothing, stops me. My buddy and I have fished numerous hurricanes, snow storms, cold, hot...you name it. I completely understand the migraine thing though. This was me 3 weeks after having my tricep re-attached last summer: