BASS fisherman

Have you tried to call the number listed? I wonder if anyone would answer, and if so, how could you turn it around so they get busted?

Third angler observing from the side:"I heard he missed last months cat payment." ;D

Didn't he go to Fork with everyone?

he he he.... No comment.....

Last Sat. we had a tourney at Mosquito lake OH. It was BAD!! Only 2 people caught legal fish. I caught one 10 incher, and a carp that was easily 12lbs. That stupid carp ran 3 times before I just horsed it in. She put up a good fight, but she was wasting my time you know? I caught her on a 4inch YUM dinger wacky rigged. I seen her turn towards it and figured she'd turn off. Then she rushed it and grabbed it up. I figured that the carp would then spit it, but she turned and ran with it, in turn setting the hook herself. I was using a light wire hook and she bent it all up. The fishing was real tuff, freezing cold run in the morning, and air temps rose to the 70's in the afternoon. Water temp was between 42-55 throughout the lake. Lake Erie is an excellent SM fishery. Our club has a tourney there in August. If I take my boat, I'm staying in the bay for sure. What color tube were you using? Green or brown? Keller, What part of the area do you live? And what is calico bass fishing?

Nice lookin smallie flyhatch!!! Ewww-weeee!!!

But Jim, is it actually only 12.95 each month, or is that just what they charge you for a preset number of minutes you are alotted each month?

Does anyone on the site here have a regular old fashioned internet service provider that doesn't cost hundreds of dollars each month? Long story short, we have to get a new ISP for our business. We don't want anything fancy, just regular dial-up. We would like something relatively fast and dirt cheap. Is there such a thing? Any first hand experience is prefered.

I don't know how I missed this thread. Anyone else hear that they are trying to open Beaver run for fishing? I heard this a while ago, but nothing since.

I have used them and caught lots of fish on them. I truely haven't noticed much of a sacrafice in quality compared to other companies. That is just my opinion through my experience. Of course everyone of the ones I bought from walmart I have since modified.

Ah! Your always going to have someone that has to make a fool of themselves. I got this email yesterday. Think about it for a bit. The Only Disability In Life Is A Bad Attitude How often do you let other people's nonsense change your mood? Do you let a bad driver, rude waiter, curt boss, or an insensitive employee ruin your day? Unless you're the Terminator, for an instant you're probably set back on your heels. However, the mark of a successful person is how quickly she can get back her focus on what's important. Sixteen years ago I learned this lesson. I learned it in the back of a New York City taxi cab. Here's what happened. I hopped in a taxi, and we took off for Grand Central Station. We were driving in the right lane when all of a sudden a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed the other car's back end by just inches! Here's what happened next. The driver of the other car, the guy who almost caused a big accident, whipped his head around and he started yelling bad words at us. How do I know? Ask any New Yorker, some words in New York come with a special face. Now, here's what blew me away. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was friendly. So, I said, "Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!" And this is when my taxi driver told me what I now call, "The Law of the Garbage Truck." Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it. And if you let them, they'll dump it on you. When someone wants to dump on you, don't take it personally. You just smile, wave , wish them well, and move on. You'll be happy you did. I guarantee it. So this was it: The "Law of the Garbage Truck." I started thinking, how often do I let Garbage Trucks run right over me? And how often do I take their garbage and spread it to other people: at work, at home, on the streets? It was that day I said, "I'm not going to do it anymore." I began to see garbage trucks. Like in the movie "The Sixth Sense," the little boy said, "I see Dead People." Well now "I see Garbage Trucks." I see the load they're carrying. I see them coming to drop it off. And like my Taxi Driver, I don't make it a personal thing; I just smile, wave, wish them well, and I move on. One of my favorite Football players of all time, Walter Payton , did this every day on the football field. He would jump up as quickly as he hit the ground after being tackled. He never dwelled on a hit. Payton was ready to make the next play his best. Good leaders know they have to be ready for their next meeting. Good parents know that they have to welcome their children home from school with hugs and kisses. Leaders and parents know that they have to be fully present, and at their best for the people they care about. The bottom line is that successful people do not let Garbage Trucks take over their day. What about you? What would happen in your life, starting today, if you let more garbage trucks pass you by? Here's my bet. You'll be happier. I guarantee it. I tried to post a really great review, but they haven't put it up yet. I wonder why?

Anyone else have an opinion? :-/

I'll try and post pics if I can. I think it should be alot of fun. Just to throw this out there, While the folks are helping to pick up litter and someone falls, who would be liable if they decide to sue?

I fish a couple ponds where the litter is BAD. You would need to leave several hours early, just to pick-up all the litter that you'd see. And you would need several bags. Needless to say with the amount of trash there, it really is useless to grab what you could because there is so much more, unless you have a couple days. So I decided to do something about it. I contacted the county parks maintanence director, and Chris Horton from B.A.S.S. and have started the wheels turning for a clean-up project for both parks, and possibly a few more. I would also like to construct used line recepticles to place down on the water so anglers can throw the line into something instead of on the ground which is also a big problem at the ponds. Maybe the effort will carry over to other parks, and folks will stop littering all around the ponds. It really is NOT hard to put it in your pocket to throw away later, or walk to one of the numerous garbage cans to toss out your garbage.

I found this question online and wonder if anyone on the site here knows the answer. Why is it that adult smallmouth bass and redbreasted sunfish are affected by flavorbacterium columnare but not the young?

From what I read, there have been studies done that state that bass do indeed have "cones" which are used to detect colors. Just like we have rods and cones in our eyes, so do bass. Now I have never actually checked myself, but the fact that alot of tournament anglers will often experiment by rigging up several rods all with the same plastic but in different colors, to find just that right color during practice on a certain body of water is enough proof for me.

I agree with Bass-Brat. Bass change their hue to blend in with their surroundings.

Topwater lures IMO are alot easier to make than cranks. Cranks must run straight, and that isn't easy. It will take a few messups to get it right for the first time. Atleast it worked that way for me. Topwaters are the same idea though.

https://bassresource.com/fishing/crankbait_making.html https://bassresource.com/fishing/crankbait_making_2.html https://bassresource.com/fishing/lure_making.html Check out these articles on the site here. Great info!

This is the only picture I could find of the first lure I made, and it isn't pretty. When it comes to whether or not bass will go after your lure, yes they will. I have caught bass that were about the same size as the lure I was using at the time. Bass in general are greedy little suckers, and will attempt to eat most anything they think that they can fit in there mouths. I have a tournament at the end of the month at Mosquito lake in Ohio if you are familiar with that waterway.

Looking good! Making your own lures is very addictive, so beware. I made a spook type lure last year. The first time I used it, I caught five bass with it. The second time I was thowing it I got it stuck about 25 feet up in a tree. The next week I rigged up a few sinkers on a long length of twine, and used it to get my lure back. If you really want to get into making your own lures, here's a few sites for you to look into. www.staminainc.com www.jannsnetcraft.com

Rick Clunn participated in an interview about this very topic in the March 2007 Bassmaster mag. The article touched base on how everything in the universe is connected on a quantum physics level. You know like atoms, protons, and neutrons. Clunn says "At the quantum physics level, it says there's a negativily charged particle and a positivily charged particle and these particles are related. When one of the particles changes it's charge, the other one immediatly changes it's charge. This happens even though, in universal terms, they're light years apart. How does a message go from this particle to that when there's no known communication that could move that fast? It happens at the quantum physics level." "What I'm getting at is that there are connections that we don't understand. A dog at a distance can sense whether it likes a person or doesn't like them. It sounds wild, but it's unexplained things I've always been curious about. Stuff goes on that we just don't have any clue about." The interviewer asked Clunn: "Can you give a specific example of a quantum physics connection to fishing you've experienced? Clunn:"When I was guiding [on lake Conroe, Texas], I had clients that could not catch fish no matter what I did. And this happened to the same people over many, many trips. It was like some type of force was at work. This one guy stood out I mean, it's like he repelled other things around him. He was a very negative person. He complained alot about the wind, the heat, the way we were fishing. Over and over, this guy could not get a bite when the other guy in the boat could catch them every cast. I'd give him my rod. I'd give him my lure. I'd even make the cast for him. I tried to remove every physical variable I could. There's one instance that will always stand out to me. The year after they killed all the hydrilla in lake Conroe, gigantic schools of bass moved to brushpiles because they had no other cover left. I had one brush pile that held thousands of bass. All you had to do was hit that brush pile with a crankbait and you'd have a four pounder on every single cast. I would make the cast to make sure the crankbait would come through the brush pile. I would hand it to this guy and watch his rod tip jump when the crankbait hit the brush. I would expect his rod to load up, but it never would. And then I would think, that can't be possible. A fish can't possibly know that this guy has a negative attitude. They're over there, and he's over here. And yet, if you look at it from a quantum physics level, yes they can." I have seen the same scenario while fishing with my Dad several times. He is just 110% bad/negative attitude when he is on the water, and has yet to catch a bass over 1lb.

The only color craws I have ever seen in PA were brown.

4biz, no way dude! Make Davis's game has the worst controls, the lure actions suck, you don't have half the control you do in the Sega bass fishing game. ie no pitching/flipping, and you can't get within 1 foot of any dock,tree, or decent cover. I cant believe you live in Cali and play such a poopy game. That's horrible dude! ;D

I have the Old PS2 version of the Rapala game, and I got tired of it too. 4biz, Im sorry but I bought that Mark Davis game, and took it back because I disliked it soooo much. I got a game for PS2 called "Sega Bass Fishing Duel". You can use a wide array of lures. As you compete in the tourneys you build your tackle selection to over 100 different lures. You can also pitch lures, and skip them under docks too. My only complaint is how easy it is to find the biggest bass in a particular section. Each time the lure goes under water you can see all around it and pin point where your next cast should go. I have caught a few fish on the game that would beat Perry's record by several pounds. Very cool game, but after you catch a few hundred bass, it all seems the same after a while.