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I will be visiting family the second weekend of april in Mebane NC and was hoping someone in the area with a boat would be willing to take me out. I'll help with fuel and pay launch fee should we need one. I've been to graham-mebane lake 2 years ago but only bank fished it. I'm fairly knowledgeable and a really nice guy but beware im a talker lol

i have a question about this process. What for glue would you use to put the new carpet down on fiberglass?

The figure 8s might be best these baits were making are coming out of a 3D printer and will me half and halfs and they will have pillars and corresponding holes on the other half for the pillars. So i could just make it to where the 8s just slide over the pillars to hold them in place. Anyone know of the best glue/epoxy to put the halfs together?

My friend and I are going to be attempting to build our own hard plastic lures. We're starting off with just a square bill and we have an extremely cheap and effective way of manufacturing them but the part im stuck on is the hardware for them. Hes an engineer i'm the fisherman and the marketer essentially. He drew it up and now were wondering what to use for the eye lets on the lip and underside to attach the split rings to. If any one has any info i'd love to hear from you bc the first prototype will be done here in a day or two.

Most swim jigs have a pointed nose to the front of them and most companies now a days put "eyes" on them and their hooks come straight out of the back of the head where as a flipping/arkie style/football jig the eyelet of the jig will be at an angle so when sitting on bottom or going through cover the hook is less likely to get snagged You can go on tackle warehouse and compare jigs that companies will label for either flipping or swimming. Personally i use Santone Lures jigs. Their M series jigs are great and the Sam Rayburn swim jigs are fantastic

In Pa i can fish year round if there's open water or i can ice fish. Its been a weird winter as of now ice has open holes and its not even an inch thick. But here in the spring they have no harvest and no tournament law from April 16th through June 17th. Its a stupid law in my opinion because of the countless studies done to show that fishing during the spawn doesn't effect it. We still go out in the cold and chase spring lunkers, last spring we were fishing in 43 degree water and it was snowing out and i caught the chunk in my profile pic

They're in there and I mean there's some really nice LMB too. Where are you launching from?

If your a sucker for smallies there are some hamers in Raystown. I've seen a 5lber on a planer board pulling for Stripers on my dads boat, hands down the biggest one that I have ever seen in person. And just 2 weekends ago my buddy was fishing a tournament up there without me because I was an idiot and was down at Ocean City, MD lol but he caught a 4lber I'll post a pic here in a second

I'm sooooo happy I've never been in this position. Well either one of them really. Props to KVD getting it out for him though that's why fishermen are quiet possibly the best people in the world. We help anyone out when we can.

Took my brother and his best friend fishing to a lake I fish all the time and has a bad rap for being a hard lake to fish or like I hear all the time "It has no fish in it" or something along those lines all the time. Anyways took them out in my wannabe bass boat and pretty much just guided for them that evening. On a three fish limit my brother had almost 9lbs and his buddy got his PB. My brother didn't get his PB per say bc he does a lot of pond fishing and I have 2 categories for PB's pond fishing and lake/ tournament real world PB's. So it made me feel really great seeing how excited he was catching those fish

Honestly out of everything you had in your list as I was reading it I was thinking I was going to tell you to stick to the T-rig. Use it and only it, it's probably the most versatile rig you can use in any situation. Fish it deep, shallow, in hard cover, weeds, and there is no right way or wrong way to fish it. Some days I've caught them dragging it real slow with the reel and pausing to let them get a good look at it when fishing is hard in the dead of summer, pop it two-three times then pause, hop hop hop, you let the fish tell you what they want. Some days you'll figure it out quick some days not at all. Fishing is fishing it's not catching unfortunately. Get yourself a confidence bait then move to other techniques. The t-rigged senko was my first

I love my santone lure finesse jigs. Local lake I fish a lot on has a ton of rocks on the breast of the d**n it goes from 2' - 20' and we kill them on jig, shakeyheads, and now the Ned rig, all finesse style rigs.

Only time I need a brake is after an 8 hour tournament when you go through all the stages of tournament fishing. Really wears on you specially if you get skunked. But other then that I'm headed to the river today then I'm heading to another tournament Saturday

I go usually 2 times a week. Monday and then Thursday after work, but Sunday is my first tournament of the season in my series and I didn't get to go this Monday so I'm pretty much dying right now. Bu then after this Sunday I'll be on the water every weekend in June and then almost every other weekend till fall for tournaments and probably once during the week between them.

Waited till they went on sale and bought them at dicks. I've caught a few running them beside cover and a few banging them off trees. They don't do great off cover which isn't what they were made for so no complaints there. The action is gained from varying your speed in your retrieval but as for the spiraling I've haven't had any of this happen to me. Overall not super super impressed but they've caught fish

I have a 1448 john that I fish in now but we started tournament fishing last year and I'm just tired of no room and being uncomfortable all the time. Don't get me wrong we get the job done in our johns but it's tough and usually really long 8 hour days

Hoping to have it ready for at least electric fishing for next tournament season in 2016. My series I fish is trolling motors only. Only one like around me that I can use the motor on so as long as she'll float I'll have more room, storage, a live well that's not in our way all the time.

The hull is in excellent condition and has already been cleaned up and prepped for work. He just doesn't have the time to finish it. The deck, carpet, storage, everything like that is in good condition too. But had to hold off and hopefully go get it Monday.

It's a 1977 Cajun Mach 1. The gentleman I'm buying it off of started to work on it. It'll need new transom board, cockpit floor, and stringers. So far I'm. It worried about the transom and floor. I can do those myself no problem. I've watched videos of people doing stringer jobs but never on a bass boat. I'm getting it and a trailer for a steal so I'm willing to do the work. It comes with 4 good seats, 2 **** pit seats 1 front casting seat and 1 rear casting seat it has stearing cables and the stearing wheel there but no shifter/throtle bc he sold the motor off the back of the boat. I'm buying a 55hp 4 stroke homelite to put on it eventually. All in all I'm paying $275 for the boat and trailer tomorrow and they both have clean titles. I'm really excited and neverous at the same time. If I get it all fixed up and it lasted me another 10 years I'll estatic. Any advise is welcomed and I'll start putting pictures up tomorrow.

Still a good day and you probably had fun. Congratz and tight lines

Honestly I'd fish it just like you would any other day a body of water holds a lot of fish they didn't catch them all I can promise you that.

One of my favorite lakes is almost always stained bc about 10 years ago they did a giant weed kill for whatever reason and it became a 540 acre mud hole. Now a days the weeds are slowly coming back and there's some visibility but we slam them on black and blue and chartuse all depends on the day time conditions. Spinnerbaits are always good, and square bill cranks I started using the storm arashi this year I've had some luck on them. But like bluebasser said it usually takes a few days for them to get used to that big of a change.

Opened the gates and caught 8 banging cranks off submerged trees. Weighed in our limit and took 5th out of 22 and had a nice 4lb get off at the boat that would have given us 2nd easy. All in all so stressful lol but super fun we made top 10 in points on the year and have our classic tomorrow. Can't wait for this years tournaments to start