dodgeguy

i posted a fishing report about titicus reservoir in north salem n.y. and now it's gone.what's up with that?

i have done it both ways and it's more weedless if it is fixed and not swinging.i see no difference in hookups with it fixed. ;D

forget the finesse stuff.throw 1/2 oz.jigs,spinnerbaits,5 inch and larger senkos,7-10 inch worms,buzzbaits and spooks.

happy birthday!!! ;D

yeah,what he said!!! ;D

i'm in the same boat!!! ;D

i have caught fish on them in the spring by swimming them.

like low budget said,get a headlight.try a black clacker buzzbait or a black jitterbug.no topwater bite then try the jig.black single blade colorado spinnerbaits work great also.

either a lizard dragged acroos the matts or a 1 1/4 oz.booyah jig through the matts. ;D

roland has a win more recent than that and i forgot what year it was.he also has finished high in the classic recently.he's not done yet!!! ;D

roland martin all the way!!! ;D

i had 2 of them that found there way to the bottom of a lake but your'e right that they are nice!!! ;D

i use yum chunks all the time. ;D

i use smelly jely bassfeast.it definately makes them hold the bait longer!!!

it's on sattelite tv and some cable networks.visit www.lunkerville.com. he is a friend of mine that i met through www.nybass.com .he usually has a film crew but we were on a rowbaot so it was impossible to do that way so he filmed the show.rebbasser sent me that avatar from a bunch he had.

THANKS!!! ;D

spinning is a pflueger medalist size 6040.click to enlarge. baitcasting is a pflueger trion round size 56.click to view.

so by that reasoning whoever made the first crankbaits should be the only one making them.whoever made the first ribbon tail worm should be the only one making them.and we would only have 1 lipless crankbait.it just doesn't work that way.

it would be great!!!the closest i have come is this!!! http://www.rockville.tv/lunkerville/episode7dodge.html

on a day when you aren't catching fish deadsticking may be your only choice.i don't think anybody would pick it as a first choice but it has it's time.i have caught some really nice fish doing it.the thing i really hate is that unless you keep the line fairly tight and watch it like a hawk and gently check for extra weight on your line your chances of gut hooking fish go way up.i also learned about it after a baclash and when i was done i thought i had weeds.it turned out to be weeds and a 5 lber.!!!

same as reb but i put the spinning reel with my pinky behind the reel mount and three fingers in front of it.

also the light passes through the line making it blend faster.red hooks reflect light causing a red flash.

Smallmouth bass world record turns 50 Anniversary is golden for milestone that's endured its share of controversy By Taylor Wilson Special to ESPN Outdoors.com On July 9 it will be 50 years since D.L. Hayes caught the world-record smallmouth bass, weighing 11 pounds and 15 ounces, while trolling a pearl-colored Bomber at Dale Hollow Lake that lies along the Tennessee-Kentucky boundary. D.L. Hayes with his world-record smallmouth bass. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission is slated to honor the Leitchfield, Ky., angler, his 1955 feat and his fish at its July meeting. Of course, this record, as with most that survive such a test of time, has been contested. (It also has been largely overlooked by the more famous world record of its bigger cousin, the largemouth bass.) I guess in our modern, every-day-should-be-bigger-and-better line of thought, we kind of question any record that stands the test of time. In fact, author Monte Burke brought this up in his recently published book "Sowbelly," where he details the chase for the even older largemouth world-record belonging to George Perry, who took his 22¼-pound bucketmouth Georgia's Montgomery Lake in 1932. Today, many people doubt Perry's accomplish simply because it has never been matched, much less broken. Yep, today Americans inevitably find long-lived records hard to swallow after all, we're supposed to be bigger and better everyday, right? Perhaps this mind-set started another big fish brouhaha in the mid-1990s, with D.L. Hayes' smallie as the eye of the storm. It all began when Hayes allowed the mount of his world-record smallmouth to be shown at a local boat show. (There is no mount, or even photos, of the world record largemouth, by the way.) I am convinced that most will continue to regard the Hayes' fish as our world record. Ron Fox, assistant Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency supervisor It seems someone at the show said, "It doesn't look like a world record to me." And like the game of gossip, it snowballed from there. Someone supposedly stuffed the fish with various materials to reach the record wait, and Hayes allegedly knew about it. There was even an unsigned affidavit that surfaced from a deceased guide and dockworker who allegedly inserted weights in the fish without Hayes knowing about it. Then the tale really grew into a whopper, and before long it was stripping line. The National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame, the International Game Fish Association and state of Kentucky all tossed the record out. (Since Dale Hollow straddles the Tennessee-Kentucky line, both states once laid claim to the record.) I was working for a daily newspaper at the time and remember calling Hayes when the news broke about him losing the title. "That's what I heard," Hayes told me over the phone. "You mean no officials have even called you to let you know of this decision?" I remember asking. Hayes' bassing milestone has stood up to a lot of challenges and a state investigation. "No they haven't," Hayes said. That alone said a lot to me. At the very least, it wreaked of being "reel" rude. I remember calling various organizations and having people tell me, "That's basically the ruling the way it is." "Have you called Mr. Hayes?" "No," was the common answer. To the state of Tennessee's credit, and especially the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, a thorough investigation began. Ron Fox, assistant TWRA supervisor, headed the fishing expedition. "I later found out a real issue with a group that initially questioned the record was the claim that there was no way the fish came from Dale Hollow because the (mount's) color did not match smallmouth from that lake," Fox said. Considering the taxidermy work was done in Illinois, the classic response from Hayes was, "The fish came from Dale Hollow, but the color came from Chicago." Fox spent many hours investigating the record and he says even the initial claim about the mount not appearing to be large enough to set a record is erroneous. "Even the size of the mount is impressive," Fox said. "Over the course of a year following the IGFA's disqualification of Mr. Hayes' fish, I reviewed every record I could find regarding the smallmouth," he said. "After that review I felt very comfortable that the disqualification had been made in error. The Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame immediately agreed and reinstated Mr. Hayes' fish. Even though I have contacted the IGFA on several occasions, they have yet to reinstate the fish." Instead, the International Game Fish Association recognizes another Dale Hollow Lake smallie - John Gorman's 10-pound, 14-ouncer from April 1969 - as the all-tackle standard. Nevertheless, Fox said he is still trying to convince the IGFA to adjust its record book. "I have made them aware that this is the 50th anniversary of Mr. Hayes' catch and it would be nice if they followed the lead of the Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame organization. So far that has not worked," Fox said. "Regardless of what the IGFA does, I am convinced that most will continue to regard the Hayes' fish as our world record." "The fish that IGFA recognizes is one caught by Mr. John Gorman at Dale Hollow, so from a Tennessee perspective we have two fish from Dale Hollow that are in the world-record category," Fox added. "Regardless, we (Tennessee) will honor Mr. Hayes' feat in July. And, who knows, maybe it will be broken in the future. If it is, most think that fish, too, will come from Dale Hollow."

does it become a plastic?

yesterday espn had a show where they took a small sunken 14 foot john boat and overhauled it into a nice shallow water/small water rig.to stop leaks they had a rhino liner truck bed spray on liner sprayed inside the boat.what a great idea!!!those liners can be sprayed up to 1/4 inch thick and last forever.