Canyon explorer

G-Loomis calls it High Sticking and will reject the claim , as do most others.

Best deal I have found is Gander Mountain's sale on 5" stick worms @ 3.99 for a 15 -Pak. I bought 4 packs Saturday.

Great collection. Love the 03, it was my service issue.

Night fishing large highland lake reservoirs for bass is my favorite for locating and catching large bass consistently. Takes a lot of hard preparation as per the attached.Brushpiles LOZ.DOC

After June 30 I fish Only at night in lakes that have a lot of deep, (10-20'), hardwood brush piles. Such lakes in my area are LOZ, Table Rock, and Bull Shoals. I use 10" Power worms, large brush hogs and big jigs. I finish at dawn with Zara spooks and buzz baits on main lake points.

Fish it at night with Berkley 10" power worms, dark spinner bait with #9 Colorado blades.

You have more fish than the pond can nourish. Cull out a bunch.

Deer jerky, trail mix, and coffee if I am fishing all night.

Sooner or later 8-)

not a chance.

I fish two docks on LOZ that have them and they work as well as hard wood brush and fish better than cedar.

I don't believe the person who put it together is "in the know either".

"monster blow ups" Does the lake have beaver. 8-)

I believe it is a spot because: The jaw definately does not go past the eye. Very little or no bridge to the dorsal fin Has rows of pigment dots below the lateral at the belly A small pad is usually found on the tongue (pad)

Spinning rods have to have larger guides or you get to much guide friction.

My method of skin hooking is the same as Papa Joe's whereby the hook point goes barely under the skin a short way then back out so the hook has little plastic to come thru before going into the fish. I use it often except when I am fishing brush and large chunk rock.

You are quite right sir. I should have said bass. Although I have caught both using this method.

Chemically treating ponds and lakes does not have to impose long term harm to fish if done with well known treatment systems in the right quantity and frequency, tuned to the individual needs of each lake. Golf courses do it all the time and maintain some huge bass. I have a two acre pond that I treat as needed one half the lake at a time. When we moved in four years ago it was so choked up the children could not even fish it. Now its beautiful with just enough emergent grass to give fry good cover. A much larger and better example that I am personally familiar with is Lake of the Ozarks that is ninety miles long with thousands of miles of shoreline. My family acquired Two houses on it in 1980 when every nook and cove was covered with hydrilla (sp), emergent grass and many different forms of algae. Bass fishing was terrific and they were very easy to find. Many 7-8 lbs. The problem was that LOZ was owned by the privately owned power company UE who also wanted to sell thousands of waterfront lots that would be worth>millions of dollars. The potential of that opportunity was severely threatened as prospective families with children didn't like the mess. UE , now Amerin, hired crop dusters and over a few months treated the entire lake. Within a couple of years it was clean, beautiful and fresh. Today it hosts thousands of homes,docks,restaurants, resorts,marinas and campgrounds. It is also one of the best Tournament Lakes in America with hundreds of ramps, and huge parking lots for boat trailers. I have fished it many times every one of those years. The fishing is still terrific. I believe fewer big bass > 8-9 lbs probably due to loss of heavy protective cover and tournament pressure. The docks now provide a crappe/ bass haven. Am I glad they did it? Yes, because now thousands of more people can fish there, live there, retire there there make a great living there. I believe its a wonderful example of where ecos and ceos can live and grow in harmony. I saw a bank fisherman with a 15 + # stringer at P.B. #2 last month. It doesn't get much better than that.

High stained flood water can be protective. I slow roll dark/chartreuse spinner bails with #9 Colorado blade in the flooded tree tops and picnic tables in the campgrounds. Road bed s will work also.

SW side of lake concentrating on the ledges around the big point , the brush around the fish dock and the sharp bend in the adjacent creek channel .Including all of the under water rock structure along the way.

If you are buying a gun for concealed carry to protect you and your family a clip fed auto with up to 16 shots is a much safer choice than six. LEO statistics indicate it usually takes many multiple shots to make a disabling hit.

I would not hesitate to use a .270 Winchester on all of the game you mention including Black bear (if you use a good bonded bullet or Barnes solid copper). Certainly not a brown bear.

If you saw that many large bass up in that shallow water at this time of the year leads me to believe they were on the beds spawning. A technique I use at LOZ produces fish regularly if the water is clear. I position the boat about 15-20' away from the bed and pitch a white tube to the bed. It spooks the bass and they leave. I then bring in the tube and re pitch it about 3' beyond the bed and wait. If the female has dropped her eggs she will return within a couple of minutes. when she is back on the bed I very slowly drag the tube back into the bed most of the time she will pick it up to get rid of it. When the white disappears I set the hook. If she does not come back to the bed in a couple of minutes move on as she has not dropped her eggs yet.

For small stream, river smallmouth I like the Rebel PoP-R in Foxy Momma And Heddon's Tiny Torpedo. For large smallmouth (My absolute favorite is Heddon's Zara Spook 4.5" 3/4 oz.