Snakemover

Thanks for the condolences and well wishes guys. I have taken measures to make sure it doesn't happen again. I bought a new storage box. But this one is the steel kind they use on construction sites. It's solid steel and locks up weather tight. You'd need a serious blow torch to get into it. It will be bolted to the deck to store my stuff. The new battery will be bolted to the deck with a steel strap that would take a good hour to cut thru. I'm also trying to get the other boat owners to force the HOA to set up security cameras and beef up police patrols. Wish I could rig up some small explosives to surprise the next thief that comes along. If a thief get's his leg caught in a bear trap or wire snare on my boat, could I be held liable for that?

I keep my boat on the lake in a neighborhood marina. The lake is open to the public. Someone less fortunate than myself came along and stole the battery off my boat! Now, I could have lived with that. But the slimy piece of scum also broke into the storage box on my boat and stole my tackle box and ,worst of all, my sons new rocket bobber fishing rod!!! What kind of person would steal a kid's fishing rod??? Obviously the guy has a boat and is into fishing. I could understand if he needed a battery and didn't have the money. That's a crime of need. But breaking into the storage box and stealing my tackle box and son's fishing rod is just mean and nasty. Hey thief, if you like fishing, maybe you're reading this. I hope the karma comes back to you tenfold. My kid is bummed out.

I work nights. I get off work at 10am Wednesday morning and don't go back until Saturday or Sunday night. Sometimes I go out right after work on Wed morning and have the lake to myself. Same is pretty much true for Thursday or Friday during the day.

I've got a tracker bass buggy 18' pontoon on Mt. Island lake. If Fay doesn't drop a bunch of rain on us this week, I plan on being out there during the day on Friday. Either of you guys available?

I'll keep an eye on the weather for this Friday and Saturday and let you know. Keep your eyes peeled for a PM from me.

I fish Mt. Island Lake all the time. Come on and join me some time. Den

The lake I fish as lots of freshwater clam beds. I see a lot of them look empty and eaten. What's eating them? Dennis

A friend got me into fishing. I bought a cheap little Zebco all-in-one pack and started with that. Just throwin real worms and hoping something would pick it up. After reading the articles and posts on this site, I still haven't caught a bass bigger than 12", but I've learned how to tie diff. knots and how to look for structure. I'm hopeful that I'll catch that lunker eventually. Thanks to ALL OF YOU who have posted your tips and tricks, answered my newbee questions and made this a great informative site. Posted by: Low_Budget_Hookers Posted on: Today at 8:03pm We are the best board out there, that's not my opinion, that's THE opinion. I didn't know there were other sites out there. :

Can I get that info too, please? I usually fish the lake below Norman, but I live 5 minutes from there.

Not getting involved in the legal side of things here. That being said, I've kept South American cichlids for several years. If bass are as aggressive as these guys, I would recommend only having 1 bass in a 55 gallon tank. That's too small for more than 1. Even with just two fish, they will fight for dominance as they get bigger. I've had 4" fish kill eachother before. Even a breeding pair will sometimes fight. With the male killing the female. Make sure you have lots of cover for it to hide in and around. This will also help give the fish some cover to hunt from. Don't be surprised when the bass starts moving plants and rocks around. Big, aggressive fish will create cover sometimes. If you're going to use a pleco to clean the algea, make sure it's a LOT bigger than the bass. And keep it that way. A pleco has spines that have been known to kill fish that eat them whole. You'd lose two fish at once. :'( I'm assuming you know about adding slime to the water to condition it. You might want to think about using some carefully chosen preventative medicine also. Especially if you're going to add fish from different bodies of water. It should be okay if all the fish, crawdads, plants and whatever come from the same lake or pond. If you're going to use fake plants, spend the extra $$ and get the silk plants. They look better and will eventually collect algea and act as a food source for the pleco and other fish. Good luck with this project. I'm looking forward to seeing pics.

A friend of mine told me that bass will not bite right before a front moves in and after it rains. Is this true? We've been getting thunder storms every afternoon and evening here. I don't fish while the lightning is blazing, :-/ but I want to go out after the storms end. Would this be a waste of time? What's the real story with fish biting or not before, during and after a rain storm? Also, what are the best baits to use if I do go out? Thanks for your advice and answers. Dennis

I didn't get bit by the fishing bug until 39. Now I think it was actually the bait monkey that got me. I love fishing! I'd probably love it even more if I actually caught a bass! But, even though I have only managed to catch one little 7" bass, I still enjoy being out there and trying new lures. I just bought my first spinner bait. Along with Yum frogs, a tiny torpedo and something called a zarra puppy. I'm hoping one of them will get me a fish, but it's still good to be out there watching those baits swim.

I've been learning how to read my depth finder to find structure, depth changes and other places like likely to hold fish and I've seem some things that I can't figure out what they are. Sometimes when I'm trolling around slow, looking for structure and depth changes, I'll see what looks like several fish arches stacked right on top of each other. There could be as many as ten of them. I see them at different depths down to 25 feet. Can someone tell me what those might be? Also, when I'm stopped, or just drifting real slow, I'll see what looks like angled lines across the screen. Like something changed depth while in the radar cone. The lines can be thick or thin sometimes and can go all the way to the bottom. What causes those lines. Thanks in advance for any help. Dennis

You could wait until after Christmas, go around and collect a few trees from the curbs and toss them in. I saw a couple of trees tied together with a cinder block in 3' of water. The lake is currently 3' below full pond. When it's back to full pond, those tress should be a bass magnet.

I was thinking about just sneaking up on them and diving on them with a net. A co-worker just told me that netting bass in NC is illegal. That true? Where can I get C4???