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BS. Plain and simple

I started playing when I was 5. Dad was my high school golf coach. Golf scholorship to college. Played mini-tours for a few years, finally convinced I just wasn't that good. Was a club pro for 8 or 9 years, and have been a golf course superintendent for the last many years. Play once or twice a week usually 2 or three over par. Also play a lot of 'golf' on the snooker table. Does that count? ;D

With out a doubt, Bass Pro. The indoor wildlife place just north of the main building is pretty cool for everyone. Really good golf courses around the area if you play golf. Just stay on the main roads. If you get back in the boonies, there is a good chance you will hear "Deliverance" playing somewhere!

Man, I am so tired of rain. It's rained about every day for the last two weeks. I know in six weeks I'll be bitchin bacause it's dry, but 70% today, 60% tomorrow, etc., etc., etc. At least fishing has been really good when you can sneak out between monsoons.

Wife and I went last night in the pit behind our house. I caught two over 5# in the first 15 minutes on a buzz bait. She was getting kinda ticked off untill she put on a tiny torpedo. She kicked my butt the last 2 hours. By the way, that is a good thing. Beats the heck out of going to the Mall or Wally World.

What logger said There is also a product called Moles-all that I think is available to the general public now.. Just make sure you get the last place they burrowed. 30+ years on the golf course, and that is the only practical way to get the little vermits without checking traps constantly. By the way, if you do get traps, the conibear (sp) are more effective than the spear traps.

Welcome, the bait monkey never forgets. ;D

I used to never have a seat in a boat, always fished standing up. The older I get the more I sit. There are only a few instances where I HAVE to stand. Skipping under a dock with a baitcaster, pitching a very long distance, or trying to get around a tree, bolder, dock, etc. Like anything else, practice, practice, practice.

I wonder if the county talked to either Ned (who has forgotten more about fishing than the rest of us will ever know) or Sanders (fish biologists) about the adverse affects of spraying out the vegetation. I haven't fished the lake for 5 years, but I would really hate to see them screw it up.

I think a lot of us, when we are fun fishing, just hook em and get em to the boat asap especially when you're catching a bunch. Then when it is tournament time or you get ahold of a good one, we have to make an effort NOT to horse em or get em to the boat quickly. I know I am very guilty of this. When I hook a good one or are in a tournament, I try to take a deep breath, ala shooting a free throw, then relax as I get her to the boat just keeping steady pressure.

Only one thing to do.

I tell my staff that the two safest places to be are in the middle of the fairway and right next to the pin. ;D Although that might tend to get you not invited back.

Yes, I think you still should ask permission. The golfers pay a user fee to play on public land and you are being allowed to use the same land for free. On a side note, I have, on several occasions taken a spinner bait rod with me when I play in one of those 5 - 6 hour scrambles. While groups are stacked up and waiting, I fish. People laugh at first, but it's pretty cool when you start catching fish.

I am completely convinced that sometimes fish, especially larger fish, will inhale the bait, clamp on to it, and then simply let go when they decide it's not what they want without the hook ever being embedded. I've seen this too many times, not only with jigs, but with soft plastics and even crank and spinner baits. Only other thing I think you can do is be sure and trim the weed guard. I usually start at the point of the hook and trim it at an angle to about 1/4" past the hook. Just my 2 cents.

Having been a golf course superintendent at several golf courses, I'll comment. I have always had good fishing at all the courses I have worked at. My suggestion would be to talk to the golf course superintendent. We are at work a couple of hours before they start playing. Although each one is different, here's what I would do. If you want to fish, check in with me the first couple of times. If the pond is "in play", leave before the first golfers get to you. Early morning and late evening. As with fishing anyone else's property, take a small trash bag with you, pick up some beer cans, candy wrappers, etc., and just happen to put the trash in the dumpster while thanking me when you leave. Of course there will be some private clubs that will not allow you to fish unless you are a member. I'm sure in the metro areas it will be tougher to get permission, but the worst they can do is tell you no.

husker, I are stoopid. Where is Kill Creek?

You KC area guys, don't waste your time making that long drive down to Bone Creek. There are no fish in that lake, besides the four miles of gravel road you have to drive to get to the ramp will ding up your trailers and your Hummers.

Welcome Andy, yup SE Kansasas here. And 53 years young as well.

"Thanks Dad, that was really fun" You will remember that for as long as you live.

I lived in Nebraska City for four verrrry long years. The only good thing about it was that there are sooooo many great farm ponds in that area. Great fish!

Well, got home about 10:30 last night and was at work this morning @ 6:00 Needemp, thanks for kicking our collective butts. :-[ What a great time! It's pretty cool putting faces to names and the general fishing BS. Nice little lake. My two keepers came from the rock piers at the other end of the lake. Probably caught 25 - 30 fish total, and all of them didn't add up to needemp's best five. There are sure a lot of 14 -14 3/4 inch fish in that lake. Pretty much same situation as Mike's. Most of my fish were on the rocks, shallow, on the windy side. Went through the first time with a rogue, then came back with a 1-, then back with a medium diver, caught fish on all. Only caught a couple on jig. Largest one was on the rogue and the smaller one on med. diving norman. Hard to fish sometimes with all the bobber lobbers there, but was the only place I could catch more than one fish at a time. Anyway, congratulations Mike and son. Very nce and polite kid. Got an 8:00 shotgun golf tournament I got to get ready for, so I better get to work before my assistant fires me.

Ouch :exclamation I wouldn't have the intestinal fortitude to put that sign up

Boy, I don't know. Fairly far south in Fla., water temps in the 70's, and it's mid April. I got to believe that the majority of the fish have spawned already, although I agree in that what you are seeing is typical pre-spawn activity. If the water has come up recently or has clouded up some, maybe the beds are deeper than you can see from the bank. Maybe some of the experts on here have a better answer.

Welcome, nice to have another 'ole fart' on board especially one that is also technoligically challanged ;D

Good hire for both Kentucky and aTm. Former KANSAS player to coach in aggieland and Billy G. going to coach in an arena named after a former KANSAS player.