12poundbass

Playing catch up on this thread. I’m pretty sure the wife has either killed or captured the Baitmonkey here. Doesn’t help I was going through my ‘stuff’ and I found a box from Karl’s I had forgotten about, 5 RES, a couple Stunnas, a couple Frits sides, and a Fuego. Oops!

Another good search bait is a frog. You can work a frog over mats and pads pretty quickly. Oftentimes you’ll get a blowup and they’ll miss. If it’s an aggressive blowup, I’ll throw right back and work it slower with some pauses in there. If they keep missing or the original blowup isn’t very aggressive, I’ll follow up with a jig or weighted Texas rig does the trick.

Nice one! Congrats.

Any flash sales coming up? ?

If you’re worried about not finding one I imagine you could order one and have it shipped to your destination.

I believe we are at #3 here

Bipolar weather here. A couple days ago it was snowing so hard I couldn’t see an 1/8 mile in front of me. The other morning 18*. Mix in sun and 50*. Yesterday, 2.5” of rain, 55* and thunderstorms rolled through.

Smart man! You can do better than that!

I never thought I’d say it especially with a cat, but man card cashed in!

Enjoy

Within 10 minutes of me posting that I had a knock at my door. Two guys in black suits, ear pieces, and black sunglasses asked if I was 12poundbass. To make a long story short, a NDA was signed by me (in blood) so my lips are sealed. @A-Jay always talks about preparation, I’m here to tell you he’s not kidding! ?

I’m not moving BUT, gives me around 15-20 more hours a week at home and weekends off, so more fishing time. The market I’m in the fiber build is a 4-6 year project. After the project is done I can stick around here and take an operations position or I could move to another area for another big fiber build and they’ll pay moving expenses. As of right now they’re in 10 different states and constantly expanding so there’s an option to move. Northern Michigan is one market they’ll be expanding to, so still in my home state, and closer to great smallmouth fishing. We’ll see! I was hoping someone would fall for that. ?

Yup

Slap on the wrist is all they got. Pretty pathetic.

I’ve been in the utility locate industry for 13 years now and in two weeks from Monday I’ll be starting a new chapter in my career. I started out as a technician and over the years worked my way up the ladder to Ops manager. It’s been a fun ride, saw a bunch of cools things, learned a ton, and have grown quite a bit during this time. I liked managing, helping new employees grow, and taking care of our natural gas customer. The long hours have burned me out, and since my current company bought the company I worked for, I don’t see the marriage between my company and our gas customer going past 2023. I’ll be working at a telecommunications company that offers fiber optic services to their customers and I’ll be an OSP Field Supervisor, so I’m still in the utility industry which I’ve grown to love doing as a career. Obviously, I’ll still be in management but on a much lighter level. I’m excited about this new opportunity and chapter in my career.

I had a contractor a few years back say, “it’s good to see other Canadians around here!” I told him I wasn’t Canadian and asked what made him think I was. He said he heard me say “eh”. I told him some of us Michiganders say it too. My stepdad says it and I’m must’ve picked it up from him at a young age, or all the hockey I watched growing up. It’s a little more common in northern Michigan and the UP than central/west Michigan where I am. I definitely don’t use it after every word like you guys do, I mostly do at the end of a question.

I’ve gone through information overload so many times over the years. It’s quite easy to do. A couple years ago I tried taking the Mike Iaconelli approach. Years ago I read his book and he said when he first started fishing as a kid he’d take a lure and fish just that one lure the entire season. The next year a new lure. I started doing that. I didn’t do it to a tee, I’d fish other confidence lures as well. I’ve been a bank beater forever and wanted to branch out and start fishing offshore structure and cover, so I’m applying Ike’s approach the same way he did with lures. Time constraints and having my young son with me who grows impatient with the lack of fish slows this process way down, but for me this is how I prevent information overload as much as possible. Up here when there’s ice on the lakes all bets are off and I try and absorb as much information as possible to by the time, but once the open water season draws closer, I buckle down and try and formulate a game plan for what I want to focus on.

Try Miller Lite and it won’t be a boring waste of time. ?

The closest one to me is almost an hour away so I don’t make it there much. A co-worker was there a couple weeks ago and said they got rid of their cafeteria. No caribou sandwich, no 12poundbass. ?

Michigan was the same way. The southern part of the LP had the birds. They started the conversation efforts sometime in the 70’s. Some areas still have a lottery, but most are just buy over the counter.

pretty sure @A-Jay was wearing Fruit of the Looms and rocking the Pro V-Bass before Gussy. Maybe a tie on the ladder of the two.

Tin boats rule!!!!

Rio Grande or Merriam? Beautiful fan either way.

No, he has a full head of hair!

Her motto, “fake it ‘till you make it”.