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lake biwa.... oh man, how i would love to fish there. there are TONS of other cool reasons to go to japan. where else can you see the relics of sengoku jidai? google image? you could go to kyoto and walk around the gion. just ask before taking pics of anyone or anything. the nite life in shibuya, shopping in osaka, pachinko parlors, the list is endless.

#3 ewg for the hook, rod is a curado 7' 4" med/hvy moderate action with 12lb flouro on a curado dc

hahaha my boss used to say "you come runnin in here every day like some kinda volunteer fireman! just leave the house 10 minutes earlier!" like you, they put up with me cause i worked hard, showed up every single day, and worked every overtime hour they offered.

today i went to a local place that's mostly fished out. i go there alot, and i rarely catch anything, because i only fish for bigs when i go there. so today, i am throwing a 5"divine swim bait on a weighted hook. 4 times, i watched a HUGE bass strike at my lure, but i couldn't hook it. i could see this fish clearly. i changed lures several times, and couldn't get it to strike again. i went on down the bank and fished for a couple more hours. on the way back, i tied the swim bait back on but different color. i hooked 3 nice bass, but not the giant i saw earlier, but in the same exact spot. the thing is, all 3 of those bass came off. one of them i fought for a couple minutes, and he even pulled drag. i just started fishing this lure this way, so can someone tell me what i did wrong? edit: i'm not sure why this got moved to "fishing reports". i'm trying to figure out what i wasn't doing right in this situation, the fishing talk was only for context. eventually i'll figure it out and put posts in the right section.

same when i was a kid, i was the guy who punched in exactly on time, or 5 minutes late, every day. after a short while, i somehow changed up, and i'm always early, barring unforeseen circumstances. when i'm fishing local, i don't worry about time so much, but if i am driving an hour or more, i'm there waiting on the sun to come up, period.

secret spot? kind of... there is a place i used to go to all the time that was fan-frickin-tastic. it was a private hole that almost no one but me was allowed to fish. it looks like a swamp crick. in order to fish it (can't use a boat) you have to deal with getting covered in mud from the waist down,, and you have to deal with loads of ticks. but... i've hooked bass in there i couldn't control. seen a 9 lb pickerel seen a 5 lb crappie foul hooked a monster carp on a mepps spinner. caught my biggest catfish ever, in a johnson silver minnow with a pork rind trailer on it have had days when i went in at dawn, and went home by 11 because i caught so many bass in the 3-5 lb range, my wrist was sore

like many others, i bank fish and usually alone. i have a couple buddies who occasionally come along, but i usually prefer to be by myself. matter of fact, i think i'll throw a rod in the car, and go to the crick for a couple hours, right now!

i caught my 2nd biggest bass last year on a chatterbait with a bandito bug trailer.

i will look for flonase. claritin hasn't done anything for me at all. the only relief so far has been from store brand non drowsy benedryl.

my allergies have been real bad this year. worse than ever in my life. i tried to go fishing saturday morning. by the time i was out there for an hour i couldn't take it anymore, so i went home. i've tried allergy meds, and they don't do anything. literally nothing. the idea of cutting my grass in the yard...i dread it. i can't pet my dogs because they run around in the yard, and they're covered with pollen too. i tried wiping them down but it doesn't seem to help. is anyone else having allergy trouble this year? what are you doing about it?

the hardest fightin bass i ever caught, was a snappin turtle. hahahaha

i need to ask a question about this - i have polarized sunglasses. one set is from berkely, the other from oakely. i have had other brands in the past. i have always been able to see under the water better without them, than with them. how does that make any sense? is there some sort of eye problem that could make it so?

i know something worse. being on top of an 11' wide stainless steel duct line on the roof of a textile mill in south carolina during a late summer drought/heat wave, working 7/10s. anyone remember the toys that used to come in cereal boxes in the 70's? you put them under a lamp for a while, then they would glow in the dark. well, that's what i do. i don't tan. i charge. hahaha

i lol'd, shamelessly ?

similar to hoopes, some of the folks around there are dupont family relatives, and other "movers and shakers"

i hope you will find success. please post updates, no matter which way it goes. at the very least, all of us here in this forum are rootin' for ya i just thought of another possible solution: if you launched a small boat from the legal side, you could fish the illegal side from the water, couldn't you?

let me tell you a story: i live in delaware. we have a place called "hoopes reservoir". it is where the city of wilmington draws it's water from when the brandywine river doesn't have enough. hoopes is located in an area known as "the valley". it's where all the old money lives. people sneak in there sometimes, and it's where many of our records have come from, although they are claimed as coming from somewhere else. i was in my 20's back in the 80's, i went on a campaign to turn it into a state park. i went around to local businesses and got them to pledge support money, to reduce the cost. i gathered thousands and thousands of signatures from people who supported the idea. i wrote up a plan showing how the estimated projected use could help pay expenses through a special license to fish there, and an entrance fee. by coincidence, biden was a friend of my father and my uncle. through them, i secured a meeting with him. i brought all of my materials, to help convince him of what i felt was a good idea. he skimmed through it, pushed it back across to me and said "you've worked really hard on this, but it's not going to happen." i asked why, and he told me that the old money back there in the valley didn't want regular folk in their back yard. he wasn't going to help me. it's still illegal to fish there today. my advice to you is, find somewhere else to fish

use a live hellgramite. if they wont bite that, they won't bite anything

bees and wasps/hornets are my nitemare. i will fight 3 grown men before i mess with a yellowjacket. i used to have a recurring dream that a yellowjacket the size of a large dog was living in my attic. and i didn't even have an attic then. we have copperheads here. they will chase you. i am careful as i can be to look for them, but my eyes ain't what they used to be. that's why i wear boots.

what a small world! you know my first wife! hahahaha i don't kiss fish, and i don't sniff them either.

if there is a storm today, tomorrow, i'm on the lookout for downed trees that are still green. i don't care where they are, there's fish in that tree.

ngl, if i was the type, i'd be totally jealous.

seein' as how we ain't got one to test, i guess we'll never know...? but for me, it doesn't matter. the scout was a lure i had confidence in. i liked throwing it, i caught fish on it, sometimes when nothing else would. i never had one of the plastic ones, so i dont know how they would behave. the wooden ones i had, the action was cool. it had a roly-poly wobble to it, and was super shallow.

you're right, i looked for a pic of the wooden one in chartreuse, but couldn't find one. it didn't have the dark circles around the eyes.

the thing is, there are other lures very similar to the wiggle wart. the scout, there's nothing like it, afaik