roadwarrior

This thread has run fairly smoothly so far, but posting a picture of a dead bass inside your house is a little over-the-top. We're not opposed to selective harvest, but we are still committed to catch & release. :-X

A couple are all you need to start with: Norman Fat Boy (bluegill pattern) http://www.bassbuckandduck.com/norman_fat_boy.htm and XCalibur Xr50 (chrome blue & orange belly) http://www.cabelas.com/link-12/product/0036610120825a.shtml Fish them along a grassline, over structure or near any cover. The strike is very aggressive! 8-)

Welcome aboard! Spend some time in the BassResource.com Library, "Fishing Articles" at the top of the page. Start with "For Beginning Anglers" and search around for anything you might want to see. Good luck! 8-)

Don't know how far you are from Kentucky Lake, but you should plan to fish with us next April at the 4th Annual BassResource.com Roadtrip. Details will be posted soon! 8-)

Here is the article from last Sunday's paper: Commercial Appeal October 26, 2008: While most anglers have been fishing Pickwick purely for enjoyment this fall, pro fisherman Mark Rose of Marion, Ark., recently used the lake to boost his ever-growing bank account. Rose fished with Louisiana pro Greg Hackney to win the Professional Anglers Association Corporate Cup earlier this month, earning a $100,000 payday. Rose and Hackney teamed with their corporate partners, Randy Haynes and Tony Browning, to catch 92.86 pounds of bass in three days. Rose and Hackney targeted ledges, using the Sexy Spoon -- and Rose said they were both impressed with the sheer number of fish Pickwick has to offer right now. "Tournaments aren't always fun," said Rose. "But this one sure was. "Now is the time to be on Pickwick Lake." 8-)

Fishing jigs and soft plastics is all about sensitivity and a rod's ability to transmit subtle clues. Generally speaking, the higher end rods perform better at this task. On the otherhand, less expensive equipment does just fine fishing techniques that involve violent strikes that don't require "touch" to be felt. In your price range, I would suggest the St. Croix Avid AVC70MF or AVC68MXF. 8-)

Well, you might not find them stylish, but practical. I don't know about your great great aunt, but Avid comes to mind! 8-)

Hmm... I just want the jig to hold the trailer without too much slippage. I expect to lose the trailer occasionally when I catch a fish and throw them away when I'm done fishing. Sometimes they keep, usually they're beaten up and discarded. GMAN's jig head holds perfectly for me. http://www.custombassfishinglures.com/index.php/custom-baits-2 8-)

Welcome aboard! 8-)

I didn't notice the mistake, but I was sure disappointed with the "Perry Mason" ending. Keeping up with the storyline can be challenging, but throwing in a ringer at the end was over-the-top. I don't expect to figure them all out, but we ought to have a chance! :

Geez... :

Go get 'em! And good luck! 8-)

Word! 8-)

Probably not, we're at 17,824 right now. 8-)

Today's move has been nothing less than incredible... DJIA +889 at 9065 S&P +91 at 940 NASDAQ +143 at 1649 If the volatility is driving you crazy, here's your opportunity to take some chips off the table.

Hmm... Based on the cost of those lines, I find it highly unlikely you have fished any of them. :

Really? Who makes 16 lb test line?

I don't have a "versatile lure/technique" for covering a lot of water, but soft plastics and jigs will catch fish year around in all situations. They may not be the "best choice" when bass seem focused on baitfish, but they are always an option. 8-)

You are either rigging it wrong or not fishing it correctly: http://www.insideline.net/articles/swim_senko.html 8-)

Plus NASCAR Chase For The Cup! Three races left: http://www.nascar.com/races/cup/2008/data/standings_official.html 8-)

I have recently become a Big Fan of the 10" Anaconda, too! 8-)

Yep, but next year they are extending the playoffs into November! http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/8728990/?MSNHPHCP&GT1=39002 :

Forecast: 40 mph winds and temperatures in the mid 30s: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,444346,00.html :

The Titans have a balanced offense and dominate defense. Both played well last night. The Colts on the otherhand, have "reputation" and not much more. I was surprised the game was close for awhile. 8-)

World Is 'Drowning in Oil' (Again) After Drought Commentary by Caroline Baum Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Three months ago, the world was running out of oil. Seriously. I kid you not. Everywhere you turned, you heard whispers that the day of petroleum reckoning was at hand. Now there's too much oil, prodding OPEC to cut production targets for the first time in two years. Last week, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, confronted with the halving of oil prices since July, announced a 1.5 million barrel-a-day cut in output. World markets greeted the news of reduced oil supply by pushing prices down further. Crude oil fell $3.69 a barrel Friday to $64.15. Yesterday, oil dropped another 93 cents to $63.22, a 17-month low. How quickly things change. Or do they? All speculative bubbles have a kernel of truth behind them to justify their existence. This time around it was China and India. These emerging Asian giants were gobbling up all the commodities the world could produce to fuel their rapid industrialization. It wasn't that the story was untrue; it was old. Growing global demand probably was the reason for the gradual rise in oil prices from $20 a barrel to $40 earlier in the decade, and even to $60 by mid-2005. It was the moon shot to $147 that took on a life, and a litany, of its own. Emerging nations didn't start gobbling up crude, coal and copper all of a sudden in the middle of 2007. Diversification Justification Yet analysts on TV and in print told us with a straight face that the doubling in oil prices from July 2007 to July 2008 was a result of fundamental demand, not speculative buying or investors, including pension funds, ''diversifying'' into ''alternative investments'' in search of ''uncorrelated returns.'' (It sounds a lot better than admitting you got suckered into buying what was going up and are now stuck with a pile of stuff that no one wants.) ''It happens in every market,'' says Michael Aronstein, president of Marketfield Asset Management in New York. ''Once it goes up an enormous amount, creating unfathomable wealth for the fortunate participants, someone makes an ex-post case as to why we are only at a beginning and it's not too late to get in.'' This advice is ''generally formulated by someone who has a vested interest in selling the stuff,'' he says. By the early 1980s, following two oil shocks in the previous decade, the running crude commentary went something like this: Oil prices couldn't go down because they were controlled by a cartel (OPEC). Banks extended credit to the Oil Patch based on -- you guessed it -- a belief that the underlying asset couldn't go down. When prices plunged to about $11 a barrel in 1986, that myth went down with them. Oil 'Peaked' The spike in crude oil earlier this year had the support of the popular theory of ''peak oil.'' In a 2005 book, ''Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy,'' investment banker Matthew Simmons argued that oil production by Saudi Arabia, the world's largest producer, is ''at or near peak sustainable volume'' and likely to decline in the foreseeable future. Just a few years before the peak-oil theory was hot, the world was ''Drowning in Oil,'' according to the Economist magazine's March 6, 1999, cover story. Oil was trading at $13.50 a barrel at the time. ''We may be heading for $5,'' the Economist predicted. ''Consumers everywhere will rejoice at the prospect of cheap, plentiful oil for the foreseeable future.'' Oil prices took off and never looked back. Like the world of fashion, trends in markets come and go. Oil is a limited, albeit vast, resource. At some point in the future, we probably will run out of petroleum, at least as we know it. Curve Balls Man's ingenuity is equally vast. When the time comes, given all the tax incentives that will be thrown in the direction of alternative energy, I have full confidence the world will not return to travel by horse and buggy. The silliness that accompanies speculative bubbles isn't to be outdone by what passes for economic analysis. It's just over three months since commodities began their sharp, swift descent, and already the nonsense is starting: Lower oil prices are going to boost consumer demand. Whoa! The price of oil (and other raw materials) is falling because of a cutback in demand, both actual and expected. Expressed as a graph, the demand curve for oil has shifted back, to the left. Consumers demand less energy (gasoline, heating oil) at any given price than they did before. To say that lower prices will stimulate demand, a widely held misconception, confuses a movement along the demand curve (lower price, higher quantity) with a shift back in the curve (lower price, lower quantity). Cause and Effect Why this is such a hard concept to understand, I'm not sure. People imbue oil prices with all kinds of mystical powers. They see a falling price and treat it as a cause, not an effect. That oil prices are falling in the face of OPEC's announced production cuts -- a reduction in supply would tend to raise the price, not lower it -- suggests that demand is falling even faster than OPEC can reduce supply. That won't boost demand, but who knows? Maybe it will help recapitalize the banks!