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I remember old ladies who would leave the plastic covers on their living room furniture.

I've never left a hook in a fish, not yet, only fishing 3 years maybe. I don't know if they survived but that's what I'm going to do until I learn otherwise. I think if there's one that I absolutely can't remove then I will finally find out what LMB taste like. I had a crankbait's tail hook lodge into the gills once. It didn't stick into it until I tried to remove it, I think. Finally reached in through the gills and slid it back into the fish with my fingers, then pulled it out through the mouth. I think most of the damage was from me not doing it right, but now that I've done it I won't make that mistake again. It swam away fine but I dunno. Interesting that you found hooks mostly passed though. I wonder if it tears 'em up inside.

My Walmart shelves were bare so I ordered online. No shortage there, at least none that I saw. I ordered enough cheap crank baits to last me through next year. I don't want to walk into BPS or Walmart anyways, especially right now.

Call authorities and have them removed? Or is it like California where people can live wherever they want and trash the place and you just have to live with it?

Are there any studies or even anecdotal evidence that a fish can pass a hook, or that a hook will dissolve inside a fish? I doubt it would rust away but maybe the stomach fluids or acids could help break it down. And I don't see how an intact 4/0 hook is going to pass through a fish. I'd like to believe in all of this but I want to know if it's just wishful thinking. My guess is that it is but I don't know.

I'm fishing a creek these days. It's only a few feet deep, with a few deeper holes here and there (maybe 5 feet). Water is clear so I figure during the day they are either in the deeper areas, but only if they are shaded well, or under cover near the banks. If the water was stained I think I would find them in more areas, but since it's clear (and according to Roland Martin, bass don't have eyelids ) they can't hide from the sun so easily. I've caught every fish in either the deeper shaded areas, or under cover in a foot of water.

The look on your face says it all! Nice! My first bass ever was topwater. I never understood why people loved bass fishing until that moment.

After fishing clear water for a few weeks in a local creek, I now know I can drag a lure right by a bunch of bass and they will watch it, follow it, but not bite. If the water were stained I'd have no idea they were doing this. A lot of the fish in question are too small for my bait though. They'll follow my worm, watch it drop and lay still, and just stare at it. Twitch, hop, jerk, doesn't matter. Sometimes the little ones do strike it though. It's awesome seeing a fish hit after you've enticed it for awhile. I'm learning a LOT watching these fish - where they hide, how fast they strike, how long they examine a bait before striking or giving up - very very cool stuff.

Tough little buggers! I actually caught another one the same day as this one, and it's mouth was torn. Not sure how to describe it, but one side of its mouth was torn off it's "jaw" or gill area or something. Seems like it would have a hard time sucking in food, but he ate my worm fine. I wonder if I tore it - I hooked the center of his bottom lip/jaw. I wonder if a violent shake would be enough to tear it. I broke off (broke off = failed knot) a fish in that same spot a few days ago. He was swimming really slow, and listing/leaning to one side before I caught it. I targeted it again a few days later hoping I could get the hook out of its mouth, if it was still in there. That's when I caught the torn-mouth fish. It seemed smaller so I think it was a different fish.

That's good. There are a lot of obstacles like branches, log jams, laydowns in this creek. I don't know if fish crash into things like I sometimes do but if so there's plenty to crash into. Thanks for the info.

Caught this poor fella today. I initially thought they were talon marks from a bird until I flipped it around and saw the bad side. Even the soft dorsal has a thing on it. Does anyone know what this is? Caught it in Coyote Creek, south San Jose, CA if that helps.

Fished the creek today and saw no sign of flooding. Caught two 1.5 pounders at around 6:00 pm. One was in 2 feet of water under some roots and dead branches, the other in a deeper section, shaded by tall trees. There are also 4-5 pound Carp, maybe bigger if you're into that. I might try for them someday. They are almost always in sight, cruising and ignoring my baits. I wish they were bass, that would be crazy, there are so many. A small machete would really open things up. Gonna go tomorrow morning and see about that.

That's Special Relativity, when you are reaching such high rates of speed. Let's say we are correct that traveling light speed is impossible. They'd need to get here some other way which would not have time dilation as a side effect. I'm making this part up (we don't know if wormholes exist or are possible), but wormholes may/would not have that effect. If you travel close to the speed of light, as already mentioned, when you arrived back home everyone you knew would possibly have died of old age. Depends on how fast/long you are gone. Based on that, if one did actually reach light speed time would stop for you - to you, you could go anywhere instantly. But the opposite would happen to the rest of the universe. You would "watch" the entire life and death of the universe in an instant. So going the speed of light would not help. Our sun and every star in the universe would be dead and you'd be very late to the party Going almost the speed of light would take hundreds of billions of years to get across our galaxy alone (to an outside observer). Cool stuff though, I love it.

I think that if aliens with the technology to cross the vastness of time and space decided to come here that they would not be interested in abducting hillbillies and uh....probing them. Picking up cows and dissecting them? Probably not. If anything, any life form of any intelligence would stay far far away from our dumb violent species. I know I would. I think we would be far inferior to them in intelligence, as bass are to us. And look how we treat bass For all our intelligence we can't even effectively communicate with any other animal on the planet. They might see us as so dumb that they can't communicate with us either. They would likely think nothing of us at all. And if aliens behave even remotely similar to humans we'd be dead already. They'd kill us for sure. We sure as heck would try to kill them. It's what we do. They certainly would not invite us to join the Federation Of Planets! The idea that they'd come and enlighten us with their technology and fly around the skies in "impossible" flight patterns, teasing us with their possible presence is silly to me. Aliens being on our planet would be the biggest story in history. I don't think ours, or any government is competent enough to keep such a secret. Why would the aliens hide anyways? Oh sure, they're going to trust the morons who run our country and hang out with them? No frickin' way. If aliens are intelligent enough to get here then they are intelligent enough to stay away.

Cool maybe the flooding will wash out some of the log-jams. Some areas are solid mat right now because of them. It would have to flood a whole lot for it to reach the bike path, at least where I fish. Interested to see what happens. The creek water used to be higher years ago. Hard to tell from the sat image you linked to, but the areas I fish are east of there.

The Coast Guard was looking out for them, that's for sure. Nice to hear a good ending to one of these stories.

Ya I know, for me personally a small boat is just a better option, especially once we get into that price range. Yaks are fun but I need more space to move. And twisting around to grab my rods or tackle just gets old. Maybe I'm getting old before my time

Could probably rinse them off with water. They don't stay slimy once I'm using them. Talking about YUM Dingers.

I like snaps for certain baits, mainly cranks. I always call them clips - they just don't look snap-ish to me. Shrug.

Oh that reminds me about Gary Y's other business that is not related to fishing. "We offer over 200,000 units of semen for sale." http://www.yamamotogenetics.com/genetics Yes same guy. I saw him talking about it on a Googan interview on Youtube couple years ago. mmmmMOOOOooooo! Supposed to be some excellent beef! Not sure I want to know what's on the worms! But hey, they work so well!

I have a chartreuse crank bait from Walmart/Ozark Trail that says "brown" on the box and website description. Never figured that one out. I'm not that colorblind! Or maybe I am.

I think I mess up if I try to push the rod forward rather than just using my wrist to rotate it up. I'm still figuring this out. Last time I fished I hardly made any full casts. It's a creek so it's not too tough to cover the distance. I'm also pitching over tall weeds from the bank so that might make it tougher.

Well I lost the little protective cap that goes on the end of my telescopic BPS spinning rod one day. I remember taking it off when I got to the water and...? Couple days later I'm standing on shore fishing not really thinking about anything, and I look down and there it is in the rocks. Cool! I once walked back nearly half a mile to my truck without my two rods. I was so busy videoing the sunset that I walked all the way back oblivious. How, I do not know. Ran back for them hoping not to get eaten by a mountain lion. I haven't really run in a loooong time so that was interesting. I lost a 4 pound LMB a few days ago thanks to a bad knot I tied (improved clinch - happened twice that day). I'm hoping I can catch this fish and get the hook out of it. I know where it hides, so good chance I think. I haven't been fishing long enough to lose much else I think.

Can't remember the site, but heck ya there are places online to buy very cheap lead weights of all kinds. Did a quick search and I think this is it: https://www.ocean-angler.com/lead-fishing-weights/ Very very very good prices.

Bank fishing. Last trip I had: - a Wacky Rig 5" YUM Dinger on a #2 VMC Neko hook. - half of a Zoom curly tailed worm (curly part is gone) nose-hooked on a small whatchamacallit hook (no clue). This is for the dinks I know are around if I get skunked with the other rod. Wait, last time I fished I brought the wrong second rod and it had nothing tied to it at all. I carried it around and didn't even bother using it. I see I have a T-rig set up on another rod. Been hittin' em with plastics all of July, which is new for me.