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Boring is an understatement.

Went out to my confidence ponds for the second Sunday in a row to get a handle on this dropshot thing and landed 6 keepers today. All but 1 in the 1.5-2.5 range and one over 4 pounds. Last weekend I landed 9 total and one pushed 5 pounds. On 6 pound test and a Standout drop shot hook it was a incredible fight. I really like the new dropshot rod and reel I purchased over the winter and it has definetly made the learning curve alot shorter. It's a Prolite Finnese rod matched up with a Pflueger Supreme reel spooled with Trilene Sensation.

Vaparrot, I hope this does not come off sounding wrong. I look at 7+ pounds as a lunker. I have caught alot of 5 pounders on all lakes mentioned. I guess my view of a lunker is a little different. Mercer has alot of great fish in it, but. My buddy Marvin has the lake record for Royal 10 pounds 6 ounces. I posted up a 9+ pounder out of Royal that was caught by the master of the Senko / Tom Doyle. I watched a guy in a kayak lose a "masive" LMB about 2 years ago. Royal backs up to my neighborhood. I used to walk to the lake almost every night after my daughters went to bed and throw the 'ole buzzbait for a couple of hours and would catch 5+ pound fish, that was until the Police started patroling the lake. All I'm saying is that I would like for all of use to get on a lunker, it would be great if I took one of you guys and said "cast this, over there" and walla! A PB is caught. I have been fishing these lakes for 20+ years and have talk to and fished with alot of the locals. I would like to return the favor to one of these other guys. I went back and looked at my earlier posts and I guess I came off as a pr1ck. :-/ Sorry about that. Get a canoe and I'll show you where the fish are in Huntsman in the summer, I can point to it from shore.

Ron, This time of year and the given terrian of Mercer. I don't think it is a good choice for a " get together ". I have seen way more hawgs pulled from Royal than Mercer and Huntsman combined and even more so this time of year. The key is steep drop off's, I only know of one at Mercer .

CJBS, Wellcome aboard. Good to see another Virginia guy chime in. Looks like I'll have to come out too, I have met Jay, his dad/Ron, Andrew and Paul. It will be nice to put some faces on heses names. I still have some new fishing rods I need to get acustomed to, so I'll see you there. Why Mercer? Lets try a lake that is more freindly to manuever around, Like Burke or Royal.

If you have to touch it before you buy it, hands down it would be Greentop Sporting goods for me. It is a hour and a half drive to get to it, but well worth it. Online, Tackle Warehouse has the others beat by a long shot. No B.S to sell, just the good stuff and thats the way I like it!

Your going to be about 2-3 weeks to early for the pre spawn frenzy. You might want to wait if your fishing from the bank. Now if your in a boat, you might be lucky enough to catch them staging up. Lets see who can catch the largest sack, 5 fish and all need to be longer than 16 inches to count. No dinks, look at it like a tourney. If I catch 20 and only 6 are keepers, I only see it as if I only caught 6 total. Dinks do not count. Try it.

I root for Burton, but if I was a betting man. My money would be on Junior.

I'm rolling in a 1990 Bronco w/351, it's got 377k on the ticker. 2nd motor and 3rd trans.............

Bought a Charlie swimbait and it swims like it's "special". It runs true, then on it's side and back. Speed is of no matter. The Storm baits are flat out crap...... Let's get to the point. What it the best bang for the buck. I'm just looking for a true running swimbait. I'm not looking for a exotic $50 lure, one that works.

Flechero is right, some one posted a great article about lines and the amount of stretch and if I remember correctly XL WAS NOT at the top of the list, I was blown away buy the findings. Some one repost it, please?

I bought the Pflueger Supreme, Light an ever so smooth. Will be buying another here soon. At $90.00 it can't be beat.

I'm going to guess it was windy......

Lot of Nyquil............Kidding. Portable DVD player with a set of headphones and his favorite movies.

I wish Tony would punch someone that would punch him back. No one ever swings back......... If he punched me, I would hit him back "HARD".

I bought the He70mc and the He69apc. Both are incredible as usual. The 7ft med is a great cranking rod and the 6'9 is great for spinnerbaits, light pitching, t-rigs and senkos in cover. The 6'9 is a great all around rod. I wish I had bought 3 or 4 more. The 7 ft is everything that I like in a cranking rod. I had bought the Carrot for cranking, but it's not agreeing with me.

Ron, it's going to be Sunday for me too. Gotta work tommorow.

If I remember correctly, you don't hunt the "beaver". You trap it..........!

Delo's tackle, free shipping.

When I was in Gander Mountian a couple of weeks ago, several different Mann's crank where on sale at 2 bucks a pop. Tail Draggers, -4's, -1's and other deep divers and jerk baits. All the ones I saw where the regular styles, no Elite's.

I bought it from Daves Tournament @ the Richmond Bass-a-rama. They also had the Boyd Duckett's and Kistler on sale too.

Beaver dam Rez in Loudon county.

A tube, blk w/ blue fleck. 3/8 weight pegged about a quarter inch from hook.

Boy's have fun and play nice. Sounds like Russ is going to have a great time. Shoot a video for us, I'm sure it will be incredible as usual. By the way, are you fishing the Delta?

Here's a link on the water levels that our area has had to face. I went there in the late fall to scope things out and it was worse, but I know where to go when the levels are up. http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/specials/loudoun/img/photos/2007/10/26/10308008H10262648_t600.JPG