Darth-Baiter

got my first invite. had to turn it down due to turkey hunting. but it is starting to happen around here. even my brother in Tex is taking out his boat. i love the warm months...even without the bass fishing.

i have some smallies in a local lake. i got to using broken pieces of Senko as a trailer. just a 3" piece. it really works.

i really want a hot pick spinner bait now. dang. any Non JDM versions that wont cost me $20?

i'm with Bank. times have changed. i got permission once, ringing the doorbell with an apple pie in my hands. now i would get shot as a person of color what about stalking the mailman? suss it out with the person to see if you can get the tempurature of the landowner? maybe he/she can say, "oh, the Waterman place? that's the nicest old lady! and she loves Pie"

focus on this above. i have done some ridcioulous stuff, so i have no intentions of throwing stones. but it took real effort to get me out of it. i dont know what you have behind the curtain, but from the surface..you cant afford a boat. i now know before i can afford anything, i have to have everything else covered. by covered...1 year of savings to live ifthe SHTF. experts say 8 months of reserves, but i saved up 1 year. my auto collsion deductable is $1k. so i even have that put aside. i dont want to be one of those that need credit to cover a deductable. personally, i still cant afford a boat. i have no debt beyond my home. i heard is said once that poor people buy things that you have to make payments on, and rich people buy investments. stuff that makes you money. sadly i am not much the latter either. but no way i fall into major debt again. s

asking because i dont know. what does a shallow spinning spool gain? it just peels off on a cast anyways.

wow!! I have been there once. I think I got 30 fish. 80? I would pass out of joy.

I kinda felt that way. that snake was not bothered by anything. I can say I swam with a cobra. it was maybe 8 feet away. snakes dont bug me. I feel as long as I dont step on one or climb up a ridge and grab one reaching for a ledge.

all our trees are in bloom. the bass? dunno. we are under the shroud of weather. I hope the bass are not pre-spawn as I sit here trying to stay dry. but I suspect it is close, if not happening .

Greg Blanchard put this tiny cart on my radar. I bet they are selling a lot of them because of him. there is no denying that putting in and out at a boat ramp is the biggest pain of it all. we all work at different speeds, but some boaters feel it is still too slow. hahaha.. personally I am a fast as heck type. you can slide the kayak on this dolly, strap in and yank it to the truck and unload leisurely. and load with the same urgency...as in NONE. it comes apart and can store inside the truck. anyone using one? Greg actually upgrade to the hitch option and pulls his boat with his truck. my kayak is still relatively light, so I dont think I need that.

those Epipens expire? man..imagine if you took all that money and bought something useful, like SpinnerBaits? TRUE story. my wife and I were swimming in a lagoon in Malaysia. we were staying at a host house. super fun. a big gray snake swam by us, we froze but it appeared just as surprised by my pasty white upper body. he moved off. we came back to the hut, and I just said.."we saw birds, some fish..oh and a big snake". the home owner who used to be a big code writer in Silicon Valley, asked me about the snake. long, gray..distinct scales, swam great. he pulled out a reptile book and said, like this? yup.. he barked out some orders in his lingo and all the grounds keepers ran off with hoes and machetes. what the heck? I went over to the book and looked. it was a king Cobra. !!! my wife almost fainted. they didnt find the snake. we didnt swim any more despite the heat and humidity. I would have loved to have a fishing rod and a senko.

NOPE. nothing new..but I will tell you all about it if I catch some new PB with it. just bought it YESTERDAY! it just SCREAMS "California DELTA!" on Elephant Butte lake, I watched my brother catch a bass on a nail clipper he attached a hook to. the bass brain is smaller than a pea I bet.

its mostly about catching fish, no doubt. and it is more fun for me to catch them in a social environment. lots of lone wolves in this group.

thanks. I am camping out for a week, so I dont expect to goose-egg the entire 6 days fishing. it will be good to sit around a fire and poke at it with a stick.

my annual trip is coming up. very excited to stretch my wings after this soul crushing CA winter storm of 2023. it technically still hasn't let up since JAN 1. it blew up my career of highway construction. I need the physical and mental separation (from work)...and soon. meeting up with my brother and friends for some Striper fun. I raided my storage boxes and I'm bringing all my MegaBass Magdrafts. and found some other similar swimsuits. StealthShads, etc. I bought Skinny Dippers to reel/burn...and the ubiquitous topwater and wake baits. packing light since I left some rods with my brother he can drive to me. I'll carry on my reels. a BIG striper sucking in a 6" MagDraft is hopefully very interesting. I will break in, test-run a new travel rod to shake out any issues before I take it to Brazil. I can't fathom how that annual fishing license for a non-Res is $12!! that's nuts. I bumped it up to $20 for an added donation to the cause of taking care of the fishery.

I LOVE fishing with friends and acquaintances. the S-Talking and just talking and catching up is the best. one time my friends and I were joshing around and we all starting singing some song (badly). it was nice not worrying about stuff and not taking ourselves so seriously. just three dudes trying to remember words to a song. (can't remember which) we were laughing so hard. and some ladies in SUP came by looking like Sirens. one said we should name our bass fishing club..."boy band fishing". hahahha. we did crush the bass, so that part didnt suck either. for the record making less than 10 nylon stickers that say "Boy Band Kayak fishing club" cost like $1000. hahahah.

I saw those. but on most days, I feel I have one too many BFS setups as it is. I have one. it usually comes with me when I accidentally think it is another rig and grab it instead. I just dont fish BFS that often.

I dont own to many creature baits. there are a billion in creation for sure. I have the Flappin Hog for mostly everything the Palmetto bug for punching and the baby Brush Hog for pitching a few others I just for tiny jig trailers and random stuff I dont plan on restocking. I want to try more gill profiles.

I’m over it. Life’s too short. I feel better. Plus I bought new Deps baits.

Great pic. You fishing in scrubs?! You are blessed to have laid eyes on the fish. I lost a fish on 8lb line and I never got a peek. It still haunts me and I speculate like a fool.

I knew it was going to happen. we are pushing hard to hire college graduates. attending college job fairs and all. I came up with an idea. I was watching our hiring competitors, and came up with an idea to get the jump on them, with our fellow Gen-Z students. my bosses asked all of us to compile the "lessons learned" and any ideas with one lady and get it to management. My idea was simply typed into a list of bullet points. today there was an all-managers meeting, and this lady got to attend because her boss called in sick. I got the weirdest text from her. "she said, hey I sold your idea! they loved it. now how did you think you would proceed?" I full on ignored her. hahah..whatever. my boss called to talk business and brought it up. I flat out asked. "did she steal my thunder?" he asked, "oh no..that was your idea?" hahahah.. all I said in return was that, I see myself promoting again in the future and would appreciate some recognition sometimes. I left it at that. some people suck. I always give credit. ALWAYS.

hahahah..but that wont emphasize the superiorty complex... i shop accordingly with respect to color. hahah...

we would have helicopter gunship support.

honestly, i would fullfill a bucket list items. lots of them. my fishing ones. Accension Island tuna. that big crazy trout in Monglia, i would buy a cargo plane and a crew to fly it. load a Toyota Hilux into it and a small fleet of Hobie Kayaks. boxes of baits and lures. i would fly around the world and kayak fish areas never dreamed of. Imagine slipping a kayak into the Mekong river? or the Amazon? Hobie fish lake Biwa? my wife would donate the rest to charity anyways. i would have to hurry. youtube the heck out of it. bring friends and celebrity fisherpeople.

there are LOTS of lakes. i was looking at Lake Shasta. which is less than 40 feet from being full (pool). last time i fished Shasta it was a half mile drive from the parkiing lot down to the water's edge. and we got lots of fish!!! but i panned out on google earth and just looked. there are so many lakes!! Britton, Whiskey Town...Trinity!! Britton looks very low on the radar being so close to the other more infamous lakes like Shasta. it is overwhelming. i have panned around Oroville and other lakes. i want to try them all but that is impossible. i am not that rich in time and money. there is much to be said about mastering a certain lake, but the mystery of a new lake is fun as well. do you prefer to explore new lakes or focus on a certain body of water and mastering it?