Darth-Baiter

For the record. Old Four-Eyes didn’t get bit today. thru a couple with normal two eyes and got three fish. Including what I think was my first ever, spinnerbait fish. Haha.

Jokesters! All jokesters!

i am pretty sure a bass cant count, not even to four. but i do know if i saw a chicken or cows with 4 eyes, i am not eating it? i just bought some 4" SparkShad. going to rig them on an underspin or top-spin. all my spins have leadheads with painted eyes. just go for it?

GY Senkos. color 925. Zoom - Z-drops, lizards, and small brush hogs, trick worms, and the 8" ribbon tail. Zman - Palmetto bugs, finesse TRD, large TRD, Fatty Z. those are my main dishes.

I honestly can't identify rods by their names. not ones I dont own. I can get pretty far (40 yards?) with a Med spinning with a 2500 reel. 15lb braid with a 10 flouro leader. my weight is almost always a 3/16th. you can't fling a drop shot for the horizon anyways. the bait does that spinning around and around in flight and ends up a hot mess. (it does for me) it is my best and hardest "lob" that gets the job done. I catch a lot of bass drop shoting the banks, so I can't imagine you not getting it done while standing on a bank. I once saw bass about 15 feet from shore. I didn't cast to them because a mom and her kid settled on that bank and I hoped they could catch the fish. kid was casting a bobber with his spinning. pretty good caster. I asked him if he knew what a drop shot was. NOPE. I landed and with mom's permission (stranger danger? anyone?) , tied him up one. showed him. (if he got it was anyones guess). I paddled out and said..cast about here. BOOM!! he was game on pretty quickly. very satisfying. I use a drop shot at my hike in lake with success. I just parallel the tule best I can.

my health, for the most part. without that, none of my junk even matters.

how do you fish standing timber? I know a spot. really tall trees poking out of the water. in about 40 feet deep water. I have taken some fish, but not the hotspot I thought it would be. (In middle of image). it is a long haul to get there on my kayak, but doable.

Haha. Bloody hands. Tired. Low light conditions. It’s the best sharpener. It does pretty well. It takes off a lot of material so you don’t want to use it exclusively. But it gets you back on the task at hand fast!

He likes food. But it’s toys. Toys are his jam. He will search it out like drug dog. Pretty fun.

Hunting. I use an Accusharp. Fool proof. Safe.

Get called. Hank is resting. No issues no teeth lost.

I flat out ignore them. Like they don’t exist.

exactly. this is how I would draw a LMB as a child.

I think Jerry Seinfeld had a joke about New Yorkers taking dog out, and then carrying the poop back inside for disposal. the dog is thinking, "heck I could have saved you the trouble..."

in my wastewater class I learned a quote. "there is no better solution to pollution than dilution". I am counting on the parts per million to be manageable. hate to grow a third nipple on my face.

I was gonna go and pick up poop right now. I'll wait until he gets home and lays a new one. hahhaha.. DOGS.

I like them all..maybe not the English one. I flat out admire how other countries CAN (often) speak English. I do admit, some of them suck at it. but they speak it a lot better than I can speak theirs. to me, an accent, thick or slight just means they speak more than one language. and that is BADARSE. bad to the bone.

I like how some aren't that Big. big doesn't mean beautiful. I like the ones with the distinct stripe or pattern down the middle.

I was totally chill until I got back into my car. well, until I saw the estimate of the costs...there went my MegaBass fund. hahahha...just kidding. I'll be in Texas this holiday. I should have used my brothers Vet. way less expensive. oh well. Dobyns Fury it is....:D. (Still kidding nervously) A-Jay. yea. Hank's teeth are in pretty good shape. I like for him to keep them. hence the visit. such a bummer to hear a tooth or two had to go.

I have a bigger dog. very smart. (half border collie, half Staffordshire terrier) he is smart enough to know NOTHING good happens at the Vet-office. I muzzled him, put on a secure harness and off we went. my wife went in to do the paperwork, while I tried to keep my dog from jumping back into my truck. it was almost cartoon like - us dragging him into the building. he was digging for the door the whole time, whimpering like a baby. the vet took one look and said, "wow, he is freaking out, so I am gonna give him an injection sedative". as the vet took him back, I shut the sliding door in my dog's face. the circle of trust is now in question. man. I am so stressed out for him. he is my bud!!! I am working from home today, ready to race over to gather him up. hope he doesn't poop in my shoes when he gets home. DOGS! seriously, DOGS!! I didn't even WANT this dog. my wife just showed up with him and did the Jedi mind trick on me. smartest dog I have ever had. everything we train him to do, he has gotten it fairly quickly.

ouch!! hahahha my friend was retying a lure. him and a buddy were fishing. trouble is they were both throwing the same lure. he picks up his lure, not realizing it was the one already tied to my friends rod. my friend "Casts" and effectively put every treble hook into the guys hand. they took that one to the ER doc to navigate. hahah..

lets take a Dobyns rod. any rod. say a Fury 733. you think they just cut 3" off the butt-end and call it a 703? I ask cuz I dont really know.

our vineyards are super fertilizer heavy. there are a few organic ones, but I'm not even sure that the even means, really. what I need to do is to pull up my big boy pants and go after a lingcod!!! YUM now if my wife and I are trying to have a kid? no thanks. I am DEFINITELY not eating fish from one of our reservoirs. nobody knows ourselves better than ourselves. you all do you. enjoy, or dont enjoy. all good.

built right, I like to think a rod manufacturer can get the action any of us want from any length of rod. I think the longer length comes into play for bait placement, hooksets, and maybe the fish-fight. for me.

my lakes, the people in charge spray RoundUp to control weed growth along the edges. I am not in that industry, so I cannot comment on how wise or unwise that is. I know it does work controlling the weed growth. the bass I pull out of the "brown" have these open sores, which eventually heal - I hope. I am not eating that fish!! I love fish. I dont love freshwater fish that much, with the exception of Walleye. my jam, are the ones in the ocean. which ironically, the ocean kinda scares me. (kayak)