Muddpuppy

It gets between 100 and 110 here for sometimes a month with high hummidity. Also it will rain just enough to make steam in the afternoon some days. I have to drink water continously, wear light colors, the towel thing and sometimes find shade or take a quick swim. A hat is a must. I also have rigged up two 12 volt fans for when the dogs go ( they don't get to when it gets that hot) but they don't seem to help much , unless you can stretch out under the console on a wet towel. I am thinking about trying one of those mist bottles, I have some for a hose and they seem to help.

You can try a tube or a "creature" type bait. I have had good luck with them around pads.

I have one and really like it. Not only will it help to slow your travel but you can position the boat how you want it.

I'll second that. That was a good read, I learned a couple of things I am going to try to do differently now.

I would think a lot would depend on water temp. I know this time of the year around here you would could find them in both places. If I knew where there were some brushpiles I would definetly give them a try but they will move into the shallows to feed.

Just get your wife to do what mine does, if she wants me somewhere on time she just tells me to be there 3 hours earlier than I need to be, sometimes it even works out about right, some time she misses it by a day or two.

I don't think Yamamato is the whole problem, after reading some of the prices on here I started looking through some of empty packs that I toss in a box when I take out the baits, incase I decide to reuse them later. I am seeing prices like $4.99, $5.18 and $5.35 and those are recent purchases in flakes and laminates. Those were bought either at an authorized dealer or at a GYCB Pro Shop. I payed $3.47 at Wal Mart yesterday for some 4" lams Yum dingers.

I kind of consider the red worms seasonal around here, late fall early spring. But the blk/red seems to have gotten pretty popular around here lately at least in the stores.

You can look through here it may have something on makeing a livewell, I haven't read it, so I can't say for sure. It is a three part article that links at the bottom of each page. http://bassresource.com/fishing/bass_boat.html They make kits, Fabrill and Mayfair has an ice chest kit on the Bass Pro Shop site. Cabella's has about any thing you would need includeing a variety of tanks. You can take and mount an air pump out side of an ice chest and run a tube through the drain hole, seal it. Also you can take a areator or bilge pump, mount it in the ice chest and some tubeing and some pvc pipe. drill some small holes in the pvc, cap one end and attach the hose comeing from the pump. Wal Mart had a live well areator kit that I saw this afternoon when I was there, something like that could be used to circulate water from the lake through the well.

http://bassresource.com/fish_biology/caring_for_bass.html

It seems like there was a article on resucitating fish on the old Honey Hole Mag. site. I know it talked about punctureing the bladder when pulled from deep water. I don't think that the old site is still accessable. Glenn may have a link somewhere on here, or know how to find it. I know he has other articles from Honey Hole, the article may even be on here too. The article that I mentioned is on here, but it doesn't say anything about moveing them back and fourth. There are several articles under the Bass Biology/ fish care.

If you were really high tech in the 60's - you also had a PH meter. I tried to find one of those thermometers (electronic/with cable) a while back. Mainly just out of curiosity when fishing on lakes with power plants. I never did locate one, of course I didn't look very hard.

I know that bugs are attracted to the lantern and the fish are attracted to them. They land in the water or get sqourched on the lantern. Getting it out of the boat makes it easier to see, keeps the bugs "way over there" and attracts fish too boot. I don't know about it attracting snakes,

If you are going to acturally fish with them you may want to flatten the barb on a hook or cut it off at the bend to make them barbless. I was just doing that to torment the creatures around the house. I am not sure what kind of action you will keep by tying the baits like that, but you could try. They also make a hook and the name ecsapes me at the moment where the barbs are on the out side of the hook it makes it a little quicker and easier to shake fish off if you are going for numbers or practice fishing a spot.

I wrap the line around it like on a snelled hook, you might just tie it in the center also. It has to be pretty tight, tape might work, they get rough. I know he has gotten where first or second cast , all I see is a red blur streak across the yard and he is balled up on the fluke. Sometimes after a few throws he will get bored and I can toss what ever I want to "at least for a while" We have a pond but I get alot more action out of the cat, and don't have to jack with a bunch of small fish.

I am assumeing that the fish tracker feature has to be used in an auto setting. In "auto" the unit decicedes what meets the charchteristics of a fish and shows one on the screen. It may be a fish, turtle, tree limb or whatever. In manual the fish will be shown in arches, semi arches (usually the case) or even as lines and dots and is left up to the reader to interpret, although it it is a lot more informative it does take a little more adjusting and use to learn to read it well, but will probably pay off in the long run. Most is just experience of what and how things react on one. Like crappie will stack themselves on top of each other and baitfish look like clouds in the water. It may be that the settings are to high there may also be other things in the water other than fish that it is picking up on. The thermocline will be constant throughout the lake, it doesn't variy so if you see the imaginary fish readings in shallower water you can eliminate that as a possibility. If you can find a section of water that you are familiar with or can see the bottom that would be a good way to check to see if it is to high and how well it is reading. Other things that can give you a false echo and read as fish, are water disturbance from the motor, plants, and trash. If the screen is releatively clean and the settings are between 50% and 65% and you are showing fish I would guess it would be something like that that it is picking up. And even if they are fish - getting them to bite is often anouther story.

I keep one rod rigged with a hookless fluke, just to antaganize my neighbors cat with.

Sometimes the thermocline will show up on auto on some lesser priced units as fish, they will be in a single straight line, on manual it may apear to be a narrow band of weeds or trash suspended in the water, and none of these will be touching the bottom.

Years ago we did a lot of gigging and used spotlights the fish just sit there. The 12volt blacklights are great if you use florecent line it glows and is a breeze to tie, it makes watching your line alot easier, and cuts down alittle on bugs also, some also have a reg. floresent bulb for other things too.

How are you rigging the snakes? I bought some and haven't used them yet, but looking for different suggestions.

Somebody makes one, I just couldn't think who it is. I think they also make ducks and rats if I remember right.

I usually go dark colors myself at night. There was a post the other night and one of the replys was use white on the bottom for contrast, haven't tried it yet but plan to give it a shot when things get slow.

If you could see them then I am sure they were watching you too. So I dought anything you threw would have worked at that time. I might have left and tried to sneak back later. I don't rember what there field of vision is but if there is any kind of bank sometime you almost have to crawl to keep from being seen and if there is any fishing pressure on them they can get lock jawed. I do not fish many rivers, hardly any anymore, but that has been my experience with fish in them.

C but it's not my fault if they are biteing at a. That seems to offer the most selection as far as lake accessability, from the way I read it. Any way good luck and have fun.

I would be on the stumpiest most remote lake in the state this weekend, if I wanted to to any serious fishing, they will be packed by 9:00 am. If your going to make a weekend out of it with the wife and kids if any I would probably go with the accomadations. I have only fished on a few in s.Oklahoma so I can't offer any recomendations. Have you checked the (it seems Ok. is a little different then Texas on how they are listed) anyway The Parks and Wildlife site or local fishing sites for a fishing report?