White77

nice catch...big fat crappie! Cliff

owned by mom...nice bass! Cliff

TY LBH....now i am in the know! Cliff

i went onto a private pond once in highschool, i didnt know at the time it was private, my buddy told me it was "ok" to fish there...we cought a ton of huge rainbow trout....it was awesome...my buddy cought a really big one and decided to keep it for a mount....well the texidermist discovered that it was pellet fed and pretty much knew it came from a private pond and refused to mount the fish....i felt really bad after i found out the pond was private....i never went back to that pond...or fished much with that "buddy" anymore..the only places he wanted to fish were private places.....so he either ended up not fishing much or fishing by himself alot.. just find the owner and ask permission..thats pretty simple think Cliff

yup find the gulls and you found the whites..we use lead jiggin spoons, grubs and white hair jigs(they all catch stripers too if they are in the lake) Cliff

i push mine all the way through....then the straight part on the end of a EWG gammy hook sits nicely against the plastic...and still remains weedless Cliff

good luck! oh...BTW...what exactly is a mook? cuz i see it alot but i have no clue Cliff

i use 30lb power pro..works great...super sensitive and few backlashes Cliff

Army 19k 1998-2002

nice one!

welcome! ;D

i dont know how much difference price makes cuz i never have owned any high end stuff....my ambassadeur to me is high end..it was like 80 dollars!! it is my favorite reel and it sits on a 20 dollar berkley rod....rods to me are the thing that holds my reel..as long as it isnt noodly i like it....i will stick to my cheap stuff...has always cought me fish in the past Cliff

for me it is just the fact that i am fishing..enjoying the outdoors. Cliff

i have been using the t-rig almsot exclusively for a week or two now and am having the same problem....lots of bites but i cant get a hook set....here is the advice i was given by avid..he challenged me to catch a bass on a t-rig for the members challenge deal "Remember - don't get into a feeling game with the bass. You will lose everytime. Be a line watcher. After the worm hits the water strip out several feet of line and watch the line. when it twithces - then that's your hit. let the bass straighten out the line. When 99% of the slack is out use a quick, sharp straight hook set from 9 o'clock straight up to 12. " i will keep at it....i gotta get a 2 lber for the challenge! Cliff

yeah good stuff...i will keep it in mind while i am working on my challenge, which came from avid actually Cliff

so me, my nephew and the monkey went to wally world tonight...i wanted to get some more plastics to widen my color choices...i thought it would be fun to let him choose them just to see what he would pick...i told him to choose four packs of worms from the Zoom bags...he pretty much picked exactly what i had in mind before i left the house!! he got me two bags of trick worms....watermelon seed and bruised bananna(that one is kinda crazy lookin) and two packs of u-tails...motoroil w/chart tail and red shad....so i just stuck with what he picked...it was kinda fun....hopefully gonna get out tomorrow and try em out...the lake is really high right now but i will give it a shot! anyone ever had any luck on that bruised bananna color worm? Cliff

i have the renegade ones from walmart too...20 bucks and they are great...and if they blow off my head while tilting back to sip some coffee on the boat ride...again...big deal...but i would be a tad upset if that happened to a pair that cost 200 bucks! Cliff

how does rising water effect the bass? the local lake here has come up like 3-5 feet in the last 2 days due to tons of rain...i am a bank fisherman and now i cant even access the docks and other spots i normally fish....will the fish move into the newly flodded grass and other cover? or will they still be out in the deeper water like nothing happened? any advice is appreciated Thanks Cliff

yeah i have the solene too...i like it alot and its a good price too

nice fish! Cliff

i have been using one of those pinnacle reels you mentioned from walmart for over a month now....i use it everyday and it works great....no problems at all...nice and smooth....fits nicely in my hand too...i have the solene and i ordered it online cuz i wanted left hand retrieve, but i think walmart carries this model and the next step up..with 9 bearings i think...they are 50-60 bucks, i plan to buy another one soon Cliff

this is very true...my wife did not go to college...she worked at a rental car agency for 5 years...we then moved to texas....she got another job for another rental car agency....it was easy to get, she had 5 years experience in the field....after about 2 months....they hired some dude with NO rental car ageny or customer service experience...paid him more to start and now he is in training to be the manager...he has a 4 year degree in criminology...nothing to do with the rental car business at all...but the fact that he went to college for 4 years got him a higher starting pay...even now my wife still does higher sales than he does....i say go take some general courses...maybe by then you will have changed your mind about what you want to do, and can then focus the rest of your schooling on that....trust me, you will change your mind Cliff

i hate that too..both my baitcasters are left hand retrieve...search around and you can find them...i know abu garcia makes left hand models as well as pinnacle....and i am sure there are other, but these are the ones i have

i too have done alot of "lazy" walleye fishing..and now recently moved to texas...so i am new to bassin as well...all i can say is keep reading this site!! there is an endless amount of great info here...i read here everyday and learn new stuff all the time...keep readin, and try different things and by the way...weclome to the site! Cliff

if your having backlash problems, like i was with my baitcasters....maybe try braided line...Redlinerobert recommended this to me...he said to try 30lb suffix....i couldnt find it, so i went with 30lb power pro...what a difference...i rarely get any backlash now Cliff