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i agree.

everyone's been asking about our new boat, here it is:

that first one looks great!

we had easter dinner at my aunts house and my dad and i brought the boat so we would fish. after dinner around 3:45 people started leaving so my dad and i drove down to the lake (my aunt lives in the neighboorhood surrounding the lake, 1 minute drive to the lake). it was cold and windy and we were having a sucky time. we fished shallow we fished in weeds we fished in lily pads we fished deep, we couldn't find fish. i don't know how long into the trip it was, probably close to an hour and a half, when my dad hooked up with the first fish in about 10 feet of water, fishing with a 7" red shad Hookup worm. he was very excited to catch this fish and the first time it jumped, it cleared the water, and he got a look at it and said that it was a nice fish and might be his PB, i laughed at him because i knew it was clearly a pound and a half. it turned out to be a nice healthy 14"er a while later we turned the corner in the lake and started fishing around in there. its pretty shallow, not much more than 3 or 4 feet, lots of lily pads. only a few were still up, most were dead under water (as was the case with the rest of the lake). i found a nice cove and made a cast into there, and i was just talking about how i was gonna catch a fish, and on my first cast i had a fish down there playing with my 6" black/blue ***. i let it play with it for a few seconds then set the hook and came up empty. my dad said i was too anxious. i made a cast to the same spot, and sure enough that bass was back, and i let it have this bait for a good 5-8 seconds. when i felt the line tightening up on its own, i nailed it, and brought in this nice healthy 13" bass. after that my dad started casting into the same cove. not but 10 minutes after that, my dad casted his 7" red shad Hookup worm close to shore, and soon after the bait landed in the water, got a strike. he hadn't even begun his retrieve yet. he wasn't really sure if the fish was on or not, and was hesistant to set the hook. its a good thing he did. he set the hook and i immediately knew it was a great fish, because his rod had a nice bend in it. a bend that most fish don't put on a rod on the hook set. i asked him if it was a nice fish and if it was fighting hard. he said (a little embarassed that he thought his last fish may have been his PB: "yeah, its alright". i knew it was better than alright, just from the way it was fighting. he fought it and after a pretty long, hard battle, got it close to the boat. when it was about 7 feet away from the boat, i could see the golden color glowing underwater and could tell it was a monster. then it came up to the surface and splashed around a bit, and then with one big whip of its tail it threw water everywhere and dove under the boat. i got real scared. this thing was pulling so hard now, that my dad's rod was bent in half. this rod was curved no less than 3/4 of the way down. the fish was well under the boat, and still fighting to get to the other side of the boat. i was so scared that the hook was going to just rip out at this point. somehow my dad managed to get it back up to the side of the boat, and i saw that thing's giant mouth. i reached down there, and fumbled around to get a thumb in its mouth. it took me 3 attempts to secure the fish, and what was probably only 10 seconds, felt like forever. i finally got my thumb in this fish and it was such a feeling of relief and awesomness. as soon as i lifted it out of the water, my dad and i both said "holy $%^&!!!!!!" i handed the fish over to him, took some pictures, measured it, weighed it, and let it swim off. here it is, my dad's new PB, a healthy, strong, 22", 5lb 8oz largemouth bass! the worm barely peeking out of that bucket of a mouth:

if anyone is wanting to get a jon boat, but doesn't want to spend too much, this is REALLY worth checking out. i want to make one of these just for the heck of it! it would be a nice boat to take out by yourself because it probably only weighs 30 pounds, and it would be easy to handle. http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-Your-Own-PVC-Johnboat-for-minimal-cost-and-t/?ALLSTEPS

on the Big O, the line tie is right where the bill meets the body, this is not the case on mlpauley's lure.

^ posts too much in this thread; people are running out of things to say about you.

i've never used one and probbly won't. i'm very skeptical of them. that lip only seems like one more thing that can go wrong on an expensive bait.

i always have my 7' MF baitcaster for soft plastics and my 6'6 MM baitcaster for baits with treble hooks. depending on the place i'm fishing, i might carry my UL with me too.

we fixed it. the problem is that the drive was programed to burn/rip in PIO, which requires the CPU, and the burning was using 100% of the CPU's power. in order for the rip/burn to work smoothly, it has to be running in DMA mode, which doesn't require the CPU, but gets it's input from the drive itself. so we had to uninstall the drive and then reinstall it, and when it reinstalled it was back to DMA mode. we think that severe (i mean severe) dust caused errors of several reads, so something programmed the drive to run in PIO mode, which is a slower but "safer" mode. so we just blew the dust out and reinstalled the drive to get it running in DMA mode again, and it rips/burns fine.

Thats a DT-10 stuck in his shoulder: i also caught a duckling while fishing with bread for bluegills at the park. poor thing was screaming while i held it and got the hook out of its mouth. it was really soft ;D

*** seem like they'd do real well at ponds around here, but i have a lot of trouble rigging them weedlessly. i can rig them fine on a jig head, but with the water warming up, there is a lot of snot grass and other nasty stuff that really requires a completely weedless bait. are there any ways i can rig the * weedlessly?

EWG's for all t-rig purposes. Gamakatsu G-Lock is a great hook. really wide gap and the point is right in line with the eye, and makes for a great tex-pose hook.

i use 1/8".

get em all.

just to avoid confusion, you're talking about Plexiglass, not Lexan right?

i'm not sure what you mean by this, but it seems like it would weaken the whole thing. i wouldn't trust the strength of anything that was held together by being melted into plexiglass. maybe i just don't understand what you mean, could you post a sketch maybe? i'd still just stick with lexan

i hear its a good knot for use with braided line. i always just use a uni knot, no matter what line i'm using.

That wouldn't be cinnamon/blue flake would it? That color has produced for me too. it probably was. i dunno, i got em at walmart.

i've used one pack of them in the cinnamon color maybe? they got the job done.

i just checked and zune is set to the fastest burn speed. i really think the problem is with this computer's disk drive because it also takes equally as long for me to rip CD's.

^ what!?

yes i still listen to CD's, and even buy some, not much though (usually i listen to my zune on the docking station and get music from friends) my dad's laptop is a year or two newer than this computer, but i don't know any of the specs on his computer. i do know that it takes 4.5 years to boot up though : there is a big lots somewhere around here, i should go and check out the sale on flash drives. i really need a new one. i have a card reader right now and the biggest card i have is 1gb. i should go get a 4gb card. but i wouldn't back my music up on a flash drive because 1.) i have much more music than will fit on a flash drive 2.) i trade my flash drive w/ my friends to get music and 3.) i'm not backing up a lot of music, i just want some to listen to on CD's. CFF, i'm gonna go look in zune right now to see if there are any settings i can change. bankbeater, all this music is already on my hard disk.

most people don't use plexiglass. its not very strong. pretty much the only bill materials i've ever seen used are lexan, micarta (circuit board) and metal. i'd stick with lexan.

i burned the same album that was giving me trouble on my dad's computer using Nero Express and it did it in 3 min 31 seconds. i think something is wrong with the CD drive on this desktop computer. we'll have to check it out. as for backing them up, i'm not burning them just to back them up, i also want to be able to listen to them in the car or in my room or whatever.