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what holes are you speaking of?

here are a few videos that my friend shot of stuff in his microwave (no damage done at all): flaming toothpick w/ pyrex cup over it. the flame shoots plasma (thats what i read) and if there is no pyrex cup it will burn your machine. it also makes a loud buzzing noise. kinda freaky: http://s46.photobucket.com/albums/f120/davidsaavedra/?action=view&current=thoothpick.flv a CD: http://s46.photobucket.com/albums/f120/davidsaavedra/?action=view&current=CD.flv a lightbulb (my favorite). it makes a chirping noise: http://s46.photobucket.com/albums/f120/davidsaavedra/?action=view&current=Lightbulb.flv im not advising putting foreign objects in your microwave, im showing you these videos so you dont have to ;D

when summer rolls around, you should try flipping wacky rigged senkos into pockets in lily pads....i think you will like the results

ok i need some big help with this pond. last year about this time i caught my 7lb pb bass out of here. i went there on a reccomendation of a friend who also had caught a 7lber and many 5's and 6's in there. so i know it holds big fish (those are big for my area). problem is, out of all the many times i have returned, i have only caught about 3 dinks since then. its very shallow around the edges (you can kinda see it, the darker flats on the south side and some smaller flats on the north side) and they are less than a foot deep. i caught my 7lber on one of these flats, and i could see it fanning, so im guessing it was spawning. you can kinda see where it gets deep, but its not even that deep, im not sure how deep but definitley 6-8 feet at the deepest. so could you guys give me some advice on how to fish this pond??? like maybe where the bass would be and what lures would work well...also, what can you tell about the geography of the lake based on this photo? thanks!!! hope i didnt make this too long of a post :.

i was thinking the same thing about the soil. first thought that crossed my mind wasnt really algae or anything it was that it was a muddy/clay soil and that caused the water to be kinda muddy, but from satellite it would look different.

i have never been here, but i plan on asking permission to fish this pond. it is on an amish farm, so im sure the gets lots of fertilizer. does this cause algae to bloom in it making it lime green like that??? is that bad for the fishing??? could it even support fish??? any info would be appreciated!

sure, but the test tells you how cool you are

take this test to see how cool you are. its pretty fun! http://www.sailinganarchy.com/general/2002/cool_test.htm who's the coolest one here?

you could try bouncing em off the bottom, but dont cry if you lose one of those pricey baits to a snag. when these people say slow and steady, they mean pretty much like you'd fish a spinnerbait.

i bet matt, chris, jay and some others on here have more "finishing moves" than the WWE or a mortal kombat game so they would probably be better qualified than me to answer, but here goes anyway. i divide successful bed fishing into 2 parts. part 1 is getting the fish interested. part 2 is getting the fish to commit (bite) once it is interested. this "triggering move" falls into the part 2 category. there is nothing more frustrating than working a fish up and almost ready to bite, but then not being able to close the deal. sometimes they will repeatedly go nose down on your bait and stare at it for what seems like an eternity, only to lose interest and back off. to me, when a fish rolls on your bait or goes down, these are signs that the fish is almost "over the edge" and ready to bite. do the right things at this point and you will soon be holding a fish. do the wrong things and you can turn a fish off and sometimes even have to start all over and work the fish up again, costing you valuable fishin' time. yesterday i got both these fish to show definite signs of aggression toward the bait, both even went nose down on it several times but eventually turned away when i kept doing the things i did to get them interested. sometimes what you have to do with the bait to get them to bite is totally different than what you had to do to get them interested. what i did to get them interested was a shaking presentation ("shaking" the rod to make the bait just barely quiver). but once they got interested they would not bite the shaking presentation - they'd just look at it a few seconds and swim away. so what i did was once they got "nose down" on the bait i gave it a HUGE POP with the rod tip making it jerk violently. this was the "triggering move" that sent both of these fish over the edge making them bite. but the huge pop was done with the rod tip DOWN which caused the bait to violently scoot across the nest and dig into the edge of it. if i had done it with the rod tip up, i would have just jumped the bait out of the nest and out of harm's way. in trying to figure out why this worked, my theory is that once a bed fish is eyeballing your bait and you give it that huge "POP!" with the rod, it can trigger a "reaction strike" the same way a crankbait or spinnerbait bouncing off a log does with a non-spawning fish. that's just my theory anyway. who knows? i do firmly believe that each individual fish is different. next time it could be just the opposite - the POP! could get their attention but the "shaking" could be the strike trigger. the important point to remember is this: IT OFTEN TAKES A DIFFERENT PRESENTATION TO GET THE FISH TO BITE THAN THE ONE THAT GOT IT INTERESTED. i think a lot of guys get frustrated because they keep doing the same thing with the bait in the nest over and over again and cannot close the deal. i love bed fishing for this reason. it's the ultimate mental chess game with a fish. fishing the nest at the right angle, finding the sweet spot, finding the right bait, learning to read the fish's body language, working them up, triggering them, using the male to get the female interested, bait and switch tactics, and when to set the hook. all those little but critical do's and don'ts will make you or break you with sight fishing. i know this will sound like a big fat DUH! to those who have been bed fishin' for a while, but maybe to those who are learning (like me) it will be helpful. good luck and please release 'em. dude you are my mentor. no kidding. at the beginning of the school year we had to write a role model essay, i wrote about you , you should also become a bass resource writer, you'd be good at it.

lol yeah thats what i was thinking and thats what made me want to take a pic of it (and set it as my desktop ;D)

i almost got excited, but thats not much of a deal, i can get em for a little bit less than that at dicks...

thats what i did. took a sharp box cutter and cut around the circumference of the handle where i wanted the two cork sections to remain. it helps if you select a spot in between two cork rings. then i ran the knife down the length of the section that i had cut. then i took pliers and just started tearing the cork off. then i sanded the glue off the bank, didnt work too well, what would work better is quickly giving it a few shots w/ the heat gun and then taking a dull knife and scraping the glue off. the i tapered the cork w/ a dremel tool.

great job! way to go!!!! too bad you couldnt get a picure. holding em is real easy. just grab em by the lip and hold em vertically. heres a link to a great reply on how to hold a bass: http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1207538665/0 take a look at reply #4 (by lowbudgethookers)

stock citica 100dsv on a 6'6" MM st. croix avid.

i have a 200D, and a 100DSV. i got the 200 before the 100, and after using the 100 i really wish i could trade in the 200 for a 100. the 200 is just TOO BIG and heavy for my hands... :-/ i use my 100 for cranking and love it so much!!!! i really dont see a need for a slow ratio for a cranking reel...i could understand if you did real deep cranking (15ft.+), but i never go deeper than 10 feet, usually in the topwater to 6 foot range. 6.2:1 is great for me!

i got my citicas set up w/ the 12 and 6 oclock brakes on, the rest off, and the spool tension set to where the lure falls somewhat fast and will get a minor over run if it hits the ground. when i have it set up like this, i dont need to thumb the spool on the cast at all except to stop it before it hits the water, and i am easily getting 80-100 feet on a cast. i like it the way it is set up, like roadwarrior said, it works for me!

self timer

jameson lake, left side

....pickerel: found that hanging in the brush by the boat ramp at a local lake. its been there for a while (as you can see) but i just felt like taking a picture of it saturday. enjoy ;D

well, i bought my first st. croix avid back in November, and i have fished with it many times, but i just recently caught my first fish on it. im a few days late on this post, but i caught this bass on a wacky rigged 5" *** (smoke red pepper) in 3 feet of water on my not so new avid 7' MF. about an hour before i caught that bass, i caught a crappie on a Rapala DT-06 but that was on my other avid (crankbait rod) which i have caught many fish on already.

way to go paul!!! care to enlighten us on your new triggering techniqe

which album, St. Anger?

nice belt ;D

what is really great about their later works (st. anger especially) is the emotion that hetfield puts into the lyrics. in the earlier stuff, he had mainly a higher, faster pitched tone that didnt vary much. but in the later albums, he had more emotion and the lyrics are more powerful. IMO. but i dont care what anyone says, i love all the albums from Kill 'Em All to St. Anger .