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i did and he has no clue what it is... anybody??? :-?

general, outing, and tackle 8-)

i had a rapala 15 lb digital scale and that thing was a POS. no matter what the weight was that i weighed, it was always a half pound off. so then i got a 50lb berkley digital scale for xmas, and it is dead on. i bought a bag of trailmix once and it had 1lb 12oz net wt. printed on the package, and when i weighed it on my berkley, it gave me exactly 1lb 12 oz thats pretty good for a $20 digital scale if you ask me.

here is a lure that i found in my dads tacklebox from when he was a kid. it has a crimped inline spinner blade in the front, a hollow frog type body in the middle, and a spinnerbait trailer type tail in the back. the whole thing is about 6 letter keys long (dont have a ruler handy ;D)

this is a pretty easy question but i dont really know the answer: at what depth do bass usually spawn? is water clarity anything to do with it? if so, then the water im referring to is pretty well stained. i always see bluegills on their beds in the spring/summer and they are in about a foot or less of water, but its always bluegills i see spawning, i NEVER see any bass on beds, i've only seen two or three. so are they spawning deeper where i cant see them? thanks guys.

wow cant find that bait anywhere. i have a bait that is pretty old, and i have NO CLUE what it is, hopefully someone here can identify it.

i will vouch for the rapala x-rap and rapala husky jerk. two excellent baits!

GREAT WAY OF PUTTING IT!!!! thankfully i dont lose too many lures :-? just doesnt seem to happen to me. pretty much the only time i lose lures is if im fishing from shore or if i cast into a tree. otherwise if im in my boat i can drive over to the lure and then drive the opposite direction that it got snagged and the lure will pop free. i remember once my dad was fishing one of my shad raps and it was a discontinued color, and he got snagged and went to back up the boat and his line went under the boat and the t-motor sliced right thru the line and my lure is still at the bottom of jameson lake :-[ i was pretty P.O.'d about that one.

what are the cranks (make and model) pictured in the second picture? i am in love with that silver shad colored crank in the second pic!

if you search "walmart pranks" on youtube or google you get tons of hilarious results. i would love to do this but i dont have the balls to do some of this stuff. i'd love to see people do it though ;D here is the forementioned baby got back video:http://youtube.com/watch?v=1GKaVzNDbuI

i own 2 shimano citicas and absolutley love them. best reel out there in the 100 dollar range in my opinion.

best sub 100 dollar rod i have fished with. im sure there are some rods under 100 bucks that are much better than the lightning rod (a few shimanos come to mind) but i have not fished with any of them so i can not comment on them. as for the lightning rod, it makes a pretty darn good plastics rod (thats what i use it for), as for crankbait, if you can find the right rod, then it should be good. not sure if they make them in moderate actions though. i would say get a ML power rod if you plan on using it for cranks. as for feel, they have alright feel. it is nothing like my st. croix rods, but it is certainly much better than my ugly stik. so its pretty good feel for a $40 rod. good at all? well if youre on a budget then i say GO FOR IT!!!

is there any kind of stream leading into this pond? if there is even the slightest stream; i mean a trickle of water flowing thru mud into the pond, then that is a "highway" for crawfish to get into the pond. i found a small beaver pond in my woods that had a super small stream flowing into it, and since it was in the middle of nowhere, it was obviously untouched. well i set out a minnow trap just to see if there was anything in it, i figured i'd get nothing. 3 days later i returned and found a few huge crawfish in it, about 30 huge bullfrog tadpoles, a couple water beetles, various insect nymphs/larvae about 7 newts, and 3 yellow spotted salamanders. so you'd be suprised in what lives in a supposedly "empty" pond. as for baits to fish, stick to the natural looking stuff cuz you have already had success with that. fish plastics and maybe a few silent crankbaits (rapala shad rap) since you said the fish are kinda spooky. even though there are no baitfish (which there may actually be, you just dont know it) the bass will still instinctivley hit crankbaits.

if you cant make it to the TV in time to catch the episode, www.southparkzone.com posts up full, un-edited, commercial free episodes the night they air. they have every single episode on there. ps. i cant wait to watch it! ;D

Rapala DT-FAT 07 and 03

parasite clip is by far the best option for your situation, unless youre crafty and could look at a picture of a parasite clip and make one out of a piece of wire (actually that wouldnt be too hard to do).

for me its usually a tap, or a tick-tick, with the ticks being softer than the taps. when i feel any kind of tick or tap on the end of the line WHEN IM NOT MOVING THE LINE then i will reel down and cross their eyes. sometimes i dont feel any bite but i see my line cruising around so i reel down and cross their eyes.

yum dinger all the way! i hate GYCB with a passion and will never buy any of their products (thats not something i go saying all the time cuz i dont like to start stuff up on here) but if i had a choice of any stickbait it would be the ***. its pretty much the same bait as the yum dinger, except a little softer, but it is a much greater value than the dinger.

my mom used to take me to the local park a few times each summer when i was younger for me to fish for some bluegills. well one day when i was fishing and i had a school of bluegills in front of me a big bass and i mean big, like 20 inches plus, just came in and ate one of the bluegills and the rest just scrambled. i had my dads tacklebox from when he was little with me and i started throwing out everything in there trying to catch it. so thats what inspired me to bass fish. then a few months later i went bass fishing the first time at a farm pond and caught my first bass, a 16"er that went about 2lbs. i was so happy that day. thats what got me hooked!

i fish a farm pond that is very similar in the fact that it has cold muddy water. there isnt much for cover in the farm pond since its pretty much just a pit that was bulldozed and filled in w/ water. and its very shallow as of last summer (deepest is about 4 feet). i have the most success in there throwing shad colored crankbaits. from my experiences/personal preference, the crankbaits have to rattle, but not obnoxiously, just a small ticking. my top producing cranks have been bandit footloose, rapala dt fat-03, and rapala dt-04. these three cranks have just the right depths for me, and just the right amount of rattle. good luck and tell us how you do!

thats a nice little boat you got there. what is that, a crawdad or something? how durable is it? i was considering one of those.

well as a result of me being bored this morning, i started tinkering w/ lures. the result: i used a bobbin threader (fly tying tool) to thread round rubber skirt material thru the senko. i used two pieces of skirt material for each set of legs (3 sets). this thing has very great wiggly action. i took a short video of the action, but its a pretty bad video and doesnt do a good job showing the action. anyway, i think im gonna give this modification a try and see how it preforms, you guys should do the same.

not any more : and i wouldnt believe him if he said inline spinner, you guys should hear some of the other baits he told me he caught it on ;D

johnson silver minnows are the only spoons i use for bass. alot of people like the old rapala spoons too.

thats not a youtube video, thats from photobucket. i have no idea how to get youtube videos to show up, it is probably something to do with the embedded stuff. to post a photobucket video on BR, just copy the "IMG Code" and paste it right into your reply.