.dsaavedra.

feels great to finally get baitcasters under your belt, doesn't it? congrats. keep at it and get better and better!

;D i lol'd when i read that, bizz. those are some huge freakin walkers. good luck with them...post a pic of a few lunkers caught on them puppies!

lol. see....i have a problem. i love making bait bodies, im pretty good at it too. but when it comes to installing hardware, i kill the bait. and im not so great at painging, but i can do a photo finish pretty well. so the beginning and end of the process are ok with me, its the middle where its most important and where i always messs up. so what i think i might do is take a few of my factory baits and just do a photo finsh on them. might turn out cool! i'll post pics if i get around to it.

i like this pic alot. i ran outside in bare feet to snap this pic when i woke up before a fishin trip: i also like this one, cuz im all bundled up and cold but im happy cuz i got a nice bass. this is also the same bass thats in m avatar (the avatar is the release photo)

here is a non-functional bait (line tie is crooked, lip is crooked and too far back, belly hook is too far back, doesnt swim well at all) that i made a while back. even though it doesnt swim i think it looks pretty. the sides are a photo finish of a black nosed dace (minnow i found in my creek, so i decided to make a bait out of it) and the top is my poor painting skills trying to blend in with the photo finish. tell me what you think!

that is a snazzy bait my friend!!!!! it would look very snazzy with a photo finish. you could find a pic of a fish and then do a photo finish of that fish onto your lure it would definitley be a winner. that lure really has a profile of a yellow perch. a baby bass would also be great for that lure. maybe even a trout? shad patterns are pretty classic and work well everywhere even where there are no shad. you can PM me if you are interested in the photo finishing process.

nice stuff. whats the action on those bad boys?

oh and in the rare case that someone BREAKS their state record, what happens? do they get a special prize?

ok well im still in. IM IN LARGEMOUTH DIVISION! MY ENTRY FEE: this is a my best avid photo. its dark, over exposed, way too high contrast, and severely blurry. my body is also halfway cut off thanks to my dads skillful photography( : ) and the fish is being held vertically to boot! a perfect match!

glad mine got there alright. i got about another month maybe a month in a half before the fishing picks up again. take your time.

i was suprised to see this thread at the top. i thought it died a while ago.

time to upgrade my spinning rig. i was thinking about getting a shimano symetre spinning reel and putting it on a st. croix premier. i would be using it for mainly weightless soft plastics and lighter baits like that. i guess you could call it a finesse combo. well is this a good combo for what i will use it for? do you need more info about what im using it for? are there any more good combos in this price range? i really dont want to spend more than $100 each for the rod and reel. thanks guys

i make one like that except smaller. mine is bass sized: that fly is definitley not worth 50 dollars

yup i learned that the hard way too :

i never could understand why people whack the water to get weeds off.....it damages lures AND scares fish.

thanks for the responses

true dat. that wouldnt be impossible, it would take alot of time, patience and material. another bad thing about that fly is it would float on top. probably on its side ontop. that is unless it has some weighting system that i dont see.

is there a special kind of knot to use for big lines (20lb mono)? i tried tying my normal knots and they werent working.

ok thanks guys. not sure if there is a hole but im pretty sure there is. i'll have to look when my dad gets home from work.

my screen name has changed since the last time we had one of these chats. its now dsaavedra0

ok...thats what i meant...more to lil johnny. i'll have to look up some lil johnny jokes. suprised i havent heard them before :

set up an account at www.photobucket.com and then upload your picture there and then copy where it says "Direct URL" on the photo on photobucket and then come here and paste that url into the box where it says "have your own pic"

biggest bass on bass resource: ;D WRB, yeah we want pics of your massive fish!!!!!! hawg caller also has a 14lb something fish that should be noted.

who is little johnny? that was a good joke even if there is more to it

my dad has a year 2000 nissan frontier pickup truck and it is a small truck and it doesnt have a trailer hitch. the other day i say a 16' jon w/ a 6hp motor and it came on a trailer for $1,1000. i was gonna think about buying it but was curious if you could tow a small boat lke that without a hitch. how would you do that if you could? thanks.