Olebiker

I find it hard to believe that noone has mentioned the end of Dr. Strangelove:

If, when I die, I fetch up to the pearly gates I am going to ask St. Peter if there are pdf files in Heaven. If there are I ain't going in.

I'm a little late to the discussion, but I would like to give you one bit of advice. If you choose to get into MLM the only friends you will have left after a little while are the people in your upline or downline. Everyone else will avoid you and run when they see you coming. I'm an old guy who has seen this happen time and time again.

Yeah, I don't trust much of anything Hannon says. He still won't respond to questions on Youtube about the "pending world record topwater bass."

Johnny Rivers - Rewind

As the weather starts to get cooler I will put a bag full of dry clothes in the boat. I recently bought a waterproof box to put in the boat. As soon as I get in the boat my wallet and cell phone go in there. I sweat enough during the day to completely soak whatever is in my wallet.

Bass fishing is like a game of baseball. It's hard to get up a game tomorrow if you kill all the losers today. We all live downstream from someone.

Start by going to a bike shop. You can't get a decent bike at WalMart or Target. As someone else mentioned, don't worry about full suspension until and unless you really get into the sport.

I'm fishing a tournament on Lake Jackson here in Tallahassee tomorrow. I expect to throw a Zoom Horny Toad most of the day. The lake is shallow and almost covered in vegetation.

I broke off a fish on the hookset last spring. I came back to the same spot about 30 minutes later and caught a fish. He still had my lizard and hook in his mouth.

I can't say that I have ever had a problem with tournament fishermen encroaching on my water. It's the bream (bluegill) fishermen around these parts that just can't seem to understand that you need to give other fishermen room. There is one old man on Lake Talquin that has twice pulled in within 30 feet of me. Both times I asked him what he thought he was doing and all he would say is, "Dis is my bream hole."

I have two Premiers that I bought for about $90 each. I would not pay more than that for a new one, but I do like the two I have. I have had to replace the tip on one. The insert fell out.

Mom used to say that they didn't have cholesterol when she was a kid. If they did her mother would have fried it in some lard and served it for dinner.

That's about how I do it.

Clif bars and Gatorade.

What passes for deer hunting today would get you locked up when I was a younger fella.

Very interesting company, I'm looking to replace mine The windshield they made to replace mine is much better quality than the original.

You can get a whole new windshield made by Custom Mold and Tint. They do a great job at a very reasonable price.

Go with the Maxxum digital model and you will never regret it. I went from an Edge to a Maxxum and the infinitely variable speed control is fabulous.

I have a 1984 Bass Tracker Tournament TX that is still watertight. Put it in the water and test it before you buy it, though.

When I started fishing in the 1960s people would have thought you to be out of your mind if you threw a legal fish back. Today the thought of killing a bass is anathema to most bass fishermen. This is largely a result of BASS's Don't Kill Your Catch initiative beginning in the 1970s. The mortality rate of tournament caught bass is much lower than that of fish taking a swim in hot Crisco. I have never had as much trouble with bass fishermen, specifically tournament fishermen, intruding on the spot where I am fishing as I have with bluegill and crappie fishermen. Tournament fishermen seem, as a general rule, to be much more aware that their behavior on the water is being scrutinized and seem to go out of their way to share the water. I have never considered fishing to be the contemplative activity that some elitists like Dave Whitlock, as quoted in the most recent Field & Stream magazine, think it should be. If that's how they want to approach it that's fine with me, it's just not what I want out of the sport. There are more people fishing for bass than I can ever remember, but I can never remember bass fishing being as good as it is today. One more thing, when was the last time you saw an empty live bait box left on the bank by a tournament fishermen?

Don Williams Good Old Boys Like Me is just about my favorite song of all time Tom T. Hall was also one of my favorites because he could tell a great story with a song like The Year Clayton Delaney Died

This is the best way to do that I have found. Several members of our club have vehicles that you must use the mirrors to back a trailer. I looked like an idiot trying to back their trailers in until a friend taught me this method.

My favorite show was The American Sportsman. It had people like Grits Gresham and Curt Gowdy along with some celebrity outdoorsmen like Bing Crosby and Phil Harris.

I would love to meet you and Greg. We could share stories about Kentucky. I was born in Edmonson County.