No, not a bucketmouth, an actual bucket. The same bucket I've been casting to since I arrived in Iraq. I can't complain too much because I haven't been skunked in four months. That old bucket is pretty easy to pattern (I can sight fish year round) and willing to bite on anything I throw at it. The only problem is that she never puts up much of a fight!

You could paint a stripe on its side!

Years ago, when I was cooped up one winter , I made a bass from an old sheet; sewed and stuffed it and then painted it with watercolor. I used a cardboard tube section for an open mouth. With fabric in the mouth I could cast and hook it. Is there any limit to obsession? ;D

Oh yeah...no there appears to be no limit in sight: I'd take a heavy spin-cast set up I had and tie a rag to the 20# mono and cast it in the yard for the dogs to chase. We had two: a Corgi, that fought like a bullhead, and a Borzoi (a greyhound variation) that fought like a sailfish! She could really get that drag singing! And she jumped and bucked like...a sailfish!

Cripe...here's another. I'd make a weighed "mouse" from a piece of fake fur, hide in the bushes, and cast it out onto the snow for red-tailed hawks. The best I ever got were a couple fly-by's.

Seriously, stay safe. The bass will be here when you get back.

Oh yeah, there was a thread here on fishing in Iraq. Lots of neat and strange fish the GI's were catching. Might want to search it. Maybe you'll stumble in on something you didn't know was there.

That was me that posted the iraq fishing site.  Look up the Baghdad School of Flyfishing on google and it should pop right up.  I was at Speicher and had nowhere to fish so I know how bad it gets man!  Be safe and hurry home!

BassinSoldier, that is an awesome site!

Must have been one heck of a fight.