OhioFisherman

I got no clue, the skin I am in?

Stunt woman on ABC?

LOL baloon tires, wonder if that rascal will float? Just my thinking a new boat would have been a better re-tirement plan! Thanks peoples! You just never know? LOL

http://www.spinlife.com/Pride-Legend-XL-4-...productID=72141, dang! might have to dress it up like Terry`s 4 wheeler? Camo wasn`t an option! LOL

Great news! My best friend`s youngest son was an Army Ranger and got to visit there a few times, much better to have him safe back here!

Congrats to you and the family Kirk!

LOL Brian, you want me to fall on you? Buddies from a Ford car family, he rags on my GM products, me on his Found On the Road DeadS.

Sorry to hear it Cliff, never liked the office side of jobs, usually more back-stabbing than a knife fight.

Another example that Fords are for people that can`t spell Chevrolet?

Dang! I haven`t bought bait in a while.LOL

Kennyman, that is part of it, trying to determine how aggressive the fish are on any particular day. I fish slow until I make contact with the fish, my boat is usually the slowest in the tournies I fished, and most of the spots had been hit before I got there. Everyone else is run and gun, me just poke along so a different approach. What is around you is important, so is what others are doing at times, pulled on spots other guys had already fished using search baits, eg. cranks, spinnerbaits, buzzbaits and not had any luck and we have caught some good fish, they just weren`t real aggressive. Swimming the worms and lizards can be a timing thing, you want the bait to just tick the tops or swim thru submerged weeds, if the weeds are too thick there are better ways to go about it. I fish the worms and lizard with a 1/8 ounce weight a lot, you have to keep it pretty slow to keep it down and in contact. Don`t get locked into one speed until you are sure it is working well for you though, and the speed of the feed can vary thru the day. Confidence in what your doing comes with time on the water and seeing what has worked in the past, being alert to what the fish are doing and trying to adapt. Getting out with different people and seeing how they approach a day on the water helps, a lot of different ways to fish the water. Nite time can be a blast.

LOL experiance? Ya I am a geezer! Go to baits or at least starting out baits for me are a little different for largemouth than smallies. For largemouth usually a 6 inch worm or 6 inch lizard, mostly Zooms for me but other brands at times. I use the Zoom SS+ u-tail worm, first choice in color is Junebug for me on both, the worm is a thinner worm but effective, the lizard is a bulkier package I use it to try an get a bigger fish, it works for any though. Second choice a lighter shade of the same baits, watermelon seed or watermelon blue glitter. I also use tube for largemouth but mostly for smallies, a good choice if the lake you are fishing has both. Green Pumkin is probably my first choice on the tubes, 3 1/2 or 4 inch, I use white ones with silver glitter a lot also, browns are also good. If there isn`t a lot of hard cover, wood, docks ect. and the weeds aren`t to thick you can fish the lizards and worms on a ball or mushroom head jig(swimming), weedless or with the hook exposed. Texas style rigging works for either, also carolina style. Tubes with a jig insert hook or tex-posed, I have also used them carolina rigged. The tubes are a nice tight package for under docks and around cover. The lizards can be rigged texas style with a 4/0 or 5/0 hook and no weight and swum over weeds and lilies. Lots of ways to fish them all, you need confidence in them to stick with it. For walleye I have had better luck with grubs on a ball head jig or the white tube on lake erie, I don`t usually fish for walleye, just incidental catches while after smallies, steelhead take them too.

LOL another in the mail today, Cabela`s anglers catalog. Dang like I fish?

Kenneyman, a lot of it is a confidence in the bait deal, I have easily had much better days using soft plastics for bass than live bait. Also had days when everything, walleye, panfish, pike seemed to want them too. The live bait wasn`t allowed in bass tournaments, and hardbaits aren`t always the best choice for a situation. Take some time with them or get someone that uses them to take you out, they can make a believer of you.

Just my advice, don`t play around with a cold or the flu too long. If it persists get your butt to the doctor and make sure what is going on. My story, a cold or the flu in Feb. 2003 , typical guy, go to the doc for a cold or flu. No! tough it out take a few days off work don`t whine it will get better, LOL. Mine didn`t, got worse, diagnosed with Mononucleosis April 2003 and it`s been downhill since then. Now I have Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis, no sign of it or anything else before the cold? No clue on the trigger of it but I probably didn`t do myself much good trying to tough it out. I had all the symptoms of a bad cold at the start, you don`t want to be like me!

Just my thinking that anything over 5 to 1 is good enough, I use older shimanos a lot( like 4.7 to ) I don`t think I have anything faster than 6 to 1. Might want to go with the 200 series curado for the next reel though just a little bigger and maybe stronger for bigger pike

No problem Glen, usual mix of tackle in the catalog, some catalog only deals. Hooked, I already got the Master catalogs from BPS and Cabelas, a saltwater catalog too from one of them. This was a smaller sale catalog.

Ice? only in my drinks! Glad nobody was hurt!

20 million for a fishing site? that`s crazy! LOL

Got mine Friday, there are some deals depending on what your looking for, like 72 bags of assorted strike king tube tech plastic baits for 35.28 Cabelas rods buy 1 get 1 free, including some muskie rods.

Don`t worry be happy! LOL I am never grumpy!

Interesting poll for more than one reason, ya most plastics are garbage when your done with them dispose of properly. Surprising the number of people that don`t have much faith in them, I don`t go fishing without them.

I have a 17 foot side console with a 35 hp, the boat is rated for a 60hp so I am just under 2/3. It is not fast, older style only 73 inches wide. Most of my fishing was on Lake Erie or the tributaries and inland lakes, a few trips to the Georgian Bay. It worked, had to keep a close eye on the weather, and yes I should have got a bigger motor. It was easy to take were I wanted to go, the one your looking at will work. JMO it`s not what your out there in, it`s what you do when your out there.

If the head is torn up on things like lizards or 6 inch worms I will break the torn up part off and fish them on a jig head like a grub or trailer.

Unionism born out of communism? I guess that is one way of looking at it, sort of like our Union of states? We got tired of unfair taxation and had a little revolution? LOL Actually if you wait for your employer to better your standard of living it might be a long wait. Even when Henry Ford raised the Auto workers pay to 5 dollars a day he had reasons behind it. He couldn`t keep employees, employee turn over was near 50%, and there were standards you had to meet to get that pay, a social engineering project. China probably doesn`t have that problem, show up here, work, or don`t eat, if that doesn`t work we have stronger measures. Not a communist myself, and from what I have seen and read there hasn`t really been any true communist countries, just people fighting for control and calling it that. Great debate though, you can disagree, and stay civil, LOL and friends. Most of us are stuck with what happens around us.