Bass Opener?

[The Urban Fisherman]

awesome read - I'd rather be able to write like that than catch big giant fish any day....wellllllll......maybe not, but writing never really was my strong suit... come to think of it catching big giant fish on a regular basis isn't exactly my "forte" neither... I blame the writing issues on growing up bilingual.... 1 second it's french and the next it's english...

 

thanks for the read dude!

[JohnF]

awesome read - I'd rather be able to write like that than catch big giant fish any day....wellllllll......maybe not, but writing never really was my strong suit... come to think of it catching big giant fish on a regular basis isn't exactly my "forte" neither... I blame the writing issues on growing up bilingual.... 1 second it's french and the next it's english...

 

There's something else I envy - anyone who's multilingual. I've had students who would apologize for their problems with English. When I asked one girl how many languages she spoke she started rattling 'em off. She could read and write four. She said she knew others but only to converse. I can order a beer (or two or three) in French, Spanish and German and that's it for my linguistic ability.

 

JF

[Moosebunk]

John,

It's too bad you don't go fishing because you can write a helluva great report.

-Brian

 

Yep.

 

Hold the bass tight for an hour until it breathes it's last breath. Then, get to work on removing the hook from you thumb.

 

Or, don't use Rapala's.

[ccmtcanada]

So you have like a little tin can with a hole punched in the end slid over yer line?

 

And I gotta ask - Do the fish whisper when they answer?

 

JF

 

You've seen the pics...LOL. I tell them that I'm going to release them and that I'll do what I can to make it painless for them....no tin can....just hold the line and the vibrations from your voice are carried to the water. They usually respond...and I give them a little extra worm just before the release. It's a win-win situation really.

[JohnF]

I tell them that I'm going to release them and that I'll do what I can to make it painless for them....

 

You sound just like my dentist, but he doesn't give worms.

 

JF

[Sugarpacket]

BBR and I were sitting here fumin since we just had someone post a poaching report on our board good read tho!! Maybe if you fished as much as you write you would catch something big!! lol just kidding!! hope you can post that again with it being the actual thing!!!

[ron_o]

John, Dude. Awesome storytellin'. i could visualize the entire thread.

I have the same problem with fish mocking my lures but find fishing with someone experienced helps. If nothing else, you can always say 'we' caught something (or not).

Cheers,

Ron O

[JohnF]

That has to be the most well written ( I swore I was reading something off the Magazine rack, at the drugstore) piece of fish porn report ever conceived!

At the beginning you mention the sharpening of the hooks.

I am always repeating that like it was a mantra.

( Did I mention I liked it?)

 

Aw shucks, thanks. But I'm pretty sure you don't get fiction in the fish porn mags. Truth is harder to do well. My way it's just a matter of invention. That story wouldn't be nearly as good with a 10 inch smallie now, would it?

 

I'm going to that same pool on opening day so here's hoping that that PB is waiting for me. I'm working at erasing the hookage from the visual though.

 

Either way, I'll do a report, an honest one, with pics even. It's a pretty little pool in the evening, and it definitely holds bass.

 

JF

[Greencoachdog]

Bass are soooooo overrated!

[JohnF]

Bass are soooooo overrated!

 

Ya run what ya brung.

 

I know that wasn't meant to apply to fishing, but I said it anyway. Bass are what we got, or carp, or suckers, with the odd stinky little pike in the mix, just enough of them to make it tough to know whether or not to use a leader.

 

JF