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Champ you are exactly right and it's why I love fishing the white river lakes so much. It's the very best playground for fishermen to master so many different techniques.

Nice day! My kind of fishing, where deep water is 10 feet.

I couldn't tell. I turned him loose pretty quick and let him finish his meal.

Caught my third keeper on topwater around 10:00am and then switched to a Bagley DBIII. I fished very shallow and churning up mud with the crankbait on 20lb clear Big Game. You have to make them react to the bait. The deep diver in shallow water tends to do some crazy things.

I followed the large shad schools up the James on Saturday and had 6 quality keepers on topwaters and cranks. I almost went to Baxter and ran up the White River because I was afraid the James might get muddy but it never did. The bite was really good from about 8:00 am-1:00 pm.

Great report! Lake level 914.6 ?

I agree 100% with the above statement.

I think ever since Takahiro Omori won the classic on a Bagley BB2 square bill a lot of people forgot about how effective cranking the DB 2 and DB 3 can be in very shallow water. Bare, no nothing looking banks with no visible cover are sometimes the best. The bottom is what is constantly causing the deflection and not necessarily the cover. A BB2 square bill just moseying through the water column with nothing to bang it off of doesn't get much of a reaction.

Question....Does it need the props on it to be effective or can they be removed? I've never thrown a regular stick bait with props. What purpose does it serve? In extreme clear water you wouldn't think you would need the extra attraction.

That freak should be made to clean it up with his bare hands. Glad they caught him!

I like deep cranking in "shallow" water (May-late Oct.) A Bagley DBIII churning up mud triggers strikes more often than a squarebill ever will. My favorite color #79

I don't feel bad about buying anything if I can afford it. I don't base my guilt of buying or not buying on what others are spending. Bottom line for me is if I spend too much on fishing lures or equipment, it means I can only look at them.... and won't have enough money to put gas in the tank to go try them on the weekend. That's pretty much the bottom line for me. I'd rather be on the water than sitting home in the garage looking at all the new lures I've purchased. My last purchase was a $15 rod at the outlet. It's a 7'10" m/h split grip, light as a feather no name rod that feels absolutely amazing and I have it coupled with a $25 half price Academy H2O Mettle reel. $40 combo vs. the $350 Falcon/Lews combo I would love to own, means more time on the water. I'm proud of that rod and may even post pics later!!

When a bait works like it's advertised I don't have a problem paying the higher price especially when there is nothing else that will compete with it. What I have a problem with is when other bait companies see this huge price increase and decide their $2.99 bait should now be $7.99 and base it solely on the fact that we'll pay it. I guess it's why I'm more in to crappie fishing than ever before because it's affordable! I just have to find ways to make bass fishing more affordable.

You say line doesn't matter, and then give two examples where it does....

I agree with you...same goes for deer hunters who hang a stand on public land and only hunt one weekend out of the entire season but leave their stands up Sept. - Jan. They must be labeled in the same manner as well.

Best value in spinning line available. I would pay more as well but don't tell BPS that. The BPS outlet has jumbo spools on sale.

If they're labeled I don't touch them. If they're not and I hang up on it it's getting cut and rolled up every time. If you want to keep it, label it, otherwise I consider it trash. Same as finding old fishing line.

If I find unmarked trotlines I cut them, roll them up and throw them away. I get tired of hanging cranks on them.

Adding 6ft to the lake is not good especially from k dock up to the pot hole. I really like it when those big stumps in front of k dock and snap have just a couple feet of water on top of them.

Never pass up someone on the water in need. I pulled a ski boat in at state park earlier this summer. They wrapped the ski rope around the prop several times and it was getting late and no one on the boat had a cell phone.

I got my invite...my only complaint would be to lower the power pool back to 654.

I don't believe I said I expected anything. The bigger the crowds get on TR the more this kind of regulation will be the norm.

They were not letting swimmers in because the parking lot was full but you could go through the barricade and use the launch ramp. It was a huge pain in the rear after I turned my rig around twice before I finally talked to a park ranger and figured it out. Really poor setup on their part.

I really wouldn't mind paying the yearly fee if they would at least keep the courtesy docks up to snuff. I swear some of the screws and sharp metal hanging off those things will tear a boat up. I wish they would put a larger one in at mill creek that had stalls parallel to the bank and didn't face out into the main lake.

http://www.bassmaster.com/blog/count-me-among-swing-jig-believers?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter Mark Davis really opened the eyes of a lot of fishermen on the rock including KVD's.