fishinwrench

I only throw the solid colored ones with painted lips (the plastic on those is bone white, not clear) and the new ones catch fish just as good as the old ones do.....as far as I can tell. My neighbor still has some old ones he throws, and I put it on him the other day, so.....

The invisibility thing is hogwash. I can see flouro just as easily as I can mono, and so can a fish. The sinking thing is hogwash. If you think your crankbait runs deeper with flouro then you're crazy. The More Sensitive thing is hogwash too. If your line has to stretch before you feel something then your nerves are dead. The Abrasion Resistance thing is real, and IMO it's the only TRUE reason to use flouro or flouro coated lines.

The reason I prefer Co-poly over 100% flouro is because once flouro gets stretched it starts acting weird, and nothing can straighten it out again. For whatever reason the Co-poly that I use doesn't do that. Abrasion resistance is a big thing with me because I pitch under and over dock cables alot. But I can't stand a line that is really stiff.

Maybe I freaked out for nothing. Hope so. But it took me 4 trys to order some last week.

We never even got a decent gust at my place. I'm glad too because I have a whole yard full of boats here.

They look a little light in their loafers, but worth a try I reckon.

In "clear blue florescent"? Alot of places say they have it....But watch what happens when you submit your order !

If you don't like it I'll buy it from you.

Call Chris Embry 573-280-9246 and tell him Glen Sims sent you. Good dude, does great work, shows up when he says, and is a hell of a fisherman.

At Tan Tara? No I don't think so, not close to where you'll sleep. They have security though so if there's someplace you can drop the boat and plug in a charger you shouldn't have to worry (too much) about theft. Call and ask.

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Some of my very best friends are guys that I once had a heated pissing match with on a fishing or outboard tech forum. The key is to never get pissed and just leave. All fights eventually end, and most end in peace.

We hit Alhonna last July on the night of the full moon and caught three 4 pounders. Came back a couple hours later about 1:30am and got 2 more. One we suspected was one we caught earlier. No 2-3 or 5's....All right at 4#. The year before we hit RedOak 2 days after the Fall bash and blanked. Only a couple shorts. My partner hit it again a couple days later and still didn't score.

All a release boat does is keep fish from piling up at weigh-in locations. Every release boat operation I know of never traveled much more than 5 miles from the scales.

The only studies I'm aware of were done on some relatively small natural bowl shaped lakes up north where if a fish just cruised along the shoreline for a couple days it would end up back where it was caught. A bass doesn't have the homing instinct to just head out over and across the main channel. If a bass from Buck Creek is released straight across the lake at Alhonna it is going to have to swim 1200 miles of shoreline to get back there. If you put your dog in the truck and drive from Sunrise beach to Lake Ozark do you think the dog knows that all he has to do to get back home is swim straight across the lake? Noway.

The Ghost http://mannsbait.com/product/all-lures-and-baits/ghost/ You can also shove a Zara Puppy up inside a flippin' tube.

My thoughts aren't being very well received by alot of my customers but I'm not gonna shut up about it because when the day comes that I am done working on their boats I am still gonna be fishing. Largemouth Bass, by nature are home range critters that typically live their entire lives within a couple square miles or less. When you take a fish from Jackson branch and release it at Alhonna or PB2 (or anywhere else for that matter) that fish is totally lost. It doesn't know where the good cover or ambush spots are, or anything. Imagine if you were plucked from your home town, blindfolded, and dumped in a faraway town where you've never been before. You don't know where the grocery store is, and even if you did you gotta have money....so finding a new job and place to sleep is priority one. Your only hope is to follow someone else around until you can start to figure things out. And then just when you finally start to get a grip on your new pattern of life.....Boom, you eat a freakin jerkbait and get dumped in yet another foreign town and have to start from scratch all over again. Ain't that a kick in the nutts? Largemouth bass can't live like largemouth bass anymore. Because of this constant relocation they are being forced to live like anadromous stripers. Constant roamers that are always lost and near impossible to pattern. You just gotta find schools of them offshore. Face it, when 40 boats can go out and everyone can find schools of 5+pounders..... That's not Largemouth bass behavior, that's Striper behavior. Those are fish that have schooled up because they are LOST. A few tournaments per year would be no big deal. Even once a month wouldn't be so bad. But for the love of God is anyone else keeping track of the number of tournaments being held on every lake in the country on every weekend and several evenings during every week ? It is way past time to start considering alternative ways to score all of these events, because this constant shuffling of keepers is just wrong. We have the technology available to catch-score-release. Nobody needs to see you on a stage parading around and drying out two fistfuls of big bass. Grow up, get a life, and start caring more about the fish you love to catch and less about your gay little dream of being the next KVD. Sorry, but that's the way I feel about it. There are too many fish being relocated over and over and over again, just for your entertainment. It was cool when it wasn't happening every single day, but it's not cool anymore. And no, post tournament "release boats" are not the answer. Immediate release in the same area where the fish are caught is the answer.

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It never fails. Once I get hooked on a certain bait, reel, rod, line.... anything......it immediately becomes the hardest thing in the world to find.

Excellent!

Can you even imagine how good it would be lakewide if all these tournament hotshots weren't constantly abducting all the keepers and taking them to the fish trafficking location? More than 200 5+pounders relocated and dumped in PB2 cove this weekend. And it happens 2-3 times per week all year long.

They are legit, I order from them often. Never a prob.

Bass fishing capital of the Midwest right here. No denying it.

Yep, I use it. It is a bit sketchy on Lake O (as are all topo mapping programs and paper maps). There is alot of stuff it doesn't show, and in some cases it shows drastic details of things that don't even exist. But it is still better than nothing.

Good job! You whipped my butt. I grabbed my neighbor and we got launched about 12:30. I checked the flats (48.7°) and caught several shorts but it just wasn't happening. Moved to some steeper banks near the flat and caught a 3lber right away slow rolling a Spinnerbait, then it was dink city with about a dozen 10-12 inchers along the same stretch of bank. Made a move to a windy bank that usually holds a few and I blanked on the first pass with a Wiggle Wart, but my buddy caught a couple shorts on a jerkbait, so I made another pass slow rolling the Spinnerbait and picked up another solid one just under 3lbs. I got sick of fighting the wind and ran to a calm steep bank at the edge of a large shallow flat and by then we had water that was right at 50°. Another dozen shorts between us and one more keeper on the Spinnerbait there. Moved back into the wind and I fumbled a 2+ pounder at the boat and caught a couple more dinks. That was it for us. I didn't even break 10lbs.