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i'd like to share my true story about a big black cat. They are in MO, and they are as real as you and I. When I was in second grade(back in the early 80's) I was at a family friends farm out in the woods playing with their kids who were also my age. We went on quite an adventure that day and wound up getting turned around and I guess you could say "lost" in the woods. While trying to find our way back we came to an open field and saw a HUGE black cat maybe 100' away. We all froze because none of us had ever seen a "kitty cat" that big , but the cat didn't spook. Instead it raised it's tail, and walked slowly away from us ,then stopping and looking back. Then it just sat down and stared at us for a few seconds. Then it started the slow walk away while looking back again with it's tail high in the air. So, being naive kids we were we followed it never once being afraid,or feeling threatened in any way. Well, we followed it, all the way back to the farm road! Then watched it jump completely over that dirt road back into the woods. This was no house cat. It cleared the road in one leap! We told our parents what had happened and they already knew about a black cat that lived on the property, but it was the first time anybody had seen it during the day.

went to a couple places where I saw zebras in Nov. last year. the area in spring creek was free and clear, not a single zebra anywhere another place was just up the lake from spring creek toward Theo., and there were 0 . not 1 empty shell, like they were never even there

I usually find some with red on them every November. if anybody likes/wants the skirt, I can make more. tickle or full

tennis elbow, that's why i don't jig spoons as much as i used too.

wonder if we'll see a crawfish population explosion with these zebras, don't they eat zebras too?

if i knew 25 years ago what i know now, I would have sat down in the boat more while fishing all these years, and watched the junk food. decades of being heavy, and standing while fishing contributed my trouble. My knees,lower back,hip. I'm not even "over the hill" yet.... I'm a lefty .so it was natural to stand on my left leg, while running the troller off and on with the right foot. Sometimes 12 or more hours a day for several days in a row. Never once considering the damage I could be doing to my body . All those rough boat rides, and chocolate chip cookies over the last few decades have done have not helped. Now there's nerve damage in my left hip area and lower back,and the cartilage is about all gone in my knees.Especially the left one.The day I fell down in the boat when my left knee buckled from a boat wake i did not see coming told me something was not right. After a few xrays and scans it was crystal clear what else was causing the prob. Now i eat less, and fish from a seated position for the last few years but the pain is still there. I can do a full day of fishing from a seat ok, . If i try to stand and/or run the trolling motor, within 15 minutes my nerve pain bothers me until i sit back down. I only experience these problems if i try to stand and fish in that position out of a boat. ohteriwse I'm pain free.

just started seeing them around the Theodosia Marina area last year. Not that thick , but there are some. North of the hwy 160 bridge , no.

thanks Ham

looking for one with or without a motor/trailer tiller model preferred a 14'v bottom boat that looks and is set up like in the picture

shallow , deep , that's what I like about fall fishing

2 words we should add to our Fall fishing vocab... lipless crankbaits

really appreciate the report alnt, ty i was out yesterday after lunch for 4 hours in Big Ck. , bass were schooling on top all afternoon picked up a lipless crankbait and threw it the entire time with very good results I found out you can't reel a lipless crank with an 8.1 ratio reel faster than a bass can swim,lol bone jarring strikes!

TrophyFishR check your messages 4, size 130 whopper ploppers ,htf colors http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/221919906040?

I've been using the Vexilar T-pod for about a year now. It's been reliable and is simple to operate w/ my phone. I used it quite a bit last winter while fishing from the bank and it is very useful.

yes,buy one if you can. I wish I would have back in 09 when I first saw them,but I thought it was pretty goofy too finally got some 130's earlier this year, the first bass I caught with one weighed 5-11 imo the 130 needs 1 size bigger treble hooks then the lure sits lower in the water , has even more "plop",and fish were hooked much better

get one if you can have had some very good results with this lure too. I like one size bigger hooks on the 130

i think they may get even more bites when they look all beat up idk, but you could put some hard as nails fingernail polish on it would help

red eye (assuming you mean red eye shad)have been catching very good numbers on Bull shoals for the last few weeks just about all of my silver sexy shads looking like bad to the bones now this is what a new red eye looks like after fishing it 2 days at Bull, 150+ bass

nice !

the 74 pics of Clunn is pretty neat

Clunn is going to plop some whoppers on the scales today

good luck man, hope you get into them !

wow, I just looked at the leader board. is that right? just 3 bags over 14lb . just hope the rest of the field figures out what they need to do to put some weight in the boat today (i can hear the excuses echoing right now, high pressure, bluebird sky, east wind, cold front, caught a bunch of keepers during practice .....)

a couple of fat one's from Sunday