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Not all fluorocarbons are created equal. The cheaper ones have less "feel" than the premium lines.

I think he cleared all of the waypoints except the ones in Aunts Creek.

Just going by bo's description. Can't see the actual color because there's no bluegill color anywhere on the website.

Does anyone besides Jason Essary fish the Friday/Saturday night derbies out of Mill Creek? Nothing like a set of tournament scales to settle the score. Might even sell some of those NuJigs.

abk, if you like 17-20 Trilene XL or Big Game for your mono needs, you might try the BPS Excel line. I was having some issues with P-Line breaking, not to mention the cost of it, so I decided to try a spool of the 17-pound Excel last year for throwing spinnerbaits/topwaters and found that I freakin' love it. Of course, can't get Big Game in 17 and 20 is just a bit bigger than I like for long casts. Anyway, that BPS Excel performs great and is cheap enough that you can change it whenever you want. However, I've had no issues with durability. Comes in clear and green. I prefer the latter.

You're not doing anything wrong, Alex. The fish are scattered from a foot to 30 feet or more, with many obviously suspended and swimming around with the shad. Hang in there and keep picking off those good ones.

Green pumpkin with blue and orange strands ... hmmm, sounds suspiciously like the Pond Scum Perch color that War Eagle introduced about 5 years ago.

I use a half-ounce jig nearly all of the time on 15-pound Trilene 100% Fluorocarbon in the green tint. There isn't a tougher or more sensitive fluorocarbon out there in my opinion.

That's a good-sized white bass and a heckuva lotta fun.

Mike, for your ringed swimbaits, take a look at Keitech's Silver Flash Minnow color. It has performed really well for me on Table Rock and Beaver, along with a guide friend that I shared it with on Broken Bow in Oklahoma. Great color.

For sale: 2013 Ranger Z119, Merc 225 ProXS ...

I can accept that, not knowing a LOT about the place.

Easy to sit on the sidelines, be bitter and throw rocks.

Just my opinion, but it seems pretty self-centered to want to deny these kids some Christian direction in life because this camp is somewhat in the neighborhood of your lakehouse. For Pete's sake, there are REAL CRIMINALS walking the streets all around you everyday and a heckuva lot more of them.

Item is sold.

Pretty animals.

The bottom line is you fish what works for you ... from a $4 Academy bait to a $20 (on up to $40) Megabass, and that differs from person to person and from day to day. Before anyone labels me a defender of the premium lures, I personally embrace the $7 Luck-E-Strike jerk baits, with some $12-$14 Spro McSticks sprinkled in. I do own some Megabass baits and I've had more quality problems with them than any other brand. A suspending jerk bait is a tedious creation and some never work right out of the package. I can understand how that can happen in mass production, although I can understand it a lot more at $7 a whack than $25.

Good job of hanging in there and earning some points.

Matt is a good hand. Hard to beat when he gets on them.

Are you sure that wasn't a big ol' slick that wandered down from Roaring River?

Worlds of shad + cool weather + high water = tough summer fishing. We all depend on the heat driving the shad down on the ledges and deep points, and the bass following them. What we don't count on is an overabundance of shad being scattered all over the lake with no thermocline, including a bunch of bushes that aren't normally in the water. Scattered shad mean scattered bass.

Any thermocline to speak of?

OK, good. It will fit. That's exactly the motor it came with. My last two trolling motors on the Champion were Tour Edition 82's. I can drop it off at HLS in Rogers if you like. Donna and I are playing golf this afternoon but you can catch me this morning or this evening on my cell at 479-601-4667.

Hey SoreThumbs, will give you a call tomorrow (Sunday). What model is your MotorGuide?

My suggestion ... get you a spinning rod with 6-pound line, a 3/16-ounce shaky head and a watermelon-red or watermelon candy finesse worm and start casting it around docks. You will get bit.