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  1. Champ188
    Floating debris will be a very minor concern in the Indian Point (lower lake) area. Come on down, go fishing and flip some fish out of the bushes. Chances are you'll find both LM and SM in them. Flip a green pumpkin or watermelon candy tube or Sweet Beaver in there and hang on. Jig will work, too, although you may have a few more hang-up problems with it. Contrary to what you may have read on this forum, Table Rock's banks serve other purposes than just holding the water in.
  2. Champ188
    I don't see the place being used either. It's almost always a Saturday or Sunday when I'm on the lake and there's never more than a truck or two there and usually none.
  3. Champ188
    Posted this on the buy-sell-trade page but also wanted to put it here in case any of you guys are interested. Thanks ... New-in-box MotorGuide Gator Mount 20.8. FW (Fresh Water) mount for Tour edition MotorGuide trolling motors. Bought new trolling motor just before trading my Champion recently and just used the old mount. New boat has a Minn Kota trolling motor so I am selling the new MG mount. List price is $259 on the MotorGuide outlet store website. Will take $150. Includes mounting hardware. PM me if interested, please.
  4. Champ188
    New-in-box MotorGuide Gator Mount 20.8. FW (Fresh Water) mount for Tour edition MotorGuide trolling motors. Bought new trolling motor just before trading my Champion and used the old mount. New boat has a Minn Kota trolling motor so am selling the new MG mount. List price is $259 on the MotorGuide outlet store website. Will take $150. Includes mounting hardware. PM me if interested, please.
  5. Champ188
    Thanks for the report. Way to take one for the team.
  6. Champ188
    I'm like Phil on Duck Dynasty ... I think our youth are going soft and turning into a bunch of yuppies.
  7. Champ188
    Wayne, I'm talking about fishing in general losing participation. Many states across the country have reported declining license sales for both hunting and fishing over the last couple of decades. Obviously, license sales are a direct indicator for the sport in general.
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    I'd be interested to see some numbers on how many people are camping now vs. 20-30 years ago. I would bet the numbers are down significantly. Seems there is more development in terms of condos and lakehouses and fewer people towing campers and dragging tents to the lake. Certainly no shortage of drunken revelers out there in ski boats, wake boats, etc., but we do know from the stats kept by various fishing organizations that our own numbers are down and shrinking by the year.
  9. Champ188
    Thanks for keeping us up to date on the James River bite. And you are right about staying with your confidence baits. It's good to try new stuff or polish up on something you aren't very good at sometimes. But when you really need to catch em, better reach for what you believe in and stick with it.
  10. Champ188
    I wouldn't be so quick to say "forget" anything that rps advises. He has probably caught more and bigger walleye from The Rock than about anyone. He targets them and knows from whence he speaks.
  11. Champ188
    Glad you're getting another bass boat, Josh. I know you'll enjoy it.
  12. Champ188
    One thing about the new 2-strokes is they don't suck the gas and oil like they used to. I doubt if any of us could afford to fish the way we do now if we were running the old carbureted 150's that a lot of us used to have. I saw a HUGE improvement in fuel consumption when I bought my 2004 Champion with a 200 Merc Opti, and our fuel bill dropped even more last December when we bought the 2013 Ranger with a 225 Pro-XS. Just sayin, these new motors sure don't burn the juice like the old ones did.
  13. Champ188
    This reply is kind of irrelevant since most of us aren't deep-pocketed enough to own a 250 SHO. Even those of us with new ones have to settle for those ol' cheap 2-stroke black motors.
  14. Champ188
    Bella Vista to say, H ramp at Baxter and back, is around $50 in the truck. Add another $50 in gas and oil, even though I, too, am a 3,000-4,000 RPM guy. I use the brown Mercury DFI oil on my mechanic's recommendation, which runs a minimum of $30 a gallon in new jugs (nowhere to buy it in bulk around here). So there went a Ben Franklin, plus whatever eats and treats me and Donna may consume along the way.
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    Absolutely, undeniably out of control.
  16. Champ188
    Very well written, Phil. Enjoyed the read. Bill is one of the most well liked and well respected men I know, and deservingly so.
  17. Champ188
    May have to start calling him Big Bird, with that new Phoenix. Big boat. Big motor. Big graphs. You get the picture. Big league all the way. Last I heard, I believe he had scored a pair of CANARY YELLOW SHOES AND SUNGLASSES to go with those Skeet rods. For gosh sakes, please tell me this new boat isn't gonna be YELLOW!!!!!!!!
  18. Champ188
    Let me and Donna know when and we'll try our best to join you. Don't know about Denny. Have we lifted his ban on fishing above Kimberling City? Oh, and congrats on the new vessel, Bill. Look forward to seeing it.
  19. Champ188
    Yessir, trimming just a pinch off the head to make it flat and glueing it on will save you lots of baits and aggravation. You can also buy those screw-lock shaky heads in 1/4-oz. and rig the bait Texas style just like you would with a shaky head worm.
  20. Champ188
    I can see that goldfish being good too, especially in semi-stained water.
  21. Champ188
    Here they are are on Dick's Sporting Goods website for $7.99 with a color chart ... http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/product/index.jsp?productId=22483966
  22. Champ188
    Know what you mean. Boat traffic gets crazier every summer. Donna and I fun-fished Saturday morning up around Big M and it was starting to get dicey by 10:30. By the time we left at 12:30, it was full-blown nuts. By the way, in six hours' fishing we only caught 10 total with two keepers. Just a tough day all around.
  23. Champ188
    This is what I refer to as a helmet head. http://www.basspro.com/Buckeye-Lures-JWill-Swimbait-Head/product/1111190501002/
  24. Champ188
    Always good to spend time on the water with a old friend, Dewayne. In the grand scheme of things, you scored a win there regardless of how ya'll finished in the derby.
  25. Champ188
    I put it on a 1/4-ounce head ... if I'm fishing it around timber, I use one of the screw-lock style heads so I can rig it weedless with the hook point buried in the body. In open-water situations, I use one of the newer open hook-style helmet heads specifically made for swimbaits.
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