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Or move the Olympics donw here!

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I bought some Netcraft painted suspending (100 size) stickbait bodies. All you need are some #2 split rings and treble hooks of your choice, size #4 recommended. Get a good pair of split ring pliers also, BassPro has an offset, narrow nose split ring pliers that work, in my opinion, better than the traditional needle nose style, with smaller split rings. Anyway you just attach the rings, attach the hooks, and maybe put a split ring on the nose to tie your line to and you are good to go, takes about 5 minutes per bait. What I don't know is how well these stickbaits will work vs something like a Spro McStick, but I'll give them a try this spring.

Thanks for the report, I've heard that the crappie are looking like they are making a comeback on Grand.

Wow, you would think that with shad that thick there would be some stripers or walleye around at least. I might go up the War Eagle arm next weekend if the weather is half decent, whites and stripers should be moving up there soon.

I should know better, as cold as it is, but I went out today for a few hours, mainly fished mid lake flats and points, hoping I might find some stripers as I wasn't eve n going to try for Largemouth. Did not even get one bite. Shad are dying, every once in a while I would see one come up top on it's side. Lots of terns on the lake know scarfing the shad. Saw a few eagles. Water temp was 36 degrees. I am ready for spring, according to the weather forecast we have at least another week of cold weather on the way.

I got the hard cover from Cabelas, but not from BPS. I suppose if I ever sat down and added up the money I spend on fishing (Boat, rods, reels, lures, gas, boat launch fees, maintenance, rain gear, hats, insurance, registration, etc) and divided that by the number of fish caught, well I bet those fish are pretty expensive.

And it should be noted that SM bass don't do very well in the cold water discharge put out by the dams, if the trout weren't there, there would not be much if anything to fish for. Wayne, I agree with you, we need to find a way to get the commercial fishermen to net those darn carp.

Hey Fishincricket - I hope it works out for you, good luck!

Thanks Champ, I'll check it out.

Those are great shots, the colors on that heron really stand out against the rock background. The geese photo is pretty cool too, and eagles are always awesome.

Maybe he bought a bunch before Rapala took over, I have seen boards posts where guys have said they went out and loaded up on the pre-Rapala warts. There are some folks out there that really love those warts. You can still get the pre-Rapala warts on Ebay, but the popular colors get bid up pretty high. I'm suprised Rapala does not just copy the old manufacturing method for warts and use the old paint styles, they could label them "classic" warts, I would think they could sell quite a few. Here's another link to an Ebay wart auction, 3 USED classic warts, already at $36.00 with several days to go. http://cgi.ebay.com/3-OLD-STOCK-STORM-WIGGLE-WARTS-3-8-oz-V209-CRAWDAD_W0QQitemZ320483795226QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4a9e52a11a

My registration runs out at the end of this month for my boat. Will the DMV send me a renewal form? Or do I need to go down to one of thier offices to get a renewal? Seems to me that if they were going to send me a renewal notice I should have gotten it by now.

Speaking of which, he happens to have some listed, it doesnot look like a hot pattern to me, but the guy seems to always get a good price for them. http://cgi.ebay.com/4-Pre-Rapala-Storm-Wiggle-Wart-In-Bandit-Spring-Craw_W0QQitemZ300393248763QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item45f0d537fb

97, I'll keep that in mind. There's a guy that sells the pre-rapala wiggle warts on Ebay, he paints them with what he calls a "Spring Craw" pattern, they get bid way up, I've seen them go for $30 each.

Yeah I would like to get out, I haven't been out in a few weeks. But still looking a little too chilly for my whimpy butt.

Thanks for the advice 97, I bought some 100's suspending, but I bought the pre-painted ones, one of these days I may get an airbrush and do a little painting myself. I don't know if you look at Ebay, but there's a lot of custom painted lures for sale there, lots of Bandit and Rapala crankbaits get repainted. Some of those guys do incredible work, and they can usually get anywhere from $12-20 per lure.

Nice work 97, when you say you tune them, what exactly do you do? Do some of them not run straight, so you need to tune the bill? Or is it a weighting issue as far as getting them to suspend? I am mainly asking about stickbaits, I am thinking of buying some of the Netcraft bodies myself and I am curious to see what may need to be done to them besides painting.

Looking at the graph, it appears that they have reached a little above 1121, which I believe is about as far as they were going to drop the lake level. I would like to get out Saturday, but forecast looks a bit chilly.

I used to smoke, took me multiple tries to finally quit. Best way is cold turkey, when I would quit, I would find myself sometimes sitting there thinking I want a cigarette, when that happened I would find myself something to do, best way to quit is to keep yourself busy when you get that craving. They say it takes 3 days to break the physical craving for nicotine, so set your sights on quitting for just three days. Dying from lung cancer is a long, painful, expensive way to die.

Doesn't seem to be a lot of Oklahoma anglers on this site, which is a shame,it would be good to get some reports. I'm close to OK and I do make it over to Grand Lake every once in a while to catfish, it's an excellent lake for cats.

Thanks for that link Jessary, I may pick some up myself.

Got 8-10 inches here in Bella Vista, no fishing for me this weekend, but I did catch a few fishing shows this morning. Bill Dance was fishing crank baits in some private lake somewhere and was just killing the bass.

I have not caught a walleye on one yet. But I would think that the Hachiro Reaction, which I would call clown, looks good, I like Table Rock Shad also.

That's the best deal I have ever seen on Megabass, I felt compelled to pick a few up myself.