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I've heard good things about the JM Gold on other bass forums, never tried one myself. I do have a Curado, it's a not a bad reel, but I prefer my Revo Premiers.

Nope, I am not a walleye fisherman, I catch some accidently while bass fishing. That link Wildeye provided does have some good info. I might try it myself one of these days if I can just put down the bass stuff. Mouth of War Eagle sounds like a great place to start for the walleyes.

A timely article, we may have reached peak gasoline consumprion here in the US in 2008 according to this article and may be on a downward trend. Only problem, as far as global warming is concerned, is that other nations will continue to increase their gasoline consumption offsetting our decrease. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40755238/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/

Nice Walleye! I fish the Lost Bridge area quite a bit myself, it can be a tough area to fish.

Now we've got a bunch of movie critics I liked that scene where the pirates (or whatever they were) were attacking that floating town thing and they guy was shooting it up with the quad 50's, and Costner, using his catamran, turns it so he shoots up Hopper's command vessel. And when Hopper decides he wants to move that oil tanker, his troops all grab oars and start rowing - that was classic.

I 2nd the reocmmendation for Tim Hughes.

Ahh yes, the River Runt, that was my go to bait back around 1970 (I was 13 then) when we lived in Michigan and had some bass ponds within walking distance of my house. I might still have one in my old tackle box, I'll have to dig it out and check. I think I have a Lucky 13 or two that belonged to my grandpa. My grandpa and dad used to make a road trip every year to Table Rock back in the early 60's. The way they talked about it, it sounded like it was as close to a fishing paradise as any you could find on this earth. Lots of crappie and big, stupid bass.

Yes, thanks for the info, and good luck in the tourney!

I threw a black hair jig and eel around one of the lakes here in Bella Vista, did not get a bite. I was a little disappointed, I dragged it through some brush piles and for sure thought I would get a bite. Switched to a suspending jerk bait and picked a couple of fish up. Only fished about three hours, too darn cold and windy.

Seems we are in a dry spell. my guess is it stays low.

The scary thing, the point that Al brings up, is if we reach a tipping point where warming climate becomes irreversible (at least in our lifetimes). But that seems to be how we do things in this country, we wait until it's a crisis, then we scramble like rats to fix it.

Congrats! That is one heckuva bass.

Excellent! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for posting that article Champ, wow it was 3 years ago, how time flies!

Nah, no need to skip, hopefully you and Champ will win it this year!

Temple Fork Outfitters makes a good rod for $99 at Tacklewarehouse.

Was it last year or 2 years ago that someone weighed in a 10 lb bass? Pretty impressive fish for The Beav.

Bowe has been huge for my fantasy team.

Anybody watch Wild Justice Sunday night on NGC? There were 2 episodes back to back, basically it's a "Cops" type format, camera guy riding along with a game warden. First two shows were with California F&G wardens, riding around at night looking for people shining deer, but it seemed instead of finding game violators the lights in the distance were from Maryjane growers. What surprised me was the wardens would follow up and raid the field themselves with their own tactical teams instead of calling in the regular police. Next episode is Wednesday at 9 PM on NGC.

Yep the Citica, tacklewarehouse has a 20% sale that ends tonite, so you could get it for $99 with free shipping at TW. Or as Eric says, check out Ebay.

Yep the Citica, tacklewarehouse has a 20% sale that ends tonite, so you could get it for $99 with free shipping at TW. Or as Eric says, check out Ebay.

I have a Basspro Extreme 370 that has held up well, I have had it for two years and I fish a lot, it goes in trhe boat everytime I go fishing. So far it is still holding up, no rips or tears or no broken zippers. It holds 4 3700 type utility boxes which doesn't meet your goal of six, but it also has 2 large side pockets and a large front pocket.

I was doing the 3 jerks and a pause routine, short pauses, 2 or 3 seconds. They always hit on the pause, and hit it hard, it wasn't the mid-winter light bite.

Fished it Saturday, it was a little chilly but not too bad, relatively few other fishermen out there, very few pleasure boats and only saw one PWC. If not for the constant background noise created by leafblowers it would have been a peaceful day. Even saw a couple of eagles. Water temp was 52. My go to bait was a Norman Flake McStick, caught one LM on a spiiner bait, but the rest came on the McStick. Backs of coves and secondary points in the coves were where I caught fish, except for catching some whites on main lake points. There are shad EVERYWHERE, I have never seen so many shad. Lots of terns, gulls and cormorants feeding on the shad, and I even saw a couple of eagles. Caught about 15 black bass and 1/2 dozen whites. No big bass, caught a couple of 16" fish, but the rest were in the 12-15" range. Caught ol' Buglemouth below on the McStick, probably went about 8 lbs. thought I had a heck of a bass, major disappoinment when I saw his big rubber lips pop up through the murky water as I brought him to the boat. I would say it's a fluke, except this is the 2nd carp I have caught on a McStick. I can't say that I ripped this one's lip, as it had been ripped before! Good day to be out, best day for bass I have had on Grand.

Picked up this little piggie on a 1/2 oz Bassx brown football jig with a brown super chunk trailer in one of the Bella Vista lakes today. Fishing was slow, got lucky, 22.5 inches, length girth calculator says 6.4, but I am going to be conservative and say 6 lbs. Not the greatest pic, I was holding it at arms length and still could not get all of it in the pic. Nice Black Friday special