eric1978

Your jerkbait runs at least 4 or 5 feet. The Sub-Walk stays in the top foot of the water column if worked properly. I just wouldn't expect fish to be feeding that close to the surface, although I know people even catch them on topwaters in the middle of winter.

OMG I can't believe this thread has gone three pages. WHO CARES?!?! It's a license...buy it, laminate it, stick it in a ziplock, stuff it in your pack. Whatever. What's the big deal? And BRBF...since when has ANY entity, government or private, passed on its savings to the consumer? NEVER! If they told you they did and you believed them, you were duped.

Sub-Walk in January, eh? You must know something I don't, because I wouldn't have even thought of tying one of those on. But well done! I haven't caught a smallmouth since October. Log perch...don't see those very often. Like ever.

Brave New World was a great book. Too bad his vision of the future turned out to be so accurate... Factoid: Huxley's "The Doors of Perception" is where Jim Morrison got the name for the Doors.

LA MI NATE It works wonders.

Anytime you feel like schooling me on some winter smallies, I'll round up a babysitter and dig out the spinning gear...you name the day!

Not only that, but I read in someone's signature that golf is a great way to keep a whole mess of would-be fishermen away from our streams. Nice meeting you today, Mitch.

I've read a ton of classics but never really got into any series type collections like that...unless you consider Hemingway's long decline to insanity, documented in novel form, a "series." Other favorite American authors are Mark Twain, John Steinbeck and Jack Kerouac. I've read most of Dickens' stuff, my favorite being "A Tale of Two Cities." And I've read a bunch of European existentialist authors...Sartre, Camus, Hesse, Kafka, and the best of them all, Dostoevsky, who I think I've read complete. But all that darkness started getting pretty depressing so I gave it up. Read the first 100 pages of War and Peace about a dozen times, but can't get past all the names. I've also had Moby Dick and Robinson Crusoe on my nightstand for about a decade now, but I never pick them up and give them a chance either, even though I've been wanting to read both of them nearly all my life. I spend too much time on the internet.

Oh quit your whining. Go to Kinkos and get it laminated for a buck. I thought we all wanted our governments to stop wasting money?

A nice one. But not too big. And then you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with...a herring. And if you don't appease him, he will say "ni" at you some more, or he'll fart in your general direction. We could do a 20 page thread with this movie.

Is that the one they stuffed and put out in front of that motel in Gravois? No wonder you're afraid of monkeys.

I don't really fish the parks...I just want the meat eaters to have plenty of fish to keep so they don't complain that they can't keep them from other places, and also so they keep buying their stamps to support the trout programs.

It's not a matter of where he grips it, it's a simple matter of weight ratios. A 100 pound cat cannot bury a 500 pound llama. Maybe it was an African lion? Oh yeah, an African lion maybe, but not a North American lion, that's my point.

That's the most I've seen you type in months...that shift change must have you feeling better already! Your dogs are in no danger of aerial attack. Blockhead is too big, Bones is too fast, and Stumps is too short and moves like a sloth...he (she?) just looks like a rock or a big clod of multi-colored dirt from the sky.

LOL! I didn't think it would be possible to find a more ridiculous character than Botox-face to pound the gavel, but I'm pretty sure the Tan Man takes the Carrot Cake! My lip is quivering. I say double up the stockers in the parks, and turn all the rest into Blue Ribbon and let more fish get bigger, smarter and prettier. That's as much finger energy as I'll waste on this tired old debate.

About a 14 looks like? I gotta do some of those. Great segmentation with that vinyl rib.

What size is that OB? That's a 2487 I assume?

Then you've never seen a mountain lion with half a llama in its belly.

If I was a reservoir fisherman with a bass boat, I'd have no less than five...jig rod, spinnerbait rod, crankbait rod, topwater rod, finesse rod. But I'm not. I'm a river fisherman with a canoe, so I carry three 6 footers: one mag-light, one med-light, and one medium. They cover most of the bases fairly well.

Um, no, I'm not a digger. I'm a dump it in the woodser with full hazmat suit and respirator. After the last 6 months of feline adventures, I'm becoming less of a cat person every day.

My cat buries his poop.

Beautiful fish and pretty sweet photoshop, too!

The voices in your head don't count as actual people.

In the river, but they're not there anymore because we ate every last one of 'em.

24 inches? That's more than likely a state record, and would almost surely be a record for an Ozark river smallmouth if it wasn't completely emaciated. Given it was caught in the summer, I doubt that would be the case. If you look at the state by state records for smallmouth bass, only two of the fish with documented lengths are over 24 inches, and they both weighed in at over 9 pounds. I think your buddy needs a new tape measure.