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I was kidding bud. I am down for fishing hot weather. The bite is often as hot as the weather.

darn, you wanna get us all out there in the heat of summer...I would be interested, if I am in town and can get the appropriate kitchen pass.

I am working around LaCygne right now, so I drive by the lake EVERY day. IIRC, there are Florida-strain largemouth in the lake.

You all have been more than generous with advice for a baitcasting newbie. Thank you so much and I will keep you abreast of how it is going.

Thanks Eric. I appreciate the candor. I might keep looking for a rod then and monitor eBay for the Citica.

I have looked at the Citica, and I like what I see. I will let you all know what I come up with! Thanks again everybody!

The short rod would be used primarily on smaller streams. I might consider a 6' rod, but that would be about my max. That, and I like shorter rods as a rule. Everything would be about the best way to describe my uses for this rod. I will throw cranks, spinnerbaits, soft plastics, topwater, etc. Eventually, I will graduate to having multiple casting rigs setup at once, but for now, it would just be the one. Eric, why are those two reels so highly regarded? Edited: Cabela's offers the Citica in a combo with their Fish Eagle II for $170 or so. That, IMO, is a hell of a price. I might go that route then. Now, would 6' make for an alright all-round rod for all across the Ozarks as well as some lake stuff from a boat in your opinions?

What about the Abu low profile reels? Would those be recommended?

Al, that looks fun!

Sam, that appears to be a green sunfish/pumpkinseed cross more than a bluegill/greenie cross, but I am an amateur biologist at best.

I could probably go up on the budget a bit, but I would love to find some good quality stuff to work with. I will monitor eBay for now and see what I can find. Thanks for the advice guys, I truly appreciate it!

Like it says, I am looking to step up to a baitcaster and was wondering what I should look for. The primary use for this reel would be to throw it on a 5'6" M action casting rod for stream, pond and lake bass. I would be fishing mostly the lakes around home, but would spend as much time as I could out in the Ozarks. I am looking at the Daiwa Strikeforce, which has a 4.5/5 review on BassPro out of 72 reviews. Also, for a rod, I am looking to get a high quality rod for not much dough. On my spinning rods, I have fished everything from Ugly Stiks to Quantums, and Berkleys. They all fished well for me, but for the casting stick, I wouldn't mind going to something like a St. Croix or something similarly priced. I was going to toss some Trilene XL in 12 pound test on it as a 1000 yard spool is cheap at BPS. My total budget, including 1000 yds of line to learn to cast the darn thing with would be about $150. Let me know what you think would be a good setup and deal plaese. Thanks!

I have seen ONE in my life, and it was caught below the dam at Longview Lake in Kansas City.

Hmm, interesting proposition here. 1. Catch an A-strain Guadalupe Bass. 2. Catch a Shoal Bass. 3. Catch a Suwanee Bass. 4. Catch a Redeye Bass. 5. Catch a Neosho in all states they are native to. 6. Catch a largemouth of over six pounds from a stream. 7. Catch an Alabama Spotted Bass. 8. Fish as much as I can.

Jesus Christ, are you trying to bump your post count here? Why not multi-quote all of these statements you are constantly trying to refute. I work with a libertarian and I told him to show me ONE libertarian that has a fighting chance of election. He couldn't, and that is because their ideals are so far fetched they almost make the Tea Party look sane. You feel the need to use your 100 posts to attack people with five or more years experience on this forum. We all KNOW each other and can talk about this stuff and NOT get personal. You seem to not be able to do this. The law only applies to the poor in this country. Look at what happened in the Barry Bonds case. Use your own logic to suit your own viewpoints. "Edited for tact" You are a grumpy bastard Wow, what a good guy. Offering fights and stuff OVER AN INTERNET FORUM THREAD.

darn. That is really high. I guess you should have tried to fish it That could have been fun.

Jesus Christ, we get it, you are a dyed in the wool Republican, or even worse a Tea Party supporter. Let me guess, executioners at the borders would suit you just fine. I work with some guys who aren't here legally, but they are here to hopefully better their lives for themselves and their families. I cannot fault them for that seeing how bad Chihuahua, MX is, but there is a right way and a wrong way to go about it. Your means of shooting all illegals shows your backwards, redneck views and prejudices. Why not find a way to get them into a naturalization course and become legal? Why not encourage them to obtain dual citizenship? Simple, it would cost too darn much. If you feel the need to continue your bigotry, I will ask that you do it elsewhere on the web, since it is obvious that you cannot handle differing opinions. Maybe go to a Fox News blog as it seems to be your source of "information", true or false as it may be. 94 posts in ten months, and fifteen of them are in this BS thread. How about some fishing reports? Cricket, you hit a home run here dude.

In my research, Kansas is one of the FEW states with zero public access to public non-navigables. Kansas is a state in which the landowner regulates access to a creek. They even stipulate that the water is public, but with no access that point is moot. http://www.kansas.net/~tjhittle/Obstacles%20to%20River%20Recreation%20in%20Kansas.pdf Meeks v Hays has all of this information. This is why there are NO outfitters in Kansas, and why access to native spotted bass populations in the Flint Hills are non-existent. On a side note, Meeks v Hays was about Shoal Creek and whether an electric fence that Mr. Hays placed across the creek was legal. The case happened in the 90s so it is plenty recent.

Has holes in it...haha...Wayne, were you on Comedy Central recently? I was just offering a suggestion there...

I hate Floroclear. It is fluoro-coated nylon rather than fluorocarbon.

That does sound fun Woodman.

There are two barriers in Bennett...the dam and the Whistle Bridge. You could have C&R in that area, but that would piss a lot of people off due to the high bank hole and what not being in there with HUGE numbers of fish.

Guys, enjoy the accesses you all have in Missouri. In Kansas, Meeks v. Hays was our version of Elder v. Delcour, except the ruling went the other way. Landowners regulate the access to the public water flowing through, or adjacent to, their property. We cannot access the water, which is OWNED BY THE PUBLIC to float, wade or fish because of this ruling. This is definitely not a molehill, this jackwagon Prater thinks he is going to keep people off the river, he is sorely mistaken.

There is no rhyme or reason jeb, but with respect comes leniency. Most of us on here have gone around and around and back and forth for years now and know where each other stands without needing them to say it. Our views may not always be the same, but we all believe in conservation of our fish and game species.

Mother's Day? What's that? Yes, I am ready for mother's day.