Recent content by Bake

Hey Tony, Having fished all over the world. Washington, Oregon, California, Texas, South Dakota, Mississippi, Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, and Iraq. I C&R everything I catch. If I want to eat fish, I go to Long John Silvers . . .;)

TONY! ! ! LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS! ! ! :devilish:

In one word "Alvey"!!! I have a 500, and one of their shorter rods. GEE!!

Back in the midwest, we would "Back Troll". We would just put the motor in reverse, or turn the motor 180 degrees around. Place the rig in the water and adjust the throttle, if we couldn't get it slow enough, we would slide a couple of boards through the stern handles into the water...

Yes, because the blades were so small, they couldn't make the whole bait dance. Their job was just to add flash and attract the bigger fish ( walleye & sometime a Northern )...

Back before the plastic baits were wiggling and need more action, we would tie our mainline to these spinners, and then hook the spinner to the hooks buried in the plastic baits. We would also use these spinners with live bait, lip hooked mirrors, head hooked nightcrawlers ( with their tails...

Too bad about losing all your "cool" guns. The AR15 H-Bar ( Short range High Powered Match), M1a ( Long-range High Power Match), M1911a1 (Stock class ), 1911-a1 (Full Race), Super 90 M-1 12ga.(3 gun matches), and a couple of Glocks with large capacity stock mags. I didn't have any insurance on...

Never heard about the beef bone before!

Tony, Ever use surgical tubing? I have used 1/8", 1/4". 3/8", or 1/2", rigged both Texas & Carolina system. In pink, blue, black, and natural. Sometimes I would put a small bullet weight inside. or sometimes a piece of styrofoam. I would cut them from 10" to maybe 18" for casting or trolling...

Tony, I was wondering where would the steelhead hit a 4'' worm? Front third, middle third,, tail third, or maybe hanging out the tail? Which is the more important, "PINK" or 4" long?

As a side topic, has anyone tried using some of the different plastics? Maybe the Sexy Shad, Salty Tube Skirts, Swirl tail Grubs, 4" Ring Worm, and the other hundreds of different plastics. They come in different sizes, panfish, crappie, big, and bigger. Plus the different colors and color...

After I retired from the Air Force and still lived in Austin I took up SCUBA. I noticed that most of the plastics I found at the 20' to 30' mark of Lake Travis were B-B-G. The B-B-G colors were a lot easier to see in the water when you are 20' or 30' deep, but some of the black ones would turn...

Being a "Good Old Boy" from Texas and "Bass Tournament" fisherman, of course, I would pick Plastic Worms. I still have a tray or two of sliders (4") with their special jig heads. A lot of 6" & 8" floaters & sinkers, a few 10" fire tails, and even some 12" & 14" plastic worms. The only problem...

For my next boat ( It will be #6), the first thing I will be getting is a slip. I hate dealing with boat trailers. boat ramps, and all the other misc. fees involved moving a boat from place to place. A few months ago I was riding in a guide's ( about 6-month-old ), 22ft bass boat. Everything...

I've had to shorten the "Overhang" some. With a couple of false casts, "Away it goes!". Might try a DT4 next, with a longer, finer taper, and a DT's really don't have an "Overhang", per say...