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Congrats on the fish, what a fattie. I've been watching videos on YT of divers cleaning up rivers and restoring lures. This guy got 220 in 45 minutes!
Imagine what it would be like diving in our reservoirs.

Way to go on the BFS pursuit of largemouth bass! Back in the day I always wanted a bait caster that would allow me to throw 4 and 6 lb. test, without the line getting in gap between the spool and frame of the reel. Nice to see they figured that out. Going to have to look into it and maybe ditch the ...

Nice fish. I too lost my biggest hooked bass on a crank. The lower lip of the bass was too big by far to allow the hook on my Norman Big Little N to pernitrate the fishes mouth. It was just skin hooked in the lower boney part of her jaw. Her jaw bone was bigger around than my thumb. Got her to the ...

Love the little Evergreen cranks!

nice fish ! I once caught a rod and reel at perris...looked really fresh. Later in the day, I put a hook on it and caught a bass..we laughed !

Congrats on super nice fish.
I found lures many times but mostly the thing I don’t use or swollen plastic. One time I found chatterbait in pretty good condition, I use that with same trailer and caught a few fish.
I used to kid with one of my friend that he found setup all the times until I caught ...

Unfortunately, the lake closures will only get worse! The Mayor and City Council have discovered that they can screw the fisherman and save the money for their pet projects..the homeless and the illegal aliens.

After driving up to find Murray closed on Tuesday, I decided to give it a go this morning.
Seeing that I already caught 2 big catfish in May fishing for bass, I somehow managed to catch another catfish that gobbled down my Texas rigged brush hog. I thought at first it was a nice bass for about 20 ...

Took my oldest son float tubing at D&K. Awesome day. My son is just now getting the fishing bug at 35....but he's still really new to it.

He ended up with 7 and I caught 16. Several were caught on walking topwater baits and poppers, a few on a crankbait. After the topwater action slowed, the rest ...

have found plenty of lures. I have even snagged a couple while fishing my own lure. I have also snagged 2 fishing nets and a couple of rods and reels over the years.

I've never found or caught any lures i thought were worth fishing, but I did snag a pole with a Curado bantam CU-200 off of the pier, cleaned all the sand out of it and replaced 2 of the 5 bearings, fished that reel for years after. and yes caught many fish.

The lures I've found I can count on one hand. Apparently I do the donating, and not the finding. Although one time I had a crackhead try to sell me a Kastmaster for 10 bucks. He tried to claim it was silver. After I said no, he just gave it to me and skittered off.

The coolest thing I've found was ...

Were those the old green tanks? A nuclear war could break out and the only 2 things that would be left standing would be roaches, and those green Curados.

I had one of those, but for some reason, it was red and not green.


yup, still have a cu-200, cu-200BSF and CA-200 (Castaic, has a sweet ...

Found a ton, nothing spectacular caught on most. I have a couple lost lure stories. Throwing a buzzjet jr at morena, fish eats it, runs and snaps 65lb power pro on a rock. Less than 30 minutes later, we hear a two good sized splashes. We see something, motor over, and there’s my buzzjet floating ...

....I have a couple lost lure stories...

Back when I still could throw big baits all day without needing arthroscopic surgery, I was at DVL chucking a 8" Triple Trout. We went to the back of a cove near the west dam and I flung it deep in there, and backlashed quite nicely. I sat there for 10 ...

I fished lake Murray this morning, and the water was so low that it was almost at the end of the boat ramp. On the plus side, I had the place almost all to myself (except for a few shore guys that arrived mid-morning).

There were a lot of bass busting early, but I couldn't get them to take my top ...

WOW....So sensitive. The only one who feelings weren't hurt was the "FOOTBALL FLYING BASS" I'm just mad I read all of this. Tight lines, I mean pull up your diapers.

What's up guys. The 2nd edition of my trucking and fishing video's. On this one I had a lot more planned but time constraints didn't work out. But I did manage to have time for some fishing under the I-10 bridge over the Colorado River( Az side). I didn't expect much but was happy to catch some ...

Can't name how many baits I have found over the years of fishing but I could probably write a small novel about some of them
and how I found them. It seems that no matter what I have found and I have found some pretty cool baits, they never seem to
end up on the end of my line. I may clean them up ...

Love your dedication and road fishing. You have put a whole new meaning in truck stop!!