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Great write up...
Butch

Lets just say that the power of advertising in the fishing world often works pretty effectively.
For me, it does not matter what a lure may look like, or imitates, but if it is catching bass on YouTube videos, I must admit I am one of the suckers that feels I just have to have that lure....ha ha ...

After a few years of refusing to jig a minnow, 2025 I decided to learn the process. I tried various minnow style baits, jig heads and retrieves.
I was very successful most of the year and got to admit, doubled even tripled my catch counts.
Seemed as though the fish were starting to see it too much ...

The Favorite Lure in 2025 and several years now for me was the Tackle Warehouse Website...luring me to buy
more lures than I need. ha ha
https://www.tacklewarehouse.com


Actually caught some of my biggest bass this year on Senkos and Brush hogs.

The Favorite Lure in 2025 and several years now for me was the Tackle Warehouse Website...luring me to buy
more lures than I need. ha ha
https://www.tacklewarehouse.com
:-)

Actually caught some of my biggest bass this year on Senkos and Brush hogs.

So what is your favorite rigging? Wacky ...

Agree, it is much easier to charge by the vessel than by the number of passengers. Similarly, parking is charged by the vehicle, toll roads charge by the vehicle, car registration is charged by the car and not by the number of passengers.


Anybody remember sneaking into the drive in in the trunk ...

This was my 1st car... The trunk was large enough to get 3 large guys into the drive-in or Lions Drag Strip...
Butch

A little bit of carbon monoxide in the trunk from a leaky exhaust never hurt anyone, right? What doesn't kill you makes you stronger?


We were never accused of being too smart. ;) …. We did survive our idiocy though.. Even if my accomplices did not live long lives.. 3 of the 4 passed many years ...

With hardly any new posts lately, I decided to try to stir up things up a little.
I normally would not do this, but just felt that hopefully this post may inspire some
of you to PLEASE share some of your fun catches in 2025.

While none of my bass broke the 10lb range(what's new?),
I did catch 3 ...

Gotfish? wrote: Sat Jan 03, 2026 6:21 pm Looks like the same fish over and over to me, just different lighting and backgrounds. I see Vinny even changed his shirt for some of the pics.

Not the same fish…. I could’ve made bigger pictures of each one so you could see things better but that would be a crazy waste of space.

A few pics

Here is a few of mine...

Perch tacos.

Flour, egg wash, Japanese panko.

Fresh cabbage, red onion, tomato, lime juice, salt and pepper pepper.

Sour cream/crema, mayo, chipotle in adobo.

Murray bass .jpg The cold weather and water level fluctuating up and down has not helped the bass fishing at Lake Murray. It has been a tough bite with smaller fish as a reward after a lot of hard work recently. Good news as the action should be picking up now that we may be in for some warmer ...

I got to the lake at 6:15, under dark, cold, cloudy, drizzly skies..which pretty much remained that way for the next 6 hours!! The lake seems about a month behind with the unseasonably cold spring we're having! I ended the day with 14 fish, mostly small males which I hadn't planned on fishing for ...

The heartbreak is you get turned around on the quagga mussel inspection 90% of the time from a ridiculous reason. Example, a eucalyptus leaf that fell in your boat the morning you drove up and you missed it. Or condensation.

After much praying on the way there, we passed the inspection. What a ...

Polygraph is necessary when there are 100’s of thousands of $ involved and you have mike long’s out there as well as those walleye guys. Those guys failed a previous polygraph before they got busted stuffing lead weights and filets in those walleye. Plus random questions like a license I believe is ...

New member just join today
I’ll start off showing some fish I caught couple days ago so you guys can remember me by.

Knowing that 15 north morning traffic on a weekday gets crazy and going south in the late afternoon a lot worse, I decided to head up to Lake Miramar and put in a little fishing time in my kayak. Knowing that I need to make the most of my time on the water I quickly headed across the lake.
I was ...

I have had some tough trips this year to Murray where I worked hard just to catch a couple bass(thank you for lowering, then raising the water, then lowering and then raising it a little etc, etc., etc.) Anyway...My last trip in the beginning of May showed a little sign of improvement. This morning ...