Went fishing on Sunday and ran into a man who works with my wife. He started out with 4 or 5 catches before my first. His were smaller than mine because he was using small lures but, was pulling them in hand over fist. He was also using a different color lure than I was. Plastic worm about 4" long and was watermelon green with a chartreuse tail. Another guy I went fishing with a couple of weeks back was also using the same size and color bait as him. Both dusted me in the number of bass caught, but they were smaller in size. My plastic worms are 7 1/8" long and I use black/red and blue metal flake colors mostly. Has been working for me for the past few years. Although, I did find a plastic swimming frog of maroon top and a chartreuse belly in my tacklebox and starting using it. Got several hits and a couple landed with it so...
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I think some teams were scared off by injury problems. I think it was his junior year he missed a lot of games with hamstring problems.To the Cards fans here, another poster elsewhere brought this to my attention. It looks like the Cards got a really good one.
St. Louis Cardinals get the steal of the draft with infielder JJ Wetherholt
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Good morning from ATX. Currently 80°F and clear. May hit 100°F again today.
Wife and I went out to eat at Saltgrass yesterday after work. Excellent pork ribs.
Fell asleep early last night. Woke early this AM.
Planning Scotland trip. Flying into Inverness via London Heathrow. Also flying from Inverness Airport to Kirkwall, 25 Aug. Ferry from Kirkwall to Lerwick. Ferry from Lerwick down to Aberdeen.
Happy Hump Day, y'all.
One of my favorites: Hot Dog topped with egg sunny-side up. Delicious. By the way, Icelandic hot dogs contain lamb, pork and beef. Little gal who prepared that tasty dish made it happen fairly quickly. Note hot dog tray.
Went fishing this morning and I must say; not this time ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I did get a bass almost that small but, I got many more at decent size. 1 lunker at close to 5 lbs. Used the new color plastic worms (watermelon with a chartreuse tail) but moreover, a green and yellow swimming frog did the best. Had many strikes with 10 hooked and 8 landed. Was a good morning.
Wife ask me Tuesday night if there was a game on because she wanted to watch a movie with me. I said yes but it was the all-star game, and I was not going to watch it. She also asked about the home run derby which I almost always watch, and I told her it was the night before. She looked at me and asked what was wrong and I told her nothing other than I had lost interest in both of them. I still watch Reds games and have seen a good portion of them so far this year, but that is all I am interested in now.
Everyone going for strike outs and home runs wears on me. Watching a nice defensive play is much more fun than watching a strikeout.
Our house and garage was made of rock blocks. I would take a golf ball and throw it against the wall to get ground ball practice. I made it aerobic as I tried to go as fast as possible and it also helped with learning a quick transfer from glove to throwing hand. I would go an hour at a time. On non schools days, I might go as much as 5 or 6 rounds in a day. we didn't get a lot of snow, but I'd clean off a spot on snow days. Golf balls come at you pretty hard, so hard hit balls never bothered me.
Do you know what part of the lake you were/are on? It's not looking like I'll get to go down next week or maybe the next....depends on Dad. I saw several pics of those planes....don't know what they were up to.
Pittman Creek at Somerset Boat Club.
Dad grew up in (now) downtown Somerset, but our place on the lake is near the middle....Jabez area.
My buddy only fishes one lure......a 4" black trick worm hooked in the middle......no matter where we go.......he only carries a small tackle box......I have my boat so full of lures that I have new ones thrown on the floor in boxes......my bays are full........he catches as many fish as I do......I like pulling different things......I just got a 9" trout lure with four sets of treble hooks.....I am going to replace them with some nice Mustad treble hooks.....
