07-07-2011, 01:37 AM
[quote catmaster23. . . If you think that bass guys are bad, just imagine a fly fishing bass guy![cool][/quote]
you're scaring me NOW!
That's too funny. Opens another whole can of worms. (pun intended). Baitless/barbless ???
"live bait" - hooks with barbs? Gads - how barbaric!
Seriously - the gills were slammin the surface at sunset. I had the most aggressive hits on clods of cotton-wood-cotton on my lines - thinnin - I oughta put a hook in THAT.
Hey - Basshunter - I'm with ya - really. Utah plants trout, maintains trouteries, but the bass - they seem to leave to nature. And I honestly believe that a lot of where this contention comes from. Counting on spawn.
Mantua is a mixed bag. It's really a warm-water lake, but the trout do ok. But I'll concur - it's better suited as a warm-water res - bass/ gills. (maybe they should add Musky!) But the trout there do pretty good - tuff shoulders!!! And Utahns like their trout (don't ask the ice-fishers!). how about some Crappie? Anyone got a bucket?
So what would be considered a good "spawning" bass size? Back to the 12" limit? Can't say the DNR always makes all the "right" decisions as determined by our couch-potatoe-anglers, but I will say - they have more invested in it than the LARGE majority of "state-anglers"
Be it as it may . . . it's only my "Mr Peobody Opinion".
you're scaring me NOW!
That's too funny. Opens another whole can of worms. (pun intended). Baitless/barbless ???
"live bait" - hooks with barbs? Gads - how barbaric!
Seriously - the gills were slammin the surface at sunset. I had the most aggressive hits on clods of cotton-wood-cotton on my lines - thinnin - I oughta put a hook in THAT.
Hey - Basshunter - I'm with ya - really. Utah plants trout, maintains trouteries, but the bass - they seem to leave to nature. And I honestly believe that a lot of where this contention comes from. Counting on spawn.
Mantua is a mixed bag. It's really a warm-water lake, but the trout do ok. But I'll concur - it's better suited as a warm-water res - bass/ gills. (maybe they should add Musky!) But the trout there do pretty good - tuff shoulders!!! And Utahns like their trout (don't ask the ice-fishers!). how about some Crappie? Anyone got a bucket?
So what would be considered a good "spawning" bass size? Back to the 12" limit? Can't say the DNR always makes all the "right" decisions as determined by our couch-potatoe-anglers, but I will say - they have more invested in it than the LARGE majority of "state-anglers"
Be it as it may . . . it's only my "Mr Peobody Opinion".