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Name:	Fishless -	Reply
Subject:	We are back!!!
Date:	6/23/2006 2:57:04 PM

Oh yes! How excited I am to be returning to Lake Martin this August after having missed my annual trek last summer. Once again my boys (now 13 and 9) are ready to find the one fish who always manages to escape our hooks. That "foe" is of course my long time nemisis (The Bass). As anyone who follows this forum knows my boys and I make a trip to visit their grandparents every summer and to also get in some fishing. You will notice I do not say "Bass fishing" because to date we have never managed to hook that deviish creature. I have heard stories that Bass do exist but alas in my mind and that of my boys they exist only in rumor and tall tales. As always, I tell myself and my boys (who are growing like weeds now) that this will be our year. For five (5) straight years my boys and I chased our nemisis and for five (5) straight years we came up with a big fat goose egg. Last year they had to make their sixth (6) visit without their Dad. Once again my boys came back to me with only tall tales of what might have been. " Fear not!" I told my boys when they returned last summer. "2006" will be our year.

This time things are going to be different. This time if I have to I will use dynamite to blast these monsters of mayhem from the lake. This time it is BASS or BUST for my boys and I. As always, I emplore anyone who knows or have seen these "demons of the deep" to tell us where they are and how to get them into our boat. Our starting point every year is their grandparents house in the River Oaks area. We have a boat and are not far from Wind Creek State park. Please! Tell me you know where these creatures of calamity exist.

Thanks so much in advance for your always inciteful advise.

Name:	HTMLman -	Reply
Subject:	We are back!!!
Date:	6/23/2006 3:25:44 PM

Don't pass this around, but crickets fished about 18" under a bobber are great for everything. You need a cricket pail which has a open top. Throw them around cover especilly docks around dawn.

For the unused crickets, put a quarter potato and a lid, like a Gatoraide lid of water. Keep cool and they last for days. Noisy 'tho

Name:	bass25 -	Reply
Subject:	We are back!!!
Date:	6/23/2006 3:33:55 PM

Thats the funniest thing i've read in a while. Thank You!! Look go up into Sandy Creek and throw minnows or any other live bait around boat docks. I promise you that you will catch something. I will at our house in Sandy Creek this week end and will be out on the water fishing most of Saturday and Sunday so if you tell me what kind of boat to look for, i will be glad to direct you to some great spots.

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