SKVMS

Welcome E-rock! Lots of good content on here, hours of scrolling but it's well worth your time.

KIN' RACE!! NOW MY ARM IS BROKE YOU AZZHOLES!!!" I just kept fishing and they flipped the cart back onto the trail and took off to take the dude to the hospital I assume. I've got a ton more story's involving kooks and creeps and even more from my childhood fishing with my dad and his drunk friends but if I continue it's gonna turn into a book so I'll save em for a later date.

Being in Nevada on the foothills of the sierras is a wide open playground for a ton of natural wild life (deer, elk, mountain goats, cougars, bears, snake , wild mustangs etc...) and with that comes a lot of floaters ( above picture is at Frenchmans lake in chilicoot, Ca) everything from rattle snakes, loons, jackrabbits, even a dead and dehydrated mustang who was 10ft away from the waterline. Nevada is predominantly a trout state with a handful of exceptions but regardless 80% of my weekly bassin' is done at night, jumping fences into private communities, golf courses, farm and ranch ponds. Most of the private communities are high end ( $500,000-$2,000,000 and beyond price tags ) and the freaks DEFINITELY come out at night, I've seen and heard countless couples knocking boots and even a dude blasting porn at full volume punishing his genitalia. Out side of the freaky side I've caught a few hats and a graduation cap from 2015 with the tassel still attached. Besides the hats I've drug up a ton of broke off lures and hooks with split shot but the "strangest" thing I've drug up was a 3 lb steel rake head ( pissed off grounds keeper? ) Earlier this year I was fishing a golf course near the 16th hole which is an island and the pitching green ( I know nothing about golfing so I'm talking about where you start off at each hole) sits high above the island, so you try and make it onto the island then drive down this little road and cross a bridge to get onto the island. I had been fishing for about an hour and had landed a few 2lbers on a rat-l-trap but the bite was off in that section so I moved about a 1/4 mile away from the island and started tossing off this rocky ledge and I hear what sounds like a group of rowdy drunk guys so I turn to the direction of the noise to see two golf carts racing down the little road, the cart in the lead hit a turn a lil to tight and flips over down a steep drop throwing the passenger out and pinning the driver the following cart skids to a stop and 4 goons jump out and lift the cart off their buddy who immediately jumps up and starts screaming " I TOLD YOU I DIDNT WANT TO F#

Sexy nuggets!

I picked up a g.loomis IMX 7'11" XH sale rod marked at $199 and a daiwa JDM zillion TW 5.5:1 marked at $179 after the 15% off the rod came to $169 and the reel $152. Gotta love those TW sales!

Hellhammer/ Celtic frost , discharge/ broken bones, black witchery, order from chaos, carcass, electric wizard, insect warfare... the list goes on for days. I've played in metal/punk/grind bands most of my teenage and adult life and toured the world for free doing it, this thread is refreshing as it seems like 80% of anglers are consistently giving all glory to god for landing them a decent bag , cashing a check, or hitting a new PB. I DIDNT SEE NO FOOTSTEPS IN THE SAND WHEN I LANDED MY PB, JESUS!!!

Get your knot game tight!!! Practice and research knots at home before losing a money lure to the drink. Research your line types( some knots work great with braid and suck { slip } with mono or floro) Change out your split rings and treble hooks , REGARDLESS!!! Start small and work your way up, there are a ton of affordable small to medium swim/glide/wake baits and heavy jig heads that can get you accustomed to the techniques and won't leave you in tears after losing a few to inexperience. Confidence is key (aka PMA!) knowing your surroundings and body of water ( structure , seasonal transitions, baitfish spawns and migration) will highly boost the way you approach your jump off points and IMO up your hook up and landing ratios. In the age of convenience everyone has their own preferences and styles of baits, lines, rods, reels, attractants and are more than willing to share this knowledge with you via YouTube and social media regardless if you are receptive to it or not. Don't believe the hype, personal trial and error will jump you light years ahead rather than soaking up "advice" from some ding-dong on a flow team trying to get kickback off a 10 min video. Every company will tell you that their product will catch you the fish of a life time but they fail to tell you that regardless of price/experience/preference you can hit a DD on a chicken nugget.

This is my first post on SU, I've followed the social media accounts & I just joined today (started another profile earlier this year but forgot my SN&PW! and would just lurk) My 2016 was radical, radical in the sense that fishing is a roller coaster ride of HIGH highs and LOW lows in and of it's self. I set goals and achieved about 70% of them (the other 30% were up to fate or unrealistic). My best this year was a 6+ largie (goal was a DD ) i lost hand full that felt like 7-8-9lbrs, but due to lack of knowledge or shoddy gear was unable to land em. Fished my first tourney (came in 98th out of 120) got on the board with a 2.41 spot, my partner got drunk the entire time and didn't catch anything but hangovers, learned a lot on those 2 days alone ( chose your fishing partners well! You never know what one person can do to a 2 man team!). Landed my first small mouth, striper, spot, & pumpkin seed sun fish ( which i guess are 4 new multi species PB's!) Put in the time and effort (mostly on my own) to find over 10 new honey holes in my area that produced 3-5+ pound largies consistently, and also put 4 different new friends on their first LMB's (feels good man!) I caught my first 2 hudd fish this season ( a 3+ and a 3) and really hammered down on learning as much as i could and already didn't know about throwing large and small swim baits as well as the same for glide baits, which i feel has helped me grow a lot as a angler. I traveled to Oklahoma with my wife (to see her father) and my fly rod and caught my first pumpkin seed + about 30 dink black crappie. i sold my boat to help with the down payment on my new house, I caught my first largie by hand and safely released it which was a killer end to a terrible day this summer. I met 2 local pro bass anglers and learned ALOT from them this year. Outside of finding new "secret" honey holes i fished a dozen new lakes, rivers and ponds and caught bass in 80% of them. Last but not least i caught my PB black crappie (2+) this year which still makes me smile! As for 2017 my goals that i did not achieve this year will travel into the new year in no particular order : Make more efforts to fish outside of my local area Beat my PB (8.50) Catch a DD Buy a legit bass boat ( looking at skeeters right now for the new year) Buy a john boat Do more kayak fishing Invest in a legit swimbait bait cast reel Make it out of state to fish a lot more than i did this season (socal, oregon, bay area and beyond) Fish the CA Delta more Buy more hudd's Start making my own wooden swim baits Fish more tourneys Join my local bass club (already went to the first meeting but didn't pull the trigger) (those last two are one in the same ) Meet and fish with more like minded people Theres more but for my first post I'm dragging on....heres to a bumper season in 2017!!!!!!! Happy holidays! Have a fun & safe new years! Tight lines!