wow i hate lake P with a passion..and they were wrong its the only way to catch them at seabrook that time of the year...i agree 100% should be banned in tourneys...all im saying is wen something aint working im not scared to do what i gotta do to catch my fish...every trip in the sound for me consits of A Top Dog..a catch 5...then live croakers for wen its slack then hybrids in the evining....man u should really come try this sound thing out..i fished big lake a few times..its way different than wat youd prolly think..

All the tourneys i fish are for charities. They have one aim.
To make $$$ for the cause. they could care less about wether you use live , dead , plastic or any other legal fishing method. Bottom line is cash.
Let's see CCA / STAR take the lead and ban live bait.
Not going to happen. again cash is the bottom line .

I dont see the STAR or any CCA events banning live bait because of the members!! CCA is for all fisherman....good and bad...
But I would love to see other events like we had this pass weekend ban live bait.....They said no wading but croaker soaking was good......JUST NOT RIGHT...

im with you on this one...deff BS...ive seen more 7-9 lb. trout caught in The sound on Live Croakers than people would think...also y people use live bait..not just cause they dont have a clue how to fish plastics..but cause of size...man its just really different over here..not so much i guess but in alot of ways it is..we are forced to fish plastics from oct.-april....then in may they get hottttt..and you need the live bait and the catch 5s and such...

lets have a top dogg tourney..thatd be a cool one huh..no one can argue that..

sometimes i wonder about that....

That would be fun......I hope Next year we can have a Saltycajun meet..

Dont go there Bruce.....My blood PSI is good right now

ya salty its a lil bit choclaty to the southwest i guess you can say...twoards black bay and such..yes bombers are great..i had one...lost it...cant find anymore...none around here any wheres..need some bad...i won mine at a cca banquet...now i cant find em..

hopedale, make sure you change the hooks on em!!! sorry salty they already rusted on mine

the ONLY fish i have caught on bombers are bass. maybe bombers should stay freshwater.

when you come down to big lake, and you catch trout on bombers i will be convinced :)

Whats to wonder. They are for sale to the highest bidder.

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Seriously, you mounted a 5 lb bass. :work:

I got a 3 yr old daughter who would put you to shame. :spineyes:

does your three yr old daughter fish against grown men every week for cash? or does she sit in the boat with dadddy and weigh his fish?, thats IF daddy catches fish

What a surprise, your from texas.

How many soak Da Croakers this weekend???? Anybody going to admit it!!! I know big lake had 10,000 on the shipchannel

i was soakin 12 inch pogeys at thunderhorse and medusa..

Not gonna lie I caught bait on friday, got wasted:spineyes: fri night and let the most of the bait perish!! Threw some mullet on sat, but couldn't stand it went to plastics and caught my reds...everyone I saw were chunking shrimp, saw a couple of croaker or mullet throwers...I just needed to compose my self to recover so we jammed the radio and let'm soak...once reality came back we were chunkin plastics only and for the rest of the day.:cool:

We threw topwater all day on Saturday. Kept gettin bit so no reason in stopping. My girlfriend had a huge fish on for a while, pulled more drag off the reel than any fish I ever caught and my biggest trout is 8 pounds. It ended up gettin off. Poor thing, she was dying to weigh a fish in a tourny.

I absolutely agree. A 2cooler partener emailed me wanting to fish the tournament together and the first sentenced said "Are you freed up this Saturday to fish the Spectacular on Big Lake; the only problem is we can't wade and the allow live bait". Neither of us ended up fishing the tournament for other reasons but it didn't bother us as much because of the rules.

I don't care if fisherman want to throw live bait to catch thier fish. If the title "tournament" is being used, live bait should not be allowed unless it is for a charity and then there should be seperate divisions with the artifishual payout being higher!! Wading should be allowed even if they say you must be on the water by boat 1st, and may exit and enter the boat to wade as long as the boat is the primary means to travel and transport fish off the lake. Something like that would work for me.