Hi there!  I think my fairly new acquaintance, SBasser, has taken pity on me and pointed me to the club and the forum to improve my bass fishing abilities.  I've been lurking around here for a few days to see what you people are all about, and you seem like a pretty tight group. 

As for me, I employ a number of tactics for a number of different fish species, and have most recently made several trips to B.C. for trout and salmon fishing, mostly with fly gear.  I have also recently discovered the pleasures of catching tons of small panfish on the fly at local lakes.

I've been trying to break into the mainstream of bass fishing for the past few years, and have been acquiring gear and using it, but my success is usually somewhere between so-so and being skunked.    I do exceptionally well when I'm in the right place at the right time and smallmouth bass are taking jerkbaits like nobody's business.  This has happened to me once. 

So anyway, I hope to learn all kinds of good things and be able to translate what I learn into action.  And hopefully, one of these days, I'll get a chance to go fishing with someone who actually knows how to catch these devils we call bass, so I can be like a little kid and ask lots of questions. 

My big bass of all-time are 17" smallmouth (3 of them - all in the same day), and 12" largemouth (I know they can get bigger than that!).

Dave (from Auburn)

DipSnort, welcome to the "Dark" side, especially dark iffin' you listen to Virgil.(ducking).

Anyway what you need to do is come on down to the monthly meeting, get introduced to the members and then you can get some answers to your questions.

One of the neat things about the club is the "AmBassador" program.  Jim Shaffer will line you up with one of the members that will show you the ropes, take you out fishing and try, we tried with Virgil but to no avail, by the way "Congratulaions" on the Columbia win Virgil,to show you some of the techniques we use.

As you will see the members are always willing to help with information and knowledge about Bass fishing.  And, thanks to Bob Payseno, we have some really good guest speakers at the meetings with some good info about areas and what to use.

So come on down and meet the gang.

Rich

Holy cow, how to I make my picture smaller?!? 

Dipsnort, Bubba, Dingleberries - hey it's all the same to me, as long as you don't call me late for dinner. 

Hello Dave.
John Holland from Bonney Lake, I fish Lake Tapps alot, Will have to hook up some weekend AM and go fishing.
Welcome aboard.
John(Champ206)