Lathem Reservoir - 1/31/09

[Brine]

I looked into joining your jon boat club... all of the places you fish are a little too far away for me to get to. When I get a new boat, and more than likely a new truck, I'll look into joining. I looked at when you're fishing Lathem in April, and I've got military drill that weekend in SC. Actually every other date you have for tournaments interfer with military, so it probably wouldn't be worth me joining anyways since I could only fish half of the tournaments.

Dang! Sorry to hear that, but glad for the reason. Thanks again for your service.

I'd be happy to take you out on any of the lakes we fish on a free weekend. Just let me know. Not sure if I'll have the new rig ready by spring or not, but I'm working on it.

 

[poolie]

Yeah, yeah... let us know where you caught those guys. Promise not to tell anyone

Bummer about the weekend schedule conflicts, but we do appreciate your military service.

-- Poolie

 

[russ010]

if you ever see my blue boat out there, you'll know I'm sitting on something. Besides, I don't mind sharing my spots with friends... but if I see you on the water and I don't know you, you won't see what I caught, nor will I tell you where or what I was using... this website does have fringe benefits

 

[russ010]

I'd be happy to take you out on any of the lakes we fish on a free weekend. Just let me know. Not sure if I'll have the new rig ready by spring or not, but I'm working on it.

dude you name the time and place and I'm most likely there. If you want to get up here and prefish lathem, we can do that too.

 

[ilinimud]

Im horrible at guessing a fish's weight. I caught one at 18" 16 girth and it was real fat. I assumed it to be close to 5#, but i have second guessed ever since. I now have a Berkley scale, and it weighed a 12# anchor at 11.8# 5 times so i guess it works good.

 

[Brine]

Hey Poolie/Russ,

Not to hijack the Lathem thread, but since you guys live out that way I wanted you to know that Randall Kirkpatrick is giving a Trophy Bass seminar in a month or so at Natures Tacklebox in Hiram. If either of you are interested, let me know and I can send you the info. I will probably be there. He just had a seminar in Marietta on Swimbaits, and it was good.

 

[HOIST-N-HAWGS]

Nice Russ! You're toturing us northern guys!

 

[russ010]

Hey Poolie/Russ,

Not to hijack the Lathem thread, but since you guys live out that way I wanted you to know that Randall Kirkpatrick is giving a Trophy Bass seminar in a month or so at Natures Tacklebox in Hiram. If either of you are interested, let me know and I can send you the info. I will probably be there. He just had a seminar in Marietta on Swimbaits, and it was good.

Brine - send me the info. I missed the swimbaits at The Dugout because I had military.. funny how that always runs interference for me. Randall is one of the best bass fisherman I know in the state of GA.. I read all of his posts all over GON and the other website that I can't remember the name of. That dude is awesome.

 

[Brine]

Hey Poolie/Russ,

Not to hijack the Lathem thread, but since you guys live out that way I wanted you to know that Randall Kirkpatrick is giving a Trophy Bass seminar in a month or so at Natures Tacklebox in Hiram. If either of you are interested, let me know and I can send you the info. I will probably be there. He just had a seminar in Marietta on Swimbaits, and it was good.

Brine - send me the info. I missed the swimbaits at The Dugout because I had military.. funny how that always runs interference for me. Randall is one of the best bass fisherman I know in the state of GA.. I read all of his posts all over GON and the other website that I can't remember the name of. That dude is awesome.

PM SENT

 

[poolie]

Hey Poolie/Russ,

Not to hijack the Lathem thread, but since you guys live out that way I wanted you to know that Randall Kirkpatrick is giving a Trophy Bass seminar in a month or so at Natures Tacklebox in Hiram. If either of you are interested, let me know and I can send you the info. I will probably be there. He just had a seminar in Marietta on Swimbaits, and it was good.

Excellent! I just live about 3 miles from the store. Thanks for the heads up. PM me the info if you don't mind so I can mark my calendar.

-- Poolie

 

[russ010]

If I lived that close to that store... I'd be broke. I haven't been there before though, do they have a lot of good stuff, and is it expensive?

 

[poolie]

If I lived that close to that store... I'd be broke. I haven't been there before though, do they have a lot of good stuff, and is it expensive?

Unfortunately for Christie (the owner) I have not been in there as often as I would like. Not because it's not a cool store, it is, I've just been saving money for boat stuff over the past several months so haven't fed the bait monkey lately.

The owner is into trout fishing, and some of the store is dedicated to that, but mostly the inventory is geared towards bass fishing and she is very responsive to customer requests. Pricing wise, I haven't done a store wide survey, but from what I've seen the prices are a little more than BPS, but not crazy expensive... and 55 miles closer.

Hope you can make it.

-- Poolie

 

[bassboy1]

It is going to be about on par with the Dugout, or Nutter. All of these smaller tackle stores in the area are going to be fairly competitive in pricing. While I haven't been there, I have bought quite a few things from there (called a list in, and got dad's coworker to pick it up), and if Christie doesn't have it, she will get it for you. Plus, Mike is in there any day that he has nothing else to do, so the chances of seeing him in there are pretty great, especially on Wednesday's. Great little tackle shop, stocking most everything we use around here (even the odd stuff you can't get from the Big Box stores. If you are in the area, I would head over there. It seems to be the #1 store in the area on Mike's site, and keep in mind, just about every store in the area has sponsored his site at one time or another.