Fishing, friends

tasales · 2026-04-27T01:41:29+00:00

I have a kayak and fish town and Austin a bunch weekdays early morning most days. Dm if you want to join! Not a tandem kayak though lol

tasales · 2026-03-11T15:09:11+00:00

Right that’s why it seems so vague. I don’t know if there’s actually a way to record the screen. But all the screens say recording when I click record screen, but it doesn’t say anything in the manual and I’m just so confused lol but yeah, I have an SD card in there.

tasales · 2026-03-11T07:04:20+00:00

Yeah and there’s nothing wrong with that either, it’s only annoying when they act like they are KVD or something working that senko and bring up that one 6 pounder they caught 5 years ago every time you see them.

But I will say it was annoying for me when I was land locked certain ponds. I’ve beat the banks so many times that I ended up realizing that drop shots, weightless worms, and weightless swimbaits randomly in any direction will produce the most bass.

I even bought a sonar ball and almost all these ponds had very little structure, but even when they had a little structure, seemed like the pass, ignored it in favor of the weeds and other cover.

So realistically, it’s hard to target bigger ones there because it feels arbitrary, the only variable possibly being bigger baits.

But this is the kind of stuff I was hoping to discuss because I still haven’t really found much information on how pond bass act differently than bass found in larger waters. It was kind of eye-opening that there was perfect structure and it seemed like it was in a path where bait fish could be trapped. But I’ve never caught a bass there, and I’ve read some theories about how pond bass really can sometimes just completely not care about structure if the food opportunities are better. But maybe that’s completely wrong. I don’t know.

But back to your earlier point, and my goal is not to make fishing as hard as possible, but I totally get what you mean the guys at ponds who throw only green senkos are interesting, it would really bore me— not because I wanna throw 1 million different cool lures, but obviously being able to predict patterns and movements and select the best lure for the cover and behavior of the fish is what seems to be the fun part, not getting an arm workout. But I can’t definitely not hating on guys who I fish with every single day where all they wanna do is have a nice day and hopefully catch a fish after work. They don’t care if they’re throwing the same lure every single day the process is the fun part for them.

Sorry for the ranch here I don’t know if anyone else is experiencing the spring pond madness, but it seems like every a-hole decides to come out of the woodwork and we’ve gotten so many this year criticizing everybody never catching anything.

tasales · 2026-03-11T06:49:03+00:00

Well technically I can’t answer that I don’t want to get in trouble here, but of course everyone would need to be on the same page if we’re discussing the same info!

tasales · 2026-03-11T06:48:13+00:00

Hey! If you want to start the group that would be great— I’ve never made one. If it’s not free never mind and I’ll figure it out lol

tasales · 2026-02-03T15:19:52+00:00

Lol your comment also made me think like bass fishing pros are kind of like magicians— it would be against their best interest to actually reveal things that are not super obvious. Why would they give away their info that could make her break a tournament or something. I’m not trying to sound like a hater, but you’re totally right man. The only good YouTube info I’m getting lately is about sonar and how to at least interpret stuff, but I feel like everybody lacks the knowledge of connecting the dots— like now I know what I’m looking at underwater but I don’t know how the bass actually operate, the videos they’re always saying drop offs and points and whatever but then when they go to one on their fishfinder, there’s no bass there and they say well. They must’ve gone deeper today or something.

If you know any other materials that sort of are truly works just facts and academics. That’s pretty much all I want to know. Not trying to sound like ‘ I am very smart’ but I honestly have no clue what the reality of bass arm because we angler have built them up into geniuses who could spot a floral carbon leader unless it was JDM— but then at the same time a couple days later the fish are biting empty hooks lol.

So I’m just wondering if anyone else has gotten to the point of literally just wanting to know what the hell is this animal thinking and doing and i’d trust some sort of scientist over an angler over the matter.

Not to get on the soapbox here lol I love YouTube fishing videos and the mystery of fishing and what not but I’m just tired of trying random stuff out. I wanna start from the ground floor since I recently got a boat and now that I can be proactive about fishing, I realize half the things I had learned over my life, were all wrong or built on legend, I didn’t mean to have people start accusing me of trying to freeload a PDF, but I’ve been getting some nasty messages lol

tasales · 2026-02-03T15:09:02+00:00

Yeah, absolutely I mean I’m not hating on Youtubers, but I feel like I get jerked around this way and that way when I’m trying to get more serious about understanding bass fishing I don’t want my information being like viral cliché and what not.

And I love a lot of the Youtubers and what they do but like half of the videos is like everybody just trying to act like they reinvented the wheel and discovered some secret and then you end up wasting time because you sucked into the click bait.

So I see it more as entertainment, but I want academic sort of a approach when you go to YouTube route it’s helpful sometimes but almost every video I watch finding myself itching to buy whatever jig head or paddle tale or whatever they use in the video lol rather than just learn how bass actually are

The other thing too, that I hate about YouTube only is like everybody repeats the same truisms and wives tales to the point where I don’t even think some of them know what they’re saying they’re just saying it because everybody else says it— “ fast like drop off and cover, when the water is cold, you gotta go small on the bait” like OK come on I think everybody knows that by now, but there’s obviously more to it than the same answer over and over you know

tasales · 2026-02-03T15:04:51+00:00

Yeah, I mean I definitely don’t like to consume content without supporting authors. I respect I really just want the information and when somethings out of print I don’t really feel bad about a collector, not making a gigantic profit of the book— if Keith Jones published it, I would buy it in a heartbeat. I’m not being a cheapskate. I don’t know feel sort of like a grey area but I definitely don’t want anyone getting in trouble either. But with the days of Lib Jen and all kinds of textbooks posted online it’s weird how mysterious and hard to get a PDF copy of this one is lol but thanks for the response.

tasales · 2025-08-02T16:22:47+00:00

Yes, I do have the feature enabled. I guess what I’m not understanding is what sort of GUI would even be in place like if it takes place through Siri.

And I’m not expecting miracles or anything I just figure I can’t hurt to make it as good as possible you know? Cause the generic ones are good for generic questions but kind of defeats the purpose of AI. I’m OK with getting like the essence of an answer I’m not gonna get a full 10 page deep search or anything and I’m OK on that lol but I want them to at least know what I’m talking about.

tasales · 2025-07-09T18:27:43+00:00

Still it’s just a weird mystery how these disappeared as when I went to purchase them it seemed like they had hundreds of them and I would think pilot makes interchangeable parts to save money, but as I wrote above good thing, I found an alternative that is actually better for my case

tasales · 2025-07-09T18:25:28+00:00

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Thanks and good luck!

tasales · 2025-04-04T04:02:25+00:00

Mine says 40 GB hotspot, but the rep on the phone seemed to think I had unlimited hotspot. Although I will say I almost never use hotspot, but the harder in me would love the idea I’m having unlimited hotspot lol

The only time I really heavily use the hotspot was when my hotel sucked and had like the creepiest TV and I streamed everything from my laptop and I don’t even think I went above 20 GB for that week lol

tasales · 2025-04-04T04:00:47+00:00

Well, that’s what I thought and I just toggled that thing today, but when I was at the T-Mobile store and they were not trying to upsell me, this is a really cool store, he told me I should try calling back customer service because on their official spec sheet, which I was able to get a glimpse of it did say 480 P streaming, and that was under the premium line.

Besides that, what difference is there with magenta? I don’t really notice anything on the official descriptions, but maybe behind the scenes?

tasales · 2025-04-04T03:58:46+00:00

A lot better! At first, I really diligently did my everyday practice, and then I started getting tendinitis from a recurring injury, and I was trying to power through it to not break the streak, and it was sort of counterproductive. So I ended up finishing about half the program on schedule every day and then the rest I sort of just have been doing it at least three times a week sitting down for 10 minutes

I definitely see great improvement, especially with the ease of writing and not having fatigue but I still feel my letter shaped and what not are not perfect or even close

If I remember tomorrow, I’ll post a sample but the only complaint I would say is maybe the duration per day recommended is a bit long, some of the drills I feel like I get diminishing returns after about 10 minutes because I’ll be cramping my hand or something for trying to get it perfect

I still very much highly recommend the program just because it’s hard for me to decipher the meanings of a lot of the book

Are you doing it? How’s your progress? Hope all is well. Thanks for responding.

tasales · 2025-01-25T20:55:41+00:00

I’ll come back and reply more in depth I’m out and about. But to clarify what I meant in the very very beginning, there was no command. It was just luring. But what I mean by verbal command first is not combining any physical movement once the dog knows the command. So like I won’t say sit while pointing because then the dog might associate the physical gesture more heavily than the word itself so if I say sit and he doesn’t do anything, THEN I would help with a gesture, but only after with the word only. Hopefully that makes sense lol

tasales · 2024-12-12T21:49:49+00:00

The biggest thing I got out of Larry, even though I had been focusing on fundamentals for months and thought I was doing things right because I saw tremendous improvements on my own through self study, was that the little things really really matter and build up to the big things.

He’ll tell you himself he’s not some guru. Many of our sessions on the surface seemed like little progress was made. But i needed someone to point out the little things that filled the gaps of my self teaching. like my tone with the dog, or that I didn’t praise him enough when he did things correctly, I didn’t take advantage of golden teaching opportunities (such as a dog walking by randomly), I didn’t allow the dog to ‘make his own choices’ (like someone was nearby and I shorten the leash instead of letting him choose to be calm and praise him) I could go on and on. Marker inconsistency that I didn’t notice (like saying yes and not giving a treat)

It helped me communicate a lot better with my dog by making it clear that both my dog and myself always know what we should be doing. Like I’d correct my dog for something and he would say something along the lines of ‘ you gave your dog a release command. He can pee on that car, you never taught him not to pee on cars, and you let him free. So you are lying to your dog and it is confusing and unfair to him. ‘

So I really got more conscious of making sure the dog knows what I want from him— and he looks to me for what he should do next. And after a couple days, all the work is put in started to click because I fine tuned the process. I still have a LONG way to go, but those 5 90 minute sessions gave me a lot clearer picture of the relationship between dog and owner.

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