Pimping Picasa!

Photography still RoX!

Picasaweb is yet another one of "Google's Goodies" where anyone can store a lot of photos and then show them to friends on the internet. It's like always, FREE, or I don't bother getting involved. :-)

I've been with them for awhile now and pretty pleased with my association with them. As mentioned earlier, Picasa is a part of Google, and you KNOW how much I Love Google. :-)

Here's a link to my public gallery over there. LarryB @ Picasa

Now, this Special little link Let's Blog... is something Very New and it will slip you over to all the pictures from this blog you are visiting right now, all in one easy to view location, right there on Picasa. Enjoy. :-)

Dug from a trunk...

Here's a few old salvaged shots that haven't seen the light of day in a dog's age. :-) They aren't the best quality pictures of course, but they still show that I was pretty well into Fishin' and the Great Outdoors, way back then anyway eh. I find that it's really neat, how pictures will bring back many fond memories, that were so long ago, forgotten. This then is my own history, written in photos and I like it! :-) Wish there were a lot more, but I never did somehow fancy getting into my own pics that much. So, That I guess, explains that. :-)

About 16 to 20 in this first pic...

In my 20's for the second...

and mid 30's for the last shot with a fine Smallie...


Ba de, ba de, ba da, but that's all folks...

LB :-)

P.S. Get Picasa-ed!

Rattle Baits...

Making noise...

Rattling lures...

This is sort of an "intro piece" here to-day, into hollow plastic lures that "call" to the fish. :-) That's right, these lures call out to the fish from a long ways off and have proven themselves in many, many, varying conditions all over the U.S. and Canada too. Many manufacturers nowadays sell lip-less rattling crankbaits and most of them work because of that hollow body that resonates with sound because of the little metal balls inside. Fish ARE attracted to smallish underwater sounds like buzzing and rattling. I believe that the sound is what makes Bass SMASH these things most times! They hit it like they mean to kill it with one big CHOMP! :-)

Over the years I've caught a passel of Bass, both large and small mouthed varieties, on these rattlin' cranks in a lot of different lakes and so I Know they work. If You still think that noisy lures Don't work, then You should read this article by Russ Bassdozer over @ Gary Yamamoto's Cool website, about the King of the Rattle BaitsRat-L-Traps Rock!to get more convincing data from a well known Pro.

Rat-L-Traps...

I fish that FLOATING model at the top of the picture a lot, when the water the bass are in, is real shallow, like a foot or two. I reel it towards me fairly slowly to keep it in the top three or four inches of the water column. It still rattles well at this slower speed and I find it spooks less fish than when it's buzz-ripped in the short water...It's a presentation that NOT a lot of bass have seen, or should I say heard?
:-)

Check out BassKicker's neat blurb on his blog on these fine lures while you're here and see if You can add some tips to Your Noisy lure arsenal. :-)

Rattlin' those Bass...

Later,