Dwight Hottle

My goal each year is a new pb. Didn't happen for smallies but I did pb three times on largemouth. My largemouth success is directly attributed to fishing a stellar fishery in Mexico, lake baccarac. My other goal was to fish with some new people & enjoy it & I did. Made a few new friends too. That is how bass resource serves me the best. Thanks again Glenn.

But you got a lesson in humility.

J's only weakness is that Yankees hat.

.It is not just Catt. Smallies show a strong preference to orange bellies or throats. So do largemouth. You couldn't go wrong by painting orange throats or bellies on all your baits. Try it.

Might be cheaper to rent that second one when your available than buy it.

Some people think that whole thing was contrived. Think acting hence an academy award possibility.

Steve I just saw that yesterday. I guess I'll have to come with a new rig for each arm of my old rig. It will look like a school of umbrellas chasing an umbrella.

Hey a double is a double. Post them up.

Spoken like a true warrior. I like your style.

I get how verstile this would be for shallow water. My question is how does it get back on plane from a stop in 3.5" of water?

I like the straight models for twitching or as subtle jerk bait. The jointed or broken back models can be killers with a stop & go retrieve or steady retrieve. So I like them both.

Red fin. Its getting close to spawn for her. Only one of those I caught out of erie.

Nice fall brownies J. Only trout from smallie waters. CWB & I caught these while fishing for smallies on jerkbaits.

Here you go Smokinal a triple.

I like. Why don't you bring that boat up to erie & we can beat up on some smallie?

Nice ones Shane.

Sweet spotted brownies.

I don't want to rain on your parade but if your budget is $3000 for a used boat you are going to be in trouble when you have your first mechanical issue. A 20 year old outboard can be very expensive to repair unless you have a wealth of mechanical experience. I think you would be happier if you get a jon boat like you mention & keep things that can go wrong to a minimum.

I'm glad we posted the big ones first. Mighty nice looking 5lbers.

I catch them on jerkbaits every year. They are always 12" and a lb or bigger.

If your jigging for deep perch schooled up try a saltwater sabiki rig. Most of them come standard with 6-8 hooks. In PA you can only fish with three hooks so I cut them in half & add the hardware to make two rigs out of one. Sometimes they will outfish the live baits rigs. They also seem to catch bigger perch.

I only have one. Most of my fishing involves a boat ride before fishing. The question I always debate is should I fill the livewell first before fishing when I arrive or wait until the first legal fish is caught to fill the well? Will I jinx myself if I fill it in anticipation of that first nice fish? And the debate continues every trip.

Because we are stupid. We are told to use a spinning rod in our right hand & reel with our left if we are right handed. Since your right arm is dominate it makes perfect sense to cast with your right arm & immediate reel with your left without any transfer. This happens because a spinning reel sits under the rod instead of above unless you are a nerd. Then the manufactures of baitcasters determined that right handed people will want to reel with our right hands. That is a flawed premise. We want to cast with our dominant arm. Then we have to transfer the rod to our left hand so we can reel with our right. I as well as most others bought into that stupidity & also because there are more offerings in right handed baitcast reels than left handed. Ideally a right handed person would cast with their right hand & reel with their left. That is much more efficient that having to make the transfer from right hand to left with the rod after casting. The bait casting manufacturers have done us wrong.