Bubba_Bruiser

I grew up fishing these with my Grandpa. Like the others say, light on calm, twitch - pause - twitch - twitch. And more erratic with choppier days. But then again try both methods either or. I have caught more fish by far on the 1/2 oz model though. The only ones I keep in my box are the yellow/black (awesome in dead river lakes), and the chrome/black. I used to use a baby bass pattern with silver glitter, but they quit selling them years ago.

When I was 18, I lost my orginal fishing partner, my Grandpa. Like most he started me out on the bream, and then when the crickets got loose in his car for the 100th time, he gave my 50$ and told me to buy a bait caster from K-Mart and a pie plate to practice throwing to. He said it was time to big boy fish as he put it. I bought a Silstar reel and an off the wall rod and it has been love ever since the first hook up with ole' bucket mouth. My neighbor saw my love for fishing and quickly took me under his wing when my Grandpa passed away. He was not on to fish with too many people because he was serious about his fishing and I am 20 years younger the he. But he saw the same spark in myself and coached me to the fisherman I am today. Although I now have kids and an odd working we schedule, we still get to make trips every couple of months and enjoy every minute of them. God bless the memories. And thanks to the guys defending our country overseas. God bless and always kept in my prayers.

I fished Friday morning for about 4 hours after Gustav hit southern Miss Monday. We continued to get rain until Thursday night. The water level was high in the 8 acre pond we fished Friday. But we caught 16 on a goby fluke and a regular fluke dead on the banks. If you moved it more than 2' from the bank, you could hang it up, until the sun got high and the fog lifted. Then we moved to 6-8' with worms and caught 4 more before heading out. We went Saturday to a private 25 acre lake, and caught 42 with weightless 6" watermelon seed lizards, 1 came from a baby brush hog. They would not touch a fluke, and would not mess with it once it cleared from the bank a few feet. We also caught 8 slabs in some of the hot spots while between trolling to different areas. I reckon they were enjoying the new water level they haven't seen in quite sometimes.

Anyone fishing Okhissa lately in southern MS? I was planning on going in a few days and just thought I would ask. I went back in March and had a pretty good day eventhough we had a 20+ mph wind. We caught a few 2.5 under the 16" slot. They are fatties in there. The open flats with crankbaits were out of the question, but the fingers with a light stain were good with the double willow spinner baits. Well this is my first post to find out if any other 601s are out there.