Bassnbrett101

Yeah that does look like a pretty good lake, please do tell ;D lol. Must be pretty remote to have to carry your jon boat down two miles of quad trail?

There are times for both, most of the guys I fish with are almost as serious as me so we can go and concentrate and still catch fish. Basically I call a few people first and if no one wants to go I'll go alone. When I know I'm just gonna go out for a few hours and need a break from the day though I will just go alone

I was recently asked how I fish in the summertime from another member on the forum and I tried to answer him the best way I possibly could. After I was done explaining what I do I realized that this would probably be a good resource to some of the newer bass fishermen out there. Granted these are my personal techniques on some of the local lakes but you could use some of the info in this message to help you out in lakes around your area. Summertime: Lol, Summertime is my favorite time to fish. For ponds and such I tend to throw spinnerbaits, frogs, and wacky worms alot esp. around weeds. In lakes and the rivers around here I catch alot of fish on jerkbaits and spinnerbaits in the summertime. Basically I don't think deep when I think summer, I think forage. When the water temp. goes up so does a fishs' metabolism, which means it needs to feed more often. The fish will follow bait. I try to stay shallower when I fish ponds and stuff with weeds, when you find weeds there's generally going to be largemouth nearby. But for lakes with no weeds such as yough (lake in our area with little to no vegetation at all) I look for wood cover around the bank, dropoffs, and points, basically depth changes. ex. a dropoff from 6-12 ft, a point coming up from 19 to 12 then going back down to 18 feet. Don't look at fishing deep water like its different than fishing the bottom of the lake from shore. It's basically the same thing except the water is deeper. You may need a deeper diving jerkbait or crankbait but you can still use the same texas rig that you use from shore in deeper water. Thick wood and thick weeds. You can do basically the same thing with both, assuming you're on a boat. I generally use a 1/4 oz. weight for flipping and pitching wood and I will sometimes go up to a 3/8 oz weight for pitching into weeds if they are really thick. I try to stay out of the thick stuff however, I like to fish weedlines and submerged weeds the most either with a spinnerbait, jerkbait, texas rigged tube, or senko. On ponds I basically fish just a wacky worm, because you just can't beat it for numbers or quality. When I do get into thicker weeds I like to throw Ribbit frogs on top of them and I like to pitch tubes and creature baits into them. When I'm fishing thick wood nothing gets down in there better than a texas rigged tube, in my opinion. The fish around here love tubes and it seems like they can't get enough of them. Just remember not only to hit the edges of the wood piles but slowly work your way into the middle too.

lol same here its an obsession. I just love the competition when I go to tournaments.

The only problem is he didn't kill himself. I think he deserves a darwin award though

That has to be made up. You cant see the tail and he was way too close to the dorsal fin. Would be amazing if it was real though

Nevermind what I said before, this is WAY more important lol

Fishing lots of tournaments

Thanks alot for the Interview guys. It was really informative and I already decided to buy the book thats coming out! Thanks again, Brett

Yeah I got a great look at it, it turned on its side for me 30 secs after I set the hook. It musta been 3 1/2 to 4 foot long! My friend that goes fishing with me just to get out of the dorm saw it and said it was the biggest fish he's ever seen. I was using a tube jig for smallies however and I only had a small spinning rod with 8 lb test fluorocarbon, that didnt exactly help my situation any lol

I think its probably going to be a combination of the hookset and hook size. 2/0 will work but the 3/0 or 4/0 will give you better hooksets. I'd say go with a 3/0 but I'm kinda biased, thats my favorite hook size lol It could also be the diameter of your hook. If you're fishing on spinning tackle and lighter line a thinner hook will work wonders for you.

I've noticed that they are really good. Just to let your baitmonkey know

All I'm thinking right now is GO PENS!!

For me, yes that is what I really want. I'm not the kind of guy that goes around asking for free stuff, when I ask a company for sponsorship I ask if they have any open positions for becoming a staff member. I know this isn't a huge difference but, personally, I think it is to companies and businesses. You're right about grammar too, it's been mentioned before and I'm sure it will come up again and again. I have a poster hanging in my dorm room that says, "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." William Jennings Bryan I think that poster says alot about life in general and I also think that it is along the same lines that you are thinking. I figured it would be good to share on this thread.

That makes sense, were you using the gary yamamoto creatures or brushhogs? Idk why but things with curly tails seem to work the best

It is a great thread, and thank you for answering my question, sorry I didnt say it sooner.

lol I'm sure you coulda done it if you had a boat too. You just have to be shifty and net em real quick. I didnt know it was a goldfish at first though all I saw was a tail

Instead of fishing fast and throwing baits that the fish have to attack try throwing baits that they can sit and look at for awhile such as a shakey head worm or a wacky worm. I'm not saying that this will work, but I think its worth a shot. I thought a pond near me was a dead sea but I decided to give it one more shot this year and I've been knocking them dead! All I needed to do was slow down and fish more methodical (with a shakey head worm and a wacky worm lol).

Nice fish! Idk I think sometimes this early in the year the muddy water might actually turn the fish on. In your case it looks like it did, or maybe you used the rattle trap because the water was muddy and thats what they wanted? lol :

lol i know, I hooked a HUGE musky on the upper north branch earlier this year. I woulda got it in but a boater ran almost right over it and it dove into a tree :'(. Oh well that happens, but that goldfish was a surprise lol

lol thats not a bad day at all on raystown. Congratulations!

Whenever my girlfriend complains about me going fishing I turn my phone off and go out anyway. And when I get back I tell her, "If your just gonna b*tch at me I'm going back to the lake." Usually works, we've been dating for a year and a half now. IMO you can't let them get too clingy. You have to set the rules and stick with them. She's not in control of your life, you are.

Johnny Cash is pretty much amazing

El Grande this is great information, thank you for sharing. But I was wondering if you could tell me more about the "projected/expected results". What "results" would you, as a potential sponsor, like to see if someone confronted you about sponsorship?

X2 on the tilapia they kinda look like sunfish and i've seen them hit a joes fly