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That's awesome Paul, you always have a good fishing story, no matter what the situation. Give my congrats to Emily, I wish I had been that good at 6 years! If you get a chance could you drop some of your ever-enlightening advice by my post about help deep water fishin? I'd really appreciate it T

I've always wanted to eat 'em, but my dad won't let me cuz he says they'll be loaded with fertilizers and pesticides and junk. I've actually NEVER thrown a c-rig in my life... never needed to cuz the t-rig worked so well for me. I'll try it I guess

You're right on the threshold of the spawn buddy. Sounds to me like the bucks are lining up to compete for the best nesting spots and the she-bass are cruising around searching for a suitable mate/nest. You, my friend, need to be patient. Wait till they key in on their bed, then they will strike

Spinnerbait, T-rig, ANYTHING topwater (buzz and prop baits are favorite though), weightless rigged stick baits, shallow cranks, and anything finesse for the spawn

In my nieghborhood there is a small 10 acre pond stocked with bass, bluegill, grass carp, catfish, and several crappie. I'm convinced the lake is overpopulated with bass and underpopulated with bait because I catch small bass all the time and TONS of them. I do see large bass, but only during the spawn, I can't find them any other time. I know big bass are caught in deep water and the pond goes to about 30 feet at deepest, but I fish from a paddleboat, I have no electronics so I can't locate fish or structure therefore I am totally lost when it comes to fishing deeper water. What should I do?

Is that not how I spelled it??? I've read a book that features him about 5 times... I remember the name

In my nieghborhood there is a small 10 acre pond stocked with bass, bluegill, grass carp, catfish, and several crappie. I'm convinced the lake is overpopulated with bass and underpopulated with bait because I catch small bass all the time and TONS of them. I do see large bass, but only during the spawn, I can't find them any other time. I know big bass are caught in deep water and the pond goes to about 30 feet at deepest, but I fish from a paddleboat, I have no electronics so I can't locate fish or structure therefore I am totally lost when it comes to fishing deeper water. What should I do?

Atlanta area bass club (i live in suburbia) with good tourneys for co-anglers (16 yrs. old). i'm in high school so i can't dedicate very much time to the club... heard of any good ones?

google it bud

Really? Is it worth it? I mean I live in suburban Atlanta, I'm 16, and very involved in highschool sports and academics. Would its still be worth it? I REALLY want to fish some tournaments though

This is a "little" fishing report I wrote to one of my fishing buddies and I've been itching to see what others think of it... happened last year, but it has been called by some "the perfect day." See what you think (if you have the patience to read the whole thing ) From: bassin_assassin@hotmail.com To: tom@anson-stoner.com; smithgus@aol.com Subject: Great day out on the golf course Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:14:16 -0400 No... I am not playing golf. I just went for the water hazard, the BIG water hazard. There is a big lake on a private country club that my buddy takes me up to every once in a while that is brimming with nice sized bass. We got to the little jon-boat with a tiny trolling motor at about 7:45 this morning. Before loading in, my buddy and I were casting some spinner baits around the dock. He got a nice tug and started to fight a bass. I came over to watch it play out and asked him how big he thought it was. He replied, 'I dunno, it feels like one of those little ones that fights well.' How wrong he was. We saw a hulking form rise up from the depths with the tip of his rod. We both hit the deck to try to lip that hawg out of the water ASAP. He snatched it up triumphantly, glistening and dripping in the sunlight of the early morning. I took some picture with my phone and we let it go. Man, what a great start of the day! We loaded up in the boat and started off onto the lake. We went into a cove immediately to the left of the dock to catch nothing but a few logs that were piled up on the bottom. Then, something caught my eye from the cove directly across from us. I saw the water shimmering, vibrating, as if alive and nervous of some unseen danger lurking below. Baitfish, probably shad, and LOTS of them. We gunned the trolling motor over there to behold an even more awe-inspiring display. Green, thrashing bombshells of zealous largemouths erupted onto the surface, spraying silvery shards of of shad-shrapnel far across the battle ground of the food chain. They stalked in and then immediately morphed into angry torpedoes that ripped through the whirling balls of silver ripples at speeds I had never thought capable of such lethargic looking fish. I need to bring a video camera next time. Well you can only imagine our elation at this spectacle. We cast our spinner baits into the midst of the carnage time and time again only to scare of the bait ball and have to reposition. Then I had an idea. I saw many of the little shad that had either been hit by a bass or injured in flight from one swimming, straining, on the surface. I tied on a shad colored, jointed, floating Rapala and tossed it into the maelstrom of scales. I reeled slowly and carefully across the surface to mimic the wounded baitfish. I was not rewarded with the extravagant missile strike I had expected, however, but a stealthy sniper mission from a rogue bass. All of a sudden, a green-white blur flashed up from the depths, plucked my lure from the surface, and darted back toward the murky underdark of the lake. I fought it accordingly and quickly landed and decent-sized 3 pound bass. The next few fish gave me the show I had patiently waited for. They NAILED it!!! Exploding, shattering the surface in feeding frenzy to tear my lure down from our world of air and light to one of watery shimmers. I could barely make out these fish until they flashed to the surface, exhausted in body but having twice the will enough to make one last run. These fish gave me some of the best fights on a light spinning rod I have ever had. My friend joined in the battle after I equipped him with a similar lure from my arsenal. Once, when in hot pursuit of a tormented bait cloud that had just opened up and begun to rain (upward of course), I placed my lure directly behind the storm only to be torn from the surface moments after hitting the frothy plane. This was one fight I will never forget. Even though it lasted only about 2-3 minutes, that fish fought with ferocity I have never felt in a freshwater fish. I was sure that I must have a 10 lb. bass or more. My buddy and I were pleasantly surprised to see the the silvery-yellowish form of a hybrid striped bass float tiredly to the surface. I boated it and we estimated it would go about 6 or 7 pounds. Took a few pictures with my phone and gently nursed it back to health cradled in my hand just below the surface. It spitefully flipped a tail-full of water in my face before darting away from the boat. Now we caught a few more bass that day, all averaging at about 3-4 pounds, on worms and spinner near a bridge and on the dock. We even returned to find some more feeding in the cove and picked a few out of that crowd. All in all, we landed 19 fish total. My friend got the biggest largemouth, and I the biggest fish of the day. We were tied 9 to 9 at the dock just before leaving as he desperately tried to pull ahead with his favorite spinnerbait, but I showed him a thing or two with my 10' texas rigged worm and beat him out 10 to 9 in the end. We had one of the best days out on the water that we have had in a LONG time. I thought y'all might want to here about that one. We will definitely be returning to that lake soon!!! 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Thanks for puttin' that one to rest FC, I'm known for arguing forever ;D But man I swear, when I finished reading Sowbelly for the 4th time I told myself I would up and move to CA one day

I'm tired of having no lil picture by my name. I tried pasting the URL from photobucket but that didn't work, how do I put up my pics?

Again, I agree, BUT not all of us are blessed with crystal clear waters and trout fattened bass. I make do with my insanely overstocked, poorly managed, neighborhood pond in which a 2 pounder is considered a good one

ah yes but i believe you know how to deal with that now correct?

25 pounder, foul hooked, all that stuff No that is not Mac in the picture, its his long time fishing buddy "Buddha" from the triumverate of compadres that included Jed Dickerson, Mac Weakley, and Buddha (I only remember his nickname). They have been pursuing the record on Lake Dixon for some time now and the Mac-Buddha team landed an 18+ pounder a while back to catapult them into the big bass world. They saw another MONSTER bass, but thought it might be a lil' smaller than the one they had already caught, so, after Jed begged them for a chance, they let him go after it. Dickerson landed the fish and it ended up being 20+ lbs., his grand entrance into the big bass world, "*****-slapping Mike Long in his own backyard" some say. The three have been goin at it for a long time after they heard of the money that would follow the record and have landed a lot of big bass in the process, this infamous bass with the black spot being one of them (fabled to have been caught several times (by Mike Long, then Jed, then Mac)). If you like the story of the world record I suggest checking out the book Sowbelly: The Obsessive Quest for the World Record Largemouth Bass

I find them quite easy to detect. On one twitch you feel the light little weight of the worm jerking in the water, on the next you feel the increased weight of a bass' jaws clamping down on your Senko

Trust me I know about all of that swimbait action over in CA... ever read Sowbelly??? But as for me on my little 9 acre pond in suburban GA... I'll stick with my Senkos and save my little mini versions of your swimbaits for the spawn: the only time you will find some bigguns in my lake.

I'm gonna have to say a jig... i just can't produce with 'em

I LOVE SENKOS! I caught 23 fish on a weightless swim-senko in three outings this week. Those lay-down trees are killer, 7 of the bass came from the same tree (on different days of course) but they're great. I'd say welcome but i'm a noobie to ;D

Yeah... I'm cronically late gettin back from the lake. It's a good thing I can walk to it from my house. That was actually the first time I've used a buzzbait seriously though I think

haha I considered it but I was in a paddle boat and lightning was flashing around me and my dad called me in on my phone so I thought it'd be a good time to leave

Now I know that a lot of you know I resolved to throw only a jig for a while, BUT... while my buddy and I were fishing the other day I saw some clouds rolling in and it was evening so I said, "Wow, this looks like a great time to try out my new buzzbait!" He proceeded to laugh at me and say, "What!? Buzzbaits are the worst baits ever! You can't catch ANYTHING on 'em!" As we headed in I argued with him that buzzbaits are great topwater lures and are awesome in general. He kept insisting all they are good for is an annoying noise and bet me I couldn't catch anything on a buzzbait. -I went out the next morning: overcast and calm as anything on the lake. I caught 14 keepers in under 2 hours and would have caught more if it hadn't been for the tornado warning that rolled in. I knew he wouldn't believe me so I took pictures of every bass with the bait in its mouth... He is seriously rethinking his confidence in his own fishing knowledge right now!

It depends on how long the worm is and how you are rigging it. The past week I've been having a lot of success fishing a 5" Swim-Senko rigged weightless but hooked Texas style. The hits normally come on the fall, but it doesn't matter when they hit it: what I (and Mike Iaconelli) do is give the worm a small tug to ensure that there is actually a fish there. After that tug, the fish has had plenty of time, rear back on him!

I'd rather not join a club