dmac14

Yeah they're are a few things with this, I know I cant enter tournaments for a few reasons. 1. Needs two livewells 2. Needs to be at least 16ft 3. Needs to have at least 75hp 4. Needs a killswitch 5. Needs a back casting deck for a non-boater. So find a local club and look into this, also nothing wrong with being a non-boater, sure is cheaper.

4. Flippin' Spinnerbait Topwater Weightless plastics

The thing with casting is if they are good on land then I am sure they are just as good on the water. If they can hit a stationary target indoors with no wind, but you cant, I am sure they would have a better chance of hitting it under windy conditions than you would.

I would say look into getting a fish finder, it will help you work a little off shore structure. I got a great deal on a humminbird 727, it was an old model on display at gander mountain. I got it for $180.

I use a 7'6" MH/fast flipping stick for my frogs. It works great haven't had any power issues yet been able to pull pretty much anything in with it.

Is the trailer hitch on the bumper of a truck suitable to tow a boat? Or should I look into having a good one installed.

Spinnerbait and flipping large grass flats for smallies. Nothing better than seeing the line straighten for a second then driving a hook through the fishes mouth. Third best would be froggin', love them strikes.

bring a backpack and they sell little cases that are water tight. Just put the things that cant get wet into the box. And I like to put all my plastics into a big ziplock bag along with the proper hooks and weights. This will keep them relatively dry.

Do all motorguide TM's have the same mounting holes? Reason I am asking is I have a crappy TM on my F/S but a nice one on my row boat and was wondering if I could just move the nice one over to the F/S. And How hard would it be to install a killswitch on a boat? I can't enter any tournaments w/o one and was wondering if it was an easy install.

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Whats "not expensive". My flipping set up is a revo stx with a 7'6" crucial flipping stick and it works great.

I am also a little too young, but maybe you should try rochester bassmasters, maybe just show up to a meeting and talk with the guys there, I fish with them and they are a bunch of great guys I am sure they would love to have someone to fish with. http://www.rochesterbassmasters.com/ we have a meeting this Thursday. Even if you don't want to join the club you can talk to some of the guys there.

I do just fine with 50# and some heavy flipping, haven't tried 65 but I feel like it would be too much. Even with my 50# If I get caught up the hook is bent before the line snaps, so its strong enough.

Best place to learn is the backyard. Take an old crankbait, take off the hooks and just cast all day, I did this at my job last summer and got a good two hours of casting in every day for a good 6 weeks.

Switching baits too often. I did this like crazy my first few years of really fishing, I would change every 5-10 casts. I feel like people should have 3-4 baits they really trust and stick with using them. I recently slimmed it down to 4 baits and I have seen more fish and also cut down cost a bit because I now only focus on buying the things I will really fish.

The Rochester bassmasters usually fish around 7 tournaments a year, some are to day and some are one day.

Yeah Rochester bass-masters have a great group of guys. I just fish for fun, at least for now. And to get a boat down there, well I used a canoe once and we kinda found a part of the bank that went somewhat into the water and just threw it in then hopped in. You can ask my friend Andamtoft on here cause I think he has used a porta bote on them.

Durand ponds can use a boat have seen many people doing that, only electric motors though. And jig should work fine, I am not a big jig fisherman but tubes have done wonders there, so I am sure a jig would be the same. Make sure you have some good polarized glasses if you forget yours you a pretty screwed. Sight fishing is by far the best way to fish those ponds. Although fish get spooked easily. Senkos are by far the best thing there, especially because often shrubs and trees grow over the water and the fish love to go up under so just skip a senko way up in there. Spro frogs are a blast once the duck weed sets in, this usually happens during the summer and it takes over. Also if you wanna try for some pike I have seen some huge ones come up and take out sunfish. I have caught 2-3 5+lb fish from those ponds and an abundance of 2's and 3's. The fish in my avatar was 5.5 on a digital scale caught from those ponds, best part was she was in a group of three and she was the smallest one.

I havent been able to get out yet this year. But my dad said he caught 3 small ones on 5 casts out at port bay this past saturday 5/2. So it seems like theyre starting to bite

Look on the forum for some sales, I got a Shimano Crucial flippin stick for $120 shipped, and I love it. Its 7'6"mh and handles everything pretty well.

A simple twirl tail grub on 1/4oz jig head. Or use a gulp minnow on the jig.

Yeah I own a cottage up on that like on the eastern end. Fishing is terrific, smallmouth are pretty much everywhere. I have fished up there for the past 20 years, and on the last trip I just found some new spots. Key is to find the humps, it'll jump from like 10 to 20 ft and back up to 8 all in a hundred meter section so the bottom really varies. I have been snorkeling up there and even seen some monster largemouths like 8-10lbs, 2-4lb smallmouth are very common. Senkos are easily the best way to catch them although I recently was using spinnerbaits and had great success. You can even do some god frogging back in some of the coves. This lake is very versatile, walleye fishing is good, they have actually been stocking them lately. Pike fishing is great also. Not sure if they still rent on the east end but if they do I have some spots for you to try out. I don't know much about the west side because we just have a little row boat with a 9.9 so getting down that way is tough. If you have any questions just let me know.

I got a pair and they're great. They feel comfortable to me, I hardly notice they are on.

STX all the way, the swedes make some good fishing stuff.

I only try to keep it at around 4 poles. One spinning 6'9" MH, this is for pretty much any weight below 1/4oz. A flipping rod, 7'6"MH 1/2-1 1/2oz, this is used for flipping and frogging or anything that requires deep weeds, sometimes used for spinner baits. One 6'9" MH for purely spinnerbaits, I dont fish with jigs so this is pretty much just spinner baits, but would work great with light flipping and some jigs. Last one is a 7' MH for top water. Can also use crankbaits but dont usually fish them so its pretty much just top water, sometimes a spinnerbait. With just these four rods I have pretty much every part of the lake covered. Even on trips where I don't fish for just bass I would use the spinning for walleye and the flipping stick for pike.