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According to scientific research bass are turned off by anise oil

Yea stay away from Beaumont, you might have to fish Sabine Lake one of the best Speckle Trout & Redfish lakes around; you may have to fish the Bass-N-Bucks Trail located in near by NEDERLAND with tournaments on Toledo, Rayburn, Conroe, & Livingston.

Dude I staggered are for 30 minutes before I got my land legs

Justfishing I hunt on the Intercoastal Waterway levees which are extremely dense; most shots are within 15 yards; I hunt from the ground since there are few trees big enough to use a stand & blinds are illegal. I carry only my bow, 6 Easton AXIS Full Metal Jacket arrows, a quiver that fits my belt behind me, an armguard & Fred Bear® Master Glove. Plain & simple ole school

The listed price at Academy but I actually paid $34.88

At $179.95 Shimano Crucial CRC-X610MH: Length: 6' 10, Line: 10-20 lb, Lure: 3/8-3/4, Power: Medium Heavy, Action: Extra Fast

I read where when faced with weeds many anglers opt for the lightest weight possible; I go the exact opposite using at least a 1/4 oz shaking my rod tip forcing the weight & plastic through the grass. When bass are located in grass they are not on top of the grass but buried up inside the grass; they will move to the outer edges or make a quick run to the surface to feed. Yes it's extremely aggravating trying to get bait through the grass but the payoff is larger than average bass.

I would've went straight for the juggler vain & started with the Texas rig When fishing Texas rigged plastic slow doesn't necessarily mean weightless or small weights; the use of 3/16 to ¼ oz weights will increase the fall rate often time triggering reaction strikes on the fall. The additional weight will help with casting during windy conditions preventing back lashes

I'm a Cajun so I aint that politically correct or tactful > Muddy I say stand your ground; don't let someone who doesn't know you come between you & your friends. Yea this is Glenn's web site but it also belongs to us; without us there is no web site. This is also a public web site so if he has a problem with you he should say it publicly if not shut up. Leaving the site is giving into his stupidity

What's his name I want to invite him on a fishing trip to the Atchafalaya

If y'all are missing that many fish maybe y'all be using the wrong bait, wrong color, or wrong size. I'm gonna miss some fish but to me that aint no reason to add more hooks

If I miss fish on a Rogue with 3 treble hooks then I should add more hooks to solve the problem?

My question is how do you know you would have missed those fish without a trailer hook?

Not bad, not bad at all for a woman Just ignore Sam he has footballitus :

Ah the ole bait on the bank trick; works every time

That's a keeper

Don't use them & you can't make me I do have a question for those who do use trailer hooks; how do you know the bass would not have been caught if the trailer wasn't there?

When a person reaches a certain age they start experiencing physical handicaps; I have severe arthritis in my lower back and after standing for extended periods of time I have difficulty moving. So needless to say I've taught myself how to flip, pitch, & cast seating

Bait monkey is afraid of that little Pollock I'm married to; so I just meet him at Academy where I work.

That 20 hp Merc aint worth $50; I can get you one free

Nah Mike they can handle it as long as they stay away from Muddy

Quite fishing timber or get use to hang ups

That my friend is a bass's home Toledo Bend is covered with Eurasian Milfoil & Hydrilla Verticillata

OK! This is just a little insight on Deep Grass Jigging! During the early 70s on Toledo Bend the Hydrilla/Milfoil started really getting thick and numerous anglers (me included) were basically fishing the matted grass with weightless Texas Rigs & Johnson Weed less spoons, there wasn't many other baits that would work in this thick stuff. At the time I belonged to the Hemphill Bass Club out of the Harbor Light Marina and one of our members started wining back to back tournaments, not just ours but every ones. He was killing us with 15 fish stringers averaging 3 1/2 to 4 lbs. a fish. No one could figure out how he was doing it, we had all seen him on the main lake flats fishing the grass flats like us or so we thought. Finally at a club meeting he revealed what he was doing. Being a diver he had went out to the grass flats & dove under to see what was there, what he found was tunnels, caverns, & caves under the surface matted grass. In of these areas he could see crawfish clinging to the grass stems, they were also filled with schools of bass, mostly large bass. The next question was what bait could get to the bass, the answer was provided by Lonnie Stanley with a ¾ oz. Jig! Who is this angler that jigged his was too many a tournament win as well to the top of B.A.S.S. Texas Bass Fishing Legend Tommy Martin! Tommy's approach to this technique is different from what you've seen, read, or heard. With most techniques you are actually fishing the densest areas of the matted Hydrilla. The focus of Tommy's technique is the outer 15 to 25 yards of the mat; in this area the grass is a little sparser, his simply pitches or flips the jigs to a near vertical presentation. His main objective is to keep the jig in contact with the bottom at all times, something most anglers fishing grass fail to do. When the jig stops falling many anglers believe they have reached bottom, but from an underwater view with scuba gear the jig has only settled on the thick base stems of the Hydrilla. After making a pitch Tommy will strip about 3 or 4 arms lengths of line letting the jig fall near straight down. Then he will shake the jig to make sure it has not stop on the grass stems. With the jig now resting on the bottom, pause several seconds, the shake the jig once or twice with pauses between each. If no strike is detected simply reel up & pitch again moving locations about 20 ft from the previous. Once you get bite quickly kick or toss a buoy marker over board, fish in grass flats tend to school up so when you catch one there is usually more. Circle the buoy in increasing diameters & depths working the jig slowly (I once caught nine 6 lb + bass in an area the size of your living room). You may work 70 yards or 700 yards to locate the fish but when you do hang on! Thirty years later Tommy is still living in Hemphill Texas, still guiding on Toledo Bend, & still fishing the B.A.S.S. tour. The deep grass technique is still catching huge stringers of quality bass with most Toledo tournament wins averaging 5 lbs. So if you've got the patience to work a jig for sometimes hours with out a bump or if you aint afraid of hanging several hawgs back to back give deep grass jigging a try.

That makes the heat some what bearable