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And just like that, I caught a male off a bed this past week that did just this. I must have had "the touch" since no squeezing was required! lol ;D

I use black/blue everything. My favorite night time lures are chatterbaits, booyah night stalker spinnerbaits, 10" worms, and booyah buzzbaits with the clacker. Basically anything that you can fish slow, is big and black, and makes alot of water displacement, I dont know about cold water night fishing though, seems like the bite shuts off for me when the water is below 60 at night. Thats just my experience though. The water also needs to be relatively clear, or they wont be active at night. cant go wrong with spinnerbaits.

cool, im gonna try a local nearby pond tonight that is gin clear. water is 53 degrees, well see....

I dont know about the legal side of this, but we used to have a 100 gallon tank and have 5-6 8"-12" bass in it at once. I thought they were very easy to take care of and keep alive, and tons of fun to watch. And if they are kept in a fish tank, they will not outgrow a tank, they will not grow any larger if they are confined in a tank. If you keep your water ph balanced, and keep it airated they will do fine. check if its legal, and if it is go for it! they get very tame too, they would actally eat out of our hands.

wave worms makes 9" flukes, i dont know if thats too big for what you want, but i use them for bass, rules out the dinks! You will have to cut your own hook slit in the flukes tho, or else you have to find abnormally large offset hooks

Just wondering if anyone has success in colder water night fishing. 50-60 degrees. I am a huge night time bass fishermen, i love it. But ive noticed that in the spring and fall when the water cools, i have many nights without one bite at all. (water still crystal clear) There is a forest preserve next to my house with a quarry and i sneek in there at night and fish, done it since i was 8. When the water is warm, the bass act like they have never seen a hook before. But when the water temp cools, the fishing in the daytime gets better and worse at night. :-? i fish corestponding tactics as i would daytime just different lures, anyone else have this problem? or anyone else nightime fish in cooler water?

I have similar story! I had my first tourney which was 2 weeks ago. It was on lake wisconsin and the water was cold. On pre fish we started searching for the warmest water we could find and found that wayyyyy back in the backwaters the water was like 9 degrees warmer! and very stained. We cought 16 lbs for 6 fish and let a few spit the hook. That night the temp dropped from 65 to 30, the water droped 9 degrees where we were fishing the day before. We fished the back bays for alitle bit but with no bites we quickly moved to adjacent deep water from where we were catching them yesterday. we THOUGHT they would have moved deeper. The funny part is that the winning team cought their limit in the same back bay as we were fishing the day before!!!!! if we just would have stayed there, we would have cought our limit!

i wouldnt pay so much attention to water temp, pay more attention to the depth and activity level of the bass. if bass and baitfish are shallow in 55 degree water, give it a try! Ive had bass slam flukes and spookes in 52-55 degree water when baitfish are around.

i saw the magic shad at wal mart and thought about using it as a chatterbait trailer....good idea! ill have to try that.

any info on if and when they are coming out with this new prototype ?? So would everyone probably agree with a st croix avid over a bps elite? I am a previous owner of an avid and i loved it so ill probably go with that. Im lookin at the 6'6" heavy avid series. maybe all star or gloomis? what have you guys had best luck with for price?

i use 50lb suffix, i figure when your throwing a jig into a mass of timber or grass and draging it through bushes, line visability isnt as much of a factor.

joining the college bass fishing team. I had no idea tournement fishing was so fun, opened up a new world for me, now i just need the boat!

I dont even use chaterbaits with the skirt anymore unless nightfishing. I have been removing skirt and adding flukes and banjo minnows on the back of mine, it works amazing. It creates a very erratic strike reflex producing lure. the 5" Bass assasin flukes work the best for it. if you use too small of a fluke it will spin

one of my fishin buddies even throws musky swimbaits like 9 inches long and catches big bass with them. Big swimbaits matching the type of fish in the lake should produce big bass. Just reel very slow around areas where crapies and bluegill would be stacked up, and keep the rod tip down when fighting, they throw large swimbaits very easy.

Im lookin to start investigating some new brands of line to see if i can find somthing better thatn suffix, figured id go try the unanimous decision.