JellyMan

Thanks a ton. I'll give it a shot! I want to experience Champlain while I have the chance. Arrowhead last year was pretty epic during the spring and spawn. I did probably 90+ lbs over the season. It then quickly got difficult and quirky. Turned into a real mission to locate bass.

This is what I figured. I was hoping somebody knew some good spots. I might give Mallets Bay a try.

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103 views and no opinions on where I could fish and inflatable with electric motor?

Torpedo is awesome too. Yellow belly color right now. Bass color into summer. Shorelines around any cover.

I used to be in insurance. I recently decided to leave the business and I am looking at going back to school. The recession has caused my to redefine myself professionally and as a person.

Yeah agree with most said. Try to find suburb/country club areas.

So I am moving back to Vermont till the end of the summer then back to Florida and I have my inflatable boat with trolling motor. I was wondering if anybody had any tips of what some good spots would be? I know being in an inflatable on Champlain is another story. I had some great spring time and spawn success at my local lake "Lake Arrowhead" but it gets real weird after that bite. Was hoping to get out on Champlain a few times this summer!

It was a joke. lol.

I'll say it a million times. You get what you pay for. It's worth it in the end. The Revo spinning reel is a great reel! If you think about it, a hundo really isn't that much for what you are getting. I spend a hundo every month in BPS when I am fishing a lot for tackle, lures, line, hooks, ect.

All the single guys are trolling this section lol. Welcome all. It's awesome to find women who love to fish!

Bass feels more like a weight on the end or 1 or 2 solid bumps. Smaller fish feel like *bump...bump bump bump bump.....bump bump*. Either way... give it a sec, real in your slack, and set the hook.

Lakeland, Ha! I grew up there. Great fish.

I dont have a favorite but I have a group of "producers". Each type of bait I have in a watermelon, watermelon red, and junebug. - Zoom trick worm - Zoom ultravibe worm - Zoom brush hog - Rage anaconda - Rage space monkey - Havoc pit boss - Jig - Heddon torpedo I dont have one favorite. ALL these are my favorite.

Fish more, experiment more, and hit up youtube for tips. Any quick tips can help load up your brain with knowledge and ideas. But again, most important is going to be water time.

I have been doing the same thing for ever. All I do is "zone fish". The only time I search for fish is when I am getting nothing. Then I will throw a crank bait on to try and find where the zone is. I call it "the danger zone" lol. These zones change with vegetation, water clarity, and water height. I have a knack for having high insight into where fish are. But experience has gotten me there. It's amazing where the hot spots are and you must focus on them correctly.

3 casting setups on my boat. - Weightless soft plastics / 12lb PLine Fluoroclear / 7 foot rod - Weighted soft plastics or jigs for flipping.. with a swivel so I can switch plastics and jigs on the fly / 30lb braid / 7'3 rod - Crank baits, top waters, spinner baits ect.. Always with a swivel so I can switch lures. / 12lb Trilene XL / 6'6 rod I personally dont see the need for anything else. I fish for myself. No tourneys so this is perfect. If I was in a club and fished tourneys then I would probably have 5 setups.

I have never caught a fish on the Spro frog. They hit it but dont take it. It always shows up back on the surface before I set the hook. No issues with any top water except the Spro frog

I use some scent I got from BPS years back. Not sure what it's called but it smells like whatever Zoom uses plus a hint of garlic. Smells good actually. 90% of the scents on the market smell HORRID and keeps me away from using them but the one I got is great. I have had no issue with catching fish with it. If anything, it might have helped a tiny bit with bass strikes and holding on just a split second longer. Any time I get new plastics I give the bag a spray to keep them lubed and smelly. If you are looking for some miracle scent that will induce every bass into striking then I think you are out of luck. Bass will bite when they wanna bite. I have personally watched about a crayfish go onto a bed where a bass was and the bass nosed down on the crayfish for a second and it looked like the cray pinched him. The bass actually left the bed until the crayfish was gone. It wanted nothing to do with it. If they dont bite they're favorite foods when they are live and well, scent wont do a dam thing.

I have not used one yet but I have played with them in the store a little and really liked the look and feel of them. I am going to be picking up three. Two 7 foot MH rods. One for soft plastics and one for top waters and cranking. The other is gonna be a 7'3 MH for jigs and flipping with some braid.

All time fav is the Heddon Torpedo. Second is the Heddon Spook Poppers are sweet too.

I love it. Under $300 total for everything minus my fishing gear. [media=]

I have completed my boat! Floor and all. I will be taking it out for a fish tomorrow and I will do a vid of my setup before I hit the water.

I just like em in bags. Just less hassle that way to me. I have 2 hard boxes. One for lures and one for tackle. Then I have the rest of my soft plastics in the their bags filling the rest of the space in my Abu Garcia Veritas bag. I also put extra scent juice on all my plastics so I prefer them to be sealed.

12lb Pline Fluoroclear on my Johnny Morris Elite baitcaster. I use that for soft plastics mostly and occasional jig fishing. 12lb Trilene XL on my other bait caster for crank baits and top waters. 8lb Pline Fluoroclear on my spinning. For smallies. I need 4 rod and reel combos to be honest but for now, 2 will have to do. I had to sell some. When I am in Florida, I use 30lb braid for jigs, 12lb Pline for soft plastics, and 12lb mono for top waters and cranks. We got big bass in heavy grass down in Florida. To be fair, I played out that 11.4lb bass in my avatar with 10lb Trilene XL mono with a swim jig. Let the drag down a few clicks and prayed.