bottledgt

just out tryin to get my dad into some fish again actually. always catch stuff by myself, but when i take him,nothing. except today, i caught this and some others, while he caught one i think,lol. set the hook and felt good for awhile until he got tired of it, then it felt REAL good. made about 3 good hard drag zipping runs. never really did give up. hard to hold in the boat as well. finally settled him down for a picture. then sent him back on his way.

biggest so far this year. hopefully i find one bigger, but if not, this one aint bad

what is this PB stuff all about...

i think it just sounds more violent cause you cant see and youre tuned in to your ears more.and its quiet as hell in the dark

i had a bass flop around in the boat and smash a spinnerbait trailer into my foot, the flop around and with me yelling,then yank it back out,.i dont fish in sandals anymore...

so i did nothin this morning but fish a c-rig and drop shot worm on various dropoffs. forgot how many i caught today. only thing that sucked was every one of them but 1 was 10" or less. and one 12.

so what all do you have to have to get a mount? length,weight and picture i assume? what about girth or anything else? id like to put the fish back when i catch one,but dont wanna do that and not have enough info to get it mounted,. then id be really ticked...lol

ive tried a drop shot several times...either the fish arent there or want nothin to do with it

hmm....well i would think in the deep it wouldnt mater as much. i could be wrong though

whats the opinion on braid? i got 15 lb on one reel,and 30 on another. i love the stuff, but it fades and turns whitish,so thinking that may be a factor? maybe ill put some flouro on,but i never used it,and not sure if its worth a crap or not

well, im gonna hang up the deep water thing for now. i cant catch one fish if its not near the bank. ive tried jigs,spinnerbaits,worms, on the bottom,to all the way up. just aint happenin. boring and frustrating as hell...lol.

cool, thanks. but ive seen fish at 8 ft,15 ft,25 ft and on the bottome in 30 ft of water,so how do i know from that? and what does knowing where the thermcline is do for me? im not up on that or what it tells me to do actually

no idea , and i have no idea how to even know that actually.clue me in

didnt have much luck. of course no body is apparently...lol. i tried jigs,spinnerbait,worms,etc from top to bottom. only picked one up on a worm at the bank early. then about 11 am i stopped in a small cove about 4 ft deep, and caught 3 or 4 on a spinnerbait. went to similar coves and nothing. went back to deep ledges etc, nothing. maybe just too d**n hot i guess. never thought they would have been in the shallow dead in the sun at 11 either though

well there was no temp change in the storm that passed through. still hot,lol. and yes, i have a depth finder. it wasnt a huge hump, but a hump none the less. i just suck at fishing deep water. im heading back in about 5 hours and try this again in deeper water with some jigs and deep spinnerbaits to try to find some. if that dont work, im just clueless again

went out from 6-1AM night before last. storm was supposed to come in around midnight. water was 90 deg. we caught 2 right off the bat and i lost a 5lb plus at the boat....not another bite the whole night,except for a catfish on a jitterbug. the storm blowed in and we left, but it never really did anything rain or temp wise. so last night, i thought id try again,and that maybe they would bite. went from 4 pm-2am...not one measly fish,,,NOT ONE. they werent on the bank,they werent in 10 ft of water,they werent in the weedbeds anywhere. and when fish arent in any of that, i either cant find them, or cant catch them. i tried finding dropoffs,ledges,fished rock bluffs that were 25 ft deep, i found a hump 10 ft deep in 18 ft of water,which is where i hooked one yesterday and lost it. some days, i think the whole lake just says,we're on vacation. how the hell do you find fish in deeper water? im terrible at it and cant remember ever catching one unles they were active and up top