basspro48

DROP-SHOT TIME!!! Try drop-shotting those green and purple worms on the ledges and drop-offs. Also try small tubes and small 1/4 oz.-1/2 oz. finesse jigs. Catch a bigun fer me,ya hear

Thanks for the insider info Sam My friend who went last year said that because of the ice storm KVD couldn't be there, lets hope for better weather this year

Thanks for the heads-up info. Sam, kinda surprised BPS hasn't contacted or informed their customers of this. :-?

I got one of the best bass fishing gifts I could have gotten today, free enrollment in the Bassmaster University courses :). Although this might not seem like a big deal to some of yall... ...I have been wanting to do this for a long time but just never had the money. Now I'll get to meet and learn from guys like KVD and Ike, not to mention I'll get to drop a few $$$ at BPS.

Very Well said basswest11...Merry Christmas to all and God Bless our troops serving overseas...

[move]Merry Christmas[/move] Hope everybody got everything to satisfy the baitmonkey

LOL, rr... ;D ;D 8-)

It was definetly alive when he hooked it but as I said it looked very unhealthy from its coloring and all the scars all over it. I just don't get this :-?

It had one treble stuck in its upper lip, the fish looked fine as it was coming up. Although when we did get it up it had an unhealthy looking coloration. You know when a fish dies and it gets a white tint, this is what the fish looked like.

Today me and my buddy went down the road a little ways to fish a large private lake. This lake is known for big bass, average bass is 3-4lbs. Well we head up near the dam and start throwing deep diving Norman suspending cb's in about 12ft of water. After about 2 hrs. my buddy cast along some of the rip-rap and started a reel and pause retrieve, after about the 2 pause something smashed his bait. He got it up and it was a nice 7lb. largemouth, but when he picked it up out of the water it just stopped moving. It had scars all over its body and after about an hour of trying to revive it it just died. He ended up taking it home to get it mounted but I'm wondering why this fish died so quickly. Was it shock or stress, or did it have to do with the scars all over its body?????

LOL SFC_AL I also agree, I love this forum

I was wonderin why Virginia was put under Northeast in the fishing locations forum, from what I remember from U.S. History 2 Richmond, VA was the capitol of the Confederacy :-? But then again I'm not sure about northern VA, with all them yankee people livin up there...jk y'all hope I didn't offend anybody ;D ;D

After looking at all yall's boats all I can say is wow... :o...yall have the boats I have been dreaming of for a long time, kinda makes me ashamed of my beat-up little 14ft. moss-green jon boat with a 10 year old motorguide on it... :-[ I still love my jonny boat, I just wish I could have a big'ole Triton with a roaring Merc on the back...

Talk about filling a live well... :o :o

lol... ;D Merry Christmas and God Bless you, George :)

Although you might not consider it huge but my biggest smallie was 3lbs. 7oz. and came from the James River. Caught it on a pumpkin/seed GYCB single-tail grub impaled on an 1/8oz. jighead, I was popping it off the bottom right next to a huge weed-bed on a current seam

Me, my brother, and my dad used to go to this small farm pond down the road a little ways. it was half -covered with thick grass mats and half submerged grass beds I still fish it today and it is one of the best fisheries EVER. What we would do is after we got done catchin' fish we would go over to the dock and crimp a spli-shot onto a 4ft. long piece of Stren mono, then we would stick half of a Richard Petty hot dog on it and hang it out about 1ft. above the water. After about 30 seconds, WHOOSH a bass we called "Richard", guess why ;D, would fly out of the water and engulf the hot dog. Richard weighed about 9lbs and although nobody ever caught him it sure was fun watching him eat them hot dogs, every time he came up it would scare the hell outta you because you see that massive mouth coming out of the water... :o He probably died from all them Petty dogs we gave 'im...

After the dam for my lake broke last year... :'( :'( :'(...I started A-framing pallets and placing brushpiles in key areas throughout the lake. Place them in places like ledges, drop-offs, spawining flats, points, creek channels, key areas like that. Also be sure to mark your placements so you will be able to find them later.

I can't believe nobody has said Lake Guntersville Alabama yet! That would be my dream right there, it has some of the best largemouth fishing in the country and not to mention it some pretty good whitetail deer hunting from what I've heard. Plus nobody lives there, and I love living in the country so it would be my #1 choice.

Horse pasture ponds is where it is at. Tried to get permission to fish a "local" golf course pond, closest one is about 45 minutes away, but they said no. You have got to be real quiet and stealthy when approaching farm and pasture ponds because I live out in the sticks and some of these farmers can get real trigger-happy at night. I advise you wear a Realtree Seclusion hardwoods camo shirt and MossyOak Break-up pants with a black or brown hat. Camo has saved my butt more than a few times... ;D

This time of year a really effective tchnique for me is to fish a deep-divng suspending cb in about 10-12ft. of water. I work it with a pull and pause retrieve. Also try using ZOOM Super-Flukes, finesse jigs, hair jigs, jighead worms, small tubes, and most of all suspending jerkbaits.

C'mon Raul you know yer finger is just itchin' to click on that BUY NOW button... ;D Give into the monkey...you know you want that brand spankin' new $30 Megabass bait, wait why not get 3 or 4 maybe even...5 of'em. :o

What part of VA are you in? Because the only body of water I know around me with spots in it is the Pamunkey and Mattaponi Rivers. I am living in Mechanicsville in central VA right now, if you ever need a fishing partner let me know... ;D ;D

1.pitching sweet beavers and jigs to shallow wood cover and matted vegetation. 2.skipping ZOOM trick worms under docks and overhanging trees 3.throwing small homemade spinnerbaits and burning them by deeper laydowns and seawalls.

how about flaming flamingo