playmaker47

Only thing i use nightcrawlers for is when i pinch them into little pieces and catch some bluegills

This Saturday at 5:30 A.M im going to be leaving for a smallmouth fishing trip on a lake that is about 2 hours from my house, but i dont ever go there because other lakes are closer to me and are mainly largemouth lakes. I've fished for largemouth my whole life, and love it, but i have never went fishing for smallmouth. I was just wondering what the basic rod and reel setups you guys use for them and what lures and techniques work best for you guys for hauling up those fiesty bronze fish. ;D thanks ;D

Dont hurt bass, they are our friends!!!

hah wow we are already in post-spawn here in Kansas. You must live way up north.

Try a large plastic worm. like 7 or 8" with a 4/0 hook and t-rig it. the smaller bass will hit this but it will be at the tale and they arent big enough the get hooked, so only larger bass will get hooked by this.

yesterday i was frisby golfing at our local park thing and there is a nice sized creek running through it. ive caught a few bass in it before and i was getting bored of the frisbys so i went home real quick and got my lightest spinning reel settup and just a few lures (the fish there dont get to big so thats why i got a light setup). i was fishing a while and didnt catch anything and then i noticed about 20 or so little bass about the size of my palm swimming around not 3 ft into the water. so i put my smalles lure on (a real little jig) and they werent hitting it and it was going right through them and there were tons of them. so i went to the gas station about 3 blocks away and got some nightcrawlers. i cut them up into little pieces abotu a cm long. i put them on a real tiny hook with a splitshot right above the worm and then a little bobber about a ft up. well i was pulling them out like crazy. i would throw them back but there were tons of fish out there and i caught one almost every cast for about 2 hours. it was awesome! and there were more of them about 15 ft out under some trees that i couldnt see that i was catching too. anyways my question is where can i find nightcrawlers living around my house to dig up so i dont always have to go and buy them. i live on about an acre sized lot with a windbreak of evergreen trees going all the way around. across the road from my house is this wooded area that is about 40 yds thick and about a mile long. if anyone has any advice about where exactly i can find nightcrawlers living in this area i would love to know. thanks

i dont eat bass at all but i love eating crappie and wiper and i just filet them right out of the livewell. some of them are already dead by the time i get home but if they are still flopping around just hold them down and fillet them starting from behind the head and they will be dead in a second.

if its a farm pond i would definatly assume that it has lots of moss and weeds and stuff in it. i would make sure to take some 4" and 6" plastic worms. take colors like black and junebug and chart. pepper. those are what work best for me at farm ponds, but you should take other colors too so that you can find out what works best for you. i would also take some bass jigs. 1/4-1/2 oz is probly the best. i like jigs that are black with a little bit of other colors in them, like black/chart., black/blue, and black/red. i also would take some topwater poppers and jitterbugs and walking baits. make sure you have a few Zoom Flukes. i would take 1 spinning outfit with about 8-10 lb line and then 1 baitcastiing outfit with 14-17 lb line.

I make some spinnerbaits for myself, just so i can get exactly what i want and not hafta search around to try to find somthing thats exactly what i want

Zoom Superfluke or Rebel Pop-R. also a Zoom Trick worm rigged weightless works great. you can also try swimming a jig

I love pitching a tube into the standing timber. espeacially cedar trees. i use either a 4" or 3 1/2" tube in colors like green pumpkin, watermellon, and black/red flake. other colors similar to those work to but those are the 3 that i have the most success with. i use a 4/0 BPS extra wide gap hook. and i use a 1/4 oz bullet weight that i peg with a rubberband. i dont like pegging with a tooth pick because it can make week spots in the line when you jam it into the weight. For a rod i use a MH or H action with 20 lb Berkley XL line on baitcasting setup. I hope this helps. Good luck on the water!

not sure if you are takin out a boat but if you have a small john boat i would use that. i would also try pitching jigs and texas rigged tubes around the fallen timber. try weightless rigged plastic worms in the pockets in the moss

thanks to everyone who replied to my post earlier about storing my soft plastic lures. since it seemed like most people said that it would be better to keep the lures in their original packages, i went and took all of the soft plastics that i had in plano utility boxes and i put them in individual zip-lock bags with labels on them. i think that this might work a little better to. my question now is how do you keep the each bag organized so that you can find what you want without digging through tons and tons of bags. if their is any products that people use i would apreciate knowing what they are or having links to where i can get them. thanks ;D

with me alot of my strikes are on the initial fall. or maybe on the first or second twitch after the fall. i still get a few strikes on the retrive, but i get more on the initial fall or on the very beggining of the retrieve.

the world record was caught on June 2, 1932 and im pretty sure it was weighed right because scales back then were probably pretty acurate. the bass wasnt mounted because George Perry's family had it for dinner.

haha if i ever caught the world record bass theres nothing on this earth that would keep me from getting that fish weighed. you would have to be flat out nuts to throw back a world record that hasnt been broken in almost 70 years. and you would be a very very very rich fellow from all the endorsements not only from your lure and rod and reel and line you use but from all the fishing magazines and your states travel agencies could use you as a reason for people to come and go fishing.

catching a once in a lifetime bass is what makes me want to

does anyone have any tips for me about when i go fishing with someone else and am in the back of the boat. most areas are already fished by him and its harder to catch them but if anyone has any tips on how to catch more fish from the back of the boat i would greatly apreciate them. thanks

for that algea problem... almost all of the ponds that i go to have the exact same thing... and trust me that stuff is way to thick to punch through... just try and find the holes in it and right along the edge of it... in these places cast a black or black and blue jig with a twin tail grub as a trailor (a trailor is a plastic grub or somehting that is put on the hook of a jig or spinnerbait if you didnt know) i also throw soft plasitc jerkbaits and weightless texas rigged works right in the holes and as close to the edge as possible.. i just let the, sink very slowly and then twitch them just a little bit and then they hit it.. good luck and if you have any more questions dont be afraid to ask

but wont it chip off and not stay

Does anyone know how i can paint my 10' alluminum john boat a camo color so i can use it when i go duck hunting too. thanks

haha yea today wasnt the best day of fishing for an opener for the year haha i only caught 1 and it was small, we just had a ton of rain here in kansas so the water was up pretty high where i was fishing and it was about as muddy as it can get i mean i could hardly see the lure 4 inches under. hah it was also 40 mph wind so i had a heck of a time controling the boat, so about halfway through i just decided to "scout" for places that would be good to fish when the conditions are better.

Well im about to head out for the first day of fishing for the year, i got my boat ready and i got my truck all loaded up and im just waitin for my dad to get here so he can come with me. I plan on flippin jigs and tubes around standing timber and running plastic lizards and flipping jigs around laydowns that are close to the shore. I also am going to run spinnerbaits and shallow crankbaits and swim jigs and t-rigged plastic worms along the edge of weedlines. hah well i just thought id tell everyone this cause its kinda my spring patter so it might help someone else out. cya later

I make my own spinnerbaits. I just buy blades and swivels and all that stuff and then buy a pre painted wire leadhead frame and then add a skirt of my choice and put blades of my choice on the, its pretty cheap compared to buying them, and i get to make any combination that i want.

try 4" plastic worms with a 1/0 hook. also small spinnerbaits and small jigs work good too. zoom flukes work great in small ponds too.