Missouribassman95

Depending on how thick the grass is use a football head jig to punch through the grass.

My dad uses a fly-rod to catch bass at some farm ponds around our house. Wooly Buggers seem to tear them up!

Diawa Regal Xia I bought one of those reels last Christmas, and it has worked out great for me! It would a good starter because it's not overally expensive.

I would take pictures, get measurments and put her back. I don't have anything that would hold her.

I believe you 110%! Nice story, and sounds like a beautiful fish!

I have to say the strike. A 2 pounder can hit the lure just as hard as a 5 pounder, keeps you guessing. Also the feeling you get when you get a new PB.

Wow, that thing weighs about as much as my PB bass! Geez. . .

I'm mainly a pond fisherman too. The baits that produce for me this time of year are Chigger Craw, Brush Hogs, small jigs and light spinnerbaits. Be ready to experiement though.

The bite because even a little 13in'er can hit the bait just as hard as an 20in'er!

I beat the bank and I've had great sucess with Brush Hogs.

Nice great job!

Nice!!!!! Beautiful Fish!

LOL it was almost 90 today. Couldn't believe it.

I must say the Chigger Craws are really paying of for me! Two nice'uns! Both were probably about 5 pounds or so. I kinda have a dorky face, but the fish was alittle heavier than it looked, lol! Here's the other one.

That's really impressive!!

I'm jealous, haha!!

Okay thank you, I'm going to try the floating minnow for sure!!

LOL that sucks man. Just keep your head up, and don't get discouraged.

I'm going this weekend again and I'l try that for sure! thanks.

Beautiful Fish!

Well I just got back from a trip to a little ol' farm pond. This was my second trip to the pond this year. I only caught one little 13 incher, on a t-rigged plastic lizard, but other than that no bites at all! I focused on the two little coves on the pond. One is really shallow with pockets of moss floating around. The other one is deeper with some fallen trees around it. I tried a spinnerbait to to get reaction strikes, and t-rigged plastics (7in. curly tail worm, and a lizard). Just couldn't get any bites! I was thining mebbe it's just "one of those days" where the fish were just weren't biting, but there were tonns of smaller bass jumping up snd eating little bugs of the surface. Should Ihave gone to topwater? Or just maybe switched up my pattern with the soft plastics?

Hopefully you'll start to have the best addiction out there! Congrats!

For me I would go with the Brush Hog. To me it seems like it duplicates multiple prey species for the bass. Such as crawdad, a small blueill/minnow, and also a lizard.

A plastic lizard is something you should try when you do find the beds. I had some great sucess with them last year, am going to fish them again!

Yes can't wait!