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Wagn, me and my brother in law got out last weekend, I'd say its safe to say the fall bite is on. We were hammering them on just about everything we threw, from spinner bates to bil-less cranks to senko's we were knocking them caught at least 24 in only 3 or so hours. Most of them were small (between 1.5 and 2.5 pounds) no real sizable ones but could have just been the location. The bite was definitely on though.

How was the meet up on the 27th guys?

Thanks! We tend to fish a range of lures, I used to be more of a hard plastics / top water guy, though BassMaster has recently got me hooked on soft plastics. I've been fishing soft plastics almost exclusively lately, however I did slam that decent large mouth on a top water hard plastic in the picture in the above post. I've also been fishing a swim jig lately, no real success on it yet but I've yet to really get to fish it in water thats more suitable for it. BassMaster has been cleaning house with his spinner baits lately, he about doubled my accumulative weight last weekend with two good 5lb'rs I only had that one respectable 3lb'r or so on that top water all day, the other few were only 2lbs or so. Not dinks but surely nothing to write home about.

I respectfully disagree, it does hurt the population (granted in the case of a large lake not nearly as much) but if someone takes a large mature LMB out of a 30 acre pond it definatly has an impact on population. More so however, now nobody can catch that fish again nore its potential hundreds of off spring. Bass are indeed a sport fish, (much like a trout) but their a hardy fish and can deal with some rough handling. Unlike trout, who'm if you so much as breath on it wrong it'll be dead. I can understand the trout fanatics to a degree with the barb-less hooks and such being that their such a delicate fish. Anyway there just isn't any reason to kill a nice LMB their certainly not the best fish to eat and other than eating one there isn't any other reason to kill one. Catch and release. 'nuff said.

Thanks! Yea I'm hoping I'll be able to go out with BassMaster.

Thanks much! Yea it was a real shame to see those two guys kill those largies. I almost said something to the first guy we saw keeping that one.

Whats up guys, just registered here. This is the brother in law of NHBassMaster. Now you guys can get the real scoop on BassMasters "Fish stories" haha. Anyway just saying hi, will post a few pictures of some of the buckets I caught with BassMaster this last weekend.