Bluebasser86

Spinnerbaits have always been one of my favorite big fish baits in early spring! Go out there and get another!

2.5lbs. Congrats on the PB and good luck in your hunt for the next one!

I can probably get 30 yards, maybe a little further with the wind at my back or a heavy bait. Most of my cast with a squarebill are going to be fairly short though since I'm normally running them through cover and around obstacles.

Never put them on the back of a bladed jig either, it looks ridiculous and the fish turn up their noses at it

I'm another one that just likes how 50-65lb braid handles. Not so much for the strength, it just casts and fishes better on baitcasters for me is all. My spinning rods I use braid on have 20lb and I've never had the braid break when it shouldn't have.

100" of fish on your scorecard won't do you much good since we're weighing them again

Well this cold, rain, and snow should help the bite

Casting-6' 2" for jerkbaits and poppers Spinning-6' 6" Unless you count ice fishing rods, then it's 18"

Agreed, pretty much any of their 7' MH/M rods will do what you're asking. The 15' baits are going to be the very edge of their range of baits you can fish comfortably with them though.

The ones you have must be different than the ones I have then. The Yamamoto twin tail grubs I have are much thinner bodies and legs than the Zoom's.

I like to start with a 1/2oz a majority of the time unless I'm in shallow water or want a slow fall, then I'll go with a 1/4 or 3/8 ounce. I like the 1/2oz because of it's versatility. I can use it in shallow water, it gets through cover well, yet it heavy enough to fish out in deeper water also. The only time I really go to anything heavier is if I'm fishing it really fast and trying to get a reaction strike, or with a football jig if I'm dragging it in deeper water. A heavy jig would be warranted in heavy vegetation also but we don't have any around here. Heavy winds can make a heavier jig a valuable tool when you can't feel a lighter one.

Bass will get out in the flooded areas until the water starts to drop, then most of them will pull back into the main body of water. If you find a bench or picnic table, FISH IT! I don't know why but bass seem to love those things when the water comes up.

The rod I use to fish my bladed jigs is a LTB 6' 6" MH/XF and it does great. I'm sure that Cumara would be no different.

I wish I fished 7 days a week, a 4 month old makes getting out at all really tough sometimes. The year I kept track with a clicker style fish counter I got to 1,000 bass by the end of April. I also wish we had some amazing lakes in KS, but they're far from it. Mostly it's that there's a lot of small lakes with high population densities but poor size that offer good numbers but almost zero bigger fish. One good example would be Wilson State Lake. A friend and his wife fished it last year for 5 hours and caught over 300 bass between them, but not a single one was over 18" even, most were 12" or smaller. The power plant lakes really concentrate the fish in the winter so if you can get them firing you can really lay it on them. At least 2 days were on a big public pond and my 64 fish day was on a private lake.

I'm a little late I guess but I fished Olathe last Thursday after I got off work from about 9:45-1. Green pumpkin bladed jig and a Table Rock shad 100 pointer caught a majority of my fish, probably close to 30. Nothing big but all fat and healthy fish that were crushing the bait. I did lose something big on an A-rig, had it hooked for 10 seconds then gone. Even with a 7' 10" H rod and 25lb copolymer it was in no hurry to come to the boat. No area was really that much better than anywhere else. I also found 13 crankbaits while I was fishing thanks in large part to all the shore anglers I'm sure

I move all our belongings with the help of one friend with just my truck and a flatbed in a day, you can do it.

Gar rarely bite when they're actively spawning in my experience. About the only way to get them then is to snag them. It's a good time when you find them piled up, especially if they'll let you get close enough to pick out the big females from all the little males. We get some monster longnose gar around here, they're a good time until you have to unhook one.

My buddy caught about a 20lb common carp on a finesse jig yesterday, had the bait right in the outside of it's mouth. Thought he had a monster bass for just a few minutes. I don't mind it when I snag one, we try to snag buffalos in the winter when the bass fishing is slow in fact. Still, my preferred bait for carp is a heavy fiberglass arrow with a barbed tip flung out of a compound bow

I use a 6' 6" M/F Vendetta with a 35 size Pfluegar Supreme MGX and 20lb Power Pro if I'm spinning gear, a 7' M/F LTB/200E7 with 14lb Sunline fluoro if I'm fishing casting gear.

The Zoom is a much bulkier bait than the Yamamoto. I'd guess that additional size had something to do with it.

I'm a big time lure hunter, always on the lookout for baits people have lost floating by the bank or hanging in trees. Not only will I almost put my boat on the bank for my bait, but I'll do it for someone else's too!

Why does it matter if they stand up?? Do you think a worm or minnow sits on the bottom with it's hind end up in the air inviting itself to be eaten? I'm guessing no. For even the best designed "stand up" head, it's going to have to land perfectly on the perfect bottom for it to stand properly. How many times do you think your bait it going to land perfectly on a flat rock or really level bottom and stand up? And how often do fish hold on nice, smooth bottoms? A round or football head will sit at about a 45* angle a majority of the time and still catch tons of fish every year. Fish what you have confidence in or what works for you, just saying I think the whole "stand up" think is highly overrated and emphasized.

Snagging rough fish, paddlefish, and catfish is actually legal in quite a few states. I don't know of any where snagging bass is legal though. As for the OP's question, they'd have to grow to DD status here for me to even have a chance at snagging one!

Looks like you found an awesome fishing hole! After what happened to you twice halfway through that video it sounds like you need to get some big swimbaits out there and figure out what was trying to eat your fish!

Well we had a 100+ bass day in February and a few other good days at the power plant lake before the ice came off. We caught 50+ fish both days we were are Table Rock last week. I had 32 bass in 3 hours at a local lake last Thursday. I've been to a couple other local lakes 3 times total and caught over 20 each visit. I caught 63 today in 4 hours, so I guess I'm getting up there Biggest fish so far is 4lbs 6ozs on a homemade bladed jig. Homemade bladed jigs, home made finesse jigs, and a jerkbait have caught a majority of my bass so far this year. Not keeping exact count this year, last time I did I ended up with nearly 3,000 bass in a season of fishing though.