Bluebasser86

I'm a jig guy no doubt. With that being said I struggled more to learn how to fish a jig than probably any other technique I've ever tried to learn.

I thought the end to Megaldon was pretty comical when the female diver fired her spear gun/tracking device and they picked up a signal a couple minutes later that was "diving" at a high rate of speed and lost signal several thousand feet down. Seems to me it was "diving" about the same rate her spear would have been sinking if she'd missed her target

My luck I would have hacked my Hudd up trying to do something like that, good job!

14.5" is bigger than any largemouth I caught last Wednesday!

'That's great news! I'll be down there the end of the month and hoping I don't have to fish at night or in 50' of water during the day.

Very nice looking boat by the way. I'd love to find a newer Triton aluminum that was what I'm looking for and in my price range.

Kanasbassfisher08 and I will probably see you out there then. I'll be the guy in the green Lowe Roughneck with the dog who has about as good of a shot at catching a keeper as we do Last week there was 16 boats and not one keeper weighed in. I had one come off that I think was a keeper but that seems to happen every week. They were at least biting fairly decent last week.

As long as you're married to a woman does it really matter?

My first archery buck, not my biggest anymore but my most memorable. I took him with a buddies bow who had died of bone marrow cancer the winter before. I missed my chance at this deer earlier that morning but he came back the way he left me in the afternoon. He slipped in on me again but I managed to get my bow up and stop him one step short of the trees and made a perfect shot on him and watched him go 30 yards and tip over in a bean field. Like to think that my buddy was watching me do work with his old bow. Not a big one but I got my first 'yote with a bow last year. Chased off some turkeys that were just about in range. Manged to kiss him back to me and whacked him at about 20 yards.

I thought you might be from the same area as I am for a minute. We have an Al's Bait Shop that sounds very similar to what you were describing. Good story.

Looks better than most I've seen in stores. I have seen one with drawers built onto the ends of the rack also. I know that's a lot more work but just something I'd want if I had the ability to build something like that.

If they're big enough I like to hook them through the nostrils with the smallest hook I can get away with. I rig a floro leader to a braid mainline and a fairly large ball bearing swivel is my main source of weight. Catch a lot of wipers and bluecats fishing that way during the winter at the powerplant lakes.

Generally would agree with those sentiments but the Scatter Rap is the best Rapala bait I've fished in a long time. I've given up on the DT series, I can't afford a bait that breaks that easily, but I've pulled the Scatter Rap through lots of rocks now without having a bill come loose.

I've got a Spro that used to be black with yellow stripes, now it's black with big yellow patches. Don't get to frog fish much with the lack of vegetation around here but when I find some that bait almost always gets the call!

Creme Little Scoundrel was the first plastic worm I can remember catching fish on. First bass on a T-rig was on a Mann's Augertail under a dock. I can still remember seeing the line twitch and move off after the initial fall.

Finesse isn't always the best option either, sometimes it's your presentation/location with normal bass lures. Last Thursday we found that bass were all off the end of the docks, not the sides or corners like usual. We also found that the jig had to be drug extremely slow along the bottom, basically never lifting off the bottom at all.

I've done well, only bought 3 lures the last couple weeks. Problem is they were a 5" Bull Shad, a 6" Bull shad, and a 7" Slammer

It was still a really nice water color, couple feet of visibility with a good greenish tint to it. It was dirtier towards the back of the coves with creeks but it always is.

Fished Wabaunsee Thursday in the rain. We had 2 boats out there so we started with Jon and Jared in Jared's boat and Jon's son and I in my boat. Christopher and I were on fish right out the gate and really never slowed down much. For some reason a large number of them were smaller smallmouths but when we caught a largemouth it was 15-19 inches. Jon and Jared was a different story, they struggled pretty bad all day. I think a really big key was to slow way down and really fish slow. They were also on a very specific location on each dock and it was the same spot on each dock. Once we figured that out it was pretty easy but couldn't find any big ones for some reason. Christopher lost a largemouth and smallmouth over 3 on back to back cast on the same dock on a hula grub. I got busted off by a big fish on the same dock, never saw her but she pretty much beat me from start to finish. I was doing best on a finesse jig and Christopher never really put the hula grub down once he figured out how to fish it. Once we switched I had Jared in my boat who had yet to catch a fish at 11am. I gave him a hula grub and told him not to let it lose contact with the bottom the whole way in. The few times he actually fished it that slow he caught fish, probably ended up with 10-12 for the day and started to catch them pretty good on a tube off the dam. Jon started to do better once he saw how slow Christopher was fishing. Jon fished a Slammer a lot and caught a couple, we were right by him when he caught the first one. My biggest of the day (that I weighed) was a 3lb 3oz smallmouth on a finesse jig in about 17' of water. Most the largemouth I caught were about the same size as this smallie was, just not as exciting. Lots of really big carp cruising around for some reason. There's at least one less than there was

Fished Wabaunsee Thursday in the rain. We had 2 boats out there so we started with Jon and Jared in Jared's boat and Jon's son and I in my boat. Christopher and I were on fish right out the gate and really never slowed down much. For some reason a large number of them were smaller smallmouths but when we caught a largemouth it was 15-19 inches. Jon and Jared was a different story, they struggled pretty bad all day. I think a really big key was to slow way down and really fish slow. They were also on a very specific location on each dock and it was the same spot on each dock. Once we figured that out it was pretty easy but couldn't find any big ones for some reason. Christopher lost a largemouth and smallmouth over 3 on back to back cast on the same dock on a hula grub. I got busted off by a big fish on the same dock, never saw her but she pretty much beat me from start to finish. I was doing best on a finesse jig and Christopher never really put the hula grub down once he figured out how to fish it. Once we switched I had Jared in my boat who had yet to catch a fish at 11am. I gave him a hula grub and told him not to let it lose contact with the bottom the whole way in. The few times he actually fished it that slow he caught fish, probably ended up with 10-12 for the day and started to catch them pretty good on a tube off the dam. Jon started to do better once he saw how slow Christopher was fishing. Jon fished a Slammer a lot and caught a couple, we were right by him when he caught the first one. My biggest of the day (that I weighed) was a 3lb 3oz smallmouth on a finesse jig in about 17' of water. Most the largemouth I caught were about the same size as this smallie was, just not as exciting. Lots of really big carp cruising around for some reason. There's at least one less than there was

There's some huge coi in Wyandotte. I saw one almost every time I was out there last year that had to be pushing 20 pounds.

97 Slender Pointer in Gun Metal shad

His name is going to be Lake!

Good little bait but I prefer the shad over the minnow. Cheaper and a little bigger bait. Both of them are great fish catchers though.

Nice fish! What'd you get her on?