Bluebasser86

I have the same problem. The one I have still has room left to adjust though and the angle of the light is very easy to adjust.

Hitch

Redneck bowfishing? As opposed to non-redneck bowfishing? Funny, but no way that water was too deep for them to hit those carp if that blind didn't even sink all the way under the water.

It happens but where there's bluegills there's probably bass. It's harder for them to tear up a straight tail worm so you could switch to one of those. Check out the Z-man frogs, they'll stretch out the legs a foot from the body of the bait but they won't tear them.

I tried to change to a straight shank and missed almost ever bite I got. Obviously it works for some but not for me. Don't know why I changed, I've never had a problem hooking up with a EWG hook and didn't have any problems after I switched back.

Nope, I wear a headlamp and use it as little as possible. I actually managed to catch several nice smallmouth on a Zoom Ol' Monster worm and some smaller ones on a chatterbait and 1/2oz jig. I wasn't really just fishing for them but they were mixing in with the largemouth so they were a nice bonus. Nothing going on with the topwater so I didn't break out the jitterbug this time but I'll have to give it a try.

Black/blue, blue fleck, and red shad are staples in the lakes around here in the 10" power worm. I've caught fish shorter than the worm on them.

I'm fairly new to swimbaits also but the 4" Spro was one of my least favorite baits I've owned. It looks great and maybe I was doing something wrong but it just never caught fish, even when other swimbaits were working. The 6" Spro is a better bait but still far from my favorite. You'll be able to fish either on a MH rod without overloading it too much. If I were going to buy another I'd go with the floater instead of the slow sink I got.

When a fish looks up at a black bait it can see the outline of the bait better against the (usually) lighter background. I'll go ahead and give the horse another kick, 3/8oz black on black Cavitron 99% of the time for me.

I have a cheap $20 Energizer headlight from Wal Mart that has either one bright regular light or a dimmer red light. Takes 3 AAA batteries that I usually have to change out once a season. I use my light as little as possible. If you go without a light for about 5-10 minutes your eyes will adjust and you'll be amazed what you can see at night. I spent all night last night flipping and skipping docks and only hung up twice on something I didn't see on the dock.

As slow as possible most days. I like to put about 2/3 of a BPS stick O on the back of mine.

Looks like a LC Flash Minnow 110?

When it gets hot out my shakyhead rod is the rod I have in my had a majority of the time. Great fish!

I almost always have some variation of watermelon on when I'm drop shotting.

A snap is just one more thing to fail IMO. Unless I'm using one on a bait that needs one to get better action I'm always going to tie direct. Doing this also makes it so you don't get lazy and fish the same knot for too long and lose a fish to abrasion.

I just picked up a 7" Slammer Wednesday. Very impressed with the number of fish that show interest in the bait. Our bass average pretty small but I still managed to catch a smallmouth and a spotted bass on it my first morning out. You're right, it's a bulky bait and I'm sure the head of the 9" looks like the back end of a pool cue.

6.5 on a 3" grub This was my biggest fish on spinning gear. Not sure what she weighed, bottomed out my 50lb scale.

In Kansas it's illegal to harass or interfere with someone engaged in lawful hunting, fishing, or trapping. If I ever get bothered by a PETA member I'll be on the phone with the local PD and maybe a lawyer to deal with my "psychologic damage" they've caused me.

I was up at 3am Thursday morning, fished until noon. Went home and slept 3 hours before I got up and headed to a different lake and fished from 8pm Thursday night until 9 am Friday morning. The numbers and average size of the fish we were catching was so much better than normal. The fish hit so much more aggressively at night too.

I've caught keeper walleye my last 2 trips to Melvern, WAY better eating than bass. I'm not a fish eater but I'll eat walleye if someone else wants to cook them. I wish more of our lakes had 13-18 inch slot limits so people could keep the good eating sized bass but protect the larger fish. The 18" limits just makes it so the only ones people can keep are the ones I want to catch! Plus the lakes seem to get over populated with dinks because of the population densities.

Cbass and I fished Melvern Thursday morning. It was pretty slow even early but it was really calm and humid already when we got there at 5:30. We caught a couple smallmouth and whites on a variety of baits on some flat banks and points I usually do good on early but nothing like we were hoping. We tried the dam and it was a little better. I was playing with my 7" MS Slammer I just got from TW Wednesday when I had one of the biggest topwater explosions I've ever had. I was hoping for a bigger fish but just catching a smallmouth on that big bait was pretty cool. That fish gave me some confidence in the bait and I waking it by the sides of the outlet when this nice spotted bass slammed into it. We caught several really solid smallies and spots off the outlet from all sides of it but the deepest side was best. Ryan hooked up twice with fish that didn't hardly move on the hookset and then they just came unstuck. He did get this really healthy smallmouth to the boat, she looked a lot bigger when he was fighting her. I also got another keeper walleye off the outlet, this time on the Ned. Fisher-C and I fished Wabaunsee Thursday night into Friday morning and it was worth losing sleep over. He took all of 2 minutes to put a 5 pounder into the boat on a jig. Didn't ever catch the monster we were hoping for but the number of fish in the 3-4 pound range was great. Most of them fell for a jig or 10" worm.

Or a mojo rig with some extra steps added in. Do you cast this rig on a baitcaster? When I C-rig it's usually in deeper water with at least a 1/2oz weight so I can make long casts and cover water while keeping in constant contact with my baits. Braid mainline to an 18-36 inch (even longer in really clear water) fluoro leader. Brass,glass,ticker, then swivel. I use brush hogs a lot but also like finesse worms and have really started used Z-man baits on my C-rigs a lot because they float up off the bottom.

A spotted bass out of Table Rock that hit my spoon the moment I lifted it off the bottom in 82' of water.

Well a bluegill is in the sunfish family and there are lots of different kinds of sunfish.

Pretty little brownie! Everything loves the Ned rig Caught quite a few at Lake Shawnee early this year on one too.