Bluebasser86

No input, no output isn't an option on the water if you want to perform at the level these guys do. Just look at some of the on the water shots from the tournaments, plenty of pictures of them eating and drinking during the tournament.

I put >2 dozen bass in the boat on a fresh out of the package Sick Fish last week with no added attractant, the scent of the bait didn't deter them at all. What sense would it make for a bait company to put a scent on their bait that repels fish? I think it's pretty safe to say that a big name player like Berkley and Pure Fishing wouldn't make a mistake like that.

I don't understand it either. I see the same people all the time that have taken that route in life and will probably never know anything else but chasing after their next dose of their drug of choice. It's a sad thing to see a life wasted. I lost a buddy who had been my best friend growing up to a meth addiction. I did everything I could to help him beat it, visited him in rehab, took him to do stuff to remind him how much fun he could have without it, didn't matter. A lot of the stuff destroys the pleasure centers of the brain so their next high is the only thing that can make them feel good again.

Some people do some cruel stuff with fish they catch for some reason. I found a 5lb bass dead in a trash can next to a public pond that had sticks stabbed through both sides of it's head and out it's gills. It wasn't filleted, just mutilated and thrown away. The thing that really irks me about it is that if non fishing people see this kind of thing they tend to seem to think that real fishermen behave the same way. I was raised hunting and fishing and always stressed to me how important it was that if I was going to take an animal that it is to be done the most humane way possible out of respect for the animal so it really makes me sick to see something like that.

What? So they'd arrest you for having a bow in public? How do people in your state get their bows or guns to their hunting grounds? Must be a lot different in your state. We can bowfish right next to the side of the road if it runs close to the water and you aren't impeding traffic and bowfishing isn't restricted in that body of water. They also make fish gigs if the carp let you get close enough. Probably have to tie some rope to the gig handle though otherwise you may end up swimming trying to stop a grassie that big after you stick it.

Never seen it do that with normal plastics but it will do it with Elaztech baits.

I've seen times where having rattles was critical to getting strikes but there is no surefire way to figure out when that is other than just trying both ways and seeing what works best. I do like jigs with rattles in heavy cover or muddy conditions before silent baits though.

Cavitron 3/8oz black on black. I could carry nothing but that bait and never miss any of the other buzzbaits I carry.

The BPS in our area have YUM F2 baits for $2.47 a bag. These baits are normal size packs and great colors. I picked up 2 dozen bags of baits for that price of assorted styles and colors.

What's the water temp and depth? Sounds like it would be a good place for a spinnerbait, chatterbait, or a swim jig.

What sizes and styles are you wanting to fish? Boottails, hollow bodies, molded, soft plastic, hard body? They come in sizes from 2" to bigger than a foot. For a normal angler you could start with 4-6 inch baits in any of the varieties and fish them on normal, heavy bass gear and be alright starting out.

They're spawning all over the dams at our lakes. We caught a ton of them on topwater yesterday. I stopped setting the hook on them and just laughing and watching how many times they'd hit the bait and watching the schools of them chasing the bait all the way to the boat.

BPS has YUM F2 baits on sale for 2.47 right now. Lots of different styles of baits and colors when I was there. Normal size bags and good colors and styles. The one in Olathe has at least 21 fewer bags then when I was there though

That's the club I used to fish in. Mark's a good guy and I believe he held the club record for big fish before that one. I won't be able to make a summer one unless it's on a Thursday, just won't have the days off availiable. I'll be good to go about late September though. Wabunsee is loaded with docks that take a long time to fish if you really pick them apart and pretty much the entire lake is capable of producing fish. There's going to be some guys not willing to pay the permit and drive that far to fish too so I'm sure we'll lose a couple guys to those factors. I think it would be plenty big enough for the tournament but small enough the winds not as much of a factor and that we can stay close enough for some BSing and trash talking

It will more than likely catch some channels, they'll eat about anything. Blues,especially large ones, tend to be fish eaters. Big channels also tend to be fish eaters more than anyting, they don't grow large scavenging stuff off the bottom. If you're just looking for some eater size catfish though I'm sure you'll be fine with it. If you're looking for bigger blues or channels I'd suggest the real thing, either live or cut bait.

A fiberglass arrow with a barbed tip tied to a heavy line shot from a bow, most effective grass carp getter out there and my preferred method for them. Any kind of berry seems to work pretty well but sweeter ones are probably better as carp tend to have a sweet tooth.

I remember my first jig bass. Fished nothing but a jig for almost a week with a couple near misses before I finally caught one on it. Now it's my go to bait and I tie tons of my own each winter to keep up with all of them I use and lose throughout the year. Just wait until you stick that first hog on one!

I fish both almost exclusively on fluoro but I'll fish flukes on braid with a fluoro leader in weeds or when skipping docks.

Mozingo is a pretty fun lake and it does have some good fish but it gets pounded all year long during the summer months and gets lots of pleasure boaters too. We had an 8.8 during a night tournament I fished in up there several years ago. Wabaunsee is a pretty good drive and bit more of a hassle to get on but it gets nowhere near the pressure, it's easier to fish, is a little more protected from the wind, and it has big largemouth and smallmouth. Plus a majority of the guys are in Kansas and already have Kansas permits already and wouldn't have to buy them for Missouri also.

I believe the next get together will have to be at Lake Wabaunsee. Flash (Sam) caught this beast out there a couple days ago. He didn't weigh her but guessed her in the 9-10 pound range and certainly appears like she could go that big and they are in there for sure along with record class smallies too.

Well Melvern was alright today but nothing like the get together. The size was nothing like it was a few weeks ago. My biggest smallmouth was probably 16-16.5 and so was Jon's and most of them were pretty small. Jerkbaits were pretty good until I lost my french pearl RC stick and busted the bill off my custom painted Megabass. Caught quite a few on topwater walkers but not many bigger ones. Had several on spinnerbaits including my biggest of the day that was a largemouth in the 17-18 inch range, Jon had a largemouth similar size on a jerkbait. Caught a couple on cranks, couple on shakyheads and Neds. Could have caught white bass all day on the dam on topwater but eventually got tired of playing with them and left.

I liked it when I fished it with Jon. I don't know what it's like this time of year but it seemed to not have a great population but the quality was certainly there. The west side was by far the best side for us, mainly the pockets and banks with deeper water. I thought it was a really shallow lake from what I'd heard but we found lots of water from 10-20+ feet deep. Jigs, cranks, and chatterbaits were the deal when we were there. I think you're thinking of Cedar Creek in Olathe, not Garnett.

They were on pretty much any rock bank last time I was out there and really smacking jerkbaits but that should have changed by now with all the warm weather. I'll be out there with basshunter and cbass will be out there with his dad tomorrow so I'll have a report up here when I get back.

Not sure what is up. The water was way greener than it was last week, several degrees warmer, lots of moss and junk floating on the top, and the up and down weather. It really felt like turnover conditions but in the spring. As for Chris turning a keeper lose, it was probably short but it was bigger than anything else we caught all night and would have been close but I don't know if he thought I was charging to use my measuring board or what but it was back in the water before I could even get the board out.

You guys didn't miss a thing. 15 boats, not a single keeper weighed in. Pretty sure Chris turned one loose that would have been worth $325 though