Bluebasser86

Caught them through the ice a few times. My first one from a non warm water discharge lake this year the water temp was 40.3 degrees.

Isn't much a bluegill won't try tro eat. I've caught them on 1/2oz spinnerbaits, DD22s, even small swimbaits. A couple of my favorite baits to fish for both at the same time are 2" grubs on a 1/32oz jighead, or a 2" tube on a 1/32oz jighead with a small safety pin spinner arm.

Good deal, I'll send him an email tonight and let him know the details.

Yeah that means I have you down as a boater but if you have someone with a better boat that wants to fish that's fine also, just let me know.

It does work but they don't stay up the hook very well after a fish or two, the pit boss chunk works much better if you're just planning on using them as a trailer.

I use a jig eye buster before they're painted, after they're painted a heated heavy duty trotline hook works best for me.

Never had much success at Miami this early in the year, seems like it really starts to fire up around mid to late April. When I've gone early in the year the numbers are down and most noticeably the average size goes way down for some reason. What do you normally catch your big fish on at Critzer? A guy at work swears by a jig down there but I haven't been down there since my first time to find out for myself.

What's a buzzbait supposed to look like? What's a brush hog supposed to look like? Or a Senko? The answer we all hope for is something a fish wants to eat! Maybe it's the lack of defining details that make them so appealing to a fish, they look like so many things but not really like anything. Since fish don't have hands the only way for them to really inspect something beyond just looking at it is to grab it in their mouth, that's where you come in

When I was probably 16 or 17 my dad was bragging to his buddies that I could catch a fish almost anytime. It was about 7pm in February and the lake we were at had just thawed earlier that week. My dad's buddies said they'd give me $20 apiece for each fish I could catch. It was already dark out and it was fairly warm but still probably only 40 degrees out. I went and drug a finesse tube across a rockpile in 10' of water near an area where warmer water was running in from a small pond. Managed to catch 3 or 4 and made a pretty good chunk of change. It isn't nearly as effective as it is during the warmer months but if you put a bait in front of them you can still get them to eat.

You guys get any good ones? At least you got one good one. That first picture reminds me why I haven't been back there though. I'm sure I'll still go back at least once this year with them sampling fish almost to 9 pounds out of there. I doubt I'd ever manage to get it out of all those trees but I'm willing to try

Blackberry, Watermelon red magic, and green pumpkin red.

I bought $123 worth of groceries

I've fished through straight 30-35mph winds with gusts to 50 a few times. The wind always blows here, if we get a 10-15mph wind that's pretty good.

Wish I would have seen this sooner, did you do any good?

Still looking for a couple more boaters if anyone is still on the fence. Looking like we're going to have a pretty good turnout and it's a fun time and a good chance to meet some new people and maybe even learn something about the lake.

We can discuss that at the ramp if anyone is interested.

Went to Gardner for a couple hours today just to get out and enjoy the weather for the minute it was supposed to last. Water temp was 42 at the dam, 47 at the south end. Caught one dink and missed another at the far south end on a STX jerkbait. Guys on the bank were catching catfish and a couple bass on minnows under bobbers. Highlight of the day was getting a Misty Shad colored 100 Pointer out of tree by someones dock Actually saw a blow up near the bank today where some water runs in from a little pond that was a couple degrees warmer than the rest of the lake, couldn't make it bite a bait though.

Mine has me take her to the bank or just hops in if the water is warm. If we go to the bank I have to get out to check for snakes first before she'll get out. I keep a roll of toilet paper in a big plastic coffee container. It fits the roll about perfect and keeps the paper dry. If it's a deuce I'll go to the bank but she has to go back to the ramp.

Not yet but it's only a matter of time. I'd keep checking it every day and maybe someone will put some on there. I know they had a bunch at the Dick's sporting goods display at the Expo at the Classic but I don't think they have any in stores yet.

I thought it was going to be a state record bass. I set the hook hard enough I drove the big single hook on my Mattlures trout up through her bottom jaw and out the top jaw, pinning her mouth shut. Anyone that knows anything about big gar know how hard their mouths are and how much force it takes to do that, I was pretty lucky I did that because it probably saved my swimbait.

Gander Mountains website says they'll have them by the 20th. You could order them there and do next day delivery. Or keep an eye on flea bay.

I really like that Lemon-lime color, I can see some smallies crushing that thing. Juice looks really good too. It will be nice to have a bigger jerkbait that gets down deeper without having a large bill on it.

I've fished the small 3 arm YUM, can't buy a fish with it. I even threw it at schooling white bass with 3 2" sassy shads and they wouldn't touch it. Had the same experience with schooling largemouth this summer with it.

I've doubled up a ton of times on lots of different kinds of baits, traps and shallow cranks seem to be the ones it happens with the most. I've thrown an A-rig a lot but never caught more than one at a time. I've had a couple times that both fish swam together pretty well and fought really hard. I've had other times they fought against each other and was just like dragging in a heavy branch.

I've always used pop bottles and they work just fine.