Bluebasser86

Do you play with the dogs like that? I like to tie stuffed dog toys or knotted socks on and get our dog chasing it across the yard or inside the house. It really helps my close quarters accuracy casting in the house.

If I'm fishing a C-rig I've pretty much given up on catching fish that day I hate fishing them but they do work well in the right situations and it's great for covering water, I'd just much rather fish a heavy T-rig in the same situations.

They're in there for sure. Wyco will eventually become primarily a smallmouth lake, it's just set up better for them with the deep, clear, rocky environment. I still haven't seen a picture of the new lake record caught this summer that was 5.62lbs during one of the Wednesday nighters. Good to see he released her, need fish like that to keep producing future generations of smallmouth. Too bad for him it wasn't at Melvern or Milford, that fish would have been pushing the state record at 23.5 inches at one of those lakes.

All the compliments and heartfelt "Thank yous" I hear throughout the day

Saw a picture of a couple studly walleye caught from Hillsdale yesterday. I've made it almost all year without fishing Hillsdale but the thought of maybe catching a walleye over 5lbs may be too much for me to resist

The Veritas feel nice but I won't buy one until they get their breakage issues fixed. I know some guys that work at BPS and Cabela's and they all say that other than store brand rods the Veritas is one of the most returned rods for breakage issues. I have a few Mojos and have no complaints about them. If I was looking for a rod in the $100 range I'd look really hard at the BPS Carbonlites. They're very light and comfortable to hold and if anything happens to it BPS should take care of it for you.

I've practiced casting left handed when I'm away from cover and gotten fairly decent at it. Practice is the only way to get good at it just like with your strong arm. It wasn't as hard as I expected though since there's a bit of a learning curve because you already know how to cast. I'm better at pitching left handed than I am actually casting but it doesn't hurt to know how to do both.

Offseason??? I never stop fishing, that's how I keep my casting up to par.

Mo-Kan craw

How does that man walk with kahones that big? Moose aren't known for their calm tempers and even tired that one was plenty big to put a hurting on both of them. I liked how the camera man hid behind him once he knew the moose was about to be free from the swing.

Not me but most certainly a pucker moment for those of you that haven't seen it.

Even if my wildcats win out the rest of the year I'm confident in the BCS screwing them out of the title game because they aren't SEC and aren't one of the flashier teams out there. A&M looked amazing tonight though, they looked almost unstoppable on offense and I thank them for their hard work

You need a bigger trolling motor. I've got a 16' Lowe Roughneck with a 70lb Maxxum and a 20mph wind is no problem on a small lake

I hang on to a lot of that stuff and loan it out to friends. I have way more gear than it looks like I have because my friends have a bunch of my combos on long term loans. In my experience if I sell them next time I go fishing I'll wish I had them.

I'm constantly checking my line and giving my knots the pull test. I hate losing a big fish, especially to something I could have easily prevented. No chance I'd put a bait in the water with a knot that I thought might not be good.

I fish them slowly along the bottom by pumping the rod like slow rolling a spinnerbait or rattle trap, works great around the last weeds of the year.

Zoom trick worm or finesse worm, Netbait T-mac.

I like the pumpkinseed color in the KVD 1.5 too, they crush that thing. I've got a couple of the LC RC 1.5's in a bluegill color that works really well also.

Don't fish regular worms very often but when I do it's YUM ribbontail or Rage Andaconda.

Our state record for both are smaller than those weights but I've caught a DD largemouth so I'd have to go with the smallie!

If there's lots of targets available I'll work quickly looking for aggressive fish. If there's limited cover I'll work slowly and try to get every fish I can to bite off each piece of cover.

What were you getting your fish on? It's about time to switch over to La Cygne and Wolf Creek for the winter I'm afraid.

Got to Wyco for a few hours today to see if the fall bite was still going good, it seemed to be. I was on the water from 9-12:30 and managed to put 26 bass and a nice crappie in the boat. No keeper bass and the ones I caught were skinny. The low water is punishing them it seems. My biggest of the day was a 17" smallmouth. It's crazy how much smaller a 17" fish from wyco looks compared to the 17" smallies I was catching at Melvern yesterday. It was also the only smallie I caught. I was catching them mostly off the same short stretch of bank and I guess all the action was too much to bare and I got a reminder that I was in fact at Wyandotte lake as I was soon joined by the only other boat on the lake. 400 acres of water with 2 boats on it and this guy parked 20 yards in front of me and was barely a rods length away at times. Takes a lot of will power to keep my mouth shut at times like this. It's about 50 yards to the point behind him so yeah he was way too close in my opinion even though I know there's no law against it, should just be common courtesy but I guess not. I was pretty surpried by my crappie. It ate a trick worm on a shakyhead and was a nice crappie for wyco. Caught fish mostly on a shakyhead but had a few on a Ned rig, one knocker, and squarebill also. Couldn't buy a fish on a jerkbait or chatterbait which really surprised me.

It wasn't green at all. I could see the bottom in 5' of water. It was pretty cool to watch those smallmouth while we were fighting them in. I don't think we had a single fish follow another in while we were fighting it which really surprised me with the water being so clear.

Nicole and I went to Melvern today to see if we could still catch some smallies. We got there around 9 and it was a lot windier than they said it would be (shocker) and pretty chilly. I tried to find some shad to throw net but couldn't find any except a few monster shad flipping on top. We got a couple white bass out of the very north end of the boatramp cove before we went to the dam, Nicole had one really nice one. We doubled up pretty quickly on nice smallies, I let Nicole hold both of them, I'll let you guess which one she caught and which one I caught. They were eating a Ned rig really well and in shallower water than I would have guessed. Nicole got a good one pretty fast. We caught lots of them like this one. The average size was great today, lots of them over 15" including this 17 incher. And this nicely tattoed 16.5 incher. And this 17 1/4 incher. Last cast and last fish of the day also my heaviest of the day at 3.10. We just fished really slowly along the dam almost all day, which was my plan to give Nicole the best chance to catch plenty today and she did pretty well considering how slow we had to fish. We called it a day around 4 when I put bass number 50 of the day in the boat. We had mostly smallmouth but I also had 4 spots, a crappie, and a sunfish and we both had a pair of white bass. They would follow a jerkbait but I only had 2 hit it and it was relaxing fishing super slow with the Ned Rig and catching lots of nice smallies.