Bluebasser86

Well finally got a call on my boat today. My third cylinder coil went bad and needs replaced and they said the spark plugs would need done soon so I had them replace those too. Parts, labor, and tax it's going to be $301.95 so not as bad as I was afraid it might be. On a side note, be careful browsing TW at 3am right after getting a big paycheck, you may find yourself spending over $100 on stuff you don't need

8lb invisX or 6lb C21 depending on the size bait and water depth.

Some of the biggest fish I've caught on frogs look like they pull it under almost like a bobber.

I never don't catch anything

Welcome to the forum and congrats on the success! Hang around and you'll pick up plenty more good information.

I don't even have kids yet and I can't wait for their first time fishing. There is nothing like the excitement in their eyes reeling in their first fish.

I believe this is mainly in a schooling situation that supposedly if you release a bass it will cause the rest of the school to shutdown but I've caught multiple fish of the same spot hundreds of times. Some of the tournaments where the pros are fishing ledges and such they'll catch dozens of fish off the same location in short periods of time.

Mustad ultra line is some great stuff if you can find it. A camping store by me sells bulk spools with several thousands yards of line on them for 10 bucks apiece and it's basically all I use with my treble hooked baits. The new P-line C21, while not a mono, fishes super easy and is very strong and only $4.99 for a 300 yd spool.

Hard plastic, I fish too many rocks and wooden baits just don't seem to hold up.

I get migraines also, terrible things to get. I get the auora migraines that cause temporary partial blindness, followed by the usual pain, nausea, and vomiting. I take preventive medication for mine but still get them occasionally and when I do there is nothing but sleep that makes them go away for me. My grandpa gets cluster migraines where he gets one and goes to sleep and when he wakes up it just starts all over again. This cycle repeats itself over and over until whatever is causing them finally stops. As far as what's preventing me from doing what I want? money mainly. I'd say time and work but if I had money I wouldn't have to worry about the other two. I can't really complain, I have a good wife and I get to fish a couple times a week, my boats paid off, and we're about to buy our first house.

I'm not friends with any of my ex's but my wife is friends with several of hers, I've even met a few of them in person. If she wants to talk to them or whatever I have no problems with that, I trust her to make the right decisions and she does the same with me. In my mind if someone has it in them to cheat then no amount of trying to control them is going to stop them. I'm not a jealous person so her talking to someone isn't anything I'm going to lose any sleep over. It isn't like facebook is the only place you can meet someone or talk to someone anyways.

I've got 2 rods I consider true cranking rods but I use another different rod for traps. I just got my deep cranking rod a few weeks ago and it makes a huge difference in my ability to fish deeper running baits.

Both. I like to walk them and make them spit a little at the same time. I usually fish them with pretty gentle twitches and fairly long pauses.

I generally stick to natural colors with swimbaits since they are primarily a visual bait.

Fished my private honeyhole this morning from 5:30-10 with a friend from work who joined the site not long ago. It was a little slower than usual but still had no problem catching fish. Most fish were on a pit boss or cavitron. I had one big one boil and suck the buzzbait under but just didn't hook up. Ryan caught a super thick 3.39lb fish that was probably 16 1/2-17 inches on a pit boss and a few yards down the bank I caught one that was 4.10 on the buzzbait that had about a 7 or 8 inch bluegill in it's throat with just the tail sticking out of her throat. That's the first one over 4 I've caught in over a month. I forgot my camera in the truck so Ryan took a picture with his phone, hopefully I can figure out how to get it on here cause we got one looking down her throat at that big tail sticking out of her throat. Second time around the lake my pitboss got jacked while it was sinking through a brushpile. Turned out to be about a 8lb flathead though.

One of the local lakes I normally fish a lot is almost impossible right now to catch fish. The shoreline is lined with water willows that the fish normally get into and chase baitfish and crawdads but all those weeds that normally have at least 2 or 3 feet of water under them are high and dry now. The result is all the fish have pulled off the bank and are now suspended over 30-50 feet of water chasing shad and almost uncatchable unless they're pushing them to the surface. The water temps in most of the other lakes I fish have just now dropped out of the low 90's and into the high 80's, fish are almost hot to the touch when you catch one.

The top one is a Lucky Craft Slender Pointer MR97, the bottom one is a Lucky Craft Pointer 78, both in American Shad color.

I was using watermelon red magic with the twin tails dipped in chartruese JJ's. Also caught some on watermelon candy after I went through the bag of watermelon red magic. I talked to Frank's about my motor, they said they should get to look at it the end of this week which works well because I'll be getting paid for the extra week of hours I worked in overtime this last couple weeks so I'll have extra cash to pay for it. Just hope it's done in time for me to start fishing the Wednesday nighters in a couple weeks.

Me and Peter went to Bone Creek today. Fished from about 6am to 2pm. Lots of fish but couldn't find the big fish. Most fish were on baby brush hogs, trick worms, or squarebills. Trolling motor battery was dead the last couple hours but we could just barely move because of the light winds. I ended up with 41 bass, a few bluegill and sunfish and one channel cat.

Do any good? I think me and Wachati (Peter) are going to try somewhere Monday, maybe Bone Creek or something since it's supposed to be so much cooler out with those highs in the low 90's.

I love a bait with lots of battle scars. If someone sold a bait with what I call a "bite ring" pattern on the belly I'd buy them. Some of my favorite baits look like this:

If the fish looked healthy and was just swimming on it's back I don't see any reason why you couldn't eat it. Sounds to me like you did the right thing in trying to save it but it was probably just to the point of no return by the time you found it. I wouldn't personally have a problem with keeping it if I ate bass. I found a walleye with a large bullhead stuck in it's throat swimming the surface once and kept it when it didn't swim away after I removed the bullhead and it tasted fine.

I use a 6' 2" M/XF for poppers and small walkers. I can really influence what my bait does because of the fast recovery of the rodtip. I use a 6' 6" M/F for bigger walking baits for the extra casting distance and a little more power when I'm fighting fish.

I prefer mine to run at an angle so I can fade it into objects and follow along weedlines. Doesn't hurt their effectiveness at all for me.

I always have to buy my JJ's offline. I usually just buy a jar everytime my one I have gets to halfway, it's so much easier to dip in a new bottle versus a half used bottle.