Bluebasser86

My oldest son and I were fishing together last summer and he was starting to get impatient, he asked "Are we about done?" I told him "Yes, I just want to catch a few more". He asked me "How many more do you want to catch?" I told him the truth "All of them". Everyone needs to have an escape, and something they do well at, fishing happens to be both for me. I enjoy trying to figure out the puzzle, sharing the sport with others, and the reward when a big fish is fooled into eating my bait.

My baits don't bounce in the winter, just have to be willing to deal with the cold.

I haven't used them with an underspin yet but I'm sure it would work. I just used a weightless Trig. I like the shad colors, don't really care which one. I use spinning but you could use casting.

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Must be our lakes here. I found a black and blue one and fished it for a solid hour, 1 fish. Went to one of my baits and went back through the same area and caught several ?‍♂️ 2 pretty different vibrations but hard to think it made that big of difference.

That looks like it would get you through most tournaments. Only thing I could see you might be missing is if you run into a situation you need a rod for flipping heavy grass. Your frog rod could be made to work, but typically you'd want something longer to help lift them as straight out of the grass as possible.

I use a Daiwa Arid X 7' MH for spinnerbaits. Nothing fancy, but it's been a great spinnerbait rod.

Looks like an old Charger. Looks great for being almost 30 years old.

This is a major issue with buying boats. That guy was able to go out and purchase that boat, with absolutely no knowledge on how to use it. Imagine if it was the same way with cars? I don't understand why there isn't a boaters education class just like there is with driving.

I try to stand if I hook a big bass while I'm sitting, then I'll crouch or kneel to net them. It's easier to control them from a standing position than it is while sitting for me, but I've also lost a few good ones trying to get up during the fight.

You don't have to have deep water to fish a deep crank either. I use to fish a Fat Free Shad in 5' of water, dragging it slowly and letting it root around and kick up debris. Never caught a lot of fish but I caught some big ones, a lot of flatheads too.

I haven't fished one, but their original is a solid bait and I have better luck with one knockers than regular rattling lipless baits so I'd bet it would be the same with these.

A reaction bite is a strike out of instinct or pure reaction instead of hunger or curiosity, normally associated with a faster moving bait. I believe it holds a lot of validity and there are conditions that I go out and search for that reaction strike with a fast moving bait. You can look for a reaction strike from a fast falling bait also. A heavy jig crashing down next to cover or a punch rig shooting down in front of a fish's face hiding under a mat can bring a reaction strike. Bass are predators that rely on their ability to catch food to survive. If something resembling food flashes by quickly, catching it in their mouth and then deciding if it is in fact food, is how I imagine a reaction strike typically working. That, or when a quickly fleeing bait that looks like a lost baitfish looking for it's school could represent an easy meal that a fish could strike even though it may not be hungry. When a slow moving jig or shakyhead is crawling along the bottom and a fish has time to creep up behind it and investigate it before picking it up off the bottom, that is more a hunger or curiosity strike imo.

Welcome!

90" is a tough score to beat. I'd look for a topo map and find a bay with plenty of cover and deep water available that will likely hold good numbers of fish and you can spend the entire day on. If there's docks, I'd be focusing on those because they'll hold fish year round but especially now as the fish move back towards the banks to feed for winter.

I fished the 6th Sense Flush for the first time this past weekend and really liked it. My biggest gripe with flukes (other than they're painfully boring to fish), is about half of them are kinked and unfishable. Not an issue with the Flush.

You had lows from 90-100? It's a cold front, but it's very minor, I wouldn't expect much change.

I use that 6' 9" H/F for bladed jigs. It feels more like a MH/MF to me, great bladed jig rod. I think it would do just fine for you with big walking baits like that. They're very well built.

Caught several jerkbait fish Sunday morning in 80* water. Jerkbaits work year round, but not if you don't fish them!

Strike King 5XD and 6XD are the only deep divers I have any confidence in. I've caught some on the Spro deep diving Little Jon, but I don't think they dive nearly as deep, probably more the 12' range. I do like the big, single knocker in them though.

Just like the Trokar, they cut up plastics pretty badly and slice bigger holes in the fish's mouth, making it easier for them to toss the hook.

I have some KO speed traps, they work pretty well. So you fish the original Creme Worm? Because everything after that is just a KO. Everyone copies everyone in the fishing industry. The KO's, although they may look the same, aren't the exact same either. I've had some good KO's, and I've had some that were junk. To me, the point of buying a KO is so I can get it custom painted like I want in a pattern that isn't offered without having to buy a painted bait and have a painter strip it before painting.

I'm a member of BASS, but I can't tell you the last time I opened one of the magazines I get.

87 is a cold front? I wouldn't expect much to change from normal. Our water temps are still 78-80 in NE KS and fish are doing normal late summer stuff.

I can cast well enough to be dangerous with my left arm. I'm better with short pitches than anything but can still be pretty accurate casting too. Just like most things, time on the water and practice is the only way to figure it out.