Bluebasser86

I've hooked a blue heron, seagull, owl, and a griebe. Just seems to be something I'm good at I guess.

I'm glad I caught at least that part on video. Good to show that everyone makes mistakes sometimes. I wish I could have got the part where I was laying on the deck and handing the rod under that floating cable to myself while fighting that fish though.

Freezing cold outside today, but that makes them bite a lot of the time, so I had to go. Well, that didn't work out so well for the bass. I struggled for 4 little guys. Got cold and went to the discharge and tried a jigging spoon hoping for a big wiper. Broke off 3 spoons in a row and was positive I snagged another and tried to break it off. Felt like the snag was dragging towards the boat so I put the heat on it to try and lift it up and hopefully get my bait back, then it started swimming. My GoPro died real early in the fight, but it did catch me doing my best trying to break off a monster fish.

Got some single digit highs and negative digit lows coming next week. I hate it when winter can't just get here when it's suppose to and decides to show up right when I'm hoping things will start to make a turn for the better.

Oh I'm not talking commercial fishing with nets or anything, but I could catch 20 of them a day on rod and reel from 10-30 pounds every time I go to the power plant lake I fish during the winter. I use to give them away all the time but people have gotten picky lately and never want the nasty things. They always want the bass, flatheads, and wipers I catch though ?‍♂️

I've got 20lb braid on a couple BC and don't have any problem with digging. They're not reels that have a lot of high impact use (big hooksets or winching fish), and I never pull a snagged bait with the rod/reel.

Congrats on the purchase! I'd suggest fishing out of it and using it a bit before adding anything to it. I'm taking my time adding things to mine so I can really get a feel for where I want things before they're mounted to my boat.

Height, and just like a lost bass, most guys are going to way overestimate the size of a wave. A 3' tall wave is a huge wave on most freshwater lakes.

I do in my boat, but it's a single console so if I'm heading the right direction it's pretty easy to fish 3, and I've even done 4 before.

Welcome!

I get aura migraines and ones of my triggers is dehydration. If I get one from not drinking enough water, those are some of the worst ones. My vision goes so I'm functionally blind in my left eye, my left arm goes numb and if it's really bad so will my feet. I have difficulty thinking and forming thoughts and sentences. Then the nausea sets in and I start vomiting uncontrollably until there's nothing left and I just retch until it feels like my eyes are going to pop out of my head. 0/10, don't recommend. I always have something to drink with me anywhere I go.

There was still a little bit of light outside when I woke up at 6pm tonight.

It isn't just about the microbes that could be introduced. You're adding X number of large, predator fish to food chain. How many of those can you add before the balance is thrown off and there aren't enough prey to feed them? Now you have a formerly healthy lake with an unbalanced food chain. Skinny fish aren't as healthy and more apt to succumb to illness that healthy fish can survive as well as the rigors of spawning. It sounds good on paper, but the negatives outweigh the positives in this case imo.

I've broken a couple, but they've always been my fault from bouncing off rocks on the cast, slamming one into a bridge on the cast, fish throwing them into the side of the boat when they jump, things that understandably break a balsa bait. I've never had one break for mystery reasons like so many DTs and the first OG Slim I bought did to me.

I think it's a #1. They're in the 1 1/4oz range I think. They're a pretty decent sized hunk of plastic in the head but they swim really true and are very affordable. Those are really nice, but they're going to be quite a bit above the size limit of the OP's gear. Mine has gotten slammed a couple times but nobody has found the hook yet.

Just because it's a craw bait doesn't mean you have to make it look like a craw. Rigged that way it works with the action of the bait instead of fighting against it, which greatly reduces the lift and increases the action of both parts of the bait.

No, maybe but another but not going to spend my time to trading it in.

I'll be on my own with my wife and kids going to my sister in laws house an hour away and me having to work that night. Depending on how the game is going, might not be able to eat much anyways.

I do all the cooking in our house. I enjoy cooking and making food for other people. I don't do anything fancy, but I'm pretty good at it. One of my favorite things to make is BBQ nachos. Pulled pork, baked beans, cheese, BBQ sauce, spread over chips, into the oven for 5 minutes to melt the cheese ?

Buffalo ribs are a big thing around here. I wish I knew someone who wanted to buy the nasty things, I could make a killing.

Past the fence, it depends how far down you walk. It's a typical washout hole, so you have deeper water up closer to the outlet, then it gets shallower as you get further away. It ends in a mud flat that is 2-3 feet deep. The main hole is 7-14 feet deep, mostly rock/gravel/sand/clay bottom as all the soft substrate has been washed away by current. There's plenty of snags, along with lots and lots of fishing line. If you're after catfish, the tiny channel cats will drive you crazy, and by tiny I mean 4-6 inch fish that attack in swarms. There's a few bigger channels, along with an occasional flathead or blue cat also.

Got my SV in a few days ago. Feels really nice off and on the water. Unfortunately, I'm using it for jerkbaits and after an inch of rain fell a couple days before I got it, the water got muddy and I couldn't coax any fish to eat a jerkbait. It was real nice casting a jerkbait into the wind with no issues though.

I've got a couple storage block/cubes from Harbor Freight that are meant for small tools/parts that have little pull out trays that I keep my tabs in. I label the trays so I know what color is where.

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That's what my boys call the Whopper Plopper ?