Bluebasser86

South can still be good but it's a lot of dead water to find the productive spots if you don't know them.

Hot water shootout at La Cygne tomorrow, lake is going to be PACKED. I did pretty good Thursday, jerkbait and a shakyhead caught most of my bass. A trap and shad rap caught a bunch of whites. Went for a few hours again today, water was 8* colder in the same spots I fished yesterday with the exception of the outlet. Couple bass on shakyheads, a wiper and a few whites on traps, swimbaits, and a shad rap.

It's not going to this year unfortunately. This year wasn't supposed to be like this, I thought 9-7 was their absolute ceiling with a new QB, so they've already exceeded that. Their playmakers are still young minus Kelce but TE is a position that doesn't have to be a young speedster. Their future could be really bright if they get a good DC and better LBs and secondary.

My wife keeps sending me these not so subtle hints of how much she wants to get cows. This is probably one of the better ones.

The ones that really confuse me is the number of doctors and nurses I see smoking. I work with a lot of them, and I swear 75% of them smoke. It just makes me shake my head. That and the people I know who are always broke, but yet they always have money for cigarettes. OP, sorry about your parents, glad to hear your mom is doing okay for now. It's unfortunate to have to be put in that situation.

Hasn't been on since April.

It's an interesting bait that recently caught my eye. I'm sure I'll be trying one in the near future. I'll try to remember to report back when I get a chance.

Do you mean straight braid not getting more distance than straight flouro on a casting reel? I'd add sink rate and visual bite detection to that list as well. Braid floats so it will slow the fall of a bait. It's also more visible so line movement is easier to see, allowing to detect bites before even feeling them at times. This really only applies to me with spinning gear as I never use braid to a leader with casting gear under any circumstances.

They make great flathead bait at that size. I've even caught walleye on them bottom fishing them live for flathead.

Winter time is probably when location is the biggest factor. The saying "90% of the fish are in 10% of the water", is no truer than it is now. The nice part is, once you find them and find what they'll eat, you can really just sit in one spot and catch a ton of them.

Winter bass fishing as in fishing for bass through the ice?

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? I didn't even notice. No internet at the house so I do it all on the phone and have apparently autocorrect doesn't recognize the term "frogging".

Canine officers Finn and Lake at the pancakes with Santa party for my work.

Great looking fish. Haven't caught one in several years and the itch is getting pretty bad.

I do mine matte black as well. If you get it just the right temperature it doesn't seem to effect the thickness of the blade or the action at all.

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I use to have all my fishing gear in a run down bait shop on a semi-private lake that I basically grew up on. There was a huge concrete minnow tank that we kept filled up with water that I'd "stock" with green sunfish and bluegills. They doubled as flathead bait but were also easy entertainment on slow days and during the winter.

Hmm, a baby brush hog catches a ton of fish for me each year. Unless you're fishing it weightless and it is maybe more dense and getting a different fall rate? The 4" version is almost exactly the same price per bait as a pack of 5" senkos on TW, $.75 a bait.

Last year was a drawn out winter that ran most of the way through April for us, and summer immediately followed. Had a lot of thaws and refreezing and more snow in April than the entire winter. I'm hoping for a much more normal winter and ice out around March 15th. Until then I'll be chasing my power plant lake fish around to keep myself busy.

Online mostly, but I like to check out the local Academy's for clearance deals. BPS and Cabela's rarely get any money from me anymore, their prices are just too high.

Looks like an expensive baby brush hog?

I have some Natural Ikes, can't remember if they're bluegill or crappie colored. They're deeper runners than that one I believe though. Rapala still makes the X rap shad though. Hadn't heard of it but it looks similar to the Duo, I like that.

A smaller shad profile bait, lighter than a standard crankbait, probably going to fish them on a spinning rod and 8lb test.