Bluebasser86

Trial and error, fish as much as you can, with someone who is experienced if possible. Nobody learns how to catch them overnight, it takes years of practice. Read, watch how to videos (legit videos, not some random yahoo with a Go-Pro), and probably most important of all, fish where there's fish. I don't know the lakes you're fishing, but if they have poor populations, you're going to have a big uphill climb ahead of you.

Different bait, made by Zoom, little more expensive for around $4.50 for 8 pack.

I would rather fish a jig, but I fish a lot of worms too, especially big worm during the summer and straight tail finesse worms during the winter. Had the hottest jig bite I've had so far this year yesterday. Went for 3 hours and caught over 30, plus missed about 10 more. Couldn't hardly make a retrieve without getting bit.

Don't tell me I won't wear the pink sunglasses, because I'll wear them all over town the rest of day, get compliments from people, and even post pictures on the internet.

One of them went flying across the top of some bushes right by us like a Jesus lizard on the water when my wife and I were walking into the BPS in Ft. Lauderdale. My poor wife screamed and ran, I laughed, one of us barely escaped with our lives and it wasn't my wife.

I haven't fished Olathe since early April, before they were even poking above the water and we were still heavy in the grips of winter, I have no idea what I'm talking about ? Sometimes I like to throw "Nedism" around because he has a certain way of talking and describing the lakes he's fishing, so I'll use the same phrases sometimes since we fish a lot of the same waters.

Usually trim the legs way down on mine to make it easier to walk and make short strikes less of a problem. You can leave one side longer than the other to make them easier to walk also.

Zman are more durable for sure, but the Christie Critter is 2.99 for an 8 pack, tough to find a better bait for that price. You can always get some Mend-it and fix those tears, but I don't even bother with it, just get a new bait out of the pack. The Zman Boar Hogz are a much smaller bait if you're using a standard sized Christie Critter too. It's closer to the size of the Jr.

RT bluegill or RT ghost gill best imitate a juvi gill, which is what you're trying to emulate with that bait.

If I'm not catching them and not having fun not catching them, I make changes so I can start catching them ?

I use straight braid and just reel into them. Those fish that completely miss will often come back and hit it as I continue the retrieve. I use the 90, 110, and 130 sizes for smallmouth and they have no problems with any of them.

Saying goodbye to a good friend stolen from us way too soon. She was a mom, sister, and friend rolled into one that once gave a skinny 21 year old who wasn't very sure of himself the confidence to stand up for himself and that he was able to do the job. She was a mother to any child in need and impacted so many, fly high TK.

This is me anytime I try to do something in my shop. I'll get all kinds of things done, but rarely what I originally set out to do.

I use a 1/16oz head with a #2 hook and it doesn't hit bottom often, just a slow glide/shake retrieve just off the bottom. When one does hang up, a bowstring pop will often knock them loose and I can keep the retrieve going.

That's wild. Someone had a double on a T-rig hook a year or two ago on here. I've had a lot of doubles but never on a single hook.

I fish almost all rocks with a Ned rig, you're fishing too heavy a head, too big a hook, letting it sink too long, trying to fish it like a shakyhead, or all the above. Even with the open hook, it rarely hangs up and it pops loose easily if it does. Drop shot just does not seem to be very effective around here. Our stained water, shallow lakes, muck bottoms, poor fish populations, and lack of offshore structure probably has a lot to do with it. A Ned rig can be fished quickly in very shallow water and is just far more effective.

The H2O baits are one of the main squarebills I fish when I fish one.

I haven't hardly seen any. All the lakes that it's normally in it seems to have disappeared. The couple little clumps I've found have been productive though.

Idk, I just can't get past those dense stands of American Water Willow gracing the shorelines!

They're kind of similar, but a little different, much wider body. They get bit though.

I don't like fishing crankbaits, soooo...

Just a little largemouth with odd coloration. Easiest way to tell if you're not sure is to feel them, a largemouth is smooth, spotted bass scales are noticeably rough.

Since a Ned rig imitates a small baitfish or craw, which almost every predatory fish eats, no catch should really be a surprise on it. I've caught everything from tiny little green sunfish and smallmouth bass so little they couldn't even get the hook in their mouth but their teeth stuck to the bait and they lacked the mass to drop off the bait when I lifted them from the water, up to flathead catfish over 20 pounds. I've caught all variations of catfish, drum, all 3 species of bass available nearby, white bass and wipers, all kinds of sunfish and crappie, walleye, trout, the only big surprise catch for me was a yellow perch, but that's only because we have so few of them around here.

spinning, baitcasting, some flyfishing, and bowfishing.

If you just discovered it then you really only have a very small sample size of the fish population in it. Most areas are in post spawn/summer patterns which means fish will tend to not have big bellies, and big fish are difficult to catch.