Bluebasser86

Welcome!

Welcome!

Welcome!

Bone and clear are the only 2 colors I really "need".

A red and black jig is really good early in the year in stained to dirty water for me, before the spawn. I've also done well on a homemade red/orange/black with a red blade, bladed jig too.

Crazy fat fish. Do they fight very well? Most of them look so fat that they seem like they'd have a difficult time even swimming.

Only 2 fish Monday, but they were both nice ones. First one just barely missed 6 pounds at 5.92lbs, on a Savage Gear Shine Glide 185, love that bait. Tuesday I took a member of the Kansas State University fishing team with me. We had a steady day, catching fish or two every half hour for most of the day. Most every fish we caught was in the 3lb range but Zach's first fish of the day was 5.08lbs. It's been a good year already.

I've heard from 5 to 10 inches of ice on the local lakes. You'll need probably 2 weeks of warm weather

I had to back my truck in a long ways.

I ain't even mad. They weren't beating anyone else if they did manage to get past the Titans, just gives Alex Smith more time to pack up his locker before he gets on that bus to Cleveland.

I use a 4/0 EWG for a regular T rig, 5/0 straight shank for flipping.

I've caught so many fish on the O Bait Para bug and their tube craw this year. It's been really nice to be burning through plastics I spent less than $2 a bag on instead of the usual 4 or 5 dollar bags.

I use sexy mouse a lot (mouse with some chartreuse strands), smallies love it. I probably carry about 50 spinnerbaits in my boat, I'd bet 35 or more of them are War Eagle. I love their copper bladed baits, it's really hard to find spinnerbaits with copper blades anymore. Plus they offer hammered blades, also hard to find. Cole Slaw and Chartreuse with painted chartreuse blades are both great colors for smallmouth in clear water. Cole Slaw is a good color for largemouth in spots if the water is clear and it's cloudy actually. Spot remover, cotton candy, sexy lavender shad, blue herring, they have so many good colors for all kinds of conditions.

Probably mylar or flashabou.

I'm a good swimmer, but I can tell you that when I've gone for a surprise swim, it took a few seconds for me to process what happened and get my body doing what it needed to do, especially when I flipped my yak in sub 50 degree water.

We've soared all the way to 12 (feels like 4). Supposed to be all the way up to 32 today, the first time it's got up to freezing in over a week.

For the Love of the Game was the last one I watched. Coco was the last one I saw in theaters.

Every winter.

Ever seen what happens if you don't get that CO2 cartridge all the way screwed on? They fly a long ways with a surprising velocity, and if your wife happens to see it, she'll laugh really hard at the dumb look on your dumb face, at least mine did.

I like baits with some bright or opaque color/flake in weeds to give it a little something to stand out against the weeds. The Lime-Purple Passion Pit Boss is still one of my favorite baits to flip weeds. I have about 2 dozen bags right now that I bought when they discontinued the color, along with the Sapphire Blue, Summer Craw, and Blue Shiner. Perfection blue is great whenever they're feeding on gills. Big Texan has been very good when they're feeding heavily on craws. Plain old green pumpkin is a solid, all around choice though.

I just bought a bunch of Strike King 5" Ochos from them for $2 a bag last week. Their O Bait brand stuff is really good too and always included in their sales.

War Eagle and War Eagle Screaming Eagle. Mouse, Sexy Mouse, Spot Remover, Sexxy Purple Shad, and Cotton Candy. Cole Slaw is a killer if it's cloudy and the water is clear.

Sure, it can be whatever you want them to be. Me personally, couldn't care less what it looks like to a fish as long as they're eating them. We as fishermen like to overthink and give too much credit to cognitive abilities of a creature with a brain smaller than a pea. Fish see the things around them basically as food, danger, cover/landscape, or unknown. The only way for a bass to further investigate the unknown items is to get a close look at them, and/or take the item into their mouth to determine if it's food or not. An item that is moving (such as a BM from another creature), may not offer much lifelike movement, but it's still moving, and through trial and error, a bass has probably determined that movement is often associated with life (food). Some species of fish really do eat the excrements of other animals. Whether a bass is included on that list, I have no idea, but if they do and that's what they think a Senko looks like, I'm fine with that.

A pair of jigging spoon flatheads that will make some good dinners for my buddies parents. We caught them one after the other off the same spot, first my spoon got smacked, then his.

Both will fall without doing much at times, and often produce a side to side rocking action. At this time, they're about the easiest prey item a fish could hope for, and ofter an extremely good effort expended to nutrients gained ratio since a fish must exert almost zero effort to consume one and they're very easy to digest.