Bluebasser86

Went out for awhile Sunday until the wind got too strong for us to deal with in the kayaks. It was tough for me, couldn't get them to eat anything but a Ned really. Stony was getting them on a Frittside 5 and 7 and did pretty well including the big one of the day. All mine were babies. Water temps were 39-42*

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I've done very well with copper colored jerkbaits. The orange and black have both had their moments. I'm not sure why MB calls it "PM Twilight Chart Back", but I call it "The Big Banana". It's a black head, yellow back and sides, white belly and lower sides, it's been very good for me. My biggest smallmouth of the year several years ago was on a pink and white 110+1.

I'm a sucker for the unorthodox jerkbait colors. That's how I end up with bright orange, half orange/half yellow, solid black, and copper colored jerkbaits. They're not MB, but I've got 2 more on the way right now.

A baby brush hog works really well on a shakyhead. The Zoom Mag Finesse worm and Berkley Flute worm are my favorites on a shakyhead though.

I anchor pretty often in the kayak and don't notice it scaring the fish when I do it.

Fishing the 2,600 acre power plant lake with my oldest son in about 14' of water while he was playing with his trout net my dad had gotten him. I guess he wanted to see if it would float (it didn't). Fast forward 2 months later, I'm fishing a 6XD on the same bank and thought I'd snagged a branch, but it turned out to be his now slightly slimy net that I'd dredged up off the bottom. He didn't learn his lesson though as he lost it again doing the exact same thing the next year.

Stock golden shiners or fathead minnows instead. Either can establish and maintain a population and neither regularly grows large enough to become too large to be too big for a bass to eat like a shad can.

Denny Brauer-Jig Aaron Martens (RIP)-Drop shot Skeet Reese-Bright Yellow rods Andy Montgomery-skipping Ish Monroe-frogging KVD-cranking Ike-yelling

I don't know why the team that went to the Super Bowl last year, looked like they were in control of the game before the Hamlin injury, is 3 and 0 versus the Chiefs, can't get any respect? Bengals 31 Eagles 27

I like the pullovers. It drives my wife crazy because I always wear them instead of coats when it's really cold out.

I fish them offshore on grass lakes all the time. Let them drop and then rip them off the bottom. It's violent when a fish hits them. I have guys order 3/4 and 1oz baits sometimes, I'd imagine they're fishing them offshore in deeper water also.

I haven't noticed it but I do know I get a lot of bites on a buzzbait along shade lines when I'm fishing them in the middle of the day. Doesn't even have to be close to anything either.

Sunday I caught most of my fish on a Ned rig with a 1/16oz head and a Hot Snakes TRD. I also caught 1 on a Hankie Pankie Stunna 112, and my 2 biggest fish on a 1/2oz gold blade bait. Actually starting to feel like I'm figuring out the blade bait a little bit. It was hard for me to get myself to believe they'd eat that thing right off the bottom but the more I fish it, the more I realize that's actually when most of them do. My biggest fish Sunday shot a big puff of mud when she hit the surface from inhaling my bait off the bottom.

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I use to fish a sort of bog lake/pond. It was only about 15 acres, no more than 7-8 feet deep in the deepest portion. Very mucky shoreline and bottom with heavy vegetation and always rotting, decaying vegetation everywhere. Willow trees surrounded the entire thing except the small opening that we drug our 2 man through from the road. It was always great fishing until they drained it.

I about saved that shad in case I snagged a couple more so I could freeze them for bait ?

Had a little warm spell and some of our lakes thawed (barely), so I opted for a cold water lake instead of the power plant that has been kicking my butt. It wasn't fast, but we did get some fish, and a couple pretty good ones. Blade bait caught both the bigger fish, Ned, jerkbait, and a squarebill also caught fish. Had to break ice at the ramp to launch the yaks.

Looks like a similar design to my first kayak, which wasn't real stable at all and not enjoyable to fish out of. I'd ask them if you can paddle it around a nearby lake if at all possible before you buy it. I would have never bought mine if I'd known how unstable it was going to be.

I'm sure they'll eat it if you'll put in the time with it.

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I've seen 1 caught on a 3/8oz casting jig and caught one myself on a flipping jig out of a creek that feeds into a lake. I've caught a few on 1/2oz traps also. They can almost be annoying if you get around enough of them and aren't targeting them.

Guys fish them deep by pegging bullet weights in front of them like I mentioned.

Leader knots aren't very difficult to tie and the advantages of using braid to leader instead of straight fluoro is well worth the trouble.

Big trout they stock in the lakes here are not picky eaters it seems and they must be mostly fish eaters. I catch a lot of them on jerkbaits and full sized cranks. Even had one about take my rod away with a 3/8oz bladed jig a couple years ago.