Bluebasser86

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Welcome back and thank you for your service!

Welcome!

My fishing day Friday didn't go so great. Go the okay to leave early and fish later. Decided to go to Cedar Valley since the fish there should be used to muddy water. The lake was closed No warning until I got right to the top of the parking lot, the gate was closed and locked there. Decided to go to Wilson since I was already half way there. It sucked, water was high and muddy and the fish just were not playing. I think we caught 8 in 2.5 hours. Decided to punt again with the intention of going to Pleasanton. As we were going across 54 I saw the sign for Bourbon State Lake and decided to call an audible. Lake was just over full pool since it had been way down. Water was a little muddy but not terrible. Missed a lot of fish but finally got on them pretty good fishing a beaver on a swing head. Highlight was Jacob catching his new PB off a laydown by the overflow, 5 1/2 pounds on the dot. Thursday I went to SMP for 2 hours and did surprisingly well in the kayak.

6" Line Thru will be your best bet without needed heavier equipment.

Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes!

Someone ask where you caught it tell them "right in the mouth". If someone started demanding to know where I caught a fish and I didn't want to tell then I'd block them. I'm not dealing with anyone acting like that and then they shouldn't be able to see your pictures anymore.

Yes, #6

It's not my favorite either.

Spotted Bass 18 inch minimum length limit went into effect Jan. 1, 2016. This change makes all black bass (i.e. largemouth, smallmouth and spotted) have the same regulations at Melvern Reservoir.

Kind of like a Rage Rig isn't it?

Melvern is 18" for all 3 now.

No line conditioner needed at all on this stuff. Slack line sensitivity is way better with fluoro than it is with braid.

Over the last couple years I've really started to get away from fluorocarbon. The issues have just outweighed the benefits, especially in our mostly stained waters where line visibility isn't really an issue. I've had pretty good success with Red Label and InvisX, but I'd made the move almost completely to braid, copolymer, or mono. Given the chance to try a premium line like Tatsu though, who's going to pass that up? I opted for 15lb and spooled it on my Curado 70XG that's saddled on a 7' MH/F St. Croix LTB that I normally fish a finesse jig on. Headed to a small state lake that is close by, known for numbers but not big fish, so I'd have a good shot at catching multiple fish. I was really blown away by how well the line cast. Minor overruns just seemed to be a way of life with fluoro. They were nearly nonexistent with Tatsu, even throwing a small jig long distances in the wind. I mean long distances too, this stuff comes off the spool so smoothly that I was casting noticeably further than usual. The fish were holding in deep brush piles and after 3 hours of dragging a bait through brush and rock, I never retied once and the line had nary a nick in it. It tied easily (SDJ knot), and cinched down well on the first try, which is a common issue for me with other fluoros. Price is the biggest drawback, but I only used about 50 yards off the 200 yard spool, so I should be able to spool up about 4 times, which breaks the price down to a much more tolerable $13.25 a spool instead of $40 if I had spooled the entire reel with fluoro. I was ready to write off fluoro for everyday use and only break it out for trips to clear water lakes, but now the monkey is on my back telling me I need to look into this stuff further. Only time will tell how it holds up, but as of right now, I feel I've made a terrible/wonderful mistake.

I have a Ethos 7' 3" H/F Micro that is the best frog rod I've ever owned. Found it on sale for $60.

6' 6" MH/F LTB/100B Curado with 15lb Pline Xtra strong or Big Game.

I've got a thin blue line skull buff that is my main one right now. I have 3 or 4 in the truck though so I always have one.

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Except in Missouri.

Not sure, I saw zero beds or signs of spawning fish though. I looked hoping to see a couple big ones on beds, but I didn'teven see any little ones on beds. Water temp was 64-66. Not a sniff on top water even with all the clouds.

When I was a backseater I would take up to 6.

I like Hitch because it looks like any silver/grey baitfish out there.

Agreed. Some of the biggest crappie I've seen have come from ponds with heavy tannic stain. The bass are usually very dark and very healthy as well, probably from all the nutrients in the water from the decomposing plant matter.