Bluebasser86

I just saw Blanchard posted a video titled something like "What Happened to Clear Lake, Ca?" Haven't watched it yet but the title makes it sound like something bad.

If they can swim through it, they'll get back there.

I mostly just get there and let it be a surprise to myself with where I end up at. I fish a lot of the same areas, but what order I get there isn't the same with a few exceptions.

Still prefishing for an upcoming tournament next Saturday. Saturday was tough with mostly very small fish. Broke one off that felt decent in the morning, then came back and caught it later out of the same tree with my hook still in its mouth. Also caught a crappie trolling a buzzbait... Monday was much better. Caught a respectable limit with a 4.63lb big fish, and a walleye flipping a stump in a foot of water. This morning I stopped in the fog for 20 minutes with the tiny SPRO 40 popping frog, fishing it on a Bass X spinning rod and 20lb braid, caught 3 and missed 2.

I fished a BASS Weekend Series Regional tournament on Patoka many years ago. In 3 days, I caught 4 bass, 1 was a 2 3/4lb keeper, I almost qualified for the final day with that fish. 10 and change won for the non boater side over 3 days. Some of the worst fishing I've ever experienced.

I don't care about the pretty leaves, but October is night and day different from September. Water temps are really dropping and the bass all move shallow and start eating. It's pretty much pick your favorite moving bait and cover some water type of fishing.

Glad to see no lakes from Kansas on the list again. Never seen so much pressure as the year they put a couple of them on that list. None of them should be on there anyways, there's no bass in Kansas ?

I have a Zillion 1016SV XXH, looks like that spool would fit it ?

What rods/reels are you guys getting this kind of distance with a BFS combo? Am I looking at $1000 combo to get that kind of distance? It's intriguing to me but my one, brief attempt with it was unimpressive to say the least. I have certain situations when maximum casting distance with small lures would be very beneficial though.

I have one of the tiny Pop R's that has the single hook on the back that I use for fishing small creeks. It's a fun bait although great in the hook up ratio department. I have a rebel crawfish with the same hook configuration but haven't used it much.

I wonder what the casting distance of BFS gear is with say a Ned on a 1/16oz head? My last tournament I was casting mine to a target 100' away, skipping it into a small opening and having it travel another 15' to the target. I just don't see any way I could do that with casting gear with something that light. I tried some BFS gear, although it was towards the lower end, just wasn't for me.

I use both, prefer flouro, but mono works fine if that's what I have.

I like a 3.5" size in that kind of profile bait, especially with nose hooking because it's less likely to ball up on the hook.

I fished a strip pit pond like that. It was only about 5 acres, super shallow except 1 corner that had a beaver dam and a small brushpile. I caught probably 15 fish off those 2 pieces of cover and maybe 3 the rest of the pond. Weird that they were all grouped up that much.

Welcome!

September is historically my toughest month of the warm water months.

I like the Hi-Vis green with a leader but the leader is as much for sink rate and abrasion resistance in the rocks as it is for visibility. I like Seaguar Smackdown and SPRO Finesse 8X Braid.

The St. Croix Mojo 6' 8" M/F is one of the best wacky rig rods I've ever owned. I've had it since they first introduced the Mojo lineup and it's the only one that I kept of the several I tried.

I have the 7' 3" H/XF casting Victory and really like it. Caught one of my biggest bass of the year on it last year which also happened to be the biggest bass I've ever caught on one of my homemade jigs.

My wife has an older Quantum Energy PT 20 on her St. Croix Avid Pearl because she liked the holographic finish on it. It's been a good reel for her but it's been used less in the 10 years she's owned it than most of mine get used in a season.

Just like any other bait, a lot of variables go into deciding how I'm going to fish my glides. That's a lot of hardware you put on the front of that little bait, and no doubt is effecting how it works. The spinning on the cast is only going to cause minimal line twist and I wouldn't be so worried about it that I'd want to add a bunch of weight to a small glide like that. My best day of glide bait fishing this year, I was fishing the bait very fast.

Had a slow weekend, only caught maybe 10-12 fish with most being small, but I did get 2 nice ones. Biggest was 5.52lbs and excuse the background, prefishing for a tournament and there was some pretty distinct landmarks in the background. Tried real hard to get myself stuck a couple times too.

Doesn't matter how many times you change colors at a bad location, if there's no fish the bait won't make a difference. Put the wrong bait in a location with a lot of fish and there's still a good chance one might eat it.

Short staffed like every LE agency across the country. We're about 55 short right now. Those hours all break policy but they're okay with it because we're at "emergency staffing levels". I usually sleep a couple hours, go to work, come home and sleep a few more hours, go back to work, repeat until the weekend when I get a few more hours of consecutive sleep if I don't have OT.

What do your shifts look like? I worked midnights for 10 years and got a lot of time to fish then. I switched to days this year with a new position at work (almost 15 year LEO), and it killed my fishing time. I've had a lot of days that I work 9-5, come back in at 10pm and work until 2am, get back up and go back to work at 9. Now we have to cover hospital duty on our weekends. Got that a couple weeks ago, worked 9-6, slept a couple hours, came back in at 10pm and was out there until 6am. It's just so much more hectic.