Bluebasser86

Got one of the Mag Sexy Dawgs packed up for this weekend. Hoping a big largemouth or striper will blast it!

Get some heads with a keeper and ditch the glue, you won't have any baits slipping anymore. SPRO has a pretty cool little bait. https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/SPRO_Sakura_Worm_5pk/descpage-SSWSR.html I really like the 10,000 fish bait also https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/10000_Fish_Sukoshi_Bug_6pk/descpage-10FSB.html

Welcome!

If I'm out fishing at 6PM, I'll probably still be fishing at 6AM. The morning bite is my favorite bite. The evening bite isn't usually as good for me.

Got out a couple times this weekend. Once was at a local lake and second time was a heavily wooded lake down south a little ways. Did a good job avoiding the crowds and caught fish along the way, can't complain. Biggest bass of the weekend was a 5 on a 5" Mister Twister Poc-it Phenom worm. Saw a couple little spotted fawns when I blew up against the bank at the lake on Sunday. Sunday I saved a couple hours at the end of the day to catch a couple catfish for my partner at work. I actually had a hard time catching small enough ones to keep. I wanted fish between 2-5 pounds. Caught 3 in the teens, one was pushing 20, all channel cats. This was one of the smaller ones that was still bigger than I wanted to keep for him. Only got one in that optimal range.

The FishLab Rattle Toad is a great frog and comes in 3 sizes, the biggest is over an ounce. They have a popping version now also.

Berkley Cane Walker is my go to pencil popper/walker style bait. I prefer it over the SB. They just seem to kill that thing.

Maybe I missed it but have you ever tried any stupid tube heads? Makes the tube last way longer and doesn't snag up nearly as bad as a regular tube head.

I like the Strike King squarebills, the hard knock version has been good for me this year. I've had good luck with the new Spro Essential Series Hunter 65 squarebill since it came out also.

My 5 year old played basketball for the first time last year in a 4/5 year old league. A lot of running, not much dribbling or scoring, not much that really resembled a basketball game other than that there was a basketball involved.

Catfish are predators, just like bass are. I catch them on anything a bass will eat. Had one eat a 7" glide bait off my rod tip Sunday. Nothing quite like a topwater catfish strike either.

Combos intended for bass, yes. All of my rod/reel combos, no. It'd look pretty silly fishing for bass with a 12' surf rod though.

I have the flexibility of a short piece of rebar. I have to grab onto something to help myself stand.

Welcome!

Welcome!

The biggest bass I've caught in my home state was in the middle of a hot July day. The bite may not be best then, but I think it makes fish more predictable and easier to determine where they'll be.

I use #4 with my glide baits and yes, remove the split ring.

The Menace would be one of my top 5 plastics of all time like if I had to chose 5 plastics to fish for the rest of my life, a Menace would be on that list. Great as a trailer, on a T-rig, shakyhead, swinghead, can even fish it like a small paddletail.

I like the Flush. Good density and durability, plus the packaging keeps them straight so I don't have a bunch of kinked up baits like I do in every pack of Flukes I've ever bought.

It makes a pretty big difference at times. Sunday, I was getting a few bites on a jig with a green pumpkin Craw Papi trailer, but not as many as I thought I should be. Switched to a 4" watermelon red flake Menace with the tail dipped in chartreuse JJ's, bite went up noticeably. When I hear that saying, I think more like major changes though. A couple weeks ago while I was at Table Rock and the threadfin shad were spawning, 2-3 inch shad were everywhere. Most guys were tossing small 2.8 fat impacts to catch their fish. I caught a few doing that but when I went to a 7" Chad Shad glide bait, they acted like they were starving and my bait was possibly their last chance for a meal.

Are you sure they're bass? LOZ has a huge rough fish population as well as tons of giant gizzard shad that like to be active on the surface and make a pretty sizeable splash when they flip around.

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A lot of smaller lakes in Kansas and Missouri are high density but low numbers of big fish. I fish a lot of the lakes where Ned tries for his 101 bass in 4 hours and occasionally reaches that goal. Of those 101 bass though, less than 10 will go 15" and rarely does one reach past 20". Only got out Sunday this past weekend, and got rained and stormed on in the morning like they didn't say anything about. Fishing was good right away once the lightning stopped. My blue bladed jig and a Trashmaster Jig did most of the damage. Biggest fish was a couple drops of water shy of 5lbs.

Depends on the state and technique. I watched KVD plop a bass hooked in the back into the livewell once that was caught on a crankbait. Then I also watch Steve Kennedy realease a giant bass caught just outside the mouth on a big swimbait in California even though he wasn't sight fishing. All depends on the situation.