Bluebasser86

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I'd check here; http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/41662-st-louis-area-fishermen/

No that's bait if you can get them. No better flathead bait out there. I wish I knew of a pond with bullheads in it around here!

I've seen spinnerbaits, buzzbaits, and jigs with a willowleaf blade attached to the hook bend by a swivel and basically attached like you would a trailer hook. I've never done it but I could see times when it would be effective.

Most bass clubs would allow female anglers too I would think. The club I used to fish in had a husband and wife that both fished in it. There's some Co-ed team tournaments and I know of a couple other female anglers that fish in clubs in the KC area. My wife goes with me pretty often and is pretty good at it but doesn't have the want to fish a tournament circuit.

I have that mold in both versions, one with a collar and one without. I prefer the version without the collar for my Ned rigs, that one comes in 1/16 and 1/8oz. I use the 1/16oz size regardless of wind and depth though. Fishing a 1/16oz head in a 20mph wind is difficult, but with practice it can be done. I'd suggest doing a Google search and reading about Midwest Finesse Tactics a bit, it's pretty interesting. I'm 100% sure that it would work right along side your more traditional west coast finesse tactics also.

Largemouth and stripers both will eat Rattle traps in any of those colors.

Check out the Zman Batwingz chunk trailer. They have a small version that would fit that jig perfectly and a single trailer will outlast a whole bag of another plastic chunk. I also like pork trailers like a couple other suggested.

We've got really high water here in KS too. Bass park themselves on the bank next to cover in high, muddy water. They haven't been real hard to catch either.

So a post about an attempted/proposed mass slaughter of bass didn't go over well on a bass forum?! Can't say I saw it going any other way. LOCKDOWN!!

Usually when I'm driving home from a day on the water I start to get the itch to go again.

Sort of I guess. I fish almost all St.Croix LTB's, or Academy Ethos rods. Reels are sort of the same way, almost all one flavor of Curado or another, then some Academy Mettles mixed in.

Pretty much goes against everything Midwest Finesse and the Ned rig is about, but it's what is driven into bass anglers heads. Probably why the concept and technique is so difficult for most to grasp.

I'd be surprised if there's a bass in Frisco. Gardner is pretty limited in what you can fish because of all the vegetation. Prairie Center ponds are both pretty good and easy to walk from the bank though.

Those spines are also serrated like a steak knife. So not only will they cut you bad, but the barbs make it very difficult (and painful) to have to pull one back out, ask me how I know

Yeah, I don't see many people showing up for an event like that anyways. The Facebook page thing seriously cracked me up.

Nope, just bought some Cook's Go-To tackle storage racks for them to hang from. I don't fish them often, but that's because everyone else around here does.

I agree 100%. I would also think that there's a good chance that the bass and trout tend to inhabit different areas. Hook and line is at least more responsible than trying to poison or gill net.

http://www.state.me.us/ifw/fishing/lakesurvey_maps/piscataquis/moosehead_lake.pdf Yellow perch were introduced to Moosehead Lake in the mid- 1950s, smallmouth bass in the mid-1970s, and white perch in 1984. The establishment of these three species severely compromises the lake's potential to sustain a high quality wild brook trout fishery. That's straight from the lake survey report that I spent 2 minutes searching for. Not saying I agree or disagree with it, but I can understand why they would at the very least want to keep the population down to try to preserve a unique fishery.

They're usually really washed out looking like that around here.

Sounds like a decent light swimbait rod.

Looks like a stocker rainbow to me.

Yeah, he still has a ways to go before he's doing too much fishing. The great thing about it today is with smart phones it's easy to capture moments in pictures or even video. He's our only one for now. Wife wants another, I'm not completely sold on it yet. He's a blast though, always has us laughing and seems to learn something new every day. Not long ago he learned a little about fine cuisine. I'm sure he'll eventually learn how ketchup is supposed to work, but for now it's hilarious watching him.