Bluebasser86

The move to the deepest holes and congregate. Smallmouth are so well camo'd that it's possible you were looking right at them and never saw them. I've also seem them pile up under root wads and under big rock or clay overhangs where you'd never see them without going into the water.

We caught a lot of solid keepers in the river last time I fished down there, but nothing that would win you much at BBB. The biggest fish I've seen at LOZ was by PB2 but I've never gone much further down the lake than that.

It's the cheapskate answer but it's one of those things that you have to let the conditions dictate. I've fished docks with 8lb fluoro, and I've flipped them with 65lb braid, all depends on the situation. A majority of the time I'm fishing 15-20 pound fluoro though so I'd say you're right in the ballpark.

Try a San Diego Jam instead of Palomar with flouro.

How far south in Florida does a guy have to go to get into some peas? My wife wants to go to Florida in May for our 5 year anniversary and I'm really thinking I'm going to have to get us a day to go try to catch some of those, a bucket list fish for me for sure!

Stripers are a blast. I wouldn't fish for bass nearly as often if we had them around here.

Don't get into it if you think you're going to be saving money right away, especially if you're planning on pouring your own and going to have to buy your lead. Buying unpainted or painted jigheads and tying your own is a good way to go though. The ability to customize the colors you want is really nice and part of what drew me to it at first. There's some good articles and videos on here about building your own jigs. http://www.bassresource.com/fishing/hand_made_tackle.html http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-videos/how-to-tie-jigs.html

I like the idea of the expensive toys, but I can't afford them so I don't buy them. Every once in awhile I'll splurge on a $20+ crank or jerkbait or a $70+ swimbait, but only when I have the extra cash to spend on it.

I feel like the head clicking through the rocks is probably all the noise needed and a little more natural sounding than a jig with rattle chambers. I do use rattles in dirty water though and sometimes it seems to be a big factor in whether I'm getting bit or not.

A lot of our lakes get filled up with leaves and a thin layer of slimy moss on the bottom during the winter time, so dragging a plastic bait is a waste of time. In the places that aren't like that it's extremely effective though. Just last Friday, kanasbassfisher08 and I tore them up dragging beaver baits on homemade swinging football heads, they wouldn't hardly touch a hard bait. http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/149804-good-day-on-a-powerplant-lake/

Hmm, I'm friends with a few guys from on here, but I don't spend any time looking at the people I may know option.

Strike King 5XD and 6XD would be my top choices of baits that I've used. I really like the looks of the Duo bait but I haven't fished one yet. The Spro Little Jon DD is a really good bait with a different sound to it.

Feel free to put in your vote for date/location either on here or text it to me.

I don't like the Pats, but a deflated ball didn't account for that 45-7 beat down last night.

Just remember, the Kansas City Chiefs beat New England 41-14 If the Chiefs can beat them, anyone can, especially considering those same Chiefs also beat the Seahawks and then lost to the Raiders! I'm hoping sometime in my lifetime they'll put together a decent season, hasn't happened yet.

Got to love the power plants in the winter time! We started really slow that morning, just the first 2 bass off the rocky part of the outlet where they're usually piled up. A few white bass and a couple more largemouth off the shallow side before we were off to a spot that I'd talked about on the way down there. Normally during the winter there if you get a couple good days of wind blowing towards this spot the fish stack up, and they were there for us. Almost all of our bass were caught dragging my homemade swinging football heads with beaver baits on them, mainly the Zman Palmetto Bug, Netbait B bug, or KVD Rodent. We caught way more white bass than the video shows on traps and several on my homemade bladed jigs. A few bass fell for the RES and one on the bladed jig as well. We had that little section to ourselves except for the pair of bald eagles there were nesting in a big, dead tree like they have for several years now. A couple times they looked like they might try to steal our fish while we were fighting them. I also caught a dozen crappie in the 14" range off of one tree. It was a great first outing of 2015! The tree starting at 7:37 kicked our butts! I think we got broke off by 6 or 7 fish on that one tree. That lake has zebra mussels so I'm think that tree might have an infestation on it's roots because that was the only tree either of us broke off on all day.

Nice! We've had warm weather, but still no soft water!

Behavior modification specialist.....

I've had good luck with craiglist or the local free ad papers. Some people sell them on Ebay, just make sure to set a minimum bid. Sites like boattrader get searched a lot, that's the main place I've been looking for one at anyways

X2, bait shrimp are pretty cheap and something will eat them. Kind of like the nightcrawler of the ocean

I've used them and my dad still has one of the small spinning rods in that lineup. Not the most sensitive or lightest rods but they get the job done.

Oh yeah, I'd be buying new for sure if you have that much to play with. Quite a few options for you to choose from in that range.

What's your price range? You can get some pretty nice electronics with maps for very affordable prices anymore. Buying electronics used electronics is a gamble that I just can't get myself to take.

Anytime works for me but I'd say 6 so you people with normal hours can get off work?