Bankbeater

Around here it's fishing pressure.

For me it's the rod. I like to turn the bass and keep it from getting buried in the slop as fast as possible.

If it's like mine it probably has some kind of gunk dried in the threads.

Just be sure your client doesn't have any cameras hidden somewhere.

Most of the bass I have caught this summer have been on senko type baits. I've been fishing them weightless in coontail and around lily pads.

I use topwater baits because they are one of my confidence baits, and I know the odds are good that I will catch bass using them.

Yep. Give me a small pond after a hard week at work, and I will keep walking around it even if I'm not catching anything.

To me it looks like a drop shot with some extra hardware added to it.

I'll start off matching, but if that doesn't work I will start changing the trailers for contrast.

If you can fit your fist in it's mouth then it's a hawg.

Good going.

I have two old 6'6" med. Daiwa procaster spinning rods that still get used every time I go out. As for the spinning reels, they are all Pflueger presidents.

I throw a fluke out weightless and let it sink down on it's own to the bottom. If I'm fishing shallow I jerk the rod to the side or jerk downward to keep the fluke under the water. If I'm fishing deep I will jerk up so the bait comes off the bottom and then sinks back down again.

Congrats on the big ones!

Nice looking bass!

Cast a plastic worm into that spot!

Keep your line tight and watch it. If the line starts coming up toward the surface fast then chances are the bass is going to jump. When I see this happen I lower the rod tip and pull back on the rod. I'm trying to slow the bass down, or turn him so it can't jump not reset the hook.

About 10 years ago I was fishing a spinnerbait around an island. I made a cast past the island and threw over a tree branch. I tried to flip the spinnerbait up over the branch, but it got tangled up. After a couple of pulls I figure I'm going to have to go get my bait. I'm about 30 ft away and I start hearing buzzing, and I see the tree branch I was hung on had a hornet nest built on it. No way I'm getting closer, so I moved the boat over the opposite side and luckily the spinnerbait pulled free.

I've had good luck working a pop-r across submerged vegetation that is maybe a foot under the surface. About the only color I use is the black back/chrome/white belly.

STAMPEDE!!!

Photography, WW1 and WW2 history, and reading.

The one to the left. It's a Cordell Big-O from the first year they were made.

A normal trip for me is once a week for about 5 or 6 hours. Usually on the weekends. I'll get out 2 or 3 times a week if I have a long holiday weekend, or if I can get a day or two off from work.

Sweet! Congratulations!

Same thing around here. I have only caught 5 or 6 bass this year on crankbaits.