Bankbeater

If I during the week it is 2-3 hours. On weekends it is usually 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM to around 12:30 PM or 1:00 PM.

If I start catching a bunch of small ones in any given spot, I will move out and fish in another part of the lake or try to fish deeper.

Below 1 pound is a dink. 1 to 3 pounds is about average. 3 to 5 pounds is above average. 5 pounds and up is a hawg.

Cussing up a storm when one gets away.

You can recall from memory where you bought each rod and reel, the time of day, and how much you paid for it.

Was this one covered in the fishing alone thread? http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1145192465

I just bought one maybe three months ago for smaller lakes that you can't put your own boat in. It works alot better than I thought it would.

I voted for crankbait. I will throw a rat-l-trap if I'm in deep enough water, but if I'm over shallow grassy flats then I will throw a minus 1 or a sub wart.

I would start by making long casts around the hydrilla with a chrome/blue 1/2 ounce rat-l-trap.

Catfish and bluegill yes. Bass and crappie no.

I voted for weed flats. Here in Mo. in the smaller lakes they have started moving out of the deep water and onto the flats. After they spawn they will usually move into the weeds that are around on the flats.

It depends on what my past trips have been like. If I have been skunked a couple of times, I will go after dinks and catch numbers. When I feel good about the amount I have caught then I will go after size.

I NEVER take a picture before the first fish is caught. That is a sure way to get skunked.

Learn to feel what your jig is dragging over, and at the same time learn to keep your eyes on the line. I have had them take the jig and start swimming off with it while I was dragging it in. I didn't feel it but I saw the line move off to the side. I have also felt the tap-tap-tap while fishing vertically, and the line didn't move.

What is the main food source for the bass? Where I fish the lakes with shad have some bass in the 5-6 pound range. On the small lakes where bluegill is the main food I have caught nothing over 1 pound.

I don't even remember if I made any or not :

There isn't a whole lot of places around me for small and spots, so I usually go after largemouth.

OK little blue pill, but how do you get the bass to swallow it??? :D

Wind, Wind, Wind. It will determine everything from what size lure I throw to how I position the boat.

Do you like to fish more in cover or over structure along the bottom? Most of the largemouth I have caught this year have been over bumps and depressions on the bottom of the lake.

A hawg in Eastern Missouri??? I will shoot for a 5 pounder.

I always heard that they start to spawn when the dogwoods bloom in the spring.

I use the ones without a rattle probably 90% of the time.

I am starting to believe the old saying that things grow bigger in Texas!!!!

I went out Saturday. Never got a bite for 5 hours. It had to be the cold weather, I was so cold I probably couldn't have felt a bite if I had gotton one.