zenyoungkoh

Try a spinnerbait. I used it in this pond infested with snot grass and weeds. Pretty weedless compared to a crankbait and i did rather well!

corrections... its 3.5 lb!!!

I was fishing at this extremely tough pond again. I threw weightless flukes and worms today, and 0 bites. Most of the fish in the pond are really spooky, they tend to swim away immediately when they feel the vibration of the line when im jerking it. They dont really bite much lures either. I just started fishing this pond a month ago and 90% of the fish i caught in this pond were on their beds. The only time i could catch them easily. I used to not belief in spinnerbaits because they look nothing like baitfish or anything the bass eats. but i got it because i heard of its reputation, and its amazing! It triggers strike from the bass when most other lure fails! A couple of bass hit the lure hard. 1 of them missed and i lost the other when i tried to wash him for a picture!! but never the less, i spotted a big 3 pounder on her bed and i threw flukes/worms. I couldnt get a strike out of her. Even when i rested the lure on its eggs for 30 second! So i gave up, switched to a spinner bait again, to look for active bass. something told me to try again, so i threw the spinnerbait and swam it past the 3 pound female and she tried to eat it but missed so the hook accidentally went through her nose but she still put up a pretty good fight on my 8lb test. I love spinner baits now and im gonna get 4 more of them the next time i go out. Hopefully i'll win my school's talent contest tommorrow, because the grand prize is $200!! i could use some money for spinnerbaits and a new reel

Sounds exactly like one of the pond im fishing at! I use weed less flukes. Right now the snot grass are mainly on the bottom. There are some suspending ones but for some reason that i do not know, fluke tends not to catch so much of those nasty grass. I throw weightless trigged plastic worms, craw, swimbaits too. Crankbaits or most things with trebles dont work for me because the pond i fish at is only 2-3 ft deep.

oh yeah craw does well too

so far berkley havoc craw for me! but i just got into zoom fluke and i love it!

so far berkley havoc craw for me! but i just got into zoom fluke and i love it!

plastic worm. Real worms comes out when the soil is wet, and occasionally they'll be washed into the lake/river/pond too

goggles are your best bet

Best way to describe it!

black tip = species of shark sabiki = special rig to catch baitfish greenies = type of baitfish king cutoffs and bonita = species of fish avet mxj = model of reel Nice shark btw!! Must been a long fight with a 20lb+ line!

yeah! they even attacked a empty hook lol. but they werent eating it so i stick a small plastic worm on it. I got my first sunfish on a tiny booger sized piece of plastic fluke lol

Today was a great day! it was cloudy, saw some sunfish spawning and some bass. I was using a fluke in smoking shad for bass. I caught 3 bass. including a 4 lber! After that the bass stopped biting. There were a bunch of kids fishing, and they were catching sunfish. I got bored so i changed out my bass hook to a smaller size 4 hook and wacky rig about an inch of trout worm on it. I fished sunfish's beds and they are probably the most aggressive nesting fish ever! Some of them dont hesitate on eating the worm again and again! They are my first sunfish too. I think i might even get 1 of them for my aquarium the next time i go out.

There is only one option: Peacock bass / payaras / pacu / big catfish / Arapaima @ the amazon river! I mean you could brag about fishing in the amazon to all your large mouth friends!! I'd recommend amazon tours, something is wrong with their website now though http://amazontours.com/

Same! Thats what i've been thinking too.

Thanks for the tips! btw putting the spool in water worked really well! i went fishing today and not a single tangle/nest!! Last time i went with my new line i got about 5-10 frustrating bird nest

t rigged, swim/jerk it.

i love spawn fishing. Once they r done mating, they will be on the nest protecting the eggs. Throw a craw n crawl it on their nest and pow! If the dont strike immediately, then crawl it very very slowly multiple times n they'll hit it. U can pause it on their eggs and that upsets them

Only take out most of the small bass if your pond are FULL of largemouth. If the LMB's population is healthy, i would leave them alone and take out other predators like walleye, perch, wiper. but leave the panfish because they r food for big bass. If the fish are all medium sized, i would add alot of shad, alot of crayfish, alot of baitfish.

will it hurt the spool though?

will it hurt the spool though?

according to http://www.bassresource.com/fish/reels.html , putting the spool of a spinning reel in a cup of water a day before going fishing helps reduce line twist and line memory. "To help prevent line memory and tangles, drop your spool in a glass of water the night before you go fishing and let it soak overnight." I've decided to do that, but its washing some oil from the inside of the spool, out. Is that a bad thing? Should i continue doing this or take the spool out asap?

I wouldnt get it. I wouldnt buy a $61 frog when a frog that is <$10 can outfish it

the first one is 2.9lb using the calculator. I guessed the girth though.

Thanks!!