Hyrule Bass

im sure it slightly affects the action and fall rate and such. the fish here dont seem to mind though. atleast in the main pond i fish. they wont touch a wacky rig there though...

haha, i was looking at some old fishing pictures of mine when i noticed one common theme. it seemed most if not all of my nicer fish were caught when i was wearing a red shirt, so now i try to wear a red shirt most times i go fishing lol

Sam, the boat and jetski traffic alone can cause whitecaps and heavy seas on SML without a storm LOL, ive seen the water so rough from traffic it looked like it was boiling... and i agree with sam, the lake is too big to limit yourself to one bait. carry some plastics along and some cranks with white/silver bellies and black backs. the lake can be great at times, and can also be a cruel mistress. just when i thought i was figuring things out i got skunked one day last time i was there and i fish for multiple species and didnt get a one of them...

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i use a 5601 BCX Ambassadeur for bass fishing at times

i use a 5'6" Light ugly stik lite-pro rod for bluegill, paired with a pflueger trion gx-7. its great for panfish and ive caught bass and catfish up to 4lbs on it. it has blue markings on the rod instead of the typical red and yellow, and i believe its sold only at walmart...

i get a lot of use out of senkos, after fish tear up the end that goes by the eye of the hook, i just cut that off a little and rerig it. my 6" senko is now a 5.5" senko that will catch fish just the same...

i disagree. waiting, counting to three, feeling the weight of the fish, etc, all that crap has cost me more fish while frogging than it has helped me hook. now i just set the hook as soon as the bait disappears under water and i have much better success. i figure by the time i react and the rod flexes from the hookset enough time has passed that the fish fully has the frog in its mouth if it didnt get it all initially. i find waiting just gives the fish more time to spit the bait, especially since i dont use scents or anything...

Congrats, do you wear the same shirt every time you fish? Is it a lucky shirt?

I use anywhere from 12 to 25lb mono for catfishing. a 1 to 3oz sinker and a 4/0 to 6/0 octopus hook. but for just an all around basic setup i would use 20lb mono, a 2oz slip sinker, and a 5/0 octopus hook. but the hook is usually dependent upon what bait im using. ill use a 2/0 baitholder for nightcrawlers. i put the slip sinker on the line, a bead or two, swivel, leader same as the main line, and the hook... i hate circle hooks, they dont work for me at all, never caught a fish on one but once, and that was a white perch which didnt get hooked, he managed to suck the 4/0 circle hook in his mouth and it was too big for him to spit it out...

Performance Enhancing Drugs --------------- and actually, as anglers, we often discuss the need to slow down and fish slower in many situations. wouldnt marijuana actually help someone slow down a little?

creature baits, t-rigged and weightless, pond fish love them.

so yeah, is anyone going to say who won? i feel asleep midway through the last episode...

if youre fishing weightless plastics, your going to have a little slack most always in the line. if youre line is moving sideways, you have a bite. if your line starts getting tugged on, you have a bite. if your line slackens in towards you without you pulling it, you have a bite. those are the obvious ones. but sometimes a fish will just pick your bait up and sit there, these bites are harder to detect but can be detected by feel more so than sight, unless you can see the fish eating your bait in the water. feeling a bite like that is where concentration comes in, does anything feel different? then you might have a bite...but regardless, if you even think you have a bite, set the hook, it wont hurt anything if theres nothing there, but could hook you a fish if one is there...

cant remember for sure, but i believe i have the 25 on a 5'6 light rod and i love the combo. its a great little reel and has handled some decent fish, i got it spooled with 6lb sufix siege...

i dont care how good of a line its said to be, at $50 for 200 yards they can keep it....

i was pond fishing with a small spinnerbait on a zebco 33 one day several years ago. i hooked a bass about 1lb if that and it stripped the main gear inside the reel when it hit real hard, i landed the fish but the reel was replaced. i had caught much bigger fish on this reel, and even tangled with a monster flathead on it...

if the fish were coming from the river into the pond then i would release the pike back into the river...

just grab them by the belly, put your thumb under one side fin and the other side fin between your pointer and middle fingers. the whiskers wont hurt you. if you get stabbed by a fin, its usually going to be from a smaller one, have to be real careful with the smaller catfish as the spines on their fins are sharper than bigger catfish. it doesnt hurt that bad, its just more of a stinging sensation, if you get stung just rub some catfish slime on the area and the stinging will stop in a short few minutes, ive never had any problems with infection when doing that either...

this could be a good thing. those not so big bass could start to grow if the minnow population is able to sustain...

its just not true. i fish a pond that the fish totally prefer artificials. they would not touch a minnow, and ive seen them swim up to a nightcrawler, look at it and swim off. but when i throw a weightless plastic out there, they crush it. white spinner bait, they crush it. and various other lures. and ive outfished a guy there using live bait vs me using rage tail plastics. he caught one bass to my 11 in an hours time. i even caught more bass then he caught bluegill using nightcrawlers... also, ive seen a bass at Smith Mountain Lake, had been seeing this same bass for 3 years before i finally caught it. i know it was the same bass because it was on the same pattern. it had 3 stops it made on a "route" it would follow all day long almost. i could walk down there and see this bass in one of the 3 spots an any given time. ive tossed minnows out in front of it, i tossed nightcrawlers right in its face and it would ignore them completely, act like it was offended and swim to one of the other two spots it sat it. i finally got it last year on a weightless t-rigged baby rage craw in summer craw color. i spent a little over 2 years throwing live bait at this bass because i thought it would be easier, only to catch it on artificial when i finally tried it... you can put down live bait all you want, but it isnt always easier. at the same time youre forgetting artificial baits cover a lot more water than live bait fishing. but really, if you only fish artificial baits, then you have no basis for comparison.

LOL @ this page

ive used the 8lb XT on a pflueger trion spinning reel for awhile. i handled bass on it up to 4lbs and ive never had it break on me. this year i ripped it off and put on 6lb sufix siege though, but not because there was a problem with the XT, it was just time to change it after 3 years and i wanted to go smaller. yes it lasted 3 years and couldve made it through another year. yet some insist they need to change lines every trip out, must be nice to waste all that money...

probably bluegill. theyre notorious for biting the ends of plastics off...

my recent experience with these storms is horrible. i went to Smith Mountain Lake for 5 days over 4th of July. Everyday there was a passing rain storm and everyday the fishing was horrible for me on the dock and on the boat. It wasnt only the bass fishing, it was the catfishing too. Even the white perch were few which is rare. Couldnt locate any stripers. The only thing i could catch consistently were bluegill on a tad fry in the day time. Day or Night it was just bad fishing for me. 3 nights in a row i went down to the dock with nice weather, and as soon as i baited up and casted one line out, baited up a second and got ready to cast it, the rain starts pouring.