tmier

This is the best response I've seen on the post so far...you want to bleed the fish correctly and kill it quickly. Best is to cut the gills and toss head first into a bucket with ice AND water. Bleeds out and the fillets tighten up from the ice. Omg just realized this post is way too old

Since it had rained and more fronts were moving thru later that day, I wasn't sure what I should have been fishing so I went back to worms. I used the Mann's because of its size and I fished it pretty slow with hard pops. I need to go back to my Bps and pick up some more of these.

I hooked one on a t rigged Mann's jelly worm. This was yesterday after about 12 hours of storms.

Its raining hard now. Supposed to stop around 6 am and im gonna try it. We are gonna troll cranks along a ridge if no luck, go to an outflow creek and pitch plastics under cover. It was 95 earlier and tmw it will be 75. Plus the water temps dropped from 85 to 75 in just two weeks.

A-jay, my girl is pretty jealous of that pic. She loves to use cheap lures and whoop my bass haha. She doesn't like fishing when the water gets over 75, probably because she sees how frustrated I get. But spring and fall we have a blast.

In Michigan they go great together. But Catt is right, be aware but definitely try it.

Realized my op was for another tread...oops! As long as these spots aren't below the thermocline and have some structure there may be some fish down there. I believe everyone should share the water they want to enjoy. I wouldn't put up a buoy barrier to rope off tubers but they should respect your intentions as well. Fishing during traffic does stir up alot of water though. I never caught a bass in wakes but did hook a walleye on a crank thrown just behind a speed boat.

Oh I just noticed it was only 8 acres...if this is your go to spot you will have it figured out soon enough just by fishing the crap out of it. I'm working on a 90 acre lake with tons of shoreline cover and underwater ridges. Can't use a worm and sinker for that.

You're not setting beyond the barb so you could try pinching it down a little or all the way. If I felt the fish heavy after the set I wouldn't give him an inch. You got heavy line and gear so pull that cow out! My problem is always the hookset. When I get bit I don't focus enough on setting the hook like a boss.

Your depth finder has to have some kind of data output. I have a Garmin 300c which doesn't have a USB hub but does have output wires on the harness. My engineering/fishing bud is making an adaptor to link the depth finder to my laptop. This will send depth data to the program on the laptop. That will be the simple part...our problem is connecting the laptop to the GPS signal on the cell phone. This could be easy if my laptop had a Bluetooth receiver.

There is a program that does what you want and more http://www.drdepth.se/ We are looking forward to the 3d models this program creates...

Man those look good. I would be tempted to clear coat them and try them without any color.

I use the zoom trick worm. I have to wrap a rubber band around the worm near the eye of the hook to keep it from slipping and tearing up the plastic.

There is I place in town that does this. Ill take it there.

That's hilarious

Great reels that cant cast very well. I'm using 20# mono and can't get 50' on a 1/2 oz crank. I tried a Mann's 12" jelly worm w/ a 1/4 oz swimbait jig and didn't add any distance with two pins pushed out.

http://www.google.com/m?hl=en&gl=us&client=ms-android-verizon&source=android-browser-type&q=can+fish+see+colors I Googled it for you

I have two pins on

I did a good swab over and lubed with reel butter before I went out. This reel has to be 5 years old so I'm guessing its the bearing...just guessing though.

I recently replaced my first baitcaster, an Abu Garcia silver Max, with an older cu-201 off eBay. Its mounted on a mojo bass 7' mh/mod tip crankbait rod. The reel doesn't cast far at all. At least 20' shy of the silver max. But the reel pitches very well. So is this setup just a bad match? Should this reel be outcasting a cheapy Abu Max? Or should this reel be on a flipping stick and a casting reel on the crankbait rod?

I would fish under the bridge and the east channel w/o the pads. Try c rigged crawfish or jigs with trailers dragged slow. Also try the neko rig w stickbaits and trick worms.

Ill drink to that. I appreciate the time on the water even if the fish don't love me. I'll have one more shot in the morning before I'm gone until labor day weekend.

Sorry for the double post

I will get very specific. 100 acre lake that resembles a beer bottle in shape. Top to bottom would be west to east. Depths reach 40 feet straight up the middle and the only underwater structure we have found is a ridge of silt going staight across (if the bottle was half full) from and inflowing creek on the north shore to an outflowing channel on the south. Water clarity is about 4 to 5 feet and very weeds on the bottom. Lilly pads are all over. The bottom of the bottle is a state preserve on the ne corner and very shallow, weedy. The se corner has the launch which has the only rock bottom on the lake. Water temps are around 82 degrees. The inflow is very narrow and shallow, kinda like a stream. The outflow is bout three pontoons wide and completely shaded.

Slonezp, sirsnookalot mentioned live bait also. We don't have a bait net but we did grab a few belly up baby bass and shad. No luck. We ran the fish light all night with the bait just below for catfish or late night lunkers. Checked the lines this morning, bait wasn't touched.