Philip Emmons

I have been fishing a pond since I was 8 caught a 5 lbs bass and I'm 25 now and have never caught anything over 3lbs. I have thrown large swimbaits (huddleston,deps,bbz,river2sea) to try to find the big bass but nothing. It is about 3 acres has vegetation lots of shell rock on the dam I have sunk christmas tree all around the pond. Put buckets of crawdads & creek chubs. I have put many bass 5,6,7lbs and have never caught any. I'm the only one to fish the pond. So what I'm asking is is why isn't there any quality bass. Huge bluegill and crappie and grass carp snagged one 76lbs. Stupid big. Any ideas? BTW I'm in KY

I have bagleys that I don't know what it is and can't find it on the Internet. It is frog pattern green on top yellow on bottom. It looks like a sub serface bait. It says bagleys on the bill. "Vintage?"

Has anyone been lately? What are they hitting on? Deep water or shallow? Bait color and size? Whatever info you can give me would be helpful Thanks Phil

gloomis bronze back smr882s-sp, snapped about 6 in of the tip 2 times, broke on a fish gloomis glx bsr852 broke the first eyelid gloomis drop shot dsr822 s about 2 ft of the tip gloomis bronzeback smr752s-sp broke the tip on a very small fish

does anyone have glooms rods bec thats all i have and they are HIGH and they snap easy. how does it compare to a fenwick?

thank you everyone for your comments and input. i think i might sell or trade a couple baitcasters for a couple spinning reels. one shimano calcutta dc. and i have 3 steez. all on gloomis rods. i dont want junk reels or rods. Phil

who has some experience with the fenwick elite smallmouth rods? are they any good? light? comfortable in the hand? break easy?

try some braid or nano fill, watch for the braid the dia. power pro is a good brand look at the chart on tackle warehouse.

I live in norther KY so not to many big bass 5 to 6 lbs tops. what is the diff between spinning and baitcaster?? i use a baitcaster for flipping. but i have a MH gloomis spinning with 15lbs braid and i can do more with the spinning. i would just like to have some input on what other people think. Phil

and Nick if you know how to up load pics to the forum i will show you some of mine

i did that my self and i thought it look very well in my fish tank. what pork or cunk you use

i dont like how the hair is cut straight with the hook. but i like the rubber but i think they put just a little too much on

i like to tie the real some jigs that look like a real craw about 2 1/2 in. it look more real. and im from KY so we dont have big big bass to eat the big craws. and when they hit it they hold onto it and will not let it go

anyone tie there own hair jigs?? wondering what hair and size hook you use and maybe pics of your own tied jigs