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/bonk self on head. Need to get better at searching before posting questions. Just saw where that happened. It's a shame, I wanted to try the vibrashock lures. I use the Z-man Chatterbait with a lot of success and wanted to try this.

Hey guys, I'm trying to find a retailer who sells the Karu Vibrashock. I've googled my head off and can't find any online stores.. Is this thing still being made?

Home from the trip now. Go figure, I caught 1/2 to 1 pounders the rest of the day. Can't complain though. Here's another look of the big guys underbelly. Bass are impressive fish for sure! Can't wait to go out again.

Well, update to the fishing report for this 2 acre+\- pond that I've been fishing. Caught a monster this morning using old faithful, the black trick worm unweighted with a super slow presentation. Measure it mouth to end of tail fin at 24 3/4 inches. Don't have a scale, so I found a chart online that uses size to estimate weight. Looks like this guy is about 9.5lbs give or take. Sure felt like it bringing him in. Took 3 or 4 minutes of fighting with him to get it to bank of the pond. Found him under the dock here. Here is a pic Made this post using my iPhone. Will post more pics when I get home to my computer.

Thanks for the replies guys. I really appreciate it! I haven't had so much fun in ages, if you couldn't tell by the kool-aid smile across my face. Any critiques/comments about the reel/rod I decided to use? Just to let you all know once more I was using the following during this particular trip. Pflueger Supreme XT spinning reel model 9235XT with a gear ratio of 6.2:1. I currently have 10lb test mono-filament line on it. Should I go heavier? BPS CarbonLite 7ft medium weight fast action rod. It's not too late to return this rod and get a different one. Any suggestions on the rod type? I noticed that this one was extremely sensitive and I could feel every nip, bump, bite, log, root, etc. that the lure was touching. For bait on this particular day I was using 7" black trick worms with a 2/0 offset hook. I didn't use any weights on the line. I really had no idea of how to work the worm, so to speak, during this trip. I would slowly retrieve after letting it lay on the bottom for a bit. I'd retrieve about 2-3 feet then let it sink back down. I noticed all my strikes were when I was retrieving the line. Temp outside was in the mid 60's. All fish that I caught were within 10ft or so of the bank, I can only guess the water was a little warmer there and the fish were congregating around the edge of the pond to warm up. I had absolutely no luck casting in the deeper sections of the pond, I had to stay near the bank to catch fish. Like I mentioned before, I am a total newbie. Any experience or comments that you care to share would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks again!

Hi Everyone. New Guy here. Thanks for having me. Please excuse the bandages in the photo's, I had surgery to remove plate/screws from my wrist a few days ago that I obtained from a nasty wrist fracture. Well, I finally caught the bass bug. I broke my wrist this past April and had the last of 3 surgeries this past Monday to remove some hardware the doc put in there to keep the bones together. Yesterday I finally felt well enough to try my hand at fishing for bass for the first time ever. Went fishing in a pond near Athens, Georgia. I haven't been fishing in years and years and then the only thing I ever caught were some sunfish in a local stream around Fort Bragg where I was stationed while in the Army. I took a friend of mine and we went to a local pond that isn't fished too much. It was maybe 2 acres large, tops. Nice and quiet though. I ended up catching 4 bass and he caught about 7 or so in the 3 hours we were out there. I should have reeled in 7 or 8 if I knew how to set a hook properly. After my buddy instructed me how, I finally started reeling some in. The first bass I ever caught was nice! I didn't realize how much pull these suckers have in them. I had to quickly adjust the drag on my reel to almost maximum as I wasn't able to pick it up out of the water after getting it reeled in without the drag being pulled out. Here's a photo of the very first bass I've ever caught. It was a nice size, imho, considering I've never caught one before. It seemed to weigh a little more than a bag of sugar, so I'm guestimating about 4-5lbs or so. If anyone with a better eyeball than me can let me know how much you think it weighed, please let me know. I ended up putting this guy back in the pond. I was using black trick worms on a 2/0 offset hook that a good friend of mine calls 'old faithful' as it works practically everywhere. Everything we caught was within 5 to 10 feet of the bank. Couldn't get anything in the deeper sections of the pond. Boy, was a ton of fun! Now I need to get a kayak so I can go to some of the bigger lakes around here. The equipment I am using is a Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 10lb mono on a bass pro CarbonLite 7ft medium rod. Any critiques on equipment would be most helpful as I'm still very much a newbie Here are some other photo's from the short trip. everything else was pretty small in comparison to the first one of the day that I caught.