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can this thing do down image kinda views and side imaging? if it can, I will buy one. If not ill buy if its not too expensive.

13 years ago? it seems to me like he hasnt adjusted to the times. he names his weakness as low weight tournament, meaning when the bite is tough I stink. I dont mean to say he is completely terrible, Im just saying he is not an elite angler and by elite I mean part of that top 25 fishermen that consistently get in the top of their leagues. I also believe that there are a lot of people more capable than him with better capabilities/technique but they probably arent great on camera or they dont want to constantly be on camera. I can also understand that the tv show could be cutting his practice and research time for the elite series making his performance suffer. JP de rose is an awful tournament fisherman. His new show is a little better, his old one was completely a plug to their sponsors. Dave mercer is also another guy that hasnt accomplished anything as an angler. His show is also a big plug for shimano, livetarget and a couple other brands. Scott martin is awesome but his show is more about competing and bragging. I like when he is not in Florida. Its just the way the program runs is not that great. If Ike wasnt constantly plugging his sponsors he could make a great show. Also believe someone like Ehler would make the best kind of show and he is a top 5 angler in my opinion.

NO FN WAY.. WHAT CHANNEL/TIME??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

I hate when the host of the show is not even decent at fishing and they are there because they know how to be on camera. Example: JP de rose, tim horton etc etc. When will anyone be smart enough to give a show to a guy like brent ehler or shaw grisby. these guys are so likeable and very smart and they dont have a show.

I have the exact same rod you have. Paired with that reel you are drag racing. When I first got it I was so happy with it that I used it for shakey heads. Its not optimum but it may work. maybe for drop shot but that line is huge. 12lb is also huge. theres a reason why I suggested a decent reel. A smooth drag is a necessity. Dont worry about the stripers, If you fight them correctly and the reel is set up right you can pull anything with 6-8 pound line. Ive pulled Huge logs from the bottom with that light setups. Ive also seen people pull double digit bass with 8 pound flouro. If you dont have the money for anything better Ive heard from friends that the microlite from bps are decent. I fished with an Ugly stick for a long time until a couple weeks ago I bought a nice spinning set up. I dont like 5 inch senkos. Bass in the lake I fish dont bite them period. If I switch and cast into the same spot with a 4 inch senko they go nuts and love it. I could be an exception. Losing a plastic worm is not as painful as losing a 20$ crankbait. you get 20 per package for these smaller sizes and they run from 4-5$ a package. I think 12 pound is big for any kind of finesse fishing. Anglers dont even use that thick of a line for cranks.

Im trying to help you please believe me. You are trying to fish like KVD. He is the best ever, but as we saw in the last tournament of MLF in Florida He has to power fish. He hates slowing down and fishing slow finesse baits. Power fishing is not the way to go. It is in fall but when the bass are neutral its useless. You and I dont have his boat or the 200,000 acre lakes he fishes to cover enormous amount of water. Dont hate slowing down. Catching a bass finessing and fishing painfully slow is better than not catching a thing. I am a finesse fisherman and I was a spinnerbait chucker. I would spend 5 hours chucking the spinnerbait to get what? 2 bites? until I met a master of finesse fishing. Find, buy or use the most sensitive spinning rod you can find in ML Fast 7feet. decent reel. 8 or 6# flourocarbon. I love seagar...this is a whole new discussion though... fish 3 rigs: slider heads(my favorite, Im very good at it) in 1/16. the ones with the really light wire hook. use 4 inch plastics on it. Zoom finesse worms, ring worms and my favorite, a 4 inch ring lizard. This bait is extremely effective at my home lake when I fish it, just bump it slowly with stops in between. for the finesse worm you can do this or just reel it slowly. for the ring worm just leave it in the bottom and move it 2 inches then stop for like 20 seconds and repeat, leave the line with a little slack. shakey head from deep to shallow, painfully slow. I love a round head in 3/8 with a trick worm or the shorter trick worm. watch the video from Glenn and fish it slower than him. drop shot. Watch a bunch of videos on it and fish it considering that you want to do it to learn the technique. in that order. fish for at least 4 hours early morning. LEAVE EVERYTHING ELSE AT HOME. How clear is that lake right now? Unless you have seen a ton of dead bass, IGNORE every person telling you to switch ponds. You will not learn a thing if you decide to do it this way. Instead, take this time fishing this tough environment as a learning experience and growth. when the time comes that you are fishing this important tournament and the bass are lip locked you will have something to fall back on and that wont be a skunk. report back your findings.

they are everywhere here(puerto rico). Ive caught a lot of em. a couple family members and me once caught two buckets of em. they love my new scatter raps!! Ive caught most on raps and spinnerbaits. I had one hit my spinner in 6 inches of water while fishing from shore. scared the heck out of me and made me think it was actually a big bass. Its actually a disapointment when I catch one as they usually hit my lures when Im desperate for a bass bite.

ok so what exactly is "every kind of lure"?? exactly what did you use and how?

pressured, clear deep reservoir fisherman here. As splashless as possible. Bass here as very picky and if something sounds too hard they just bail and flee. It wasnt hard to figure out when I read an interview with KVD and he mentions noisy casts and the ONE thing newbies should give more importance. the one big mistake.

Sam, Its 6am here and Im holding my laughter so I dont wake my wife but I literally sounded like muttley the dog from the cartoons. oops Im showing my age...

it seems to me that your are fishing for reaction bites. crankbaits and spinnerbaits with a senko here and there when you should be going hard into finesse presentations.Summer is awful if you dont adjust. Fish a drop shot in the deepest you can cast it to. Leave it there dont move it a lot if anything. Usually the body of water has its own currents that will impart some movement into your bait. BE PATIENT. Second rig I would use: Shakey head. Cast it deep, let it fall then pull it slowly through the area until it hits a rock or something then shake a little and wait... and wait..... and wait, shake a little more and repeat than pull it over the obstacle and repeat again. slow to me means like a foot per 30 seconds, but not move it and let it rest(which could work so test it and try anything else you want) but constantly move it that little inch then another one ect. Third Downsize everything including your senkos. If you are using the thick regular 5 inch senko, go with the 4 inch slim senko(theres a pro version thats thick. I dont like these either) If its a pond you dont have to, but if its a lake find the feeder creek and fish that area, rivers usually bring fresh colder water and that brings a lot of bass into the area. It also brings craws and other river critters that the bass feed on. like somebody else said, fish the colder parts of the day, if its possible, early morning, late in the day when the sun sets and even at night if its an option. you will see the difference that it makes. The fish will adjust and feed when its better for them and rest in the hot day as deep as possible. You also have to adjust. good luck, let us know what happens!

theres a difference in a couple of their products. when you buy clacking lures or scatter lures they are identified as a clackin rap or a clacking crank, a scatter rap or a scatter crank. the difference is that the rap is like a shad rap, thin and longer while the crank is fatter and maybe shorter.

Does anyone here have used that line of rods or that one specifically?? I think it was a great deal, I will use it as my main rod in the finesse style I do. It was between this one and a St croix Triumph.

any seagar flourocarbon. I dont even use it as a leader(for braid) because where I live the bass see line in the water and their jaws lock automatically. I love Invizx and I like Red label because its cheaper and almost as good as Invizx. If you fish weedy dirty water braid is the way to go. I like power pro(even though I never use it anymore).

I had to buy the slug gos!!! that action is amazing and I bet my local bass havent seen something like it because thats a product from a small company even if it is old as hell(like the video).

whats the bait used in the video around 1:49 ???

She is huge!!! I caught her at 5am and she helped me end in 3rd in my second tournament ever. It was awesome, a tough tournament but awesome. It was a great day!!! She weighted at 4# 4oz and measured 20 inches.

theres awesome peacock bass fishing in the northwest in a reservoir called Guajataca. Also in the lakes close to the metro area theres good peacock fishing. I live in the southwest and the reservoirs in this area are great Spotted bass fisheries.

I went fishing a new lake today. I will be fishing a tournament on it this weekend. My home lake is a highland reservoir that has been here since 1949 so you can imagine that it has cover in the shores and silt on the bottom making a couple of the areas flats. I know this lake pretty well and im capable on it. This new(has been here less than 10 years) lake is an extreme example of a Highland reservoir. It has a couple walls where the water goes from 0-40 feet who knows if more in a one foot step. it has almost no cover, very little structure, its extremely clear, almost all of the shores are rocky, It has only one river going into it, it has a huge population of undersize fish(10 and 11 inchers). The problem with the lake is so much that Natural resources DEPT removed 2000 undersize bass from it and sent them to another lake. Unfortunately it was done by electrofishing which ive heard stuns not only the fish but the bite for a long time. This happened 4 days ago. It has a lot of bass jumping around since the locals say the shad stays close to the dam in the surface. Because of this fishing in the river is kinda poor. The positive! It has laydowns, stumps and some trees are still standing inside the water, well the sticks that made the trees. these trees are not very abundant though. One area the size of a football field has 3 laydowns. Then a lot of bare shore and when you get back to the area with dirt you get a couple. I located a LOT of fish in a cove. There are a lot of trees there. The problem is most are 11 inchers with one 14 incher there that I scared with my boat and noise. some of this information has been given to me by my friend, who is the guy that taught me to use the killer slider head technique. The rest is my observations. so today I had a bad bad day. Tough bite, rain pouring over me. I caught 3 fish, one was exactly 12 inches maybe less, the other two were 11 inchers. I didnt fish for long because the rains were tough on me. I made a plan for the tournament and I want your opinions! the plan! mainly slider head fishing, working the laydowns, then if they dont bite bumping a squarebill on the trees and somehow introduce drop shot(i suck at it) and sharey heads where the shores arent steep and in places where Ive been bit. what do you guys think?

I crap a lot. lets get that out of the way. Knowing that, Ive also given this thing a lot of thought. I guess those floating toilets are a good option, the problem is, where to go when you are in the middle of nowhere? you cant leave the boat... I think human feces are not good for the environment or the side of your boat lol

manns 1 minus. that thing moves a lot of water.

In the last tournament I fished I beat a lot of guys using trackers that are worth over 8k$ with a $1500 12 foot tin boat, ugly sticks and cheap shimano combos. The only fancy combo I have(its not that much either) its a baitcasting abu veritas with a $60 daiwa reel. I spend my money on LINE and LURE/BAITS. The expensive stuff goes underwater.

RoachDad Ive done the buzzbait thing. It definitely makes them a little louder. Also clamping down the rivet allows for them to get noisy. I also damaged one when I went too far with its time in my antenna. I also change spinnerbait skirts, color them, trim them... I love the customizing part of fishing. I did the crankbait, who know if it catches fish, so far, its a virgin and has only had fish chase it close to the boat but who knows.

I have been a member for just a little while but Im making plans for next year!!! Is it always an Alabama lake?

you had to go finesse. small plastics, drop shots or shakey heads. If there were bass in there, they were going to bite.