Mad Fisherman

Wow, I would have loved to fight that fish! That looked like fun!

Gitzit tubes. I caught the biggest bass of my life on a blue one. Saw it swimming up a small stream to a big pocket, I casted it right in front of him and did not move it. The bass eyed the tube for a second, and then sucked it up in to it's mouth(which resembled a cave) and I set the hook as hard as I could. It shot in all directions and after 5-10 minutes I was lipping a huge 10-12 lb bass and the second I held it my fingers were like chopmeat and I still believe I broke the state record with that fish by at least a pound or two. But I did not have a camera or a scale, but I have a picture of it in my head, and my parents saw it to, but soon I had to let it go. That was nearly half a decade ago, but I can still see that fish swimming off. Gitzit tubes all the way baby!

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For example, today I tried the same spinnerbait I had the big one one on at the same time and got nothing, but 1 guy got 2 on a buzzbait fished like a spinnerbait. Fishing was really not that good. A few guy's got some here and there with senko's, but that was it.

So lately I have been fishing this big pond where usually only plastic worms work, but lately I have seen one of my friends using a yellow spinnerbait catching some nice little bass on it. The catfish/carp were not biting so I put a big Terminator silver spinner bait on and I caught a small one and had 1 big hit but lost it. All of a sudden it seem's spinnerbaits are working. I never had luck with spinnerbaits at all. In my whole life of fishing I have only had 1 small bass on one but it got off. Where and when do you guy's think spinnerbaits work best because I have found out you can get the hardest hit's and the funnest fights on them.

I've caught a few spotted bass in my time. Great fun to catch. To bad there arent any over here.

Try reeling in a little slower. I have never had a fish jump behind a top water while reeling in slowly. When you reel in slow, they have time to decide if they want to take it and when they decide to, they will be able to really slam it, they wont miss it because the lure is just to fast.

I love sleeping on the couch, once I fall asleep, I just don't like going upstairs. To me, one second it is night, the next it is morning and I am getting ready to embrace the day.

I have caught some pickeral with wacky rigged senkos so I guess a pike or muskie would take one.

Yep, sometimes.

Thank you all for such a nice welcome!

I would think it is a bass pond if it has some type of cover like lily-pads, muck, or dead tree's bushes where they can lay low in the heat or to hunt. Is there food in these places, like baitfish, frogs, mice, sunny's, and ducks( only baby's). This does not insure there will be bass there, but these are some of the things that, in my experience, bass ponds have.

I was using a Pen rod, trying to beat the previous record of the biggest fish ever caught with it, a carp around 18 lbs,(not anymore) at a place in penn state that was loaded with carp. Very soon, I hooked into a 10-13 pounder, but I was using 4lb mono, and being that I usually use ultra-light tackle, I was able to fight the fish. I fought it for over 3 hours, and it pulled me over 30-40 yds upstream. Two hours in, it swam under a rock and I fought it there for the rest of the fight. Sweat was pouring off of me, and half an hour later, I was able to get some line in, and I saw the line was actually fraying back on itself. I quickly reeled that in, but didnt think much of it, considering it was only an inch long, but in a little while, I saw it again, a few feet long this time, line just fraying back on itself. I played it as carefully as I could, but then, the line went slack, my rod straight, and I lost the fish. That was the last time I ever really used mono. I have lost several hefty fish due to mono.

That's a big fish! I fish for carp a lot and usually catch them that size, but when you hook them by the tail, that must have been some fight. Was it a grass carp or a common?

It looks like the picture, but kind of reminds me of snake-head fry. Same body shape and head I think.

I would use weightless senko's rigged wacky. I would think the fish would be activated every quickly, but I dont know about that.

A few years back, a friend of mine and my dad on the other side of the country sent us a box of lure's. All looked great. Great paint gobs, super hooks. I went fishing one day with my dad to try them out, on the way back, we forgot our whole tackle box, all of our new and old lures. All that was left was one small crankbait that was on my rod. It was long and thin and gold. Maybe1.5 inches. BEST LURE EVER! I've caught so many bass on that lure. Whenever all else fails, that lure would always get me a fish. Never seen anything else like it. Makes me think how good the other lures probably would have been.

How about you try calling your local fish and game department and ask if you can stock fish. If you could stock 3-6 grass carp, they wouldnt eat the whole weed lot, but more than enough so you could fish it.

I would say bait shop shiners or roach.

I would think it is a carp. I fish for carp a lot and that sounds like a carp to me.

That's a really interesting fishing trip. I usually am surprised to even see a deer over here, I couldnt imagine seeing a deer, alligator, and a bear!

Yeah. Maybe they were running low on other food.

Hey guy's. For anyone who fishes in New Jersey, have you had any luck in swampy places? I have, but I want to know if I was just lucky to find this spot, or is it common. I feel like I drive past to many swamps without fishing them.

I am no expert, but here are my idea's. Look around. Look for fallen tree's, bank's, old fish nests, all can hold fish at certain times. I have seen bass come back to the same small areas they spawned in the year before during the spawn. Then, you may want to try big crankbait's on the nest. During the middle of summer, lot's of fish will take cover in shade or under tree's. Also, use common sense. In the fall or after winter, bass are eating alot, so try casting where you know there are lot's of baitfish, and try using a lure that represents them as much as possible.

I use bread usually. Just mold it into a ball and then cast it out with no weight. Works great for me.