anonbassman

Well, I'm glad to say my dog did not eat the jig. I do however need to find the jig in my front yard now before I can let him play in the front yard again. Now to address some other issues I have. For the record I had already contacted the vet and discussed issues and concerns regarding my dogs health prior to posting here. I consulted a PROFESSIONAL first, then out of my own curiosity I posted a question here to hopefully find a fellow forum member who may have experienced a similar issue and may have been able to give me some support and their own personal experience. There were a few diamonds in the rough, but as a whole i was met wth a whole lot of judgement. People who questioned how much time or money I had invested iny my dog. Self righteous peple who needed to talk about how much they love dogs and to what ends of the world they would go to for their dogs to somehow belittle my relationship wth my pet. I am just happy that my friend is safe and happy. I however think my days on Bass Resource are coming to an end. I wish you all well. And thank you to those who were truly concerned.

Soo... I was cleaning/organizing my tackle bag and I think I dropped a 7/16 oz. Jig. I'm pretty sure my dog ate it. He hasn't been acting weird or anything, but I'm terrified It will mess him up internally. Anybody run into this before and have any advice. I know I should probably just take him to the vet and get xrayed, but I really don't want to spend the $200 if he in fact didn't eat the jig.

I find that in order to walk the frog you have to use a much gentler twitch, Almost barely popping the rod to the side. If they are hitting topwater baits, a frog will work just fine even in open water. I've caught a few this way - it also has a greater chance of getting a good hookup. I think the best thing is to pop it kind of quickly over the sloppy stuf and walk it as slow as you can as soon as it hits an open spot in the slop. Trimming the skirts down a little can help as well.

What are the winning weights of the tournaments and are most teams limiting out? That would give you a good idea of the fishing would it not?

I personally like offset better. I think the angle it pulls at allows for a better hookset.

I second that, I love blue. Junebug, Blue black flake, whatever blue i like it.

Yeah no kidding, Where in St. Louis are you regularly catching 2-3lbers? Public Ponds?

Just put on some pants and walk through it. No pain no gain. The best spots are usually the ones that are the hardest to get to.

Do you have a spinning reel or baitcasting reel? If you haven't used either, a spinning reel is probably easiest. Get a Medium Heavy put some 10lb Mono line on it and you should be good to go. A lot of people will tell you to spend as much $ as you can afford on your equipment, but until you know you love fishing I would just get a Quantum Triax combo or something like that from walmart.

When a fish bites it will usually fall into a couple categories. 1. You feel a tap tap on your line or a big Thump. 2. No tap, but your line starts moving in one direction. 3. Bass annihates your lure and its pretty hard to miss it. As a beginner I would get 3 lures. 1. A buzzbait (Black, White, or Chartruese) for the mornings and at dusk. Sometimes at high noon even. 2. A pack of plastic worms (Yum, Powerworms. zoom) - texas rig with a 1/8 oz weight or on an exposed lead jig head. 3. A crankbait - lipless, shallow, squarebill. anything really. Buzzbaits are nice becuase you can pretty much just reel them in around shorelines and cover and you will know when a bass hits the lure. As you get better you can try different retrieves and see what produces best. The plastic worms will be very versatile. You can cast and retrieve them. Cast and let them sit. Hop them, drag them , yoyo them. Cast towards cover - sticks, logs, docks, boats. Whatever you want to try and get fish to bite. They will usually have the tapp tap or start moving your line when they bite so reel in the slack and do a strong sweeping hookset. A crankbait is another easy one that you can catch fish on bny just reeling in the lure. Experiment with speeds and stop and go retrieves to get the fish to bite. Again the fish pretty much hook themselves with this method. Once you have these three lures down, and you are comfortable catching fish with them start experimenting with other stuff.

The man crying about bass thumb now can't catch a bass... Try spooks/wtd lures/ buzzbaits in the mornings. Carolina Rig big worms on points. I like a swim jig in the afternoons sometimes. Dropshot with a roboworm if they really aren't biting. Frogs around the muck on shorelines. If they aren't biting slow lures then speed it up. If that doesn't work, then you should probably call it quits.

Its a struggle every day. It takes 10 minutes to get there and 10 minutes to back, but that is the best 40 minutes of my day.

Ok guys i have a question for you. The pond I fish on my lunch break has several aeraters that will run sporadically. Am I correct in a assuming this pond won't stratify in the summer with these running? I don't even think the pond is deep enough to stratify really, I was just hoping to see if anyone had any in depth knowledge on how these things affect ponds. Also, do you find that the bass stay away from these aerators? I have never caught any around them, just around the weeds and other cover in the pond. The aerators are the three little dots in each image.

I second the last post, i have seen one big one in there, caughta few smaller ones and one decent one. I think Forest Park is a much better city fishery IMO.

You don't really need the weight, it will sink on its own.