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I seldom have brown water because of all the thick green grasses we have everywhere in South Florida. Lots of grass to filter the water. My biggest job is moving to the cleanest I can find, and away from dirty water. The only time I have experienced this is fishing Ga. after heavy rains and their red clay. I might as well been fishing the moon that day. I would use a big U-Vib and let that tail vibrate like crazy at different depths!

On outside ledges with deep water I will pull the claws off to get a faster fall. Don’t know if I got less or more bites but they have worked either way. Bites change so often because of multiple reason during the same trip. Hard to pin it one factor like claw, no claw. One thing I would never do is leave just one claw, with no weight, the bait would spin on return. Could cause line problems with long use!

My father was an electrician for DuPont. He loved when stuff broke in the middle of the night, because he was always on call, it was time an a half, double time on holidays, triple time on X-mas, New Year Day, and a minimum of 6 hrs. Even if it just resetting circuit breakers!😄🎉😄. Gotta love the Unions!

One thing I’ve noticed over the years. Lite to moderate rain in warm lake waters the bass will get active. Heavy storms dumping inches of rain the bass get funky for a few days, then get active again!

Staying at Lake Arrowhead in Waleska Ga. Only saw one boat this morning, and no jet skis allowed. A true old fart lake, I love it here! Just chilling all week!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Happy 4th to our great administrative team, and all the brothers. Tight lines! 🎉😆🎉

Just do what makes you happy and don’t worry about what others think. There are hundreds of ways to catch them, and you may have stumble on the secret way. Just remember what works today may get you skunked tomorrow! If we had the answers we would all be on TV and millionaires! Most important thing is just have fun!😆👍😆

I would never pay that much, go with a zoom fluke in a similar color, or a big ez. The fluke weightless will glide nicely from side to side, and only cost you 4 dollars a bag. Just glide with long pauses between pulls. A hungry bass will hit it. Numbers will be better, but the 20 dollar glide might get a bigger one. The fluke Texas rigged can also be throw in the thick stuff without hanging up. Good luck my friend, don’t get stuck throwing away good money!

The thumb was destroyed in 2 hours!

I once went early morning to the S1 area the state built to clean the water from Okeechobee before dumping it into the Everglades. They filled it with vegetation and wildlife. No motor boats allowed, electric motors only. I drove about six miles down the access dirt roads until I saw some bird action, and big swirls at the surface. For two hours I had constant action with HB Frogs, and big senkos. Most fish were 20 to 25” in size. After 50 years bass fishing I never had a day like this and never since. With repeat trips to the exact same area. That day I never moved my feet 6 feet from my starting point. I will try to add a few pics, but not always successful.

In South Florida, either very early or late. Done by 10:00 am. Deep, or thick cover close to depth changes. Least favorite season all year! The humidity is brutal!

Years ago, I did this far more often than I do today. Its just the prep you have to do, and the advancement of the senko type baits which I use far more than other plastics. When I did use the CR rig, I often used a big hollow tube bait, and a long leader. I stuffed the tube with some Styrofoam so it would float high above the big weight stirring up the bottom. Then Texas rig the tube right through the tube and the stuffed Styrofoam. Sitting still the tube would dance in place with just the slightest twitch of the line. When pulling the weight, the tube would dive down and then float up slowly. It was a good paring but a pain to deal with in the boat. The big weight would also often snag on limestone rock bottom, and I would have to reverse boat direction to remove the snag. This happened far too often in our deep Everglades canals.

I once saw him at a BPS giving a lecture. A class guy, it's just sad seeing these old timers we watched in the beginning passing away. It has also happened with the guys I personally fished with in the past. We are only here for a short time, so make the most of it!

Thanks Glenn, I too really work the inside and outside weed lines especially in the Everglades. The canals have heavy thick weeds that have a distinct outside edge at the deep ledges. Bass will move up and down the ledge from the shallow flats, to deep canals. The inside weed line is a perfect place for a HB frog thrown up on the bank and worked off the bank, and into the shallow flats with thick weeds. HB frogs are perfect for these locations. Thanks again for vid, always informative, and always well done.

A hollow body frog with two hooks is a little different than a solid plastic with one hook. The bass won’t let go right away after hitting the surface lure. I throw it often especially in thick cover and especially during low light conditions . When you see the hit don’t set right away. I wait 2 seconds after I see the bite and set up extra hard. Using 55 to 65 pound YELLOW braid helps me see what direction the bass is going and then I set opposite that direction. Bass goes right I set over left shoulder, bass goes left I set over right shoulder. This alone helps me getting them buttoned to the hook solid. The 65 pound braid cuts through any pad stems as I fight the bass and get its head up. I seldom lose any bass after the initial bite. Almost every time both hooks are in the roof of the mouth on big fish. I love frog bites especially the hollow body ones. If you do get hung up with the fish and an unmovable object like wood or a rock, just loosen up the pressure and the fish often swims itself free of the object. Then feel the weight of the fish, and reset the hook. My frog bite seldom lasts past the sun in the 10:00 position! I will follow up a missed bass hit with a big Senko in the same area. This has been a good technique, and a good follow up. Nothing more exciting than an explosion of a HB frog!

In the areas I fish in south Florida, I usually get there head up as soon as possible and get them in quickly. When in the boat, I begin by using no less then 15 pound floro for some plastics, or 20 pound mono for top water, and 55 pound braid for pad fields and thick weeds. Playing with fish will leads to loses, and always a chance of losing big fish. The Everglades has such a large number of gators that playing a fish could lead to catching a Gator, and even a 3 foot Gator will attack a fish flashing on the surface. When bank fishing I will have to pull a fish through 20 yards of pads surrounding the lake. Head up and surfing is the only way to not get wrapped in stems. Playing fish for enjoyment is not recommended unless you get them in deep open water, and that doesn’t happen often.

I vacation for a week every year on mountain lakes in North Georgia, or NC. Being a Florida guy where there are tons of vegetation and shallow natural lakes, my experience on deep mountain lakes has been terrible. My only success has been on Natahaila, in the river that feeds it, and that river was very shallow and loaded with smallmouth.

Find thick multiple type vegetation close to a significant depth change. Throw a plastics into the weeds and slowly pull them to the depth change and fall to the bottom. Bass will hit as the bait leaves the weeds and falls down the ledge. Let it sit at the bottom for several minutes and then repeat. Bites often come while sitting still. Be a line watcher.

Many of my bites with plastics come while the bait is sitting still on the bottom, and among the grasses. I may jerk a bottom bait 2 or 3 times and let it sit on slack line for up to a minute. Make sure your a line watcher during these dead stick periods.

In Florida I have found the best colors, watermelon red, watermelon black, and green pumpkin! With w/m red my fav. Have caught thousands of bass on these up to 9 pounds. Senkos, stick-os, or Ace it doesn’t matter they all catch fish.

I too have been fishing a long time in both the boat and the banks as many different places as I can find. For the first 15 years I considered myself a top water, open water guy guy. Fishing poppers, devil horse, and rapala stickbaits. I caught a mess of bass doing this but certain times of the day the bite would be none existent. Then I got a bass boat in 1978 and started fishing with other guys that I would take out in my boat or follow them in their boat. This was the greatest learning tool I ever had because these guys all fish different from me, and I learned every trip what they were doing, and sometimes what not to do. If you want to get better, learn new things and how to do it, invite as many different guys to come along and fish with you. Sadly many close friends have died off, or just quit fishing for health reasons. I met a ton of great guys, and always came back learning new stuff! I agree with you that day in day out, all hours of the day, in all weather conditions there is nothing better than soft plastics, fished slow, in high impact areas. Regardless of exactly what bait it is, or what technique used, they draw attention from bass whether from hungry, or territorial, it draws bites. I no longer throw top water all day, no longer burn baits much, and now consider myself a slow methodical plastics guy, with a lot more big bass catches, and more consistent numbers. The best tool is fishing with as many different sticks as you can find, and as many days as you can. Just keep an eye on what their doing and save the good parts!

Anything with an orange belly is a killer in South Florida. I need one. A wiggle wart. Sexy shade. Humdinger.

A Texas rigged Senko, and the best advice is slow down, and when you think it’s slow, slow down some more. A lot of bites happen while the bait is sitting still. Watch your line where it disappears into the water. You see line movement, take up slack, feel the weight, then set the hook hard!, It won’t take too long!