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56 acres, I'd fish it all .

I have all my fingers crossed for Chris and her family .

Yelas killed me today .

On my boat I have a adjustable pedestal with a regular seat and back rest. I'm fairly tall and dont like to sit low . So I have it positioned pretty high so I am able can lean against it or plant my butt on it .

I stand about 50 percent of the time . I have a bad foot thats not very strong so the balance is not good . Its not safe for me to stand unless its calm .

The water I most commonly fish stays murky all year . Bright chartreuse and white are the colors me and everyone else uses, early in the year . One year I was using a bright spinnerbait , post-spawn and saw bass that were eyeing the lure but not take it . The bass that I did catch were barely hooked . I switched skirts to a more subdued color and the bass responded well to the new color . Every year since I kept the spinnerbait bite going when other people put them away by simply using duller colors .

I dont know . I've painted lead sinkers with nail polish , painted eyes on them , scraped shiny streaks on oxidized ones with a pocket knife . None of it made a noticeable difference . It is good to experiment . Randy Blaukat just uploaded a video in which he quoted Albert Einstein .. Imagination is more important than knowledge because knowledge is limited and imagination is limitless .

I run the line between my index finger and thumb . That increases feel significantly . A lot of the old timers, I mean veteran anglers do this .

Me too . I have caught a few bass in irrigation ditches and been tight-lining for rough fish in a flooded river .

I had so many ideas , bought so many different blades , and most I dont even use , just a waste of money. Now I know what blades I like and I get my blades from two sources . Budget blades from places like Barlows and the blades off of worn out spinnerbaits . I'll purcase a Terminator or other quality spinnerbait bait just to reuse the blades . When I think the bait has had enough and wont last much longer I'll put the components on one of mine . When pouring your own , one doesnt have to fish a bait until the wire breaks , just switch the components to a new bait after about thirty fish .

If he doesnt , he doesnt for half the field so it doesnt hurt as bad . I have him and Yelas . Yelas is at 1.3. If he does bad , that will hurt .

Other than using large lures , I dont know how to target large bass . I catch them on the same cover and structure as smaller ones . Thats been the key for me , fish cover and structure .

I havent even been out on a boat this year because of the wind . Every time I have an open day the wind has been blowing hard . Windiest spring I remember .

Something bright . That Hornet color looks pretty good .

My first was on a Beetle Spin .

I get both . Just go fishing and catch as many bass as I can and stumble on bigger fish in the process .

I had lots of them break . Now I pour my own and after twenty to thirty bass I remove the hardware and put it on a new bait . Melt the old one and recover the hook . Come to think of it , I need to pour some more .

... with the hook hidden inside the slot instead of out of the back ?

If any of you picked Tyler Carriere , hes not listed anymore . Hes not even listed in the Bassmaster Elite roster .

I have caught bass in really thick gorilla snot like stuff in the summer with a weightless/weedless Yum Swurm [ actually a Riverside Top Gun but they are the same thing]. Its flat and slides over the stuff fairly well . Sometimes I get it to stay in place and jiggle the hook so it plops up and down on the mat. I caught some big bass doing that . Use a heavy hook to give it a little extra casting and be able to pull in a six lb bass along with six pounds of gunk .

60 to 65 degrees ? I dont know . I usually fish shallow in the spring so I select lures that work well in shallow cover . The same lures I use the rest of the year .

I use lizards a lot on Texas rigs .

Frogs and weightless soft plastics are the only lures I have found that will come through the stuff you describe .

Ladybass

I'm usually fishing for a minimum of eight hours , so I fish a lot of different cover . Stumps , weeds , docks , rocks , ramps .., trying to discover a pattern .Large bodies of water give me more trouble than small bodies because its easy to make wrong choices and fish areas where the fish just are not cooperating and it can become intimidating .If I'm struggling in the main lake , running up lake or up a creek arm , to where there are a lot of flats and shallower structure like channel ledges , it becomes more like fishing in a small lake and easier "for me" to break down . On small bodies of water I can hit it all and eventually be fishing where the bass are . Put the trolling motor down and do some junk fishing , hitting all cover encountered. Throw in a deep water point or two and I'm confident bass will be caught . Some days bass will prefer one cover over others and some days they seem to have no preference. I'm not very good at predicting their behavior , so putting in enough hours is key to my success .