scaleface
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I've been using Fish Grips a lot since i acquired them . There is a Fish grip Jr that I think would be more useful .
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I went last night because there was no cloud cover , 99 per cent illumination , the moon rose earlier and mostly because I coudnt wait one more day .
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It was a bright comfortable night . I didnt catch anything big , a couple of three lbers and about thirty fish total . Fish were caught in shoreline cover , flats , rip rap dam and points . These are the four baits I caught fish on with the Wart catching the most and bigger fish . ...and lesson learned . I lost my last three fish on the buzzbait . Look where the trailer hook keeper is .
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I use photobucket even though it is full of glitches
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Theres like 250 pages of infomation on this site about fishing Toledo Bend .
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I'm speculating you want to know what our favorite lipless baits are . Mine is the Red Eye Shad simply because I like the way it falls . My favorite one is a silent bait with a loose weight making it a quiet version of a one knocker but I like them all .
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Just use the same colors as you would other baits . I like purple , electric grape , black/chartreuse, black/blue , brown/chartreuse,..
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I dont know how to get suspended fish to bite .Once the bass leave the flat for the drops they get difficult for me to catch too . Can you follow the flat out to 15 foot ?
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I'm going tomorrow night then maybe Saturday too . I only night fish one to three times a year . Even though the vast majority of my fishing is done during the day , for three years running my biggest bass have come at night ." I spent 20 years Navy diving off almost every country in the world. I have worked as a captain for TowBoat US, BP, and private clients; I have fished and guided both salt and fresh. Many of my friends carry everything from a 6-pack to a 100 ton-masters license, many are guides, and share the same opinion on pollution getting worse. Eight years living on a 42' Island Packet sailboat cruising the Caribbean. I’ve worked for Westmarine giving technical advice to mariners. I lived in Hawaii for ten years where both my kids were born and we fished a 37' Trojan. I did Alaska for two years where the salmon fishing was great, but I didn't like watching eagles eat of out of the garbage containers left open by careless people. I never fished for crab, but I like the TV show. I lived on the base in the Philippines for 3 years walking into the city across a waterway we had a nickname for it was so polluted. I served in Florida for 6 years where I experienced some of the best bass fishing of my life at Rodman Reservoir, and the St John’s River. " Thats forty-eight years .It took me 50 years to join the club .LOL . yeah I consider two foot as stained . One inch is muddy .In the late 70's I joined a small bass club that had approximately 20 members as a non-boater .There was no major lake around here at the time but several small conservation lakes, so everybody fished from converted jon boats . It was the first tourney of the year and I show up with a a spinning combo and a spincaster . Never having bass fished from a boat before , I got skunked. I may not have even landed a fish , cant recall but I picked up a lot from that tourney . I realized that my casting skills were inferior to everyone else and my tackle box was ill-equipped . By the time of the second event I had a baitcaster and few new lures . By the time the season was over I had two or three baitcasters and a victory to boot.A few years back I tube floated a popular river with clear water here in Missouri. I took a snorkel to look for valuables . It was like floating over a dump .I havent fished them in snaggy areas yet . I can see them getting hung easily. I've been using them on more open flats and points .They are not highly buoyant which is one reason why they cast as far and dive as deep as they do . I have used them all except the 25.5 . They get down fast and stay there a long time . I have caught numerous fish close to the boat using them . For the time being they are my favorite deep divers . The 10.5 and the 14.5 have been especially productive . I think the 20.5 will be able to effectively fish 18 foot on 12 lb test mono .My first bass club tournament I had a spinning reel mounted on an old Shakespeare Wonder rod and a Zebco mounted on a piece of junk. Second tourney I had an Ambassadeur 5000 and a glass Speed stick , got lucky and won that event . So yeah , go ahead and join .How do you find the bait ? With your eyes and sonar . Also by watching birds like gulls . The lakes around here there is bait everywhere , so finding the bait is not important as finding a pattern or good structure . That should be your next question . Second question each lure has places where they excel and dont and they overlap . So picking between a crankbait , spinnerbait , or other lure is often just a guess . There is no definitive answer .
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