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I cant even tell when the bass are spawning most years .Water is usually to dirty . I just go fishing .

Here we go a ,partial picture of just one page . I had to color the map in myself with hi-liters . Yellow is normal pool red is the flood plain . Took a lot of hours . Look at the ditches that go from the flats to the channel . This photo is a little blurry but its full of routes from shallow to deep .

LOL good one Fisher I have a highly detailed map of Mark Twain lake . Its like 50 pages made before the land was flooded . Its to big to scan but some of those routes are easy to see on that map . I have a laminated copy of one pge , if I can find it I'll scan it and post it Edited I'll just take a photo of a page , that will work .

Theres the spawning spots and the summertime homes . I follow the routes between the two .

His reputation will never be tarnished , the records speak for themselves . I do think tournaments are different now than when Clunn dominated . Clunn is perhaps my favorite tourney angler . It was all about his knowledge and instincts . Todays anglers show up with waypoints on their depthfinders supplied by who knows , its just a different game .

Yellow 1/16th ounce marabou crappie jig . Bass was in the 6 to7 lb range .

I like WRB's idea . Lots of sinking baits will work , spinnerbaits , lipless cranks... get weights that your combo will handle easily .I like those Strike King Rocket shads in deep water . Its a good idea to wrap a bit of wire on the double hook though , to keep it from coming off during a fight with a big fish .

My guess is you are mistaking carp for bass . I have never witnessed bass behaving like that but carp , often .

Whitwolf . Have you ever seen the add in Bassmaster magazine that showed how almost all the top pros at a particular tournament were using Rebel lures for that event ?

LOL Thats the way I do it and the main reason I dont use braid .

I was bank fishing on this chute that use to be connected to the Mississippi river , before the levees were made . This was the best big bass spot I ever fished . Probably caught a hundred 5lb + fish here . This was way back when heavy action 5.5 foot rods were the norm for worms and jigs . This log had washed in , about twenty foot from bank and i knew there would be a big fish taking advantage of the new cover . I casted a black jig n pork frog on the other side , hopped it a couple of times and felt the heaviness of a bass . I was using 14 lb stren, reared back and set the hook on a large bass . There was nothing I could do but apply pressure that would test the strength of the line and try to get the fish to jump . The fish did exactly as I was hoping and when it went air born I pulled it over the log but the fish threw the bait . I still think it was the largest bass I ever hooked .

My dad is my fishing partner and got me fishing as a toddler . When we would travel somewhere all I wanted to do is fish at all the bodies of water I saw and he allowed me if possible . Luckily I grew up two miles from the Mississippi river and my parents would let me to go about anytime , by myself . Bass fishing is something that I slowly got into . I spent many years cutting my teeth on bluegills , bullheads , crappie , channel cats , carp... Dad worked for the corp of engineers at a Lock and Dam. Lots of time I would go to work with him , night or day and fish below it for eight hours . How lucky could a kid get . My fishing partners birthday was yesterday and hes in a nursing home now , unable to get out . It breaks my heart everytime he says he would like to go fishing .

They are excellent baits . Texas or Carolina rig . I fish them just like worms .

Can a bass lick its lips ?

I'm guessing its under 7 lbs

Or any kind of sinking lure . I like to use those cheap prerigged swimbaits by Storm and Berkely . If I lose a couple no big deal .

Thats me . I can work a spook like a pro . Walk the dog , half step it but I miss more fish than I catch . Try a different top water like a floating minnow heavy enough to cast , Bomber Long a for example ..

No , I've never even thought about it , but now ...

The Bomber Prop A is a Long A Minnow with a prop at the tail , like the propped Bagleys Bang O Lure ., great lures , especially post spawn , which is right now in a lot of places . It can be retrieved a lot of ways but my most productive is to twitch it with short sharp jerks as fast as I can and still get that prop to spit . My biggest limit of all time was caught on it , on shallow points for post spawn females . Pqrop A's are no longer made but if you get some props they are easy to fashion . I still have about 6 new in box , thats how much I like them .

No regerts .

The reason they are on a stringer is because I kept them .

The mistake I see most beginners make is they cast out straight out and reel it in . Watch some videos on the Texas rig and start casting into the snags .

If they are flopping , its not bass .

My advice is to throw a lot of Texas rigged worms . Throw them in the snaggiest places until you start catching fish . Once you learn that technique "all" other lures will come easy .