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I choose lures based on what I'm fishing . Rocks , weeds , flats , bluffs , points , wood.... What are you fishing ?

Cedar is the worse bass habitat . Had to break another one off yesterday . Hit her hard and quick , held the rod high to pull her up and out and immediately got wrapped up . There are just too many limbs . The fish are almost impossible to get out , once they get wrapped up .

The Conservation dept supplies alum boats at a local lake . I put stickers on the ones that dont leak . Theres a tackle warehouse , Bass and AAA decals on three of them .

Yep , All my rods are like that and I use Big Game .

Regular old red cedar sunk for fish habitat .

I'm fishing inside cedar trees in 8 to 10 foot of water . I work the outside first . Even then they get wrapped up often .

I went in shoulder deep to land a good one last week . I was thinking of running a hook in my hand .

I'm not familiar .

After all these years bass fishing , I still dont know how to fight a fish that is wrapped up in heavy cover like cedar trees or anything else . I have tried the Bill Dance method of giving more pressure when the bass is pulling hard and less when they are not . That hasnt worked . I need some hints . I had to break off a big one yesterday deep in a cedar tree . I just couldnt get it out . It was beyond reach .

No doubt in my mind that fish bite better mid week than during busy weekends on heavily pressured waters .

I catch fish from bank on rip rap and snags are inevitable . I'll take inexpensive sinking lures like a jig n grub , Beetle Spin...cast it out and let it sink to the bottom . When the line slacks up , indicating that it hit the bottom , I'll lift it then retrieve just over the rocks , pausing occasionally to make sure its still close to the bottom . This way the lure follows the contour from deep to shallow and remains in the strike zone the entire retrieve.

I was fishing in a 14 foot john boat using an old Eagle fish mark 2D sonar and catching off shore fish yesterday . It doesnt take great knowledge or equipment , it just takes a little confidence and some knowledge of structure . I use buoys considerably, either marking a spot or tossing one out when I hook up . I always have a buoy ready to throw .

Sounds good . I would start off with some classic structure like long extended points . Catch a few fish to gain confidence in offshore fishing .

I'm not going to look up those numbers LOL . Are they purple?

I finally wore my wife down . As long as I call and she knows I'm not in a car wreck or something . "Honey , I'm going fishing. Dont know when I'll be back home ." "OK, dear , have a good time and be careful ."

My best night fishing has been on bright moonlit nights . Dark nights have been terrible . I like the moon to be up early . like it was last night . The two or three days before the actual full moon are good .

I'm pretty well stocked . I get a new reel almost every year , sometimes a rod . As far as tackle goes , I go through a lot of worms , hooks , sinkers and change my line often .

If it happens , does it deserve and asterisk ?

Junebug and Bamabug . I bought the local stores out of those colors . So I had to resort to other colors . Bama magic worked good but ran out of those too . Green Pumpkin not so well . Then I tried Melon Pie , a Mountain Dew colored worm . I wore them out with that weird neon colored worm . I'm Texas rigging them and fishing them on deeper structure and shallow cover . Oopsy five years later .?

Theres a gentle sloping flat that I fish every time I visit a certain lake . The entire flat is not productive , just the end near a drop off . I dont catch many bass on the lip or on the ledge I catch them on top of the nothing looking flat . Big ones too .

I have limited experience with hot water discharges . Its a current that cools down as it flows across the lake .This current went across the lake one to two hundred yards , into a cove then back out in the lake . Where the water left that cove is where I caught largemouth on worms . If I encounter it again I'm looking for cover , structure and any current breaks in the flow .

Tom me , autumn largemouth bass are unpredictable . I might catch them beyond 20 foot on points or in the back of coves with buzzbaits . So I look everywhere .