CountBassula

No pics yet, but i got my first bait casting rod and reel yesterday... Shimano of course... ahmmm..... thanks LgMouthGambler for an awesome deal!

That's exactly what I did, walked around with double polarized super cool shades and looked for beds. The first pic is taken through the glasses too :-) Didn't see any bass, and only one bed...

I have a little pond next to my work. I've walked the edge of it yesterday looking for bass beds, but only found what looks like one (see pic attached, sandy spot next to a white pipe). I see a ton of small fish there, and turtles too, but no bass activity. I fished there once before with a senko and didn't catch squat! I wonder if I should disregard this spot or give it another try... So, other than bass beds, what are other signs of the desirable fish being in the water, short of catching one :-)

ROTFLMAO!!!!! LOL!!! You owe me a new monitor!

She who must be obeyed took the kids to a birthday party so I figured what the heck, I'll grab a rod, some lizards and flukes, and I'll hit a canal that's few hundred yards from my house... to my surprise first cast resulted in a nice bass, maybe a 1-1.5lbs, and in the next 20-30 minutes (all the time I had today) I pulled out another two smaller ones! It's been a crappy day for some reason, I woke up with a headache and in a rather nasty mood. Yelled at my father-in-law over skype, and felt like **** about it. Well, my mood definitely improved and I made peace with the father of the bride too :-) Just figured I'll vent and share with the gang! Tight lines guys! Martin

when i posted this few weeks ago, i got a warning from the admins about no political stuff, wth?

My current position is Senior Software Engineer, I work for Citrix in S.FL. right now. I've been programming since I was 8-yo so it naturally became a profession :-) I've done contract coding in college, then computer forensics and data recovery (NDCI), worked on Wall Street writing software for derivatives trading (Imagine Software), then I spent 3.5 years developing distributed database engines (from scratch, C++, unix) and corresponding ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines, and worked with police to help them catch child predators online (TLO). I'm a systems guy, always coding for the back-ends/servers, the kind of code that users never really see. My specialty is C++, OO, high performance stuff. Also did real time 3D graphics for game engines as a hobby for 15 years and almost ended up working for a game company (think Mortal Kombat :-) ). Now at Citrix working on Windows 8 mobile stuff, can't say much though, NDA and all... all in all, my hobby became my passion which became my job :-) M.

i've read somewhere that senko on a hook with bobber is a good combo to use for bass...

Not yet, but I'm looking forward to it :-)

Which is why I'm so glad I live in South Florida, the fishing capitol of the world :-) Give it few more months and you'll be pulling them out of the water like we do here, all year round... yea, I like to rub it in :-P J/K LOL!!! :-)

No, it's the Everglades :-P Talk smack all you want, but between the two of us we pulled 25+ fish in under 2 hours, so yea, take that! :-D

LgMouthGambler and I went out today to a super-secret-mother-of-all-honey-holes-that-I'm-never-ever-pinky-swear-telling-anyone-about, ever! We had a blast! Blast I tell you! LgMouthGambler decimated the poor bass, catching every other one twice (just like Chuck Norris, almost)! And I must say I wasn't far behind, I think my headcount approached at lest 8 to 10, can't remember, plus I was tired of taking out my phone every 5 minutes to take a picture :-) See for yourselves! M. P.S. Anyone (you know who you are) who ever said that LgMoughGambler doesn't know what he's talking about is full of it! He's a grand master of bass fishing and I'm honored to be fishing beside him and learn from someone so good at his craft and willing to mentor a total noob like myself! Thanks LgMouthGambler! You rock!

Gentleman, we're not in high school anymore!

LOL yea, it's a great thing about Florida, fishing all year round :-) Honey hole definitely get's a pin on the map (though I did see one other guy and some little kid fish there), I'll revisit it in a month or so. Now back to Google maps :-)

So I went to my "Honey Hole" I described here: http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/112966-honey-hole-maybe/ Oh what a great few hours of fishing it was! See pics attached. I decided to try a different lure and be patient with it... a green fluke, 5", weightless. I would let it drop, wait a while and slowly twitch, twitch, reel, repeat. Pulled 3 fish, one of which was a big one! As I lifted the fish out of the water (the canal was steep in that spot, couldn't lip it) few second later my 8lbs mono leader snapped! H00kedOnBass showed up later in the day, but by that time bite was shut :-( though he did hook one too! Also tried a 5" black senko, but no go. This fishing business is fun :-) M.

that's what i did last time more or less. except i used concrete bench against bass's head, than ice.

Texas, can I wacky rig Senko with the same hook (5/0 worm offset hook)?

I'm going tomorrow around 4pm and plan on being there till 6-7pm. I'll PM you my cell. Text me if you wan to join me and I'll send you the location!

You bet! I'll be there tomorrow with Senko and Flukes! I'll take some pics if I catch some fish! Fingers crossed!

You showed me few nice spots :-) I'll show you mine! As soon as you can hang out! BTW, I'll be probably hitting that spot on week days next week after work as well, so let me know if you want to meet up! M.

So I went out fishing yesterday afternoon to a new spot near my house I found using Google maps... and I think I may have found my first Honey Hole :-) I was there for an hour and a half, I hooked 6 fish (lost 4) where one must have been a monster; my poor 6'6" Light rod nearly bent in half!!! The fish was fighting HARD, and when I finally lost it, the bottom of my hook was curved about 1/8 of an inch sideways!!! What a thrill that was!!! In the time I was there, I must have had around 10 to 12 bites. Again, I hooked 6 fish but lost most due to me sucking and them jumping out of the water and spitting the darn hook out! Anyways, I'm heading back there tomorrow afternoon around 4pm and will spend 2-3 hours, see what I'll catch this time :-D The great thing about this spot is that it's in a small park that's mostly empty, had good canal access (including a huge pipe that's partly above water, so I can stand on it and really cast along the bank), total of 4 or 5 nice spots along 50 yards of access, and it's at a junction of two canals. I was throwing senkos at the intersection of two canals directly underneath a large palm tree (Areca palm I think?) that was on the corner, and every few casts my line would just GO! First cast of the day, senko lands and 2 seconds later I see my line lifting from water and loosing slack. I'm thinking to my self: d**n wind! Then it hits me "There's no wind!!!" Real in the slack and bam! Fish on! Fish on! OMG I'm pumped! Can't wait to go there tomorrow! On the other hand I fished along the lake at the southern part of Tradewinds Park off of Sample Road and got totally skunked! Though I did see right in front of me a small bass come into the shallows and chase fry! It was awesome! There were tiny ponds caved into the side of the lake and the bass swam into one and was spinning in circles catching the fry trapped in the little hole! Anyways, wish me luck tomorrow! I'll be using senko and green fluke to spice things up :-)

LoopDad2, last time I killed bass to eat, I put it in a plastic bag (Ziploc) to have a better grip, and took few strong swings against a concrete bench. The top of it's head got pretty smashed up, so I figured it did the trick. I guess that would be humane as opposed to let fish suffocate :-/

Back when I fished in Poland as a kid... a bird, in mid air!!! We were casting heavy lures to the bottom and it caught a bird flying through air as I cast.

I guess I'm in the minority that actually enjoys eating Bass :-) though recently I've only kept one for food; here in FL they tell us to eat 1 a month that's over 14 inches or 1 a week that's under 14 inches, due to heavy metal content. And they do taste good, especially in flour, egg, Italian seasoned gread crumbs and deep fried... oh yea baby!!!! Red Earth, what you refer to is technically defined at "Smelly tree hugging hippie ******" LOL :-) though I still believe in treating the fish nice and do minimum harm if doing catch-and-release. If I'm catching to eat, fish get's pacified as soon as I have it off the hook (don't want it to suffocate, that just seams cruel) and then on ice it goes. I don't loose sleep if bass get's hooked by gills and bleeds like mad, or if it takes me 2 minutes to work that d**n hook out of it...

where do you park btw? i'm leaving work around 4pm today and am heading out to check out a new spot i found on google maps around university and 20th street south of royal palm :-) care to join?