Swamp Girl

I like this and it might be why I prefer five four-pounders to one six-pounder. I can luck into bonking a six-pounder on the head by chance, but to land a bag of bigger bass requires cracking the code...for that day...at that pond/lake/bog.

I'm going to combine @Fried Lemons you-need-to-fish-bigger-baits and @Zcoker's you-need-to-think-you're-going-to-catch-bigger-bass and cast a 24-foot swimbait that @Bazoo will whittle to catch the world's first 60' lmb! Sadly, it will sink my canoe and I'll become tangled in the line and be taken to Davy Jones's Locker, but I'll go down fighting just like this guy:

There are members at Bass Resource who state that they target big bass. If you sit on the deep water abutting the spawning beds like some of us do or pounded Castaic Lake in its glory years like @WRBdid or chuck and wind big swimbaits like @Fried Lemons does, then you're targeting big bass and have a big bass portfolio like @Fried Lemons's, Tom's, @AlabamaSpothunter's, @Catt's, @Pat Brown's, Andy's, etc., then you do indeed target big bass. I'm not part of the Big Bass Crew, but I do catch big bass for my nearly 45 degrees latitude. My approach is to catch a lot of bass and the big bass will come. I average about one four-pounder for every 30 bass. Remember that In-Fisherman said that a bass weighing X in the north is equivalent to a bass weighing 1.5X in the South. If In-Fisherman is right, my four-pounders are Everglades six-pounders and my six-pounders are Texas nine-pounders and my PB is a southern California DD. So, a northern four-pounder is a fine catch. Just ask Minnesotan @gim or Canadian @The Baron, who know how rare they are up north. My approach is basically attrition. I dance with a lot of bass and sooner or later, I dance with a big gal. And some sweet mornings, I get to dance with five or six big gals, but along the way, I get to dance and dance and dance. I do know at least three spots that harbor big bass and when I'm casting at those three specific spots, I'm absolutely fishing for big bass, but otherwise, I'm just fishing and hoping and happy.

For a long time, I thought he was called @Bluebasser86 because he protects and serves, but I learned today that he's also called Bluebasser because he catches bass shaped like Bluegills. I think he's called 86 because he 86s all our hopes of ever catching bass as fat as his.

The BR crew is doing it all, catching big numbers, big bass, and even big drum plus delicious bream. All the weights are up except for @thediscochef's scale!

You're also the King of Fun. You always appear to be enjoying your fish, friends, and trips.

@Bluebasser86: I laughed out loud at your bass. They're, they're preposterous!

You also excel at telling the stories of your fishing trips.

169 acres. I know, I know, I'm a lucky duck.

Once again, I want to live like @TnRiver46. He lives with gusto! 40 lbs.??!!?? That deserves a Texas yee-haw, @thediscochef!

Positioning is key. If we ever have a Bass Resource barbecue, I'm going to find @keagbassr and @MonsterZero. I have soooooooooooo many stories to tell them!

You're living our dream, Bob. So many of us have long pined for our own pond. Beautiful, Bob.

You are Bait Monkey immune!

Boy, Bob, you sure are pond-smart! A pond's a tricky critter, isn't it?

Will you also buy me a floatplane whether I want it or not?* *I do, I do want one!

Oh, that is sooo cool, Bob!

I thought a fluke would be the solution to my 2023 wolfpacking bass, but it wasn't. It was rod tip up and reeling like crazy that fooled some 2024 wolfpackers. Of course, YMMV.

Thank goodness they get thirsty and hungry! Reading about your challenges makes me even happier that I have local water without ramps.

Is it really that busy where you fish? I would not enjoy waiting in a de facto queue to cast.

Oh, I know that feeling. I fish with my head on swivel, always looking, even when I'm retrieving a lure. I'm sweeping for a ping, that certain, unnameable something that tells me where to cast next. Of course, sometimes you can even see the ping, a slight swirl off yonder and sometimes you're in the middle of a PING, where the bass surround you, like happened to @AlabamaSpothunter yesterday.

@thediscochef: Have you lost weight? Nice bass!

If I was in the tournament, my FFS period would be utterly failing to make sense of what I was seeing on the screen. I would be like a chimpanzee trying to fly a 787. My other three days would be me figuring where they were and what they wanted and then catching bass.

That video was EXCITING, Alex. In 2023, I couldn't catch any wolfpacking bass, but I had some success in 2024 reeling an underspin right under the surface. I moved it so fast, I'm guessing, that they couldn't differentiate between it and shad.

I strongly second Mr. Jager's suggestion. In 2023, I launched at a public ramp, which was at a river mouth feeding a lake. River mouths are often great fishing and because of the ramp, there were other boats there, including a pontoon boat with anglers casting in all directions. So, I went up the river mouth and soon encountered a laydown from one shore to the other. Perfect! That kept anyone from following me. I think I caught 27. The Google Earth suggestion is also great.

We boldly go where no bass boat has gone before. These are the voyages of the Starcanoe Enterprise. Cool superpower! The ultimate superpower.