Swamp Girl

Interesting. I've always skittered for both smallies and largies, but I'm thinking you might have the superior approach.

Right now Clayton is fishing for Great Whites off the coast of South Africa. He's fishing with a Snoopy rod and water wings and said, "I'm afraid that this setup might be overkill."

Me too, Pat.

A Rolling Stone!

I know, huh? Clayton isn't content landing the fattest bass on Bass Resource and winning tournament after tournament. He has to catch these too: He didn't just catch the Kraken. He caught the Kraken in the snow. While standing in freezing water. And he played it from a boat not much bigger than the beast. He's the Chuck Norris of Bass Resource.

Mepps are underrated. The only two days I caught more than 250 bass per day, I caught 95% of them with a Mepps. You can troll and cast them and fish them everywhere but on the surface and in the thickest weeds.

I hear a voice too. It's quite helpful, except when it keeps repeating, "REDRUM, REDRUM."* *@DogBone_384: Now do I have to explain what "The Shining" is too?

Yeah, that's the ticket. Thinking in terms of underwater terrain makes a lot of sense. Lacking electronics, this is harder for me to do, but not impossible as there are days when the light and water are just right and I can see the bottom. It's not impossible for me to remember what I've seen.

I wish I could play that game too, but when the wind rises, I go home, but I know how wind can rouse fish. I once hooked lake trout on nearly every cast in a howler and caught five muskies (and lost a sixth) in a different howling hour. @Tennessee Boy: Cool song!

@Bluebasser86:

@Glenn's latest video, "Eight Ways to Become a Better Bass Angler," ends with the question of whether you should stay in an area, trying a different approach, lure, or depth (Glenn won a tournament this way.), or mosey because your memory of once catching bass there isn't applicable to the current reality. So, I'm wondering if you're a twitchy angler, always looking to mosey, or a patient angler, generally looking to continue plumbing an area until you find the fish. I'm as twitchy as a horse with a swarm of horseflies on its back because I'm looking to catch the most active bass with big, fast-moving lures. One the scale of 1-10, with 1 being as serene and patient as Buddha and 10 being Joe Cocker, I'm full Joe, a 10.

I look forward to seeing your photos! At this point, with our bass sealed beneath ice, I'd be happy to catch a nine-incher.

That's quite a commitment, but it sure works for @Fried Lemons.

Glenn's emphasis on positioning the boat to set the hook (or make the best cast) is crucial to my and my buddies' success. I am a better paddler than angler, but being a better paddler makes me a better angler. Likewise, if you're in the bow of my canoe, I'm going to position you for success. Success like this: My buddy above is 12 years old. He sits in the bow, so I ease the canoe into the best possible position to catch the best possible fish. And I tell him to "Wait for it, wait for it" until he's just where he needs to be. Of course, you still have to make the cast and big bass often lie at the end of difficult casts.

One thing I like about the video is seeing that the places where Glenn fishes look like the places where I fish. If I'm Swamp Girl, then @Glenn is Swamp Guy.

@TnRiver46: You had me at " the quarry behind my house."

Agreed! Well done, Koz

You know how college coaches poach players from other teams? Ryan Day should poach Northern Illinois's entire team and play those transfers.

I used to fish Little Bay de Noc too! My favorite species used to be smallmouth. I loved their leaping and stamina. I also loved the beautiful places where I caught them. Muskies became my favorite for a couple years, but in the end, they're too big for canoe fishing and musky lures are too big for me to throw 12 hours a day, day after day. Now it's lmbs for the added challenge of where they live. Sure, I catch some open water largemouth, but I mostly catch them in weeds and I love that you're fighting fauna and flora at the same time. There are nearby rivers where I could catch smallie after smallie, but I pass. I'm a swamp girl now. Lmbs come sealed in weeds!

Just duct tape two three-pounders together and call it a six-pounder. That's what I do. "That's six pounds of bass that I just caught," I'll say, and it's absolutely true.

OSU should kidnap the Northern Illinois coach. Brutus the Buckeye can make him talk. Brutus can be verrrry persuasive.

Me too! I hate the time it takes to prepare to go outside. At least knights had squire to help them don their armor. What kind of work do you do that requires drilling?

Notre Dame is lucky that Northern Illinois isn't playing for the national championship.

I wouldn't pick one because he's noisy and he has a history of not contributing bass to the livewell. Noise alone would nix him as a partner. Bass hear a lot more than most anglers realize. Okay, he's goofy. I don't have any electronics and you could have five units and I wouldn't be jealous.

Go Bucks, indeed! What I love about the 12-team format is that the number 7 and *** teams are playing for the national championship. In a four-team format, OSU and Notre Dame wouldn't have been invited.