Swamp Girl

Catching five-pounders in 2' to 3' waves sounds super exciting...and super hard. Any photos?

Lee is here, but it's just a blustery day. So, no worries. I expect we'll lose power at some point, but that happens half a dozen times each year because of our nor'easters. Most times, I don't even fire up the generator. I'm actually attending a wedding today, which speaks loudly about New Englanders. Tropical storm? Party on!

Wh-wh-what??? You fishing gods fish together??? After Lake Baccarac , I suppose that you, A-Jay, and Big Fish Jeff returned to Mount Olympus.

42.7 pounds and a paddler! That's as good as being skinny Elvis:

I sure recognize that bottom that bottom photo. Sometimes I can't see the bass beneath the weeds in my net.

^BEHOLD!^

I tried less drag, but my bog bass just plunge faster and deeper into weeds and then I lose them.

Ha! I'm not going to answer because that will Tropical Storm Lee. ? Seriously, I am hopeful for my alewife pond and here's why: The YouTube video guys say that fall bass move shallow. Articles say the same thing. The problem with my bogs is that there is no deep and shallow. It's all shallow. However, my alewife pond is mostly deep. It's even deep tight to the shorelines, but at the inlet and outlet, it is shallow and the inlet has a wide flat, so I'm hoping they congregate and feed big-time to fatten for the winter. Otherwise, I'll be posting my two bass from Fall 2022, again and again and again. I'll keep trying ^them^ too and hope for a flicker.

I can't take the pressure! As I already admitted, I didn't catch many beasts last fall and I'm worried that I'm a one trick pony, a dang summer bog basser*. I keep watching fall videos and think about them when I rig my rods, but so far, the suggested lures, like walking baits, spinnerbaits, and jerkbaits, aren't working for me. And the ones they DON'T suggest, like rubber worms, Whopper Ploppers, and paddletails, continue to work for me. When more weeds die back, I am going to use my brass Mepps spinners more, since the guys who make videos say that fall bass like smaller baits. The only thing I don't like about my Mepps is how quickly they tarnish and how I have to keep buffing them with steel wool before using them. I think the two bass below were my ONLY beasts last fall, so if I fail again, I'll just keeping posting these two because they are fall bass. @thediscochef: Night Dinks is an overlooked great by Seger. *I did catch a few beasts last spring, but I'm still mostly a summer bog basser. @J._Bricker and @scaleface, those are beauties.

That's the one I use, Big Hands, but when I see photos of California reservoirs, they look weed-free. I think it's the Maine bog weeds that batter my Owner Flashy Swimmers.

Near the head. I do fish in slop. I'm pulling off weeds every other cast. I do like your crimping idea. Thanks for that. I also ordered some sturdy Owner blades and am going to try those too. They arrive next Tuesday. Thanks all for the suggestions!

I fished for 2.5 hours this afternoon and caught a dozen. I really don't know how to catch bass during the day, but I figured a way. I parked in a lily pad field about the size of a football field, dropped my Whopper Plopper into little, open areas, triggered a bass to slap it, and then dropped a 5" rubber worm that was T-Rigged and had a 1/16 ounce tungsten weight on their heads. I did catch a couple on the Whopper Plopper too and one bass on a frog. The first bass is typical, then four bigger ones, and finally, the most ferocious and fearless bass that swims. I pity the angler who hooks that bass in a few years. If they make the mistake of bringing it aboard, it's sure to go for their throats.

I've got one. It's a big, quiet Honda. Oh, I love ^this^ comment and I just purchased a Ford Expedition.

I doubt it, but could be. Most are a hundred acres or so.

All great advice and much appreciated. I hadn't even considered the canoe and potential projectiles, so THANKS! I'm guessing many of us have versions of your story. The key is to survive the follies of youth.

I won't. It's Saturday and I'll be hunkered. I am going fishing today, but not tomorrow. I'm doing a rare midday fishing trip and to be frank, I don't know anything about catching bass at noon, so I won't be catching 30 bass. If I catch five, I'll be happy.

@jbmaine: Dang it! You're right. Sigh. Back to whittlin'.

Guys, it's just a little gallows humor. I won't be fishing. Heck, my canoe gets bullied if the wind is over 5 m.p.h.

Hurricane Lee is expected to hit the Maine coast the most. So, my question is for you Florida, Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, and Georgia fishers: How's fishing during a hurricane? I'm assuming I'll have to cast heavy lures. I'm building a Whopper Plopper that's 2' long, thinking that it'll take a prop that big to attract their attention. I'm further assuming that I won't even have to cast. Just open the bail and let the wind take the lure. Seriously, we're supposed to lose power so I'll likely be incommunicado.

Dwight, you've got the shares of ten fine fishers. A-Jay too. I like ^this^ tactic. Rocks do abrade line and next time, you might try clipping off a few yards once or twice mid-fishing.

Ah, you're Southern Crickety or I'm Northern btoups.

Z, I waffle more than Waffle House. I'll take a position, hear a contrary position, and think, "Yeah, that sounds right!" So, yeah, I get what you're saying with no buts. Me:

I'm sensing a theme here. Sadly, I have become a coward around trees. My canoe is so tippy and I am so old that I don't roll the dice anymore and try to slip a lure beneath the branches. However, you are young and as I remember, you caught some HUGE bass beneath a tree this year, didn't ya? So, if so, keep casting at wood and that's an order!