fourbizz

Buy yourself a gl2 c-rig rod and a cheap, but specific swimbait rod, like the okuma guide select MH 7'6" or 7'11".

I know this is bull crap! It's only gonna get up to the mid sixties tomorrow! (sorry couldn't resist)

LOL!

The staff does in fact do a very good job of toeing the line. I belong to two other local forums. One is so overmoderated and ridiculous that it just sucks now. The other is undermoderated to the point that it has become a shell of what it used to be. No fishing related threads, just bickering and complaining. Well run!

If it wasn't for the bass, I wouldn't live here. I am not joking. This place sucks! For me to fish at a lake less than 25 miles away (as the crow flies): I buy 10gallons of gas for the truck and 8 for the boat. at 3.35 a gal, that comes out to $60.30 for gas. I buy 1 can of chew at almost $7 I drive through 40 miles of very twisty roads that are in crap condition and it takes an hour and a half. Upon arriving at the 400 acre lake I pay the following to get in : $9 Parking, $8 "fish permit", and $11.00 to launch. That is $28 for just me to fish ($36 if I take the girlfriend). There are in excess of 40 boats on the water. That is one boat per 10 acres on a good day. I have been there when there are at least 70! I spend the next 11 hours in bass "heaven" getting waked out, cut off, annoyed, and crowded. Trout trollers will drive BETWEEN my boat and the point I am clearly fishing. I will get very angry. I have spent $90 for the day, not including tackle and food. I will flip people off, I will curse. I will whine. I will throw swimbaits AT boats. I will make boisterous promises to write a letter to management. I will not write said letter. I will catch a big fish, drive the crappy roads back home, and be a happy man. I will get up the next day and repeat! I hate loving California!

Well not ALL of it....I plead the 5th

ACID Wafe's Rocky Patel Lite's

Dang dude! Congrats man!

I use the Shimano Crucial 7'11" H Swimbait rod, Okuma Guide Select 7'6" XH Big Bait Rod, and Okuma Guide Select 7'6" H Big Bait Rod. With either a Calcutta 400, or Cardiff 400. 25lb Mono.

That fish is clearly larger than 3.5lbs.

Steve Kennedy threw that bait on one of these by Falcon. You could also use an EWG w/no weight, or a typical saltwater swimbait jig head. http://usacproshop.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=753

They are just a 4-8" Trout profile swimbait that comes in a very wide variety of colors(tw only caries a couple colors though). I personally DO NOT like them. They are poorly built, ugly, and as infidel pointed out, they smell HORRIBLE! At that price there are much better baits in my opinion.

order has to total at least 50 for the free shipping

Swimbaits and drop shots!!!

I use a rod built to handle those 6 oz baits! It all depends. most of the time I just sidearm it, seems a little less tiring than overhead. But I will also overhead cast, pitch, and underhand. 95% of the time, just that that mutha crash down!

In your opinion of course. And mine too.

Great Fish Man!!!! Long time coming for ya! I might be out there at today's lake a little later if I get rained out at work.

Sorry for the confusion, I was just telling the long version of what happened regarding the big fish in my first post. She WAS the one i slept in my cab for!

Thanks everyone! Let me tell you a little story... So on saturday I was fishing with two of my buddies, Justin and Adam. Justin is the one I have been fishing with recently that has been doing pretty decent too. Adam I have known since I was ten, but he hasn't been fishing much lately. His PB was 4-14. First thing Saturday morning I found my 8-8 and spent a couple hours catching her. My buddies were just fishing around in the general area. After I landed her we all got back in the boat and went looking for more fish. I found plenty but couldn't get em. Justin finally spotted a 7 or 8 that seemed pretty ready to go. We dropped him off to fish for her while adam and I just fished down the banks blind casting. Adam had just got a new GLX/Chronarch combo (lucky!) from his girlfirend and was using it. He hooks up and says "this one feels a little better" in a bored tone. She comes up and headshakes and she WAS a good one! Into the net went his new PB at 6-2!! Stoked for him! We went back to Justin who was completely ticked off at his fish and was ready to leave her. He hops back in the boat all grumpy and I continued looking for big fish. As we are driving along I see a 5-6 pounder that is pretty locked onto the bed. I said to Justin that he could have that one and "she" would probably go fairly easy. It was pretty windy and a little overcast so "she" was kinda hard to see, but doable. When I got back to where "she" was, "she" was not alone..."She" was a he, and he had an 11 or 12 with him!!! I was peeved because I had just told him that he could have the fish I found and now that fish had basically doubled in size!!! > I let him fish for her for a couple of hours. The water was really choppy so all you could really see was a dark shape (and a big one at that!!!!) He finally gave up and I asked if he was sure, he said yes, so I told him that she was now my fish. I fished for about an hour, she would take off for a few minutes, then come back. Then there was a gap in the clouds and the wind stopped. When she came back into view in the clear calm water, I almost $^!t myself... She scared me...literally, scared me. I have no doubt that she was over 14 and was potentially 16 or so!!! But alas, she was much craftier than I. If a bait flew overhead, she would bail. If the "v" from the line went over her head, she would bail. If the bait moved, she would bail. If I stood up, she would bail. But over 5 hours I got plenty of good looks at the fish of my life. within 5 or 6 feet at one point. I HONESTLY believe that she was 12 or 13 inches from belly to back! And was so freaking wide in the shoulders I couldn't believe it. Scary big...I'm still thinking about it half of the day! Like a @#$%^&* russian sub cruisin around out there! One day...one day...

Nice fish dude! Gotta love them delta pigs!

But is that an African or European swallow?

LOL! We are all slowly learning a second language...one bait at a time.

Killler dude! and so the addiction starts...

I'm having so much freaking fun lately! At least one big fish a week for the last month! Not a double digit, but a good one! I spent about 2 hours on this fish before I got her to eat a swimbait! 8lbs-8ozs I then found, no joke, the BIGGEST fish I have ever seen. She was real spooky and I spent 5 hours trying to get her to go, she wouldn't. 14+lbs I decided to pursue her the next day, so I slept in my truck. 6ft8inches +regular cab pickup = sore body! Got up the next morning and went to where she was and she was nowhere to be found. I checked back throughout the day and she never came back. :'( I found some other big fish (7-10) but couldn't get any to go. So I set up on this fish and caught her within about half an hour. 5lbs-9ozs That was it for my trip and I had a TON of fun again!

We have all the idiot salmon snaggers to thank for that law! That is a bunch of crap. Oh and my personal best limit is 47lbs 10.5ozs.