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Not to be rude Mainebass considering i defended you in the Southern New Hampshire forum, but would you say you are pulling these big fish all the time because you understand the waters so well because you fish the same places quite often? Say I gave you a new place to fish, which still held the same size fish that you catch, just in a different location. Do you think you would still pull the same size fish even if it was new water? I'm actually just extremely curious of what you think. Cheers!

I can't believe you just did that. It is a joy for us to look at Mainebass1984's fish all the time. He catches straight lunkers, and puts in a ton of hours of hard work for them. Just because he potentially smashed your PB about 900x doesn't mean that you have to kick him out of the thread. If anyone should not come back to this thread it should be you. Hopefully no feelings got hurt.

I'm also very curious, I'm pumped when I pull a 5 lb. from Southern New Hampshire. A DD most be incredible.

Hello everyone, I have been on Bassresource.com for about a year now, and I have fallen in love with this website for helping me with anything related to bass fishing, but now I must ask for a massive favor. I attend Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire. The school is based around the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and one could call this college very "outdoorsy" There are multiple clubs such as mountain biking, golf, snowboarding and even horseback riding. There is only one problem, and that is that there isn't a bass fishing club or even a fishing club at this college for that matter. I've decided that I want to create a bass fishing club for Plymouth State University. The task itself is absolutely massive. I have to present to the college board (including the actual President of the university) on multiple occasions to plead my case for funding. I also need to write a huge paper on the club itself and how it will run efficiently. Setting up the club won't be too difficult, considering I know of multiple bass fisherman on campus who would love to join. The problem is that I don't know where to start or how to organize the club. So I would like to take a sort of poll from all of you who answer. Honestly, please everyone who reads this post please answer because this will be a massive help. If you were in a fishing club how many times would you expect to fish during a full week (include days and hours)? If you joined the club would you expect to be going on bass boats, kayaks, canoes or even bank fishing? Which would you prefer if you had a choice? Would you expect the club to run all year or just for the Fall & Spring time? Would you want to hold tournaments within the club, which would have a prize for 1st, 2nd and 3rd at the end of the "season"? ***Also does anyone know how you would go about getting bass boats take people in the club out on the water? I know that I see high school fishing team members on bass boats during tournaments, but how does that work? Do I need to call up a bunch of local guides to help out or is there something I am missing. Literally any response will be awesome, and I really do appreciate your time to answer my questions and help me out. Thank you!

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Roland Martin's 101 Bass Catching Secrets. The book is a great read and I highly recommend it!

I suggest finding a better pond then.

Says the guy who pulls out absolute monsters every time on the casual fishing outing after work!

The surrounding area has another body of water that is close and is fairly large. It is an actual recognized pond that people fish regularly, so I'm hoping this is deep like the other body of water. Did you mean a topwater type frog when you said "Bring a frog bait". I'm curious to why you would throw that to see if there is fish in the pond? Thank you for your response!

5lb. 3 oz.! Welcome to New Hampshire were the DD largemouth are very far and few between! I did catch a 50lb. Striper though

True that.

Just slow it all down. Make the bait drag & crawl the bottom. Should get at least one. Also, you mentioned something about a dock. That is a "high potential" zone, and multiple casts should be made to it. Do at least 10 casts to different spots on the dock depending how big it is.

You could go with a 1/16th bullet weight, but I wouldn't. And 6" isn't large at all for a bass. That is on the smaller side of the baits.

They key here is to go on an off hour of the day when the pressure there is at its lowest point. Also, downsizing your bait and slowing down everything with your presentation will usually help. My go-to finesse set up that usually will catch a few fish is a trick worm, Texas Rigged, weightless with a 3/0 off set hook. Remember that patience is key when fishing pressured water.

I'm comfortable where I am right now in my fishing, but I want to learn more. Everything becomes boring if nothing changes or progresses. All of us are just lucky enough that we fell in love with an activity that you literally can't know everything about. Always learning something new everyday. It is a blessing.

If I ever get rich I totally want to create my own massive pond, and set it up for trophy fish. It would be assume to have something like that on a plot of property.

I didn't see any sunfish or minnows close to the shore sunning themselves like I normally see around New Hampshire in the summertime. I might go out there and junk fish my heart out to see if I can even get a bite on something. Going back to the old school days with a worm and a bobber.

That may have clicked on a lightbulb in my head. I am from New Hampshire, so the winters up here, even in Southern NH are brutal. I could only walk the edge of the pond though, which was probably about 3-4 ft. deep. I'm not too sure if it gets any deeper than that. There wasn't too much vegetation in the water towards the center of the pond, which makes me think that there is a chance that it gets deeper than I first suspected.

So today I was on a stroll through a trail deep in the woods and I stumbled upon, what looked like to me, a honey hole. The pond was maybe two acres big with broken dead timber sticking out of the water everywhere. Imagine what "Lake Fork" looks like in Texas, and this was a very miniature size of that. I instantly wanted to run home and grab my kayak and go fishing there, but this would be a huge effort to drag my 10 ft. kayak 3 miles into the woods. The water was very shallow from what I could see, but it was crystal clear and also had a very sandy bottom. I didn't see a single fish or life in the water besides lilli pads and also some grass growing too. I also didn't spot any action on top of the water either. The location and cover with all the timber and lilli pads looks like it would hold great bass though, so I am a little bit thrown off. I understand the only way to truly tell if there are fish in there is to fish it, but are there any signals that you anglers look for that would possibility indicate that the water is dead? It would be a great help, and any responses are greatly appreciated! Have a great day and tight lines!

This is the perfect way to explain it.

You've answered the question yourself. The "dog days of summer" aren't the most desirable days to catch bass. Summer is a much more difficult season all around.

I love seeing a bunch of weeds. The bass will make "highway" like tunnels under them where they travel. I just toss whatever I had tied on right into the thick of things. You'll be surprised by all the fish that sit in them.

Roland Martin! I love his books and also he seems like just an all around great person!

I was thinking that too. Did you check the knot by any chance? See if the line snapped or the knot came undone. Very interesting none the less.