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Like Pat said, it’s a nonfactor.

I’ve seen @Mainebass1984 catch bass from that state that would eat that one for breakfast.

Hahaha that is the result of an angler who has never used a scale and a writer who has never used a fishing rod. That writer should be embarrassed. The same thing happened in my state a couple years ago before the state record was actually broken recently. This guy claimed to have caught a 12 pound largemouth but released it and never got it verified but he has a photo! The fish was maybe 4 or 5 pounds lol!

The screw worm episode was interesting as it was eye opening. Get your beef while you can. I also really enjoy the trivia they do every Wednesday. I’ve learned a ton.

Any other MeatEater TV/Radio fans? For those who don’t know, MeatEater is a media network that exclusively produces outdoor related videos, podcasts and shows. I listen to the Podcast and can’t recommend it enough. Hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking (as it pertains to game and fish) are the 4 categories that all their content will relate to. On the podcast they have all different interesting guests from politicians dealing with outdoor legislation, to professional anglers, to biologists and F&W employees. The most recent episode features the president of IGFA talking about records and how to submit them. If anyone is looking for some well-produced outdoor content, I would definitely check out MeatEater.

Sunrise in the Adirondacks

Amazing morning!

The only debate on this fish is Muskie or Tiger Muskie. Certainly not a pike. I agree with the gentlemen above and say it’s a pure muskellunge

Went to the biggest lake that I fish with any regularity in search of some big smallies. The smallies refused to come out to play, but the largemouth were into it. Poppers, walkers, and spinnerbaits were the hot baits today. Biggest went around 3 on the spinnerbait. Had some huge blowups around rock piles from presumably large smallmouth, but they wouldn’t actually make contact with the bait.

I agree with @Bass Rutten. I believe @road warrior has a thread on a guaranteed way to catch a bass and it involves rigging up a 5” senko and casting parallel to the bank. It should be that simple. Only thing I’ll add is rigging it wacky rigged will be even better.

Ultra lite, no. I do use light tackle for smallmouth though.

Hollow body frogs are one of my most productive summer time techniques when the pads come in and the milfoil and hydrilla mats up. My conversion rate on hook ups is pretty high. I think most people are too slow on the draw with hollow body frogs. The blow up you see is what happens after the fish has engulfed the bait and turned around headed back down into the water. If you wait for any amount of time longer than it takes to realize you have a strike and swing on em, it’s gonna be too slow. I’m not sure how and when the myth started getting perpetuated that you should wait on a hollow body frog hookset, but the second I stopped following that bit of conventional “wisdom” my hookup percentage went way up. Also I agree to those who say downsize your frog. I’m most often fishing with a pad crasher Jr.

Several of these guys I hadn’t know had passed. I remember their posts fondly. @SirSnookalot was perhaps the most avid fisher among us. I believe he claimed to fish over 350 days a year!

Oh we in my wheelhouse now. My favorite technique is a heavy double willow spinnerbait. 3/4-1oz. Toss it in the milfoil, no matter how thick. It’s almost like punching with the spinnerbait. Then just rip it out. Keep ripping. Short, violent rips. Then let it fall and rip it again. It’s my favorite thick milfoil technique.

I don’t have a set time, it’s more of a vibe I get. Is there any kind of fish activity going on? If so, I may stick around a bit. I’ll also trust my gut. There are some situations where my gut tells me “they really should be here” and my patience is rewarded. Other times my gut tells me after a few minutes “this spot is dry, gotta move on”.

For bass, 6 or 8 different lines. 6lb hybrid, 12lb nylon, 12lb fluoro, 30, 40, and 50lb braid. Im probably forgetting some.

In the summertime what I have tied on usually consists of: 3/4oz spinnerbait Weedless frog 10” T-rigged ribbontail worm T-rigged Rage Structure Bug Popper 5” wacky rigged senko Finesse worm on a drop shot

@herder I’ve never actually used one, but every time I see on in the store I tell myself I need it.

@herder good luck! Hopefully the black flies will be manageable for you. Luckily it was breezy enough most of the time to keep them at bay.

Just returned home from a three day camping trip on an island on a lake in the Adirondack Mountain wilderness. My girlfriend and I took the roughly 1 hour long boat trek to our campsite, a tiny island filled with pines and surrounded by rocky shoals. Even though the fishing wasn’t great, it was about as perfect of a trip as I could have hoped for. I did get into a bunch of smallmouth, but nothing with any real size to em. Still, smallmouth crushing topwater baits around shoals and boulders is always a blast. The Rapala Skitterwalk did most of the damage as it often does in early June. Picked up a few on poppers, senkos and Ned rigs as well. A wire on my depth finder broke and without the means to fix it and never having fished this lake, I was flying pretty blind and stuck to mostly mid lake rock piles. Also witnessed some cool things. Saw a big largemouth spawning with a smallish smallmouth. Ive never observed interspecies romance among bass before. Also saw several wolf packs of large bass crushing the shallows. They were extremely skittish, which is typical when I see these packs of bass together. All in all it was a perfect trip. Spending a few nights listening to the call of the loons and not much else is all it takes for me. Only thing that was missing was my old dog who was always my camping buddy, but she passed on a month ago. It hurt not having her on that island with us. I know she would have loved it. But I’ll definitely be returning to this place to camp and fish again.

Hük for this guy!

Whoo! Finally I can breathe again! How yall been?!

I paid the second-highest price per gallon that I have ever paid in my life. I paid $4.39 per gallon today. Most I’ve ever paid was $4.48 back in 2010. I have a feeling my next fill up is gonna overshoot my all time high pretty easily.

You’re supposed to put it in your mustache, so it lasts all day.

@PhishLI I am terribly sorry to hear about the heartbreak you went through with Kaya. I’d make that deal.