Jar11591

I can throw a weightless senko a mile on a baitcaster. I use 5" YCB, they may be heavier than the bait you're using.

I don't have any facts to back this up, but I can say with certainty that you are one of the very few, if ONLY to ever have head-butted a seagull!

The new stick: Gonna pair it with my Pflueger Supreme XT

My "home" lake is about 50 acres, but half of it is unfishable due to it being only 1-2' deep and matted with slop. The other half is fairly deep and has lots of thick vegetation, fallen timber and overhanging trees. There is one small island with a nice drop-off right off the point which drops quickly to 35', the deepest part of the lake. It has largemouth, pike, pickerel, crappie, bluegill, pumpkinseed, carp, bullhead and a BILLION baitfish of several different species. It gets an obscene amount of fishing pressure () and because of this it throws me a goose egg from time to time. None yet this year though! It is certainly not my favorite lake, but its close to home and I know it like the back of my hand because I fish it all the time.

"Destroyed it" "crushed it" "swiped at it" ~ for a missed topwater hit

I use the ShroomZ heads with the weed guard when fishing around snaggy cover and they work fairly well. Should stop you from getting hung up but not necessarily make the bait "weedless". I usually opt for a different presentation than a Ned Rig when fishing anything other than docks, rocks or light weeds.

Except Red Label. To the OP: The brand I have stuck with is PowerPro. I have tried several other different brands, and the only one I had an "issue" with was Berkley Pro braid. It "flattened" out and lost its cylindrical shape after minimal use. Made it an absolute night mare to cast. Virtually impossible. Other brands I have tried include Spider Wire and Seaguar and they were fine lines. But when I tried the Power Pro, it stuck. Haven't bought another brand since.

Is this a typo? Or did you actually mean to say "avocado" posts? What the hell is an avocado post????

The short answer: because there is nothing in the world I would rather do. However, I don't really know why this is the case. I knew from the first time I held a rod in my hand (3-4 years old) that it was something I loved. 20 years later and I am a total addict. Fishing, and more specifically bass fishing is such a compulsion for me, it's not something I just want to do, it's something I need to do. There is something so incredibly exciting, intense, mysterious and satisfying about pulling a wild animal from another world that is under the water. It's so rewarding tricking a bass into biting something that isn't real food, but rather a peice of plastic. Long answer short: I fish because it's the greatest thing on planet earth.

To me, it's not an issue of legality. Big bass, ESPECIALLY in small bodies of water are very few in numbers. For a bass to achieve a large size, it has to overcome extreme odds, and when the big ones are taken out of a smaller body of water, one fish can be a comparatively large percentage of the big fish population. It's not a matter of legality. It's an issue of everyone else's fishing possibly being affected by people not respecting the very limited resource that are trophy bass. The negative effects of keeping small to medium sized bass may be over-stated, but the OP specifically mentioned big bass. I absolutely believe the big bass population can be affected by larger fish being kept, especially in the <500 acre lakes I normally fish. One thing I don't understand is how for some people, eating bass outweighs the joy that catching a bass brings. And I love fish!

I don't like to think about it.

Got a couple chunks tonight pitching to over-hanging trees. Only a few bites, but they were good ones.

Soft plastics: Yamamoto, Culprit, Rage Tail, Zoom Hard baits: Rapala, Megabass, Storm Jigs: Siebert Outdoors Frogs: Booyah and LiveTarget

Love that Skitter Walk.

Thought you would get kick out of that!

Just curious, why do you want to remove the milfoil? A strip pit with milfoil sounds like a gold mine...

My loaner set up is a 7' MF Berkley Cherrywood HD with a Shimano Sedona 2500 spooled with 20lb PowerPro and a 6' 15lb Berkley Big Game leader. 1/0 Gamakatsu Finesse Wide Gap hook with the barb crushed rigged with a wacky 5" Watermelon Senko. If you're a newbie fisherman, that's all you get on my boat. I bought the rod and reel specifically for newbies I take fishing because I feel better about letting someone use it than one of my actual setups. That being said, it rarely gets used because I absolutely hate taking non-fishermen fishing with me.

Left 5 rods/reels in the grass at the boat launch a couple years ago. I forgot to throw them back in boat before I took off for the night. When I got home and started to unload the boat I realized what I had done. I absolutely panicked, as the value of this was well into the thousands of dollars. I flew back to the launch as quick as I could, and I really lucked out because someone had found them and put them in a safe place. Now I always quadruple check everything before I drive away from the lake.

Exactly what I was thinking.

After trying several different frogs including R2S Spittin' Wa, Spro Bronzeye, LiveTarget Frog and Hollow body Sunfish, I have settled on the Booyah Pad Crasher or Poppin' Pad Crasher. It has the softest and most collapsible body out of any of them. But I will say, no frog I have tried walks as easy and well as the LiveTarget Hollow-body Sunfish.

Pretty much sums it up!

1. Culprit 10" ribbon tail worm 2. Zoom baby brush hog 3. SK Rage Craw 4. SK baby Rage Craw 5" YCB Senko 95% of my soft plastic fishing is done with Culprit, Zoom, YCB and Rage Tail. The other 5% is Z-Man and Robo.

Smallmouth will hit a tube or jig regardless of if there are crawfish in that body of water. At the same time though it's hard to imagine crawfish not being in a body of water, especially one with smallmouth.