Jar11591

Luckily for you, it’s sounds like your bass are functioning perfectly, by being flaky and unpredictable. Just when you think you’ve figured em out, they have their nightly meeting and all agree to shun your previous offering. Just the joys of bass fishing. It’s a lifetime of learning.

Tactical Bassin is great. The guys can say or do some goofy things but most of the information is good and they are both great fishermen. Lake Fork Guy is ok. Jon B’s videos are very cinematic and entertaining. Today’s Angler is good but they are a little more Muskie focused than bass.

You can usually find a species list for a particular body of water published by the DEC, or your states equivalent government body that oversees natural resources. Coming from a northern climate with lesser biodiversity, it makes it easier to narrow it down. Yellow perch make up the primary forage in my lakes, followed by crawfish and golden shiners, and to a much lesser extent, lepomis.

The more time I spend on the water, the more my experiences run counter to the common knowledge or “settled science” in the bass world. I’m sure these notions didn’t arise from nothing, but in the clear, high elevation, rocky, natural lakes in my northeast quadrant of the country, what I experience often doesn’t match what “should” be happening with the bass.

I believe it’s 38% of the Adirondack Park that belongs to the public and deemed “forever wild”. About 2 million acres that (presumably) won’t be developed.

Usually 4-6 hours. If I’m catching them or if it’s a time of year when the lake is empty, I may stretch it out to 8-10 hours. If I don’t have enough time for at least 2 hours, I will leave the boat at home and maybe fish the bank at the river.

No, because we keep in touch

@GoneFishingLTN should work with no trailer, but I almost always have a paddle tail swimbait trailer on my spinnerbaits.

Not really specific to clear water but I look for sparse to moderately thick greenery like milfoil, hydrilla, curly and broad leafed pond weed in the 6-18’ depth range. Long casts, let it sink to the bottom and slow roll it. When it gets hung up through the grass, RIP it out.

I fish primarily in waters that have 10-20’ of visibility. Ultra clear lakes. A spinnerbait is my number one producing bait. Fish that spinnerbait.

@throttleplate I was wrong about Morton. Seems like he should have hung up the cleats after last season.

Awesome. My personal record is 4 casts in a row with bass. 8 is unimaginable!

Geez man. At least you ended the skunk streak I guess? Glad you’re alright.

Spro is the easiest I’ve used.

@12poundbass ah gotcha. Luckily in my area the Mayflies don’t get too bad. Or at least I’ve been able to avoid the worst of them.

@12poundbass what I was referring to are also called Buffalo Gnats. I think the term “black fly” may be a northeastern colloquialism but these are different than mayflies. These are tiny black gnats that swarm and bite. You typically don’t feel them biting, but later that evening you’ll be covered in big, sore, welts. They come around in mid May and thankfully only stick around for a couple weeks.

Black flies? The black fly season started here about a week ago. Gonna be brutal for the next 2 weeks whenever there’s no breeze. They love nostrils, eyeballs, and ear holes.

Only when I’m fishin

During summertime, my number one pitching bait become a ribbon-tail worm. Usually a Culprit or Rage Anaconda. Summer is actually when I spend the least amount of time flipping and pitchin though. All other times a year I’m usually using either a Rage Bug, NetBait Paca Craw, or a Jig and Craw. If I’m punching, it’s always a Rage Bug. Generally I’m using natural colors. Greens and browns. Bama craw is a favorite color of mine.

Like 12poundbass said, you are in the right place for bass knowledge. The information you can find on here will be invaluable to you as you learn bass. But, time on the water will be your number one tool in helping you become a better bass fisherman. You can do all the reading there is to do, but if you aren’t spending time actually fishing, you won’t have context to put that knowledge or information to. I would try not to go down the color rabbit hole just starting out. You stated you use Green Pumpkin, Black/blue and PB&J. Those colors should cover most bases, and for a lot of bass guys the jury is still out on what difference color actually makes. So with those 3 colors, you should have no problem catching fish. I’d stick with them. As far as learning how conditions affect bass, try using the search function on the forum for specifics. High/low pressure systems, fronts, rain, wind, storms, cloud cover, insect hatches and human activity are all things bass respond to. Try to fish in as many different conditions as you can and make note. Keeping a fishing log really helps with this. I believe BassResource has free logs you can print and fill out. They are a great tool to be able to reference from year to year, especially when newer to bass. Here’s a link to the free BassResource fishing log: https://www.bassresource.com/fish/fishing_log.html

As a NYer, the 2.5” chug bug has taken more smallies for me than any other bait.

I share the thoughts of @KP Duty

@AlabamaSpothunter back to .500! Braves have gone 21-14 since the disastrous start.

@gim the T Wolves have something special in Edwards for sure. Reminds me of Kobe a little bit. I think this is his league now and I have a feeling he’s gonna win a championship sooner rather than later in Minnesota.

Little garter snake staring back at me from his den.