Jar11591

Cool video and project

After getting used to pulling a landscape trailer, sometimes I forget how to back up without a trailer hooked up!

@GRiver I’m using a F action, a 735 for the weedless frog skipping. If I’m skipping a senko it’s a M/F action spinning rod.

The most consistent, predictable fishing I do is the shallow timber bite when the water is cold but it’s sunny. It’s the closest thing in fishing I’ve found to a sure bet. High 40s water, early spring, sun, shallow timber. They’ll be there.

I love skipping weedless frogs under overhanging trees. Such a blast when you skip it so far under you can’t even see it anymore, you just hear the blow up.

Gonna take a risk and move some tomato plants out to the garden beds today. A couple weeks before average last frost but they’re 18” tall and there are a dozen of them so we’re out of space inside. Last year we risked moving the seedlings outside early as well, and our gamble paid off as we never got a May frost and we were harvesting by mid June. Bout time for that first mow of the year as well. Toro fired 3rd rip. Never even got around to draining the gas end of last year. Those machines simply will not fail.

@softwateronly yeah they are perfect for the niche I use them in. Setting the hook shouldn’t be a problem, I’ve fished them on 12lb fluoro mainline and can stick fish perfectly. The hook isn’t quite light-wire but it isn’t super stout either, so hooksetting I don’t imagine to be an issue with any line. Another thing I like is the recessed line-tie. Never lost one of these to a hang up and I fish em right on rock piles so that tells me that recessed eye is helping. They serve the niche I need perfectly. I’m usually fishing them with a Rage Bug or Hula Grub in 10-20’ of water around rock piles, boulders, and riprap.

That’s 5/6 for Los Bravos. Offense is really coming around. They’re gonna do just enough to keep me hopeful. If we don’t get some help in the pen then it may not matter much. But still, I love baseball

Like @A-Jay, I don’t really have any “local” lures. The baits I use in crystal clear, rocky, mountain lakes work just as well in urban ponds or massive Mexican waters. Poppers, jigs, spinnerbaits, T-rigs, wacky rigs, walking baits should catch bass anywhere they swim!

My favorite jig rod is no longer made in a bass rod. Fenwick Aetos 7’ MH-F is such an unbelievable joy to fish with. They only offer the Aetos in a fly rod now. Not sure why they did away with the Aetos bass rod line.

When a trailer goes on a jig, it stays on that jig. So I have a box for jigs with trailers, and a box for jigs without trailers. The trailers that haven’t been put on a jig yet stay in their bags.

You are still frozen over? Hopefully you get some open water soon!

Flat out fish catchers. They’ve caught me smallmouth in crystal clear mountain waters to giant largemouth in Mexico. Only brand in my jig box is Siebert. His Ned heads and tungsten Rocket weights are great quality and price as well.

@JackstrawIII they got phased out in favor of weedless frogs. Never developed confidence in them. I still have a ton of them so I’ll give them another chance in those conditions. Do you just rig them weightless with an EWG?

Identical to how I fish it as well. I never work it back to the boat. Target cast, let it sink for a bit, pop it, reel in.

I hope that means they will retire his rod commercials. Absolutely insufferable. Congrats to Skeet though.

@QUAKEnSHAKE I had no idea he was a member here. That’s really cool. And thanks for the link!

Wake baits are one of those things that I subconsciously phased out of my line up. If I want something to run just under the surface, I’ll bulge a spinnerbait. If I want surface, it’s a popper or walker. Maybe I’ll throw the wakes back in the topwater box and give them another shot this season.

@jbmaine, it was Lunkerville. Thank you though!

@keagbassr man that didn’t take long! Mike D’s Lunkerville is it! I remembered the guys name as soon as I read “Lunkerville”. Thank you!

Made some eggplant parm recently.

Hey y’all, a fishing show that I used to really enjoy popped into my head but I can not remember what’s it’s called and I can’t find it. From what I remember about the show, the host traveled and visited different locations, and spent a day fishing on the boat of a local fisherman. It was a different location and local angler each episode. The host was a very laidback and soft spoken guy and I believe had kinda long shaggy hair and wore a ball cap. I may be misremembering what he looked like. If anyone remembers what this show may have been, please share. I would love to be able to find it and watch again. Thank you!

@Rockhopper love the golden coloring on that one. @Pat Brown you sir, are on a roll.

Awesome! Knew you’d be on the board after today. And some quality fish as well. That spinnerbait really does damage in cold water!

My favorites to throw are a popper, spinnerbait, and weedless frog. Nothing beats the blowup of a topwater strike or when a fish knocks slack into your line as the spinnerbait blades thump through some hydrilla.