Jar11591

Got a lot of the seedlings planted in the garden beds as the last frost is hopefully behind us. The green beans are already starting to flower.

@gimruis I agree. I’d rather go the @T-Billy route and head into the woods.

I use mono for all topwaters except frogs. I use straight fluoro on my jerkbait rig and my crank bait rig.

Just what @T-Billy said. Shallow wood, the sunnier the better is where I am during an early season warm or hot day.

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My port-a-John is a wide mouthed Gatorade bottle. Fits right in the boat. And also one of my fishing dogmas is “poop before you get on the boat”, because Gatorade bottle won’t do much to help that.

@bowhunter63 it’s this Yankee’s favorite breakfast!

My 12 year old AutoCraft just finally stopped taking a charge this year. Used as the primary 12V for 4 years, and as a back up for the last 8 or or so. Ive gotten a dud Crown, and a dud Exide. EverStart is currently my back up 12V, with another Crown that has served as primary 12V for the last 3 years or so. 3 years is now my max that I’ll have a battery serve as the primary. After 3 years it gets relegated to back up status. It will serve as a back up until it stops accepting a charge, then I recycle.

Usually a bacon egg and cheese sandwich on the way to the lake, always some black coffee and water, and usually a granola bar or something mid morning.

A Lew’s Tournament Pro Speed Spool on a 7’3” Fenwick Methods

Aside from spots along the bank that are visible to the eye, I use my rudimentary electronics to find off shore spots.

Culprit ribbon tails are my favorite summer time soft plastic. I throw em up to 12” but my most used size is 7.5”. A Texas rigged ribbontail is how my dad taught me how to fish and it’ll always be a mainstay in the tackle box

Don’t shoot until you see the whites of their eyes

Incredible. What a day.

I’ll cast it and always let it sit for 15-20 seconds. Then I’ll give it a tiny little twitch. 50% of my strikes come on this twitch. If nothing on that, I mix up the retrieve. A few pops at a steady pace, then a few erratic ones, or vice versa. A lot of the times it will be obvious what retrieve is working better and you can narrow your it down to that one.

Aside from the one looked at me sideways when I showed him the fishing license that I purchased online and printed out (which is what they tell you to do), and the knucklehead who came flying at me on a jet ski like a jackass to check my license and totally burning the fishing spot, my other interactions have been short. Those 2 knuckleheads don’t speak for all of them. Every job has its idiots.

Oh man, that stinks. I think he was the last surviving member of the Allman Brothers Band, right? One of my all time favorite bands, and Betts was a brilliant guitar player. Back in the 60s my dad got into a Allman Brothers concert by telling the door man that he was Dickie’s cousin, and it actually worked.

Yes. I always have one tied on. During the summer months it’s one of my top baits. When the cover is really gnarly, is when I’ll usually opt for a Texas rig. It’s one of the most versatile, tried and true, and effective presentations. It’s a staple in many bass angler’s repertoire.

North Country Monster! With a gut like that and 22”, that fish should be every bit of 6.5lb.

For fluorocarbon leader than will never be touching the spool, the only thing I really care about is strength. No point in messing with malleable, low-memory fluorocarbon if it’s never going to see spool. I use Yo-Zuri HD Carbon leader material. Strong, wirey, and perfect for fishing around wood and rock.

Never heard of it, but I’ll check it out. I like movies like that. A River Runs Through It is one of my all time favorites. My dad played it for me when I was just a wee lad, maybe 7 or 8. I was already hopelessly addicted to fishing at that point.

@Dwight Hottle don’t blame you. I laughed so hard I cried when I discovered it in the middle of the night.

The River2Sea Spitting Wa 70 is a larger sized frog. Weighs about an ounce. This is it next to a Booyah Pad Crasher and Pad Crasher Jr for comparison: The Wa is longer, wider, heavier, and has much larger hooks than a normal sized frog. I’ve had some success with it.

Nasty little effers. I’m a magnet for em. I’ve found 5 embedded in me in the last 2-3 years, including one right on the tip of the junk. That was no fun. Funny, but not fun. I’m no longer landscaping full time so hopefully I stop picking them up.

I would say similar to @Pat Brown, I don’t always put down a bait when I should. I could catch 5-6 on a popper at sunrise, and then 5 hours later I’m still throwing a popper without having had a bite in the last several. But at the same time, I’ve gotten on midday topwater bites that I wouldn’t have otherwise gotten on if I didn’t keep throwing it long after I should have stopped.