bass_masster

When you start casting and learning, get a good cast in, really chuck it. Then, strip some more line off, maybe another ~10 yards. Next, take a piece of electrical tape, and put it over the line on the spool. Reel it back it, re-cast. This way, if you overrun/birdsnest (at all, it's almost impossible this way) there is SIGNIFICANTLY less line to get tangled up. Worked great for me when I was learning as a kid, just a nice handicap to help you out while learning!

That bass at the 1:39 mark was absolutely enormous.

I take this time of year to really hone my skills. Getting a fish to take artificial baits is an art, and even more so post-spawn when they're not gorging themselves on everything. It does suck sometimes but the challenge of getting a post-spawn bass to strike makes it worthwhile. The dog days of summer have produced many memorable fish over the years.

Wow I am out in that area lot no idea they rented boats! Do they have enough or are they in high demand? Wonder if they would allow me to bring a portable fish finder with all of their water restrictions.

Two things: 1) You have an S4, install something like Dropbox and setup the auto camera upload feature. If you ever lose your phone your photos are backed up to Dropbox. Box.com is similar and offers 50GB of storage, and Copy.com offers 15GB of storage with auto upload features. Enough to keep all you photos online. 2) If you have a recent Android phone, go to Settings->Security->Phone Administrators, and you should see something called Android Device Manager. Make sure this is checked off. Now if you lose your phone or have it stolen, you can remotely wipe it, lock it, wipe SD strorage, track it, etc., by logging into Android Device Manager via your PC. If you're more advanced and rooted your phone you can install something like Cerberus for even more features.

6-6.5lbs

Never used a wacky rig before today, but they were killing it. Caught on a 7' MF Abu Garcia Veritas 2-piece spinning rod with a Shimano Sienna 2500 reel spooled with Suffix 832 braid: http://i.imgur.com/fjSiZWR.jpg Used a YUM Dinger F2 wacky rigged with o-rings and a 2/0 Gamakatsu octopus hook. Temps were 68-70F with high winds (you can see the foam on one fish from the chop), everything was blowing towards the shore we fished, so all you had to do was toss out the wacky rig and bounce/let it drift back, they were all pressed up in deep pockets against the shore waiting for baitfish and food. Got a few smaller ones also peppered in. I believe these were mostly males, the big females are still holding on beds. Weather rolled in and got bad quite so we had to call it quits and head back. Wished I had checked the barometric pressure around that time and recorded it. Saw a hawk kill a bird in mid-air, that's what he was pointing at.

Ahhh Purchase St! Thanks for getting back to me

Just saw this on reddit, nice bass look healthy too

If I pack it in, I pack it out. Always, no exceptions. I hate all the effing slobs who leave their trash everywhere, not to mentions what looks like entire SPOOLS of line. Fools, the lot of them.

I am from Carver, this wouldn't have been near the state forest would it?

Not quiet Seekonk but I'm around New Bed/Dartmouth and work in Lakeville, I've had luck the past 2 weeks with large jerk baits (looong pauses) and heavy slow jigs. It's late this year, and they're slow to warm up, but they're getting there.

Nice one, I need to start throwing more jigs

Gives my wallet the chills thinking about it