gardnerjigman
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Congrats!
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Awesome man! The one on the right has quite the bulge!
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http://www.bassresou...t-sponsors.html Read, think about it, re-read, think about it some more and finally read one last time... come up with a plan, and set it in action. Fish hard, work hard, be a good person, and let them get an interest in you (give them a reason).
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Well the bait monkey bit me for several hollow body frogs. Booyah and Spro. Some flipping baits, 3 spools of braid, some extra fluoro, gulp mullet and shrimp, popping corks, and jig heads... 2 more days until HHI!!!!!!
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Be hard to leave a stable job these days... Especially a rewarding stable job. I couldn't move unless I had a job where I was going. Especially with a wife and 2 little ones depending on me.
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I'm new to spoons (i've used jigging spoons once with a buddy to catch wiper). What kind of spoons should a guy use from land fishing a lagoon? How do you work it? Please excuse the probably juvenile questions.
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Well... the family and I will stick to the pool for swimming in Hilton Head now... That sent chills all over me!
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My buddy pulls a 19' bass cat with his 4-runner and hasn't had an issue with it. We took it down to the ozarks a few years ago (for those of you don't know the ozarks, they didn't believe in straight flat roads at all) and it never had an issue stopping or starting. I was amazed!
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I guess I don't see the action you are putting on a hollow body frog with skirted legs if you just reel it in...
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So you are talking about a buzz style toad, where the legs churn up water. We are talking about hollow body frogs with skirted legs. I totally get what you are talking about with the slight bow in your line while working a toad. Mine looks similar. I was confused since we were talking about hollow body frogs and your retrieve technique. Clear as mud now!
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the spittin wa looks cool, but I have had nothing touch it. Have fished an entire bank with it and not had so much as a swirl, threw the poppin pad crasher over the same area not 15 minutes later, and destroyed fish in on it. Don't know what it is about it.
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Yah. A little confused as well. Big difference in hook up ratio between solid bodies and hollow. Heck, my wife catches the crap out of bass on solid bodies on a medium spinning combo. Huge difference in driving 2 hooks home versus 1
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I have to assume he is talking about a solid plastic frog from the reeling in comment.
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That's why as soon as I take a frog out of the package, I trim all but about an inch of leg off the frog. It walks a lot tighter, and I get better hook ups. I also believe I get more strikes like this.
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They may be picky about it being on the bottom. In lakes I fish like this, I usually use a nail weighted fluke or I'll put a split shot 18"-24" up from the weightless fluke and give it subtle twitches to make the fluke dance in a "wounded" fashion. This usually makes the bait stay up off the bottom and they destroy it. A senko style worm dances extremely well like this also. I've never used straight white in the senko style, but the baby bass (top half green, bottom half white) works great.
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Every-time I've been there the boat has caught an 18"+ fish. Sometimes multiples. It's listed as a favorite lake because of the many techniques you can do there. Frog, bladed jig, trig, spinner bait, crank... it all works and produces at lone star. Still waiting on the lone star guru to post..... cough BRIAN cough....
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I'm with the others on the second being a bagley
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Well, that's all I needed to see.
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Dang dude, he is growing up way too fast!!!!
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When your frog disappears, set the hook. By the time you stop. Drop the rod, count to 3, 5-7 seconds have gone by, and that is exactly what your (big) fish will do, go bye...
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Call and ask them. Most of them have a 7-7 rule. Meaning you can fish before 7 AM and after 7 PM. The house that we are staying at is on a golf course, don't know if that makes any difference.
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I'm about to be in Hilton Head SC. I'll be fishing a private lake, the lagoon system, inlets, and golf course ponds.
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That's my concern. It wouldn't be so bad in a john boat, but a kayak is a little to "their level". I may play it by ear when I get there.
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So you had to do a little extra work to get your registration (which most all places prefer online now that it is 2015 and all...) and you paid $4 more for a credit card convenience fee (rather than driving down to the DNR and probably spending just as much or more time) and you are that wound up about it? Dang dude... poor yourself a shot, light up a cig, eat a burger or go set a hook. Life is good buddy, don't waste it away getting bent out of shape.
