MIbassyaker

I'm....not so sure fishing needs haircut police.

The 1/4oz Tiny Torpedo has got to be one of the most underrated small-water lures ever made. rip....rip....pause...SMASH! And don't forget about the old jointed floating Rapala....the action is still as deadly as ever.

Breaking in a new setup this morning from the bank of a small river - Tsurinoya Dragon II, 6'6" Light baitcaster, rated for 1/16-3/8oz: Now, I don't know BFS from IBS.... but I slapped on a silver max 3 I had laying around, and found I could order one of those shallow refit BFS spools for it. Strung it up with 10lb sufix braid and 4lb xt leader and thought I'd try slinging around a #2 mepps aglia .... amazingly, it works. Not getting the distance of a spinning rod yet, but pretty good enough. These guys showed up to help me test it out... green bass and bronze bass, sharing the same small midriver hole in harmony -- why, it warms the heart:

These are not too exotic, but they have been serving me well recently: Clockwise from top Left: -Booyah Covert Double Colorado (White/Chartreuse) -Pepper Custom Bleeding Double Willow ("Bluegill") -Siebert Compact Cosmic Double Willow ("Pumpkinseed") -War Eagle Copper Indiana/Colorado ("Copper/Chartreuse") -Revenge Double Willow ("bluegill")

How big are your bogs? Do you think you might be re-catching some of the bigger bass, or are they all different fish?

Welp. Now I'm going to get poop the mail from TW in a few days. Thanks, guys.

No tournaments for me either, but I've got....[glances to the right, counts]... 30 setups. Well, one is broken. One I found in the river, so that's a bonus. But honestly don't need. Four more I haven't used in about 5 years, so probably don't need those either. None of which stopped me from buying another one last month.

I've also never caught a double. Never had to have a hook removed from my skin. Rigs? Never used an alabama, neko, tokyo, double-fluke, or any kind of big swimbait thing. Never caught anything on a regular-sized carolina rig. Never fished for more than 8 hours at a time (I think? maybe for walleye when I was in high school). Not recently, anyway. I have been to all 50 states, but have not fished in 43 of them, and not caught fish in 45.

To be honest, i don't know how you're "supposed" to fish a hair jig, but I sort of treat them the same as a ned rig.

Biggest advantage of sidescan I have found is the ability to see how far away I am from a deep weedline, as well as breaks and irregularities in the edge.

The tail prop on the 75 is actually a little bigger and is quicker to start up. But sure, the 90 works too. Blade color probably doesn't matter; I just like gold because it seems to fit much of the forage base.

yes -- 1/4 oz black/gold or white/chart/gold cavitron with a trailer hook. But to be honest, in recent years I've found the Whopper Plopper 75 a bit more versatile ...I can cast upcurrent a bit, and let it float down into position before starting the retrieve.

I would contest that ticket in court, @Dominat0r -- title says Latest Catch Pics Thread, and the catfish is your latest catch. Letter of the law is on your side.

Just now starting to see the first hints of changing color -- in a month, that whole shoreline is going to be a blaze of orange and yellow.

Such a pretty lake. Too bad the bass aren't bigger. Representative pair out of 8 here today:

Skipping. "Ripping" something out of weeds (e.g., lipless). Finding smallmouth in lakes.

Bruiser Baits Rad Shad has that same kind of jointed midsection, so that could be it.

Oh good grief. I'm going to buy a bunch of these now, aren't I...

Theme song for me trying to cast with BFS tackle:

My top 5 for the the whole year is about a pound or two shy of 20, but I haven't weighed every bass. I've caught 2 bass over 4lb this year that I know of, and might have cracked 5 for 15 once or twice, but that's it. Pretty sure I have never had 5-20 in one day by myself. 100 fish day? eh, I got 20 a couple of times.

I caught my current pb largemouth on a rage tail space monkey a couple summers ago -- I don't leave home without 'em!

used to catch these all the time in the river back home growing up....and that's what we did with them too!

I don't ask anybody for information, but I also keep things to myself, so if you give me intel, I suppose I become the one-way street.

Four this morning at the "tough lake" which has good-sized bass for this area, but a low catch rate, and gets a lot of bass fishing pressure for its size. Today they were about average. Here are three: Bass on left is not orange, just reflecting the sunrise -- it was very long and skinny, nearly 18". I should have taken the pic on the measuring board. The other two were 15". a fourth that I didn't take a pic of was 16". All were caught on a spinnerbait along the edges of pad fields. Spinnerbaits seem very popular with the bass in my lakes this summer. Maybe they're just sick of chatterbaits...