MIbassyaker

In addition to Glenn's channel, I follow: NDYakangler (The Bob Ross of fishing!) The Nature of Fishing (Must-see in-depth treatment of bass behavior, environment, & conditions -- by our own @Paul Roberts!) Fish Code Studios (biology professor Jimmy Liao on how bass respond to lures)

When I was a kid I would look at a bass pro catalog and dream of one day owning every worm in every color. Fast forward to today, and I probably have more worms than I will ever use up the rest of my life. 1. 5" GYCB Senko (green pumpkin) 2. 7" Berkley Power worm (Pumpkinseed) 3. 4" Berkley power worm (Pumpkinseed) 4. 7" Strike king 3x finesse (Pumpkin green flake) 5. 6" Mister Twister Phenom Worm (Pumpkin pepper green)

Nope, not my thing. I'm not a social angler. I fish to avoid people, so tournaments defeat the purpose.

Did you find a satisfactory solution to this, @Montanaro? 4 years later, I have the same question: I'm looking at adding side imaging to a feelfree lure 11.5, but not sure if I should mount the transducer on the pod or get the swing arm.

Sungill!

A good question, but I can think of one answer: A swimjig does not have blades to get fouled up in stringy vegetation. If I'm fishing anywhere that blades won't get much opportunity to spin and flash/thump, I feel like the spinnerbait's advantages are neutralized, and it loses out to a swimjig.

Welcome to your new lifelong addiction...

1. September 2. September 3. July 4. August 5. May September looks even better considering when I'm most available to fish. Here is each month's share of my total fishing hours since 2013 when I started keeping records: MAR: <1% APR: 3% MAY: 17% JUN: 29% JUL: 21% AUG: 18% SEP: 10% OCT: 2%

James -- you didn't say this quite directly in the video, but for the red eye shad when you switched up presentations, both the color and retrieve seemed to go from mimicking a baitfish (shad on a straight retrieve) to mimicking a craw (red on lift-drop retrieve)... did you intentionally pick those colors to go with those retrieves? (or vice versa?)

It also would seem to require fishing only places and times where bass are very heavily concentrated, as simply moving location to location takes time.

This would be my answer too.

Comes to 7.63 bass per hour -- Ned's average hour (or yours, if we count the 8.86 from 2011 in your article) would be an exceptional hour on the water for me, and something I only experience a couple times a year.

90% of the received wisdom about about blade color in various conditions doesn't make sense to me, and never has. The lower the visibility, and the poorer the lighting conditions, the less color should matter across the board.

Always a pleasure to read @A-Jay's yearly installment of this topic.

I don't remember the first fish I caught. But I remember very well the first fish I almost caught. I was 7, maybe 8. Dad took me to the river to fish for the first time. Dad is...not an expert angler, and I'm not sure he's ever fished except socially. We dug up some worms in the backyard and fished them under bobbers. I had a cheapo spincaster, and I learned how to cast it. I was supposed to watch the bobber, and if there was a fish, it would make the bobber go under, and then I should start reeling. For awhile my bobber didn't do anything, and then it just tipped over on its side. Dad said, "oh, you're on the bottom -- reel it in and recast"....but as he was saying that the bobber started moving, and when I reeled it felt pretty heavy. "I think you got one!" he said, excitedly. Sure enough, as I got it up toward the bank, it boiled and splashed in the shallows....and got off. I remember a big tail seeming to wave at me as it got away. A channel catfish, dad said, and "a pretty good one" too. In retrospect it was probably around 14-16 inches, pound and a half, or so. A little later dad caught a smaller one and showed me, "yours was like this, but yours was bigger". I don't think we stayed very long, but that was all we caught. The first fish I actually caught was probably a subsequent trip to the river, on a day where we probably caught a few. But whatever it was, it never came close to making the impresssion that first cat that got away made. To this day, that first fish getting away still feels like unfinished business.

Always liked the Smithwick Rogue, and still use them a lot. The affordability makes them a top choice for me where there are pike. As for Rapala I've caught bass on the Husky Jerk, but that's the only one, and the Rogue has still been more effective for me. On the spendier end, I have had a lot of success with the lucky craft slender pointer, which doesn't seem to get mentioned that often. Something about the thinner profile seems to do the trick in a few of the places I fish.

I love the title shot jig. I've been fishing hula grubs on them for the last couple of years and found them to be as snagless as anything, but still hook up well on strikes.

Well, then you need to fish it and report what you catch! From the map, it looks like if you can get on it with a small craft, you may be able to get around a number of places connected by the creek that could be worth fishing.

Limekiln Lake, according the listings I got it from: Catch and Keep LARGEMOUTH BASS Kalamazoo Limekiln Lake 7/3/1999 7:40:00 AM 1999 10.00 25.50 MICHAEL JAY DOWNEY PORTAGE Baitcasting BROWN LIZARD https://www2.dnr.state.mi.us/masterangler/MasterAngler.asp Right in your backyard! Although that was 21 years ago.

Yeah, nice! Goes right to the top of my Try-in-2021 list. My main jerkbait/topwater BC rod can easily cast a 3/8oz popper, so I can't imagine it would have a problem with this.

MIBassyaker = Michigan Bass Kayaker, but fewer syllables. Not very original but I thought "bassyaker" had a nice ring to it.

Well...no. I'm afraid this doesn't make sense. While experiences influence perception, people do not simply fail to see objects or images they have been "conditioned to believe don't exist". This is a myth. What happens instead is that familiar objects and patterns are perceived more quickly and with less effort than unfamiliar ones. The Reticular Activating System is a network of cells in the brainstem that help regulate our level of arousal. It is involved in the the sleep-wake cycle, and level of general awareness..... but it does not participate directly in visual recognition. It does not screen out images, except to the extent that you're losing consciousness and screening out everything.

I don't believe in ghosts, but I think paranormal stories are fun. A compilation of paranormal fishing stories would make a good book project.

I was about to say something similar... there is a better "wisdom of the crowds" effect here than anywhere else I've seen.

That and the one with Davy Hite where they go up the canal inlet...the fish weren't as big, but there were a lot of them. I don't know how many times I've put those shows on again to play in the background while working, especially over the winter.