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Haha thanks for noticing I should have made that more known lol.

Thanks so much for the opinions everyone

Ahh ok excellent

So I'm gonna be hitting a lake Saturday that is lined heavily with cat tails and lily pads. What do y'all prefer to flip in there in the heat of summer?

This is true lol. I'll be busy as all get out. Luckily the wife enjoys canoeing and fishing and we can do it together. I should be able to get out early Saturday. Before the sun comes up. Does flipping and punching work well if it's still dark out?

Yes it has been a while life caught up fast bought a house have a baby due next month haven't made it out much. But when I do I've been getting skunked. Gonna try this weekend early in the am on the nice clean lake if weather holds

This time of year the snakes and gators ar certainly cave at night big time.

So I'm in Florida. I know it's blazing hot and humid here now. I started bass fishing heavy last December so I fished through the fall bite and springs bite which was amazing. But now that summer is here man I'm having a hell of a time catching fish even flipping jogs and creatures in cover. Is this common for the bite to die down do to the heat and they get slugish? Do any of you even bother going out this time of year?

Thank you! I poked around in the search some but couldn't find a depth. That's what I was concerned of. I wasn't sure if they where for relatively shallow of not

How deep of water are yall fishing them in? And what time of day? I just grabbed a couple but don't really know much about fishing them

Very sorry for your loss.mthd boat looks great man amazing progress

Thanks a lot guys! I'll have to rig a beaver bait and a jig rod up and work both. I actually have some rattling jigs I bought by mistake. I'll try starting light there no real Matt or weeds. It's just a cat tail.

So I got a lake I really like now. I did some pitching from my canoe and got some nice fish on a black blue 3/4 jig and a craw trailer. I'm wondering why hat would be more productive tho jigs or just pitching a beaver bait with a 1/2-1 ounce weight? What do yall prefer?

I actually do have one but of course it was left at home lol.

Thanks guys. The canoe is paying off big time! I love it! I also hope to double this bass soon. This lake has the potential for it big time

Thanks guys new lake also. Never been on it third cast got this guy! Man what a great day. It isn't a huge fish I don't even have a scale but still great to me lol

Fished a new lake in the canoe with the wife today. Got a new pb and my first jig bass! Used a gambler flappy daddy craw trailer and 3/4 flipping jig in black /blue. Had a great day got 4 fish total. On jig and craw colored rattle traps.,

Thanks so much for all the great info everyone

Me and my son made a good run at that today. But man it's so nasty the second ya flip through it ya got 8 pounds of it rapped up in your hook and baits. Have to clean it all off every cast. Interesting about us being the last to adapt very true

That's the thing it's a local community center pond that no one fishes it can't be seen from the rd and looks so scummy why would ya fish it. It's on our local state stocking list, but no signs are posted. It was a really fun lil gem to go fish. No huge fish but a easy fish tank type pond. Idk why all of a sudden it just turned off

So I have a small pond I fish has a lot of 8 inch to 1.5 pound bass. Me and my son fish it. When they stocked it a couple years ago they adds lie gill but they are now of good size. This pond the bass used to hit anything that ya threw in. Now thy may follow or grab and spit out a senko or craw bait. They just don't hit like they used to at all. It's also gotten really mossy and scummy and they lay under the scum. Only small open water areas can be fished. Could the bite have changed because of the thick moss/scum cover and the fact that the blue gill forage is of good size?

Man that's sweet!!!

Oh man sounds awesome!!

Took her out today. Went great didn't catch anything but the motor is plenty of power. The lake I fish by the house has a lot of weeds so I did have to unclog it ocasionaly

No apologies necessary! Canoe discussion is welcome! I should have stated I went with the standard motor guide 30# thrust with a composite shaft from Walmart. It should push my canoe along fine as I'm just looking to be able to spend more time fishing than paddling. And by going with that one there's several Walmart near me that sell spare props and parts so it's easy to fix locally. My canoe is 39" at the center. So it's a big boat with a wide beam. I can stand and fish and even stand and paddle no problem if the waters calm. But I plan to make some diy flotation pontoons eventually for added stability when my boy is with me