jtbassman

NJbassman i'll try to keep it simple for you. In the summer months, a low pressure system that brings wind and rain will make bass more active and will more readily strike your lure, IMO. There are alot of variables that could go into it, but a good low pressure system will always help you catch fish in the summer months, (unless you're skipping docks). ;D

Posted by: bshaner Posted on: Aug 22nd, 2006, 2:10pm What they said ^^ Particularly in clear water if a bass has been in the shallows very long feeding he'll be light colored. When you pull one out of some thick weeds they'll be very dark. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You'd think it would be the other way around right???? A bass in shallow, clear water will be getting plenty of sunlight penetration making it more dark. A bass buried under a weedbed will be a lighter color- less sunlight penetration, right.

Where there's grass there's bass.

Ok, I can understand if it's only 40 acres.

Posted by: BassSnatcher Posted on: Today at 7:06pm I live about a mile from my favorite lake. So naturally, when I feel the urge to go fishing... thats where I go. I've mastered this lake from top to bottom, side to side, and all around. I know every nook and cranny in this body of water, and its only one that I know like that. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MASTERED?? How big is this lake??? I've fished a particular lake, (31 acres), all my life and still wouldn't say i've mastered it. When I think mastered I think never lose a tounament. Maybe we have a different interpretation of the word. I can tell you where every rock is on my home lake, (James,NC), but there are sometimes I will get my arse whipped on that lake. But maybe we mean different things.

Portageriver you have a pm.

I would get a few Lucky Craft...... and that about does it. ;D

Posted by: George Welcome Posted on: Today at 5:05pm I could have bet on this one too. Yes Jim, we have all heard the term "match the hatch". It is a term dragged into bass fishing by trout fishermen. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am sure am glad those trout fisherman did drag that term in here. ;D Many times lure size is THE most important thing about your bait. I don't know if you were BSing that term or what, but it applies to bass almost as much as it applies to trout, in my opinion.

I wouldn't stick my fingers in a catfishes nasty old mouth anyway, that's like lipping a buzzard. ;D

Yep, Cajun said it.

Dragonfly fly maybe?

Ya know, i've seen some videos of bass around baitfish and see what you're talking about, the fish just kinda hanging around the shad but not making any attempt to eat them. Maybe they just hang around the food until they get hungry. As far as the fish not biting, I don't know what to tell ya, sometimes bass are just like that and it's a pain in the arse when they are. >

As Mike said, jigs and senkos are not reaction strike baits,(not typically). Reaction baits excite fish, appeal to their senses ex.-vibration, sound, sight, and do not have to be presented quitely, it actually may be better for it to make a little splash on the entry. About the skipping- I can skip a jig pretty well, not quitely, but it will skip. As for Senkos I couldn't skip one if my life depended on it, but hey, i'm not a pro. I'm sure it would be much more effective if you could skip your lure quietly, but I just don't know how to do that with a jig, let alone a Senko. practice,practice,practice.

Posted by: Dr. Bass Posted on: Yesterday at 5:58am BronzEye frog ...black Why a frog :-? Maybe the frog's trying to eat the minnows that the bass are feeding on, and the bass doesn't like it, so it eats the frog :-? I think I would probably just stick with the minnow imitation, (I know that sounds crazy). ;D

I would think if you caught a keeper fish out of a lake and you wanted to put that fish in your pond,(private land), there is nothing wrong with that. Of course you take the chance of diseases in doing that.