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.

I would put it on a scale. 1= crystal clear 16+visibility 2- clear- 7-12 visibility 3- stained- fairly clear but off color 4- dingy- 3-6' 5- muddy- about 1-2 6. Wylie in March after a good rain- looks like red clay mud, no visibility whatsoever.

Responding to Fat Boy's question, (got a little off topic there), yeah especially in ponds i've caught the exact same fish the same day or week, month. It seems to me that bigger largemouth in ponds tend to stake out their area, and that's where they will spend most of their life in a pond. For example a certain rock, brushpile, dock, or in your case a patch of weeds.

Second the big bait=big fish theory.

Species size has a lot to do with the region. 4 lb crappie are certainly a prize, but not uncommon in many of the reserviors in northern Mississippi, just south of Memphis. The same can be said about 10 lb largemouth, 5 lb smallmouth and 30 lb catfish. World Record possibilities in the lower Midwest and Midsouth include all catfish subspecies, sauger, walley, crappie (black & white), white bass, Kentucky bass, smallmouth, brown and rainbow trout, all subspecies of bream, gar, drum, buffalo and carp. PB: Largemouth: 12 lbs (estimated weight, 27 1/4"). Public pond. Smallmouth: Just over 8 lbs. Tennessee River Kentucky: 4 1/2 lbs Lake Quachita, Arkansas Striper: 38 lbs. Tennessee River Blue Catfish: 58 lbs. Mississippi River Brown trout: 10 lbs. White River, Arkansas Rainbow trout: 9 lbs. White River, Arkansas The biggest fish I have ever caught and weighed was a 85 lb. Amberjack in the Gulf of Mexico, but last summer I caught a gar on Bull Shoals fishing a Lucky Craft 128 late at night that was too big to get into the boat! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You truly are an accomplished fisherman. Bet you've had to do a lot of traveling to get those records though. Maybe one day I can post something like that.

Yep, always have the 12 gauge ready at our pond.

I'm glad to hear you say that miss some on an open hook tube, (sorry for you), but I seem to miss alot of fish on an open hook tube, maybe it's something about the line and how the hook's facing.

18.5 lbs. Slow rolling a spinnerbait through submerged trees in El Salto in February. Naw, 9.1 sightfishing in Lake Joccase, South Carolina. Fish Chris almost s##t his pants though ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Six sevens, i'm a tournament fisherman. Let's see, that would be about 35 pounds, hard to beat

I hear ya man..... When I can't get my boat out, the best way to get your fishing fix is pond fishing. It's alot of fun to go just hammer the bass at the local ponds. But I would rather be on my boat at the lake, more of a challenge, plus you can't compete in tournaments in my local ponds. But as far as just fishing from the bank, of course you'll do better at ponds, I wouldn't even think about trying to bank fish a lake.

Sounds like you're doing everything right to me, maybe the fish are not fully eating it, or you're getting small fish bites.