N Florida Mike

A closed season on fishing?? What?You can't go at all, or not for bass only ?

F- troop reruns!

I fished tournaments for 2 years and never did as well as when I fished for fun.Competition was fun but I worked a lot harder in tournaments but caught less fish.Go figure.In tournaments I fished too fast, and was always cranking up and moving.When I got tired of things going wrong with the boat, I sold it and got a low maintenance J boat.I have caught SO many more fish in it because my line's in the water more.Now that Im older I catch a lot more and better fish than ever, except I can't beat my PB.I caught it when I was 19 and didn't know much more than the basics.But bass fishing never gets old to me.I could do it every day and not get tired of it.

Caught 13 on the home lake last evening.Most were caught on senkos and trick worms.Total fishing time was 2 and a half hours.Windy ! This one was the biggest.Caught on watermelon seed trick worm.Caught my PB 30 feet from where I caught this one.

Enjoy it while you can.My grandkids used to love fishing.Now I have to bribe them to get them to go.

I had threw a bait( probably a culprit worm ) under a dock in my home lake and hooked a heavy fish, got it up to the boat.She made one last surge and broke off.I yelled in frustration and then noticed two guys watching.It was very hard to control myself.The fish was 10-11 pounds I'm sure and I dropped my rod and went home.The only time I've ever done that.I believe I lost the fish because I hadnt changed my line in awhile.I thought about doing it before that trip but said to myself "one more time then I'll change it" Still bothers me and that was 20 years ago.

Had a 3 and a half pound bass attack a 1 pound bass I was reeling in.Tryed to swallow it head first and actually did up to the gills before disengaging. Also caught a 2.5 pound bass on a 10 inch shiner.

Senkos work well.If you just want to catch numbers, use the 4 inch ones.I Texas rig mine with no weight.Make sure its straight on the hook.Zoom super flukes are good numbers baits too.I fish mostly slightly stained lakes and my best color is watermelon seed.I am a soft plastics fanatic so I also use baby brush hogs, and speed craws by Zoom.Also, red shad culprit worms have always worked well.Also trick worms.My rule of thumb is, if you're not catching fish,slow down!Fish docks and isolated weed patches .This is an easy pattern that usually produce some fish.

Welcome!

Nighttime in the summer son!I fish black frogs and black senkos.I love to drag the frog over weeds and stop, and go.I don't catch big numbers like this, but the fish are usually quality ones.I like fishing areas where you here lots of frogs croaking.The bass will be there waiting for a frog to slip up.I fish big dark senkos at night by reeling them across the top, and sometimes letting them fall.The bass will absolutely clobber them on top. On a serious note, please wear safety goggles at night.I didn't and it nearly cost me an eye.

Yeah I like animals in general, esp.good eatin' ones.But if its them or the fish, then yeah they're going down.esp. an otter.They will clean out a pond.

Well, the geese have finally thinned out, ( remember my post on them awhile back?) So I'm on my dock the other evening at dusk and see an animal approach the lake on the other side.I think its a racoon but then it jumps in the water and swims out parallel to me .It was too dark to tell but it was either a otter or nutria.I can tell the difference if I get a good look at them.So I go out this morning and he's out there again.But he immediately went under and didn't come back up while I watched.I hope its not an otter because I had a big one clean out all my catfish a few years ago and now the fingerling cats have grown up and I'm getting nice ones again.Nutrias are bad enough.They've eaten 3 feet of my lake bank where my boat ramp is.Have trapped some of them but there seems to be an endless supply.Time to get my 22 fixed and get a new scope.!!!

Nice fish.

We have stocked grass carp in the lake.I don't see any reduction in the bass fishing and don't expect to.These carp can't reproduce so they won't overpopulate.

Welcome!I love TRYING to trout fish in the smokies.

Lol!

We have some big grass carp(I snagged a 23 pounder last year.) I watch them patrolling off my dock and often catch bass with them around.They don't seem to effect the bass any.

Swamp people is about the only one I watch the new episode of each week.I love MLF but I'm often busy when it comes on sat.Wicked tuna's pretty good also.Love all in the family and king of queens reruns.And still love Andy Griffith show.And old westerns.

To be more specific, my favorite bream is redbreast.I don't overly care for Crappie( specks to us Floridians).To me they taste kind of bland.Probably the worst freshwater fish to me is warmouth.We caught a bunch of them in the Okefenokee swamp and they weren't good at all.Of course, they were all eaten But if you want to eat bass, go ahead.I think its almost comical that people get offended by that.As long as you're legal, then its perfectly fine.I fished my lake for 15 years when I was young and kept nearly every bass and we always had plenty.And for those of you who don't like to eat them that's fine with me.I am opposed now to keeping bigger bass just because they're fun to catch and I hate destroying them .I know how I feel when people tell me they keep big bass out of the lake.I don't like it a'tall.But if I spend my time and money to fish and want to keep a few then its my right.

I am a big fish eater.Probably my favorite.in fresh water is butter cats, then bream , then bass.Fried, of course.I don't keep bass over 15 inch unless they die on me.Small, fileted bass taste good to me.We have to keep some so the lake won't be overpopulated.I also eat lots of saltwater fish, with sheepshead probably my favorite.

Cool story and pics

Another "that guy" I fished with back in the day would nearly always do some crazy thing while fishing.One day he tried to see if he could stuff a whole pouch of red man in his mouth.He usually talked non- stop.Well,at some point I noticed he hasn't said anything in awhile so I look at him and he's turning green.Sick as a dog.He was about to barf so I put him on the bank until....Another time he suddenly grabbed my rod and began bending it to try and touch tip to butt and said "Is this an ugly stick?" And the rod snapped in half.I stared at him and said " No it wasn't".I was furious and kept staring at him so he climbed out of the boat and swam to the island we were near .The rod was the one I had caught my pb on!.

Thanks.The pics dont really do it justice.

Nice fish.My son lives in Omaha but I don't see any where to fish there..

I like it either way.The older I get the more I want to make a difference in someone's life.A great way to do this is fishing.I invite different friends over to fish a lot.And family.My son and me fish a lot. That being said,I probably fish alone more often,cause my boat is 30 feet from my back door in the lake.I can quickly throw a trip together when I have a little window of time.