N Florida Mike

Some of those you mentioned, and I would add 2 : UV speed worms, and producto tournament worms. Producto is not a big name , but their worms are awesome. I’ve done especially well with them in the St. john’s river system… You pretty much need to order them on line nowdays…

I have a small lake and smaller connected pond that I fished off and on for years. Biggest bass? 3 1/2 pounds. I maybe caught 20 bass ever in there. It’s one of the few murky lakes I fish. They won’t even bite live bait in there hardly. Strangely enough It’s stocked and managed by the FWC... I’ve heard it has dd fish in it, but never seen one… I did have a fish break my line once.

I fish plastics mostly, they work the best with the waters I fish. It’s hard to fish with any baits that feature treble hooks or are heavy baits, like jigs. The grass and algae are too prolific . I can fish spinnerbaits , but they are limited too. My “ circle of trust “ baits: A weightless super fluke fished with a 3/0 Gamakatsu hook. 5 inch Weightless Yum dingers or senkos with the same hook. For smaller size dingers I go down to a 2/0 hook. 7.5 inch culprit worm with a 2/0 or 3/0 straight shank worm hook. I use a small split shot weight with these to help with casting and keeping it under water with a slow retrieve. UV speed worms- same rig as the culprit Speed craws- with these I’ll use a 1/0 or 2/0 wide gap , and the split shot. Baby brush hogs- same rig as the speed craw. This isnt all I carry, but I probably catch 80% or more of all my fish on these baits… I will upsize the hooks and weight depending on the situation…

A friend of mine caught an 11 and a half pound bass trolling a baby bass crankbait through a deep hole at night. I had been with him the night before out there, and he hooked one that straightened his hooks out and got away. If it works and is legal, go for it !

Wow! You caught 57 more than I ever have on a WP.!

Wait, what? Pigs must have flown…? Congrats!

That is the exact worm I did well with for numbers a couple years ago. I didn’t even boil them first…

View off my son’s cabin deck…

Colorado is the most beautiful place I’ve seen…

I love off roading, my wife was nervous on this one though…

Welcome Steve!

It does on a picture but in person they just seem much higher. These mountains are around 10,000 feet…

Another Rocky Mountain picture…

We put some in our lake around 7-8 years ago. They initially ate all the southern Niad which was a good thing. They have not done much if anything with the eel grass. Real Big bass have completely disappeared in the last couple years though but I suspect it’s the otter(s) that did that. The other negative in the same years is all the black algae we now have. Never had it before the carp . Not sure if there’s any correlation but it’s a strange coincidence. The few carp we have left are HUGE. I mean like 50-60 pounds. They don’t seem to be reproducing . Not sure I would stock them again… Good luck with your situation…

I go on road trips a few times a year, and usually fish no more than an hour and a half away. I go out in the boat in the home lake every 2 weeks on average. I will usually bank fish also for shorter time periods 2-3 times a week.

Went to one of my Grandson’s graduation in Colorado. This is Pike’s Peak…

Where I mostly fish T rigs, it’s shallow and weedy. If I use any weight at all, it’s often a small split shot. When I fish deeper water, I use a bullet weight unpegged. I don’t punch often, but when I do it’s with a pegged bullet weight, how heavy depends on how heavy the cover.

I primarily use white or yellow bottom frogs,With Green top and black spots…I fish only low light conditions or night. Can’t say my results have been stellar, but I did get a 7.3 on a yellow bottom pad crasher jr, on 4th of July in the first hour of dailight…

It depends on the type of water body too. If the water’s way up and out of it’s banks into a swamp fish will be dispersed and harder to find. If the water is contained in a lake , just higher, fish will often be up shallow to get all the food washing in. They will also face drains and pick off food sources coming through. When the waters low they are more concentrated and should be easier to find, especially the smaller the water body…

The way you described is basically my presentation. With me it’s soft plastics fished slow, but I do catch a lot when it’s moving too. I have basically 5 combos that I commonly use . I can and have used all of them for fishing plastics, but Usually now there are 3 for soft plastics, 1 for a spinnerbait, and 1 for a chatterbait… the chatterbait rod is also my frog rod…

I was messing around on the dock catching bream, hooked a small one, and this one ate the bream. Put up a great fight with 6# line and a small # 6 light wire bream hook!! By the way, this is a different fish than the one my boss’s son caught a couple weeks ago. That was chunkier if anything and darker than this one…

Generally, my limit is 1.5 hours. And that’s if someone else goes with me. I have plenty of water to fish within that time frame. I’ve gotten to the age where I don’t see as well at night, so I’m not into driving home after dark for very far, and being tired on top of it…

I went once and didn’t catch anything. But the water was real high. Ive heard panfish reports from it . Never knew anyone that fished it for bass, but it’s a little out of my range…

Yeah but momma gators closing in !

I usually just keep moving from where I chose to start. If I’m catching fish, I usually stick with what I’m catching them on. When they stop biting I might switch to another bait. Keeping it simple, like this guy…