N Florida Mike

Saw him at one of my local ponds..

First chatterbait fish. ? I cant catch a bass on it to save my life...

This ^^^^

I prefer overcast with a slight ripple. I dont fish sunny days much anymore, especially days with little to no wind. I caught my top 3 biggest bass on sunny days though, come to think of it. I seem to catch more numbers on cloudy days .

Went out to try the new Trolling motor on the bass hunter. Had to fish a little. One bite in an hour, but it was a 3.64 pounder. Caught it on a rage tail cut-r . The T.M and B. hunter worked great together as well.

Great , a positive story. Glad you had a safe outcome. I ran out of gas once on I-10 . I started walking and had gone aways when a man stopped and offered me a ride up to the next exit where there was gas. He couldn’t take me back so I walked all the way back. Put gas in the truck , got in , turned the key and nothing happened. Seemed that me leaving the emergency flashers on all that time ran the battery down. So Im standing there wondering what to do next when another car stopped and backed up slowly to my truck. A man got out and said “ My daughter said she knows you “ I look and there’s Brenda from our church bus and sunday school. I still dont know how she knew it was me going 60 down I-10 at night , but she did. He jumped me off and I was on my way... Treating others like you’d want to be treated is the real deal.

I mostly use EWG gamakatsu hooks, esp. for fishing super flukes and creature baits ,but also like the Daiichi offset wide gap hook for fishing plastic worms. Sometimes when Im low on money I go back to Eagle claw EWG , but they need extra sharpening, because they come out of the package dull.

70s : Manns Jelly worms 80s -90s : Culprit worms 2000s - present : Zoom super flukes 2010- present : Senkos

? Dang. I’m impressed by your fortitude. ?

Frivolous to sue anyone at the school. The person apparently responsible died. I could see suing to get his estate maybe, depending on the circumstances.

I caught a 4 pound bass on a doughball once. Does that count?

For us it’s when Azaleas are blooming. Which is right now. Caught 1 off a bed the other day . I noticed this when I was in my 20s, and have seen it many times since.

Roostertail.

Very interesting post , koz. I used to be a field manager with my old company. I could write a book on surly employees. I may post some stories later. It seems like you have a lot of authority, which means you’ll eventually get things sorted out. Middle management nearly drove me crazy. If anything good happens, the employees gets the credit. If anything bad happens with your employees, you get the credit .

Got out on the home lake this evening . The bite has finally picked up. It was very windy where I wanted to fish , so I anchored and fished a deep eel grass edge with the watermelon red super fluke and it produced a few fish. Switched to a june bug UV speed worm and decided to fish the south and southeast shoreline and got 6 more including a 4 3/4 pound fish as the sun went down. She hit the speed worm as I was reeling in, and put up a good fight, peeling drag several times. Felt good to finally get on some fish. It was the slowest winter Ive had in years.

This^^^^ I’m glad somebody has. I have never caught a fish on a cristy critter.

Got a couple out of one my church ponds today on theBig bites pumkin craw...

Its been good for the fishing industry. It seems to be less people now out fishing than there was last year. Where do you live that a 2 pound bass is illegal?

I probably shouldn’t post this ( because we have plenty of people here already) , but you can find an amazingly affordable place on one of the million or so lakes in the INTERIOR of Florida. Theres a lake I used to fish near Melrose ( app 300 acres I think )that had a house on it for sale at 250,000. The lake is deep and clear and has great fishing. The interior lakes out in the country are much less expensive than anything near the coast.

When I was a teen, a friend and me were fishing the lake I now live on. He hooked a bass and fought it near the boat without saying much. When he pulled it out from under the boat in the clear water, I could see it was a huge bass. To this day it is still in my memory in the top 5 biggest bass I ever laid eyes on. He told me to grab the line when it was still 4-5 feet down. Right when I did, the fish dove down under the boat. The line broke in my hands. The last thing I remember seeing was the fishes red gills flaring right as the line broke. I bet I havent landed 5 fish since that day by grabbing the line, and those I knew were small. I use mono , usually 12 or less , so I know there’s a higher chance of it breaking than 30 pound braided, for example. Moral of the story for me : I lip all big fish and cant remember losing one at the boat that way. I usually lift smaller fish, or lift them from underneath their side. But whatever works for you is fine...

Too late for that at my house. No “ news” is good news..

At least weather men are right 50% of the time. (Which is about 50% better than other forms of news)

I haven’t seen one dead fish in a long time...