NJfishinGuy

i havent been here long or anything but i have gotton a few good tips and read some stuff that i think has increased my knowledge a bit, i havent gone from nuttin to a pro by the info nor have i increased my catch drasitcallly but i feel i am learning valuabe info and im sure ill learn more.

i wonder if a bass is protecting a bed of eggs and u catch him what happens to all those bass eggs, will the bass go back to them or will he take off and those eggs and potential baby bass go eatin or die , if they wont go back it sounds to me like a really bad way to slow down the population of bass in a lake

what is a float tube anyone got a pic

you may but usually in the ponds i fish eve if the fishin dies for a while give it like a couple weeks and itll be back.

i wonder if crawdads work as good in a lake if they are not natural forage in a lake. im not sure if this pond i fish has them in it so will this affect the fish taking them. ill go to my local pet store and buy them if i have to only like 50 cents a craw. but i think ill try weighted and weightless next time i can

ok ok, i was just saying that besides wanting a bow mount for power fishing that its great and maybe should look into one anyway. i personally will like to possibly never fish with a transom mount tm again. but thats just me

slow fishing is SOOO MUCH better with a bow mount foot control motor. you can work your bottom slow moving lures and concentrate on your line instead of stopping and playing with the motor if theres a little wind windy days with the read tm i find to be almost imposibble to fish. i fish slow also and i love my trolling motor on the front. i also keep the one on the back if i want my buddy to control for a while also or if i wanna pick up and move a little faster

so grab a foot control i just put one on my 12' john a couple weeks ago makes fishing so much better not grabbing the motor every 10 seconds with my hand. i paid 55 bucks for it. its old but it works and get the job done.i got mine on EBAY!

very cool , im also 20 and when i get a boat id like to water tube and have fun but im still gonna get a bass tracker and just do it off of that. have fun and like some said already get that deck setup for fishin.

ok i have only used lures for largemouth but i have a pond i do pretty well on and i know theres bigger tha im catching in the pond. im thinking maybe some live kellies/minnows might work better. the pond is surrounded somepletly by lilly pads the edge of the pads on alot of the lake are about 10ft deep and some spots have nice drops to about 25ft. another section has some shallows of about 5ft and weedy. ayway i usually do pretty decent with worms and spinnerbaits. So? how would u guys use live minnows? how would i rig them and work them? im also gonna try a fat ika for the 1st time there this weekend im thinking the skirt up swimming under the pads might do well there.

well you have good reason to not like keeping wild fish captive. bad expeirance is a good way to turn you off of somthing although it defiantly seems a few of us have had great luck with keeping bass. i believe you did the wrong thing by letting the bass gorge himself with as much as he could eat. im kinda suprised tho when i had my bass we would drop 1 or 2 minnows in and he would eat them and be done even if there was another he wouldnt be interested in it. we just fed 1 or 2 each day and he never got skinny lookin. oh yah i asked my father last night about our basshe sais we kept it till it was about 1.5lbs. as u had the bad expeirance with wild food for them i cought mine in the creek by my house and we never had a problem i dunno i guess we didnt have a parasite problem or the bass was already immune to them or got that way from us feeding him wild food. thinking about all this minnow catching i think i need to drop that trap in again and catch some live bait for fishing.

i agree the silk plants are nice but someitmes the plastic look extremely real depending on the type of plant its minicing. i dont remember our bass ever moving things in the tank. as far as the shock on the bass 1 you need to have an aireator on your transportation container inless your close to home and then my suggestion is mix some of the tank water in with the water you took form the lake u got the bass from to ease him into the water change while he is still in the container you brought him home in leave him in there for like a hour or so with the aireator goin then move him into the tank also try to get the water temps close so the temp doesnt shock him. just dropping him in can shock them enough to kill them due to the possible drastic change in all the waters chemical levels.

we had fake plants in our tank usually the grassy or tall plants with like 5 stems that went ot the top of the tank. its so cool seeing a bass lurk slowly around the plants before it strikes a minnow and eats it. i probably would only keep one in your 55 gal maybe 2 the panfish are gonna make that tank VERY hard to keep clean and clear id recomend not gettin them the bass are enough of a job to take care of

i guess because they get some speacial privilage

well i was young and my mom did the upkeep on the tank, i may be off on the 2lbs it was probably like 1lb but it was a huge tank more than enough for the size we kept it untill. we had it up on top of the giant brick fireplace which is like eye level and about 5 feet wide. anyway we have a creek in the park at the end of our street we just fed it guppys which mine as well be free for what you pay and once big enough we have minnow traps we dropped in the creek over night and could catch hundreds of minnow/kellies. usually the bass like others said, ate 1 day, filled his gut and wouldnt really eat for a day or so. as far as mean cause its a wild fish kept captive. we cought it when it was 2" long it was a newborn still in a baby school. my dad grabbed it with his hand next to the dock i dought it even knew what the lake was by that time. as far as illegal oh well we all break laws everyday and dont say you dont speed or anything, besides i dont think anybody is chekcing our fish tanks for gamefish honestly and the fish was not harmed in anyway and we let him go and i bet he still lives in that pond ive probably cought in him before. haveing a fish for like 2-3 yrs and it being perfectly healthy i dought it had any disease and if it did the pond we let i go in still thrives with bass which i believe are there from us letting them go there. either way everyone was happy to start catching LM's in our tiny local pond and it didnt seem to effect anything else. sense there wasntmuch in there beside carp/catfish and they are still there

well in a local pond ive always used green and white spinnerbiats. i start with the green and usually catch a couple bass then ill switch and i almost always pick up 1 or 2 more after i switch to white, also when useing a tiny rapala twitching for sunnys and baby bass some colors barely get there attention ovr and over again they just look and go away then ill swtch and boom they grab it left and right

My dad got me into it. my whole family is full of fisherman both sides to. so my dad sat me down in our large side yard and handed me a pole and tough me to cast, id sit out there for a while with it aparently this is all while i was still in diapers lol. anyway then he started me real fishing when i was like 4ish and here i am

they DO NOT die if you take care of the tank very closely and not shock the bass with anything. we raised a bass from 2" long till it was about 1lb and then we let it go in a local pond we then raised a second bass later on l. we used to have bluegills in there somtimes but they are extremely dirty fish and cloud the water. we also had perch in with the bass they are pretty fish and lve well witht he bass if they are equal size. we fed them live minnows or guppys untill they were big enough for minows. we found the bottom feed filters the ones that suck thru the rocks worked best and used the little rocks that absord the amonia were it blew the water back out bass produce alot of amonia in the water so u need to stay on top of that. but if u can take the time to keep up with it its one of the coolest pets you will ever have if your a fisherman

thx especailly for the spinnerbait color one thats gonna be printed and kept.

im not sure if were are talkin aout the same thing but my dad said the used to just tie a bucket to a rope and throw it out to slow the drift in the wind down

i never used to use a net and i also used to loose alot of fish. the i started useing a net and my numbers in the boat went way up. plus my little boat is so tiny and unstable leaning over to lip em u might tip over lol. the other day i decided to try and lip a 3# bass instead of grabbing the net 12" away and i lost it ill be useing my net from now on

yeah that just seems rediculous , i know in NJ all the tons of electric only lakes theres always guys with 22' rangers with 250hp motors on them but they keep em up and theres no problem

im not sure of all the lakes, in talking with my father he mentioned a bunch of lakes that are limited and my uncle also has mentioned it before to me but i dont remember any besides union off the top of my head. union is a lake i plan to start fishing and i royally hate trolling acroos a big lake. my buddy has a book that say all the restriction on nj lakes ill take look and see what ones maybe. ,, as menitoned above about the glass boat that makes sense, i will most likely get a bass tracker aluminum but i have seen some nice glass boats cheapand they look so d**n nice all sparkly and stuff lol.

man i would kill to be able to do that in college, my whole life growing up i swore id have a bass fishing show of my own like bill dance. lol id love to tournament fish for bass, but i got a ways to go

yeah ive heard of that but i think its pretty easy to tell the diffrence isnt it.