NJfishinGuy

i got a T this weekend on a lake i never seem to do very well on. its stained maybe 2ft visibility and max around 15ft deep. lots of dock and some drops and a flat also one half of the lake is like endless lily pads. anyway this place gets pounded non stop. its a whopping 170ish acres 25% of which is basically unusable 1.5ft lilypad water. and unlimited hp. anyway im thinking about finessing it but im new to this type of fishing. any tips for me? i was thinking a 4" zoom finesse worm on either an ikey head or a split shot rig. not sure why one would be better then the other... or a drop shot. i threw a 5" senko with 2 bass, 1 tiny one keeper but i lost it. and i got 1 other on a yum wooly hawgtail. what advice can u guys give, its gonna be a 20ish boat fleet on this little body of water also

what did you make it out of? good imitation believer though id like to try and make one myself just if make it about 10"

better she outfishes you than sit home and tell you its time to sell your boat and stay home with the kids lol

here in NJ the biggest lake is only 2600 acres andwe have lakes that are only 170 acres that are unlimited HP. the lake where my marker bouyes got ran over was the 170acre unlimited one. so u can imagine about 8 skier boats running circles on this place and half of the lake is lilypads so only about 90 acres is open water

the other day i found a nice drop off and threw 3 marker bouys not a big area maybe 4 boat lengths long. anyway this dumb old lady pulling a 10yo kid on ski's comes barreling down the lake and ran over my bouys. she seen them and yet ran right over them maybe 20 feet in front of me i waned to smack the B**ch, then she continued out to a no wake zone and kept going

eh cant blame the guy for mounting a state record like that. im all for catch and release but when you fish a place for 30 years and land that thing. if they send it out someplace for measurements isnt it dead anyway?

ahhh man i need to get a smallie.... good goin man. my T prtner cought a 3.5lb on a prefish day and i never seen one before and holy sh$t did that thing pull

eat some rice if you cant hold it lol we get turd burglers alot where i work, they dont get it after the first pul its locked for a reason lol also the escapee hahaha

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i think he meant without a depth finder because he doesnt have one.

maybe try a bigger bait?

Ryan, you're not totally blameless. We see and read the heading before anything else, and that sets the tone of the discussion. Geez, if you have a great day using Tiki Sticks, why ever would you call them Senkos, at the least, call them "Senko Knockoffs". Anyway, a stick worm is a stick worm, and real breaking news would be "any" stick worm that did not catch bass...lots of em Roger yeah i hear ya but its like adhesive bandages, we all call them band aids right?

simmer down girls, this wasnt meant to be a discussion of baits just stating my happiness to now have learned the ways of the senko/knockoffs lol

i guess you catch more with the actual thing? maybe i will give em a try

well for a long time i denied the senko. i tried it for a little bit here and there but had no confidence in it and always switch to the ika after maybe 25 minutes. i fished a Tourney last weekend and the guy i was fishing with was getting bit on senkos so i threw one on and got our biggest for the day. yesterday i went out for a bit and was skipping it into big laydowns at a lake where i usually never catch much and i got 3 nice bass. i really love these things now! i actually am using the waveworm tiki sticks tho not actual senkos im not paying 6 bucks a bag. ok this was actually kinda pointless now that i think about it after typing all this. lol Ryan

basically id say if you plan on using a trailer and backing down dirty areas even if its not steep get 4wd. 4cyl will be fine for that boat tho.

does braided line do anything to an outboard? is it strong enough to actually tangle it up?

i agree with most i feel safe boating near other bass boats. here in nj at our biggest lake that is only 2600 acres it turns into a tottal zoo on the weekends. probably somethin most of you country guys couldnt even imagine. most bass guys all know to be off the water by 10am the latest. the people on the water are complete retards to say the least. none of them abide by the give way rules, when towing a tube for fun they come within 30-50ft of the tube opposed to the 200ft law. i was fishing a bank once in a cove and this guy had to come wake boarding near me and i mean close. if he was 10 ft close his wakeboard could have soaked me with his splash. they decided to go back and forth right next to us over and over again within like 30ft making huge wakes. we just upped and left for the day. people like that are the problems. oh another one, this one cove is all anchored swimmers and the jetskiers come barreling thru it like its main lake. its friggen ridiculous. also theres a 35mph speedlimit but i see offshore speed boats out there doing 90+

man i hate those days, sounds like us at hapatcong that day after the sun came out...

fished a open buddy tourney yesterday and got 4th . was a somewhat tuff bite. fished around and got 3 of 4 fish in super shallow water on senkos

tourney tomorrow and i might be throwing a carolina rig deep. im debating on a lizard, worm or beaver. any opinions on what you have best luck with

i hope thats not the only picture you got... id be ticked if it was me and that was the only pick of a monster like that

3k sounds like alot. i got a 1999 bass tracker for 3800 and it was like new

i have a tracker 165 with a 25hp. by myself the boat gets up and moves good. i get about 25mph on rough water and 28 on glass. with 3 people ill see 20mph. it just takes a while to plane.

some big 8" crank thing