greggt4736

Monster scale certified 10 pounder. Personal best. Caught her on a rattle trap on my wife's uncle's busted Shakespeare flipping reel with hardly any drag. The reel is permanently stuck in flipping freespool mode. Despite the gear challenges I walked her at water level from the dock to the bank for some family photos. Wife's unc put it on the scale and started ranting and raving cause it came out of his pond. A really awesome moment. The nerves are visible on my face as I just knew she was coming unbuttoned when I saw how she was skin hooked when she surfaced. Everybody had given up fishing but me and went on to other stuff. No one was around to see "the one that got away" She stayed on and I have a lot to be thankful for.

Hog, as a duck hunter I wonder why cormorants are a protected bird. At times, I can watch 10 flights of a dozen+ cormorants pass the boat before I see a small flight of ducks. They are everywhere and it's sad to hear they're destructive yet still protected. I have heard of them covering places in white bird poo and causing general misery. Duck hunters would be glad to help with population control. However, congrats on an awesome weekend, always cool to take the young ones out and have a good time! About that bream that bit the lure, I like putting bream in the cooler that bite bass lures. Recently, I did this when one tried to eat a knockin' trap. If they can handle a bass lure they are BIG and good eating.

I went to a private pond yesterday and had a good day. The wife and I combined for 38 fish in 4 hours. I had no intentions of keeping any fish. Ended up throat/gill hooking one that bled a lot and decided to keep it. I cleaned it and found a crushed lizard in its throat. Wish I would've taken a picture but decided to throw it away quickly because there was a half digested lizard on my finger. That got me thinking, what's the craziest thing the bass resource family has found inside a bass?

Seems like 44" with the foot pegs fully extended would be fairly accurate depending on where you're measuring. I measured to the seat back and got 46". If you removed the foot pegs completely and used the plastic as a foot rest you'd get about 52" to seat back. I'm pleased with its performance yesterday. I stood up and threw top water frogs, caught 5-6 fish this way and another 5-6 seated. As long you keep your wits about you and don't go Barry Bonds on the bass you should be fine when standing. When sitting you can swing for the fences. Downside is it's pretty heavy, before outfitted. Add in a cooler, 3 rods, tackle box, and it gets worse. Add in a cooler full off fish and you need some help. My wife's Moken 10 lite is a dream to load and unload, but nowhere near as stable. Seems like a tradeoff between weight and stability and I'd prefer to stay dry. This boat is going to double as a duck hunting boat and I wanted to make sure I'm not swimming when it's sub freezing temperatures. It's not an issue to paddle which is the chief complaint I've seen. I got a Werner Skagit hooked 260cm from ACK after reading the reviews. One review specifically mentioned using that with his lure 11.5 with good results. It's superlight and I never hit the sides of the boat once. It's easy to adjust the ferrule to exactly where you want it because the degrees are written where the two pieces fit together. It'll take me awhile to figure out what adjustment works best. I'm still working out a good way to keep fish and bring more than just 2 rods as I adjust my equipment from bank fishing to kayaking. I'm still totally stock as far as rigging goes so pictures wouldn't really help. I hope everything else did though and congrats on your purchase, I think you'll love it! If you find a great way to anchor that's also cheap, let me know.

I've paddled and own a Lure 11.5, it's so stable that I doubt I could flip it even if I tried. The leg room isn't an issue for me since I'm 5' 10" so it's hard for me to speak to that. I know that they do come with adjustable foot pegs so maybe that measurement is with the foot pegs at the shortest setting? The wheel in the keel design and width sold me on this yak over others. Some people complain the width makes it too slow. I doubt for my applications I'll be covering a whole lot of miles a day. I'm getting it out of storage and heading back home tomorrow. I plan on taking it out Wednesday afternoon. Can update you on specifics if you're interested.

I had a good afternoon on a local golf course pond. I caught nothing there before today. I caught one on an Academy Sports H2O express Sexy Shad Trap, and 9 in about 45 minutes on a green weightless trick worm. They ranged from dink to around 2.5 lbs. Got my first case of bass thumb this year and it feels good.

Trolling jigs is a pretty easy way to get a kid into fishing and there's little to no casting involved. If you're on a bed of crappie it can get a kid hooked due to the large numbers they can catch.

My older brother caught a pair of Oakleys and he sent them back to Oakley. Oakley replaced the sunglasses and he gave them to me. A friend caught a boat anchor. He gave it to me to use on my jon boat it didn't have an anchor at the time. All in all the bottom of local waters have been pretty good to me. Pulled up an extremely large old tree trunk all the way to the boat when I was much younger. Haven't been able to reel in an entire tree trunk without the line breaking since then.

If the water is clear, and the fish are in a funk for some reason, I would try a natural colored weightless wacky rig. When fish are inactive its a great technique. I've done best with wacky rigging on cold fronts when nothing else will produce. Fishing a T-rigged weightless trickworm extremely slow with lots of twitching during the retrieve can produce when fish are inactive. Most times they'll grab trickworms and wackys on the fall. Sometimes dead sticking these two techniques on the bottom will make them bite. Since they're so close to the bank I'd worry most about presentation. I'd make sure I stood well clear of the bank and cast well past them. Then, I'd leave the bait in front of them as long as possible making sure the lure's action was on display while in the strike zone. If they reject your first offering try another lure focusing most on how its presented. A good lure to drop in front of a bank dweller is a pop-r, especially when you have nothing left to lose and aren't worried about the bass leaving the spot. Sometimes you can aggravate them into biting. Also, I've had luck with Rat L Traps in cold water or on bad days, stop and go retrieve, sweep the rod and reel up the slack. It may not catch the ones by the bank but usually will produce despite tough conditions.

Weightless Zoom Trick Worm-the "floating worm" Zoom Horny Toad It's hard to beat watching a bass blow up on a horny toad. Watching the fish swim away chomping on the bait trying to kill it is an added bonus. Seeing your trick worm disappear in a swirl of water is always cool, too.

Good evening everyone, My name is Gregg and I've been fishing since I could hold a fishing pole. I'm a pond hopper now but I grew up fishing big water in South Georgia. My family and I took occasional trips to the Flint River and Lake Blackshear. Those trips were nowhere near as successful as our outings to Eufaula/Walter F. George. I have a lot of fond memories of Eufaula, particularly late February and early March trips for crappie where we would routinely limit out in 3-4 hours of fishing. My first bass was a 4 pounder caught on a Zoom Ol monster Junebug worm while Carolina rigging a Eufaula ledge at midday. This was over 15 years ago, and I hear Eufaula is full of hydrilla now. I'm curious how much it has changed since I was younger. I just bought a Feelfree Lure 11.5 and can't wait to get it in the water at some of the old spots that my father and I used to hit. Recently, my personal best fish have came from farm ponds. One pond was managed for trophy fish and I caught an 8 pounder. The other pond I pulled out nothing but dink bass for over a year before catching a surprise 6.5 pounder. I've already soaked up some knowledge from the forums and articles and looking forward to being a member of the bass resource community.

Is there a way to load the maps I create from sonar logs and upload into IG on the depth finder? Do I have to pay the IG subscription fee to be able to use the maps created by the sonar logs on the depth finder? Is the chart plotter the only way to show countours? Forgive me, I'm new to the latest depth finder technology and stepping up my game from bank fishing. The last time I fished exclusively from a bass boat with a fish finder was over 15 years ago with my father. He had a 7 inch humminbird up front, I manned the crappy dash board inlay depth finder that filled up with light to show the depth, no fish finding capabilities. My experience is limited and outdated. I'll be fishing the Fort Stewart, GA area which has some larger ponds where the detail and contours would come in handy. The chart plotter would help me reach inshore reefs in river mouths (coordinates provided by GA DNR) but I'm not sure how much time I'll have to get to the coast. Therefore I'm not sure how necessary a chart plotter is unless it's required to overlay contours from insight genesis. I'm trying to clarify some issues before I drop 200-330 dollars and wanted some help from experienced folks.

I am looking at the Lowrance elite-4 for my feelfree 11.5' fishing kayak. I'm considering whether or not to get navionics. I will mostly be pond hopping the SE GA area but may make an occasional trip to the coastal river areas. The chart plotter will help in unfamiliar areas such as the river mouths. However, a majority of my fishing will be in easily navigable ponds. Will navionics actually help on small ponds by providing contours and details or are they mostly unmapped? I have a feeling small ponds are unmapped but I am wondering if anyone has personal experience with this. Are there any bonuses to using navionics on a small pond that I am not considering? Thanks, Gregg