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I saw a 12 year old kid in Mexico use a lure made from a tooth brush handle fished on a hand line catch dinner for a big family. He would let the tooth brush handle sink a foot, then twitch it just under the surface. It walked the dog sub surface well enough to catch a dozen bass.

You are on shore trying to cast as far out in to the lake as you can. I am in a boat trying to cast as far as I can towards shore. Maybe the fish don't care how far we cast? A 9 foot two piece moderate fast with the weight of the lure you are using in the middle of the specified range, will give you the best distance. I use on of my steelhead salmon rods, when I want to really bomb crankbaits.

I have been fishing a small reservoir all summer. Half the lake is a shallow muddy flat with no structure, or cover. The other half is rocky with steep banks and large standing trees, in 25-40 feet of water. There are no aquatic weeds in the whole lake, not a single one. The fish have been suspended in the large trees all summer. Best fishing was in the afternoon when the wind picks up 15 to 25 MPH , and the fish moved higher in the water column. Water clarity was between 2 and 3 feet, temp. in the mid 80's. Now the rainy season is here in force. The water clarity is 6 inches or less. Temp. has come down to the mid seventies, and the afternoon winds are light. I managed to catch a nice fish, randomly fishing the flooded shore line, but couldn't find any more. The far end of the lake is a flooded pasture now. The grass is thick, and tall in about 6 feet of water and sure to come up more. My question is, will the bass cross the mile of barren flat to get to the end with flooded grass with bushes,or would it be best to concentrate on the limited cover along the rocky shoreline on the deep end of the lake? The lake should keep raising for 6 more weeks. So far I have identified tilapia, catfish, and carp as possible prey. I have not found any crayfish, or any other prey. I'm sure their are a few snakes, frogs, and mice, but haven't seen any. The commercial Tilapia fishermen place their nets next to the standing trees, but I haven't been able to talk to any of them so I don't have any experience with the tilapia, except for the few large ones I have caught on bass lures. I did fish the far end flooded pasture for a couple hours Saturday, but it will take a full day to thoroughly fish this area. Time is limited, is it worth spending a day on, or will the fish not want to go that far away from the deeper water? I know they will be shallow, but I don't have any idea if they will travel that far to get to the best shallow cover. There are no other sport fishermen on this lake, so I don't have any other anglers to compare notes with. Thanks in advance for any replies.

In the Northwest they are called Mag. Willow blades. They have become practically the only style of blade used for king salmon. You can get them in an almost unbelievable number of color and finish combinations. My favorite color for salmon is called strobe. Half char. half black on the front, half orange half black on the back with the black on opposite sections. Is supposed to have a strobe like effect. Looks cool to me. I have also had success using them on spinner baits for bass.

Why is it a common belief that a bass will strike a black worm, black, black or black with other color jig, black creature bait, black chatter bait, black crank bait, and even black buzz baits during the day, but will only strike a black spinner bait at night. I have success with black spinnerbaits even in clear water on sunny days. Am I missing something?

I went to Tepic Lake yesterday. I hadn't been there for three weeks. The rainy season had been less than normal, but made up for it this week. The water was up 8 feet and the visibility went from 2.5 feet to under six inches. Water temp. dropped from 84 to 76 degrees. I changed plans from fishing for suspended fish in tees, to fishing the flooded grass on the shore line. Started off with a buzz bait and got one right away. No bites the rest of the day. Only one bite but the fish was 9.4 pounds, so I have no complaints. A horrible picture, but that's life trying to take a selfie with a camera in a kayak.

Thanks for the reply. Braid is not my first choice of line in most situations, but I do use it when I feel the advantages out weigh the disadvantages. I recently started using it in timber, but have noticed noise, better defined as vibration, when dragging baits over limbs. I am wondering specifically if this vibration - noise, is a disadvantage or if people with more experience using braid in trees, feel it is not a factor. Other advantages, disadvantages of braid, I already have strong opinions on.

6th Sense Crush and Spro Rock Crawler are new additions to my line up that are getting lots playing time. I still love the Deep Weer but after all these years I am still cussing the hooks catching each other. Starting to run low on my old Bagelys, glad I tried the Crush. I will be trying the 1.5 oz 6th Sense square bill for the first time tomorrow I could probably catch the same number of fish by only using the H20 line, but the bait monkey would not not let me go down that road. Shallow to deep Manns 1- minus Norman Fat Boy Acadomy H2O CRS Bagley Balsa B 2 6th. Sense Crush Acadomy H2O model M Deep WeeR Bomber 6 7 A Spro Rock Crawler DT 10 Deep little N Fat free shad Bagely diving B 2 Original Bomber DT 14 5 XD 6XD DD22

Does the sound braid makes when dragged across wood have a negative effect on bass? Has anyone switched to floro, or mono because of the noise? I'm fishing some standing tees, with lots of horizontal branches. I like to use heavy braid to cut down on the number of lost lures, and fish. The sound of the line dragging across the branches bothers me, but does it bother the fish?

You will loose fewer fish by simply replacing the treble hook with a singe hook. Rod will depend on what size of spinner, and how far you need to cast. Almost any rod will work, some better than others depending on the individual.

I am never satisfied. If I am catching lots of small fish, I want bigger fish. If I catch a big fish, I want lots of big fish. If I am catching multiple big fish, those fish become average fish, and now I want bigger fish. At the end of the day I am happy with what ever I caught because I can always plan on catching more and bigger fish next time.

Thanks. They sell them for less then it costs me to make my own Lumaflex skirts.

There may be a few very large fish and you just haven't been lucky enough to catch one. Most likely there are not many larger fish due to over population of other species, but that doesn't mean one or two haven't grown to a size where even adult pan fish become prey. You may not catch many, but might catch the monster of the pond. I fish a small lake that at first frustrated me. I could catch baby bass around half a pound anywhere, on anything. I had been told their were big bass there, so I kept fishing trying to find a pattern for adult bass. I found there were a few huge bass suspended in some large trees. I fish the lake often now, and only get a couple bites a day, but have landed 3 over ten pounds, and a few over 7 pounds. I have only caught a couple fish between 1 and 4 pounds. While launching my kayak I met the lake manager. He told me to keep all bass, because they preyed on the Tilapia. He told me they try and net the bass in the spring when they are shallow and encourage any anglers to kill all the bass they can. Almost the entire shoreline is gravel, with a few stick ups. I'm no biologist but it looks like perfect spawning habitat. After talking to the manager I believe the reason I don't catch mid size bass is there are none. They catch most of them with the gill nets, and the baby bass are small enough to swim through the mesh. The few large bass that survive have an abundant supply of food due to very little competition from other predators and are to big to get caught in the gill nets. Obviously not a well manged lake for bass number, but I don't want them to change a thing. However I do release all the bass I catch.

I buy my equipment to use, I don't care about resale value. I will most likely be the last owner of almost all my gear. All my gear is nothing but tools to me. I make sure every tool I own is taken care of maintained and works as it was designed. Cosmetics is not even a consideration. I guided a client on a Caribou hunt in AK a few years ago. We were stalking a record book caribou. We had to crawl across a exposed bolder field. My client wouldn't put his gun on the rocks while we crawled. He kept trying to hold it in the air and crawl on all fours at the same time. He was slow and the Caribou was going to get away. I told him to crawl like me and not to worry about the scratches in the stock of the rifle. He had an off the shelf rifle, so it wasn't like he paid a fortune for the stock. He told me my rifle looked like hell, and he wouldn't treat his in the same way. I told him if he hurried up, and got the Caribou, I would buy him a new rifle with out any scratches, or he could continue the way he was and go home with out a trophy of a lifetime. We got the Caribou and he ended showing off the scratches and talking about the long difficult hunt for years. At the end of the hunt I set up a target and proved to him, my piece of junk rifle looked like hell, but was very accurate. I don't believe in abusing my fishing gear, but I do believe my gear was made to catch fish, I don't care what it looks like. That is me, if you like to keep your gear looking like new, and don't mind making the effort to do so, than that is what you should do. I'm sure there are people that catch more fish than me, and their gear looks perfect. I know I wouldn't have any fun fishing if I had to worry about how my gear looks all the time, and fishing is supposed to be about having fun.

What does a bite feel like? Exactly like dragging a lure through an old gill net. I didn't get many bites last weekend, but was 100 percent on hooking nets.

I am a big fan of Penn and have a over a dozen of their big game conventional reels and consider them top of the line. I also have a brand new Penn Battle spinning reel. The Diawa BG is by far a better reel than the Penn Battle. No other salt water spinning reel comes close to the BG in the price range. I own Shimano spinning reels I like better than my BG, but they cost $300 more than the BG. I have no affiliation with Diawa, I simply appreciate the quality and price of the BG.

I get some of my spinner bait parts at lure parts too. They have a chart in their catalog that gives recommended sizes for blades, beads, swivels, and clevises. The one thing they have that some other places don't is Lumaflex skirt material. I got the idea from a video Glen made on fishing spinner baits and now use it almost exclusively for skirt material. A few strands of crystal flash added can add some shine to the skirt. I don't know if the fish care, but it looks good. One way to make sure you don't loose blades because of the wire bend is use crimps made for making wire leaders to close you loop. I can't say it is better than just bending the wire, but I prefer the crimp.

If you are going to use the reel in salt water, as well as fresh water, I would get a Diawa BG. By far the best salt water spinning reel for the money. If you want to spend more, than both Shimano and Penn make good reels in a higher price range.

First time I tried night fishing was the result of an evil salesman with a sick sense of humor at a local fly shop. He told me the browns were killing streamers on the Spokane river at night. I had only been catching rainbows during the day so instantly I decided I had to give it a try. He also told me not to shine a flash light on the water because it would spook the trout. The river was high, with slick mossy rocks, making wading difficult in the day time. Add to that wind, and fly fishing, plus no light. Needless to say I didn't take up night time fly fishing for brown trout. My experience bass fishing at night hasn't been that frustrating, but bad enough that I haven't become a big fan. I will try again soon. I'm sure it will only take one big fish to change my opinion. I definitely am going bring a light.

Every time I try night fishing, I always have the same problem, It's dark. Reading this post has me thinking of trying again.

Zero pleasure boaters ever on the fresh water lakes I fish in Mexico. All the pleasure boaters head for the ocean. I live on the ocean, and drive 2 to 3 hours to get to fresh water lakes with bass. Even without boat pressure, I was only able to catch one small bass yesterday. Maybe I should become a pleasure boater. I might have more success, looks easy, and I wouldn't have to get up at 3:00 AM.

Great answer, exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

Thanks for the reply's. The basis of my question, was not what to throw in different water clarity, that has been discussed often. My question is what do people consider the actual definition of different descriptions of water clarity in feet and inches. I realize there will be a difference in what one person thinks is dirty and what another angler considers dirty. I am interested in finding out the differences as well as the similar opinions on the most common clarity terms. Thanks again for all reply's. Dirty heavy stain stain ? normal? clear? any other common term used to describe water clarity?

I am curious as to what readers definition of water clarity is. I read all the time what color people prefer to use in dirty, stained, clear, etc. Problem is one persons stained is another persons mud. Some would say 6 feet is clear, others fish water that you can see 20 to 30 feet. I fish a lake that has 1.5 to 2 feet visibility, I consider that highly stained. Do others feel the same? Does anyone have a chart they go by? Does anyone routinely measure the visibility.