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I fish only fish three worms, and use all three almost every time I go bass fishing. 1- Zoom Magnum trick worm, Junebug or Green Pumpkin, Texas Rigged, or C Rigged. 2- Zoom Ole Monster, Junebug. C Rigged. 3- 7 inch Senko, Black blue flake, T rigged no weight.

Over the years I have tried to keep logs of my fishing, but I always forget to write anything down when I am finished for the day. Then like other chores, I keep putting it off until I eventually give up on recording anything. The main reason for the fishing logs is to save information I might forget. In reality I always forget to fill out my logs, but I never forget anything about the fishing. Every time I go out on the water, my memory kicks in. I can look at a laydown, and remember every bass I have caught off of it, the size of the bass, the wind direction, water temperature, time of year, time of day, what lure I caught it on, color of lure, lure retrieve, the other places I fished that day, if was I successful fishing other laydowns that day, have I ever lost a lure on that laydown, and why I decided to fish that particular laydown. I can remember all of that, but can't remember to make a log of my fishing day.

I lost interest in fishing once, it was the worst 5 minutes of my life.

When I lived in WA smallmouth were far easier to catch because I fished for them in small streams and I fished in lakes for largemouth. Small streams concentrate fish in small easy to find places. Now that I live in Mexico, largemouth are easier because, I would have to travel hundreds of miles to catch a small mouth. I do believe Florida strain largemouth are far more difficult to catch than northern strain largemouth.

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I recommend high floating glide baits, and it is a good idea to paint them bright orange, and chartreuse. The reason being, when I get a grade 10 A professional over run on my reel and cast one into the next county, I will hopefully be able to find it floating on the surface. If it sinks, then I can only watch as I try to think of a way to tell my wife I traded the car for a handful of magic baits. If it doesn't catch bass, all the better. It is impossible to loose a lure I don't tie on the line. I will then be forced to fish with lures that don't cost more than my rod and reel.

Because they realize if they hit a deep crankbait once in a while, bass anglers will team up with the Monkey and buy so many crankbaits, that they can't afford to go fishing. The bass are simply thinking long term. If the bass only hit live bait, the anglers would only use live bait, and they would be able afford to fish more, and the live bait would be harder for the bass to avoid. This would be very bad for the bass. More anglers, using a more successful bait. Once in awhile the bass have to take one for the team and hit the most expensive crankbait in my box.

When I first saw this map, I thought it was showing the effectiveness of spinnerbaits in different states. I do believe both would maps would be almost identical.

If I had posted a recommendation before you purchased your reels. I would have recommended you buy one bait casting rod and reel combo and spool the reel with 12 pound Big Game. This would have allowed you to catch plenty of bass, and helped avoid the first step down a never ending road. Because you have obviously already met the Bait Monkey, I recommend you buy braid, mono, and floro carbon line. Try them all in many different pound tests, then buy different brands, and colors and try all of them. You may find a favorite line, or you will most likely continue to use all three, while never being completely satisfied with any of them.

Anglers hook fight and land, many species of fish that are far larger than bass on multi piece rods every day. Multi piece rods will work fine for bass as well.

We went fishing out of Puerto Vallarta for two and half days. First day was spent mostly getting fuel and traveling to the fishing grounds. Landed one 50 pound tuna. Drifted on the fishing grounds for the night, landed 4 dorado, 9 tuna and one sailfish, on the second day, then drifted again the next night, landed 5 dorado, and two tuna, the next day, before heading back home at noon.

I caught my PB on the MiniMag, and have caught many large bass on the Cloud nine Magnum. I know it is a bass fishing sin, but trolling a Cloud 9 Magnum catches big bass.

I haven't tried this one, but I may buy a couple for this spring. Has anyone had any success with this?

Sometimes it's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.

I don't know about other animals, but I do know most of the time, bass are not around me.

If you can't be successful hunting any North American big game with a 3006 you may need to hunt a different area, improve you stalking skills, and or work on your marksmanship. Regardless of the reason, or combination of reasons, the caliber is not a contributing factor to lack of success. I have witnessed animals as small as cayotes to as large as Alaskan moose and brown bears, effectively harvested with a 3006. As the old saying goes, beware of a man with one gun, because he probably knows how to use it.

Has anyone ever fished the Reblel Blackstar? I remember when it came out. Huge add campaign in all the fishing magazines. I was a big fan of Rebel lures, and wanted to buy one, but the Monkey had less influence on me when I was young and broke. I almost pulled the trigger one day, but decided the graphite line tie had to just be a gimmick, and the colors looked straight out of star wars. If I ever run across one now, I'm going to buy it and give it a try just to see if I made the right decision way back then.

http://fishermanshack.net/spinner-building-components/blade-selection-c467/ Go to this website. Don't be misled by all the titles saying spinner blades for salmon. Bass will not know the blades were advertised for salmon. If you don't see what you want, call them and Don the owner will be able to tell you if he has what you want. They have many sizes and colors that are not listed online. I bought blades from him for 25 years, and he was always very helpful. He also has great deals on bulk swivels, clevises, wire, snaps, and beads.

You can learn all you want to on the internet, but you still have to go out, backlash your reel, set the hook to soon on a top water, and finally land a bass, before you really learn what bass fishing is all about.

Do not fly home. Book you and the Monkey on a freighter along with a dozen shipping containers full of tackle. It will take some time, but crossing the ocean with that much tackle could be considered therapeutic, and definitely well worth it.

1. Spinnerbait including inline spinner 2. crankbait including lipless 3. plastic worm including creature baits 4. top water 5.swimmbait If I have to be more specific, than I give up, can't be done with 5. Maybe 50, but even then I would have to make some tough choices.

I grew up fishing a lake near my home in a small town located in Eastern WA State. The lake had trout, crappie and bass. I started out fishing with a worm and bobber, for what ever would bite. After catching my first bass on a lure, I became hooked on bass fishing, and met my friend the Bait Monkey at the same time. When I was 25 I quite my job, and drove to Alaska. I guided fisherman and hunters there for the next 25 years. Even though there are no bass in Alaska, I still kept up with bass fishing by reading articles and looking at catalogs. I always would imagine how a new lure would work on my old home water, and hoped I would be able to bass fish again someday. One day while fishing for king salmon, on the Togiak river, a client asked if I would like to captain his sport fisher in Puerto Vallarta for the winter. I took him up on his offer, and spent a few years working in Mexico in the winter, and Alaska in the summer. Eventually he bought a boat that needed a full time captain, and I had to decide if I wanted the job. I hated to leave Alaska, but I was ready for new adventures, so I moved to Mexico year around. I eventually found some time to go bass fishing in some lakes near PV. I had some success so I bought a Kayak, and now bass fish every chance I get. After a few times bass fishing in my kayak I caught a new PB. My old PB of 5.5 pounds was caught on a spinnerbait in the summer of 1977. My new PB was 10. 7 pounds and also caught on a spinnerbait a few years later in June of 2020. I skipped right over the 6 to 9 pound class bass, for a PB, I guess it is better to be lucky than good. Even though the bass in Mexico are huge, and the fishing is good year around, I still think of the waters I fished growing up as my home waters, and I still think about how every new lure I buy would work if I were fishing my old stomping grounds in WA. I have fished for bass for 50 years, but only consider myself and average bass angler. Many of those 50 years were spent fishing for trout and salmon, which I consider myself and expert, with both conventional and fly gear. I consider myself and experienced saltwater captain, but the true experts on the saltwater here in PV are the local deckhands I hire. They are some of the most remarkable fisherman I have ever met in my entire life. Short answer would be my range is from Alaska to Mexico.

I use a 7' 6" Diawa Tatula Flipping Stick. Not really high end, but it gets the job done for me.

I plan on trying live Tilapia. I first have to learn how to catch the bait, then how to fish with it. I am not talking about simply suspending a bait below a bomber, throwing it out and sitting in a lawn chair. I want to learn how to skillfully fish the bait, and target the largest bass in the lake. I will fish lures most of the time, but I do want to expand my my bass fishing skillset, learning how to effectively fish live bait.

How many on spinnerbaits?