king fisher

Water temp. where I fish is between 64 and 76 degrees all year. I don't have a favorite temp. Water level is another story. I prefer to fish the low water in June.

Buy yourself a Tatula Rod, a Curado 150 reel, and use the money left over to buy your significant other a nice gift. This wont be your last upgrade, and it is never to early to lay the groundwork for the next big purchase.

The only way the gas price would have an affect on my bass fishing is if the Tactical Bass Guys made a video of them pouring gas on their lures, drastically improving the catch rates of the gas soaked baits.

I fished Tepic this weekend. I was hoping to crush them like last year at this time, but fishing was tough. I left the house at 3:00 AM., on the water at daylight. Afternoon winds, started before noon, and were strong. 35 MPH gusts. I fished until dark, only landed 5 small bass. Lost way pounds in tackle, than pounds of bass landed. The wind didn't let up enough to set my tent up until 11:30 PM. Long day. Started fishing at daylight. Managed to land two 3 pounders, and this 5.5 pound bass before the wind picked up. Wind started early and I decided to leave at noon. Water is much higher than last year, and the bass are not on my favorite humps and ridges. I like to catch them schooled up on structure, throwing crankbaits this time of year. The bass don't care what I like, they only care about what they like. They like barbed wire fences that lead from the shallows to deeper water. The Bait Monkey also likes underwater fences. It was quite a challenge trying to get a bass off the bottom wire on a fence in 7 feet of water with the wind blowing 30 MPH while not breaking a rod, or flipping the kayak. A few years ago I flipped my kayak while trying to unsnag a lure off of a fence in strong winds and waves. I bumped a post I didn't see that was barely under the water. Over I went along with lots of gear. I guess you can say I'm a slow learner, but luckily this time I only lost lures the traditional way, one at a time. Long two days, but I did manage to catch a few bass. Can't wait to go again.

You are only considering the winning bag average. Look at what the whole field averaged on a tournament, and I'm sure you will find you are doing better than you thought.

Skinny dipper Texas rigged with a 3/4 ounce tungsten weight it my favorite punch rig for Lake Chapala bass. While pitching it in the thick stuff, I occasionally toss it out in the open, and it catches them there too. The bait tends to run upside down, which freaked me out at first, but the bass don't care.

I can't say about bass, but I have lots of experience with Goggle Eyes I keep for bait in salt water. I go through hundreds of baits a season, and when I'm in between trips, I keep them in a bait receiver by the boat in the marina. Many of the bait die the first day from the stress of being moved from the bait tank, to the receiver. When they die they sink. After a couple days they float to the surface. I assume bass do the same. Maybe you don't see the dead bass because something eats them during the time they are dead on the bottom. I might be completely wrong. Just my personal observation of a totally different fish, in a completely different environment. Please correct me if any one has a more scientific explanation.

If KDV was fishing the spot, you may want to wait a day or two. If I am the one you saw fishing your spot, go there the minuet I start to leave. You have the best chance of catching your PB while I am still within sight. Make sure you yell and hold your fish up high for me to see. It wont offend me in the least, I am used to it, and I like to know the universal order is still normal.

When I retire, I plan on spending as much of my time fishing as I can. Since I will be fishing when I retire, I consider any tackle purchases as an investment towards my retirement, a 401 tackle plan. I also currently fish, which relieves stress, which improves my health, so any tackle I purchase is basically part of my health care plan. I also fish for recreation, which as every body knows, all work and no play is not good for a quality life. Making any tackle purchase part of a quality balanced life. I also occasionally eat the fish I catch, making tackle purchases necessary to provide subsidence for my family. In other words, I spend everything on my fishing addiction. The exact dollar amount is confidential, legally accessible only by myself, and the Bait Monkey.

Diawa Coastal 200 HS

The more money you spend on a rod, the better fisherman you will be. Even a Monkey knows that.

I went to visit family in the states and was able to make a Tackle Warehouse order to bring back to Mexico. I went to a couple stores while I was there, but they didn't have much tackle. I was lucky the stocks were low, and the Monkey wasn't able to get me for any impulse purchases.

What am I doing different this summer? I'm not catching big bass. May is by far the best month for fishing here, and I have only been out one day. I'm working, going to weddings, trying to catch up on a honey do list, that is a mile long, and getting longer, no matter how hard I try to get caught up. Why would anyone get married during the prime fishing months? The rainy season would be a better time to ask a family member to drive a ridiculous, long way and spend almost a week in a place with no bass. Getting married in May here, is equivalent to getting married on opening day of deer season in Michigan. If I do get the time to fish, I am planning on using a bladed jig, A rig, and Carolina rig more than last year. Last year I relied on crankbaits to much, and now that I own every crankbait made, the Bait Monkey wants me to start buying other baits. He really wants me to get hooked on expensive glide baits, but I compromised and got some A rigs and two Jack hammers. Both are expensive, but hopefully they wont lead to worse habits. An inexpensive glide bait, would only be a gateway bait to a very expensive habit that might lead to divorce, bankruptcy, and a trip to the psychiatric wing of the hospital. The C Rig is inexpensive, and the Bait Monkey is not happy that I did well with the technique this spring. I think it will work well on some points and humps, this summer when the crankbaits don't. Once the rain comes in July it's all buzz baits, and frogs.

When I was a kid I had one rod, some hooks, bobbers, and split shot. I dug worms for bait caught lots of fish, had the time of my life, and ate everything I caught. I loved to fish, I went every chance I got, and when I wasn't fishing, I was day dreaming about fishing. Then a friend introduced me to bass fishing, and his cousin the Bait Monkey. Now I fish with way to many rods, and keep buying more. I don't catch as many fish, and don't eat the ones I catch. I still love to fish, go every chance I get, and when I'm not fishing I'm day dreaming about fishing. I can go fishing with one rod and pocket full of lures and have the time of my life, or I can bring enough gear to be on an episode of hoarders, and think it was the best day ever. Depends on the water and the day. As long as I can breath, I will want more fishing equipment. Weather or not I need more is not important. A couple times a year I go fishing with a couple childhood friends. I leave the Bait Monkey at home. We each take one rod, dig some worms, start a fire, and cook what we catch. I still get just as excited now, as I did years ago, when the bobber starts to go down. I only need one rod but I want them all.

That is why he only knows how to fish a couple of baits. When the fish are not biting he tries something new. He doesn't get hit in a few casts and is right back to his favorite. When the bite is hot, he doesn't want to take advantage of a hot bite and learn a new bait, so he never learns anything new. He only gets even more confident with his favorite. One day a caught a nice bass one a popper. I decided to give a buzz bait a try. He told me I should stick with what worked. The reason I switched to a buzz bait, was I already learned they would hit on top with the popper, but was curious to see if they would hit the buzz bait too. I thought the fish were spread out along the shore, and the popper obviously worked, but took longer to cover the shoreline. If they would also hit the buzz bait, I would probably catch close to the same number of bass per cast, but I would make twice as many casts with the buzz bait, catching twice as many fish. It worked and I crushed them on buzz baits, and walking baits. At that time I wasn't very good at walking the dog, but because I was willing to experiment, not only did I catch some fish on a Zara Spook, I improved my ability to fish the spook. If I would have fished it when the bite was off, I might have given up after a few casts. Being the bite was on, if I didn't catch a bass I would know either they didn't want the spook, or I was fishing it wrong. Now I have great confidence in Spooks, and fish them often. Tunnel vision will be a guarantee if you don't try something new, when you know they are biting. You can always switch back after a few casts, or have your fishing partner stick with the tried and true, while you do some experimenting. Tournament fishing is another game, not much time to experiment.

My Hobie Outback was expensive, but I strongly believe it was worth the price.

Alberto knot. I start with 5' of leader, change to new leader when length gets less than 2 feet.

When the fishing is slow, I tend stick to one or two baits. When the fishing is good, I love to experiment. A friend of mine has wondered if I'm crazy at times. He can't believe I will change baits during a hot bite, just to see if something else will work. He tells me we already found what will work and should capitalize on it. I tell him to keep using what is working, as a control group on my experiment, and I will keep switching to see if I can find something better. Then there are those days, that once I finally catch a bass I don't even think of changing baits. The places I fish are mostly rocky, and windy, so crankbaits, and spinner baits get used 80% of the time. Last year I had a near fatal case of tunnel vision, so I decided this year I would started using the C rig in order to expand my soft plastic use with some success.

I went to Tepic Lake on Sunday. I hadn't been their in over a month and was expecting the water to be down a couple feet more than it was. Last year at this time the water was lower, and the bass were schooled up on some offshore structure. The fishing for lots of big fish was incredible, and I was hoping the same on Sunday. I was disappointed when I saw the water was down considerably from a month ago, but not as much as I had hoped. I had already tied on cranks, C Rig, swimm bait and A rig. Anticipating a great off shore bite. I tried a couple of my favorite humps and ridges, but no fish to be found. I changed over a buzz bait, and started to work with bank. It wasn't long before I hooked one that ended up weighting 6.9 pounds and measured 23 inches. It hit the buzz bait, as it deflected off a mostly submerged fence post in 4.5 feet of water. Instantly I was wrapped around the post, and barbed wire. I gave the bass some slack, and peddled in to hopefully get the line off the fence, but instantly realized there was no hope. I was about to break the line, when I herd a splash directly behind me. It was the bass flopping on the surface trying to break the line. I managed to grab the bass off the surface, catching the bass and saving by buzz bait. It was a brand new bait, but will take a little work getting it bent back to shape. submerged fence lines in 4 to 5 feet ended up being a pattern. Only caught a few more baby bass on a buzz bait, but a seven inch Senko caught some bigger ones, along with a 5.8 pounder, pictured in my post. I lost a few baits, because barbed wire fences, are not the easiest cover to fish, but still had a great day. The bass were still very thin, from the spawn. I hope to be able to find the time to fish for them in a few weeks. Hopefully they will be schooled up offshore, gained back some weight, and nowhere near fences.

Why bother. She would just say, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

I prefer either gold ,silver, or solid colors, white, char. black, for my blades. When I guided for silver salmon I would make hundreds of inline spinners of every color combination imaginable. Silvers are very aggressive, and will hit any color of inline spinner, but by far their favorite was solid pink. After catching them every cast for an hour, they would quite biting the pink, and solid black would catch a few more before the spinner bite was done. Some days silver or gold worked best, but most days it was either solid pink, solid chartreuse, and solid black. One winter I found some metallic colored blades. One was called Black Nickle, and the the others were called metallic, pink, red, chart. and blue. I made up many spinners with these blades thinking they would be perfect. A combination of color, as well as metallic flash. The results were horrible. The solid pink and solid chart. out fished the metallic colors 30 to one. After that summer I have always preferred a solid matt finish when using colored blades for any species of fish. I'm sure there are many exceptions, but trying to force Silvers to strike metallic colored blades all summer has given me a bias that will be hard to overcome. I have had luck catching bass with white spinnerbait blades with glitter in the paint, but the paint is still a solid white. Solid painted blades make no sense to me, because they don't produce any flash, but the fish in my lakes prefer them over silver and gold on many days and I have learned its best to simply give the fish what they want.

Just think of it as fishing a new lake, that has many DD bass and you are the first to fish there.

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Sounds like the perfect country music song to me.

Some States including Alaska, define the possession limit as fish that is not processed. If the daily bag limit is 5, and the possession limit is 10 ,than you can go on a weekend trip, catch 5 each day for a total of 10 and legally have two dailly limits in a cooler, at your camp. Once you get home and process (clean) your fish, and put them in the freezer, they are no longer considered part of your possession limit.