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You can try tolling your crankbait. I am always amazed at how many bass I catch trolling when I move from one location to the next. When casting crankbaits, I have reverse on my Hobie so I simply pedal in reverse while I reel. This keeps me from being pulled towards the lure. You could cast, then paddle back a few yards with your reel in free spool, then make your retrieve. A long rod with a medium action and an educated thumb, will launch a Rapala DT crankbait a long ways. Start your cast slow and smooth, in order to keep the crankbait from tumbling. To much muscle at the start of the cast will make the bait tumble, and you will loose half your distance. I agree with Tom. Ditch the floro and go to the Defier Armillo. I tried this line for the first time a couple months ago, and am very impressed with it. Now for the 100th. and hopefully last time I am living floro free.

It will be fun. The weather is much different than other lakes I fish here. The warmest month is May with an average air temp of 74 degrees, and the coldest month is Jan. with an average air temp of 64 degrees. A couple days ago I fished the lake, and the surface temp. was 58 at daylight, but warmed to 67 by the end of the day. While the water doesn't get to cold, I'm not sure it gets warm enough for the Florida bass to get to be giants. Also the forage is Tilapia, and again while the temp doesn't get cold enough to kill the Tilapia, it doesn't stay warm enough for them to spawn most of the year. The lack of spawning might greatly reduce the amount of forage for the bass. There are also bluegill but I haven't seen any. I wish there were craws or shad to supplement the bass's diet. I don't know how big the bass will get, but I do know my wife loves the mountains, and 70 degree high temp. in the middle of summer will be a great break from the heat of PV. There are also other lakes within a couple hours drive from Mascota that have a warmer climate I can try for bigger bass. The water at Corinchis is clear, I might have to buy some finesse gear.

My wife and I just bought some land by Presa Corinchis Resivour in Jalisco Mx. The lake is a high land reservoir near the town of Mescota. It is a two hour drive from our home in Puerto Vallarta, is a great place to escape from the heat in the summer, and has been rumored to have DD. bass. So far the biggest bass I have caught there was 6 pounds, but I hope to unlock the lakes secrets now that it will be my new home water. Sport fishing pressure is almost zero. So far I have fished the lake four times, and haven't seen another angler. Commercial fisherman net the lake at night, but remove the nets during the day. It will be nice fishing a lake where I don't loose tackle to nets. Anyone who wants to explore a new lake, and help me learn to fish a high mountain lake is more than welcome to come give it a try.

I caught a few on a 7 inch Senko a couple days ago. Surface temp. was 66 degrees. Tjhat might not be the kind of winter fishing you are referring to. I was bummed they wouldn't hit a buzz bait, and I had to slow down. I guess that is how winter goes.

Wherever the big ones are biting top water.

I do that every time I make a cast. The problem is most of the time the bass don't realize it.

I am the worlds worst at playing the what if I might need game. What if they don't want green, I might need blue, etc. What if the wind picks up, I might need a spinnerbait. What color, what blades. It is never ending. I finally get to the point where I look at all the lures I cram in to my kayak and say, If the fish don't have enough good sense to bite something I have brought with me, then they don't deserve the honor of getting caught that day. I then just go fishing to have fun.

Leave everything at home except for that one lure that is really going to slay them and bring two of those.

Get a bigger boat and bring it all.

Lure parts online.

They work well for me. Highly recommend. They are hard to put a trailer on, but I rarely use a trailer so it doesn't bother me. Bait Monkey cares more about trailers, than the bass do where I fish.

Me to, only it's not the memory in the line I'm worried about.

Are you saying. Me coming home with a six pack yelling it is time to celebrate, I just caught my PB on the first trip out in my new bass boat. That wouldn't be her special day? What more could she possibly want?

Depends on your definition of safe. I went on to buy a couple crankbaits to replace ones I lost. Decided I needed to up my order to get the free shipping. While I was deciding what I could use, I noticed something new, so I added that item, then there was a rod on sale, and the Bait Monkey was jumping up and down screaming you only live once. By the time I was through, scams on my card were the last of my worries.

They did the same thing with me, only their wasn't any fraudulent charges, and they automatically sent me a new card, cancelling my old one without asking. It will take a month for me to get the new card in Mexico, and I can't even use my old card to buy a plane ticket to WA to get the card out of the mail box. This is the fourth time I have been sent an email from them telling me how happy I should be that new cards that I didn't ask for are on their way. They should inform me their might be a problem, and let me decide if I need a new card. I'm not going to mention changing passwords. Not enough space on the internet for the rant I have about passwords.

Is your dad a rebel, ready to take on any danger? Then go ahead put the Daiwa on a Shimano rod, and let him feel like a rebellious teenager again. Just try and keep him away from lightning storms. If he is a more cautious type get the Curado

Find yourself a girl whose father likes to bass fish, and has a nice bass boat. Then Marry her. Don't buy the ring, until you actually see the boat. Pictures can be easily photo shopped.

I would take three bait casters and a spinning rod. Medium fast-- shallow to medium crankbaits, lighter top water and jerkbaits. Medium heavy fast.- T rig plastic, or jigs Medium heavy fast - Spinnerbait, chatter bait, swimbait, underspin, deeper diving crankbaits, larger top water Medium light spinning-- Floating Rapala, inline spinner, small jigs, Hula Grubs, tubes. You could easily get by with. 1- crankbait 2- T rig plastic 3- Spinnerbait 4- Tube

This is five from each category for my local lakes in central Mexico. I forgot to picture an A rig, but it is quickly becoming a favorite. Chatter bait is getting used more, but still not living up to my expectations, so it didn't make the list. It was hard to narrow down the crankbait and top water to only five each. Will add Devils horse for a close number 6, and all H2O cranks if I'm fishing around lure eating gill nets. I don't use soft plastics much, but these all work well when I do. I buy the spinner bait and jig bodies, adding my own skirts and blades.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, but can't complain because I'm going bass fishing tomorrow with a day time high temp. of 78. Merry Christmas.

This year was the A rig. I hate to rig it, hate to cast it, scared to death I will snag it, but love hanging on for life, when a big bass attacks.

Adult bass and carp do not eat the same things or live in the same places, but juvenile bass do. They both east insects, small invertebrates, snails, fresh water shrimp, and many other small organisms. When bass fry grow to a few inches long, they switch to larger prey, and no longer compete with carp. Also many of the adult bass prey species compete with carp. Carp constantly root the bottom, making the water dirty, and disturbing bass nests. Obviously bass and carp thrive in the same water all over the country, but that doesn't mean carp do not have a negative impact on the bass population. In general, most bass fisheries would be better off without carp. Survival and growth rates for bass would improve. Water clarity would increase an improvement not only for bass, but also for many prey species of bass. I have fished a number of lakes, that the water was muddy, and sport fish almost non existent do to over populating from carp. After the carp were removed, followed by planting of bass, trout, and other sport fish, the lakes became excellent fisheries. The water became clear and the annual growth rates of planted trout almost doubled. In a few short years the bass fishing was far better than when the carp were there.

I have the opposite luck. Hook a big bass I loose the fish, and the lure ends up hopelessly snagged.

I haven't been able to fish the lake I usually fish for big bass. I have been able to go to another high land reservoir closer to home called Presa Corrinchis near the town of Mascota Jalisco. This lake is rumored to have big bass and I do know of one DD caught for sure, but locals tell me the top size is more like 8 to 9 pounds. I have fished the lake four days, the first with a local angler. The local angler fished the shore line with what I call the Mexican Ned. A Texas rig with a 1/4 ounce bullet weight and a two inch piece of a Senko, dinger, etc. T rigged with a small hook, along with micro crankbaits of around 1/8 oz. I fished the whole box. He caught several bass under a pound, and I got one over a pound and a few baby bass. The next time I took my Kayak there, and spent a day mostly trolling a crankbait while mapping the lake with my Garmin. I did find a fence line in 14 feet of water and caught a 6 pound bass off of one of the fence posts working a crankbait over the wire. The next two time I have gone with my kayak I have only caught baby bass less than a pound and they have been in random places. I have seen no other anglers on the lake in 4 trips so I am beginning to think I may have been led astray as far as bass fishing potential goes. Half of the lake is deep. Dropping to 40' or more just a couple yards from shore with the deepest being by the d**n around 100 feet. In this area there are a couple points I have caught small bass, but I haven't been able to mark any fish or bait on my fish finder. The other half of the lake is 40 feet deep in the creek channel, but has some slowly tapering points, and flats that extend from shore to the channel. A couple of fence lines run from shore out to to mid lake, and I have marked some bass on those. Fishing a barbed wire fence with brush stuck in the wire can be frustrating, but I have had success on them on this and other lakes. The river inlet has been best for numbers, and has some vegetation, but all bass have been very small and caught on a variety of baits. The water clarity is 3.5 feet, and getting clearer. the water is dropping about a foot a week. Surface water temp in the morning is a chilly 58 degrees, but warms to 71 by late afternoon. There is little to no wind, and no cloud cover. These weather and surface temp conditions will only vary by a couple degrees for the next three months. My biggest concern is not being able to find forage. The lake has Tilapia and Bluegill, but no shad, minnows, or crayfish. I have seen large bluegill, and Tilapia, but have not seen small forage, and have not located any schools of bait on my Garmin. I know the bluegill will probably be at the upper end of the lake in the shallows, but know very little about the habits of tilapia. I am way out of my comfort zone. The lake I usually fish is very windy, with 1.5 foot of visibility. At that lake I see bait everywhere, and this time of year the bass are busting surface lures, in flooded grass. I mostly power fish, would like to learn more finesse, but can't locate any bait, or fish on my fish finder to slow down to fish for. The local fisherman I fished with fishes the same way every time he goes rainy season or dry. He casts his small worms along the shore, with a Zebco 33 combo, and is very happy catching 1/2 pound bass and some Tilapia with small lures ( which he out fished me with 10 to 1), but has landed a few big bass around 8 pounds. I have mapped 60% of the lake, but am having trouble downloading the map from my SD card to my computer to place here. I am far more frustrated with my computer right now, than the bass at this lake. Hopefully I will eventually be able to post a contour map of the lake. Any advice welcome. Thanks in advance.

I graduated high school in 1981. The small town high school I went to didn't have any computers yet. I moved to Alaska a few years later, and lived in the bush 300 miles from the road system. I didn't have electricity, phone, or any other modern convenience. I could get an NPR AM radio station from Dillingham, on some days if I was lucky. I was happy and didn't care if I ever saw a computer. A couple years later I learned to fly and bought a plane. The plane was made in 1947 and had zero electrical system. I had to prop start, and used a hand held radio with AA batteries. I navigated with a chart and compass. When GPS became popular I didn't bother to get one for another 10 years when a friend gave me a used hand held. I told him thanks, but I didn't need some lying computer gadget to keep me from getting lost. I flew that Piper Cub from Alaska to Fl. that winter and didn't turn the GPS on. On the return trip I got bored and started to play with it. What a game changer. Now I don't know if I could navigate in the air or on water with out one. I had to call my friend and admit my hypocrisy because I do believe GPS is the greatest invention ever. It was about 2005 when I got an email address in order to communicate. I didn't have a computer but when I would fly in to town I would go to the library and check my email, and spend an afternoon answering emails. Was a big improvement over snail mail. That was the start of a love hate relationship with computers. I always seem to be late to the party. I fight every modern advancement, but finally cave and become the hypocrite I always said I would not be. This year I bought my first smart phone right on schedule about 10 years late. In all this time I always had the latest fishing and hunting gear, electronics simply wasn't a priority. Every once in awhile I get frustrated and threaten to move back to the Bush, until my wife reminds me how cold and lonely a winter can get. I still have to prop start the plane, and still use monofilament, proving If it ain't broke don't fix it still applies to some things.