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Well, first time out there with the canoe. Did not catch anything with a senko t-rigged, sinking minnow and Jig with minnow grub. We were being blown everywhere since it was so windy today made it impossible to fish. It was a great time though. Drift sock I will look into that. In terms of an anchor for a canoe is that possible?

This will be my first time out on a canoe fishing. I was wondering what I should keep an eye out for in terms of goods spots etc. I have never been to the lake. There will mostly be trout and bass.

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Does that mean a group of bass constantly jump out of the water and are not interested in anything you offer to them? If its not that, I was fishing in my pond today and I saw one bass jump out of the pond numerous amounts of times. I followed to where the spot was and cast around there and no results. I tried every single bait I had including Crankbait, T Rigged Worm, Spinnerbait. I used them all really slowly. So my question is, do I pursue wherever that fish jumps and fish around there or do I just stay put and wait around for it to come?

12:43pm Today! Landed my first one!

I caught my first largemouth bass around 12:32pm today. The weather was 54 degrees outside and I thought it was just gonna be another day of disappointment. I was trying to master how to use the crankbait seeing how it swam and everything. I was able to cast farther and farther, hitting my intended spot. I saw 3 giant splashes on the other side of the lake but I decided to stay where I was and see if that would work out. I was reeling in the bandit tigerstrip crankbait slowly and all of a sudden a largemouth swallows it and I finally got the chance to set the hook. I pulled it onto shore and asked a nearby person to come take a picture but I was not prepared to know how to hold it up so I just told the person to just forget about it since I did not want the fish to suffer. I will learn how to hold them the next time I land one. It looked about 18 inches and had a really fat stomach. I really wish I could have taken the picture. That was a pretty big guy.

Box it is!

This box contains a variety of assortment and the needed 5" senko with watermelon that I need. All for 19.99. I thought this was a good deal. 92 series Ika - 3 1/2 inch (3) color 239 (Blue pearl w/ black and hologram flakes) (3) color 214 (Smoke w/ black, blue and gold flakes) (3) color 236 (Rootbeer w/ green and copper flakes) 18 series grub - 5 inch (3) color 208 (Watermelon w/ black and red flakes) (3) color 237 (Daquairi w/ black and hologram flakes) (3) color 140 (Cinnamon w/ green flakes) (3) color 156 (Chartreuse w/ black flakes) (3) color 176 (Cinnamon w/ black flakes) (3) color 196 (Pumpkin w/ black and green flakes) (3) color 135 (Smoke w/ silver) 9S series Senko® - 4 inch (4) color 240 (Smoke blue pearl) 9 series Senko® - 5 inch (4) color 031 (Blue pearl w/ silver flakes) (4) color 194 (Watermelon w/ black flakes) Hooks: (5) #5 Gamakatsu split shot hooks with (3) ball bearing swivels (2) 1/0 Gamakatsu Texas rigging Sugoi hooks (2) 3/0 Gamakatsu Texas rigging Sugoi hooks ...all for $19.98 including the box! If I ordered 1 bag of Senko, 1 bag of Fat Ika, and 1 bag of EWG hooks it would be 17.47. But its all of the colors that were specified by the thread. After reading the thread this is what is recommended for me to buy to have a bigger chance of catching bass. Which route should I go?

Ordered these things from cabelas.com of 12-2181 YAMAMOTO 2" SENKO SMOKE @ $1.88 each In stock-Approx delivery Tue 4/08 1 of 12-2181 YAMAMOTO 2" SENKO RED @ $1.88 each In stock-Approx delivery Tue 4/08 1 of 12-2181 YAMAMOTO 2" SENKO SMKPRLBLU @ $1.88 each In stock-Approx delivery Tue 4/08 1 of 12-2182 YAMAMOTO SINGLE TAIL GRUB 3" CLEAR @ $1.88 each In stock-Approx delivery Tue 4/08 1 of 12-2908 RAPALA SHAD RAP LURE SSR5 - 2" SHAD @ $6.49 each In stock-Approx delivery Tue 4/08 1 of 11-4500 Cabela's Solid Live Bait Jigheads per 10 3/8 OZ YELLOW @ $2.29 each In stock-Approx delivery Tue 4/08 1 of 11-4500 Cabela's Solid Live Bait Jigheads per 10 3/8 OZ WHITE @ $2.29 each In stock-Approx delivery Tue 4/08 1 of 11-8227 BERKLEY GULP MINNOW GRUB 2" PUMPKINSEED @ $5.99 each In stock-Approx delivery Tue 4/08 Mainly just smaller bait. I did a lot of reading from that not catching bass thread it was very informative.

Well, my college has a pond that is usually pretty lively. In the summertime, I saw so many carp jumping in and out of the water. I decided to try to catch some bass with a texas rig with a worm late at night. Luckily, I got a bite and set the hook but I pulled up too fast causing it to be spit out. I'll never forget that bass as I have never come close to catching one after that day. I read all of the beginner articles that were provided from this site. Inside my tackle box there are 5 spinnerbaits of different colors. 3 Crankbaits (2 of them are floating), Some Rapala Floating Lures, A Frog, 3/0, 2/0, 1/0 hooks to go with the plastic U-tale worm. I unfortunately lost my Rat L trap today in the trees. That about covers all my lures that I have in my box. Is there anything else I should add to it? Right now I fish with a 29.99 combo I got at dicks. A 7' quantum IM6 with a Quantum HPX30. I think it should be good enough according to the articles. Its been 3 days now since I started going out in the morning trying to catch some bass. My friend Noah said he caught an 18'' bass the morning before I started along with other 3. I managed to catch 3 bluegills. But so far that has been it. But for the past 2 days, there has barely been a bite. I am still longing to catch my first bass, is there something that I could potentially boost my chances in catching them? I think I have all the necessary lures and such. I am going to try to go out every morning at 7:00am before class to give it a try. Any advice would be more than welcome!

Well, its christmas time and I wanted to pick up a new set of tackle. I mainly fish for inshore species mainly stripers. Do you guys have any suggestions for which rod and which reel that I should purchase? So far the reels that I want are the : Powell Max 683C, St Croix Avid Series 7', Airrus Spectra AFT 7' The reels that I choose out were : Avet SX 5.1, Abu Garcia Ambassadeur Record If you guys have any suggestion please help a fellow angler out! My budget is around 300-400 dollars.