12poundbass

Watching Ike’s latest video and at the 12:30 mark I noticed something the looked familiar. Ike uses the Deep Dive app.

Polarized sunglasses aren’t the end all be all to eliminate all glare on the water but it does help a ton. My wife doesn’t wear them and there have been plenty of times we’re fishing and I’m seeing bass swimming around and I tell her there’s a big bass here or there and she can’t see them. “How can you not see that bass right there?” I always say, then I remember she doesn’t have polarized sunglasses. I just use a cheap $25 pair of Kastking sunglasses and have been happy with them over the years.

There’s one way to find out. 😂 We say that at work quite a bit when we have an unknown fiber that nobody has located and we don’t know who it belongs to. “There’s one way to find out…cut it and see who shows up ticked off.” Of course we don’t actually do that.

@MRQturbo “oh there’s a freighter stranded in the middle of the Gulf of America…hold my beer.” Here’s a fact most don’t know, the ship that blocked the Suez Canal a couple years ago, it’s was actually MrQ and his kayak that got it unstuck! 😂

Oh I know it’s much easier towing on water and I figured you had a motorized kayak. Still, that would be funny to see a kayak towing a boat.

Best wishes to him for a great result and speedy recovery.

@MRQturbo are you towing a boat with a kayak? That’s like towing a full sized truck with a Prius! 😂

Concrete work is one heck of a workout! I’ve done enough in my day that I can appreciate the ones who do it for a living.

This right here. Add a second axel and it gets even easier. Backing up a little garden trailer behind a lawnmower is the worse! I’ve had to backup a construction arrow board 1/2 mile on a four lane road while doing a rolling lane closure for an aerial line crew. Those things are about 7’ long and can get away from you real quick. Slow and steady wins the race.

@slowworm you beat me to it!

Nice work @gim! We went out this morning and had six gobblers talking in the trees and one maybe two hens. Once they got down they continued to gobble and respond to our sporadic calls (didn’t want to over call). Then for no reason they shut down. We continued to sit and call with no response. Oh well, we’ll be back again in the morning.

@VTFan another thing that helped me a ton, raising your rod tip on the follow through. I was able to get a few more skips out of my lure.

They’re dumb but smart at the same time if that makes sense. They’re dumb have great eyesight but at the same time they have tiny brains so if you set up in the middle of a field they don’t think twice about it. They don’t have the processing power to think about you setting up in the middle of the field. The wife and I got home and Liam is loading up our stuff for tomorrow. He comes out and he can. Purr and gobble with a mouth call! I wish YouTube was around back in our day.

There’s a part of me that’s hoping Lynn joins the forum if only for one post to submit an entry fee for him. 😂

@A-Jay, you forgot the entry fee. 😁 Nice brown bass.

Do any of you ever use a gobble call or just a hen? While we’re talking about calls, what’s your go to? Up until a couple years ago I for the life of me couldn’t figure out a diaphragm call. That’s my go to now. I still purr with it though and rely on a slate call for that. I have a box call but never really got into using it.

Welcome to Bassresource

I usually do this too. There have been times though I hear them getting more distant and I go into full on panic mode and call away. I know I shouldn’t but…

We experienced the same thing the last couple years. There aren’t a ton of hunters around here and I always hunt private land so they are call shy. While I’m happy this warm weather is here, I’m also not because they tend to hen up quicker when it gets warm.

Bird down! Not me but my buddy Frank got one this morning. Same place as the day before. Must be the bobcat decided to sleep in. 9” beard 7/8” spurs

For those of us up north the early cold water season can be a great opportunity to get a new PB, but it can also be a frustrating and expensive time of the year because the toothy critters are on the prowl. Worrying about those expensive lures should be the last thing on your mind. Seaguar has your back with their Pounce leader. You’re still going to have to deal with the pike, walleye, and other unintended fish, but the Pounce leader will keep your lures safe, bi-catch after bi-catch. https://seaguar.com/products/pounce™-bass-leader

Take a long hard look at the Okuma X-series. This reel is super light, fits great in the hand, and is a flat out work horse!

We haven’t been out yet. My good friend however took the week off to chase after them. He put them to bed last night and sent me a video of them gobbling in the roost this morning. They came out of the roost and right on que, a bobcat comes walking by and the birds go silent and disappear. 😂 Speaking of the bobcat, we caught it on trail cam a couple times late last year but never got him during the one week trapping season we have here, but decides to show up during turkey season.

I didn’t know owls had a southern drawl and they use contractions in their vocabulary. Smart birds!

Catch ‘em!