BassNJake

His experience would match mine, I gut hook more fish when fishing a worm than anything else. I have never gut hooked a fish on a jig. Rarely have I ever gut hooked a fish with a craw type of soft plastic. A few times I have gut hooked a fish on a lizard. I used to fish a carolina rig a lot with a long leader and a weightless senko and that rig was the gut hooked champion and my belief is it would happen because the fish would move off with the senko before I could see/feel it

My boat is a little 16.5 foot Crestliner so the console will get in the way on some regular casts. This has made me a pretty proficient backhanded caster and skipper. However, sometimes when using the backhand circle cast ... I turn it into hulk smash and slam the bait into the water 2 feet from the boat leaving me in backlash city.

Too many years using a net with FLW

10.08 nice fish

I also like them on a drop shot once they have had the paddletail bit/torn off I have been known to slide a couple strands of jig skirt thru the end as well, now that paddletail is a skirttail

Very nice!! Way to put a spanking on the club with a broken rig and ****** BB away from your partner!!

Awesome job!! Gonna be some great memories for the both of you.

My companies web filter did not like the link provided .... hahahahahaa

I'll second Rogne Brown based on recommendations from people who have went with him, internet forum posts and the 49 pound bag he caught with a guy from bass fan. http://www.another site.com/news_article/4788/chickamauga-kicks-out-49-pound-limit#.XJJ2YNpKi70

I'd look into seasonal patterns to begin with. There isn't a magic lure that will catch fish that are not there. If you have a general understanding of bass behavior at different times of the year, you can adjust presentation once you are in the right area. In your example, when the water is near the 60's in the spring I'm looking for large flats and the points leading to those flats. The fish i would be trying to catch would be prespawn or spawning. I would be using a lure that I could cover water with like a flat side crank bait, rattle trap type bait, spinnerbait/chatterbait and adjusting to the depths that I was fishing so if I was targeting the point in 15 feet of water i could use a heavier lure than when throwing across the 2 foot deep flat. Once i caught a few fish I would slow down and fish the area more thoroughly with a senko, jig, split shot rig .. ... also its fishing- so what worked 5 minutes ago may not work now but at some time in the future it will work again KVD seasonal guide https://www.bassmaster.com/vandams-6-season-bass-guide

Then you'll have a tourney where you put two 4 1/2 pounders in the boat by 8am. Spend the rest of the day trying to duplicate you morning success with no luck and get beat by a couple of kids weighing in five 2 lbers that cruised around the shoreline all day throwing spinnerbaits jamming rap music..... Oh wait, that happened to me

I started skipping with spinning gear and then taught myself how to do it with a baitcaster. I learned with a weightless senko type bait on the spinning rod and with a zoom horny toad on the baitcaster. (horny toad is pretty flat, can be hooked weedless and has enough weight to it for skipping) Dont over skip. That seems to be a big issue at first. Just flick it out a few feet and try to get it to make a couple of hops real nice and easy. Once you can skip it consistently for a couple of hops gently increase your power and try to get it to skip a little further. For me it was easier to control at a short distance while learning the technique. Just like if I wanted to become an accurate QB/pitcher/dart thrower/frisbee player - start closer to the target and once you are proficient with that distance move back a little more. Now that I am a little better at the technique, my best skips are the ones that feel effortless - nice and easy My skips that get me picking out a backlash are the ones I really tried to put more force on.

Not really a weird purchase per se but for me I never owned a new mattress. My wife and I bought a pillow top mattress about 6 or 7 years ago and man it's been like sleeping on a cloud. A cloud that quietly calls your name everytime you go by ... or like a snake charmer luring you with promises of sleepy, sleepy dreamy time. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Being a Browns fan looks like its gonna start paying off ..... https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/odell-beckham-jr-trade-grades-browns-huge-winners-for-acquiring-wr-giants-clear-losers-in-an-utter-disaster/ Unless we just traded for drama, signed a GF beater and hired a 1st year coach which could lead to the same old Browns and their poor choices. I like what Dorsey is doing , which is not something I've ever said going back to the 80's.

Your persistence paid off. I got a chuckle out of you tossing rocks at it

Seriously, the road names down here in TN are baffling. I was from Ohio and we had the Normal Elm, Oak and Main street names. Down here we have Leadmine Bend, Little Tater Valley, Old Tazewell Pike and West State of Franklin. Plus you can drive North or South on 25E or 25W. Hearing for the first time that I had to go North on 25E was funny until I found out they were serious.

If I dont coat the cavity, the lure comes out with a dull finish. Coating the cavity leaves the end product with a shine. I coat the whole mold for klutz protection hahahaha

I use vaseline to lube my baits before putting them into the soft plaster. ( I use Durhams water putty) I do not have to relube them before pouring the top half. When I'm done the baits pull out easily and I can still use them. I also use a mix of rubbing alcohol and Devcon 2 ton Epoxy to coat the cavities. I'll usually do 3 coats for the cavities and one coat on the entire mold. Good luck!!

If you're really anxious the baseline questions will show that and the other answers would be in the "same ball park" Questions arise when most of the questions match the baseline levels and 1 has a severely different reading. Like others have said Chase the dream

Here are a couple of stills that show the jig. My concerns are that the line goes between the 2 wires and could rub. also it looks as if the way the line tie exits the tube it would create a place for weeds to collect.

Thats the hardest part being a transplant from the north. That "slower" pace was not something I ever saw in NE Ohio. Hurry up, wait and cuss was the normal operating procedure up there.

Fish care should be of the utmost importance with tourney anglers as well as the directors of the tournaments. Do not allow any dead fish to be weighed in and don't dispose of them at near the ramp. Tourney fisherman already have the stigma that they "kill" every lake anyways. Leaving a bunch of floaters give the naysayers all the ammo they need.

I'm right handed and reel with my left hand. My tourney partner is right handed and reels right handed. I have never seen him have an issue switching hands, most of the time it is done while the lure is in the air.

It seems to me like a very basic recap of seasonal patterns. Find the largest spawning flat - great idea I usually look for the smallest areas *slaps head* Then locate the highways - proceed to explain both gradual slopes and steep drops while saying both will be used Tie everything together by "pointing" out that points are important as long as at least one side has a steep drop off That last part was the real genius of the whole theory because so many times we often fish the points where both sides gradually slope into the water thus not creating a point at all but a hump. Call me a skeptic or a cheapskate but bass u seems like recycled content in the form of education at a cost. Everything he said has been on different bass shows, books and magazines thousands of times. The same type of ideas are passed out here via member experiences. Look at any "how do I find bass .... " thread and the same things are said here and in greater detail and with answers from all over covering all types of water. Dont get me wrong- Brandon could out fish me all day, everyday. I'm sure when you watch all 45 minutes he goes into greater detail.

Thats awesome!! Great job!!