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Lol. I had a long post with an explanation of my experience (very very positive) but i realized if I kept it posted then people may take advantage of the exchange policy there. Nobody replied for a couple days so I edited the post. Sorry ?
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yeah mike, pm me I would love to
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https://photos.app.goo.gl/0aY4nWxce06bjyAN2 Having issues uploading photos so there are some pics there, and also pics of some of the fish I've been catching. I think I need to have a reference object in the bass pics, cuz they don't look as big in these pics. Re: hooksets on plastics. That is my problem, I just kind of reel in and put strong pressure, a little tug but not a home run swing. I read and see all the good ones pulling the rod up like they are Hercules, but I'm always worried it will pull it out of the fish's mouth. I know I'm wrong, but I have to get past that spinnerbait hookset. It's the only thing I haven't been able to internalize, like make it automatic. Thanks for the advice, and hopefully I can conquer the hookset.
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Tc I'll eat dinner then I'll post pics of mine Maybe I can get some video tomorrow evening when my wife and I go fishing
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Didn't catch anything on it but this rig just LOOKS like bass would want it! Also, I stopped at a new to me pond and in 20 minutes I caught a 2 plus and lost another the same size. I don't think I set the hook hard enough when fishing senkos and whatnot. I lose 40% of the fish I hook.
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I lost a big one. No joke. It was on a bad cast, and I figured I would drag it across the land and into a little puddle looking spot, between grass and lily pads. As soon as it slipped into the water a huge bass exploded on it. I set the hook and after getting over the shock of me setting the hook, I realized it was very big. It head thrashed and dove down and wrapped me on the lily pads. I managed to break it loose and it wrapped more lily pads. It was stuck. I couldn't budge it. Then my blue yum worm came flying back it me. I caught 3 others in the 2 hours I was out there, and saw a guy named Paul fishing. I stopped while I was leaving and we talked, told me he never caught fish there. So I showed him the little spot I had been fishing and told him I had good luck today (it was my first time there). So I left him with a blue worm and showed him where I was having the most action. I sure hope Paul had some fish on today! I have now decided if I see lily pads I'm using my 12lb and 15lb rigs. I was using a Shakespeare Reverb 5-6 spinning combo with 8lb test. Rod and reel has handled all the big fish I've caught recently...quite nicely in fact. But my heart sank when I realized I couldn't get the fish unstuck, so bigger rigs if I see lily pads from now on. I actually restrung one that had 12lb test with 15 because the reel has a good 200 yard capacity with it when I got home from the shock of losing that fish. I will go back and I will be ready
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I lost a big one. No joke. It was on a bad cast, and I figured I would drag it across the land and into a little puddle looking spot, between grass and lily pads. As soon as it slipped into the water a huge bass exploded on it. I set the hook and after getting over the shock of me setting the hook, I realized it was very big. It head thrashed and dove down and wrapped me on the lily pads. I managed to break it loose and it wrapped more lily pads. It was stuck. I couldn't budge it. Then my blue yum worm came flying back it me. I caught 3 others in the 2 hours I was out there, and saw a guy named Paul fishing. I stopped while I was leaving and we talked, told me he never caught fish there. So I showed him the little spot I had been fishing and told him I had good luck today (it was my first time there). So I left him with a blue worm and showed him where I was having the most action. I sure hope Paul had some fish on today!
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A-Jay to the rescue! Thanks bro
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Okiedokie... Was fishing a couple months ago and found this floating in the water on top of some grass by the bank. Anybody know who makes it/what model it is? Thanks!
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I went 3 local ponds today and while fishing my 2nd choice pond, a guy pulls up and said he's seen me out there fishing a few times while he drove by. I had just extended my good luck streak to 6 straight days. I think he was on his lunch break and he grabbed a rod out of the 6 or so in his truck (that made me smile since i keep my rigs in the car just in case i see somewhere new to try) and fished with me a while. We both hooked up small ones but lost them both lol... So Justin, if you're here, nice fishing with you and I hope you have good luck at the other pond! I know I do ?. Speaking of the other pond...I was going to a band rehearsal and stopped by my number 1 pond. After a few minutes the same scenario unfolded: a guy pulls up and we start talking. He pulls out a rod from his trunk and said he saw me out fishing before. Unfortunately I was getting late for the rehearsal so I said I'm making a few more casts. Ryan it was great to meet you and share the water with you bro. I don't know if either of them are on BR, but if you are let's get together and catch some bass!
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Yeah man...my confidence bait has always been spinnerbaits. I made a goal to learn soft plastics this summer. The 2 months of whiffing every hookup was painful! The more i throw soft plastics the more i "get it". Lord knows how many bass have picked it up, swam around, went for drinks, rook a nap then spit it out with me none the wiser...lol... But now i see that line move or twitch and i reel down, feel the fish and do a nice sweep hookset. Gaining confidence every day on flukes and senkos. Even lizards... My wife went bass fishing for the first time and landed a 5lb lm on a spinnerbait. That day I caught a 12 incher and a (don't laugh) 6 incher. She handled the big one well. It blew up on the spinnerbait 2 feet out. As she was reeling faster to lift it over the weedbed. She grew up in Montana fishing for salmon and trout and she was impressed with how hard a bass will nail a spinnerbait!
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That's great about you and your daughter starting out a lifetime of sharing the love of fishing! It's about the only thing i can afford to do with my kids out of the house, other than an occasional movie and a restaurant now and then... We also jam out on my instruments. They don't know what they are doing technically, but they are pretty musical already... Keep on fishing man!
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Well, after 2 months of skunk city, I have a 5 day streak going...even caught a gill on a 7 inch yum worm...and 2...TWO turtles. The latest bass, first cast to a laydown and it hit, I wasn't really ready lol...missed it. Cast right back same spot, another hit, missed it. then again. So I tried another overhanging branch for a few casts, and went back to the first one. It hit and I hooked it. Crazy. Then caught two dinks and 2 turtles. Moved to the pond across the street (haven't caught anything there but a 4 foot gator that gave me a run for my money. It even ate a bobber and kept coming after my weightless fluke. It attacked it and after I realized it wasn't a bass hung up in the thick weeds, cut the line. Then retied and caught a gill on the yum worm. So I feel like I got my mojo back, and FINALLY learned something about using plastics...Mainly from reading posts and articles here. 5 day streak, tomorrow I'll try to make it 6. If anyone from around here wants to bank fish with me, let me know. It's a great little quiet spot behind a business park, and the workers there come out and feed the turtles. We strike up some great conversation too. I have a few other places also, and I'd love to meet some local fishing buddies!
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