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Yeah, but I had to round the number down a lot...

Exactly 3.4987531 pounds.

I personally use a Medium Heavy/Fast and I've never had trouble casting lures in the 1/4 - 1/2 oz. range with it. You could try backing off the spool tension on your reel.

Thanks. Here's a screenshot of the half of the lake that I'll have access to from the bank. I have no idea how to find structure/depth etc. from this, but if you do, it would be greatly appreciated.

Going to a new lake today. I can only take one rod so I'm taking my Medium Light/Fast Dobyns Fury. I just tied on a Ned rig and I doubt I'll take anything else because the ned has never let me down. Unfortunately, I've only hiked around this lake before but never fished it so I don't have a lot of information about it, but I'll try to write down everything I do know. It's a 17 acre natural lake in the mountains with fairly stained water. As for structure/cover, there's a bridge over part of it in one corner, a small island about 20 feet off the shore, one of the banks is pretty rocky with a lot of weeds on the shoreline, one bank has some rip-rap, and the rest is mostly just laydowns along the shoreline. As for depth - no idea. Any of you have a guess? I know that isn't a ton of information, but hopefully it's enough. Does it sound like I should be fishing deeper water, or would the bank a better option? Sorry if that was confusing. Thanks in advance. Edit: here's a panorama photo of it I found online

I'd get a walking bait. (strike king version is by far the best for the price imo)

You'll love it. Just make sure you fish it on heavy line, tie your knots carefully, etc. ?

I love my Dobyn's Fury. I've never used a Sierra.

You could just not take him fishing. He sounds like someone I would not want to fish with. Or you could always just try to get him to sign up for MTB pro.

Usually between 1 - 2 hours in the summertime. I would probably fish longer but it just ain't too enjoyable to stand out under the sun when it's 96 degrees unless the fish are really cooperating. ? I fish a little longer in the fall though because the weather is just perfect. Yup. 8 to 9 usually. I've fished a lot of buzzbaits but the fish in that pond always seem to ignore topwaters for some reason. Thanks for the help.

Yep. About 8:00 - 9:00.

But an hour a night for weeks is a lot. If you fished from sunrise to sunup without stopping two times, (around 20 total hours) without a bite, whouldn't you say something is wrong?

Well, it's probably been around 20 hours added up. I'm averaging about 1 - 2 per hour in the mid-morning. I have noticed that the water temperature is considerably warmer at 9:00 PM or so when I usually go. Probably 10+ degrees warmer than at 7:00 AM. I'm wondering if they mainly just feed in the morning since it's a pond, and ponds warm up really quickly.

I've fished at night for an hour almost every night for the past several weeks. I haven't had a single bite on anything. Spinnerbaits, jigs, ned rigs, chatterbaits, etc. I can go out in when it's 95 degrees in the middle of the afternoon and catch a few though. I just don't understand it.

Just buy a ML

Yeah, and people dragging bass on to the bank and then leaving them there for 5 minutes to take pictures from every angle, weigh them, etc... ?

I've never done that, but if they're over 5 pounds I just pull their head (only their head) up out of water and pop the hook out. I personally don't think lipping small ones does any damage, but I have heard that holding a 5+ pounder vertically can injure them. I learned that soon after I took a picture of that one in my profile picture...

Yeah, I caught one on a barbed hook the other day, and I went back to using barbless after that. It was a solid 4 pounder hooked in the corner of the lip but it still took me around 15 seconds with needle-nose to get it out. (usually 5 seconds or less with barbless) I also just bought a scale so if I'm going to keep it out of water another 15 seconds to weigh it, I can't afford to spend that extra time un-hooking it.

Try a 1/15 ounce. You'll get a lot more bites and the swim-shake-glide retrieve is easier/more effective.

If it's under the water, what about a topwater? A spinnerbait could also be a good option. They're pretty weedless.

MH/F 7'0" Dobyns fury

Is that you?

Thanks. If you still have that scale, you should try some different starting weights. You know that knob that you use to set it to zero? Just try turning it up/down and see if that helps. I started mine right on zero and it was way off, but this morning I tried moving it up a little and it's actually pretty accurate.

That's awesome. How many hours did it take you to upload those pictures? ?

Was "12 feet" a mistype?