Hook2Jaw

If you didn't see or read the story, how can you expect to form an opinion on the matter? Two, why are you coming in here all aggressive with the big bad curse words? Slow your roll, dude.

The "poor" perpetrator apparently didn't even turn himself in or report the collision, but as J said just now, was buffing out blood stains. How do you expect me to sympathize with that? I don't even care for you to answer the question. If you want to run your fingers at me more, please, send me a PM.

Another YUM Pulse fan here, my favorite thing about that bait is I can hang it beside the kayak running 4 or 5 mph and it'll stay down due to the ribs acting almost like a lip. They're my slow roll swimbait of choice for their price, thump, and their ability to stay down. I'm also a huge fan of the Big Bite Baits Dean Rojas Cane Thumper.

I bet whoever ran him over wasn't even watching. Great job, whoever you are. Googan jerk.

Paddle tails on keel weights or swimbait heads, Vudu Shrimp, and I also Texas rig and Petey rig soft plastic shrimp with good old bullet weights and 2 or 3/0 worm hooks. That 25" girl came off a Z-Man Shrimps on a 2/0 BPS XPS Magna O'Schaunessey with a 1/4oz bullet pegged about 12" infront of the plastic.

I like my big PA14 hull. It's long, stable, and fast. I've gotten the thing to a tad over 7 and I've also seen the new Hobie Outback reach that speed. I can dance on it, pedal with my shins standing, and jack a fish jaw all up off it. I'll probably be going with a Nucanoe Flint or a Native Slayer for my next boat, though.

Momma ain't raise no quitter.

@TOXIC, are you dropping directly off the bow and sonar fishing or casting with your drop shotting? Either way, nice fish, I just plan to do a little bit of drop shotting in the closest clear water lake to me and I've caught a grand total of one drop shot fish, but really want to learn the technique. Haha, I see that red hook in the center in an attempt to draw the fish! Good stuff. Do those baits suspend horizontal? My cheapie H2O Jerks have more of a nose up orientation, and I do not like it. Or should I?

That a KVD, @A-Jay?

I've got some particularly bad grass in the local ponds I've been fishing, so I've been throwing a Big Bite Baits Cane Thumper on a 1/4oz weighted EWG by the same brand. When the grass wasn't as tall, I was throwing a YUM Pulse rigged the same way. I really like that weighted EWG, though. They're sharp, and with no screw lock that's less mess I pick off. I believe I spend more time covering water, but I do end up pushing the eye through the head of the bait when I rig them, which means I have to retie when they get torn up. My biggest fish of the year came on an H2O Jerkbait at 6.5 pounds and 24" long back in February. I'm still not sure if I like that bait or not.

As a Hobie PA14 owner, I'm going to say this after seeing it in action. Buy a Nucanoe Flint and stick a MK Riptide or Motorguide iPilot on it once you save up another grand. The boat should be stable enough to bomb large baits standing as long as you're not the world record holder for worst balance -- and you throw off the front, that's a huge part. Second, the size and width will make the boat excellent for rivers and streams, and better once you mount the motor.

@NittyGrittyBoy, I'm lurking and still fishing, just raising this little fellow I had in February. Thanks for the shout out and hope the fishing is going well for you lately! @HeyCoach, I fish a tad in the Savannah area, I've taken the kayak out of King's Ferry several times. There is also Lake Mayer in Savannah. There's the Evans County PFA right down the road from my house. Mostly, with the baby I've been sticking close to the house and bank fishing. I'm about to start heading to Lake Juliette near Macon, though. Anyway, if you wanna talk fishing our local rivers and ponds for bass just PM me or reply back here!

I enjoy mine, throw 1-4oz swimbaits on the 8' HF.

Yeah, been throwing it and highly impressed with it and a Daiwa DXSB Heavy 8' with 40# braid to a 25# Big Game Leader. The entire setup is a bit on the heavy side, but if I can remember to tuck my butt under my armpit I'm pretty comfortable. Haven't caught anything on it yet. Yessir. I like it. I'm a budgety guy, though, so if you need every fourth of an ounce shaved off and a buttery smooth retrieve you may not like it. It's holding up great. Been throwing 3/4oz to 2oz swimbaits. Smaller stuff.

If they don't see the first 100', they aren't paying attention to 1". ?

If you need to cut something, trauma shears will do it powerfully. I've cut pennies in half with the pair in the work truck just playing around with them. Thanks for the tip, Chris.

I know @Hawkeye21 does a lot of kayak fishing, so when he recommends the Vibe Seaghost 130 and the Nucanoe Flint before I get in here and say exactly the same thing, you should definitely listen. The Vibe Seaghost 130 comes well equipped out the box, almost moreso than any kayak in that price range, and make an excellent boat. I know tons of people who use them and they're happy campers. The customer service is excellent and the hull has a lifetime warranty. It has great cruising speed, excellent tracking, and good stability. The Nucanoe Flint has a more open deck and is more stable. I'll just say as a Hobie Pro Angler 14 owner, I will be buying a Vibe SG130 for river fishing this year.

February 1, 2019. The future greatest of all time was born. I'm going to teach him everything I know, and everything I don't know. I then used my new dad juju to catch a 6 pound, 8 ouncer.

Look up the Ego Wade series nets. I use a 17x19" rubber. Floats, short handle, excellent quality. I got mine off Amazon for around 50 bucks, if I remember correctly.

@BassNJake, my fish could have been shallow because they're probably eating mullet. @Paul Roberts, that's actually some fire information! Thanks.

Because for as much time as I've spent learning from the fish, I had to spend some time learning from people. It's the first time I've thrown everything everyone says away. Thanks, though, good point. From the looks of the water temperature trends, I can eliminate the idea of winter almost altogether and consider the Fall heavily extended on into the pre-spawn. I am listening, I stayed on the fish! ? See, this is strange. You're experiencing no fish in shallow water whereas I'm catching them in 3' this past Sunday in 51 degree water. Haha, I do count myself lucky! Sorry you're frozen in and I will keep the information gathered in the back of my head and stop adhering to it like the bible. Seems like you and I just had similar experiences. I'm looking forward to when you add the water temperature, please let us all know! I don't follow the moon in the slightest and while I've looked at your cosmic clock multiple times, I haven't put in the time to decipher it. Perhaps you could put in a simple guide to using it when you do update? As for me, I suppose I'm just going to ease back into fishing like I did this fall but just slow it down a tad when it comes to my power fishing techniques to locate before I switch to finesse to buy a few more bites. Thanks guys!

My bad. Maybe I've got the stick in the mud thing down and interpret a little bit of picking as a troll attempt. Yeah, I'm listening to the green ones first and the others second, I'm just a bit miffed that all the time I spent reading about winter fishing is mostly for naught. I want the full experience, durn it.

Thanks! That seems to be the trend. Over and over, I cast deep, but over and over, I'm hooking fish shallow more often than not. I thought this might be the case. I'll start logging my findings. I should have been doing this a long time ago. Got the trolling motor on high today, I see.

According to Kevin VanDam, and many other anglers, I can break down bass fishing by water temperature. Different presentations become more effective according to the temperature. We break bass fishing, and the techniques that are most effective, down into four seasons. Those seasons are Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. Spring, of course, can be broken down into three portions. Those portions are the prespawn, spawn, and post spawn. According to KVD's system, they occur when the water is 48 degrees, moving upward to 75 degrees before transitioning into the next season. Summer then occurs, with fish oftentimes seeking cooler water. That cooler water is found on the main lake, deepest point of a pond, and often shade whether it be a laydown or a dock. The temperature ranges he considers summer are 75 degrees to 90+ degrees. Fall is arriving when the water starts to cool below 75 degrees as a median temperature, but Kevin considers fall to have begun when the body of eater drops 10 degrees below it's hottest point. The temperatures continue to drop to around 55, and then fall transititions into winter. Winter, according to KVD, begins when the water temperature is on a downward trend from 48 degrees onward. It's at this point that fishing it as it's slowest. Bass are lethargic, unwilling to move very far for a meal. The fourth and final season is my problem. As a South Georgia bass fisherman, I don't see the water below 48 degrees with any regularity. I had bass patterned yesterday, and they were in 3' of water with overcast skies and rain. The water temperature was 51 degrees, and that's after a huge influx of constant rain we've been seeing here. Do I even need to worry about winter patterns in my area? I'm terribly confused. Everything I read says to go deep in January, but time and time again I'm finding most of my fish in shallow water.

Early yesterday morning, we pulled the kayaks off the beds of our trucks and hit the Ogeechee river where the fresh meets the salt in search of striped bass. It was my first time fishing a tidal river, and it was an awesome experience. I managed five hard-fighting river bass in the area of 14-17" long, fat little fellows. Healthy fish. I'll definitely be fishing the area again.