NittyGrittyBoy

Congrats! It's always nice to keep the PB growing!

Yep, I don't fish holidays or weekends for that very same reason. Sounds like to me you handled it extremely well. Well written fishing story too! Catching bass behind them was greater than any word you could have said...

There's a little river by my house, when it gets low you can walk it and bass fish so a book bag is a must. I take just 1 rod and my back pack. Most of the time I just carry a couple soft plastics, hooks, and maybe a crankbait or chatterbait. I use a FOX dirt bike riding backpack. It has a bladder in it for when I get thirsty, plus room for some crackers and a small selection of tackle. So that's what works for me, I think maybe around $40 bucks. It can be miserable trying to carry too much tackle. Lighten up, take the basics, and fish what you have.

Junebug red ultra vibe zoom worm. Works good in murky water around here

Slider jig! Nice slab

Any brand of pop-r's with a white bottom and a feathered rear treble. Start big and loud then downsize and slow down until you figure their pattern

Softbaits, Zoom super salty fluke, packs on top of packs of them. Main color is baby bass Hardbaits, kvd square bills. Lots of them, local river eats em up. Main color red craw

Nice slabs! When the speck bites on it's hard not to fish for em!

Anybody I fish with climbing in my boat with muddy shoes... Fresh clean carpet in my boat and you thought it was ok to climb in with 4inches of red clay mud on your flip flops??? Haha

I've used Gama's before, good quality hook for price

Cut the hot dog in half long ways, use a 6/0 trokar ewg and hook it weedless. Fish it weightless like a topwater trick worm. Super secret old school trick. Has to be a red weenie

I use a 4/0 trokar EWG on zoom super salty flukes. With hook point barely sticking out the back.

Ultralight spinning combo with a small popper. Absolute blast. You'll be able to catch bass and gills

Solid 9. Way to rock a Ga bass. Home of the World Record....

Your gonna get really familiar with the St. John's river system with a joining lakes, lake George etc... Quality fishing, probably not the numbers your use to catching but will definitely produce size. I really enjoy fishing down that way

I did the same with flukes. Go fishing and carry nothing but 1rod/reel and 1 bait!! Congrats on a successful learning trip

I keep a bass rod and ultralight in my work car, along with a small bag of tackle for each. Both are usually some older rods/reels that I don't mind getting messed up if something happened. All my nice stuff goes in my man cave lol. But I have not had any problems keeping them in a hot car. And in South Ga it's already in the 90's

I've let this thread try and die simply because I have regretted starting it. I'm by no means holding a grudge or mad at the fella. Simply stated I was frustrated after being the only one to fish this pond for years and manage it, to have someone come in and just start ripping lips and keeping the best bass in the pond. Again I'd just assume this thread die.

I fish muddy/murky rivers so cranks are red craw Most my soft plastics are junebug/black and blue variation Topwater I'm looking for basic white

I ordered mine from tackle warehouse, fast shipping, no tax or shipping cost. It was 619.00 to my doorstep. Highly recommend TW for your business

A pond is like fishing in a bath tub-hypothetically When you keep smaller bass, it opens the door to letting your bigger bass feed. When you go fishing, majority of the time you gotta catch 5 dinks to 1 decent fish. Why? Because your smaller fish are more active and steady eat. With pond you only have a limited amount of forage for a bass. Do you constantly want to feed your small bass or large bass?

It's a small pond with relatively no structure, in the middle of a cow field. Absolutely nothing special about it. Just several years of harvesting bluegill and crappie and small bass. Releasing the large fish and resisting the urge to bass fish it everyday makes a huge difference. Basically it's just a small pond with a healthy ecosystem. What makes it nice is when you want to take an inexperienced angler or kid bass fishing it's super easy for them to catch quality and quantity bass. It rather spoils them to fish anywhere else haha! Thanks for the feedback guys

First time I seen green on a bowfin was in the St.Johns, Fla. I couldn't believe it it was weird They do fight extremely hard, when you set the hook on them it's like setting it into a stump. They do damage lures. Really slimy

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