basscatcher8

I like it being online rather than televised live and in the future more will be streamed online like that than on traditional tv. You don't have such rigid schedules to worry about and you dont have to worry about being pre empted by other sports. I do agree I'd like it to be some other time of the year when more water is open to hold the even.t

The lure he was using is already on the market. Was just a Horse head underspin jig from the Do-It road runner mold. His dad just upgraded the hook and swivel when he poured em.

Huh appears I've been fishing it the opposite way.......Still catching fish but now I have something else to work on this year.

You know i was suprised when I was at a Bass U class a few weeks ago the question came up and asked to the pro's and all 3 pros said they dont keep a log at all. They said they don't want to waste time looking at what happened before when they could be figuring out whats going on now. Was interesting. Its fun to record and see how many fish you've caught in a year though.

I got mine from Barlow's its just a Do-It mold.

I believe thats what they call strolling.

I think it would make for more boring tournaments. I've watched some of the walleye trolling fests and its usually pretty lame. I love walleye fishing and do troll myself but sure doesnt make good tv. As far as seeing it at the club level or something......well monkey see monkey do the lower levels always seem to follow the pro's on most everything they do. I think the closest they get is strolling where they cast out then use the trolling motor to back away from the lure and get more line out then start winding.

I was wondering if you guys had any good methods to keep powder paint out of the swiven on a road runner when painting. I did a batch this weekend and put tin foil over the swivel before heating up the jig. It worked ok but was just curious if anybody found a better way?

Yall mentioned the vendors but forgot to mention the people anymore. Any of the shows I go to the crowd is just a sea of jersey's full of fake sponsors. Everybody standing around talking about how good they are and trying to push products for companies that they don't even work for. I get where some of the pro's are frustrated.

With further information I think I would be finding the inside weed edge and fishing it with anything blue gill colored. My experience with pike very little as it is has been they like to lay in the top of weed beds and ambush. I saw this quite a bit on Delavan lake last year pike laying in the tops of weeds like snakes. I believe that southern bay that follows the shore from the dam would hold the most blue gill as it is the most protected area except from a north wind. As well as the deeper water extends back into it so the fish are able to reach deeper water easily. I would call the north end the early spawn area for sure but I would think the majority of fish would move south as the year went on. I'm sure they stack up on the rip rap wall for the dam as well at some point in the year too.........Thats just what I see with the further information given as well as the satelite image. This is fun Paul I'm enjoying this.

Fishing a creek from shore where access is a bridge that walks over it. Had a farmer come and wait for us to step over the 30 foot mark from the bridge and proceeded to rip us a new ass for being on his land. He kept telling us he ran us off before and I had never seen the guy before. He didnt call the cops or anything. We just said screw it and left. I'm going to find a way to get a boat up to there one day cause the bass were loaded over on his property.

This is my cheap hobby! I was in stock car racing for the last 10 years. I finally quit last year and bought a new ranger aluminum boat and just enjoyed myself. I make most of the lures I use except for crankbaits and when I need a soft plastic I'm usually on ebay looking for the bulk deal from another in house bait maker cause the deal is right and you can get the colors that arent on the shelf. I keep an eye on the overstock websites for lures and will buy the hundred packs of soft plastics when they come available. It's fun and keeps the sport going even during the hard water months.

If it's an industrial river I'd start by looking for places factories are pushing water into the channel. Usually find fish stacked up there. Cast into the current coming out and they are waiting for the easy meal. Past that it's a lot of spot jumping. Pickup 1 or 2 here move pick up a couple more.

In the middle of summer I would start where ever the ridge of the blue in the middle gets the closest to shore. Shallow water with easy access to deep water close by. If that didnt pan out I'd hit the shallow cover that you described in the OP that we haven't seen yet. And that flat south of the hole that comes to a point would be an area to look at as well.

Shrimp.................you didnt say artificial and you didnt say for bass only so there we go lol

Same here. I never fished a spoon before until I was out with a guide on tablerock and he took me back in a creek that he said the white bass stack up on in the summer. This was july 4th weekend. We got on a bend in the creek channel and I mean it was the most fun I had in awhile fishing. We were ripping it up real hard though but them white bass would hit and it was like a train on the end of your line.

A lot of folks do it. You get a more vertical fall from your jig when using spinning gear rather than baitcast gear. You can get the same effect with baitcast gear by pulling line off manually but usually it will fall in an arc from where the bait hits the water. I've done it before to get the bait to land right at the base of a grass bed.

I was with my uncle fishing on the white river on july 4th weekend and we launched in white hole and just stayed there cause there wasnt much water being pushed through the dam so hard to get any where. A bunch of guides were setup next to the ramp waiting for clients. While we were fishing there within earshot of the ramp I wish I had a recorder for the crazy crap I heard them guides spewing to their clients and it was getting eatin up. I had to laugh. If your a good showman you can survive guiding on the white river.

The Next Bite..........I'm looking for some fish with Teeth!

I buy all my licenses online from Illinois DNR. You get a PDF of your license which I proceed to print several copies off and place them in all gear bags as well as my wallet. Long as I remember to renew which I do April 1st every year I have no issues.

brown jig.

I know one that I read on here awhile ago and I thought it was true until I tried to debunk it and did. All bass in a river are going to be on the bank. I read that word for word in this message board one time and bought into it for some reason. Finally I learned about current breaks in the middle of the river and found the fish lol.

See I had always been told the other way around. Fish bite gets good around full moon and aroun new moon. Funny how the myths grow legs lol

Like you guys have said I've done well on high traffic weekends. The water is stirred up and the fish seem to stay fired up. Water gets calm and so do the fish till the next one comes through. We were fishing a rip rap wall on the outside of a marina this year and every time a boat came out of the marina through the narrow opening we would hang on cause the fish would fire right after.

You talking about putting the tungsten powder mixed with lead? Or have you been able to find a way to work with just tungsten from home? I've turned this from a one mold deal just playing around to now I got a box full and just make what I need. Just ordered the Pony head mold so I can get my crappie box going this winter. Looking at some more soft plastic molds to go with my grub mold.