Alex from GA

First I only kayak in smaller rivers/creeks that I usually can stand in beyond the pools. When your 9' sit-in gets swamped it weighs a bunch and getting water out can be a challenge.

Small Beetle Spins, 1/32 oz with a 1/2" piece of green pumkin worm if what I use in FL rivers for bream. Occasionally a bass or mudfish will bite.

I'm not fishing as often as I used to so I'm living vicariously through your posts. Thanks

Caught one more for the Georgia Bass Slam. There are 8 black bass eligible for the slam. The Chattahoochee is an upland specie and rarely gets bigger than 12".

I bought a couple of Harbor Freight 12v winches to lift my boat in my dock when I had a place near Bradenton, FL. They were about $60 each and I ran them with a U1 lawn mower battery and had a solar charger on the roof. Plenty of power for my 14' glass boat with a 25hp outboard. They would easily pull a bass boat on a trailer.

38,000 acres but I only fish a tenth of that. It's a mostly spotted/Alabama bass lake with LM and stripers. It used to be a 5 but the past few years it's gone down to a 2 1/2.

Before my fake shoulder failed I used to flyrod for bluegill for striper bait.

I fish a river where there are Alabama and Shoal Bass and most people say the Shoal Bass fight harder than Alabama Bass but, in my estimation, the Alabama out fights the Shoal Bass. I've caught plenty over 21" of each kind. I did catch a 5.0 lb LM in another river and still favor the Alabamas.

I read a book once just like I caught a fish once.

Not sure yet about the rod but here's a picture. The blank is a NFC SB 683-1 (x-ray LMX)

I'll drop a spoon in 40' or so in a brush pile and carry the lead fish if I can't get it out by shaking. It works more than 1/2 the time if you can get right over the spoon. I wind the line around a 1/2 gallon milk bottle.

Not much to report but I will anyway. Monday I got out about 6:30 PM and fished a couple of hours. Caught 1 small bass and a 3 lb Channel Catfish that was hooked in the belly. Long fight. Built a new rod and wanted to try it out. Wednesday I went the same time and bent my new rod with 3 bass, 2 dinks and a decent one. All were caught on a T/R worm. None were good enough for a picture.

There's nothing I could say that's not been said. You fishing is an avocation; if it was a job would you enjoy it as much?

Yes.

Picture.

My daughter sent me a bait I've never heard of along with a pack of worms. It's a Ryuki Spearhead 70S. Feels heavy for a less than 3" with, I think, #10 hooks. Anyone use these and how?

I have several Okuma spinning reels and find them very smooth and lasting a long time.

You can also take a heavy jig with the hook you want and trim the lead with a pair of dikes.

Thanks Katy, The trolling motor was on high for a long time.

When I took my grandson I also made sure he got to the best spots first. He's in collage now and has much less time for grandpa.

Like some of the others have said as long as she didn't wrap up in nasty stuff I could land her. I landed a 24-12 striper on 6lb line while bass fishing a number of years ago in open water and many bonita in the pacific on 4lb.

When reading a basspro catalog lately there are jig heads for everything. What on earth are they all for?

Carriage bolts and nuts can't pull out. You can sink the bolts low enough in the carpet not to touch the bottom of the boat. Or put the carpet on after you sink the bolts if the boat's in the water.

Where we fish in GA we have to launch @ bridges and drag our kayaks down steep banks then back up when we're done. I have to have help now that I'm middle age.

I leave it on the hook and use it tomorrow.