georgiabassfisherman

just like these guys said upsize give them something that looks exactly like what they are eating. the biggest bass i ever caught i wasnt even really bass fishing. i was catching bream in a lake and i reeled one in and there was a whopper of a bass chasing it trying to catch it. that fish just kept doing that every time i would catch a bream. i fianally caught a smaller one and put him on my big reel and threw out towards the middle to get him tired. sure enough next bream i caught here came mr. bass weel i horsed that bream to the boat turned around grabbed the other reel and skipped that little bream across the lake. got him backt to the boat tossed him in front of the bass and he disapeared then i just held on. the fish weighed 8lbs 7ounces. so just upsize and go natural my friend. Gary

just go to your local wal-mart or whatever in the sporting goods area and pick out a reel and rod that is not expensive but make sure that it doesnt look like it is going to break the first time u cast it. to get started in this sport u dont have to be rich or have to have the best equipment.

ya ive seen that thing too. to me they are all gimicks i wouldnt buy one if u paid me to buy it. my little nephew wants one of those rocket rod things and i can uderstand that he is a kid but every time i take him fishing we dont fish with reels because he isnt quite ready i learned that the hard way by him putting a treble hook in the back of my head but ya i think they are just jokes.

im just getting other peoples opinion on this thats all i mean im not going to lay them down just seeing what other people thought.

great fish man and nice to hear ur taking ur kid fishing with u have a good one and maybe get a bigger one the next trip Gary Harris

great catch man i live in orlando and have never caught a peacock but im dying to go try it down there one day. Gary Harris

wow thats pretty cool to get to catch one with a tag nice fish too that baby almost gained a pound in a lttle over a month she must have some eggs in her. beautiful fish though Gary Harris

did that one time catching little yearling bass underneath a railroad trussel with a rooster tail had a little light action rod just for fun and whipped up and over and wham luckily the hook didnt go too deep and i was able to pull it out myself with little pain.

i havent seen it but i saw where kevin van dams friend was in the car accident and was lucky to live then came to watch kevin fish in the classic.

man just get ya a little john boat or a canoe or a ghenoo or however u spell it or maybe even a pedal boat. or u could do like my uncle did and get ya one of those big hunks of styrofoam u see floating on the river and use it like a boat man just dont worry about the snakes unless they r cotton mouths i have had those come see me to find out what i was catching.

oh i can use baitcasters i just like the reels that i grew up on and enjoy getting to fight the fish sure u may lose some but to me its just more fun

what is wrong with the drag on those reels i like all of my drags because i can hear them when it is stripping so i know its working and i cant hear it on my baitcaster.

i have done that caught one in my pond using minnows and it had a perch fish in its mouth about 2-3 inches long but they say that they regurgitate them when u hook them.

i may sound a little unproffesional here but most of the rods in my boat are 33 classics and 733 hawgs i do have some baitcasters but i am alot more acurate with the other reels is there a real problem with fishing with these reels instead of the baitcasters if so let me know please.

cosign there pendulum as i am a son also i love getting to go out on the boat with dad and do some quality fishing its just so much fun especially since he is the one that taught me most of the things i know about fishing and the outdoors.avid just remember to take us kids into fishing slowly if u see ur kid is getting ready to go u do the same thing otherwise it just gets boring to us. not to me though i love fishing but i wish my dad could get off of work more so he could go with me cuz now i just have my cousins to go with me. Gary Harris

well man u need to come down here to these south georgia rivers and ponds man cuz we catch em like that all the time and then u can find ponds that have those hybrid bream in them that get up to 5 pounds.

if the guy at the tank had an Atlanta Braves hat on then it was probably shaw grigsby. i met him once in a lake and that was how i knew it was him he is always wearing a Braves hat.

well i catch lots of bass with the horny toads but i dont really catch the big ones with it the biggest i caught was a six pounder and it was really on accident. i had casted in my bossmans pond and hit a limb so it slung the bait down the side of the bank instead of the little pocket i wanted to go to on the other side. i started pulling it fast so i could cast cuz i had just saw one strike and i must have brought it over his back cuz i just saw this huge wave and i thought of killing it but i kept on going but a little slower and then wham that fat guy nailed it but i do have lots of luck with these things but i usually use the subsurface retrieve i may keep it up for a few seconds then i slowly let it fall and jerk it a little and repeat.

welcome to georgia my friend i dont live there anymore but i have lived there for pretty much my entire life i just moved to florida in august but my best fish is 8lb 7 ounces with another that is 8lbs 3 ounces niether one are mounted i am waiting on that 10 plus pound fish. best of luck on ur fishing while in the peach state my friend.

Good point Brad. Used as a "surface" lure, I'm one of the few anglers who's not entralled with the zoom horny toad. The horny toad does not float, so it enforces a faster retrieve than I prefer to use on the surface. In any case, I like your follow-up concept, and intend to give that a try. Roger well when i use the horny toad i only make it kick on the surface if i have thrown it past where i want it to go then i let it sink and flutter toward the bottom and then i twitch it a few times while it is in what i call the zone then i just reel it back to kinda slow

well right now all i am using down here in florida is the Zoom horny toad the bass just love those things but i used to use this frog that i had that was one of thos e hollow floating ones. i was in this lake that u could only get in there with a bass boat if the water was up but the water was down so i was in my john boat and i had to drag it and i threw that frog in some pads and about the time it hit the water it was like u pulled the plug right under those pads. a bass came up and looked like he swallowed the entire patch of pads all i know is that the frog dissapeared water splashed everywhere and my line snapped.

hey guys i am looking for maybe a junior bass club i could get into i am 15 love to fish and i am pretty good to i live in orlando so something near there would be great u guys Gary Harris

well i kiss every fish that i catch almost there is just nothing like having fish slime slowly oozing off of your lip i also talk to them tell ya know to go get bigger or whatever then i thank the good bass lord for sending me that fish.

strangest thing i ever caught while fishing was the pedals off of a pedal boat while fishing for bream in a local pond.