VAbass_slayer

wow 28 inches is a long fish, i bet she was huge before the spawn!

oh it wasnt a disappointment, just several times i saw a large fish chasing my swimbait and out of nowhere a 12" fish would come out of nowhere and jump all over it before the bigger one would > lol.

yea we had a blast, the trees seemed to be the only place that consistantly held fish, every piece of woody cover had at least one fish on it, we fished some steep points and grass beds in 2-4 ft of water but they weren't near as productive as the blowdowns

went out with two of my buddies to a lake we had never fished today and got the surprise of our lives. between the three of us we caught over 40 bass. as soon as we got there i called my dad's best friend who grew up near the lake and asked where and what to fish, he said fish every blowdown you can find with a purple t-rigged worm. my buddy joey immediatly put on the purple worm and soon convinced me to put one on myself after he landed his 7th fish vs. my skunk. i fished with the worm for a while with a few hits but i was feeling confident about the XPS swimbait tied on my other rod. to make a long story short we caught over 40 fish, although only about 15 over 3 lbs. joey did end up catching the biggest one of the day at 7lb on the nose, matching his PB. all of the fish we caught today were caught on purple zoom magnum worms and 4.5" XPS swimbait baby bass pattern. average size for the day this size got annoying after three hours kodak moment biggest of the day 7lbs

thanks man, im going again tomorow even though the 15-25 mph winds wont be nice but ive been couped up in a dorm room for 9 months so heck yea im going anyway. between turkey hunting and bass fishin, life cant get much better right now ;D

well i just got done with freshman year of college (yay!) and had to catch up on some much need fishin. a friend and i went to some neighborhood lakes saturday and caught 15 total largest was 19in with three others at 18 in. today we went to the same lakes and caught 13 biggest was a hair over 21 in, our cheap hand scale said 5 pounds but im not so sure. heres some pics from our past 3 trips...all but the crappie and one of the bass were caught on these http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10151&catalogId=10001&langId=-1&partNumber=51912&hvarTarget=search&cmCat=SearchResults 18" - wacky trick worm 19" - XPS swimbait 2lbs - Rapala broken back 20" real skinny same fish 21" 5lbs? same fish

this guy comes home from work one day and goes to open the front door and the rotten wood breaks apart, wife says hunny why dont you fix that door? he replys, what to i look like a carpender? the next day he comes home and goes to wash his hands and notices water leaking from the sink, wife says hunny why dont you fix that sink? he replys, what do i look like a plumber? the next day he comes home and turns on the light switch and no lights come on, wife says hunny why dont you fix that switch? he replys, what do i look like an electrician? the next day he comes home and the doors fixed, the sink doesnt leak and all the lights work. he says hunny who fixed all this? wife says well i had a handyman from down the street come over and fix everything, when i asked him how much it was going to cost the man said, well you can either go up stairs and do the dirty with me or you can bake me a cake. husband says well you baked him a cake right? wife replys, what do i look like, Betty Crocker?

i fished a situation like this last week. the part of the lake i was in was way clearer than normal and i could see many fish swimming around and after an hour i had only caught 2. on top of the super clear water a cold from had just moved through. i moved down the lake a couple hundred yards near a fountain in the lake where the water was slightly more stained and caught 3 right away. through experience where i live in virginia i have learned to hate clear water, i think its a combination of the fish seeing you and the fish being able to see imperfections in your baits. if your fishing from the bank it helps to move as slow as possible and stand against trees or bushes to camo yourself. i do this alot when native trout fishing in shallow, extremly clear streams and it seems to help. i hope this helps

Rebel Pop-R Zara Spook 3/8oz buzzbait Heddon Tiny Torpedo Devil's Horse Jitterbug in that order

thats funny, ive always rigged finesse worms this way but instead of running the hook through the worm at its halfway point i run the hook through about an inch and a half from the nose, and i use no nail weight, causes the worm to dart and spin erradically depending on the retrieve i wonder why i never thought of moving the hook down, making it "wacky"

lol well our bass pro in hampton VA is a pretty sorry excuse for a bass pro (compared to the one in charlotte NC) since i still have to order things online they do not carry in our store. but i cant complain too much since its so close. i cant for the life of me figure out why they stopped carrying the BPS brand skirted double tail grubs but continue to sell the Yamamoto brand > . i prefer the BPS brand as they hold up much better than the Yamamoto's i know sorry guys just needed to vent

thanks guys, looks like ill be making the trip to bass pro on friday, since it is only 10 minutes from my house

thanks guys, this is what i assumed a weedless wacky rig would be, thanks for clearing it up

this may sound like a stupid question but how do you "weedless wacky rig" a worm? i feel like this question has already been answered in previous posts or articles but i have searched all over this site and have not found anything. i have not "wacky rigged" much in the past but when i did i would just run a hook through the middle of the worm with the hook and barb exposed. would a "weedless" rig just use a hook with a small wire brushguard? thanks in advance -Ben

i donno how much this helps since i dont have a girth measurement but two years ago i was fishing with my cousin when he caught one that was exactly 24" and was a hair over 7lbs. his fish looked very similar to yours, with a big belly but since it was caught in early june the belly seemed to be empty (guess she had just layed eggs). she looked fat but the "fatness" seemed to come from an empty belly. i would guess your fish to be somewhere near the 8-9lb mark

nice fish! all these pictures are making this week go by so slow >, spring break starts friday !!!!!!

yep, thats what i do here in virginia

yea id say your co-worker is in the denial of the baitmonkey, i bass fish 3-4 times a week and saltwater 3-5 times a month and have at least 3 times more saltwater equipment than bass fishing stuff, imo saltwater baitmonkey is much more abusive and expensive but i have been in flounder tournaments where bait was allowed and used by probably 95% of all the anglers, but the few striper tournaments ive been in were artificial only

the site is usually very slow for me but i blame it mostly on my ethernet connection here at school since is also nearly impossible to watch any clip over 3 minutes long on YouTube, this site is faster when im home (DSL connection) but still not fast, im not complaining tho, speed never keeps me from spending 90% of my free time in the dorm on here ;D

i like red shad, tequila shad, plum crazy and pumpkinseed

i use the BPS skirted double tail grubs on a 1/4 or 3/8 leadhead and absolutely love em, i use 10-12lb test but in the lakes i fish the biggest ones i catch are around 7lbs with not much cover to need 50lb braid to winch them through

pumpkin/chartruse tailed Zoom lizard, or strike king bleeding tube in pumpkin/red green flake, both t-rigged

im partial to spooks myself but i did buy two BPS slim dogs last year and the bleeding tennesee shad color seemed to work as well if not better than any color spooks ive thrown, only thing is i think the hooks are a tad small after a 6lber straightened the rear hook out on me, needless to say all those hooks got an upgrade ;D

yea i was thinkin the same thing, that thing looks like a monster in the pic

fishing in the james river one time near the james river bridge for stripers where the river becomes almost completely saltwater i caught a ribbon fish. its a long and slender eel-like fish with very shiny sides and huge teeth, looked like the lochness monster