Everything posted by JediAmoeba
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Spinnerbaits?
They are my number one lure for tossing into thick cover. Especially wood, you can bang them off everything and they come through. They shine in thick stuff! They work great in shallow water as well - you can't get a chatterbait to make smacks on the surface like a colorado spinnerbait as it boils to the surface. What I love about them is throwing them into areas that are a long ways off and once they are out of the strike zone and you bring it back in other lures would hang up.
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Avoiding the Bait Monkey
So you lied to your wife??? The worst part is, I KNOW the high percentage things I can catch fish on more often than not...but the moment I go out and don't catch something I find myself going to the local shop or perusing tackle websites and buy something. Rather than chalk it up to a bad day or approach, I rationalize that it must be my gear.
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Most embarrassing moments
I had to go find this... at about the 4:45 mark... Also, I might add, F@#$ the Flyers! Let's go Pens!
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Most embarrassing moments
Is this a product of all those workout videos you post? I think you need more cardio and pump less iron!
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Banning skin mounts
It's already illegal in Pa.
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Fishing brand new area
And also if you will be fishing from a boat, shore and maybe even your experience level. The more information, the better.
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Maintaining finger contact on line with a Tatula T-wing
Get a fuego. Same tatula reelcwithout the t-wing.
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Is the Bull Shad really worth it?
When it comes to swimbaits, $50 is cheap. I would say the common price is 100-120 bucks. Depending on the paint scheme and size it can cost a lot more.
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Banning skin mounts
You are bringing up flashbacks when walking into any store around christmas, 20 years ago. Agggghh
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Banning skin mounts
How about robotic replicas that look and feel like the real thing? A whole lake of Dotties swimming around... And they will all be fueled by a vegetarian diet so they cant eat all those baby shad, sunfish and other forage fish they would normally consume. We will have lakes of trophy feeder fish swimming around that live forever and grow indefinitely.
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How to fish muddy/weedy lakes?
It has nice pickerel! I was only there the one time and caught a few small bass but a bunch of pickerel. If it fishes pretty close to the way the water where I live fishes - during the day getting a bite is really tough. Being there isn't a lot of cover and it is shallow they bury themselves during the day and unless you hit them on the nose don't bite much. But early morning, evening, during rain and night bites can be fire!
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How to fish muddy/weedy lakes?
A good majority of the lakes here are like that for some reason - really shallow and weed choked private "lakes". I guess they were easier to make... The upside is, I have gotten pretty good fishing in this manner of water.
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How to fish muddy/weedy lakes?
Are you fishing at Lake Harmony? I was there last year once.
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What lure did you catch your PB on?
My PB was caught on a white 1/2 oz Jackhammer Chatterbait with a gold blade and a Zako Green Pumpkin White laminate trailer.
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Most embarrassing moments
How were you measuring them?
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Banning skin mounts
I have had a lot of problems with this though - a lot of people don't buy licenses in Pa. Especially out of staters. Our fish commission knows it's a big problem and I have been on contact with them (had a senator call me about it) but they don't have the resources to enforce such things
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Do You Keep a Fishing Log?
I use fishbrain but I don't upload everything. I also put them up as collages for the day because I don't want to post 10 1lb fish all the time...
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Banning skin mounts
An artist's interpretation...kind of like when they turn a book into a movie - the idea is there but it's not the same thing.
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Suspending Lipless Crank Baits
These will help me catch MORE little fish? Sign me up, I am the foremost expert in targeting little fish.
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Suspending Lipless Crank Baits
What is wrong with you? Why did I click on this thread? Why didnt I know suspending lipless cranks existed? Why don't I have any suspending lipless crankbaits???
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Banning skin mounts
Living in Eastern Pa, skin mounts are far from the problem - a lot of the people fishing here keep everything to eat. And by everything, I mean everything. There are a few guys I run into that only live bait fish and last June (when it is illegal to keep any bass in Pa) they had a bucket with 12 bass, a bunch of perch, all sizes of sunfish, a dozen or more trout, a few bullheads and numerous small pickerel. They don't care what they catch, they keep them all. I have found these same guys with buckets of 2-3" sunfish and bluegill they keep to eat. Usually they have 10-15 poles cast out, all with sabiki rigs using various live baits. This is my concern, not keeping a few fish. Also, large fish sometimes die when you catch them...may as well get it mounted if it's a great catch.
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EARLY early pre-spawn - California
That jig reeled all the way to the eye is giving me a heart attack. Please don't do that! Lol
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500 Bass
Most people have a lot of trouble catching fish out of here and claim there are no fish - this is what spawned this whole thing really. I caught a 6 pounder out of here 3 years ago but 2 dudes ice fishing kept all the big ones last winter - they had tip ups out all night with lice bait. I talked to them as.they were.coming off the ice and they had at least 20 bass in their bucket which is illegal. Nothing you can do about that...
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Most embarrassing moments
What are yinz most embarrassing moments fishing? 1st - Trout fishing some years ago I was using a brand new small inline bucktail. The trout were slamming it...and I kept losing them. I lost at least 15...a few times they would hit it, I would continue reeling and they would hit it again. Frustrated, I snipped it off and grabbed it...I noticed I didnt feel any hooks and looked at it. It didnt have one. It had a split ring but no hook. I put a hook on but the feeding frenzy had died down and I only caught one. 2nd - About 15 years ago I bought a new spinner bait and it had long skirt that covered the hook, which seemed pretty cool to me at the time. I consider myself a pretty good spinnerbait fisherman and have great confidence with them. I was fishing with a friend and we were throwing around pads and thick stuff. My second cast I had a huge hit and tried to set the hook and it came flying out of its mouth and smacked the side of the aluminum boat. I figured the bass must have engulfed the blades. A few casts later and I missed another one. Over the next 30 minutes or so I missed 5 more as my frustration level and use of creative metaphors increased. I wasn't using a trailer hook because of the thick vegetation but decided I needed to anyway...reached into the tackle bag and grabbed one. As I went to put it on the hook i discovered the hook had a clear plastic tube covering the hook point. My friend never let me live that down.
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BIG Baits in Mud
Spinnerbaits with double colorado blades, Dark Chatterbaits, Crankbaits... Also, wake baits- ms slammer or rat!