PressuredFishing

okay so its all really about forage and structure for the bass. I used to fish a pond that had tons of vegetation, Frogs out the wazzu, huge bluegill and tons of small bluegill, toads, crayfish, and dragonflies that got stuck in the water. thats a ton of food for the bass, and they can get in the 4-7 pound range,

if its a medical issue, like you are not strong enough, fear not! try baits with smaller lighter wire hooks on spinning reels. try hooks like mosquito hooks on dropshots, you can set the hook really lightly, or just reel into the fish. you can also fish exposed hooks if there isnt alot of grass like a jighead and lean into the fish. you an also try a lower stretch line and heavier rod if you need to fish thicker hooks or denser cover. this will help you drive the hook into the mouth of the fish easier! hope this helps, but the key is lighter wire, often exposed hooks. if not that then heavier equipment to aid you.

now this is a absolute must, expecially with ponds you dont know about! bottom bouncing baits! why? well quite simply to feel the bottom composition, it can be a jig, trig, spinnerbait dragged on bottom I dont care lol but If you can feel the pits, humps, divits, underwater structure, wood, roots, grass, rock, whatever is down there, you will be happy. Probing the area is a good thing to do, and it will be in your memory bank forever. If you just burn a crank or spinnerbait truley, you still know nothing about the pond even if you catch a few bass. once you know the structure, BOOM, you can pattern!

well If you are talking about fly fishing, its about the same but I wait a tad longer for it to fully unload compared to a shorter tapered leader. as for spinning I fish straight floro or mono because I dont trust braid to floro or mono knots, too risky and harder to cast through guides

"If it looks like food, and acts like food, it is probably food" -Brian Flechsig This statement holds true to me, lets be honest, what in the world does a senko represent, and why in the world does it work, exactly lol. I think if a very well known fly fisherman would say this (and fly fisherman can be very picky about selections of fly's to mimic aquatic insects/baitfish/larvae/etc, it should tell you something. bass are very opportunistic and aggressive feeders and they will slap at something moving above then because why not, right? calories are calories to a bass and they dont care if its got a few feathers, scales, spines, or anything in between, as long as they can fit it comfortably in their mouth (or even uncomfortably) they are happy. today bass where chasing small baitfish sized shiners or something and they where popping in open water, I threw a frog because I had one on and got multiple bites (although I set the hook to soon, because im not the best and getting better lol). now does that frog look like a bait-fish, absolutely not but, food is food to them and they dont really care what fits in their mouth ?

I completley understand this lol, I have a ton of, well shall we say, medical issues lol. when we go up to high altitude lakes for trout or fish anywhere higher in elevation I never feel good the first few days, and get bad headaches, and other problems. when bass fishing I also dont go out much in the heat because you gatta be careful with your heart and for me, fainting is known all too well even with plenty of fluids. ?

beautiful natural colours, will pick some of those up in the store!

Oh yeah topwaters are real fun, I love spooks and tiny poppers On my spinning rod ? Wow you make bladed jigs yourself? That's so cool! Chatterbaits are fun, I love baits that do a little thump and bump on my rod lol

I love that ghosty color, always a killer in the clear water!

swimming worms are great, and versatile too! you can go from swimming them through cover and if you see something on the bank you can flip to it too! great trailer options too for some lures a very versatile bait winter through summer, clear or murky! love cranking! very fun! now I have heard of people doing this, even saw a guy burning one on the shoreline as a topwater and caught a few! the old craw i so versatile! they are fun, I love really thumpy bumpy lures too, like spinnerbaits

always the right spot. If you are throwing a spinnerbait or a squarebill in the right spot, both will usually get bit, although one may get snagged less due to cover or look better due to water clarity. Same as a jig vs texas rig. Both work really well in the right location, but jigs come through wood better and texas rigs come through grass better, not to mention that jigs target a little larger fish but you may miss some smaller bites, where a trig will get you more bites but less likley for a bigger fish to hit it. Its usually the spot thats most important first. and there can be multiple spots that are good that day, not just one. for instance a point can be really good, but then you see shad jumping around and getting chased in a small cove by bass. location is by far most important!

So I just wanted to get an idea of what certain guys like to throw. You got swimbaits, jerkbaits, squarebills, lipless, deep divers, chatterbaits, spinnerbaits, spybaits, Arigs, in line spinners, swimjigs and so much more. what are your favorite baits? I really like weedless kaitechs or swimjigs because I fish alot of grass, what about you and why?

oh okay will try these colors, thanks!

okay will pick up some more hula grubs, will try this! thankyou so much for your help!!!!

oh wow, that is really good to know that they work in clear water and deep! I will have to try this! yeah DVL, skinner, Sandiego lakes, all of them that are clear water that I tend to fish alot. I will have to work on my stealth a little bit because its hard to not make noise on the boat for me, expecially when the cooler calls for a refreshing soda or bag of cheetos ? ?

oh okay will check this out! Good to know about black and blue, and I will definitely read some of your horizontal jigging posts and some of your others ones as well! thank you so much for this information!

ah okay, I will pick up some 1/8th oz jigs, I feel those could be killer, expecially in a smaller cut profile!

okay I will pick up some black and blues to go with my green pumpkins, thankyou!! oh okay this is good to know, I have seen some orange colored strands in jigs and will try these, also will look into the bamacraw colour, I have heard of that before oh this is something good to know! will try these colours, thanks!

okay this is really good information I never knew about! thankyou so much for this! I will try this method on some crystal clear fishing lakes!!! thank you so much! okay this is really good to know, thanks! yeah I am in california and we got really clear water because of zebra mussels and lots of vegetation that filter the water. I am no pro at jig fishing either but any little bit of help is awesome, thanks!!

oh okay this is awesome to know! any colours you would reccomend for clearer water? just the green pumpkins?

can you fish jigs in gen clear water? like 15-30ft visibility? I haven't heard many guys talk about this and thought it could open my arsenal up to try to target a larger fish. I know guys love them in stained water but have never heard of them fishing gen clear water. Also if you can fish them in gen clear water, is green pumpkin enough to make it look realistic? or should you go with something else? I just thought maybe they could work in clear water because I was playing with one in the pool and the skirt looks amazing. Thanks so much for your guy's time and you guys have helped me out so much in getting back into fishing!

oh sorry, It is a EWG eagle claw worm hook texas rigged with a 1/16th bullet weight, being fished in shallow 1-8 ft wooded cover oh sorry did not see this, Yes the hook was out completley of the plastic, and the worm had slid all the way down, I set the hook fairly hard on both fish as well, although one seemed to not be able to grab it too well, could of been a bluegill or small bass because i kept feeling him come back for it and drop it or something and he was struggling I think

okay this is good to know, about the same as what im using

well what I do is try to improve on what I did wrong, Maybe I was fishing riprap and overlooked points, maybe I got distracted by fish blowing on the surface and was throwing topwater at the wrong time, Maybe I was pitching and flipping a lake where the bass like to go out deeper in the summer. The most satisfying thing in bass fishing for me is not catching the fish, but changing what you did last time to catch more.

okay that makes sense, thanks for sharing this information! yeah I am exactly the same way, I feel like a smaller hook is less obvious and it isnt making the plastic as stiff. Yeah I hear you, I personally love to try new things. As for the big bait big fish thing, this is what is really interesting. So during this trip I was flipping a senko into some flooded structure, (Weightless) I caught one fish and got no more bites after that. For fun I decided to throw the big worm into the same places and I got 2 more bites exactly where I threw the senko. Now the fish I caught wasnt bigger, it was actually smaller on the big worm lol, but the thing I took away from this is maybe they wanted a little more agressive action (the tail) or maybe it was the color change from the Green pumpkin senko to a junebug. It could have even been the fall rate perhaps with a bullet weight making it fall faster into the structure. I completley agree with you that big baits dont always get big bites, I was just throwing that bigger bait because I wanted to see if there where some bass with different personalities.