BrianMDTX

To be honest, I don’t even eat while fishing. I do drink water, but that’s about it. Time chewin’ is wasted time fishin’! 🤣

Whether fishing or (especially) hunting, I prefer the silence and solitude of nature. I love music as much as the next guy, but when I’m fishing, I’m in 100% concentration mode.

He looks very angry!

Huge tail on that bass!

@Choporoz You are so right on those bite windows, and dead on for the 30 minutes lol. Fished from just before 8:00 and started with a brand-new 3/16 oz. Bitsy Bug jig in watermelon with a green pumpkin fluke (brand unknown). Caught three bass in about 30 minutes and bam! That was it until just around noon I casted a green pumpkin lizard nose-hooked on a WR hook and it landed it a blowdown and a dink hit it. Four is better than zero but after a hot start, it just died. All three came right off that bank. The largest was one I saw chasing something and making a hellacious commotion on the surface.

Much nicer day than last week, but much slower. I lost a nice bass on a weightless TR with a Neko Macho, but came back a few minutes later and it hit an A-Jay Special. Caught another on a weightless lizard on a WR hook through the head, and one more that completely inhaled it. The lizard was still on the hook but all you could see was a 1/4” of it. No pic as it took time to get the hook out so I got it back in the water ASAP.

I’ve tried a “few”. I’ve come to the conclusion that I’ll keep buying Siebert Fogys. They really vibrate and start vibrating quickly.

Looking back, I think you may be right. If a knot at the bait was going to fail on a cast, it should likely do so at the point of the highest load on the knot, which would not (no pun intended) be while the bait is the air halfway to where you’re casting. It should be just after the bait is launched forward after loading up the rod for the cast. If it’s in the air and suddenly the spool or line abruptly stops cold, that will induce a shock load that can easily break a knot.

I seem to be an outlier. I don’t use braid-to-leader, straight braid or straight fluoro on bladed jigs. I use 10 lb. Big Game mono. My only “issue” is I tend to not retie as often as I should. Not that I’ve lost many baits, but I know I’m tempting fate.

If “black” is Blackberry, I’m with you. They last awhile, which is a plus.

A Rage Menace is about all I use.

Not my boat. My phone that was headed for the bottom lol.

Wow. I would never have expected to see my name in this thread. I’m humbled.

In-ter-esting day. Got on the water and it was overcast and a bit breezy. I started fishing right where I launched the boat and in short order, I caught two bass on a weightless blue/black Neko Macho TR. Then bam, nothing. Fished almost 3 hours and only one nibble from a dink. I tried various baits and it was dead. I got back to my starting point and hooked a green pumpkin lizard through the head on a wacky rig hook and casted a few times, and the clouds broke and the sun came out. Right after that I saw wakes on the surface of baitfish being chased and In casted the lizard out in front. It got slammed immediately. Nice 3 lb. bass. In about 15 minutes I caught two more on the same bait. One was another 3 and the other was a shade over 2 lbs. The water is stained and murky so I guess the sun helped them pick up on the bait movement. All-in-all, five bass in February is good in my book.

I’ve never fished from a yak, so I’m not sure how good/bad they are in gusty winds. I can tell you my inflatable is ok in a moderate breeze, but the gusts this morning played havoc with me this morning. There was no debating about it, I had to use the anchor. It made fishing difficult. I did boat one (plus a dink), but lost a decent one a 5” Senko WR. I think it had the bait but not the hook in its mouth. Looked around 3-1/2 to 4 lbs. The two I boated were on a green pumpkin lizard on a WR hook simply hooked in the head and drifting it.

Major update is an understatement! Very crisp and clean!

“Luke, I am your outboard!”

I went fishing today. Decision between staying at the local pond or taking a drive up to Lake Raven. Then I saw this thread and thought, “I can choose. Tom can’t.” Went to the lake. Didn’t catch a fish, but I was thinking about Tom every time I casted that blue/black jig on my Falcon Lowrider and Daiwa Fuego spooled up with Sunline. Tom, you will still be fishing waters here even though you’re not. Your knowledge lives on in all of us.

I’m using Sunline mono because of Tom. I fish jigs the way I do because of Tom. This is a deep loss. Godspeed, Tom. You will be sorely missed.

Imagine getting a jerkbait stuck in that beard. Ho Ho Ho it’s off to the ER I go!

As an aviation guy, I knew the nav lights were wrong. But I was distracted looking for the non-existent anti-collision lights and no strobes.

Merry Christmas! Our oldest daughter got engaged last night. A magical Christmas indeed!

I sacrificed a rotisserie chicken today to appease the winter gods. Don’t know if they liked it, but we did.

I am humbled. My “secret angler” for Fishmas was Dogbone_384. First off, I ordered everything from TW and included a “Happy Fishmas” note, but forgot to add it was from me lol. D’oh! I thought I did well but this was over the top. First, every individual bait/lure was gift-wrapped. Looks like a guy wrapped it, too lol. I say that as my wrapping skills are ok but my wife’s are professional. So it had a real personal touch. I got a 6” Swerve XPS glide bait in matte shad (my first glide bait), two jerkbaits- a Rapala 110 in matte shad and a Berkley Stunna in Tennessee shad, a pack of Zoom 7” Mag Super Flukes in smokin’ shad (sensing a color palette here lol), a pack of 5.5” Yamamoto Swim Senkos in natural shad, a pack of Yamamoto Cowboy creature baits in baby bass, a bottle of Argent Reel Butter reel oil, and a 100m (109 yd.) spool of Seaguar R18 fluorocarbon line in 10 lb. test (also a first). All I can say is…WOW!!! Thank you, sir!

Went yesterday. Got one bite on a Fat IKA. Pond was covered in leaves and pine needles. Tried a jerkbait but forget trebles.