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So like you when you fish a spinnerbait. Comes up empty.

My mom has about a dozen like this that come to her house just about every night for cookies. They take the cookies from her and dunk them in their water pot she leaves for them to soften them up to eat them. When she's got the big wood front door open and they're on the deck with just the screen door shut you can see their little hands reaching under the screen door into the house doing the "gimmie" motion for cookies. Couldn't be me but I'm glad they make her happy. Crazy woman also has a couple dozen indoor cats. She set up a sanctuary in her basement for them. Then she's got some squirrels that come up to her for hand feeding.

Check this guy out.

My favorite thing to do is pitching. To me there's nothing better than pitching your plastic or jig at a target and getting bit. For one, you chose right. You correctly identified a stump, log, branch, weed pocket, dock post, or whatever it may be, that a bass was sitting on laying in ambush. And from there it's pure combat to get them off it / out of it so they don't wrap up or break you off. Exhilarating.

We're already consuming a credit card worth of microplastics every week. It's even cycling through the clouds/atmosphere. They're finding microplastics in water in the mountains and places without human populations because it's raining down on the earth. We did a number on the planet since the industrial revolution.

Another bad thing for me is that there are fewer and fewer places to fish. All the water is being bought up, sometimes fenced, and posted private/no trespassing/no fishing. Can't hardly find a decent pond anymore, and because of crime, littering, and a downright mean spirit in this world, the days of being able to knock on a door to gain permission is almost nonexistent. If you want to fish a pond it's going to be a piece of crap in a public park that has been absolutely beat to death. Want to fish the rivers? Good luck finding a spot to get down to it. Private homes and businesses take up the access points and are posted no trespassing. Want to bank fish a public lake? Again the shoreline/access points are private homes and all bought up and posted. It's getting to the point where, as someone else mentioned, you need a bass boat that is unattainable for most people or risk it on a kayak with people zipping around at 70mph, just to fish a public lake. That's about where we're at with options.

All of mine are super obvious. Fenwick Eagle rods Daiwa Aird-X rods Berkley Lightning rods (not the Shock series) Pflueger Trion reels Black Max reels (now called the Max X) Berkley Big Game line Strike King Bitsy Bug jigs

It's such a waste. A Senko that can no longer be Texas rigged is a good wacky rig Senko.

So that's how @A-Jay does it. He hires guys to seduce the big smallies and make them docile, then he gets the waypoints.

I bass fish to catch bass. If it was about nature and being on the water, I wouldn't need a rod for that. In fact, I boat for the fun and nature of it, I hike for the fun and nature of it, I sight see for the fun and nature of it, and I sit beside the water reading a collection of books put into one volume, beloved by people all over the world, for the serenity of it. When I'm fishing it's not about the nature or serenity at all. I just want to catch fish, specifically bass. So if I'm not catching bass, that is the worst part of it. I'm failing at the one and only goal, and that is bad.

With the Super Fluke, the ones I miss are small fish that aren't getting 5 inches + a 4/0 EWG in their mouth. Fish worth catching inhale it pretty good. By the way, a Dobyns 3 power is a great Fluke rod.

It's a Saturday and I wanted to watch fish videos. Come on now. We all know this isn't about idiot teens drinking laundry detergent. I have an Instagram for the same reason. Saw some fish info and signed up to see the rest. Doesn't make me an Instagram queen.

Anyone getting away from the screens these days is a win in my book

So I just watched one in which he took a dive this spring after the winter. It was a spiring reunion after all that time. Just incredible.

This video made me join TikTok so I could see how deep this relationship went. He's got about 50 videos of himself hanging out with this fish. No idea of the time period. They chill like best friends and it eats from his hands in the vids I've seen so far. It comes to him when called. Absolutely amazing stuff.

I accidentally caught one on one of the premier Muskie lakes in Illinois (not saying much honestly) during a bass tournament. I couldn't shake it off my squarebill fast enough. Toothy, stinky, slimy, freak of nature. I prefer the ones I can lip.?

Lol if you were snack size they wouldn't be so friendly me thinks. Imagine if bass were shark size. Nobody would be safe in fresh water lmao

For real, it does resemble mating ritual. I keep pet rabbits and until they're fixed they will run circles around you to claim you, then pee on you to mark you, and then finally they will hump. The moment the fish started chasing others away I was like...does it....want to....breed?!?!

He mentions it has been caught before and the unique mark it left is how he knows it's the same fish each time he dives.

Yeah, I don't subscribe to the "fish are dumb" narrative. Instinctual, yes; dumb, no. I've seen too many cases of fish training and conditioning.

I like FishUSA too. I typically use them if my needs/wants are from Pure Fishing. Haven't used them in awhile.

Weedless Ned heads with the wires aren't really weedless. They should be called snag resistant. If snagging is a problem, I've found that going to a lighter head is the best option (and/or using a swim hop retrieve). If weeds are truly the problem, Texas rigged style is your best bet.

I'm calling the police

This man encountered a Smallmouth Bass on a dive and they became friends. The SMB is jealous and chases other fish away from him. The fish lets the man pet him, and on the TikTok page @elvisthesmallmouth he hand feeds him. This man taught Elvis how to locate him by sound. The fish has a distinct marking and so the man always knows it's Elvis. This is insane.

I've gotta be "that guy" too: I wouldn't give my time or money over to this until she's no longer a "new" girlfriend.