ironbjorn

I caught 6 this morning. None of them were any good. The best one is pictured. They made me work for it. The only thing they would bite was a wacky rig thrown with precision. I had to hit them right on the head. Check out those beds, and meet my friends.

Just fast enough to feel the blades turning

I didn't mean that I considered myself a rude jerk. I knew it was an accident. But he could have definitely thought I was a rude jerk. Absolutely not. I gave him the "oh crap, sorry" wave and left the cove to him. I wasn't going to yell across it and disturb his peace or spook his fish. Almost certainly.

Nice catch. But no scale, no weight? You should Google 10lb largemouth. Nice fish regardless.

I mostly use 7s because I don't have a problem with reeling slow

Fishing them SLOW and using a Zako or a trailer similar in style changed everything for me. Try it out. (I can't stress SLOW enough)

I'm patient and forgiving with people until they encroach on my territory and cast where I'm casting. That's when the "rude jerk" thoughts creep in. Well... This morning I was fishing a pond. This pond has a cove that's surrounded by thick trees, but if you've explored enough you know some spots to gain access and cast around. I was on one side of the cove throwing a spinnerbait along the bank. It was slow going this morning. I heard a splash and looked over and saw ripples coming from around a log in the water on the other side of the cove. Usually I don't chase fish like that, but as slow as it was this morning, I threw to the log. 4-5 seconds later as I'm retrieving my bait, I see a fish being pulled out from the log and a man stepped forward out of the trees to get his fish. The splash I heard and saw was probably his lure and I threw right on top of him. I didn't even see him until he caught the fish. I felt like an idiot. Today I was the "rude jerk" and I didn't even mean to be. It makes me wonder how often people truly don't mean to be.

Haven't gotten to fish a whole lot this season so far due to an ongoing health issue, but went yesterday and hooked into a decent one on a 3/8oz War Eagle.

Zoom, but I don't buy them anymore because I'm tired of half the pack or more being deformed. Sometimes the boiling water trick works, sometimes it doesn't, but in the age of clam shell packaging this shouldn't even be an issue.

Florida? Get a Heavy for jigs and frogs / heavy cover. I definitely wouldn't be messing with a spinning rod.

Nope. It's cheaper to pay what amounts to a fast food #5 than it is to pay that fine and lose your equipment. It takes a mental midget to intentionally refuse to get a fishing license.

I've never had a reason to come off good old Power Pro, but generally speaking I don't care for braid and hardly use it anymore.

Honestly it's just the Majorly Little Fish penalizing itself for existing

Leave as is primarily because it makes trailers easier to re-rig after a fish beats them up. Just cut some off the top and you get a new area to use on a torn bait.

Not really. Whether I go or not I still won't catch anything.

They've been finding quite a few bodies in that lake, decades old remains. That was someone's train station.

Too bad they couldn't get the nastiest trash of all - the humans responsible for it. We're such a failed species.

It's invasive. It spreads in the blink of an eye and takes hold very quickly. From what I understand even a fragment of the weed can cause an explosion. It takes chemicals and a lake mower / people taking it all out to deal with the issue. Each time I've experienced its devastation has been sudden and swift.

What OP has spent has been a single order for me a time or two... And here I am thinking I don't spend too much.

My favorite pond exploded in curly leaf pond weed completely out of the blue. 6 acres totally matted over in the stuff. I've seen this twice before in other ponds, and each time when it died off it also mass killed the fish. Well here we are again, tons of floaters today. Very unfortunate.

It's got to be 5 figures in rods, reels, line, lures, and tools alone. I have no idea. A lot. Unless my house burns down I'm not going to total it.

What bait did you really use and swap out with a glide for the picture? We all know glides don't work. Just kidding lol, monstrous month, good job

She kept trying and throwing her hands up lol

I like how at around 3:30 he didn't let her hold her own 8lber because he's like nah you're not losing this fish