Jmurphy87

Nothing special pic of my smallest big fish of my 2 hours of fishing, caught three smaller ones on a weightless bluegrass senko, biggest on came on a strawberry and cream weightless senko. I also caught another smaller one on a trench hawg in Alabama bug color. Then my daughter caught one on a Ned rig using a rabid bait in mud bug color. All in all a decent evening, tried teaching the wife and daughter how to use a bait caster at the same time lol. They tried but struggled, I told them it takes time and patience, wife made me put her zebco back on her rod and my daughter went back to her spinning reel. I am proud of them for trying ? I didn’t make it easy on them either, both weightless plastics wife had a spicy beaver and daughter had a trench hawg. The rods were right though a medium fast action.

Nothing special but pip squeak saved me from a skunk lol, on the full size abrogast buzz plug in the black color.

Nice fish.

The fish is nothing special size wise, although the special part is that it’s my first swim bait fish. Jackal gantrel jr in bluegill spawn color, well if we don’t count the turtle I caught on it before lol. That’s not a fish though anyhow. I woke up a little bit early before work and was setting on my deck starring at it and I just couldn’t shake the feeling to go throw it in the lake. Working 3rd shift and having a 3 month old makes it hard to go fishing, but I still manage to get it in and my son is so worth it. I am hopeful that he will grow up to like fishing also but that will be his choice when he gets older.

My 6’11 poison adrena mh spinning rod runs 20lb power pro max quatro on my vanford 2500. I use it with everything basically, I feel like it works for me on that setup so I use it wherever I go. Then my lews pro ti has 30 lb sunline plasma braid on it I use that for top water jigs worms. I mainly let the cover decide what I am going to bring with me though.

This weekend was decent started off Friday night at the river after dropping my son off to go to his dads for the weekend with a skunk, lol I don’t really catch much here but I still try. Saturday was my day that I got to use my 7’2 zodias bfs ml with my 20 met xg with 10 lb invisx mostly used a watermelon lemon laminate senko weightless caught about 5 fish in a hour in a half nothing big really but a fish is a fish, biggest was probably 13 if I was lucky. The night kept going with me introducing my daughter to night fishing ? she had a jitterbug and I went with a silent superspook in black shore minnow I caught three she didn’t have any luck unfortunately ?biggest of the night 13 inches. Sunday was a day of rage lizard in watermelon red good for two dinks then I swapped to a trick worm in scuppernong green good for 3 then swapped to a black loon lane changer and proceeded to catch 8-10 while walking down the shoreline with my waders biggest fish 16 inches. Then to top it off wife got one on a spicy beaver in sun Gill weightless Texas rig mostly all dinks but better than a stinky skunk lol.

Thank you, I agree 100% I fish both presentations with the same degree of focus and technique, I think it’s because you catch smaller fish along with larger ones is the reason they seem to hit a Texas rig harder at times for me.

In my limited experience with jigs I find that the bites are more subtle than a Texas rig, most of the time. Sometimes they slam it most of the time they don’t, it all comes down to being able to detect the subtle differences that come down to something is not normal. Some of my Texas rig bites I never felt at all it was the difference in weight on my line is how I knew something had it. I also don’t have very much experience with bigger fish like most of you guys but that’s why I enjoy fishing, the challenge of getting better at something that I am not good at yet.

No pictures tonight got to the park with a hour to go at around 8:15pm park attendant told us we had a hour before they were closing, I said thank you and that I know I have been here before. I got the wife’s pole rigged up with a little whopper ploper, told her I would check the water temperature for our 12 week old son, gonna make a few quick cast. Less than 10 cast caught a 12 inch dink lol. Still throwing the black and blue buzz bait, unhooked him and let him go and told the wife to go fish there here and active. I went back to our son and started feeding him a bottle and maybe 10 minutes later she caught a little 5 inch bass lol. I caught a fish at least they ended up closing the park at 8:50 pm oh well on to the next time.

Nothing special from me tonight unfortunately caught two the bigger one shook my hook as I was wading back to shore unfortunately ? I have a funny feeling that is was the same fish I caught the other night though. The smaller one looks just like the one from Wednesday night and I caught them both in there same respective locations. Felt good to get a redemption fish after losing the first one ?. I am really starting to like night fishing. Lure of the night was a 1/2 ounce black and blue buzz bait with a 1/0 trailer hook. I had to decide between a 3/0 or the 1/0 so I went with the smaller one whether that was the right call or not I don’t know.

I have a jackal firecracker buzz bait, the blade is a gold color I don’t think it’s bronze though.

Yeah that’s the first thing I did when I got home. I am guessing around 20 inches long, the label on the rod is at 18 inches or so.

Well tonight was productive for sure got a new pb and of course I still don’t have a scale. No clue how much it weighs but it’s definitely bigger than my one from earlier this year. I actually had someone with me who could take a picture for me ? I also got my wife to catch her first fish on a soft plastic so it was a good night. Caught it on a Tennessee shad gunfish lucky craft, who said going to ollies to get dog poop bags wouldn’t pay off lol. The only one they had to, it is hard working one on a spinning rod when you’re use to using a casting rod lol.

Well I guess they wanted the revolver again tonight lol, I think I am going to change out the hooks on them though. The stock hooks seem huge, so now I have caught fish on the lure I bought the black one and the lure I found in a tree the bone one. Nothing special really just a couple fish, although it’s my first time catching bass at night though ?

Got out for a hour and a half this morning, headed to my normal pond to see if it was still flooded really bad still. They were not blowing up on the surface like normal this morning. The good news is that the water level is still high but it’s going down. Water was colder than I thought it would be. I caught 4 fish on a bone revolver. First one came off when I was wading towards the bank. I got the second and third one landed and the fourth one came off on the fight in my fault hook set was not quite right. Nothing big but still a fish is a fish, doesn’t help that my standards are that a fish has to be over 18 inches before I consider it decent.

Finally after 5 stores I found a place that carries cutter worms ? I am so happy ! The place had a good selection of different colors than I normally see and different plastics that I haven’t seen around my normal stores. I can’t ever recall seeing rage tail lizards or Yamamoto kut tail worms in stores near me.

I usually get loads of gills out of there, friend got a 18 inch last year out of there. But for the most part it’s really hit or miss. Definitely not the best lake, I would say what you experienced was normal, it can be hard to find them there. Hope I was helpful.

Nothing special really just two small fish, but at least I caught something again with only a hour of time to fish. I use to get skunked here all the time now I catch fish like these, that’s a improvement.

I have a GLX 894 currently for my jigs and that does pretty good for everything I need. I also have one conquests rod a 844 and that’s really nice also. I had a 843 but it snapped into three pieces on a hook set on a dink with light line, currently waiting to get a warranty replacement on that but knowing my luck the season will be over before I get it back no clue. I find myself using my two poison adrena rods the most though, they are probably some of my favorite rods for value.

Not that I know of, I have looked near the rage tail section and all I ever see is craws, bugs, space monkeys. Although with the store remodeling things keep moving every few weeks lol, that makes it dangerous for me and the bait monkey. I go in for one thing and spend 30 minutes in there trying to find what I went to buy and usually come out with more.

No stores around me even carry them, been wanting to try them. I just have to convince myself that I will have to order some online I guess. I even have a hard time finding speed worms.

I have only caught a turtle on mine so far lol, doesn’t stop me from trying though.

Not too bad, figuring out my local pressured lake slowly but surely. 8 inch king tail in June bug with a rattle in it had to fight him through the salad lol..

Nothing special today just a nice little chunky small bass, about 13-14 I am assuming didn’t take my measuring tape today. I am happy to catch something at least tried out a new style hook and knot and had success. I will say anything is better than Monday lol I got my new kayak out on a lake I have never fished before from 11:30 am till about 9 pm and didn’t catch a single thing, well if we don’t count a nasty sunburn on my legs lol. I just knew I should have put my deep cranking rod in the car on Monday, but that’s what you get for not doing your research on a new lake you’re going to.

I will throw in another vote for the tatula elite, I got one for my frog rod and I love it it cast far enough for me and has been reliable. I want to try a fuego eventually but haven’t got around to buying one yet. I own a tatula sv tatula elite and a steez a tw, haven’t been let down daiwa yet.