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This looks like a job for a downsized chatterbait (think skirtless micro or a minimax) along the lines where shallow sections of the lake become deeper in open water. Especially if there's any of those areas that also have flooded timber or other objects. Any idea what your water temps are like? If it's below 70f in the places you fished I'd say you need to be in warmer shallow areas of the lake. That water clarity isn't helping either, tough especially on a calm day because most noisy baits also make a big splash. Also makes locating baitfish a real challenge without sonar. I hope our luck improves ?

Touched a nerve here with smaller fish being harder to hook - I completely agree. You just can't get leverage on them to set the hook. I think landing a big fish on light wire is easier than a small fish on heavy wire. I also think that sometimes the heavier wire hooks can wallow out the hole in a bass mouth sometimes, which makes it easier for a barb to slip out. One of the reasons I love the owner zowire hooks...lots of sharpness and strength but less diameter. It's the only hook material for distance casting. ???? Just keeping the line tight is typically enough for me. Drag should only ever be set heavy enough to drive the hook in, much more than that can actually rip a hook out that would have otherwise stayed in barely. I can't ever really predict when I'm gonna have a jumper. The only thing that really helps me with jumps is making more subtle movements while the bass is airborne, and not continuing to fight like it has the water resistance. Just enough to keep the line tight. I still lose some but it's almost always because I've been dead sticking too far back and I can't reel in enough slack in time to get leverage before the fish drops it. The other cause is usually over tight drag causing breakage, or overly loose drag that fudges a hookset. All that being said, I wish I could catch 30+ fish right now. Been blanked all but two days this month, having fished about half of it

Glenn showing up with the answers, like always. Thanks for being a Real One ????

Thank you!! I have seen two UFOs while fishing, a silver sphere at day and a green disk at night

hey man we're gonna get down in the 90s this weekend, Ice Cold!!! lol but for real, be safe in the dark. I don't blame you for this approach...nothing is close enough to shore right now for me to get bites unless I land on some right at daybreak or start fishing at 10:30PM. Daytime heat indices have been within 15 degrees of wet bulb. Being on a lake with evaporating water all around you probably gets you within 5-10 degrees. I would be certain that places like Falcon Lake, Lake Corpus, Texana etc have reached wet bulb temps for boaters several times this summer. It is legitimately dangerous to be out on the water here right now for more than a few hours at a time during max heat. There's been a few days where I've had actual overheat warnings on my car camera electronics, can't imagine boat electronics would fare too much better albeit they lack the lense that camera electronics do. Even deep night fishing isn't going great right now, I've blanked on 5 of 6 trips this week from the shore. I need about 20 yards to get into the schools of sandies and spots I've seen jumping...haven't seen a big fish since the last time I held one I need the studios to go ahead and pay the writers already, so that I can get back to work and stop being obsessed with fishing quite so hard

Hey man I've been cooped up with fevers and stuff for many days. I'm in my Oregon Trail diseases era. I reserve the right to be this way until I have a decent fishing trip and no spotted fever. At least it's in the right subsection of the forum lol

So I'm watching ghost adventures with my girlfriend and we were wondering if fish could see ghosts. I didn't know who else to ask. You know how they say cats will follow a ghost around the room that humans can't see? Like that. But with fish. And maybe Bigfoot. It is entirely possible that salmons have seen bigfeet. Also would be interested in hearing any unexplained things, general cryptids etc, you've seen while hunting or fishing. I find all that stuff real interesting and i tend to take people seriously. Thanks for taking my call, I'll hang up and listen

I've gotten crazier diseases from Colorado in the last month than I did from cumulative months in Central Mexico and Sub-Saharan Africa. Not to say I'm the rule or anything...but only so much prophylaxis is necessary. I think the anti-malarials and yellow fever make sense in most places at those latitudes but a lot of the others don't make sense, unless you expect increased chances of contact with wildlife or are staying in remote areas without access to clean water. Deet, a good water filter system, and protective clothing can deal with a hell of a lot. I didn't realize there was a rabies preventative out there now...I always thought that was a treatment reserved for mammal bites after the fact. Also a note. The newer anti malaria meds are better than the old ones, but are not at all free of other side effects. Mostly issues with my dreams, but the pill also tastes like envelope adhesive that doesn't go away without help

That Z craw pulls weight I'm tellin ya

Honestly though. I've seen it front to back probably 10 times in my life. Never gets old. I hope you get back to casually besting my PB soon

I thought it was 'Fix It Again, Tony'

Such a good channel. Them and Wavy. I will never get tired of seeing dudebros punch the bow on a Cigarette. Trim up! Use your speed! Lol

I felt OK last night but it's now "yet", 101.5f body temps. I no longer feel OK lol

I caught covid, rocky mountain spotted fever, and also this smallmouth bass. Not my usual stringer. I don't feel well at all. But not bad enough to miss night fishing...yet. Also being outside helps the sneezing

I'm night fishing right now so this works pretty well for me. I've taken doxy before, as a malaria preventative. Good stuff but full of fun and interesting side effects. I also just tested positive for Covid, first time dealing with that one. I don't feel good lol

Spent the weekend at 7700 feet in northwest Colorado. Hooked into some brook trouts and remembered how much better I am at bass fishing versus fly fishing...couldnt land any of them. Also caught Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever from a wood tick that was latched on way too long, but we have Doxycycline for that ?

Honestly probably Lake Whitney...it will be a day of 20+ stripers every once in a while but I skunk or only catch a couple dinks most of the time. But those northern Brazos lakes are just so absolutely beautiful. I've really gotten away from pond hopping over the last year or so, learning my spots at Roberts better. It has paid off this year as you all have seen. I guess you could say I'm tied to one place for better or worse despite having a slew of great bass fishing around Texas

The only thought I have about that is maybe a dissolved oxygen thing, the invasive milfoil where I'm at will die off when it gets to a certain thickness and the water around it will get gross. There's times and places where that essentially turns it into a feeding frenzy for microorganisms and the things that follow, but after a time the decomposing grass will rob some oxygen from an area. I'm not a biologist though.

Tom with Bass is about as natural as Bass in water. Man belongs in that landscape.

What a wild time that was. I wasn't around, but like. The stories.

waste not want not, as they say. Good on you for eating the old girl, a lot of people just leave them for the birds.

I'm sometimes glad I bothered. A rebound day is nice, especially with an audience. Got on a boiling school of Sandies and hybrids, pulled in about 10 of those on a red eye shad. Then moved to the z craw Texas rig for a couple of very skinny LM, a 4lb and a 5lb. The 4 was missing an eye.

I shouldn't bother but ?‍♂️?‍♂️?‍♂️ can't help myself sometimes

No biggins tonight but I got to watch this little thing just destroy a Z craw right in front of me. Either smallmouth or meanmouth, hard to tell. I'm always feeling good about catching black bass that are less common. Gonna take a break for the weekend, maybe brave the holiday, but gonna be gone for a week after that. Hopefully the bass forget about me ?

Tonight got worse, lost a monster of some kind (no guarantee it was a bass), hardest pull I've felt this year. I'd wager it was 7+. I'd forgot to re tighten my drag after snapping off and I didn't get a good hookset. Tightened the drag down and fought it for a minute before it turned and the hook came out. Missed the next three bites and then an hour of no bites says its time for bed. This skunk hurts. Back at it again tomorrow...