White77

thanks guys, i am 100% positive these were bass...they were so close and moving slow...it would be hard to make that mistake

i t-rig em with 3/0 or 4/0 gammy EWG

so three times in a row, in the very same spot on the bank...i have seen a school of bass....nice ones too...ranging from the 2-4lb range...they were all nice looking bass...anywhere from 3-6 in the groups....they just swim along the shoreline....wont bite anything i throw at em....just cruising along...what do you supose they are doing? what would you throw in that area to get bites? cuz all the times i have seen the fish swimming along i havent caught anything....also, all three times it was hot with bright sun....we can manage to catch dinks in the area but cant seem to get these nicer sized fish to bite anything..any thoughts? Thanks Cliff

this might help http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/dfwpdf/dfw_esocidsposter.pdf

i would guess that if they are stored where it will not get extremely hot or cold, they should be fine

i am considering getting on of these to use on some small private tanks and the golf course tanks....i am wondering what kind of critters i should be aware of while my feet are dangling in the water? is it really a worry? i know we have seen snakes, turtles and alligator gar in these waters....will any of these be something i would have to worry about attacking? i am not from texas so i dont know if it is even a good idea....but man there is one tank on the golf course that i MUST get out on somehow...the shoreline is very limited to fishable areas but i just know there is some hawgs in there...so any texas natives...is this too risky or would i be ok? thanks Cliff

i tried!1 and again today...no luck...i got one dink on a trick stick and one bout 1.5 lber on manns -1...that was it Cliff

dude after giving us that detailed description of this place...not only should you show us pics of the hawgs you catch, but how bout a shot of the pond it self?

i remember my "senior skip day"..ya know, every ditches school and goes out in the woods and taps a keg....all my "friends" thought i was crazy when i ditched school and went fishing all day long

i used a pinnacle solene($50 walmart)...it was a nice reel...worked great...but i sold it on here cuz i wanted to get another AG 5501...but it was a good reel Cliff

and saying "man i would kill to go back to high school" Cliff

had a monster break his line!! oh man it was funny(for me, he was pretty mad) so we were fishing on the golf course in a tank we didnt even know existed....i wasnt getting any bites on t-rigged powerworm...he throws out a t-rigged red shad u-tale by zoom...instantly he has a fish on...i said "is it a good one?" he says "yeah!!" so i run over to assit if i can and tell him not to horse it in...let it run...he is not the most savvy angler you ever met....anyway...the fish jumps and it is HUGE! biggest bass i have ever seen...6lbs plus from my estimation...it was long and fat....so he gets her right up to shore and SNAP!!! he takes his rod and like an Ax slams it on the ground twice...i said "dude dont break it!" he says "it didint break"....he is fuming and i am laughing....so he reties and makes a cast...the first 3 feet of his rod goes flying out into the lake with his bait....i almost wet myself it was so funny....and now he is cracking up too...and this was the one time neither of us brought more than one rod...but he did hang with me for another hour and a half and watched me fish.....so that was cool....he was using a casting rod some very old shakespere or something...and a cardinal spinning reel that i gave him....i told him to go buy a dang spinning rod now.... moral of the story...check your drag!! his was locked down as tight as it would go....i bet he never forgets to check it ever again Cliff

i love this place too...just a few short months ago, i knew basically nothing about LMB fishing...and had recently moved to texas...i was searching the internet for info on local lakes and found this site....i learned a TON of stuff and am still learning...and like someone else mentioned, you get fast answers to your questions...which is great for the n00bs like me to get info from the veteran bass fisherman....i am now to the point where i can look at the weather, and other variables and choose the right presentation....now i catch at least one fish evertime out(almost ;D)...and not only is this a great place to get info on fishing...its a great place to get a good laugh, see cool pics and just talk to people....this place rocks and is the friendliest group of people i have come across Cliff

good luck dude..hope you catch alot and have a great time...dont forget to show us pics!! Cliff

awesome catch dude..thay are tons of fun..i never caught one that big tho...biggest for me was about 34 inches

i dont keep any fish now a days...when i was in MN i would keep MAYBE 1 or 2 walleye a season for myself...and a few for my neighbors if they asked for them...i dont like fish much....but who can resist a walleye!?...when i was younger i would keep bass(smallies) for my parents...along with perch, rock bass, gills....but now looking back i wish i never kept one smallie....oh well...i release everything now and always will. Cliff

thanks RW, i do plan to get one Cliff

i have one spinnerbait..chart, red hook single gold willow...one buzzbait...it is a balck TD buzzbait with gold prop...i think it sucks...dosent seemt o have good action and i havent caught crap on it Cliff

Leave it to a Texas boy to call a pond a tank. ;D Those are fine fish. actually, i am from NY and have always called them ponds...but now that i am in TX i have got in the habit of calling them tanks

no pics for...hope you get refund from BPS

my dad got me a 1952(i think) aluminum rowboat...14'...for my highschool grad gift.....he patched a big hole in it, pounded out a dent, threw on a 7.5 HP merc, painted it red....and thats when "the red torpedo" was born...i caught alot if smallies in that boat on cayuga lake in NY...good times Cliff

caught this one tonight on a zoom horney toad...all black in a very similar pond

thanks guys...but not as fattie as i want!! dont get me wrong, i am happy catching anything...or nothing for that matter, but i just know there is bigger fish in these tanks and i cant seem to get em to give me a little nibble...at the golf course the other day...my buddy must have caught 30 bass...total weight...2lbs ;D...he just couldnt understand why i wouldnt tie on a little spoon like he had....i just said i dont want to catch dinks.....i stuck to my power worm and caught two bass....both bigger than anything he caught...i was happy and so was he!! Cliff

3/0 EWG gammy...thats pretty much all i use for all plastics...i have a few 4/0 and 2/0 but rarely use them....BTW those two were caught in two different bodies of water, in case anyone was wondering about the color difference

here is a couple i caught...the first one was yesterday on a t-rigged blue fleck powerworm w/3/16oz bullet....the second was today on a black zoom horney toad Cliff