Pat Brown

I just got the silent 6th sense jerkbaits to try so I'll have to let you know in a few days after I fish em all weekend. ??? I will say the silent Berkley Frittside is my most productive crankbait by a mile right now.

I didn't start catching big bass on glide baits till I started throwing an 8" so I think you'll be okay. I caught a 1 lber and a 2.5 lber with the 6.75" s waiver before deciding to toss the bigger bait. I think small fish would hit the 8" glide also and big fish would hit the 6.75.....just worked out this way. I think the action you're imparting and where you cast them matters more than size or even color.

One of the most important lessons you will learn fishing the jig is that even though it is a powerful tool to have in your arsenal, there are days when the best thing to do is pick up a crankbait. The more you throw it, the more you learn what to look for and when it's going to work good, I think. When it's the right bait to throw, it seems to really pay in dividends to be throwing it if you're after size.

I'm jealous. Getting good with a jig is one of life's joys and a heck of a good investment of your time pursuing that DD. You're gonna learn to love big thumps, gentle bumps, mushy feelings on the end of your line, baits disappearing, lines swimming off in random directions and even the occasional machine gun pecks you *think* for SURE is a sunfish and then you reel into a 6 lber. Oh man....and jig season is just getting started. ????

I'm a big fan of using a screw lock style Shakey head style jig head with tube baits. Pegged t rig is also good but I don't like EWG hooks with them at all. Worm hook or thin wire flipping hook. If you're fishing around more rock and sparse vegetation, hard to beat a tube jig head with the exposed hook point. They work really, really well and I am gonna be throwing them a lot more this summer when the bite is tough.

I like my Ozark Trail baitcaster combo for crankbaits and weightless plastics and walking topwaters with treble hooks. Caught many big fish beating less than ideal banks with that pole. I caught my only truly big fish out of Santee Cooper from the bank on that pole on a weightless junebug UV speed worm last summer after everyone had gone to bed at the campsite. A memory I'll never forget. I often fish from the bank and I tend to favor my cheaper gear when I do that. I also often catch my PB from the bank. My biggest bass, a 9.1 lb prespawn female I caught from the bank this past February, came on a Abu Veritas PLX 7'6 MH/M with a Daiwa Fuego baitcaster 8 speed. Not exactly a high rent combo.

I think a lot of the biggest bass on the lake are in the same places they are just.... deflated somewhat. I tell ya, I'm half kidding, but also not. A lot of those 3.5-5 lb fish are the same fish that weigh in at 6-8 lbs during the pre spawn.

Yes indeed. 1/4 oz Siebert Shot Caller and correct guesses! (The green one is 'Bluegill' but it's a general sunfish/perch imitator so we'll give that one to ya ?)

Primary forage in my big fish holes. Can you guess the species? ??️‍♂️??

Been catching them on a Jerkbaits, Glide Baits, Chatterbaits, Swim Jigs, T-Rig Creatures and Spinnerbaits. Another couple weeks and it's gonna be frog and spook and buzzbait time.

I wonder if Mike would ever do Arkie style with horizontal line tie jig hooks.....that's kinda the magic combo for wood for me.

To me thinking about barometric pressure when you're bass fishing is like observing that you are wet to know it's raining. Just pay attention to clouds/wind/rain etc. Barometric pressure being low just means clouds. Barometric pressure being high just means no clouds. (Not really but basically) Most of the rules for high pressure or low pressure situations are just rules for clouds or no clouds.

First couple nice fish on a glide bait yesterday evening and this afternoon and then a nice chunky fish on the Stunna before sons soccer game. Tight lines folks ???

I don't understand.....why so many whopper ploppers....the lure floats!?!? I have bought three whopper ploppers and caught fish on one of them and still own three and don't see that ever changing. ?

Savage Gear Shine Glide functions quite well ??? (Third glide bait fish caught just now tonight and my first nice one to eat it)

I like the Xzone Swammer 4" in 309/green pumpkin blue flake/perch and bluegill and the Gambler EZ Swimmer 4.5" in the gold rush, red ear and 49er colors.

It was crabsicle. Young grouper chase the ice cream truck on hot summer days for a chance to enjoy one of these rare and highly sought after aquatic treats.

Really hoping I can crack 10 lbs this year with largemouth. Got 9.1 in the pre-spawn and I'm feeling like I can do it!

Wacky worm, floating worm, buzz toad. Sounds like you got a weightless soft plastic sort of spot.

I fish some very shallow water with snags/submerged vegetation that hold big fish. I have learned the floating style jerkbaits are better than the sinking/suspending variations in these scenarios. Berkley Hit Stick and Rapala Floating Minnow are deadly.

The front sorta hits Saturday and looks like it's gonna hold out at least through Sunday and you should be able to fish 'cloudy weather with wind' conditions as you normally would. Moving baits and reaction baits produce best during active fronts for me. The thing is, it's been so warm lately that a cold front that doesn't really last many many days, isn't gonna mess with the fish too much. I'd pay attention to surface temps. If they're approaching 70, those fish won't budge. They'll be up shallow right where they were before the front. If you're in the low to mid 50s surface temps, I find fronts have more affect on the shallow bite. If they're locked on bed and spawning, they will still be there during some nasty weather. If they're pre spawn, they may go wild during the front and then pull back til surface temps stabilize/start climbing again. There aren't any rules though, I'd just bring some slow and fast stuff that covers the water column and look for good spawning areas and fish them thoroughly.

Yep that's a spring cold front and then when that weather passes and it's gonna be super blue skies in a day or 3, that's post frontal. Fish hard leading up to and the day of the front hitting. Fish usually suspend on the post frontal days and you gotta slow down to make em bite.

Maybe a heavy weight pegged on some braid and a beaver style creature bait. The old punch rig.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm pretty sure the bass have no idea what the crawfish do in the winter time.....?

Come on y'all, Ben is amazing at bass fishing! Let's all sit down and learn some stuff from the guy and enjoy his ascent (no, not his accent his ascent ?)! Congratulations to Ben Milliken on what I'm sure is not going to be his only win this season....