Pat Brown

@J._Bricker - I am indeed - wish he uploaded more but there's TONS of good stuff on there. Love listening to Bobby talk frogs!

A spinnerbait is nothing more than a swim jig for fish with cataracts.

It got cold and rained non stop the past couple days - but Jake and I figured out how to get a couple to bite AND land them. Got a tank on the Spro Pop frog in the freak color this evening in the rain - my first frog bass caught during rain! Jake got a real nice one on the floating worm yesterday morning. It's supposed to warm back up steadily starting tomorrow and the rain should let up Saturday - hoping we can take advantage of the warming trend and the blown out creeks! 🤫😎😎😉

WAY WAY too much variation in body shape to give you an accurate length that always always = 5 lbs but 20" is a nice bass that usually weights +/- 5 ish lbs around here! Sometimes significantly more and sometimes significantly less depending on genetics and how efficient that individual happens to be!

5+ lbs

I just want to catch something on a whopper plopper. #dreamsmall

Supposed to like but don't: Fluorocarbon line. Not for me! Supposed to be bad but love it: Monofilament line. Works great for me!

I think confidence is the most important thing in selecting soft plastic colors and as such I'm confident in whatever is on sale 😌😌😌

Motor oil red, Junebug, watermelon seed, green pumpkin, watermelon red, red bug, plum, red shad, morning dawn, merthiolate, white, bubblegum, baby bass, shad colors, perch colors.

I like to be aware of wind because it moves the phytoplankton and the food chain around and positions bass on structure.

Zaldaingerous runs better at more speeds and is more durable and cheaper. No real skin in the game - just my observation.

Really good one!

More fun! Had a short but sweet night fishing trip - one bass slow rolling a swim jig - missed something massive fishing a black whopper plopper SUPER slowly. It was probably a 20 lb catfish - the mouth sounded like two flat pieces of cement slamming shut in a puddle and the wake looked like a bull shark. It let go instantly. Smart fish. My jig bass was our only fish. I got two more bites replicating that swim jig retrieve but couldn't get a hookset before they dropped it. We had more adventures at the pond and I caught the world's smallest fish ever caught on a 7" worm with a 5/0 hook on a 7'6 swimbait rod of all time! 😂 Jake did well with small stuff! We decide to do boat yesterday and Meagan got her first big bass in quite some time on a Indiana blade 1/2 oz Bizz Baits spinnerbait! It was AWESOME! The fish fought very hard and she got a great rush! We missed a LOT of bites yesterday. I probably missed 4 fish that were not small. They were sheepish - but aggressive. TONS of baby shad and sunfish schools literally everywhere. Tough to compete with that much of the real thing but still we found a couple more. AND on the frog! If we had caught every fish we hooked or that bit - it would have been a absolutely insane day - but the early summer shad explosion is happening and it's all about finding the crazy stuff and not the fish that are just chilling - which can be - tricky? 😎🤙🏼😉

They are great! As good as anything else out there IMHO. The bandito bug straight gets bit! Big fan of the scout, clutch and banger hard baits also when they're on some kind of super sale. I only buy their stuff on sale and I've never really found it to be bad!

I like any jigs in any wood that it'll come through - deep or shallow!

I'm sorry, I think I was thinking about the one over here in Greensboro. My apologies!

All I know is the big ones hang out on the no gas motor allowed side 👀 Beyond that, I believe there's a lot of wood on the lake.

Hail to the king, baby! 😎😎😎🦅🦅🦅 Who is an absolute stud? - @king fisher @IcatchDinks - come on down to NC - we got some sticky underpants with your name on them - bring flip flops and sunscreen! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

The fish tell me. If I should be getting bites but I'm not I'll try big or small instead of whatever is currently tied on next time I switch it up. I will try a different size or rate of fall or whatever every 30-45 minutes with zero bites give or take. If I'm catching dinks on big baits everywhere I might try a small bait. If I'm catching dinks everywhere on small baits I might try a big bait. Etc etc. Let the fish tell me.

@TheSwearingAngler - Richard Gene's sense of humor is amazing. I got plenty of serious things to worry about in my not fishing life! 😂😂😂👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼♥️♥️♥️ I'm glad he brings some brevity to his teaching. Those were always my favorite professors in school. I could stay awake and learn something from them! To each their own obviously. I really enjoy Frogman Fishing and Damian Thao. Those guys can fish a frog and have many many many catches on video to prove it and they really fish the frog a lot. Great stuff. Homeless fisherman and Geoffrey the King and SB Fishing are hard to beat for learning about big baits. Hard to beat Bass After Dark for pure unadulterated deep level juice. They get way deep into the topics they cover and really cut through a lot of fluff to explore the truth of bass fishing and I find it incredibly illuminating.

5/0 offset round bend worm hook with most of my big worms (over 6").

Richard Gene is hard to beat for education and entertainment!

I spilled some chartreuse spike it into a bag of oxblood dingers and got a AMAZING motor oil ish color.

"DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS!" 😂😂😂

It wouldn't really be remarkable to catch one if it was easy and I can assure you - even with a wealth of knowledge and an armada of technology and state of the art tackle - many perfectly competent anglers struggle routinely to get bites. This is why I try to always smile in my bass pictures. Somebody out there is absolutely dying to catch a 2 lber and has been fishing hard for one and when I catch one I try to remember that even if it's my second one of the day. Even a guy like me can lose them for a week or two around here - it's completely wild we catch bass at all with how smart and unpredictable they seem to have gotten!