Pat Brown

I'll be at the pond with Jake. We shall see what happens! I reckon they gonna think it got cloudy. 😂😂😂😂

Everyone caught something yesterday! We caught many fish but none over 4 lbs. Got my biggest of the day on a buzzbait which was extremely satisfying! Got my fattest on a jig! Caught a nice channel and a crappie and we are having a fish fry tonight after the eclipse/pond fishing! Tight lines to everyone this week! 😎😎😎

I used to play with line but now I just use big game and catch fish a lot. That stuff only breaks when I want it to and even then it usually bends the hooks out on a bait. I think people should use what they like for their water, be it braid to fluorocarbon, straight braid, straight fluorocarbon, monofilament etc They're all just tools that can help you achieve more success and learning how they apply to you is something only you can do.

I think that prevailing winds can change the character of the water a lot in a year and some areas almost always end up habitable regardless of outstanding weather patterns and some areas are more variable and subject to the weather you've been experiencing. Great examples of this to me are points where the wind positions the fish one day and they're completely gone the next. I'm guessing bigger creek arms and coves need some very stable and favorable prevailing conditions to be optimum for fish to select them in the spring for reproducing and feeding. I will caution everyone: don't get into thinking 'there's never fish there!' because sometimes the places I've only caught 2 fish in my life it's an 8 lber and an 11 lber but generally seems 'dead' And another x factor that plays heavily here (IMHO) is fishing pressure. I think whole coves on my lakes get avoided because they're so close to the marinas and so heavily fished!

I just buy what's on sale. I can cast the bait regardless of the side my reel ends up on thank goodness. I think regardless of whether you cast and switch hands or not, you're gonna miss some fish that bite the instant the bait hits the water. It's more about learning how to pay attention when you cast then which hand you use.

Toooooads @deep @Woody B, and @Choporoz !!!! Love to see everyone getting big beautiful bass in the spring time!

So far this April it's been Texas rigged beaver baits, swim jigs, spinner baits and lastly frogs!

Here in NC in the Piedmont region the fish are trying to spawn but persistently being shifted back and forth by cold fronts. So you're going to have to kind of find them where they are regardless of what lure you use. But for largemouth bass around here that are shallow cover oriented. I really like a pegged Texas rig or a jig with some kind of craw trailer. I also very much like spinnerbaits, bladed, jigs and buzzbaits and frogs for covering shallow cover and targets this time of year.

This works really well and I've actually converted a few old Mepps spinners over to snagless Sally because of the types of cover I fish all the time down here! I put an ewg on mine and I don't need a weed yard and it comes through everything!

I think power poles/anchors and knowing where to position your boat before you work an area is an art form and I am still learning that art form very much. I think a big part of this art is turning just about everything off when you're doing this kind of work from the boat. It's a style of fishing that tricks really smart fish when anglers have time and patience to do it (not a tournament).

I agree with bass fishing, you're going to want to pick one good body of water you're positive has some bass in it and focus your energy there for a while and learn to make *those* bass bite one lure and then from their you can try expanding your lure choice on those fish once you've found them or you can take your new confidence with that bait to another body of local water that you think holds bass and try it. But basically you need to build some confidence. The baits you have in the colors you already have work 365 days a year 24 hours a day all over the country on bass of all sizes......in the right hands. You gotta learn what the right hands means more so than baits. Presenting the lures takes years of practice to understand all the nuance and the nuance of presentation is what gets bites not the color or specific bait you're using.

Highlights from a super weird cold front. Lotsa toads! Too many to post smaller than this. Been a fun last 24 hours. Can't wait to see what this weekend has in store for us!!! Jake started us out right before it hit with a 5.5 on the boat and I followed him up with some chunky pre and post spawners at the pond while it blew hard and got chilly.

@TnRiver46 heaven right there. I still got to catch me a North Carolina smallmouth.

Keep sniffing around and if nothing comes to fruition shoot me a private message and we can talk about going out next weekend!

Red eyed bass are guarding beds most of the time! The spawn is on and it does indeed up the aggression significantly!

I mean shoot I might be able to take you out next weekend if all else fails. I know where they're at and what they're biting we just gotta do the rest 😂😂😂 Happy birthday!

If you caught an 8 lber And a 35 lb catfish then you did have luck and a lot of it LOL! Congratulations on the killer fish and figuring out what they were biting on. What did you end up catching the 8-pounder on??? I agree that in general you're going to want to fish from middle of the day till sunset this time of year for the best luck. But there still is an early morning bite. Make no mistake.

@ol'crickety you are a the shining Maine version example of this phenomenon for all that it's worth! I think the sheer volume of bass you're dealing with has a lot to do with the frequency of large ones being proportionally smaller. Probably has a lot to do with your grow season and stuff like that. I think in Florida there are times when there's just a lot of wolf packing females and they're usually pretty big and you can catch a lot of them out of the grass consecutively when they're stacked up. The best I've ever been able to muster is Three 5 pounders out of a tree on back to back to back casts but it was pretty cool.

@ol'crickety just watch yourself next time you go fishing (you seem like you are a perfect example of these days but your geographical frame of reference)🙊🙊🙊🔥🔥🔥 @Zcoker I know EXACTLY what days you're talking about and they always seem to be a warm drizzly front before it gets cold for a day or two when it's spring for me.

If you're going to be catching fish that big, you need to get a real digital scale with a fish Gripper. I suggest a waterproof one. I have the Kast King scale and to be honest with you it's been great for years and it's very accurate and it floats! Maybe 22$ or something?

I love how many share lunkers came from #9! They are gonna be trying to figure out what made her so unique for years and probably catching more of her progeny!

I listen to a lot of fishing podcasts while I work and one of the topics I find most fascinating is pond management and growing trophy fish. There's a ton of conflicting info out there but it seems like one of the things I hear a LOT that confuses me is that if crappie get into your water, there will be no big bass. In NC, it's literally the opposite as far as I can tell. The bluegill and bass ponds, the biggest ones are 4 lbs. The crappie and bass ponds, the biggest ones are 12. And I catch MEGA crappie so it's not like they are all small. You gotta figure the guys who make that claim have a specific frame of reference that leads them to believe 'crappie will make big bass impossible' But then again, everyone was completely convinced when I was a kid fishing lake Huron that gobies were the end of perch and smallies up North. That was also completely false. Just some fuel for discussion in the thread! Cool video Glenn!

Two 25 lb days is insane. This dude is legit.

This is what it's all about. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Hooked for life.

I've been way down the rabbit hole with a few things in my life at this point as a musician and as a person who engineers technology for mass consumption as a father and husband and also as a bass fisherman. In my opinion, there's no better place to be in one's life than way down in a rabbit hole. You don't always get where you're going, but the journey is always amazing when you're living your life that way and that's what counts. Choose your rabbit holes wisely and you will be rewarded with a very happy and fulfilling life.