Pat Brown

Let's GO @ol'crickety and @J._Bricker!!! Breaking the seal and it feels so good!!!

They're still on the lipless.🥹🥹🥹♥️♥️♥️

I caught an 11.5 lber on a t rigged worm. And lots of 6-8 lbers. It's good lol Don't overthink bass fishing! 😉😉😉😉 *Casts worm at object*

Texas rigged worm. It just works. They tried to ban it when it first came out. Studies show bass can learn every lure but a worm. Worm. If we are gonna be shop talky: Zoom Trick Worm in Watermelon red with the tip dipped in chartreuse spike it with a 3/16 oz unpegged tungsten flipping weight, 3/0 offset worm hook (I like Owner!) on 12 lb Berkley big game on a medium heavy fast 7" rod with a 8 speed reel. That's gonna catch a bass. If I'm going after big girls, same set up but 15 lb big game and give me a jig with a rage craw or super chunk.

I'm legitimately looking into getting those perforated boards that you can affix to the wall and store products similar to the ones you see at fishing retail establishments. It's getting bad. 😂😂😂

I mean life only happens once and sometimes you just feel that big fish mojo. My parents pulled me out of school for dumber stuff growing up plenty of times. 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

For me it's 'never' I use big game 12 or 15 or 20 lb for everything except frogs and buzzbaits which get 40 lb 4 strand braid. Braid is by far my least favorite line to fish with but is a necessary evil with frogs and buzzbaits in thick grass. I don't hate fluorocarbon but I vastly prefer big game to any fluorocarbon Ive tried.

I use markers on hard baits and softbaits to get stuff like this! Works great when you need a certain color but just have something plain like green pumpkin or sexy shad.

It seems like the otters have found a really abundant supply of freshwater oysters in the pond that I fish and everywhere I see them depositing their debris. It's just oyster shells. I never see fish bones at all! I wonder if given a choice between shellfish and swimming fish they go for shellfish?

To that effect @fin sometimes what I like to do is find the muddiest water on the lake and work my way backwards out until I find that sweet spot between the clear water and the muddy water where the fish are active and holding!

Wind seems to stir it up off the bottom more and heavy rain washes it in from outside. I feel like muddy water positions fish much shallower and very tight to cover and to some degree, makes them easier to catch. I like baits that displace a lot of water and create a ruckus when it's muddy and I usually slow my retrieves down just a hair from my typical speeds. Muddy water can produce the biggest bass of the year because they're more likely to hit something that normally they would recognize as not food and avoid.

The cormorants are abundant on our big lake but usually only see one or maybe two at the ponds. Ponds have more heron/beaver/snapping turtles/otter than cormorants but still it seems like in general these animals all go for stuff that easily fits in their mouth since there's plenty of that to be had.

They seem to get a lot of attention from sizable ditch pickles around here 😉😉😉

I really like to burn the heavier ones just under the surface when it's clear and I like to burn the lighter ones just under the surface when it's muddy. Shallow water. Near objects or structure. 😎😎😎🤫🤫🤫

That looks just like the spot where I got my PB golden retriever.

White chartreuse with gold blades by far!

Disclaimer: I was and am answering this thread not intending to label myself a 'hammer', lol, just trying to be helpful. Let me clarify what I wrote earlier a little: The more time on the water where you're deeply focused on every cast' and what your bait is doing and how fish are reacting, is a day that makes you a little better. Intentional time on the water. If you find yourself casting and not really knowing why or you find yourself just casting and retrieving the bait and staring off into space, you're not absorbing much or getting better. Fishing has to be intentional to be a skill you improve. But basically yeah, there are volumes upon volumes that could be (and have been) written on this topic and it continues to evolve as does our understanding of big bass behavior. I think focusing on one body of water you know has a good population of bass is the best place to start and fishing there often and intentionally will produce results. As for building confidence and achieving your first success, pick the method that sounds the most fun to you because most methods work if you commit to them and learn their nuances.

Intentional and productive time on the water. Not just time on the water. 😉😉😉😉

Oh yeah when do I like to use them? Clear water. Makes retrieving them horizontally at high speeds MUCH better looking when you're trying to trigger a reaction strike and the bass have been slow rolled into boats too many times.

Siebert's grass jig is a swim jig that's a little heavier duty and has a really good bite gap and you can get 3/4, 1 oz and 1.5 oz 😉

I think it was @TnRiver46 who said something like 'no one sells more FFS units than RB' and that's pretty much the long and short of it. He actually seems cool to me and I enjoy watching his old tournaments when he was adapting to new technology and still in the game mentally but you can tell he has a hard time having a sense of humor about his views. He also has built a brand that pays his bills on a hyper critical and negative persona. Sort of sad. I feel bad for the guy. I hope he can maybe focus on educating young anglers on ways they can help make our fisheries better instead of just bad mouthing trendy stuff. It's not a good look. I have learned a lot of cool stuff over the years from him and I think he just needs to be a little more humble and maybe step down off the soap box but I can understand that maybe that won't make his sponsors happy and that's an awful spot to be in. I would like to see more research and more limitations in tournaments mainly to make it a level playing field and more sport like and less free for all. On individual fisheries, let them sort it out over time. Nothing happens overnight and hasty bans are historically dumb.

If you have floating type docks and can get parallel, a Jerkbait is very deadly.

Siebert G2 is awesome! Stands up and comes through rock really well but also works surprisingly well in brush. His skirt options are hard to beat and wire tied with nice hooks. He also has a tungsten football jig with a lighter wire hook and a more traditional head shape that I also love.

Worm/jig/spinnerbait/buzzbait/chatterbait/swimbait.

I'm sure guides in Florida already do this. Shiners + FFS I'm guessing it's just a funner day for clients mostly.