Pat Brown

Oh come on guys lol We all know he just got a BR account and saw what Alex was doing on the drift fry this past winter! Maybe at least wait till the tournament is over for the guy to spill the juice 😂😂😂😂

I have heard that it's not necessarily the hooks that make em stop biting a bait so much as recognizing that it is not a food item. I would never give my bass a freebie like that it's hard enough to catch them as it is!

Probably either a) getting his buzzbait ready for maximum hookset power coming soon to an Alabama lake near us or b) perhaps getting the new Alabama state record spotted bass certified. Who's to say!?!?

After catching that tank this morning I had to go back for more after work when Jake got home from school... 20 mile an hour southerly airflow smacking a warm sunny rip rap bank huh? Red Eye Shad said hold my beer today: Heck of an afternoon fishing the lipless! Managed another tank when the sun got low. Hoping the fun continues tomorrow! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

I lost a giant that hit a buzzing swim jig at the bank and then I got my red eye shad from the car and caught this behemoth this morning. Hoping this weekend continues to be this fun!

Scoop dead leaves in the shallow muddy parts of the creek arms. You'll see whatcha got real quick!

My son is catching crayfish blind scooping dead leaves at the lake and pond while we bank fish. They are 2+3 " long and mostly black with a little bit of deep mossy green. At the end of the summer they had deep red mixed in. I still think the red baits in the spring deal is mostly that bass are aggressive and hungry and water is often low/muddy from spring rains and red just helps them find it. It's a shame the crawfish love dead leaves so much. They're tricky to fish slow without collecting debris in my experience! Bass get a twofer with dead leaves because they usually form a black spot wherever they collect on the bottom - which can be great for warming the bottom on sunny days. Big bass will sit belly down in the black leaf mat. We have also caught really big crawdads that are black with deep blue mixed in! So black and blue does actually match real crayfish. We should probably throw black and blue crankbaits more! 😎

I just got the floating 6th sense trace 6" model during the tackle warehouse sale and it looks promising. The Shine Glide is definitely my favorite that I've used so far. The Glide Swimmer also made by Savage Gear has caught me some big ones. I like the 9" glide swimmer and the 7.25" shine glide. The Trace is multi jointed and has a soft tail but it floats which should be deadly in the post spawn on super shallow hard spots and staging areas. Definitely looking forward to throwing the Shine and Glide Swimmer again this spring. They're both a pleasure to fish and get NAILED by big fish. Maybe some day when I'm rich and don't catch my largest bass on things like small lipless crankbaits and worms and jigs, I'll be more invested in the glide bait thing..... but of the cheaper ones, the Savage Gear offerings are incredibly effective and seem pretty tough! They are definitely great for revealing big fish when the water is clear and the wind is blowing and they get bit enough for me to say I have confidence throwing them. Kinda like a Jerkbait and a Wakebait had a large baby. The key is learning to work them with the reel on a tight line IMHO. Good luck!

@A-Jay shared this thread in another thread and rather than highjack that thread or start a redundant new thread, I figured I'd add my 0.02¢ I think a HUGE advantage to changing hooks on crankbaits (and probably all hard baits) is that if you are on a pressured fishery where everyone uses popular lures....I believe modifications to the lure such as treble hooks or split rings can change the action substantially. This new action 'signature' in the water constitutes an entirely new bait to the bass. I think with lipless crankbaits and other baits where the vibration draws fish in, anything you can do to change how it thumps in the water can add up to more bites. I also think up sizing hooks is always preferable for me, but I'm tangling with really big fish and I find bigger hooks help keel baits which I like.

The only thing I do with these (and all EWG trebles) is bend the hooks slightly outwards so swipers get hooked. I'm not a fan of hooks that point inwards. For me, they definitely keep fish pinned. What causes me to lose fish is hooks that get dull. Buy a hook sharpener because using hooks normally dulls them very quickly.

Just came here to post that you can be lazy and color your non red hard baits red and then when it's not spring you can wipe the red off with rubbing alcohol and it'll be good as new. I almost always add some yellow to my baitfish cranks also. Just a little juice for y'all 😉🎣

Just one quick one before chores this morning. Bout to head back for the sunset showdown. Hoping to get into a bigger one. It was fun catching one on a discontinued strike King color though.

Color matters in predictable AND unpredictable ways sometimes and sometimes it doesn't matter. The key is being aware of times when you need to tie a certain color on and why IMHO. I tie on colors more based on conditions than anything. When the water is clear I want a clear bait. Especially if the sun is burning bright. When it's dirty I want more opacity and brighter hues. Sky conditions and especially wind play a big role but I will throw lipless crankbaits on bluebird skies without so much as a breeze if the water is stained. There's a lot of room in between and variations on baits for those situations. I find it absolutely does matter especially if your water clarity fluctuates a lot.

Yeah I don't even like red when it's stained. I'm talking chocolate milk, so I can see how some fisheries it would never get used. I'd suggest a green pumpkin craw crankbait with some transparency for those fisheries where they're eating bream and possibly crawdads but the water never gets less than 2 ft of vis.

I like red when it's muddy as all get out. I predict I will be tying red on this Thursday after it rains for a couple days straight! Red can work when it's clear, but I find it's a very effective color when it's very poor visibility. For the record I fish central NC around the tri city area.

Cold front hit hard and had the north wind stirring everything this morning but managed to persuade a couple little guys. Both on the red eye shad. Gonna get out there after Jake's basketball game and see if I can't find ole Nadine. I am pretty positive she's gonna be eating around that time. 😎😎😎🎣🎣🎣

Me and my son both learned how to fish slow on weightless senkos and caught some big ones doing it. I'd wait til it's a hair warmer and give em a spinning rod with 8 lb mono, 2/0 EWG and a 5" Senko and rig it ULTRA weedless and tell em to throw it at stuff! Pop'r on the same rig will show em topwater! Beetle spin on the same rig will show em horizontal retrieve. Tell them to retrieve it very very slowly regardless of bait type😎😎😎😎

@Catt I'm gonna try this 3/4 oz Siebert brush jig with a thinned out skirt and a zoom chunk. My plan is to do a lift drop cadence that mirrors what's been getting the biggest bites on the lipless! 😉

Good info @Catt and that totally checks out for me this winter. I fished fast this winter and caught 10:1 what I caught last year. I'll definitely be going heavy and compact with little to no 'impeding' the fall with the trailer selection. Should be fun! 😎🙏🏼🎣

I gotta try fishing a super heavy jig real fast this weekend. Been mostly crawling em around and not getting so much as a sniff!

Paging Dr. @Catt I know you like throwing a full size lobster on a jig with uncut skirt, you gonna sling these?

Scott is a great bass fisherman and for tournament anglers, I understand the need to use the means available to them to win. I think the tournament organizations have their hands tied because of the money that Garmin and Lowrance and Humminbird kick them. It's all good people can do what they want but IMO, AI controlled robot Jerkbaits with cameras on them and reels that will set the hook for you are coming. When do we draw the line for a professional sport? I don't have the answers, but it doesn't seem to be about instinct or skill or accumulated knowledge about bass fishing now, it's how good at electronics are you.

If the fish was doing what we thought and biting what we cast in the places we are casting every single time, wouldn't be much fun? 🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣 I love a good skunk. Tells me I'm that much closer to my next PB. A lot of times, a day with no bites means you're on the big fish pattern and they're tight lipped.

Red Eye Shad got it done at the pond today. Lost a really big one on the way in and a 2-3 lber on the way in but happy to have caught these ones. Managed 4 little guys at the pond on the buzzbait at sunset. Bite totally shut down once the sun got too low.

Black white and clear. Done! Topwater is the easiest colors to pick by far.