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Thanks. Some things I had not thought about. I never heard of coconut water drinks before.

So far, the baits of this type that are on my radar are Rage Bug BPS Swim-N-Elite Chunk Zoom Z Hog What others are in this category that I might not be aware of?

Howdy. I'm 50 miles south of Louisville. I don't have a kayak, and am primarily a bank fisherman. I would like to find some local clubs myself.

Interesting replies. I hadn't thought about jerky. There has been times I fished (bank) for 4-6 hours and started feeling poorly because I needed to eat something, I'm a bit hypoglycemic. So I always keep a snack with me, and that helps.

If I was going to recommend lures for someone in Florida, but considering I've yet to fish Florida, but bass eat the same things everywhere, here we go: Beetle Spin 1/4oz, black body Popper Topwater frog Sqaurebill crankbait, H20X or KVD 1.5 in colors gold and red Roostertail 1/4oz, in colors white and black Size 3 Spro ball bearing swivel added to roostertail to reduce line twist 3/8oz jig, brown Rage Bug for jig trailer, also useful as a texas rigged bait 3/8oz Spinnerbait in orange or bluegill type colors Texas rig: Bobber stop 1/8oz and 1/4oz bullet weight 3/0 offset wormhook 5" Senko in Green pumpkin 297 Berkley PowerWorm in plum or watermelon Zoom Baby Brush Hog in Okeechobee craw or green pumpkin Zoom Super Fluke (used weightless) junebug, watermelon red, white Texas Rig is a system. Starting at the front, it's a bobber stop, a weight, a hook, a soft plastic. You can use just about any soft plastic. And likewise you can use any weight of weight. You can use smaller or larger hooks, but 3/0 will work for most things. Some lures, like the texas rig, and the topwater frog, can be thrown into moderate to heavy vegetation. You can't throw it into cattails, but you can throw it into lilypads, heavy moss, heavy underwater plants. Those are the go to lures for working in "the slop". You can pretty much throw the other lures anywhere you want as long as it's not super heavy vegetation. Spinnerbaits are more snag proof than others. Squarebill crankbaits bounce of stuff instead of getting snagged, but you do lose them occasionally. Just learn to deal with losing lures.

After a couple hours I need a sugar boost, unless I'm drinking a coke while fishing.

For short trips I take fruit snacks with me. Sometimes I'll take peanut butter crackers or cheese nips. What about yall?

I've not had great luck the few times I fished during a downpour. I have had pretty good success though fishing during light rain showers. Rain stirs the water up, gets the baitfish to moving.

Howdy and welcome. Trilene XL is good line, dark green is a good all around color even for clear water, and 12 pound is a good all around pound weight. You don't normally use a leader with monofilament line. Normally, a fluoro lead is used with braided mainline. What is common is: Mono no leader Braid no leader Fluorocarbon no leader Braid w/ mono leader Braid w/ fluoro leader When using a leader, like braid to fluoro, you don't use a swivel. You tie a special knot to connect the two lines. Knots used can be, but not limited to: Uni to Uni Alberto FG Swivels are not used a whole lot in bass fishing. Traditional carolina rigs is the main place, though there is something called a double fluke or donkey rig that uses swivels as well. Some people use snaps to attach their lure, but most people tie directly to the lure. Common knots include but aren't limited to: Improved Clinch Trilene Knot Uni Knot SanDiego Jam Palomar Which knot is mostly personal preference. Sometimes you need to tie a specific knot for a specific application. A Palomar knot for example is used when making a drop shot rig, because of the way the knot positions the hook. I use a Trilene knot most of the time for my general purpose knot. Occasionally you need a loop knot, for that I use a Kreh loop knot.

I am serious... but I still have fun. I'm serious about all of my hobbies. I usually only fish a couple hours per trip. Sometimes it's with my family at a park. My wife is willing to wait about 2 hours, so with that I try to be efficient with my time. I do get skunked, but if you only have 2 hours, do you really get skunked? No doubt I'd catch something if I had more time. To me, it's fun to have success. Success is, being able to cast without getting into the trees, presenting a lure reasonably well, reading the water and conditions to choose a lure and technique, and catching a fish or two. I don't always catch one, but I am normally successful in the others. I don't stress about it though, I do have fun, but it's serious fun.

I checked out 2 spots over the weekend. The first is a public lake I'd never fished, close to my buddy's church which had some vittles and fireworks. There was 3-4 others on the bank and 3-4 on the water. Not bad at all. I struck up a conversation with one I fished near and caught a bass. He commened he'd been there hours and I roll in and get one in 5 minutes. I went back after the fireworks and got 2 more, and there was 2 others catfishing on the other end. Then, Saturday evening, I went down to the river. There were 4 others fishing, 1 a guy with his family. The family was playing in the water. They were kinda on my spot. As soon as they left, I caught a crappie, a goggle eye, and a walleye.

Went down to a buddy's church for a 4th of July cookout and fireworks. Since I was in the area, I checked out a local lake that's in the area. My buddy indicates it's hard fishing. I got a little one throwing a baby brush hog into a bush. I went back after the fireworks and got 2 more. I'll definitely be going back.

Went down to the river, and while I was targeting bass... no bass were targeting my offerings. Met a couple of korean dudes down there and gave them the crankbait I was using. Interesting to see how folks from other countries fish.

I hear this term a lot, and folks seem to use flippin when they are talking about anything close. My understanding though is that flipping is when you use your off hand to pull and control the line while your strong hand controls the rod. The reel is locked, and the off hand moves the line through the guides so as to control the lure in a manner that it enters the water very softly. While pitching is when you take the lure in your off hand and sort of throw it while the strong hand raises the rod tip quickly, allowing the lure to pendulum towards your intended target. Usually resulting in a low to the water lure presentation. But, what I've noticed is people say "I went down this shoreline flippin' and pitchin'", but in actuality, they did neither, they mostly were roll casting or just short casting to various targets of opportunity such as stumps, brush, and pockets. Is there not a term for short casting to these targets and people just say flippin' and pitchin' because there isn't another name for it or what?

I'm no expert on brim, so I'd like to learn some tricks too. It's been my experience that they are pretty much on any shoreline that is shallow and looks good. I've had success catching them on small curly tail grubs, beetle spins, roostertails, and small crankbaits. I haven't had a huge amount of success with the roostertails and crankbaits, as I'm targeting bass. But if I get into a spot where gills are messing with my plastic worms, I may downsize to a grub and catch a few. Bluegills have small mouths, but if you're open to other brim, such as greensunfish and warmouth, which have larger mouths, they are more easily caught.

I am halfway through the first video. WOW, that's some good stuff. I stopped and downloaded google earth pro and started checking out the fishing holes I use. Man this is going to be a game changer for me.

Well, I have tried a tungsten weight that I found. I assume it's tungsten, its heavier for size than lead, and just barely magnetic. It's extremely hard too. The advantage for me is the size to weight ratio. It's only a little more sensitive but I haven't found that to be an advantage since I'm using mono, and all of the places I fish are pretty soft bottoms.

Thanks for sharing. I've been using google earth to try to better understand my current spots, and to look for new ones. I'm not very good at it yet, so I'm excited to watch.

I normally do 3-4 fast pops then pause for a second. I also do a slow steady pop with about a second between pops. I normally use a Rebel Pop-R, but I've used a ChugBug and liked it pretty good. I have an H20X popper that I've yet to try. I found it and put hooks on it. I like the size and shape.

The wife's sisters works at disney. We'll probably eventually visit there, mostly so I can fish some areas in florida. I have no interest in disney.

Happy 4th everyone! My wife and young'uns and I went down to my buddy's church for a cookout and fireworks. Before going, I checked out a new to me spot that's in the area. A public lake, which has easy access along 2 sides. I worked around about 40 yards of shoreline and got to where someone was fishing with a bobber. I asked if he'd mind if I worked a bush that was about 20 yards to his left. He said sure, he wasn't fishing it. I caught a small bass on the second cast to that bush. Fished a few more minutes and then left for the cookout. Great sunset opposite of the church. I decided to swing back by the spot on the way home, about 11:00. I caught 2 more bass, another of that bush. There were a few lights, so easy enough to see. There was 2 guys fishing way on the other side, probably catfishing by the sound of it. All in all, a great day.

How close will bass get to this outflow? Will they be concerned with going down the drain?

I’d have the most trouble in a deep clear reservoir lake. I believe bass are the same everywhere, within several specific sets of behaviors. Some relate to structure, some relate to bait fish, some relate to current. I think if you figure out what kind of bass are in that specific body of water and then change accordingly you could catch bass anywhere. And how do you figure it out? You try fishing one of several different ways and see what they’re relating to. I can’t imagine a lake or a body of water that has docks that bass aren’t relating to the docks, so in that sense they’re the same everywhere.