Clinton john

The type of bite you just described is the same kind of bite I have been getting on the caffine shad swim bait the last few days. Never feel a hit are tap line just gets heavy and if you keep reeling you can feel the fish trying to swim in a diffrent direction. Best bet when you feel weight like your in a grass ball, set the hook. And don't wait a long time because you take the risk of killing the fish because it swallows your hook are you hook it in the gills.

I have meet him twice on the bend and got to say he is one stand up dude. Would love to spend a day fishing with him, would have to bring a recorder so I wouldn't lose all the knowledge of bass fishing that he would drop while fishing.

Any thing made by Lews, that's all I use is Less reels have several from their lowest level to high end level and all of them or four years old now with three long hard Toledo Bend spawns on them and all of them are still running fine. And yea I don't maintain my reels when they break I buy a new one.

7 to 7.5 foot Heavy action with a fast tip, should be great for those baits and also will double as a dang good frog rod. I have the Powell Inferno H-F and use it for all my frogs and other buzzing type top water baits.

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Ribbet frogs Rod H fast tip Grow it out and hold on lol.

I think you have something wrong with your trolling motor. My pro crappie is 17.5 and it has a 46# thrust trolling motor and I put on average 6 to 8 hours of run time on it on a casual day of fishing and do a whole day dawn to dark atleast once a week and my battery still has juice leavt, i charge it but it does have juice leavt. And yes my trolling motor is a 12 volt motor.

Lots of good info on this, here is my take. Rod 7-7'6 Heavy action and fast tip. Braided line, I use 30# no matter where I'm fishing but started out useing 50#. I use the spro frogs sometimes but have better results with ribbets, I use all the diffrent sizes. Like others have said give it a few seconds when it gets hit, when you reel out the slack and feel the bass chomping on your frog and feel its weight, bare down and cross its eyes when you set the hook. Fish a bunch of colors to find what works best for where you fish. When the sun is high fish it tight to flooded brush and log jams as well as thick grass pads. I fish frogs from early February all the way till November most times.

Watermelon red is the only color we used in the caffine shad.

Yep any and all grass in ten foot or less water, with the best bites comeing in a foot to three foot of water around buck brush and are grass mixed in are close bye the brush. We caught a total of 29 today those are the keepers that we could tell weren't full of eggs. Had two big bass we released that were close to five pounds. It was about even on the two baits producing bites. We would have fished longer then we did but the white caps got up to two foot and we were in a 16 foot flat so we came off the water and got the grease hot for some fresh fried fish tonight.

Ribbet frogs and caffine shad rigged on a Owner under spinner swim bait hook, size 5 hook and 5 inch caffine shad.

Pic from today is all from San Miguel.

Super high winds and still smoked them today. Me and my best freind hit 15 today.

WRB is right. But for me if it was a three cylinder two stroke ohhh you bet I would drop the cash to completely rebuild and sup up that pup. I love me some old merc and yammy motors that or three cylinder two strokes.

Flotation and support. Gas tank up front left side, battery up front right side in a battery box, and rock that bad boy out, on some of those hydrilla gorilla's

Me and dad hit them good this evening on watermelon red caffine shad rigged with a underspiner hook in one too three foot of water all bass were keepers biggest was three pounds even. We ended with me having my eight and dad had seven. Can't wait for a hour to sunrise tommorw morning

I'm going to be the odd - man out and say instead of dropping a few grand on a new motor bring it to a merc certified mech, and have it completely rebuilt and maybe a lil upgrade for much less. Now I said that i don't know what mech's charge where you live but where I bring my motors it would be around two grand for a complete rebuild and upgrade.

Like Catt says, you can catch a limit every day on any bait all you got to do is fish enough bank.

If a ribbet frog is working I don't see why a buzzbait wouldn't work also.

Cold water and swimming don't mix, Get yourself a ten foot pole and put a dip net on the end of it and fish the phone out. Then next time your out fishing put a leash on your phone case. Again large dip net and ten foot pole.

Bite didn't seem to be that bad for us up on San Miguel Thursday and friday. Didn't fish Saturday because I was out of town, got back today and me and dad slammed them this evening on chatterbaits, caffeine shad swimbaits, square bill crankbaits and ribbet frog. Had five bass over four pounds one on the chatterbait, three on crankbaits, one on the frog. Hope it gets better for you sir.

I only use braid on my frog rod so guess my thoughts can't really help you much but I use power pro 30# .

I say who cares what someone what's to call it, life is short and the spawn is shorter. Y'all waisting time let's go fishing.

I have never seen that done before. I just tie straight to the ring on the bait, it doesn't take much time or effort to change out baits. To each there own I guess, just seems like anouther place you could get broke off at.

Fish more during the middle of the week. Best thing is to just sacrifice a day of fishing and just watch where the crowds fish most often, once you figure that out then you will know where not to fish when the crowds are out and where to fish and find good bites because nobody fish's there.