HesterIsGod

cool. My wally world has a lot of great deals right now too.

You can eat a few bass every now and then, its fine but just use selective harvest and leave the real big ones, they don't taste good anyway

I've never used it but the only time I would use it would be extremely heavy cover where I could not use an exposed hook.

If you would actually use bleeding baits or better yet lures with red hooks, you would understand why they are important. What the bleeding effect does is it makes the fish swallow the lure more and hit it harder. The bleeding effect does not simulate and baitfish bleeding from the outside, it simulates when a prey fish gets hit and bleeds on the inside. Bass are natural predators. So this bleeding effect makes them more aggressive, naturaly. One day this spring grab a buddy and tie on a lipless crank or a jerkbait, but substitute a red hook in the front on one of them. You will quickly learn that the fish swallow the bait with the red hook in front and you get a better hook up % and less thrown hooks

wow

Nice job! Looks like a beautiful pond in the backround too.

Well, now things can only go up

Welcome!

Yes it is, keep at it John

not a bass but at least it is something

I dont know how long you call long, but when I was like 10 or 11 my uncle caught a real big bass (7 or 8 lbs) in the middle of summer (95 degrees) in a remote farm pond southern Illinois. He put it in a bucket full of water and drove his ATV back to our cabin to tell us. We drove back out to the pond, looked at it, took pictures and even clipped a big orange thing to its fin. All in all the fish was in the bucket for about 25-30 minutes and out for pics for a minute or two. It survived and was seen the next spring spawning.

Just saw the seven day today and it is suppose to warm up after Saturday, in Chicago at least. Cant wait

he said he fished it 2-3 times per week though so its not that "unfished anymore"

welcome!

I can never remember my dreams, or maybe i never dream at all :-?

I love chinese food, eat it like 3 times a week from a local restaurant and never get sick of it

You pretty much said it all, the only time I use mono is topwaters.

Amber is the best all around color

zoom ole monsters for me

In my opinion, I think in the future, 20 or 25 years down the road, all or most soft plastics will be biodegradable.

wow big fish!

Welcome guys!

I had your thinking until two years ago. I went to go fishing in a nearby heavily fished local pond just after ice out. In fact, there was still a couple of big sheets of floating ice on the lake! Well a pretty seasoned fisherman there showed me that ice out can be one of the best times to fish. We caught a bunch of fish and he even got into of a school of 4 pounders and caught 3 of them!!! Ice out is great fishing, think about it. The fish have not seen any lures since november or december (besides minnows and swedish pimples from ice fisherman). Plus, when the ice on the lake officially comes off then those few days there after are usually pretty mild, warm and sunny which means the fish move shallow and put on the feedbag in a hurry for the spawn. The water is still cold and you have to fish accordingly but you it can still be great fishing, especially for big ones.

Welcome!

Thats a good choice he is always good in Florida. But I have a system this year. I pick Van Dam every time. So I know I will at least get one or two tournaments right.