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i've really been in a slump lately. i am not catching much and what i do catch is nothing to get excited about. im gonna have to go down to the farm pond this weekend and see if i cant fix that school started today

this guy right here is the bait monkey:

just you

wherever the water is too shallow to fish any other crankbait

i was unable to cast this lure on a baitcaster or my medium spinning setup. i used my ultralight setup w/ 6lb line.

went to the local lake which has recently suffered low oxygen levels and a big shad kill because of it. the fishing absolutley sucked. my friend hooked one bass that looked to be about 6-7" long and it came off the hook when it jumped. highlight of my day was having ONE hit on my shad swimbait. i was tuning the swimbait by bending the line tie, and i was reeling it in to test the action when i saw a big shadow follow it. there was a bass right on the tail end of this swimbait. so i stopped the swimbait real quick and it turned 90° to the left and the bass just chomped on the back of the swimbait! i could clearly see this 12-14" bass take two bites of the swimbait and turn around. i was excited and mad at the same time that he didnt get any hooks! anyway, thats my fishing report for today :-/

i use Tyco Adhesives Nashua Tape. im not sure where i got it, some local hardware store, but it is ULTRA sticky and has always preformed well for me.

trey i hate you! you have now convinced me to go buy a mattlures bluegill ;D this 9lber is very pretty! good job buddy!

today is my last day of summer :'( boo hoo

i caught a few bass at the farm pond on the original hand painted bluegill. oh, and, check your mailbox in a few weeks

next time try smoothing out the edges of the foil/paper more

you may have seen the thread about the new pond i was going to last night. well we went, and the pond is very nice, its very open, you can walk out onto this point (you get your feet wet...wear sandals ) that juts out into the very middle of the pond, so that is nice because you can cover a lot of water from the point. there is submerged vegetation, hydrilla i think, that makes fishing trebel hooked lures a nuisance. perfect grounds for big pickerel though but despite the great pond we didnt catch anything there, so we walked 5 minutes over to the next pond (a proven pond for us) and we each fished a green pumpkin chartail trick stick. there was a spot where the lily pads curved in and there was some open water in a pocket of the lily pads and i told my dad to cast there and let the trick stick sink. well he did and sure enough he hooked into a bass! but he was unable to land it because there was about 10 feet of lily pads and matted grass between the bass and him. that bass got off the hook. probably 20 minutes later, i had moved to the other side of the pond and he had moved a little bit down the shoreline where he started. he asked me if i thought that bass in the pocket would bite again and i said it sure will, so he casted into the pocket again and hooked up! he landed this bass. it was about 10 inches long. no picture becase i had the camera and i was all the way across the pond. right before he was about to release that bass, i hooked up with one on the other side of the pond. mine measured 9 3/4". please excuse the rediculous picture, its for the *** contest

reminds me of a swim senko that is designed to be wacky rigged instead of t-rigged. nice

stay away from eagle claw. they are dull and they rust. gamakatsu's are my personal favorite but owners, mustad, and VMC are good too. 4/0 is a good general size for most baits for bass. offset means it has that little bend behind the eye that helps hold the bait on the hook. ewg means extra wide gap and that is good for tex-posing because the hook point is inline with the hook eye. my favorite hooks are Gamakatsu G-Lock 4/0 EWG. quality hook right there.

see all that red in that basses mouth ,, more on the lips ... a guy told me when you catch a bass that has a red in the lips and mouth ,,, its a sign that the bass has been smashing the baitfish ... im not sure how true that is ,,, but you did catch that fish on a gill bait ... looks like you were fishing what that bass was looking for ,,, nice one ... i have to go soulth or to cally in serch of these giant bass ... i heard/read that when their teeth are dull and their lips are red it means theyre eating hard food like crawfish, and then their teeth are pretty sharp and they lips arent very irritated it meant they were feeding on softer prey like baitfish...

thanks guys, im going in the evening, from about 5:30 or 6:00 to dark. i will probably just end up experiemting with several lures and just fish around the whole pond. i hope there is good access on the east shore, for some reason i remember it having a lot of saplings and brush. i think there was a trail though. im really not sure if i want to use a jig, because i have zero confidence in them, and when im trying to locate some fish, i think i might do better with something i have confidence in.

ok guys i'm going to this pond tomorrow and i know its got big ones. the guy who told me about it regularly catches 3's 4's and 5's out of here (bigger than average for me). i've seen pictures so i know hes not BS'ing anyway, in the picture the bright colored stuff around the edge is water that is between ankle and kneed deep. i plan on wading out into this so that i can cast to deeper water. you can see where the water gets deeper if you look hard enough. there is actually a distinct line of where it changes from ankle deep water, to medium water, to the deepest water. look hard and you'll see it. anyway, i plan on experimenting with jigs and my swimbaits in hopes of getting a big bass or a big pickerel. so do you all have any tips for fishing this pond? if so please speak up! i need some help! thanks guys

Dude, I don't know if you stick pigs on a daily basis, but I'm pretty sure that if I stuck an 8+ on every $23 bait I bought, I wouldnt be whining about it. With some creativity, and a bottle of superglue, you should be able to get that bait up and running again. BASS, Nice fish! That thing is prefectly proportioned. I bet that made your night. haha nice one i sure wouldnt be whining if i caught an 8 on it either! but up here in maryland, my luck i'd get a 2lber that would destroy the bait before an 8 gets a glimpse of it. :

yeah i would just get highly P.O.'d to see a lure i just paid 23 bucks for get ripped like that.... this is why i dont fish soft swimbaits sent you a pm

dang sweet fish man. thats really awesome! i would hate to pay 23 bucks for a soft lure like that and have it get torn like yours did after one fish :'(

well if you said normally you catch them left and right, then just do what you have always done. maybe they just werent biting today. i would continue to do what you've been doing for at least another week and if you still dont get one, try one of these: http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_-1_10001_44322_175002003_175000000_175002000_175-2-3 little bass and bream cant stand the things!

man if they start having crazy sales i am so ready! those mojo bass caught my eye. nice split grip, good price, i just hope the rod itself is good!

right now i am selling them for $20 plus shipping for a bait without hooks or split rings, $25 plus shipping for a bait with hooks and rings.

yeah that video comes up a lot. that lure is rediculous though. way too big for practical use, i dont even think anything would attempt to eat it, and the bucktail trebel hook is dumb, ruins the whole bait IMO. i think he should have put fins on it. i also dont like the action too much. other than that its a well crafted lure