I am still learning (again) about all the tackle I have bought over the months. I have been out of the game for 10+ years. Today was a great day to get out and try it all. 77*, sunny, no breeze. A perfect day

I threw just about everything I had including cranks, spinners, hula grubs, senkos, fat ikas, flukes, worms, spooks and so on. I only caught one fish in the 3 hours out but had a blast trying everthing out. I was fishing my bankbeater setup which includes a zebco rhino spinning on a 6' gx2 ugly stick with 12lb trilene xt and a diawa minicast40 baitcaster on a 4' 10" bps microglass with some cheap 6lb mono. Both cast far and reel easy so I didn't see a need to upgrade.

I ended up catching a 2.25lb largemouth on my favorite rig....the ned rig. Green pumpkin jig head on a junebug zman trd. I gill hooked this one and didn't notice the blood till after the weight and pic were taken. It swam off in a hurry so hopefully it's alright.

I can't wait to take my boat out and use my nicer setups. Anyone else fish this lake?

I started fishing there last year. I had a lot of luck with the tube x tubes with a rattle in them. They tore em up. I pulled out 4 3+ lbs Lrg Mouth in about an hour. I had a few people come up and ask what I was using because nobody was even getting a bite and had been there for hours. Been out a few times this year with no luck but its been a few weeks. Hope to get back out there in the next few weeks.

I was ready to take the boat on it's maiden voyage today only to find the lake shut down for boat races. I will be out next Saturday and will try tubes along with everything else I have been buying. Going to be a great weekend next weekend.

You see a guy in a blue HHR with dark tinted windows out there fishing stop and say hi! Always great to meet other people from the board and exchange info! Best of luck to ya! Let us know how your fishing goes!

Finally got my boat out. This is the first time I have ever taken a boat out and I was solo. Backing up sucked. I found out a couple things. The battery I thought needed replaced needs replaced. I had to move the motor over to the trolling motor. Running on one battery sucked so I didn't get to enjoy fishing out of fear of running the battery down. I backlashed one reel and didn't catch anything while on the boat. I also found that the boat runs much better when the trolling motor is up when at speed... Like I said, this is my first ever boat.

I did fish off the bank and caught this little guy and a dink off the ned rig.

I will hopefully get used to the boat and enjoy fishing out of it.

I got snagged on something 20 years ago felt like a body creeped me out.never been back

I got snagged on something 20 years ago felt like a body creeped me out.never been back[/quot

Really? What's a snagged body feel like lol?

 I knew you were gonna ask I had a rattle trap casting it down the shore line it snagged on something I could pull up felt like allot of weight then slowly it would go back down.Had to cut the line.it was on the side of the lake the road is on.Just a gut feeling something wasn't right.