On 12/13/2023 at 8:53 AM, Carolina Pines said:

I have never caught a smallmouth bass! 

 

They just don't live down here where I'm at in NC.  We have hunting property in VA on the James River but whenever I'm there I'm usually deer / turkey hunting.  I need to make some trips up there with the canoe so I can experience some brown bass action!!

You won't regret it. I love catching smallies more than largemouth, they're just so much more difficult to find (for me at least. @A-Jay might say differently).

I have never fished a big water. Only 2,000 acres and under. My river is long but, not something like the st Lawerence. 

I have never caught a fish over 1lb on a whopper plopper or buzzbait. 

On 9/12/2023 at 11:59 AM, galyonj said:

Never caught a bass on a chatterbait.

Same

Figure I got a record going, so I'm not about to try it now.

I've caught a bunch of doubles, but never caught 2 bass at once on an A-rig. Now that 5 baits are legal in KS, I figure it's just a matter of time. 

I have never cast an A-rig. I own a couple and one waited on deck, a space in my garage when I stage lures about to go to bat, but I kept pulling it back into the bullpen, afraid of casting such a heavy lure.

On 9/12/2023 at 1:15 PM, A-Jay said:

@galyonj @ol'crickety @Mobasser 

PLEASE consider changing the name of all your chatterbaits to "Vibrating Jig".

And then think of them and fish them that way.

#likeajig.

Meaning ONLY move the bait with the ROD, not the reel.

You'll be glad you did. 

My work is done here.

A-Jay

 

 Pure gold from a pro right there… Thanks A-Jay!

I have never used a Whopper Plopper.  I don't even own one.  

I've never placed lower than top 10 in a bass tournament.

I've never entered a bass tournament.

 

I've never caught a fish on a Carolina rig (have fished with them a bit, plan to try more next year)

My fishing bucket list has 2 left….

Landing a smallmouth and a spot
 

 

 

 

Mike

4 hours ago, Mike L said:

My fishing bucket list has 2 left….

Landing a smallmouth and a spot
 

 

 

 

Mike

That sounds like a trip to the TVA is needed, you can get a 2fer! 

 

I have never hooked or even seen a spot in real life.

 

scott

On 12/19/2023 at 9:49 AM, ol'crickety said:

I have never cast an A-rig.

Me neither.

 

I don't even own one.  The A-rig here can't have more than one hook though, the rest have to be fakes.  So really there is no advantage to using it over any other lure.

11 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Me neither.

 

I don't even own one.  The A-rig here can't have more than one hook though, the rest have to be fakes.  So really there is no advantage to using it over any other lure.

The presentation is a school of baitfish. I have caught all of my fish on the center 

wired bait. No doubles, no outer wires and no multiple hook-ups ever.  I catch

them late fall into early spring, in cooler water only.

1 hour ago, softwateronly said:

That sounds like a trip to the TVA is needed, you can get a 2fer! 

 

I have never hooked or even seen a spot in real life.

 

scott

I haven’t seen either one!

One of these days!

 

 

 

 

Mike

On 12/13/2023 at 8:53 AM, Carolina Pines said:

I have never caught a smallmouth bass! 

 

They just don't live down here where I'm at in NC.  We have hunting property in VA on the James River but whenever I'm there I'm usually deer / turkey hunting.  I need to make some trips up there with the canoe so I can experience some brown bass action!!

 

 

Do you fish jerkbaits on spinning gear? 

 

All my bigger jerkbaits like (pointer 100 and up) I'm throwing on casting gear and I can't imagine not having a DC reel.  I'll bomb cast them straight into the wind with zero hesitation... the noise is a little annoying at first.  But wow what a difference a DC reel makes on a jerkbait rod.  Completely thumb free!! 

 

I cast all my jerkbaits on a casting reel. I rarely use spinning gear

On 9/17/2023 at 8:52 AM, rboat said:

I also have never caught a bass on a traditional bass jig. 

 

As much as I have tried. . . for decades. . .

 

I'm hoping this will be the year, but I was hoping the same thing last year. And, as I did last year, I will go whatever direction the bass take me.

For the folks that can't catch a fish on a jig:  go to a small pond this spring during a warm front and fish when a light warm drizzle starts, preferably with a gentle SW air flow that's been rolling for a couple days.

 

Put a 3/8 oz green pumpkin jig with a green pumpkin rage menace on your line, dip the very *tips* of the flappers in chartreuse and cast it into the in flow ditch around some wood or rock preferably.

 

Now here's the hard part.

 

Get your phone out and read bass resource for 30 minutes.

 

Every 2-3 minutes sloooooowly edge that jig an inch or two.

 

I'll eat my hat if you don't catch a 3+ lber doing that.

I'm out of reactions, but I love @Pat Brown's comment.

I never caught a fish on a swim senko. 

Despite throwing it several trips this winter now that I’ve moved, thinking things might be different, I still have NEVER caught a single bass on an underspin in 40 years of fishing - not even on the original underspin, the Roadrunner 😆

1 hour ago, Team9nine said:

Despite throwing it several trips this winter now that I’ve moved, thinking things might be different, I still have NEVER caught a single bass on an underspin in 40 years of fishing - not even on the original underspin, the Roadrunner 😆

Frankly astonishing 

22 minutes ago, thediscochef said:

Frankly astonishing 

 

I feel the same way, but I expect some are astonished that I've never caught an LMB with a jig. I used to catch white bass two at a time on hair jigs joined by a three-way swivel on the Mississippi and Wolf River, and I've jigged up hundreds (thousands?) of walleyes, but no LMBs yet. 

9 hours ago, Pat Brown said:

I'll eat my hat if you don't catch a 3+ lber doing that.

For your sake, I’m hoping you don’t own a 10 gallon hat or sombrero. 😂

Throw me in the camp of never catching a largemouth on a chatterbait, and I have really tried.