Hello everyone! My name is Matthew Luce, I'm fourteen, and I'm from a rural town in SE Oklahoma. I just got bit by the fishing bug this year; when a bluegrass jam (I'm a fiddle player) a man taught me how to fish in a small pond, and bought me my first rod and reel. I fished for big ole' perch (maybe 4 inches long), and a turtle. Just last week I was at another bluegrass jam in Waldron, Arkansas; where they had an even bigger pond. Me and my adopted Grandpa caught about 20lbs of bluegill in three days. Then one day about 8 AM I saw something break water. So I said, "Hey, Dub (my aforementioned adopted grandfather) what was that?"

He said it was a bass. So I asked him how to catch it. I had purchased some 1 dollar walmart spinner baits the day before just because they looked neat. I had no idea what they were, or how they were fished  :-[. So I asked him if a spinnerbait would work. He said it would. So I grabbed my chartruese 1/4oz. spinnerbait and got to it. On my third cast a bass exploded out of the water with my lure in his mouth. When I got it into shore It weighed a tad over two pounds. Since then I've been hooked. I think I can learn a lot here; because the people aren't afraid to share they're knowledge (or lack thereof  ;D)

Welcome, Matthew!  Click the Fishing Articles tab at the upper left of this page and you'll find plenty of reading to help you get up to speed with bass fishing.  The articles under the "For Beginning Anglers" section may be especially helpful initially.  

Welcome aboard!

8-)

Welcome.

Welcome to the forums.  There is so much to be learned on this site. You are in a great part of the country for bass fishing.  Tight Lines.

Hey! Im 16 and from Tulsa Oklahoma and oklahoma has lots of good fishing! Since your in south eastern Oklahoma you need to go to Beavers Bend and do some trout fishing! You will think that you are In the mountains of colrado!

Welcome home!

Hi welcome to bassresource. There's alot of good information on this site so pay attention and you'll learn alot.  What part of oklahoma are you from? I just got back from oklahoma with a friend. We stayed between Ada and Paul's Valley at Lake Longmire.  It's a trophy lake. The minimum length limit is 22 inches. I believe the stae record was caught from there.

Matthew

Greetings & Welcome To The Most Informative Site On The Net

Tight Lines!!!  

Hi welcome to bassresource. There's alot of good information on this site so pay attention and you'll learn alot. What part of oklahoma are you from? I just got back from oklahoma with a friend. We stayed between Ada and Paul's Valley at Lake Longmire. It's a trophy lake. The minimum length limit is 22 inches. I believe the stae record was caught from there.

I live down in Lleflore county. I was about 20 miles for Paul's Valley the other day. Man they have good BBQ there  

Welcome to BR from California, The Land Of Fruits And Nuts!

matt,

the next time you go to waldron and come through mansfield give me a shout i will give you some of my handcarved handpainted bass plugs i make all out of wood nice to see you here my number is 479-353-0283

to a great site. Lots of great information to be found here.

Welcome aboard Matt, nice to see another face from OK.

Welcome!!