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I hope your gardener is also Robert, LOL.

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Bass_Fanatic, feel free jump in here any time, this thread is about anglers who love Toledo and want to help others learn our favorite pond. Thank you very much Shanon, excellent report! bayouXpress, mark em up on the map! I would also start looking at deep water structure (12-18’)

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How wide and deep is this river? Will definitely play a part in the presentation you should be using. To start off with, a great search bait is a 3" curly tail grub on a 1/8 oz. plain jig head. If the water is too small, downsize to a 2" grub on a 1/16 oz. jig. Cast quartering upstream and reel just enough to keep slack out of the line. This will locate the best areas of the river you are fishing, real fast. Once located, try a suspending jerkbait (i.e.: Husky Jerk or X-Rap) or Senkos rigged wacky or Texas style. In-line spinners can also be deadly at this time of the year as well - if the snags are not too bad.

There is no one event. There are multiple events bc it is not linear but a cycle that starts the previous year. Key events: Egg maturation -Having the raw materials to get the job done happens the previous year or, in some individuals or even populations during tough conditions, the final "deposits" are made during early spring. This is why the larger fish are more apt to spawn earliest -they can afford it. And small fish are most apt spawn latest. I've seen this in my own (albeit amateur) pond studies. Photoperiod -Photoperiod changes have direct endocrine effects that goad the process and GENERALLY synchonize the event. Lots of literature out there on this and it's powerful enough to experimentally force spawning events in fish and other animals -with other keys in place. Temperature -Temperature is critical to cold-blooded creatures, and with fish it is the final push. It allows for body weight gain efficiency, activity required for spawning behaviors, and protects temperature sensitive eggs. Moon Phase -This appears to be a real effect -the full and possibly the new. It seems to be a cue that allows for a mass synchonization, provided the stage is set (the previous three keys): I've recorded years when spawning occurred on temperature swings, falling in between the moons. The first two of these keys we can't do much about really (unless you are Flukemaster and can fatten your fish on his private lake). But as far as fishing is concerned, temperature and secondarily moon phase are the things to track. And it has worked, like clockwork, for me. Catt mentions powerplant lakes, and there are also bass planted far south of their natural range. There are lakes in Central America that never cool down much and have flat photoperiods. Those bass can spawn anytime and have adapted their cues to water level changes. They may spawn over a long seasonal window but what stops them is the need for tissue recovery and growth. Supposedly bass do poorly down there and burn out young. Nature finds a way, at least to a certain degree in that living things didn't come from nowhere, they have a history, and that dictates what they are and what they can do.

A lot of people think they are missing strikes on their frog because they set the hook too soon. From my experience, I think this is wrong. On days where the fish are really on the frog bite, they basically hook themselves. I really feel that the fish aren't fully committing to your frog when your missing a good percent of them. Try changing the color, leg length, retrieve cadence, basically anything to mix it up until you find what they will really eat. Also, sometimes when your missing a lot of fish on the frog, it means you need to change to a different topwater or maybe even a shallow, subsurface technique like a weightless soft jerkbait or shallow swimbait.

Check out Pete Wenners - it has been a long time since I hired him, but he was great

To be honest, when i got my boat I bought a PFD...but at the same time I have a different view on them. I usually fish small lakes and ponds, that being said lets say that i am crusing along, and i see a rock and i swerve sharply and fall out of my boat. You know what the odds are that i would NEED that PFD? Guess what people...human float. As a matter of fact, when i went on a canoe ride with my friends, my friend decided it would be funny to rock the canoe and we tipped. Know what i did for 10 min until someone could get us? Lay on my back and float there. IT was great. Now you could say, omg you banged your head and disoriented or knocked out and you cant swim/float. I guarantee that the PFD will not save you if you are knocked out or disoriented...you will drown anyway. face down in the water is the same with a PFD or without.