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You are in Wisconsin, you do not have spotted bass. That is a largemouth.

This unit should take care of it. I will warn you, you may need to replant those bushes . . . A-Jay

Lighter reel, full grip, Heavier reel, split group General rule of thumb. So sayeth the vegetable who has no knowledge...

Don't laugh at my horrible skills when it comes to fish selfies. but got into this nice 'lil 5lb 6oz'er after waiting out the thunderstorm in my truck yesterday. Glad i decided to wait after getting chased off of the water by a wall of a downpour in my little canoe.

Nice. I've got my wife trained so that when we go she says she'll grab what we need and meet me at the clearance bin. lol Our store just cleared all the Zoom stuff. I walked out with 20+ bags of Dingers.

Fished Lone Star this Saturday with a couple friends, one of which caught his PB there a few days prior at 5 lbs 6 oz flipping a havoc fatty craw into the weeds. We came back and caught 30-40 dinks with only one worth weighing, but it was still fun. Also nice knowing there's at least one big girl in that lake.

Ya, how is Tim Tebow these days? Oops! Sorry. What were we talking about?

Jerkbaits, top water, shallow-med cranks, rattle traps

Yes! Welcome Brian! Couldn't be happier to see my good buddy and future Clinton walleye guide posting on BR. You'll learn a lot from this super nice group of guys just like I have, as you slowly drift to the dark side plus now we really have no excuse to not get in on the Fall get together at Perry

New guy here and I blame my good pal and fishing buddy, conorsixtakc. I'm a dedicated Walleye guy by default coming from Wisconsin, but enjoy nothing more than tussling with Bronzebacks, and now Largemouth. I fish Clinton almost everyday living in Lawrence, always targeting Walleye & Wiper, but have caught both really nice Largies and Smallies. Last year and early this season I had some super good trips to Coffee County and Melvern. Love those Brownies. On Friday Clinton was a little too rough for me to want to deal with, so I took a buddy from TX out to Lone Star on a whim to see if I could get him on some fish. Took me a little to get used to finesse fishing again, but it didn't take long before I was having a blast. My personal best came right as the sun went down. Man that was fun. Here's a little GoPro vid I put together from that evening. Yes, I did get a little excited once I saw that toad jump, my apologies haha. Took the same buddy and conorsixtakc the following morning. Lots of dinks and the bite died by 11. Still a super fun little lake to get away to out here in Lawrence. Can't wait to try Perry soon. Lone Star PB: 5 lbs. 6 oz. - Texas rigged Havoc craw Included a few photos from Clinton this season (for street cred purposes) Squarebill on the dam - GoPro vid Jig and minnow during the Crappie spawn. Caught 2 Largemouth and 5 Smallies in the same week, all while Crappie fishing.

I'd be using it for spinnerbaits, chatters, and swimjigs. Topwaters too!

X2 Dwight's correct, I am a big fan of Ultragreen. When mono is called for, I'm using it. I've also switched from Big Game to this Maxima line for all my braid main line leaders. I will not claim that Ultragreen "is the best line period" as I have not tried them all. After using this one - there's no need. A-Jay

I've had it happen several times with bluegills, crappie, and smaller bass. Best solution I've found is to start fishing swimbaits that mimic whatever fish it was that the big bass was trying to eat

A stout rod that's at least 7' long, high speed reel, and braided line are a must for frogging IMO.

Take a look at Xtreme Custom Tackle Scrounger with larger size hooks. Set the hook on a Scrounger by reel setting and firm rod sweep. Tom

Yes very true. Also works for Lake Erie in the fall when we are chasing smallies at the end of the season. Trouble is when the lake trout start coming in the smallies are moving out. Bitter sweet. My experience with cold fronts for northern strain bass is based on NE winds which actually lower the water temps from deeper colder water from the eastern basin (New York waters of Lake Erie) Erie Pa sits on the dividing line between the eastern basin and the central basin of Lake Erie . Fishing is better before the cold front and starts to deteriorate with the first day of the front. The second day is the worst day . The third day starts to improve. On big water systems with deep water a cold front has less of an effect than a smaller body of water with less depth. The sheer depth of the water insulates the water from temperature change. The more shallow water lakes are affected more greatly than the deeper lakes. I know from winter experience in South Florida that cold front conditions affect florida strain bass much more than up north. The shallow water combined with Florida strain bass makes a big difference. Sometimes up to a week or maybe more from a consistent pattern preceding the cold front. Once again the day before is best & then the first day is better than the following days. Florida strain are very temperamental. I'm sure the shallow water has a big effect.

Hey man, when your telling the story its as big as you want it to be lol....

You're back......... LOL

I posted this in the other thread... http://www.bigindianabass.com/big_indiana_bass/the-truth-about-fluorocarbon.html The actual answers to your questions are here The other post is 7 pages long with a bunch of individual anecdotes....But there is some good info there. As always, bottom line is that if you DON'T like it...Don't use it Flouro does stretch and compared to braid it would seem like a lot. There are advantages in my opinion over braid, but ultimately that's your decision to make.

You will enjoy the Dobyns, take a look at the 734C, it is a very versatile rod in that lineup.

Barbless hooks help make this conversation moot... oe

The best part of your posts are the chuckles I get from the irony in your sig.

He would have to change his name to Rosebud Nation Fisher.

I hate forums where members "attack" other members for giving a different suggestion. But since you did, here you go. I find it hard to believe that you have used all three and prefer the GL2 over the others. I would rather save the $170 and use an ugly stick. That's just my preference. This is the only time that I will say anything like that, I just felt after the responses you made towards Alonerankin2 that this post was needed. I'm sure everyone here will agree except you.

Fishing long after dark is quickly becoming my favorite summertime tactic.

I don't know if this even fits with what this has turned into, but I saw a young man wearing a tee shirt yesterday that read, "I am not going to tiptoe through life, just so I can arrive safely at deaths door". Hootie

This past weekend I did some fishing with a good long time friend I hadn't seen in awhile. The plan was to fish as much as possible. We met Thursday evening to try a bit of night fishing. I usually don't have very good success when there is no moon. There was no moon Thursday night but we were going to try it any way. We started fishing around 830 and fished until 1130. It wasn't very windy but it was pitch black. My friend Aaron was fishing a frog and I chose to fish my usual night time arsenal, spinnerbait, chatterbait, and a buzzbait. The fishing wasn't exactly easy but we managed catch 8 bass before calling it a night. Biggest bass of the night was a 2 lb 15 oz. On Friday we got out on the water at 8 am. It was a pretty nice day temps were in the lower 80s with not a whole lot of wind. The water temperature was 80 degrees. The fishing was pretty slow for most of the day. Picking up a fish here and there. We hadn't caught much by 1 pm. While I ate my lunch I was deciding where to fish next and how to adjust my approach for the remainder of the day. After much though I decided that I would fish a deeper weed bed, my favorite sunken trees and a new spot I found that I like to call frog heaven or obvious reasons. It was time to motor. Once we arrived at the deeper weed bed I told my friend to cast out. He did and quickly caught a 2.5 lber. A few casts later I hook into a lunker on the very edge of the weeds. It instantly goes air born and I tell my friend to get the net. It is a big fish and head shaking. It ripped of some drag as I hoped it would come off. As the fish gets to the boat my friend quickly nets it. It is a very well built 6 lb 3 oz that I caught on a rubber worm. After such a slow morning it was nice to get that lunker in the boat. Over the next 30 min or so we caught several more nice bass but nothing of any size. It was time again to move to another spot, my favorite sunken trees. There is a series of sunken and submerged trees in this pond which I very much like to fish. We pull up to the first tree and it looks as good as ever. I tell my friend Aaron that I hadn't caught any fisf off of it this year. He asks me why we are fishing it. It was a simple answer : because I have caught giant bass here in the past. Aaron is fishing his beloved senko and I have chosen to fish a jig. The tree is a bit deeper in 12 feet of water. On my second or third cast I can feel the jig going through some very thick tree branches and I feel a tick. I set the hook on what feels like a good fish. It gets wrapped around the tree but I manage to get it free. It was a good fish weighing in at 5 lbs 0 oz. We continue to fish that tree and fish the rest of my favorite trees. We caught some fish on the other trees but nothing 3 lbs or bigger. It was tie to make a move. It was getting a bit later. It was about 6 pm or so and time to go to frog heaven. "Frog heaven" is an area where there is a very subtle unobvious channel with tons of thick lily pas as well as some mifoil around. I take my first cast with the frog and before I have the chance to even move it once a fish inhales it. My friend wasn't even able to cast and I had already had a fish on and in the boat a 4-11. After unhooking and weighing that fish I take another cast near where I had just caught that fish. The frog lands splat on the water and a fish makes a wake over to my frog and explodes on it before I could even twitch it. This fish weigh in at 4-10. My friend then catches a 3-4. We were catching fish nearly every cast at this spot, all on a frog. I ended up catching a 3-9 and a 3-0 before leaving the spot. My friend also caught another 3 lber before we left. We caught a lot of fish there before leaving once it was too dark to see. I ended up catching 14 largemouth and 4 smallmouth for the day. My friend Aaron caught 6 largemouth and 2 smallmouth. The next day we decided to fish an unpressured lake. It was a 500 ft walk down a goat path to get to the lake. It was a pain getting my boat and all my gear down to the lake. I couldn't have done it by myself. It was a bit windy 5-10 mph out of the west and 80 degrees. I had never fished this lake before so I had no spots already in mind. I could see some tree out on 15 ft of water though. We went over and fished them with no luck. There really wasn't anything else to fish on this pond except for weed. We caught some fish but nothing really good. I did manage to find a rock pile where I caught a 3 lb 3 oz on a rubber worm. We had been out there for 5 hours and my friend wasn't having much luck. He wanted to go somewhere else. after deciding on another pond for the veing bite we were motoring over to the launch. We had to go right by the deep trees. I told him we had to fish them before we left. The first two trees sucked. We caught nothing off of them. We pull up to the 3rd tree and I let my friend take a coupe casts with his beloved senko on the tree before I cast my jig onto it. I pull the jig up and over the submerged base of the tree and before it hits bottom my line jumps.I set the hook hard into a nice fish, weighed in at 5 lbs 0 oz. At that pond from 8 am til about 1 pm I caught 10 bass and my friend caught 2. After that fish we still decide to go to another pond. After stopping and getting a pizza we are at the next pond and unloaded within an hour after leaving the past pond. The wind is still blowing but we fished a few places out of the wind. The fishing was much faster then the last pond. We were catching a lot of 2-2 3/4 lb fish. It was fin fishing. My friend caught a 3-6 and I caught a 3-11 both fish from the same off shore flat. We fished until dark 30 but didn't get any lunkers We finished the evening with 19 bass in the boat in about 6 hours of fishing. It was a very fun and productive weekend of fishing. Hopefully everyone else had just as much luck.

So are you saying I should stop sprinkling lead in my cereal every morning? Is that bad?

♫imma Micropterus outlaw, half largemouth and choctaaaaw♫ i'll see myself out.

I got long needlenoses and they usually sove the problems but when I had unusual problematic hookups and it took too long, many times I'll put it back in the water to revive ill take a breather and then Ill try it again

Just added this Pop Max to the collection...it's not for fishing though, it's just for looking..

Definitely 12-15 inches....

So today's conditions were "horrible" for bass fishing.... - Just had a cold front move in - Wind from the north about 15-20mph (always heard south or west is best) - Clear skies - High pressure All things that make the bite shut off.... No one told the bass where I was today though. They seemed to hone in on my Spro Bronzeye Popper Jr. Now I get to go buy another one since they literally destroyed my other one. I like it when they don't read the forecast

There we go. Like I said, no giant and probably not even a keeper. But being as it was my first fish on my first fishing trip in two years, I was happy to take it. Especially on a bluegill rig.

I'd be scared to fish it... haha

Depending on the amount of casts you make and the number of fish you catch it could take a few outings. Sunday I had a weird brake off in the spool after a long cast using 20# Tatsu. I respooled 20# Red label on the boat and fished for a couple more hours and it's not nearly broken in yet. KVD L&L helps dramatically but I feel it also makes the line stretchier so I stopped using it on my Jig rods.

About that, I have heard that a couple times, I am using it on one Reel to see if Iam going to stick with it, so I guess how long to break-in ?

At sea level, the mean barometric pressure forces mercury 29.92 inches up the test tube, which is expressed as 29.92 inHg (inches of mercury) or 'One Atmosphere' (i.e. barometric baseline). During an average cold-front (clockwise high-pressure cell) the barometric pressure climbs to around 30.32 inHg, a mean rise of 1-1/3% above normal. During an average warm-front (counterclockwise low-pressure cell) the barometric pressure will fall to around 29.52 inHg, a mean drop of 1-1/3% below normal. Water has a much higher specific gravity than air. At a depth of 34 feet, water exerts the same pressure per sq. in. as our entire atmosphere, which is estimated to be around 100 miles high. So the total pressure at a depth of 34 ft is 29.4 lb psi or 'Two Atmospheres'. Due to water's high specific gravity, when a fish moves just 5.4 inches downward in the water column, the increase in pressure on the fish is equivalent to the pressure change during an average high-pressure system (cold front). Conversely, when the same fish swims 5.4 inches higher in the water column, the drop in pressure is equivalent to an average low-pressure system (warm front). (You might want to do your own calculations: 1-foot column of water = 0.433 lb / sq. in. <> 1-foot cube of water = 62.35 lb) Deep-sea fishing gives us the most graphic portrayal of water pressure as compared to barometric pressure. When fish are winched from water depths over 100 ft (as I often have), there is no Catch-and-Release. Due the dramatic drop in pressure, when the fish reaches topside its eyes are bulging out of its head and its bladder is turned inside out and protruding from the fish's mouth. Roger

I was obviously very wrong, my picture was followed by another 1000 words Roger

Rough week. First Quantum, then tungsten, now this. Can't we all just get along?

A Picture's Worth A Thousand Words (Yes...I've owned them all) St Croix Legend Tournament Dobyns Champion <> St Croix Avid Loomis GL2 Roger

Dang, son. Beast for sure! You are lucky you didn't shart. Don't ever eat mexican the day before leg day.

In my opinion, the GL2 is out, but it's a dead heat between Champion and Avid. Move up to St Croix Legend Tournament and we've got a clear winner (only $10 more than Champion 7' 3") Roger

That seems prudent at this point. Goodnight Irene. -Kent a.k.a. roadwarrior Global Moderator

Had to make modifications to the trailer. Had an Incident on Saturday. Plus the "J" Brackets would spin on the pipe when empty.

In reference to the fall get together. For those that weren't at Johnny's that want to know the details, the fall get together will be at Perry on October 11/12 with a back up lake of Cedar Creek Valley in Garnett if it's supposed to be windy or bad weather. Teams just like normal, you can fish one day or both days. We also discussed starting some weekly tournaments and everyone was in favor of those. Going to start August 7th at Douglas State Lake in Baldwin City. Fishing 6-9, teams again, 3 biggest fish per team. Going to alternate Thursday nights and Saturday morning each week. If you want more details send me a PM.

You should try Lake Braddock and Lake Royal. They are close to each other. And there are some nice sized fish in both.

This is almost all my bass fishing gear in one spot... I don't have much, besides my old bantams, diawas, pistol grip rods, and old lures!

Here is a fully loaded picture. took the trailer on a 400 mile round trip over the 4th weekend. It perfomed flawlessly. Well, there was one malfunction. every light on the trailer burned out after bouncing around on some of the dirt roads in Tioga county in PA. I switched them out to leds.