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I know posting a personal best Is always fun. I know posting about slaying them Is always fun. I know sometimes just getting out is always fun. So this post Is not about a personal best or absolutely slaying the bass nor Is It about merely getting out. Yesterday(Mothers day) I had the opportunity to take my wife, mother-in-law, and sister-in-law out to a new found private pond to catch some bream. I took my bass rod to chase some of those green fish but made a total of 5 casts. In what I would call a very satisfying day I helped, watched, and smiled at watching these three Southern women catch bream after bream and having a great time! I was as content as could be just taking It all In. It brought back many memories of a simpler time when all the fancy gear consisted of a cane pole and some crickets. I have always said the best day I have had on the water was watching my wife break her personal best three times on our honeymoon last year. That's still the best day I have ever had but yesterday was fairly close. To watch that type of enthusiasm refreshing and a day that I hope we repeat often in the years to come!

There is a thread about the hooks getting bent on a Luck-E-Strike RC STX jerkbait, I bring that up because that bait is a direct copy of the 110. The reason for the light wire hooks is so that they penetrate with very little pressure because the bait is designed to be used on spinning tackle with 6lb to 8lb max line. The Vision 110 is easy to switch out hooks, you can go to the Stinger ST-36 no problem, in fact you can even get away with ST-41 hooks because the bait is a slow riser so you can add a little weight to it, the RC STX suspends really well and any added weight will make it sink. That said, if you want the light wire hooks to replace you can go VMC 8570 Barbarian outbarbs, these have the same outside barb like the Katsuage hooks on the 110 but are just a little bit stronger, if you want the really light wire then go to the VMC 8540, and just so you know, VMC make the Katsuage hooks for Megabass.

Chatterbaits produce significantly more thump and vibration than a spinnerbait. And you said your swim jig, which has even less thump, gave great results. That tells me they wanted a milder bait that day. May not be the same way tomorrow, but that day the vibration was a turn off.

This fish 14lbs-8.5oz came out of a 7 acre pond.

Your going to get a lot of people who like the Curado. I would consider the Lews line. I have a bb1 and a tourney speed spool. I would also consider the Daiwa tatula. All good picks.

Some goodies from TW arrived today. 3 packs of Z-Drop worms in purple smoke, 3 packs of yum sharpshooters, some drop shot hooks, trebles for my swimbaits, 3 Baby Boo jigs, and I decided to jump on the Ned Rig bandwagon with everyone else.

There aint no best! As long as I can get outdoors I'm happy! I hate cities

Anything but a soft bottom.

Yup, I lived in San Diego for 4 years.. I liked it pretty well.. I was far too busy to hunt or fish. Indiana has great whitetail & turkey hunting, if you really know what your doing. Florida is my pick! Great fishing, both salt & fresh. Great turkey hunting, scuba, a person can get to anywhere in the state in less than a days drive. Great gun laws, allows "open" carry if you really must! ( not for me ) lots of beachs & beautiful women. Yea, that's my choice..

You own any Oakley glasses? Have you ever worn a pair? I have and I also had Maui Jim sunglasses and both of those I chose over Coatas. Maui Jims had better optical quality but were heavy, Costas were good but they too are heavy, Oakley has similar optical quality with an impact resistant lens and you forget they are even on your face they are so light. Right now I have Eye Surrenders, $50 dollar sunglasses that I believe are one of, if not the best sunglass under $100 and the lenes while good, are not Oakley so the statement you made is complete hogwash, please don't act like a 14 year old spouting "stuff you heard", learn from experience and don't knock until you try, you may be surprised at what you learn.

There's no should or right or wrong it 100% personal preference. I almost never hold a rod tip at 3 o'clock to fish. The tip is up, down to the side and has varying amounts of tension on the tip depending on the bait, weight, etc. "Balance" to me is a rod, reel, line and bait that allow the presentation I'm striving for and a comfortable feel that complements sensitivity.

I've been on that same pattern on Kerr . I was fishing flooded campsites...Picnic tables, benches, fire pits and even some road signs. I caught some good fish off the fire pits, it was near the spawn I was pretty sure they were using them as a pre-made bed. Nearly every fire pit that was in the water had a fish on it. Kerr is a lot of fun when the water is up like that .

Of course that can work, but often pulling the bobber 18" to 24" stop and go will catch to.That gives the lure/bait a pendulum swing movement. Windy days with a surface chop will do the work for you. C22

I thought about dabbling in the "bird pattern"

Great story. Sometimes we just need to sit and enjoy Mother Nature.

Most ignored post on Bass Resource - EVER! Hard to believe that the NFL is made up of one team called the Patriots and 31 more that are the Saints!

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Great QB's elevate the players around them and Brady does not do that, Belichick does. So I guess the same thing can be said about Brady. Belichick is a great coach that elevates his ability on the field. They both use each other to win. It is a great player/coach tandem. The thing that makes New England as good as they are (one could say besides the cheating here), is they always have personnel that are ready to step up and make not only a play but a difference at any given point in the game. Not many teams have that. They whole organization has the "anything to win attitude", whether that means playing your best, finding a way to win or being prepared to make a difference. This can make a player either selfless or over confident. The problem is that when the Patriots do all the three fore mentioned things, it seems that cheating is part of the normal way to accomplish all them.

And we're done here.

I like Keitechs. Crazy Flappers and Impact Fats. Unfortunately they were out of the Flappers in green pumpkin. (Thanks Zeth)

I remember that year, made me think Brady wasn't anything special if cassel could keep the team up

Your not a true Eagles fan..your too soft.

I used them once fishing, but it is tough unhooking those little kids!

Man, I wish there were ponds around here.... Wait all of our lakes are ponds, now!

Grass carp are stocked in my local lakes for aquatic weed control. Since they are stocked for that purpose, and in quantities calculated to be sufficient to "accomplish their mission", they represent an investment by our homeowners association. As such, I don't specifically target them. However, I occasionally snag them when working the water for bass. Once I've snagged one, I have to get my lure back so it's game-on... You might want to check with the entity/agency that stocked the grass carp in your water to see what policy they might have in regards to specifically fishing for the grass carp or whether they discourage it in order to allow the carp to accomplish their primary mission of aquatic weed control. On growth rates, grass carp grow VERY fast. The one in the photo below was 48 pounds and probably around 10 years old.

On Kerr Reservoir years ago, the water was like 18 feet above normal pool, and lotsa of shoreline flooding was taking place. My partner and I both started fishing unsual places and catching bass. Under flooded picnic tables, kids fisher price houses, kids slides, etc

A friend and I put in on the Ocklawaha River yesterday morning and managed to boat three nice bass. Hooked into a ton of pickerel and mudfish. Here's my friend with the two largest bass . . . .

For $50 brand new ( and many times less than that) the h2o mettle can not be beat.

I was on a bird pattern once myself, saw a bird land on a mat, and was immediately engulfed by a bass. OK, I guess it wasn't really a bird pattern, and more of a " they are active under the mat " pattern. The next two hours was good frogging. No fancy "match the hatch" nonsense bird lures needed, I probably could have caught them dragging a hot dog across the mat.

Either you see the same buffoons fishing that I do, or they all have the same story. Only once did I set one of these idiots straight, I caught a decent three lber, and he proclaimed in great jubilation that the fish I caught was bigger than his "8lber" he caught last week. I hung the fish on the scale, trolling motored over to him, and said "sorry to burst your bubble Einstein, but this fish is only 3.5lbs" ....he hufffed away in discomfort, and I was proud of being an a-hole.

Amazing - the variety of baits folks deem to "THE" ds bait! Let me tell ya something folks. It has almost nothing to do with what you are using; as much as where you are using it. Figure out how to find the bait on a section of structure and if the water has smallmouths residing, you'll get bit. I don't really care what you are using. I've proved this time & time again. So, just use what gives you the most confidence. And focus on location.

Wind typically concentrates bait fish. This concentrates bass. From shore or boat, this usually means fishing into the wind. Not always though.

I don't like it. I don't like that it stretches and does not recover. I don't like that a small kink will drastically weaken it. I don't like how finicky I have to be about knots. The deficiencies of the line far outweigh the negligible benefits for almost all of my fishing. Having said that, I do use 4lb test Invizx when trout fishing. It's a little bit harder to see in the water. And the extra density helps with keeping the bait right off the bottom when drift fishing. Not big differences, but enough some times to make the difference between a two fish day and a 50 fish day. These are my opinions, based on my experiences, and they matter to me. If they don't matter to you, that is as it should be.

Three-way tie: Dolphin (mahi-mahi), Tripletail & Yellowfin Tuna Hot on their heels: Black Sea Bass, Pompano & Blackfish (tautog) Roger

Just won a Scorpion DC7, mint with box and papers...$150 shipped.

The only bad days of fishing are when you can't go

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. George Carlin...

I like to twitch it as fast as I can but still keep it on top . This works well on points. Also I will fish it super slow and other times fish it fast like a crankbait .Ive cranked it as fast as I could before and caught big fish off of stumps .

Grrrrrrrr.

Do as the owner asks. Do not argue with him/her, offer to do a little extra work in exchange for fishing.

Those pantaloons are pimp.

As I don't use expensive lures, this is an easy answer for me. "Not long" ha-ha If I'm bank fishing, I'll give the bow and arrow a couple tries. It's amazing how well this works! If that doesn't work, I walk along the bank and try bow and arrow again. If that doesn't work, then it's pull straight back and break off 96.3% of the time or get it free 3.7% of the time. If I'm wading and the bow and arrow doesn't work, I'll walk to it, reel down and poke it out with the rod tip. (Carefully...) If it's too deep to get to, then pull straight back.

While Indiana hasn't seen 11 inches of rain this year, we do have enough rain/runoff to severely muddy up some of my favorite ponds/lakes. This is when I do my own personal checklist to figure out what to throw Bass seem to use one/combination/all of three of their abilities to hunt food. Sight (their advanced underwater eyesight), Smell (or taste or whatever), Vibration (like "hearing" with their lateral line) When I get to a body of water I assess the water to determine the most probable form of navigation and food detection they'll use, then tailor my lure to appeal to the likely most dominant form of detection. In super gin-clear water, they're likely to use sight as a considerably larger portion of their detection methods, so I'll pay close attention to "match the hatch". In extremely muddy water, they're likely only able to rely on their lateral line as their primary detection method, maybe eyesight as a secondary form. So in your case, and mine some of the time this year, muddy water would call for something that makes a helicopter engine feel like a small tap. Use something that straight up massages your arm as you're reeling it in. I use a black/blue chatterbait with a RageTail trailer, the blade of the chatterbait is curved downward at the top for extra thump. Man, that thing will nearly rattle the fillings in your teeth. But it's worked wonders this year with muddy water for me. I don't use a scent and I use mainly a dark color in case they're using sight to fine-tune their approach as they get closer to my chatterbait. Reel it in at a speed just fast enough to get the blade thumping, that way the bass have more time to hit the slowly moving target. I'm sure a large profile dark colorado-blade spinnerbait, maybe even a loud lipless crank would also get it done. I just know nothing in my tackle box thumps like that chatterbait.

I highly suggest y'all read the thread Paul linked! Quite possible the best discussion ever

Is one of these enough for a 14' john boat? How does the wind affect it? How often do you need to change the cartridge? And the butane? I am very intrigued, mostly because I'd rather not spray my kids with deet.

Take a look at what guys are doing with glide baits. It's not "hunting" if you're in control of what the bait is doing.

It's called stroking a jig. It mimics dying bream/bluegill/baitfish w/e. it's generally done in deep water but i've found it equally effective in shallow water.