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Shanes, nothing nasty was meant by my post. When guys and gals ask for assistance it is nice to know the geographical area they live so we can drill down to their part of the country with our answers. After all, a person asking about fishing in Michigan has a different profile then a person down in Alabama or Texas or the tidal waters of Virginia and Maryland. I always suggest the new members add their geographical locations if not shown so this is not new for me to make that request. Introductions let us know your bass fishing level so we can provide good responses. After all, if you have been bass fishing for 15 years we can have a different level of conversation than if you have just started. And I am not a drill sergeant. I am a First Lieutenant Company Commander from Viet Nam. Hope you served your country. Take care and I loved your responses and the battle I started. Now go out and catch some big ones and post pics.

I'm not really sure but I think they are designed to get wet!

Caught this dude Monday fishin a wacky rig. Not sure on the weight, seems like every time I catch a nice fish I never have my scale

I'll keep it in my pants.

Isn't posting porn against the rules?

One of my favorite colors! Jeff

Got mine in my hands right now, and it's not loose. Maybe I should send it back and get it unfixed. What do you think John? Hootie

probably this pile of deps, but most of those were bought before the hype for around $100

Some days it seems like there are NONE ~ A-Jay

There are exactly 14 bass in every lake.

Got out today from 10 am till 2 pm on a local lake. Casting and pitching spinnerbaits and t/rigged plastics with 1/8 oz tung weight in and around lily pads. Stoked to report that I broke my PB I set back this past April with this 7 lb 6 oz monster caught on watermelon red fleck net bait b bug. Ended with 7 bass total and 5 pickerel thanks for looking. 7.6

My wife, my youngest daughter and myself took eight of our grandchildren fishing this afternoon. The kids caught twenty one bass, all on plastic artificials of varying types. My oldest grandson was a huge help with getting the younger ones set up and fishing. My second youngest grandson caught one on a frog that was 4 1/4 #. I was running ragged trying tend to all the kids. My wife was laughing so hard the tears were running. She said it reminded her of when we used to take our kids when they were the same age. It was a ton of effort but entirely worth it. Hopefully it will be one of those memories the kids will remember for a long time.

I was recently shown the mysterious & awesome fish catching power of the "Junebug Lizard" And then I had a Margarita . . . . . . . A-Jay

They all ready make the perfect truck for you. Make sure you watch the whole video.

No need for the bright colors, I always know where my frog is.... right by the blow up. Nuff Said!

Build them! You will never want to buy a store bought rod again. The quality you can get for the price is crazy good.

This week, we had family come in from all over the U.S. and world to come meet at our place. We took all the cousins fishing last night. Armed with nightcrawlers and ultralight rods, I took them to my favorite pond and set them up casting over some bluegill beds. Every single kid caught multiple fish. The bluegill were super aggressive and they had no problem detecting bites, even w/out bobbers. Couple of bass were caught. My brother pegged a nice 2 1/4 pounder on a senko. Bottom line, it was a joy to go out and not fish on my own (or, if I did, to pass the rod on instead of bringing the fish in!). Take a kid fishing! It's a great way to pass on the love of the sport and invest time in the kids you know. It's worth it, even with all the crossed lines .

Simply double your keepers

Some of you may already now, but for those that don't, I volunteer with Heroes On the Water as often as possible. HOW is an organization that offers service members the opportunity to experience kayak fishing at no cost to them. For many of them, this is the only means of escaping the confines of the VA Hospital or some other form of rehab. It is very fulfilling to say the least. Last weekend, I took my son along as I had done on several past HOW outings, only this time it was a smaller event where we were paired with a lone service member. Along with another volunteer, we managed to put the veteran on several bass on the day. During the event, the volunteers are also fishing as well. My son and I ventured back into a protective cove and both hooked into fish. I landed my first bowfin, while my son landed his new personal best largemouth bass measuring out at 17 3/4". It was an awesome day!

Wipe them off and lay out yo dry and you'll be fine. Just don't lock th in a box or reel cover left wet.

Had a little time after work to hit up one of my ponds...best 3 of 18. First two came through the slop third hit a Hudd Shad.

RoLo, that is so true. I look back at some of my best trips sometimes, and it is pretty crazy how many details I have revised in my feeble brain from what I wrote down that day...and these are the really good days, the ones you think you would remember perfectly :) To me, this is the whole point of keeping the log, it doesn't lie, and it doesn't forget details either

I like that. On slow days, I often turn to my wife and ask: "Have you ever read anything that said there's bass in this lake??". Same church, different pew Roger

I`d say it qualifies!

Me too. Every month I read the data I've garnered over the years, and readjust my strategies & tactics to suit the season. It never ceases to amaze me all the data I've gathered over the years, sometimes it feels like I'm reading someone elses' stuff. Jot it down once, and you've got it forever. But if I were too lazy to keep log, I'd have to relearn and rehash the same stuff over-&-over-&-over again. Roger

slonezp, a lot of us in the trades have had the same bluntness and rudeness sent our way. As a matter of fact, we often say that we get treated as second class citizens by our superiors, design teams and representatives of the very owners we're working for. I've seen peeps in the trades treat non-skilled laborers, temp laborers and apprentices with the same demeanor. Outside of our "community", they don't understand how we talk/treat peeps. I just learned that I needed to adapt/adjust my demeanor to the audience that I'm interacting with. What your doing is not wrong, it just may be time to adjust your presentation...so to speak.

Now I understand why Brian fishes Lone Star every night. My buddy and i went there fishing for wiper and caught a good amount but they were all really small. They were schooling on the surface which was fun. We decided to catch some bait for catfish hoping to get into some channel cats. The bank fishermen were tearing them up. We only got a few in the boat but they were definitely biting. Before we left, i made my buddy go down the bank so i can flip. Ended up catching 3 studs weighing 3lb 5ounces, 4lb 5ounces, and 3lb 11ounces (Flathead weighed 13lb 12ounces). Wish i was targeting bass the whole day. Someone needs to show me how to upload pictures with my phone! I should not have to use a computer every time. The process is almost not worth posting for me lol.

We could rank the panfish by tastiness In which case my order would be this: 1. Crappie 2. Bluegill 3. Perch

Hey there NoLuck. Welcome and enjoy the forums, tons of helpful information here. Great people here as well, I've made some good friends that I hope to do some fishing with some day.

If a human acted like a bass, we'd lock him up for his own safety. Or elect him to office. Or both.

This is a wife trap if I ever saw one!!!!

The book is still available on the Charlie brewer site for 6.95, it hasn't gone up at all since I bought it a few years ago. Well worth the cost, and you can stock up on slider heads. To the ops question, when lake fishing I did well with the Ned rig around reeds/bullrushes while the wind was down, once the wind came up it was unfishable. I stuck to finesse worms on a slider head fished the same way as the Ned at that point, cast to cover, let sink, let sit briefly, pop or twitch a couple of times reel back in slowly. I will say even when the wind was down I don't think one bait had an edge over the other it was pretty equal. As for detecting bites with the Ned, you just have to line watch and set the hook any time you see the line move in an unnatural way. It reminds me a lot of jigging for deep walleyed with lighter jigs.

I thought this was cool. Sometime heritage and tradition go a long way. http://www.wthr.com/story/29481059/tonight-at-530-barn-ball http://www.wthr.com/story/29481059/tonight-at-530-barn-ball?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=11657333

Owner ultraheads really are great.

+1 to the Owner ultra heads!

Congratulations. Now 2 more and you can ask me how having 4 BOYS works out, LOL!

The fishing in nj has slowed down a bit now I go to Island Beach State Park almost every night after work and this fishing was great the first half of the season with nice size blues and strppers were being thought but now that summer is here the beach fishing slowed down a lot you can still get some nice size blue fish but we are getting fluke and shakes off the beach right now at night . the rig I use for fluke is a fluke rig or I'll uses a high low rig with with frish squid

Congrats! They grow really fast. My two newborns are 20 and 14 years old.

Nice!!

Gardner summed it up well, the Ned rig involves intuition. It's probably out of print, but Charlie Brewer's book called "Slider Fishing" is the forerunner, a similar technique that the late Charlie Brewer called "Do Nothing" fishing. Roger

Like others have said, a weightless T-Rigged (Fly-Lined) Senkos cast like a frickin' bullet! A 50-200 sized reel with 10-15 pound test on a MH-F/XF rod will suit you quite well.

Red is one of several colors Midwest Finesse anglers use, but it wasn't always that way. The red hue came about after Ned Kehde spent a day in the boat with Shin Fukae while Fukae was practicing on Beaver Lake for an FLW event. Shin went on to win that event, and Ned noticed that Fukae painted all his jigheads red using his wife's fingernail polish. He also used it to add red dots to many of his hard plastics (jerkbaits, etc). Shin is also responsible in part for the "shake" in many of the Midwest Finesse retrieves. There is also the fact that Elaztech doesn't take dye well, so using bright red, chartreuse, blue or other colored jigheads is our workaround for that. You can read more from Ned on the subject at: http://www.in-fisherman.com/bass/short-history-chartreuse-red-midwest-finesse-jigs/ -T9

Btw, the channel Coldsvt is referring to is at the Penn Yan launch. Coldsvt and I have always fished out of the Penn Yan launch. Many years ago I fished the Hammondsport end and recall it being pretty deep water. I've heard that the smallmouth fishing is good in deep water near the state park on the western arm. Mostly dropshot for them. Keuka is super clear, so you'll be dealing with spooky fish in most cases. Not much for shallow structure beyond docks and weedlines. Prepare to hook a lot of rock bass and pickerel.

For starters, summer flounder (toothed) and winter flounder (untoothed) are completely different animals. When I'm strictly targeting summer flounder, I'll always drift-fish with bait strips. Normally I'll start with spearing or sand lance until the first fluke is boated, then it's fluke belly strips for the rest of the day. For the postage stamps, I cut pennant-shaped belly strips about 1/2" x 4" and slit the tapered tail-end. For doormats, I'll cut 1" x 7" belly strips. When drifting, use the lightest sinker that will hold bottom. Lift & Drop the bait periodically, which serves 3 purposes: > It displays the bait to flounder farther away > It betrays a soft-mouther that's swimming with the drift > Last but not least, it serves as a bounce-test to confirm that your holding bottom (a change in current or depth usually means a change in sinker weight) With regard to the hook-set, the main thing to remember with fluke is to Wait, Wait and wait some more. I used to tell my boat mates, "You can strike too soon, but you can't wait too long" Roger

The channel is usually good for some topwater action the main lake is always fun. The docks drop off deeeeep fast! Pitching docks is a good bet. Swim jigs and t rigs. Submerged weeds are also always a good option some nice bass in that lake! i usually have a dropshot, trig, frog or sammie, and a heavy jig tied one there. I also like a jerkbait there all summer

Our IDNR biologists have completed several lake surveys with population estimates of the number of potentially catchable bass (those >8"). In Lake Monroe, our largest reservoir with 10,750 ac., they estimated 22,797 bass. Surveys and modeling combined to give an estimate of 16,754 bass (>8") swimming around in Hardy Lake (741 ac.). Over at Sullivan Lake they estimated 12,243 bass roaming its waters (468 ac.). As a slightly different set of numbers, at Brookville Res.(5,260 ac.) , there are about 137 smallmouth bass per mile of shoreline, and another 307 largemouth in that same 1-mile stretch. You can do the math to get things like approx. bass/acre, or the number more commonly referred to in our surveys is catch per unit effort (CPUE), the number of a given fish species sampled (usually shocked) per unit of time, most always in #'s per hour. Our worst waters are single digits, but typically our lakes fall into two classes, a group at about 50 bass per hour, and another at about 150 bass per hour. -T9

In all likelihood, its either because: 1. Bass see red and go nuts, as if its bleeding or something (ala KVD); or 2. Because red is invisible to bass and they can't see that metal jighead attached to the yummy looking worm (ala Cajun fishing line.)

Yes

Just lengthen the leader to account for the angle of the line and keep the bait up off the bottom.