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So today was a good and bad day , first time out in a week so I was pretty excited.. hit the water around 6:30 am for some great top water bite.. well the bite was amazing buut the fish just wanted to play today.. throwing buzzbaits and all the fish wanted to do was come up and smack he lure 2 feet in he air and swim away.. must have been a game of tag between the fish. Had some huge ones come out of the water but nothing wanted to really commit.. switched over to a senko and they just couldn't resist. Got these two 5 pound piggies back to back.. the one decided to jump out over a log and back down threw.. it was at that moment i remember why I always always use braid.. overall good day!

Got ahold of a good one today on the Chattahoochee. 6lber, green and red seiberts jig

Buddy wanted a fish fry so I took him marsh fishing, we 20 caught in 4 hrs all the same size!

F=mA Where F = # of fish caught m = Money invested A = Angler Ability Just a little Newtown's Second Law pun there for those that are not physics savvy.

Not too graphic; just guys with shirts off. Bodybuilding...my other time consumer. Not sure who else is into it but i've been bb'ing since I was 14. Absolutely love it! There's the physical side and then there's the mental side of it; both very pleasurable to me. A few years ago, I had 3 surgeries in 2 years that set me back from my training. Well I healed up nice, got back on the horse and realized if I'm going to do a show, I better do it now while I'm in half-way decent shape. So at 48, I did my first show; now I'm hooked. I have another planned for April 14 2018, another that fall, then another the spring of 2019. Here's the vid for those who dare.... I'm 48 so usually there is a Master's class which is for competitors 40 and over. This show did not have a Master's class so I had to go into Open Novice and then a full Open class. The oldest competitor in each class was half my age. I placed 4th in both classes which I was very happy with, considering. The spring show will have a Master's class so I'm looking forward to that. Any other BB'ers out there?

from "Horizontal- an old angle for big bass"- WRB.

Heck yeah! Hit a shore fishing, heavy current spot that is extremely hit or miss, but has kicked out some nice fall steelhead for me in the past. Worked the usual runs to the left and right and nothing. Never fished the fastest middle current before so I started working that and it didn't take long before I felt a hard strike. Fought the fish for a while before I was able to get her netted. 18 inch chrome hen. Looking like the steelhead fishing has begun. Weapon of choice was purple nautical creations 1 oz spinner. Fish On

The bite is still going strong here in upstate NY. Yes, that is a Chug Bug stuck to my jeans. And they're still hitting on top. Caught one with a gnarly scar. All fish caught had bellies like this.

I was plan to take the boat out to check the shallow creek to see if any big bass hide in there, but my wife got a honey-do-list for me. Chang of plan and I didn't have a lot of time, instead just went to the spot I caught those 5 bass a few days ago. Since I lost my black-blue, I tied Seibert Fogy chatterbait in green pumpkin with Zman diezel trailer. Caught total of 3 with the biggest around 4.5lbs. Video

Kokaee salmon spawning here in Southeast Wyoming

Caught a good one yesterday from a local strip pit, of course didn't have my scale with me. Some weight guesses please..? Thanks in advance. (She was immediately released after video.)

Following your dream. WTG

9 years Army National Guard, deployed to Afghanistan.

Having a unit on the console allows you to find spots and having a second one on the bow allows you to fish those spots. Having the ability to link to like units takes you one step further and as discussed in the other thread, linking in a GPS trolling motor is the cats azz. If you are trolling for walleye or trout, a bow mount unit is not so important. If you are going to be casting, you will spend 90% of your time on the bow deck. Seems only fitting you should be seeing what's under or to the side of the bow. Just an example. I followed this school of panfish around for almost 2 hours. I found them with the console unit and chased them with the bow unit. I sorted thru well over 100 fish. Wouldn't have been able to do that with a single unit.

I prefer to be presenting baits up hill the vast majority of the time. So I'm sitting 'shallow' & throwing 'deep'. Something that goes right along with this subject for me is wind direction and possible current. I do not like fishing 'cross' wind at all - besides making many presentations tough - strike detection can be a little tricky depending on what I want (need) to throw, at least for me. Either way I have more success fishing either straight into or down wind. Now factor that into the up hill, parallel or down hill question, and I say I'll set up to fish the conditions first and the structure second, almost every time. Worst case scenario is trying to present something cross wind & current. I rarely find myself fishing parallel, I do it, but like I said not much. Best case for me is straight into the wind & current and up hill. I've had some very memorable days on the water doing that one. I usually plan when & where I fish (which lake) based on which way the wind is forecast to blow. This can offer at least a decent opportunity to fish effectively. To disregard it can complicate an already complicated deal. YMMV A-Jay

Thanks guys. I landed my first bass at Cerritos park 2 weeks ago.

So, I started taking video notes on fishing trips this summer because, well, it's easier for me to talk to a camera than take the time to write things down when there's a bite on. This past Sunday I got out on the Susquehanna after some crazy weather (90s earlier in the week, the morning I got on the water the air temp was 35 degrees). I wasn't sure what to expect since I've seen this turn fish on in the fall, even though it usually means a rough day any other time of the year. I had kind of a mixed day and tried more to fish for larger fish and get notes than go super finesse trying to pull numbers. Ultimately, I got on a few patterns and was able to get some of the catches on video. One of my favorites was the hatch pattern later in the day/evening. There were several mayfly, a tan caddis, and some sort of gnat/small black fly hatch going on as the sun started going down that saved my day in terms of smallmouth fishing and lead to several 14" and a 19" smallie to close out the day. The last section of the video is little but me talking as current brought me back to the ramp, so if you just want to see fish, you can bypass that part. However, if you want to hear me ramble about patterns, there's a solid 8 minutes of it that may or may not be as useful to you guys as it is to me. More than anything, I'm glad I was able to get out. I've been having back and neck issues again, and that can make a day on the water feel like rolling the dice. Getting on the water on good health days has been a nice therapeutic escape from medical craziness Oh yeah, there's a surprise musky in there that almost stuck a size 2 treble hook in my hand, too!

Senko got the big one of the outing right at 4 pounds. St Croix 7'6" Legend Elite, Daiwa RG-AB, 8# Nanobraid. Hit about 20 feet out just past a weedline in 2-3 fow.

active army 06 to 10. deployed from 08 to 09 Iraq.

And you will know it's speed OR position....

That's a fact, Jack! However, it looks like a mud puddle to me and I doubt there are any bass calling it home.

Stay with classical physics, the observable world of mechanics, Newtons laws of physics. Reels, rods, lures, sound waves etc, then apply those mechanics to fishing. Tom

I will probably take you up on that offer. Always better to have a local to show you the ropes. If I die without seeing another snowflake I'll be a happy man.

it is more important to find a rod that matches your casting style and preference. Also there is no standard for measuring the action of a fly rod so one company may call something fast that another company calls Medium-Fast. I prefer faster action rods for everything but small trout streams. Faster action rods will fight the wind and handle heavier flies a little more easily in my opinion.

The pond in my area is OVERRUN with turtles. One time I got a backlash and my crank was just sitting in the water. I went to reel my lure back in and somehow I thought I hooked into a log. You know how you can sometimes just pull on a stuck lure and it'll drag the stick to you? I discovered I had hooked into a GIGANTIC turtle- at least forty pounds! Luckily for the turtle, the hook bent and it popped free. Let me tell ya, that turtle could definitely eat a three pounder.

If one way isn't working try the next. A lot of us get caught up casting at "targets" nothing wrong with that most times but other times we need to cast at something we can't see. Is it a gradual drop or a steep drop? If it's steep, casting parallel is probably the best option. If it's gradual, maybe uphill, maybe downhill, maybe move elsewhere. If you are in a boat and have electronics, you should be able to have some sense of where the breaks are at. You also should have some ability to determine wind and current. Fish with the wind. Fish with the current.

Uphill, downhill or parallel? Sometimes none of the above! Many times it's vertical Creek channels, brush piles, bridge pilings come to mind.

Attempted to bass fish in the 30-40+ mile an hour wind today, but after an hour and a half of frustration and only half a dozen fish to show to it, switched over to white bass. Went to where I knew a school of white bass probably were based on the wind and past experiences, and kept the boat in place by tying a rope to a tree next to the shoreline and letting the wind push the boat out. The wind was more powerful than my trolling motor, but it worked out well once the boat was tied off. Ended up catching 41 white bass pretty much every cast for just short of an hour, all on a 1/8 ounce roosterail. They were in 8-18 feet of water, some suspended but the majority on the bottom. Unless the bass bite starts picking back up, I think I might have to stick with the white bass You gotta love a fish that fights like they do and school in that kind of numbers.

Ol' musky got after her huh?

How do I change my name to jbcyclonefan???????? Hahahahahha!!!! Doesn't really surprise me to be honest.

Nice Double ~ Congrats A-Jay

Roughly a 7' MH, Moderate fast if you're using straight braid or flouro, or fast if you're using mono/copoly. I like a soft tip for them all, personally.

Caught a bucketload of dinks walking the banks under the midday sun. Who needs neds lol? Mama, just killed a bass. RIP.

I keep everything (except soft baits) in 3700s. Each is it's own category (spinners/willow, spinners/colorado, topwater, deep cranking, etc.). I use a sharpie to write the size on the bottom of each bin so I can look for my 3/8 spinner with the lid open (everything to this point is true). Each bin is filled in order of the color spectrum (not really) and cross-referenced alphabetically by brand (yeah right). My most successful lures (I don't have any) earn a prestigious place in a special, gold-colored 3700 which I have dubbed "The Oscars" (that would be funny if it was true). Lures from "The Oscars" are only used on weekend evenings during a high probability lunar period. I have a hard and fast rule that all lures are to remain in this highly organized system and cannot ever be moved out of place. This system remains in effect until I've been in my boat for 10 minutes. Then they suddenly become a tangled pile of lures stuffed into a five gallon bucket. I would advise you to find a different system altogether.

Dang those are hawgs!

Lets say I'm catching most of my fish with a Fat Rap in 5 foot of water . It would be foolish to cast in 10 foot of water but being it takes the lure a bit to reach five foot I can parallel the bank and still cast shallower allowing let the bait follow the contour down and still catch shallower fish plus the five footers . Keep the lure in the strike zone for as much of the cast as possible .

Depends on what kind of structure & where the bass are located on said structure!

Used to fish a reservoir that was a series of flooded phosphate pits. Top was 4 to 8 feet dropping off rapidly to 12 to 20 feet. Some days they wanted it coming up, some days down, some days parallel. The pattern would last for the day but I could never put any logic to it. It was consistent from drop to drop also, and there were scores of them. You would run into a friend on the water and in addition to the normal pleasantries the question was always asked "Up or down ?" and everybody knew what the other guy was talking about. In short - try all angles - it changes day to day.

As you know I don't have any units yet but will soon. For me the reasons I'm going to go with two units is simple. 1: I want to be able to putt around a lake Mark waypoints and be able to go to those at a later time. 2: I want mapping up front as well as at the helm. Having mapping at the bow helps you see possible "fishy" spots. 3: I want all the tools with me up front that I have at the helm. Some people only use one large unit at the helm and just turn it when at the bow. Another option to save money is go the route I'm going and get a couple units that are linked instead of networking. If I had the budget I'd have a TM and a couple units all networked together. As long as I can share waypoints I'll be good.

I have always had a unit on the bow and console. mine are linked but hasn't really changed anything. having a unit only at the console can cause headaches. you will be reading what's under the boat 16,17,18 feet away. if you mainly fish the banks then you might get away with one unit. linking the units has advantages, but more so for the tournament angler. your going to spend the same amount of time looking at either unit. most of us will look at the bow unit much more because that's where we are most of the time. for trollers, a bow unit isn't as useful. can't see how one could be more productive by looking less.

This is my girlfriend's son's brother-in-law. He just sent this pic to me of him and a nice 9.11lb bass he caught with a watermelon red flake brush hog on Lake Kincaid about 15-20 miles or so from where I live in Pineville. He was out night fishing with his uncle in his uncle's boat last weekend. I really need to get out in a boat and do some night fishing.

Lol! No, once I got it unhooked, which amazingly was pretty easy, it moved quickly back into the water. Never seen a turtle move that fast before...lol! ?

didn't catch many but all bites on a jig. Around 11 o'clock I left the other rods alone and practiced skipping the jig with the BC. getting pretty good as long as my thumb complies. This is a 3# with a 4# head, as you can tell they haven't really started feeding up yet.

Got out twice in the last 2 weeks, including last monday pm..Total of 20 fish caught,18 on some variety of plastic worm.Caught the most on a 4 inch lucky strike tequila worm ,including the pictured fish. Theyre biting better than the summer, but not as good as true fall. They seem to be hungry for nothing but worms. I did get a couple today on the small zoom fluke . Had one fish break off when I had a backlash and was trying to pick it out. Tried to hand line the fish in but he broke it.

Well it's been a couple weeks or so since I've caught anything a pound or more. I've caught some major dinks, we're talking not even an ounce. Didn't bother with taking any pics of those. Since the daytime bite has been almost nonexistent, I desided to risk encounters with snakes and fished the smaller pond by my house tonight with my headlamp on. Took both my Lew's baitcaster with a 3/8oz black and blue chatter bait/watermelon red flake Super Fluke trailer tied on and my Lew's spinning rod with a 12" blackberry Mann's jelly worm tied on. Nothing doing with the chatter bait, but I did catch this 1lb 1oz 14g keeper size on the 12" jelly worm. First one I've caught on that worm. I pitched it at the ponds pump and almost immediately he hit it. Being as dark as it was, with the exception of the almost full moon, it was kinda hard to take a selfie. I managed these two pics. I guess they turned out ok. I know I say this alot, but I'm sure ready for some cooler weather and more active bass. ?

Maybe I'm a slow learner, but I have finally figured out that when fishing super dense emergent pads a flipping jig gets in and out much better than a t-rigged worm or a standard flipping rig (pegged weight, snelled flipping hook, plastic creature). The weed guard pretty reliably allows the jig to glide out past the treacherous vee in the pad, where the stem meets the leaf, the point where my usual set up always got stuck. Of course, the hardest part is getting a fish out of that stuff, but that's no more difficult with a jig than with anything else. This theory doesn't apply to other types of heavy cover. The bite was slow tonight but I managed to catch this 2 pound puppy out of some nearly impossible pads, using a 3/4 oz jig.

Johnson Silver Minnow is a weedless surface or sub surface swimming spoon. Upside it's very weedless as long as you keep reeling it. The downside it has the dullest hook imaginable and must be filed/honed sharp before using it. The spoon was designed to use a split tail pork trailer so any soft plastic that resembles a split tail trailer works good or split a 4" straight tail worm about 3". Tom

Might want AWD if you put in on steeper ramps. FWD doesn't like slippery steep ramps. My buddy with a FWD Explorer has had issues on sloppy ramps before and have had to call someone with a 4WD to get him out.

I hunted turkeys 1 time, called for an hour, shot one, cleaned it, went fishing.

Bowhunt deer. sometimes bowhunt turkeys in spring. Lately spring is reserved for fishing.