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Took an old neighbor of mine fishing this past week. Her son passed away this past year and she doesn’t have access to a boat now. She’s not a novice, absolutely nuts about fishing, but all she can do is fish from shore these days. Took her out on a nice day and taught her how to skip wacky worms under docks. We had a blast, nice to see her smiling!!

I started competing a few years ago after I recovered from 3 surgeries in 3 years. I have been doing Men's Physique division and had a few good showings but I came in really nice this last show and took 1st in the 2 classes I entered; Men's 40+ and Open 5-9 and Under. And I ended up coming in second in the Overall out of all the Physique competitors (about 9) And the first place Overall was a kid in his 20's; so at 49...I'll take that all day long. But the best part was my son did this one with me; it was his first. He did great. He came in 2nd in the 2 classes he entered. He did Novice and Open 5-10 and over. And he only came in 2nd to the guy who ended up taking the Overall so he was very happy with his placings. Very fun day!

Best of 11 from a rare (for me) evening excursion tonight. Also the best bass I've had in at least a month...it's been dink-city here, otherwise.

4.24 Pound , 5-6 Pound and 1.5 Pound

Finished up my Maine trip a day early with winds at 40+.never got any more over 3 odd for this time of year but got plenty mid to high 2's like these

Been super busy on an internal medicine cardiology rotation, so it’s been 22 days since I’ve wet a line. Had yesterday off and got a little ahead on my studying so I snuck away to a small 150 acre local lake late in the afternoon. This lake has a handful of 5+ lbers and is loaded with <2 lbers, and has the occasional pike. I got there around 5 PM and sunset is around 7:40 these days. Started off in a little arm of the lake that’s super shallow and has thick grass and caught one on a frog. Fished a lot of grass around the lake without another sniff until I made it around to the old creek channel lined by standing timber. Made a cast to the outside treeline with a shaky head in about 4 ft of water, when my line kept looking like it was sinking like it is was much deeper. I reeled down a little and the line took off sideways. I’m thinking it’s a little dink or panfish carrying it off so I give a weak little half hookset and the line goes tight and doesn’t budge at first but then tugs a little. It really felt like whatever was on there had me wrapped in the timber. Then I notice I am making progress toward me, but it still feels the same and I realize it must be a decent fish, although it had the dragging feeling like a stick. Bzzzzt!!! Starts peeling drag (luckily away from the timber) and the fight is on. Whatever it is it just feels heavy and doesn’t seem to be giving a lot of head shakes, not really like a bass, but more like cat fish or a pike or walleye. I finally get it close to the boat when it surfaces and to my surprise it IS a nice bass. After a few more dives under the boat I net my new PB for this lake 4.21lbs. As the sun started to set the surface activity really started to pick up so I threw a frog at a grass line near the creek channel and caught 5 more ~2lbers. Fun evening.

Just wanted to share this, I got it early spring just to try out. It goes through the water really tight like a poorly steered canoe. Takes forever to work it back. Meant to add that’s the first fish to bite it.

If you're going to use treble lures (1/8 oz. Rooster Tail) for bluegill, bring your pliers. They somehow get all three hooks inside the mouth every time. A week old dead snapping turtle smells awful.

I just joined and this is my first reply/post. I received my Heritage in July and added a burgundy bimini. Had it in the water this past weekend, and in the AZ sun it proved to be an amazing addition. Total cost was $130 and well worth the money. In cooler months, I may take it off and leave in the garage (2 thumb screws to remove). I didn't fish as I was just getting some hours on the motor. I attached pic of boat with bimini. One other comment, this boat performed better than I expected. Faster that I expected, more stable than expected, easy to tow and launch. Really happy with this purchase.

Enough of these (fun size) around today to keep me on the water most all day. Just couldn't find any plus size models. A-Jay

Found a little feeding frenzy this morning!

Keeping it simple and basic... Respooled the old green Curado last weekend with some fluorocarbon and then hit the water with deep cranks tied on. Worked like a charm ?

You all think Daiwa put the T wing into thier flag ship Steez reels because it was a sales gimmick? Less line drag comming off the spool equal longer casts. The reason the low profile reel was invented was to extend the level wind further away from the spool to reduce line drag. Tom

Rage Tail Baby Craw, Craw and Lobster.

I like the Zoom ultravibe speedcraw. The size of the plastic bait is close to the average size of the crawfish in the ponds that I fish.

Just bought a bantam mgl from Digitaka.com for $259.83 shipped.

Chloe is ready to go fishing!

It works fine but Daiwa's cast well to begin with. I don't attribute any casting difference to the t wing plus they make service unnecessarily complicated.

Mine for now is an all electric Lowe 1040 perfect to slip into my truck bed and hand launch to get at those LMB that have never (or rarely) seen a lure. I've equipped it with most of the necessities, bilge pump, rod holders, running lights, horn, interior lighting, flood light, bait bucket and cooling fan (It gets hot here) outlets, GPS, USB outlets, and fish finder all run by a self made dashboard.

As the weather starts to cool down, the crankbait bite heats up. So I wanted to start a thread about crankbait tips. Here are mine, what are yours?

Most 8' long swimbait rods have a fore grip and Dobyns are no exception. I mention this because the fore grip adds height near the reel seat that the line coming off the reel spool must not contact during the cast going into the first rod giude. I would check with Dobyns as to the reels thier swimbait rods are designed to perform with. The reels spool line capacity should be at least 150 yards of 25 lb test monofilament line, not braid. The Shimano Tranx 300 should work. Tom

Mine is something that I already knew but maybe needed a reminder on it. Don't let those storms get too close before you decide to call it.

If you like the longer antenna look, try the crazy legs chigger craw. its a really good texas rigged craw. haven't used it as much as a trailer, but i'm sure it'd work.

Might be this. For no good reason that I can articulate, TWS makes this more likely than a more conventional 'hole' line guide....at least for me

Daiwa BG hands down imo.

Froggin' and Flippin'

I like the Zoom Super Speed Craw. But it isn't available everywhere so I've switched over to the Berkley Chigger Craw. I like it better. The smell is about what you'd expect a small crustacean to smell like and fish will hold it a long time, giving you ample opportunity to get a hook in them. I don't use it as a trailer as much as I just use it plain. I like it on an Arky weedless jighead by itself. I caught my current PB on that rig. I've got some of the Ultravibes and Yamamoto Hula Grubs as well and they work great. The Chigger Craw just seems to get bigger bites for me. Therefore it's my confidence bait. I know that's anecdotal evidence, but I'm 110% convinced.

The words "General Expectations" were literally in the title of the post.

Hello Andy and Welcome to Bass Resource ~ At 12 years, 4 months and 13 days, you just may have the BR record for the longest time between signing up and making an introduction. Congrats A-Jay

The Daiwa Tatula LT reels are incredible. On par with Stradics, but with a different feel. If you look on ebay you can get them for $140.00.

As I mentioned in your other thread check out Daiwa's LT series.

For my dropshots I use a rod with a more "parabolic" tip because my hookset if more of a "reel up" than a set. Although I don't really fish shakeyheads, I fish a tube and jigworm quite a bit which are similar baits in terms of hookset. For those I use a slightly stiffer rod with a faster tip since I drive the hook into the fish when I set with those baits instead of letting the fish do it for me.

Let's go BUFFALO!! Sweet win over Vikes. I'm a likin' Josh Allen!! Long way to go, though. Boy needs receivers fer cryin' out loud!

I've seen plenty of ponds, sitting side by side, that differ enormously in terms of cover, fertility, water clarity... . They fish entirely differently.

Came in on back order

with that many people and that much gear, i'd take another car lol

Black Friday? Wait, what? It's September!

old topic and age old question. I will see if i can sum up the 2 main answers i have seen: 1) Baitcasting reels are more like a winch and the power is generated by the reel and not the rod so you want the stronger arm to be reeling 2)If you started using them "back in the day" or were taught by someone from that time frame, all that existed were right hand retrieves so that is what you bought or learned on from the people who taught you. For me it made no sense so i use left hand retrieve reels for everything from spinning, bait casting and fly reels. I am glad that bait casting reels have definitely increased the offerings in LH retrieve.

Sporting the new Power Plant ~ A-Jay

I’ll start by saying that I think the fishing industry has made a lot of money regarding technique specific rods that folks don’t always need. However......I have two rods that are designated as “drop shot” rod’s By the manufacturer. Well they both would seem to meet What I’d want it a spinning rod for shaky heads- Seven footish, medium power With fast/extra fast actions... problem is they’re kind of awful shaky head rods.....They have the power. But the tips are weird, Too light and too fast I guess. It just doesn’t feel right on the Hookset with a plastic with a burried hookpoint. They also don’t cast That great. However they are GREAT at manipulating a little 4” exposed hooked plastic on a dropshot; but little else honestly. I have the ”shakey head” stick from the exact same line mentioned previously and it’s It’s a much more versatile rod. More of a normal tip for a medium powered, “all round” spinning rod. I have drop shot with it and it’s not bad. But I wouldn’t throw a shaky head or an unweighted senko with the “drop shot rod”. You can certainly get by With one rod to do both. But if you’re really serious about drop shotting, a dedicated drop shot rod is a beautiful thing.

Those are all good reels and this is NOT a knock on TW because I buy the vast majority of my tackle (and a couple of my rods) from TW...but I have not found TW to be the best place to buy reels. Even with a 20% discount. You need to check EBay and shop some of the box store deals. Heck, I got a Revo SX Gen 4 from Dick's for $99 and got a FREE 7ft M/H Vendetta. Again, not knocking TW in any way, other than the prices on their reels.

You don't have to moisten braid when you cinch it down. I sometimes use a double palomar with slick braids and I have to use pliers to tighten it and I've never had issue with burning or knot breakage. My guess is that you are crossing the line when you tighten it or you just have a bad section of line. Try to make sure you don't get any twist while you're tying and cinch both sides down loosely before you cinch it all the way tight.

Hard to say since we can't see exactly how you are tying the knot, but I use a Palomar for everything (braid, mono, fluoro) regardless of pound test and almost never have an issue. Would think it has to be in something you are doing while tying (technique). Is it breaking or pulling out (slipping)?

Chartreuse spinnerbait did it again!

Big news is....I'm their new vice president of trying stuff out. Its not an upgrade as far as jobs go. More of a horizontal move from what I'm doing now. Pay is in the form of all the lures I can stuff in a Walmart shopping cart. Casual Fridays are optional. Taco Tuesdays are mandatory.

I spend a good amount of time inshore fishing as well as bass fishing and the Daiwa BG 2500 is a smooth, exceptional spinner that can handle abuse and will last you for years. They can be had for under 100 bucks. The 2500 puts out 13.2# of drag, the 2000 puts out 4#. With a light fluoro leader, I don't see why you couldn't crank the drag down on a 2000 and not worry about it again.

just got my first one. tracker super glide v14looking forward to getting familiar with it and taking my son out with me fishing.

My paid for setup. I've since added a Ultrex 80, which I love, and a Helix 7, that I'm still figuring out!

If I feel ANYTHING other than bottom, wood or weed I set the hook. I'm not ever waiting for another sign Highly suggest this video