Mattlures

Man I must be the worst angler ever. I do all the mistakes the amateurs do!!! I absolutley have to have the perfect lure for the situation and I belive there is usualy 1 superior lure for every situation. I believe Color is extremly important. I have zero patients except when trophy hunting, and even then I dont like it but I know I will eventualy be rewarded. If I am not getting bit then I have to change something. I spend money on quality gear. Even when I shore fish I have at least 2 rods sometimes 3. When I take my boat I usualy have at least 15 rigged and ready. I like to have a specific rod for every technique I do. I over analize things I never had a mentor , I had to teach myself. I go back to the same spots that worked before I use several different baits and a change them often untill I find the right one. It bother me if someone else is catching fish and I am not. I declare I am the biggest amatuer of all!!! :-[ :-[ ;D Two mistakes that I see other amatuers make that I do not is, They get frustrated and give up and I will never give up. I may not have the answer all the time but give me enough time to over analize it and I will figure it out. And I am always observing and learning. You dont always need to have a line in the water to learn. Sometimes I just watch the bass. Sooo I guess my answers are They give up to easy They dont observe their quarry enough. They buy junk gear(doesnt have to be expencive, just decent) They use stupid lures They fall for gimiky products. They listen to people who pretend to know what they are talking about. They dont know enough, to know who to listen too They use theri gear in the wrong way.

I hunt in open dry deserty mountains. Its a lot of hiking and more glassing. Our hunter success rate is usualy between 3% and 7%. I get a buck every year because I work harder then the other 95% of the hunters. I dont have anything against blinds and feeders, it just doesnt seem like it would be fun. I want to get out and find them.

First let me say thank you to everybody who chose me. I am honored. Also be careful what you wish for ha ha. I just spent all day on a lake with Mike Long in 40 degree weather with a howling COLD wind and neither of us got a single bite. Hunting big ones is not always fun. I'd like to fish with a lot guys on here just for fun. I would have a blast catching bass in different locations weither they were 1lb or 15. But I would mostly want to catch some species that I dont have. I would like to hike the mountains with Fourbiz and learn how to fly fish. I would also like to catch a big smallie with RW, I have never caught a smalie and a big ol sturgeon with Fish Chris. OOO peacocks with Redline Robert would be fun too.

I think you all are being a little harsh. Of course she is anoying she is a 17 year old kid. They are all anoying at that age. She is pretty but she still looks like a kid to me.

Snook I agree that he did not brak a law because he did not have a trout in posession. However if your a game warden and you come up on a guy who does not have a trout stamp that IS targeting trout what do you think his excuse is going to be? Of course he is going to say he was fishing for a different type of fish. I am sure that warden has heard that before. It sounds like the warden didn't believe him and under the circumstances, I think that is reasonable. It doesnt seem like either side did anything wrong but If I was the warden I would certainly be suspicious and I would have been asking questions too. Then I would have went away and hid and wathced with binos just to make sure.

that was halarious thats for making me laugh!

Snook your saying that the warden was harrassing because he questioned him? I think he was very lucky not to get a ticket and I think the warden was very patient. I like talking to the F&G when they check me. They are a wealth of info and are hunters and fishers too. Once they see your all good and legal they are usualy very friendly. He was doing his job. Put your self in his shoes.

There is a little foul language and a little violence so I hope its not crossing the line. If so I apologize. It sure is funny though!

Your using a lure that is comonly known as a trout lure. Your fishing a lake with trout in it. You admitted that you hooked a trout but it got off. The trout bit on the lure that is comonly known as a trout lure. You did not have the required trout stamp. Hmmm How dare him !!! You should have thanked him for not writing you a ticket, escpecialy if you had any kind of attitude at all. Some people dont realize that fish and game have more athority then the police. They can actualy search your house without a warrent and they are equal otherwise. The simple solution is to get a trout stamp.

I concede, there is no contest. Texas wins hands down. TX has many huge lakes to choose from plus when flying in it seems like everybody has a private pond. The state of TX actualy likes fisherman and encourages them to fish and hunt. Their lakes are open all the time. and I believe you only have to buy a licsence and not launch fees and daily permits. There are more 10lbers caught in TX and the bass fishing is better(easier) and far less preasured. They even stcok geneticaly superior bass fry into the lakes. Its not even close. TX is a much better place to be if your a bass fisherman, or hunter. In So Cal our lakes are super deep and super clear, They ususaly have half of them closed at any given time and they are always crying about low water. We have to buy a licsence, launch fee, daily permit, and sometimes pay for parking too. Some lakes are only open 4 days a week and only a few allow night fishing. Soo when we decide we are going fishing on say a Wed we only have a couple places to choose from. That means everbody else in So Cal are fishing in the same couple lakes that Wed. The water dist would rather not even let us fish the lakes. Our lakes are the most preasured lakes in the country. The bass are spooky and hard to catch. When the lakes do get stocked with trout the shorelines are crowded with shore anglers so you cant even get your boat in close. Our laked do not get stocked with bass. The only thing CA has going for it, is huge bass. There arent that many of them but they are here. Other then that TX is 10X better. My mom lives in TX and she keeps trying to get me to move but i was born in So Cal and I dont want leave. But I can honestly say TX is a much more fisher/hunter friendly state and they dont have all the stupid politics that we do.

Right now this is my goto buzzer. It has a unique rivet and is the best designed buzzer I have seen. http://www.osp-lures.com/products/zeroone/index.html they are expensive though. color is irelevant at night, I ususaly fish black or chartruse or white but I havent noticed one color out fishing another after about 15 years of night time buzzing

Ha ha Babby I do the EXACT opposite. I absolutley do not want any variation in my retreive. I want the most fluid consistant slooow retreive. Over the years This is the technique that I have perfected and has produced more then anybody fishing around me with buzzers. I only fish buzzers at night.

NO beads bihind the blade!!! Rivets only! A ggod buzzbait should have a loud squuek almost like fingernails on a chalkboard.

I dont like clackers. I have seen many times where they wouldnt hit the clackerd bait but they would hit a non clacker. I have not seen it the other way around. Everytime one of my friends cought a fish on a clacker, I was able to get bit without one. IMO the most important feature of a buzzbait is the squeek. I will not fish a buzzer that does not squeek. If it has a bead behind the blade instead of a rivet then I wont use it.

Matt Fly Dixon lake is over 80 ft deep with crystal clear water. It is open 7 days a week to fishing and no water contact. and was arguably the most preasured lake in the country. You do not know what you are talking about. They have about 30 rental boats that were usualy all rented out every time I went there. The shore was lined with another 50-100 guys. The lake is not fun to fish like this. They have reaised the prices so the preasure is less plus Dottie dying has helped but its still crowded. I didnt fish there this year becuase it cost too much. All our lakes out here are extremly preasured. I have been to Texas recently I saw a couple lakes and you could actualy see large areas of water inbetween boats. Your lakes are huge, they do not recieve 1/4th the preasure per acre then the so Cal lakes do. Its not even close, it would be a lot more fun to fish in Texas. I dont think you guys know what combat fishing is.

pgersumky Mike is#1 of all bass fisherman including the Elite pros. I am sure you hear every rumor imaginable. Anytime anybody achieves greatness there will be jealousy and haters. Do not belive what you hear. He is watched everytime he fishes. He wins more tournaments then he doesnt win. I am guessing your opinion is influenced from guys who dont like him. Meat him yourself. Fish by him and see. You would change your opinion. Go to one of his seminars with an open mind and block out what you have "heard". I hear things to about everybody who catches big bass in CA. EVERYBODY! Mike is not a crawdad guy but like everybody who has ever chased big bass I am sure he has used them before ,so what. I have used dads, shiners,and crawlers and I ocasionaly still use crawlers but just about all of my big bass come from swimbaits and sightfishing but if I could get them on dads then I would throw dads. 0119 yeah OK WOW! Fish Chris ha ha I think the exact oposite then you. I think Norcal has way more big fish ha ha. We may have a higher top end but we got tiny lakes comparred to you guys. Your right about greener grass! Anyways the article says he searches out ponds that are holding numerous trophy bass. That is obviously a diferent situation then the ponds in your area holding 4-7lbers. We catch big bass in preasured public lakes becasue thats where we have to go to catch them. There are many places in the country like GA and TX where private ponds are very common and where people are managing them for trophy bass.

Ok comparing LMB from Ca to Ga LMB is like comparing them to tuna???? alrighty then. Anyways CA has nothing to do with it and I never made the comparison. My point was that his numbers are decieving because he fishes places that have little presure. That makes a huge difference weather its in GA or CA or Japan. If he was to catch those same numbers on public lakes then he would be a champion. He obviously know how to fish and target big fish but again the biggest part of his success is his access to privite ponds that hold a lot of unpreasured big bass. If I fished lake Baccarac in Mexico 300 days a year how many 10+lbers would I have after a decade? or 3 decades? I give him props, He put in th ework to find all those ponds and gain access. He isnt cathing them because he is lucky. He knows what he is doing, but he defenately has better oportunities the 99.9999999999% of the rest of the bass fisherman in the world.

3 lbers are irelevant to the acomplishment. 3 lbers live everywhare a bass lives. They are young and dumb. Anybody can catch them and anybody who has fishes has caught them. He fishes private ponds with little preasure. It makes a huge difference. I am sure that he would still catch big bass in public lakes just not as many. He uses a proven big bass technique. Buzzers at night are a great choice. Plus he fishes a ton and I am sure he is very good. The numbers are just decieving becuase of where he fishes.

Bizz I gotta disagree with you. I think Butch is #2. Mike has a 20 and several high teens, plus he dominates the tournaments. Many times he wins team tournament fishing by himself and he usualy wins by 5+ pounds. Plus he ownes most of the lake records in socal. He has caught trophy bass out every lake here at least 20 different lakes. He is also extremly versitile. He has lake records sight fishing, on swimbaits, on jigs and on senkos. No disrespect for Butch though, I do think he is a stud As for the article, I am sure the old guy is a great fisherman but his success is centered around the private ponds. Imagine how many huge bass the guides have caught on Baccarac and El Salto I do like his choice of baits though. The buzzer is one of my goto night time big bass bait.

Loved the seminar. Thanks Glenn

buy quality. Guys who start cheap ususly give up or end up upgrading baits. They would have been better of to buy a couple good baits then a bunch of cheap ones that will end up not getting used.

I completley agree with you.

K-mac thats not what I said. I said its worse when you sell it. It is larger crime. If you download a song or copy a lure for your own personal use you are only steeling 1 thing. If you mass produce that lure or song and sell them to thousands of people then you are steeling many times. I did not say one thing is ok and the other is not. I said one is worse then the other.

Pantera61 In the taxidermy market when a company makes a mold of a fish and sells the reproductions they can protect their castings. I believe with a copywrite. Bass-Brat thats what I said, but its a larger crime when you sell it. Personal use and selling for proffit are two different levels. BTW the last time I stole a song was over 3 years ago. Brent, it is not for any of us to judge. That is the job of the judge. Maybe you could contact some of the other companies named in the suit and go in with their lawyer at a fraction of the cost. As for the timing of the patent, You have 1 year after the product has been shown to aply for patent. then you have to show due dilligence while its pending to have your patent granted. This can take a while.

Osprey39 I am no saint and I am guilty of downloading music that I did not pay for. It is wrong and it is steeling. I am not going to justify it. But I think it is much worse when you steel intelectual property and then sell it. Now your steeling on a much larger scale.