bigbill

With subway where’s the meat? Doesn’t look like the sammich on tv? for fishing I make my own grinders, the fish on a slow day like cheese and salami too. I like mayo on the bread, olive oil, Regina red wine vinegar the cheese and meat, tomato, lettuce olives, what ever.

Know the depths, the bottom structure, look for the flats, the points. Do you use a scent? I wash my hands and touch nothing but my baits. I don’t make any noise it spooks the fish.

I have one Bruin that appears to be 500#. No open season yet. That’s a big bear. they raid all my fruit trees that’s ok I planted them for the wildlife. i had a cub come at me about 12’ away when I raised my arms and screamed

Beaware of the Blackbears in ct fishing at night and early mornings. The population is on the rise. I have resident local Blackbears, two males and a sow with cubs. There’s been reports all over ct. becareful.

Candlewood? Get the map and fish the stumps

Just want to say hello, haven’t been here for a while, health problems, planning on wetting a line for bass, soon. Remember I’m your shore fisherman guy. Everything that works from a boat works from shore only backwards. Being stealthy is the key to success from shore fishing. On a slow day practice your presentations. Luck doesn’t catch fish it’s skill. bigbill im back, only 2 lbs off the lmb state record. I’m back in the hunt. please becareful out there in seeing Blackbears I had a few close encounters before. I spilt my garlic scent on my hatch back in the dark a bear was at my car. All I had was a 6’6” whipping stick. He left and I was ok.

Let’s average that out numbers wise. Five thousand caught, let’s say 2,500 were female, that’s ten eggs per female that’s 25,000 they won’t have to kill. I hate snakes.

A 4’ diameter snapping turtle. My son said it’s a log as it raised its human sized head that we first thought was a limb.

Bravo.

Mister Twister once made plastic dragun flies they were awesome. I dropped them split shot rigged into the weeds and work it up like a hatching dragun fly. Worked great. you could make your own using a #6 long hook with a foam body with elastic bands going through it. Paint the body purple or blue. Just let it float on top. kittery trading post in kittery Maine has dragonflies for fly fishing they come in two sizes. I called them once and ordered more.

I wacky rig the senko with a c rig and a 24” leader with a brass clicker. As the bait falls I keep the line snug and watch the rod tip for the slightest nibble. Once the tip moves set the hook. if nothing happens on the slow fall, i then get jiggy with the rod tip as it falls letting the brass clicker do its thing. i put a 1/8 oz brass weight, a brass ball, then a brass clicker with it, between the plastic beads.

For you youngsters don’t get hung up on one bait, one color and one presentation, just switch baits and try different presentations, colors too. what you learn at your favorite fishing hole applies to any new place you fish.

I use crawfish scent on crawfish crankbaits. i use a baitmate bass scent regularly on topwater baits. i use my garlic scent as my change up pitch is nothing’s happening. i had baitmate worm crawler scent but I don’t see it anymore.

The bass are sensitive to noise. The big double digit bass are near the shoreline feeding in the dark and low light conditions. To walk up near the shoreline we must be stealthy how we walk and fish. No noise. Very quiet.