bigbill

My misses was going to the gym in a local mall. There's a drainage small pond that captures the runoff. She had some old bread to feed the ducks there. She told us there seems to be fish eating the bread too. We tried fishing there and caught dinks to small bass. As the years went by the bass became bigger the last trip there some were 3lbers. The ducks seem to not bother them at all.

I'm fishing smaller places from shore. Fall temps, getting colder? Are the bass still active, IDK. It was mid November just before thanksgiving. I was itching to go fishing really bad. It was cold enough to fish in the light snow. I put on a 6" yum money minnow in pearl. I started working the foot part of the dog leg were the pads are. All of a sudden bam she hit the money minnow. I fought her and she had my rod bent in half no bass has ever done that before. After a battle it felt like 15 minutes but maybe 4 minutes real life she spit the hook. One of the biggest bass I ever had on my line. I needed a heavier rod and a larger hook in the money minnow. my question do the bass feed up until the ice is on? We get ice over around late December. i admit. Now have a inshore setup but I feel like a fool using it.(light saltwater tackle)

I was a logger for 35 years full and part time between jobs. I've seen grubs as big as the diameter of your finger. My point is don't be afraid of using the bigger diameter grubs.

I use a 1/8oz c rig with a 24" leader with a senko. I cast it out into a channel along side the weedline I keep the line just taunt enough to feel the slightest nibble. I am focused on the rod tip looking for that little tap, tap, tap.

I've witnessed the feeding frenzy that happens before storm hits. One time what turned me on to use lures a bass was hitting my night crawler as I reeled it in. I put on a mepps inline spinner and the rest is history. It was two hours before the rain storm hit. Another time this feeding frenzy happened was during a warm light rain. It was non stop action. I caught 19 bass standing in one spot. Crazy action. i wish there was a meter to tell me when this feeding frenzy is going to happen. It's tied in with weather fronts moving in and during the rain. After the rain they shut down to do the bacteria stirred up in the water it throws off the PH.

Small rebel crawfish inline spinners mepps spinflys, joesfly, panther martin look for rocks and fish behind them. Look for backwashes. Look for pools.

BPS/XPS Topnocker chartruece Bomber FAT A redapplecraw Mepps Angelia #3 silver blade, grey tail. manns classic spinnerbaits

Rip, may god show him the way. Godbless. i lost my older brother, he was my mentor, we fished, hunted and shot together. He was only 52yo. I miss him everyday now for over 20+ years. It never goes away. He was a sportsman. We will seen them again. Our bodies are vessels to get us to the next life. I hope there is fishing.

I broke a new flyrod once on its very first outing. I purchased the flyrod setup on clearance. It was a expensive flyrod. I think I paid $120 on a $250 setup. It was the end of summer clearance at the kittery trading post in kittery, Maine. I was fly fishing for the first time. It was awesome. in the dark I closed the rear window and caught the rod tip and cut it. I now have a crappie rod with a micro spinning reel. i feel your pain.

I'm finally getting out of bed and starting to move around. Feeling better. I went for another round of knee injections. Faster than jiffy lube to get them. I had them last year. Three weeks, three injections. I just received my first injection on this go round. Going to go fishing soon. Opened the tackle box yesterday I chased the moths out of it. By the third injection I may try stairs next. Haven't been in my tackle room in 5+ years.

I put five new lures in a tree one day. Very costly fishing trip. Don't fish on windy days under low trees. The tree was decorated for the holidays. My lures and someone's bobbers. I Hardly ever lose lures. I go for years not losing anything. Some years maybe one lure. But through the many years probably more fish have ripped lures off my line. Then it being operator error(me). i hate losing the discountinued stuff. One lure I lost is a manns crankbait. It caught a ton of bass it was a hot lure. So hot I carry two incase I lose one, the backup one catches nothing no matter how hard I try to drown it.

She's sees more stability in her life as your adopted daughter. You should be blessed to be chosen your someone she can count on. A little rough around the edges you are but your heart is in the right place I'm sure. i had a dead beat dad, I hate guys that don't take care of their kids. My dad was never there for me. We butted heads when we did see each other, I never saw him again for decades. I have a dead beat dad with my step grand child. When we meet we will square off.

I hated to stop fishing to go on vacation but one vacation was to kittery trading post in kittery, Maine. Of course I spent money on fishing stuff. I just tried a c rigged senko for the first time with success the bass loved it then I left them for a few days. Bummer, the bass were post spawn and turning on. But fishing seven days a week did wear me out. I was buying anything new just to test it.

Before my health went down hill I fished from the springtime till I got burned out. That's at least three months everyday up at 3:30am fishing by 4:00am home by 9:00am/10:00am eat sleep bed by8:00pm. Repeat for three months, a few vacation days inbetween with the misses. Being retired gave me more time to fish. when I was working I fished week nights and weekends. But with most larger places were crowded at night. I found the bass in more numbers but smaller in size. Fishing in the early mornings a found the bass were bigger but less in numbers. Weird. Dont forget im a shore fisherman. I can pickup and gun and run to other places nearby. My hot spots are local small bodies of water that people pass by. i do regret catching my PB of 10lbs during my three months of fishing. It made bass fishing look easy. But I have seen and lost bigger bass since then. It makes me want to catch another bigger bass to up my PB. It's like a curse, I'm driven, I'm addicted. I wish it never happened, I was happy catching smaller bass. I can poke them but I just can't seem to land them. I know were they are. My favorite spot is a man made dam for old water power. It's a dog leg shape. I can just about cast the whole dog leg. The bigger bass at at the ankle in the pads. I want to break the state record now. We have nay Sayers here locally that we don't have big bass here. Big bass don't do the 9 to 5 day. From shore anyway. Put your time in, stay going, fish as much as you can.

Most of my plastics are new. Time to recycle. Guess. I figure to mix in flakes. How many molds do I need to pour a batch. How long before I can remove them from the molds?

I've seen bass grow to 3lbs in a drainage pond at the mall. It's a small pond now maybe 3/4 acre. First the bass were dinks when the pond was first dig out. It's crowded with fish. But the panfish are good food for the bass. It's stream fed so I'm guessing the bass come down the little stream.

I use a simi chrome polish once the nick is lightly sanded with a fine grit paper. Simi chrome polish is a very fine polish that's used to remove machining marks in plastic injection molds.

I have a few bags of old creature baits that are leaking. I guess they were salted. I put them in a zip loc bag to contain them till I figure out what to do with them. Can I melt them down again and repour them into senkos? Of course I need all the stuff to set up to do this. But I'm thinking of buying flakes to add if this can be done. what do you guys do with old plastics?

I use a homemaker company for driving me to doctor visits. I get to ride in different brands of cars some new and some not too old. The cars from Japan and South Korea seem to ride rougher. I rode in a new Buick yesterday and I was impressed on how smooth it rode. I'm looking for a new car for down the road to plan ahead. I just seen an older Chevy pickup one I owned in the past. I can fix it. I wish I could go older to the trucks with point ignitions. Simple stuff nothing electronic. Being an ex car, truck mechanic I worked for amc Jeep. The older j20 Jeep pickup gets my vote. Good luck finding one, I have a 55 Willis for plowing snow.

The hooks have some sort of a coating on them maybe a clear coat? i had stuff rust in my tackle box ever since I was a kid. I have a little tiny black rapala minnow that's rusted up since years ago somewhere. I need to post pics of it. If you have to keep salted plastics in your crankbait and topwater box and the plastic bag of baits is open put the bag of baits in a sealed zip loc bag, I keep my used plastics in a seperate zip loc bag.

Example, I toss my Carolina rigged senko with a 1/8oz bullet brass weight with a brass clicker and a 24" leader with a 249w eagle claw weedless hook. On my first cast, I use the senko right out of the package, no added scent. If I get a strike, and I miss the hookup. The weedless spring guard comes up open. It eliminates guessing. I add one shot of bass attractant/ scent on my second cast it's a definite hook up. The bass will hang on long enough for a good hook set. I use a light weight from shore on my c rigs. If your wearing polarized glasses which I never leave home without them. I watch behind my shallow baits as I reel them in. You'd be surprised on how many bass make short runs at your baits than veer off. They won't strike it. This tells me to use a scent and slow up my line speed on my next cast. One more thing that has happened to me. The bass bite is on. After catching so many bass all of a sudden the bite shuts down. At dusk this can happen and I change from a # 3 inline spinner, silver blade, black bucktail, to a Joesfly firetiger Apache 1/4 oz bass size inline spinner. This will land a few more bass before it gets completely dark. This is as the light changes to dark. Free tip, Once the place settles down in the dark did you know the bass turn on again around 10pm? Now were fishing at 12pm noon. The bass bite is on again. The dinks, the 2lbers, to 3lbers are chasing your baits. The hookups are great your landing every bass. Again it just shuts down. We're fishing from shore and what adjustment can we do? We were looking like a pro and it stood dead like we know nothing about bass fishing. Leaving isn't an option but a happy meal or dollar menu burger does sound good. Not, change colors first. No action yet? Up size your bait. Example go from a #3 inline spinner to a #4 or #5 inline spinner in the same colors. I notice the larger bass will come in to see what the smaller bass are hitting but they won't hit the smaller sized bait. The smaller bass turn off as the larger bass move near. The action will return with the larger bass. This has happened to me many times. Dont limit yourself to trying something different from shore. From shore depending on the depth, the bottom structure, the water conditions try to match your bait sizes to the depths, and colors(water conditions). I notice we can have different water conditions horizontally as we go deeper in the water column. When it's slow my challenge increases. I know the bass are there. There not biting. Then it's what am I doing wrong. One day I'm pulling out 2lb to 3lbers back to back on a split shot rigged worm today nothing. I threw everything in my tackle box twice changing up my presentations and sizes. Then I thought about what if the water column has different water conditions? I put on a firetiger crankbait and the bass bite was on. That was it I learned what I did wrong and found out that firetiger or chartruece can be our friend on a tough day. I was hung up on colors that have worked in the past. With follow ups. I fish the same smaller places like you do. Over the years I learned that the bass do learn our baits and will avoid them after a while. I made up a list of baits that has worked in the past. I toss a ritual of different baits till I get action. Once I get the bait, the color and presentation correct. dont forget to what I call "skip" fan casting. Don't put each cast next to each other. I cast to the far left, then to the far right, then in the middle. I place the next cast away from my last cast. If I see topwater action I don't cast into the action. I cast past it and to one side of it. If it's inbthe pads I cast parallel to them in the open water not to spook the fish. I cast past them. I work my topwater bait slowly past them. I try to avoid a follow up cast when I can. on a follow up cast if using a 1-2-3 twitch lengthen your pause using the same bait, instead of staying with the same presentation go with a slow reel( slower line speed).

I use shallow running crankbaits from shore in the shallower areas. It depends how fast you reel too. If you reel very very slowly the shallow running floating crankbait becomes a wake bait. I use the bomber FAT A size 05, bomber model A in size 05 mainly. one spot I fish gets weeded over. I put on a larger lure with three treble hooks and clear a 3' wide path from a far cast to the shore. I spend one trip clearing it. Then I can fish it next time. I can run deeper cranks along this open weed line. my other spot has a 9' deep channel with weedlines on both sides. The channel is 12' wide. Again I cast parallel to the weedline. The bass come out of the weeds to hit my baits. i like fishing from shore. I can gun and run to another nearby spot too if it's slow at my first spot. i start fishing from shore in the dark, when the sun is up I cast into the shaded darker areas. I keep my casts parallel to the shoreline and work my way out Skip fan casting. One area has a 90 degree corner. I can cast parallel to both shore lines from the corner. spinflys and joesflys work great in these shaded areas.

I use a 1/8oz c-rig with a 24" leader with a 349w eagle claw weedless hook with a senko wacky rigged. I have a ball bearing locking snap swivel on the leader she I can change baits in the dark much easier. i use a 1/8oz brass bullet weight with a brass clicker, a few beads with a Carolina keeper adjustable leader. When I twitch the rod tip it rattles the clicker.

When I get home from fishing I leave my tackle box open to dry out. When fishing in the rain I keep the lid closed on my tackle box. And make sure I keep the lid open when I get home so everything dries out. I found out not to keep salted plastics in with my hard body baits. I have seperate tackle boxes. We can't mix everything up together. My baits don't rust up anymore. After many years of use no rust yet. At the cost of tackle I don't let nothing rust.

I always say I reel just slow enough to make the blades just spin on my spinnerbaits. As said above it's watching and adjusting the line/lure speed not the gear ratio. I bit and got reeled in on the 7.3 ratio reels too. Cranking a 7.3 wore me out for one trip. I have arms like popeye from cutting trees and it whooped me. Back to the 5.3 ratio I went, I think the 7.3 ratio is for the pros to get the bait back to the boat for another quick cast after a strike and a miss. Time is money in pro bass fishing.