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Joes fly 1/4oz bass size. I like the Fire Tiger Apache or glow tiger. a rapala f7 in blue mepps anglia #3 silver brown tail. the new mall near me has a drainage 1 acre pond. First year they were dinks, then larger dinks, then 1/4 lbers, and so on years later they were 3lbers.

Everytime I have a hot bait, that is my number one go to bait sooner or later it’s discontinued, or no longer available in that color, or can’t find it anywhere it’s gone with no notice. I have cases and cases of crankbaits. That disappeared then some were offered again. The bps Topnocker is another top water bait that disappeared. The hottest topwater popper I ever used.

Thanks I never gave it much thought. I’ll chop it up from now on.

I’ve suggested this before the water conditions change as we go deeper in the water column. Fishing the same spots I feel the bass learn our baits. What was hot last year isn’t this year. Back to square one playing with colors and sizes. Focus on your presentations they must be flawless, picture perfect and award winning. Topwater I like the 1-2-3 pause. That’s 1 rip, 2 rip, 3 rip, pause. Shallow crankbaits I do the same or a slow reel. With inline spinners I move them just fast enough for the blades to spin. its not luck in fishing it’s skill.

First bass don’t hit a worm balled up or knotted up on a hook like other fish do. You put the hook in the nose of the night crawler and let the body dangle. This works, I seen bass strike 10”/12” culprit works with the hook in the nose of the plastic worm. I use a weighted, weedless hook and a worm rattle, one shot of scent with a plastic work.

Mike has awesome service. His products show his commitment to his offering of affordable quality baits. Down right fast in shipping too. I need to get more I gave mikes jigs to my son.

I’d like to hunt yotes here. My two neighbors were keeping them in check but they recently passed on. Now the yotes have no one hunting them. Need to watch out there sneaky like a fox. i have a predator call that says two hunters need to sit back to back. Then play this recording. The predators come running in quickly thinking a animal is wounded and dying. I can’t use it at home because of my pets.

With spinnerbaits in snaggy situations I hold my rod tip at 12 o’clock and let the blade come up out of the water and slap side to side as I reel it.

I go to sleep tired and wake up more tired. I fell out of bed four times because I wasn’t in REM, I was half asleep. I hate using the water. It never works right. I use coff drops to keep my mouth wet during the colder months. The summer months I use nothing.

I was sitting on a large rock fishing from shore. I turtle bit my nightcrawler as I brought it in a snake came out from under a rock. I tossed it away twice. The third time it came at me with its mouth open ready to bite. Goodbye, lights out. when I was logging I had about 15k to 16k pounds maybe more in the truck. I caught snakes sunning themselves in the road. If I run them over they live, if I pull the e brake the rear tires lockup and rip them open, road pizza for predators. sorry I hate snakes. I had to leave one cutting job in the springtime because of wall to wall copperheads.

When I hunted in Vermont we took my jeep up the mountains on over 150 year old logging trails. We parked then walked up farther. This was about 1990. We were tracking a bear in three inches of fresh snow. But then noticed a cub was zig zagging it’s mothers tracks. Behind the cub tracks was mountain lion tracks. The fact is there’s no mountain lions in vt. Fast forward a decade+ later the mountain lions are in the lower populated areas now so they are multiplying as they move looking for food. It took me decades to finally see one at my camp. There very elusive and hard to see one. Now my point is put together a large primate with animal instincts plus it can think like a human you get a Bigfoot. its no fairy tale. Look at its power. https://sasquatchchronicles.com/the-mystery-of-the-upside-down-tree/ nothing scares me on this planet but you need to be upclose and personal when this thing howls or screams. I’ve heard this similar howl from my front porch one summer night in ct. it’s happened on a few summer nights. https://www.bfro.net/AVEVID/MJM/Howl.mp3

There was a lost boy. The air national guard was searching for him. They seen the boy on there night vision but not far away was a Bigfoot too. They think the Bigfoot saved the kid or kept an eye on him till help came. True story. even Einstein said there are different dimensions. Now how do we travel between them who knows. I think Tesla knew more than he was saying. Another subject that’s not mentioned much is time travel.

First there was “Gad About Gaddis” the flying fisherman with his float air plane from Maine. On Sunday nite before Disney I believe. Soon after it was Jerry McKinnis he started the bassmasters soon after. But his earlier shows with his home made boats were awesome. I was glued to the TV set as a kid. Then soon after is was Bill Dance, Hank Parker, Jimmy Houston, the Linder boys at InFisherman ect. But watching and learning from these guys raised the level of my fishing along with Glenn with this site. When we put it all together it works, watch the tv shows and videos but watch what they do as they talk. Watch the movement of their rod too. do polarized glasses work? Dumb question. i was watching bill dance fly fishing for bass. The cameraman was off to the side of his casting. Behind his fly I could see the bass making short strikes. Bill couldn’t see it but the camera picked up on it. I went out wearing polarized glasses and sure enough watching behind my shallow running and topwater baits I seen the short strikes, next to figure out what was I doing wrong. My point is we can learn a lot from the pro fisherman. Even today I watch a fishing show when I’m looking. They were on clearance for $.99 I think there in my fishing museum and weird fishing inventions. The double digit, white whale of a bass is out there. Just fish hard. I’m convinced that every body of water that has a healthy eco system has double digit bass.

The more time you spend in the woods, forests, the wilds you will be able to answer this question. The last time I seen something me and my son were coming off my mountain road below my camp. The road straightens out for quite a distance. There’s a stonewall on the right side of the road it’s the farmers field. We’re up on the ridge above the field. On top of the stone wall is a pair of red eyes at about 140 yards away. It was night time and we only seen the eyes and by the time we got closer it was gone. This road isn’t perfectly straight it zig zags. There’s two straights with the zig zag inbetween. We seen the eyes from the upper straight away. By the time we used the zig zag on to the lower straight away it was gone. I’ve had a few encounters, let’s say there’s something that’s unexplained. It’s unknown. Trust me if you ever heard one scream or roar you’d beat feet to the flatlands. the BFRO (finding Bigfoot researchers) must read the emails I send them. I was one of the first to mention the girberish language they speak. They woke me up, I was in my bunk frozen listening to them talk out side my window, I am a light sleeper, plus I sleep with the window open to let fresh air in when the woodstove is going. By the time I got my old body out of the bunk to look they were gone. My camp has the only running freshwater spring for miles. I have a watering hole. Next when I make my famous bacon cheeseburgers they come close by and scream at me. Bacon seems to attract them but you need to be in a bf hot spot to attract them. The BFRO tried cooking bacon but got nothing. Everytime I cook my bacon cheeseburgers for supper they are there. my camp is almost at the top of the mountain. I have my woodstove going when we went out one day. We walked the old logging access road up and over my mountain and continued on. I could smell my woodstove smoke for quite a distance. This tells me how far my cheeseburger/ bacon smell is going. my son who hunts is a skeptic. I let him decide on his own. His deer stand is on my land. Now my land borders on the us national forest land. We went out early deer hunting. Right away I heard a tree knock above us on the ridge. A few seconds later another tree knock came from farther in the forest. When we exited the stands I said did you hear the knock above us? The kid says did you hear the knock in the forest? early one morning we went up the ridge above my camp and sat on a blow down tree. The clouds were so low they covered the mountain with a mist and the trees had little icicles on the branches that looked like steel on a magnet. I sat and looked to the north. I rattled a few times then had something running straight at me from the north. I could hear it clearly. All of a sudden it stopped dead. I could feel it looking at me but couldn’t see it because of the mist from the low clouds. I never heard it walk away. Now the Town of Hancock borders my town near my camp. There was a gathering in Hancock. There was campers hiking. Something screaming at them ran them out of the forest. It’s documented on the BFRO site in the state of vt section. The towns border is a stones throw from my camp. we were riding dirtbikes on the access road. My son was in the lead going fast. As he turned a bend he caught a glimpse of something big, red colored running in the forest from the road. i contacted BFRO and gave them direction and they sent a rep up there to check it out. He found two bf beds above my camp up on the mountain. Then that bad hurricane hit vt and the investigation ended.

In ct it’s 12 lbs 14 oz. my Pb is 10lbs.

My best time to fish was to be casting by 4am. That’s up at 3:30am. There isn’t many fish in numbers but they are bigger and no people chucking saltwater weights. im a slump? Slow down your baits. Don’t rush and they will settle down. Now change bait colors and sizes. If your using a scent change it. If not try a scent. Wash your hands before going fishing. I use bigorange soap. when was the last time you washed your baits and tacklebox?

A yetoe there interbreeding.

Is it big like the Fat Albert was? im a color freak. I like to read the water conditions and go with a color that works in those conditions. Again don’t limit yourself. Think out of the box, out of the norm.

I fish from shore from early mornings(dark) to around 9-10am. I try to follow the bass from the shoreline to when they move to there deeper cover. It’s topwater, shallow cranks, in-line spinners, spinnerbaits, then I’ll go to jigs, deeper cranks(9’ depth) to c rig 1/8 oz with a creaturebait, or senko, 24” leader. Don’t sell the 6” black rubber worm split shot rigged anytime. i use a variety of baits I don’t limit myself. Try different colors too.

I fish the same spots from shore. Sometimes I snag what I lost. I went there with a grapple and brought up a 2” x 10” board from the last bridge construction. I didn’t lose any more stuff there.

Topwater from shore it’s my 5/8 oz bps Topnocker. It’s the farthest lure I can cast. Usually 2” crankbaits, 1/8 oz, 3/16oz, 1/4 oz in-line spinners and spinnerbaits. Jigs are 3/8 oz. My Carolina rig is 1/8oz. From shore I keep it light. My rules do change with inline spinners like mepps Angelia. I go from a #3 to a #4 or #5 depending on conditions.

Try it early in the morning like 4am. Walk up slowly, make no noise. Be very stealthy. Skip fan cast the area. Don’t put multiple casts next to each other.

I say stock the muskies, great northern pike were the snakeheads are taking over. Even where those jumping carp are too. we have a lake here that’s stocked with great northern pike because of the over population of white perch. Now is you follow the water down to another dammed body of water it’s stocked with hatchery trout. I seen a big pike feeding in the shallows were they stock the trout. He’s a big one now. Not many people catch trout there. I catch decent bass there.

I’m sitting at the kitchen table at 10:30am drinking coffee looking outside. There was a fresh road kill squirrel in the road I didn’t notice. My eye caught movement along the stonewall that borders the road. All of a sudden a yote comes out of the wall and grabs the squirrel and jumps over the wall and was gone. This grey colored yote blended in perfectly with the stone wall. Be careful out there.