bigbill

Good on the ivory?? Get a part time job playing bars?? It will pay for a HK.

We would cut pieces of nails and push them into the ends of shorter senkos for more wacky rig action.

First welcome to the best online bass fishing forum. Shore fishing or kayak fishing a portable cast out hummingbird fish finder would serve you well. Your like me I was a trout only guy in the springtime. Maybe a few bass fish trips thrown in. Then I got into bass fishing heavy. Read all the articles here. Then I found out the $1 spool of 4lb Garcia river mist line wasn't good for bass. The game changes when we go bass fishing. WELCOME

They won't come up to above the sight line to strike. Topwater isn't always a given. I can see my spinnerbait above the sight line with no action. The next cast I slow it up so it's below the sight line were I can't see it but down where the bass can see it like in there face. They hit it. Trust me on this one I've done it many times.

On the days we can't buy a bite change colors. I believe the water clarity can change in the water column as we go deeper. The different water clarity can be stacked vertical. Firetiger can be your friend. I throw a variety of different baits, different colors, different sizes while trying different presentations. Sooner or later one will work. My confidence is I'm going to catch something. Staying motivated and focused is the key to success. Fishing isn't luck that's for the casino. It's our skills that catches fish. Read every article here over and over all winter. Watch every bass fishing video. Watch what Glenn and the guys do besides what they say. Watch how they use the rod with different baits n presentations. If you want to learn bass fishing basics your at the right place. Then go on the water and home your skills.

There is a sight line in fishing. Above the sight line the bass can see you. Below the sight line they can't see you. I find some bass can be finicky to strike above the sight line sometimes. It's when I slow my spinnerbait or inline spinner down and it runs below the sight line just out of our sight is when we can have success. Ever try it? To do this with crankbaits you need to switch from a shallow running CRANKBAIT to a 4' depth running crank. Depending on the water clarity and light conditions the sight line can be at different depths. A spinnerbait will show us where it is. I'm not talking about sight fishing were we can see the bass.

My spinnerbait combinations that works is, Slightly stained to clear water. Blue Glimmer skirt, gold Indiana blades, 1/4oz. Stained to muddy water. Hot chartruese skirt, gold Indiana blades, 1/4oz. Since our very own Glenn May here walked me through this setup and it's been working. I drowned many spinnerbaits till I figured it out. I need to try other spinnerbait setups next. I kind of stay with what works.

I do prefer the 6' med rods for most cranks, topwater, spinnerbaits, inlines fishing from shore. I know everyone will say 6'6", 7', 7'?". I just purchased the 6'6"/7' LEWS SPEED STICK spinning rods to try.

My highest confidence baits are(just a few) Topwater torpedo prop. Reeled steady just fast enough to spin the prop. Or my famous "1", "2", "3" rip n pause. Perfect timing is the key to success with this presentation. Bomber crankbaits, model A or FAT A if you can find then. Size 05. Slow reeled. Just a steady retrieve, with a smooth right and left wobble. All the craw colors, silver and citrus. Don't forget a firetiger. Or a sit n twitch. Rapala Orginal Floater F7. Blue or black. Again slow reeled not too fast. Or a sit and twitch. Mepps Anglia #3 inline spinners. Silver blade grey dressed. Gold blade, Brown dressed. Retrieve just fast enough so the blade spins. Mann's Classic Spinnerbaits, 1/4oz Gold Indiana blades, blue glimmer skirt, mister twister white 4" split double tail grub used as a trailer, and a trailer hook. Mann's Classic Spinnerbaits, 1/4oz Gold Indiana blades, hot chartruese skirt, mister twister chartruese 4" split double tail grub trailer with trailer hook. Norman Thin N crankbaits, with a slow twitch presentation. Chartruese, violet, panfish natural colors. I use all there colors. C-rig plastics. From shore I use a 1/8oz bullet weight. I wacky rig senkos. Red black flake, motor oil flake. A good bass scent/attractant too. The presentation is very important. Anyone can throw a lure it's all about the presentation that catches fish.

I only wacky rig it in the center using 5" / 6" senkos. These flutter down as they fall. The 3" / 4" gives hardley any flutter when compared to the longer senkos. Unless you cut a finish nail and weight the ends with 1/2" long nails.

My secret is...... Depends on the light conditions. I like over cast, cloudy days anytime in the fall.

Retired since '52yo,,,65yo now job bass fishing. Restoring tractors. Running the old tractors. Watching the corn and grass grow, mow the grass with the old tractors. Enjoy everyday I wake up on this side of the green.

Rattle? I purchased a large and small of those bags of big pencil rattles. One for far away noise maker and the smaller one for close up shuttle rattles. It could pay off to squirt some for urine. Grunt??

Near the surface as the bait falls. Think about it we get strikes on the cast as it falls. Chartruese silver flakes?

Good move. I sold off my vintage, post vintage 25 restored husqvarna dirt bike collection. But I'm restoring a '84/250wr, '78/ 390cr, a '82 430cr, a '84 / 430wr, I been hoping to add a 500cr. I have most of the parts.

Started out in trade school as a auto mechanic. At 16yo started rebuilding machine tools. Then back to cars, jeeps, truck mechanic, then a machine operator, then into building cnc and manual lathes with 36" to 144" chucks till '83, in '86 got into the engineering group as a lead tech on the test lab floor. I took welding courses from AWS. Took night school courses for welding processes. Once they seen my welding and fabrication I had an open ticket on the welding machines I wanted. I purchased 100% duty cycle 5 500 amp three phase machines. I worked for world headquarters engineering the corporate world. I was a blue collar guy in the white collar world. I retired at 52yo. Now 65yo still desire to fish. I build cnc machines to manufacture the m1 Abrams tank parts, built and assembled parts for the 155mm howitzer for the U.S. ARMY. Built lathes to manufacture jet engines for the military and commercial manufacturers. Built machines for NASA and the auto and truck industry. I built machines to manufacturing disc brake rotors and spindles for every car and truck manufacturer. Every time you step on your brakes your rotors were manufactured on my machines. The best field today is a operating room nurse, radiology cancer tech, male nurse. Big bucks in the cancer field.

It's like shining red dot lazer pointers reflecting the light in all directions.

I'm thinking some flakes that shine like gold and silver can represent fish scales in certain stained or dark water conditions. Think about the crankbaits with the fish scale pattern. The reset ill leave to Tom above.

Yup I know.

It will work fine. I been swapping my reels to my new rods and noticed I had what I thought was a 2000 reel turned out to be a 1000 reel. Perfect for a light small bait rod. For line I was thinking about Excalibur silver thread copolymer 6lb test. I seen some 5lb test somewhere maybe another brand.

I searched for ribbon tail worms and found they call curly tail worms ribbon tails. The ribbon tails I remember have the rippled tails?

I just looked at ebay there calling curl tails ribbon tails. I think Mann's offered real ribbon tails years ago.

Tom this could spread to other states too. Once California does something new jersey seems to follow then Maryland. That's how the gun laws spread. I'm not saying it can but who knows the state's jump on any bandwagon. The politicians say one thing to get into office then switch sides. Who do we trust. It seems us sportsman need to unite to fight for the cause. Give them one inch thell take a mile. We need to form a National Fishing Org. NAO?

In my late 40's, 50's it never bothered me I was logging, riding dirt bikes with my son's. Fishing inbetween at night. Muscles were never sore.I was a gorilla logging jumping up on stone walls run a 100cc saw for hours non stop. Endless energy. I was doing great till 60yo hit. The decline started. Then 63yo hit the aches and pains,but at 65yo I'm going to return to fishing 24/7. The physical pains and crashes on the bikes we go through in my 40/50's we shrugged off return in our 60's.

Do you hunt by the moon phases? When I'm bass fishing during the full moon phase of course I see the deer moving all hours of the day. They call it a hunters moon right? It lights the forest up at night. Do you rattle? Remember when a bucks running, whistle, he'll stop, you shoot. I do that when I see bucks out of season of course. When the season is open they know it. Out of season keep that moultrie feeder going all winter till spring with that molasses coated corn. When hunting season comes they will hang out there. Or they use tractor supply deer blocks. Bigger ones the bears take my little Apple blocks. I don't hunt at home. But in vt at my camp it's one on one.