bmuskin

You know as I look at pics and compare to mine. I really notice some difference in color and particuarly depth of color. I have caught some nice ones out of a subdivision pond lately, and the bigger 4 pounds plus seem unusually green on the back and hed and very pale on the body. Really no stripe at all. I caught one an hour south of me and it was more gold colored. Not like a smallmouth but more brown than green. They all had smooth tongues so they were not spotted or smallies but were LMB. My qustion is this why the color variation, Diet, Vegetation, Minerals, Genetics? What goes into play here.

I like the one in the avatar. The color of the fish shows up real well. I also like the shine on the one in the avatar looks almost like a mount. Both dandy well colored fish though.

Wacky rigged senko on a Gammy circle hook. Match the forage colors. Crawfish, Sunfish whatever. Let them sink and fish em slow giving a twitch every now and then. If there is a bass nearby he won't be able to stand it. I love using this as it seems to cover all depths as it sinks. It helps me locathe my depth on a pond.

Very nice. I moved to Missouri from nw West Virginia. I am shocked at how regional lures are. Order plenty and keep it a local secret.

Private pond around houses. No one else has permission other than landowners. I worked hard to get to fish this one and make sure I clean up and have even ran a brushcutter and cleaned up a lot to make sure I get to fish here.

I went to the strip pits below me awhile back caught a 7 pounder. I keep some from these areas cause no one ever fishes these carzy remote cut you way in places. Anyway I do not know exactly what it weighs but I know its my best ever, and its bigger than the 7 pound 4 ounce fish I weighed on a postal scale. Actually quite a bit bigger.

22"L x 16"W x 13.5"D. Size of the bag for reference.

I had to start a post on this one. I need to get a good scale but I do have some measurements. I am going to call it upper 8 to 9 pounds. The scale said 8.8 to 9.5 depeding on which way it was held. The length was 24 inches and girth was right around 17 inches. This is a subdivision pond that is near my house about 10 minutes away. I found out my neighbor owns a little piece in the back and he gave me permission to fish there. I have befriended some of the residents since and know everyone knows me and lets me fish. I even pick up other trash when I am there. Anyway I have caught a couple of 5's and a nice 6 from this and have hooked a couple of pretty nice ones. The pond is full of 7-12 inch dinks and the owners have told me to clean it up some and start eating some small bass. The pond is old as it was formed when the quarried there for the interstate connector. I usually bass fish after work starting around 5 and on weekends when I go to coal strip pits and the like. I went last night as my wife is out of town and fished for a couple of hours. the bite has slowed some since it cooled of here, but I had a few small ones I had caught on a wacky rigged Senko. I started working a buzz bait and some other top water to no avail. I kept looking over by a submerged log that looked like it dropped into a point. It looks so good you know there has to be a nice on in there. No way to walk to it so I tied on a 5/8 ounce Bass Oreno,(one of my oldest lures) cast to the log and caught some bark on the edge. I ripped it loose and twitched it and BANG. I knew it was a nice fish but the funny thing is it didn't fight nearly as hard as some of the 5's i have caught. It felt like I was pulling in a log at one point. As I mentioned no reliable scale to speak of but I got the measurements and know that it was my best bass ever. Hopefully I will see her next year!

Amazon and a couple of others just google the book. It was very interesting and details evrything everyone is chatting about.

The panfish ones were crappie killers this spring. I was filling the freezer big time on the panfish assasins.

Swimbaits of the large size and 6-7 inch senkos. Maybe even the 10 inch power worm behind a floating jig. Looks like a snake and a big bass will try to kill it with a vengeance.

Sowbelly: the Obsessive Quest for the World Record Largemouth Bass by Monte Burke I saw this book for as low as $2.00 online.

I was stuck in Charlotte a while back and picked up a book called Sow belly and it went into detail on the world record bass. It was not a bad read and was in one of those discount book stores for 3-4 dollars. It talked about the lure makers of custom swimbaits and even a guy in Mississippi who is trying to raise the new world record bass in his ponds. It also detailed where the money would come from.

I love the wacky rig weightless Senko. SLOW>>>twitchted around the cover.

I think it depends on how you fish them. Wacky rigged they did not have a good jiggly action like a Senko. Texas rigged I think they would do fine though. I wacky rig so I did not like them. Also be careful as the dye on these will bleed out and darken or stain other lures you may mix them with. I am a fan of the Yum dingers if I do not use the Senko.