bottledgt

for what its worth, had an ex pour 2 qts in my koi pond outside my house. water looked like *** for weeks, but it cleared up and nothing died at all...i was surprised

at what water temp do they start staying deep mostly? i had planned on trying this some this winter, but want to get an idea of what im doing since ill be freezing my arse off. being able to catch some fish would keep me fairly warm,at least mentally.in a lake thats approx 25-30 ft deep with creek channels,where would they likely try to hang at? in the channel,or on the edges? or around humps?

yes, tournaments suck...but with the money involved they will never go away sadly

haha, sounds like my problem. i HATE going when its my buddys turn to drive and take his boat. boy cant operate at all. he cant run it and fish at the same time literally!. he runs it on high everywhere and will troll to a spot and wont let off until he is ON it. then we coast past it while i hurry to try to fish it. and doesnt understand the concept of bumping the motor to keep the boat straight. when he lets off, the boat has been known to drift in 2 complete circles while he fishes. then when hes done with that spot,its wide open to the next 50 yards and all over again. drives me NUTS. i try to tell him, but he just doesnt get it...oh and if he backlashes, i might as well take lunch cause we aint movin for awhile...lol. except i would have to eat about 20 times per trip LOL

i wish i knew what time was the right time ...ive tried em all and it just plain sucks right now

i have all baitcasters now, and i cant even use another type of reel. ive only had these new reels since about july. other rels feel like im grinding coffee now and makes me sick to have one in my hand. flipping,pitching,casting,i love em to death. day or night

thats why i like my hotfoot...

me and my buddy go anywhere from 2-5 times a week...6-8 hrs at least a time...and we've been known to stay through the night and fish through the next morning ,like 15 hrs straight fishing and barely catching a breath to grab a sandwich on the boat...i think we have a problem

d**n, they are hitting nothing like that around here...still slow as hell for 2 weeks or more now... end up having to pitch jig the cover to get anything. and even that is nothing big at all. usually not even keepers. im sure they are deep but every time i try that, its a big disapointment and 0 fish.i keep tryin though,just never clicks

i did exactly that last week too

does your scale say 6.05? or 6 and 5 ozs? i ask cause mine doesnt read ozs. just in decimal form. so if it said 6.05,that wouldnt be 5 oz

yeah, i dont know who uses that stuff or dont, but ive seen all the fish swim off after a tourney only to see a whole bunch floating the next day. it really sucks. as many tournaments that happen, there needs to be something done about that,even if its shortening the time on the water

some of those fish dead? i always see dead fish floating at the dock after a tournament. lots of nice 4+ lbers too. makes me sick

well it was dark so i dont know, but i do know i thought it hit the side of the boat but it had a duller sound...lol. it had to hurt. probly a 4 lb bass that threw it and he was pulling hard. and my camera was a little wet from the incident and i was afraid of even trying to turn it on. may be junk,i havent tried it yet. im hoping the motor is ok. i ran it over with the plugs out and i cant see but a couple drops of water that came out and it never cranked over since that happened cause i didnt want to hydrolock it and make a bad night worse. it just took awhile to troll back to dock. 1 1/2 hrs to be exact...lol. im just amazed the bilge pump kept running and all the elctronics never failed on anything. i kept waiting for a fuse to blow since the fuse panel was a ft under water. hell everything electric was under water. oyu could feel the current in the water in the boat when we were bailing water,but we pretty much had no choice and i really didnt want to make the news if possible

oh i know its probly happened alot. i just never dreamed it would go down like that ,that fast. but it does have a 175 on the back, so it aint exactly light. and the fishing turned out ok, halfway decent night. except the good fish spit the bait and hit my buddy square in the forehead with a deep diver crank. no hooks got him though thank god. but for sure, most eerie feeling in my life ever when that water came in. i htought the boat was gone

went night fishing last night about midnight. set out and away we went went about 5 minutes and got to a slow zone where a lot of stickups are. lo and behold, i roll over one. happens every time i go fishing. i let up on throttle a touch and let it roll on over it. then i happen to notice a little water on the floor in the moonlight.i looked behind me and just lost it. the whole back was underwater. we both freaked but somehow kept cool and thought quick. i hit the bilge pump and jumped for the trolling motor. somehow i trolled a couple minutes to shore and we jumped out and got the boat sideways as far to the bank as we could.it was then i had time to think. i had put the plug in the boat i knew it. i couldnt reach it to check,so i had to dive under. what i found really ticked me off. i had stuck it in the livewell feed line instead since they are right next to each other somehow. and looking back, im not sure if the boat would have sunk any deeper than it was, but i didnt want to find out. we spent the next hour holding the back up and keeping the boat above water so it could pump out. eventually we could move it closer to shore and then i used the power trim to raise the back more cause water kept coming back in the vents,which is what made it sink so fast. when we noticed water it was too late. it literally engulfed the back of the boat in mere seconds.BUT we got it back afloat and never really lost anything and we still went fishing,lol. just had to troll everywhere. SO, good thing i never go out alone,especially at night. simple mistake=bad bad times that could have been way way worse

for the most part, topwater does not work for me at all...if they are busting the top, i can catch 3 to 1 using worms or other methods.... i have yet to even catch one on a buzzbait this year. just doesnt work in my hands. and not much way you can screw up a buzbait

ha,,,went out last night for an ALL night fishing night. had a good time except for the 2 hour rain in the beginning. didnt catch anything until 2 AM. started working an underwater hump that ran about 150 yds long from 3 ft down to 20 with a deep crank dragging the rocks. got a 2 lber. then we started on it some more. then i hooked this...not what i expected,but it was d**n fun. so basically i guess i failed again,but i wouldnt mind failing more often. this is the 2nd time this has happened within a month on a crankbait... 8lb cat...

i didnt mean i was giving up trying. just that i was out of ideas. i know what im doing works,just havent found any good spots yet. im new at deep water stuff,and what do you mean by toad?

yeah i havent given up...i just am out of ideas of which none seem to work. the whole thermocline thing screws with my head and i have no idea how to know where it is other than a depth finder, but ive had no luck getting it to read that ,so im guessing at best. this time of year, im assuming they are only shallow in morning and late at night and deep the rest of the time. seems like if they are going shallow to feed,then they wouldnt even bite anyway when they go back deep. i have no idea though

im talking anything over about 12 ft. when they move off shore,i cant get into them very well. ive caught loads of fish this year,and nice ones,but they werent deep. ive tried jigs,dropshot finesse worms,havent tried too many cranks though actually.

not having any luck with this structure,open water stuff. ive tried and tried. just aint happenin. if i cant find fish around weeds or cover, i might as well head to the house it seems. if there are weeds in open water, i can catch fish usually if they are there. but as far as points,dropoffs, i think ive caught 2 this whole year doing it. and neither one was worth catching.

thats the only thing i got against tournaments. they usually are 8 hrs or more. if oyu catch one early, then hes stuck in a box for 8 + hrs. i dont see that ending well for a lot of them. on top of being took out later and being handled again,weighed,handled again,etc.has to be hard on fish

this happened to me last week. as ticked as i was to watch my worm take off every time it hit the water,i kept at it. i set the hook several times and ducked my head since i had already caought one 16 incher. the bass were biting very light and it felt just like a blugill. then i had one i wasnt sure about,set the hook. turned out to be a 5+ lber

if only i could get jigs to work...tried em for years and still do, but never got the first bite yet