Bluebasser86

Never fished it but I'm sure it would work if there's fish on the dam. The hard thing about fishing it from the bank is it tends to snag a lot more because of the angle you're pulling it. You might want some jigheads with light weedguards but even that won't stop it from wedging in the rocks.

Well I was going to go hunting this morning but because of the wind, me being too tired to get up early, and after that good day yesterday, I decided to fish Wyandotte one more time this year It started terrible, cold and windy and despite fishing my best spots with the same baits that were working yesterday I had one 10" largemouth to show for it and my buddy Van hadn't had a bite yet. Tried shakyheads, jerkbaits, and jigging spoons with little to show for it. Tried the point at the mouth of boy scout cove and finally caught a few smallmouth and largemouth on jigging spoons and jerkbaits. Started to leave when a couple seagulls circled and picked something up off the water so I stopped and dropped a jigging spoon again. We both caught a few white bass and Van caught the skinniest wiper I've ever seen, 19" long and maybe 2.5 pounds. By 2pm we had only caught about a dozen bass so we decided one more bank then that's it. Went to a bank I didn't fish yesterday with jerkbaits and for about 20 minutes it was pretty constant. I had 2 keepers and we had several close fish between us. Jumped across the lake and I caught my last keeper of the year from Wyco, a solid 17" fish on a shakyhead. I'd go again tomorrow but unfortunately I have to work I ended up with 31 bass on the day again today and Van probably had 15 himself.

If you haven't drawn yet I was wanting in. I sent a PM with my name and address a week or so ago. If it's too late not a big deal I'll catch it next year.

Fished Wyco for likely the last time this year before it closes with Sean (sizzlefry). Tried for some of those wipers they were catching next week. I got my hook straightened on my jigging spoon 3 times and had another one pull off when I changed the hooks out. I did catch 3 very healthy, fat smallmouth in the 16 to 17 inch range. When we gave up on the wipers and started fishing for bass they were pretty willing to play. I had 31, all but those 3 smallies on shakyheads or a luck e strike rc stick Jr jerkbait. Right towards the end of the day I had by far my biggest largemouth I've caught out there this year eat my jerkbait right next to the boat and cruise by the boat like a mini sub. Had a long careful fight before Sean got the net under her. 20" and 4.14 pounds, she had great color and was one of the healthiest looking fish I've seen from out there.

Probably 6 or 7 pounds. A bass that long would be around 10 and they aren't as thick as bass. I'm sure that was a good fight though.

Yes you can catch fish on it year round. Anywhere there isn't a lot of snags is best. You can fish it around snags if you get jigheads with a single wire or small fiber weedguard, but you still have to get the fish out of the cover with light line. It's great around docks and vertical cover like seawalls or pole timber because it falls slowly.

Maybe not 20 but I'd take one for $200 for sure! With all the small ponds and pits around here a beat up old jon boat that leaks sells for $200. I'd go with a jon boat too. I've had a couple of the plastic pondhoppers but they are heavy and they start to fall apart after several years. The aluminum jons will last forever if you take care of them and they're easy to move by yourself. I have an old 12 footer that I can pick up over my head and carry by myself, makes packing in to ponds with difficult access a lot easier.

I wonder if they can do that because they can breath air out of water? Strictly freshwater fish don't last long in saltwater otherwise.

I saw that and if I didn't already have almost the same rod in the LTB I'd be all over that.

I made some homemade biscuits and gravy for dinner tonight. On a cold winter night that's about as good as it gets

I had it in Texas, it was pretty decent but not something I could eat a lot of.

They don't really migrate but they move to deeper water during the cold water months and they school up really thick like you described. There's probably a deep pool close by that they're wintering in.

What kind of boxes? Like a regular hard tackle box or tackle trays like a 3700 plano? Falcon makes some really nice tackle trays.

That is an extremely difficult angle to guess the weight of that fish. I'd say you're probably pretty close with 5.5.

Very nice fish man! Finally getting some action on swimbaits again around here too with water temps in the low 50's.

I spent an amazing day of catching smallmouth with 2 friends this past spring. We got on the water around 6am and literally from my first cast of the day to our last casts of the day there was not a time when someone was not fighting a fish or unhooking a fish. We had more doubles than we could track and several triples. A majority of them fell for jerkbaits and were in the 12-15 inch range. I had over 100 smallies by myself and we ended up with 256 fish on the day, give or take a fish or two. On top of those smallmouth we had 10 walleye, gobs of white bass, and a few big crappie. We didn't have any real big ones but when you're catching fish like that it doesn't really matter. Our state record isn't even 7 pounds but I've managed to hit the 5lb mark 3 times. In all three cases the fish had no problems launching themselves to surprising heights.

Don't know, I didn't weigh it but I'd guess probably 5 or 6 pounds.

I've had a few reels done, a couple older curado B's, a couple 200e7's, and a 50e. There is a huge difference between a stock reel and a tuned reel, especially in casting distance.

I have a full handled LTB 7' 3" C-rig rod with a 200E7 and I like it really well. Haven't really ever tested the balance but not really worried about it tossing a C-rig. I have several of the split grip, not a huge difference that I can tell. You won't be disappointed with it, they're really nice rods.

I've bought quite a bit of used gear from the guys in the flea market forum, I have no complaints about any of the gear I've got from anyone.

Rage craws, Netbait Paca Craws, Zoom big and little critter craws, twin tail grubs.

What were you getting them on? Ned rig again? basshunter0731 (Jon) and I fished his uncle's pond Tuesday and La Cygne Wednesday. Caught a bunch out of the ponds on jigs and traps. I tossed a 6" swimbait around a bit, had a good fish pull off and caught this little guy. La Cygne was pretty decent for La Cygne. I had 20 bass, 1 white, several wipers, a channel cat, and a buffalo. Jon had 8 bass with a few near misses. Don't think he had any other fish, just bass. Shakyhead and a spinnerbait were our best baits. Caught a couple on shad fishing for wipers and Jon had one on a squarebill. The wipers and shad were really stacked up in the warm water. Didn't get any real monsters of anything but my first wiper was a pretty nice one, it ate a 4" swimbait. Biggest bass was probably around 3lbs on a spinnerbait up the river a ways.

My dad has always provided for his family and done the best he can with what he has. He's always been there for my sister and I and is still with my mom after 30 years. He's far from perfect but as I get older and notice myself doing or acting like he did when I was little it doesn't really bother me, I could certainly do a lot worse than ending up like him.

I'm in Kansas but still get to fish year round thanks to a couple warm water discharge lakes. Nothing quite like a topwater bite when it's snowing and 20 degrees out

I've got a bunch of H20 squarebills and have no complaints about them. Good paint and good baits. Anytime I'm around the thick stuff where I don't want to run my LC baits through I break them out and they usually produce. I've bounced more than one off a rock on the cast and have yet to break or crack one. I'm sure their other baits work just the same.