SteveinVA

My buddy pulled this ol girl out last weekend on a swim jig 5-10 ft of water off a point.

Completely agree with choppin that wood. I use three, got one setup for soft plastics, creature baits and senkos, got a crank bait tied on another, and a buzzbait on the last. Figure I cover my basis till I find out what they want

I would suggest getting a second rod if you dont have one. When I added another it made it easier to switch between lures. I fish with three now and tie on what I want to use the night before. I am currently having some luck with senkos texas and wacky rigged, split tail grubs by yamamato rigged texas with a split shot about 1-2 feet up the line. I use a pull and stop for a few sec. method then a lil twitch and another pull. Where I fish there is a lot of muck on the bottom so I like a weedless setup. Anyway having so me success with jerbaits still as well, lucky craft and rapala types. Countdown by Rapala as produced well for my buddy. Well theres my 2 cent good luck

Agreed, I dont keep any of them any way right now, gonna start keeping some of the smaller guys though and try to thin the herd a little. there are alot of 2 lbs or less in my lake. My boss wants to eat 'em so gonna start keepin em soon. I just posted up because I had never seen it in the wild before. Pretty sure we saw her drop her eggs, then the male fertilize and start guarding all in about 5 mins.

Dont know what all yall have seen but yesterday saw the whole process take place. Was really cool to see in the wild. was fishing my neighborhood lake and saw this big tail sticking out of the water next to the bank. Was moving in a tight circle, big fish. then it kinda paused and just sat there, shaking a litle. then it moved off and a smaller male moved in over the spot, and stayed there just looking at my lure, neither of them chased anything. I'm actually glad they didnt bite. Bet the male is stil there guarding the eggs. Other than that its geting pretty active out there. probably caught a dozen or so small ones and some good sized crappie. Any way the spawn is on where I live.

Make sure you read the fine print, the FIP is for fisherman that are exempt from having to get a saltwater license. You do not need to register for it if you have the saltwater license the fine print states"Important Note: the FIP registration process is only for anglers that are exempt from Virginia saltwater license requirements. The most common license exemptions include fishing on a licensed charter boat, licensed fishing pier, a boat with a private saltwater boat license or from the angler's private property/pier. The free FIP registration is not a substitute for a license when the angler is required by law to purchase and hold a saltwater license. A saltwater license must be purchased if the angler is over 15 and under 65, and does not meet one of the license exemptions. If you buy, or plan to buy a license before fishing, you do not need to register in the FIP. Please read the FIP FAQ below and use the following links for more information:" Seems to be the same thing for MD. You just need to do these if you do not have a saltwater license. from the MD site" You do not need to use this site if you already possess an individual MD or PRFC saltwater' license, are under 16 years of age, are fishing on a commercial fishing pier; fishing on a licensed charter or head boat; fishing on a free fishing day or possess a valid commercial fishing license"

Haven't seen any beds bu teh bite was pretty good last Saturday. went out in the evening 3-730 and caught about 6 bass and 2 blue gill. Mostly dinks but a couple 2-3 lbers. most were in the back of coves in water depths between 5-10 feet around laydowns water temps were from 56-60

I puti in a couple weeks ago at hopyard landing. was out all day from about 10 till 3 or 4. caught the high tide coming in and the start of it going out. water temps were around 35 COLDDDD and the fish knew it too cause we didn't get a bite from anything. Good luck out there and keep us posted.

I have been around there quite a few times during the summer. never tried winter time. I lke to get in the water and just walk up stream. do my best using rooster tails. hadn't tried much else except for texas riigged senkos. you ever try at Motts landing. Did OK there last summer getting in the water and walking up stream till we couldnt go any further.

Hey KWM85 , you asked about some resevoirs down by me in another thread, figured instead of hijacking that one we could pull it back into yours. Motts and Ni both rent boats and trolling motors. Both are closed right now, not sure when they reopen. Motts probably has more shore fishing spots available, there is a stretch of bank at the Ni to fish from but it is very shallow and right near the boat launch. Pretty sure at Motts you can hike and fish from nearly half the bank. there is also the Rappahanock river right next to Motts, in the summer my buddy and I go down there looking for smallies and just get in the water and wade upstream, did decent last year using rooster tails.

we went up river from Hopyard farm landing, fall line? you talking downtown Fredericksburg area? you catching smallies?

Fished the Ni when I was a kid for Crappie near the spill way, couldn't count how many we caught, fished it last sumer did OK caughtprobaby a 3-4lb LMB, a couple of shad I think trolling a small crank bait. Also hooked either a chain pickeral or muskee pretty big boy too, didnt get it in the boat though. Fished Motts a couple years ago on a hot summer day and got skunked. from what I have read Motts is a steep banked resevoir that was stripped clear of structure during constuction so there is no underwater cover. Used to fish of the Motts dam at night when I was a teen for catfish and would catch a ton of them. The State record for Muskee or Pike, cant remember which one was pulled from Motts. Haven't been to hunting ground, you ever been to lake orange

caught a d**n thing since early December. Haven't been out alot since then, Ice and all. But 4 hours out on the Rappahanock, fishing, jigs, cranks, drop shots, shaky heads and anything else I thought might work and nothing. yesterday was on the neighborhood lake for about two hours in the evening......nothing. I wish I could blink and it would be March. that is all

if my lake isnt frozen it ain't producing. Man I can't wait till spring. tried for a couple hours yesterday off the shore. got skunked, did get some practice with the new bait caster though

Im gonna be doing some honey do work. that or either pulling the jon boat in the garage for some needed moddifictions. ;D

thnaks , I got it in there now

I am gonna send them one anyway ;D ;D

Cool, thanks

AH Grey wolf you got me twice, oh well Ol Lady already shot me down too

OK three votes is a charm thanks guys for saving me the trouble

View at your own risk, I have a slight loss of judgement and partially curse under my breath at one point

good call , below I will figure something out

I tried, cant figure it out

Link http://richmond.craigslist.org/boa/2100239409.html it owrked, please check it out, also the video let me know thanks

hopefully I can get my post count up and post the link, the more insight I can get the better. thanks