bradbass

try a stick bait switch up the retrieve.fast,slow,steady.

larry! big betsy! big mama! Just a few use it alldepends on what mood I am in.

ribbon tale black/red. Or spinner bait

I live in Reading,ma I would be interested in joing/starting a bass club.

Location is a key factor. But your probablly not going to catch 5lb bass on 7"worm I dont care what the location is. The baits I have listed are big baits for me and they work.

Up until two years ago all I caught was mostly 1-3lbs bass. Then I read a simple article" If you want to catch BIG BASS then you have to use BIG BAITS". Since I have started using big baits like 5-7" swimbaits,10" ribbon tail worm etc. I have just been killing them big bass after big bass. My biggest was this year 7lbs on a 10" worm. Over the past two years I have not caught much under 2-1/2lbs. If you want to catch big bass you have to use big baits.

Anyone have any insight on the Battinkill river in upsate N.Y. I am heading there for weekend but never fished it. Any advice would be great!

patience!! first locate some fish with plastic and then switch to a spinner or crank bait.

Looking for new fishing holes in the nortshore. I am from Peabody and know a bunch of good spots.

Three to four days of 95+ degrees, can't seem to find the bass. Finally the temp drops to 80 with low humidiity. What does this do to the fish and where do the go?

I got em!!!! Saturday morning 6.7lbs 24"long on a 10" ribbon tail worm black/purple texas rigged. Just dragging across the bottom then I felt a little tic and saw my line start to straighten out so I set the hook.WOW what a fish. pics to come soon!!

If you could see a largemouth thats atleast 6lbs just sitting on the bottom waiting for food you only have a few mins before she swims away. What bait do you use.

you said it!! Baitfish,structure,patience

last year 8:30am using a basspro watermelon frog reeling almost as fast as I could right along the outer edge of some lily pads 6lb largemouth. Funny thing is I caught her in the smallest pond that I fish.

thanx . Since I started using bigger baits I have been catching bigger bass but fewer, OBVIOUSLY. Hopefully I can beat my PB of 6lbs caught on a basspro rubber frog.Get out there and keep with it the bass seem really aggresive right now.

Not spawning yet but the bass are in the shallows. I caught 2 bass on Saturday both over 2lbs one on a crawdad crank and one on a YUM brushhog! I also saw a few more roaming. the Bass that I caught were very aggresive but I did not see in y beds yet..

Last Saturday went out to my favorite RES. What a first day!!! First I caught a 2-1/2lb small mouth on a crawdad crank in the rocky area of the res,fished for a while and decided to move to some flooded brush area, first cast with YUM brushhog black I casted as close to the flooded brush as I could before it hit the bottom BANG!!! 3lb largemouth.. and I lost two largemouth earlier in the day. But they are out and very aggresive!! Man I love fishing!!!

I would like to participate! sound like fun, last year I had my pb 6lbs on a frog.

don't set the hook to soon, you need to wait until you feel the fish on the line then set the hook. You get so excited seeing the splash and you want to just bamm! set the hook but you need to wait an extra second then set it!!

fishing for bass in mass has been slow ice has been out for only 1-2 weeks, weather looks great this weekend hopefully I can get the first of the season!!

my personal best was on a frog. 6.12lbs pulled her out of the lily pads @ 8:30am on a saturday morning last year. What a comomtion she made when shw hit the frog very exciting way to fish..

What would you say is the best bait for pickerel is, right after ice out?

try a 7" blak/purple culprit worm with no weight just fish it slow.

I would like to participate in the swap!