St James

The way i see it : Greentop > Bass pro > Gander I'm very happy to hear this news and wish the best for GT. I love a store where the employees know what they're talking about.

I hit up Chick lake today for a few hours, I fished way upstream past the second no wake zone then drifted back down. I decided to work on my jig fishing this year so I was throwing a black and blue boo jig primarily, caught three in the few hours I fished one was about 4 pounds which is my best for the year the other two were just right around a pound. Love fishing the Chick

I prefer the revo s to the sx personally, I thinks it's because I don't like magnetic brakes

Don't worry endless, One time my dog chewed up a bandit crank bait until it had several major cracks in it. I put gorilla glue along the cracks until it foamed out of it, caught more fish on it after that, I called it my ugly crank. Sounds like a fun day

I hit up chick lake last Sunday for a couple hours just to test out a buddy's boat. The water was around 53-54 degrees. I tossed around a black and blue jig for a hour with any success, but wasn't our first priority. First time I've been bass fishing this year and the bug just bit me again. It's funny how I wanted to spend all my money on guns a week ago and I was reading up on firearm forums and since Sunday my priority's have changed back to fishing and this forum that I haven't visited for the past couple months.

Gar are a blast to catch I've caught citations (VA 42") the last two years.Bad news is that September is prime time for gar and the water is getting a little chilly now. They are very tricky to catch you should use a palm sized bluegill or the largest minnows you can buy at the tackle store. Use an steel wire leader with a cheap hook (one that will rust away eventually) the eagle claw ones work fine. Put on a slip rig bobber with a tie stop at 3'-8' then a small bullet weight above a swivel clip, put the wire leader on the swivel clip and hook the large minnow or bluegill between the eyes (gar will eat dead minnows also). I put about four of these rigs out at 3',5',8', and 10' deep and see which depth I catch the first couple on then switch all my rigs to within 2' of that depth. When a bobber goes under or starts movin start a stopwatch and feed line off your reel to the fish for 3 minutes, if the fish is still on after 3 minutes then make sure it's not swimming towards you and set the hook. cut the wire leader off as close to the fishes mouth as you can (Watch out for those teeth) these fish are prehistoric and are very cool especially when they are all gulping air and you see them breaching constantly in your fishing area.

I reel with my left spinning and baitcasting. I don't like switching hands after I cast

go for the revo but, before you go for a revo sx try a revo s, I much prefer the "s" I don't like the magnetic brakes on the "sx" good luck

top-water- braid (for pulling in slop and minimum line stretch) shallow crank- mono ( because of line stretch, you can use fluoro if you use a flimsy glass cranking rod) deeper crank- fluoro ( better sensitivity at deeper depth and less line stretch for deeper hooksets) a good mono will take care of all of these situations but, these lines will perform slightly better for each condition in my opinion.

My favorite mono is suffix pro-mix, its hard to find but it is the by far best mono I've ever fished. My favorite fluoro is seaguar invis-x and bass pro xps flouro (I tend to stay away from bass pro products but this is the exception) I have had problems with fluoro on spinning gear but that was before I started flipping the bail over by hand instead of reeling it over. I have also had issues with fluoro when I overfilled the reel on spinning gear. I use mono for cranking but I can imagine that you can feel the rocks and stumps that you run into much better with fluoro. If I were to use a fluoro for cranking I would use a cheaper one like seaguar red label or bps xps. The horrible fluoro I have used is berkley vanish.... you couldn't pay me to use that stuff again. try some new line until you find one that you like everyone likes a different feel.

I'm lucky enough to have a privately owned pond within a couple hundred yards of my house so I go fishing their quite a lot. Today was a fairly good day and I ended up catching ten 1/4 pound being the smallest and 1 1/4 pounder being the biggest. I caught two on a white booyah spinner-bait which I was not confident in and was a nice surprise. Two more were caught on texas rigged 7" berkley power worms (red shad) which is the go-to bait in this pond. The rest were caught on a texas or wacky rigged junebug yum dingers. Nice day but If you have any input on how I could get some bigger bass out of this pond that would be appreciated since I have only caught 5 fish over 2 lbs out of the 500 or so bass I've caught there, biggest being 4 1/2 pounds. If your in the mechanicsville area I'd be happy to let you try out the pond.

I went up the chick river from eagles landing today with my dad. missed a fish with top water and caught a three pounder on 7"red shad power worm. My dad got several hits on red shad worms as well but he missed them and caught a quarter pounder on a bandit 100 Tennessee shad. I didn't see anyone else catch anything and the people we talked to were only claiming they caught one or so. fun being out on the water even if the fishing was slow.

welcome to BR your in the right place to learn about fishing! That surf tackle probably isn't what you want for bass and pan-fish For catching bass pick up some senkos (or other similar stick baits) and go to the fishing tackle forum then go to the Senko FAQ's and read up. Senkos almost always work and are fun to fish just throw it out there let it sink twitch is a couple times and then when you feel a fish pick it up wait a couple seconds then set the hook. good colors to start with are watermelon red flake, punkin seed, junebug, and redshad. have fun and good luck

Where on the rappahannock do you fish? just wondering. Nice to hear you caught a bowfin, I love how hard they fight!

3/8 spinnerbait 3/8 jig 5" senko