BassinLou

If you are looking for local guides in the Miami area, you should hit up our very own BR member Capt. Shane, send him a PM. He is nice guy, and is always willing to help.

Thanks Mike. You guys went night fishing? Although the curiosity is there, I will never ask you guys what you are throwing. ... I sent you a PM but your mail box is full.

Sorry about your lure. I have been using PP for years with zero problems. Brand new PP is smooth to the touch, if you were feeling the line rough every few feet, something wasn't right. I just spooled up my new reel with PP yesterday as a matter of fact, fished it today already with 0 problems. Look into the culprit before you discount that braid. It's great and walmart sells it cheap. What lb test are you throwing?

Mike did you and Rob land these fish using the same technique for each or various one's ?

I bet he was. All it takes is the most simplest experience that to us is not a big deal, but in the eyes of a child it can spark something....

LOL... with pics you have provided recently, including this one with Rob, you include yourself on the list, of one those guys imho.

Pretty cool experience.

I am just getting into Dobyns rods right now, but lately the Avid MH 7ftr has treated me really well the last 3 yrs.

I agree, there some sticks out there that really know the glades and produce some beautiful catches. Leaves me scratching my head knowing I still have a lot to learn.... LOL.... As far as catching 50-100 bass a day, it's really easy. Go out between now and probably til June, right before the rains start, and throw soft plastics. Flukes, frogs, stickworms, trickworms, the list will go on and on. You will catch a lot of bass.

Congrats Mike!!

All I know he is quite the competitor. Since he caught that big mudfish in the pic, plus another one that was even bigger than the first. His barometer of big fish were those mudfish... LOl.. so when I caught some nice bass, which I did, all he could say was "my fish were bigger".... LOL.... to answer your question Pz3, I think in some way the way he views bass fishing changed. He would watch how I fished then he would ask if he could stand in the front of the boat and fish some by himself. Of course, I would step aside and watch. He would try to mimic my hooksets and with the phrases that use when I hookset. It was unbelievable and awesome to watch.

LOL.... you remembered the line....

So Cool!! I remember when I was a kid, they would hold the Miami airshow at the Opa-Locka airport and I could hear and see them practice after school.

Thanks Geo. LOL... I was telling my BIL, I am not posting anymore US 27 reports because there were a lot of boaters yesterday as well. The water was really muddy. i told my BIL that by 2pm he will see everyone will clear out. Sure enough 2pm, one boat, two boats, three, .... and they were all gone. From 3pm - 630pm noooobody was there.

That's it!! ..... just teasing. I have never taken the time to weigh all my tackle, all I can say its very heavy. lol....

I am with MarkHO24, its not an upgrade from Koppers in my opinion either. Pad crashers are good frogs that are easy on the wallet. Some frogs may walk easier than others, but it's mainly a skill set that the angler has to possess to really make a frog walk.

I went out fishing with my son, and BIL yesterday. We went off US 27 which is Northeast of alligator alley with great results. We fished from 10:30 - 6:30pm and caught 49 fish, 42 of which were my son's catches. He was using the fluke, and he was having a blast. He kept me busy. I couldn't fish like i really wanted to, but the trip was not for me, he was for him. 41 of his catches were bass and 1 was a nice sized mudfish. To a 7 yr old using light tackle a big mudfish is a catch of a life time.... LOl...

Out of my boat.

Ouch!! that happened to me last year i think or the year before out in the glades. I was using one of the F7 Rapalas, caught a dink of all things, he wiggled loose and I felt a sharp sting, i look at my hand and the treble went into my thumb past the barb. After a failed attempt to remove it, off to the ER i went.

The glades was awesome today. I took my 7yr old son to US 27 for the first time today, and we had a blast. We went from 1030 - 630 and caught 49 fish, 42, which were all his catches. I got to fish some and did ok. My son used a fluke and I used my trusty frog. There was a lot boat traffic that made the water very stained but by 2pm as I expected everyone went home like clock work. From that point forward it was just us on the water. If you want to catch a boat load fish right now, the glades is the place.

Yeah, I have seen it plenty of times and its very sad and disappointing.

Which park Pitboss? If its Amelia, sadly that is very common. I have spoke to park officials about that, but no signage is placed anywhere about it being catch and release. I call these fisherman meat hunters. They have no regard for the size limits and cull amounts.

My range depends on the size of the bait. So I will throw anywhere from 2/0 - 5/0.

Yeah, I went to the park earlier today also. I caught 4, and they ran the same size as yours Pitboss. I had a nice one short strike my bait, but it would not commit again. Days like these last few are nice, but it makes fishing pretty tough sometimes.

If your discomfort is in the middle of the left side of your right shoulder blade, more than likely its not your rotator cuff. That could be a direct byproduct of your hard casting. A stretch that may alleviate that discomfort is to extend your right arm out in front of you and gently pull it across your body over toward the left shoulder. If that stretch is too intense, then bend your right arm 90 degrees in front of you, and repeat the same stretch. Hold the stretch anywhere between 30 sec to a minute every hour or so while your fishing and see if that helps. Good luck.