Tuckahoe Joe

Wow man...bacon or cheese...what kind of a question is that? How do you even choose? There are just too many delicious things that have both. Bacon cheese burgers, mac and cheese with bacon bits, my wife makes BBQ chicken breasts wrapped with bacon strips with melted cheddar cheese that's out of this world. Imagine never having nachos and cheese or a BLT ever again. I read this last night and couldn't make up my mind. Told myself I'd sleep on it and decide in the morning. Well I still can't decide so I guess I'm gonna have to fish on it.

Either way, Ill take a fish like that any day whether its the same one or not. This little patch of lily pads has really been producing for me over the past couple of weeks. Too bad it'll be too overgrown to fish from the bank soon.

This guy I work with and fish with sometimes just got his own boat. Nothing fancy. Just a little 12 foot Jon Boat. He asked his neighbor if he knew anyone that was selling one and the neighbor takes him around back, shows him the boat, and just says 'go ahead, take it'. So once he gets it registered and all Ill be going on my first bass fishing trips not from the bank. Pretty excited for that. Its gonna open up new water for me on the lakes I regularly fish and entirely new bodies of water that I wouldn't be able to fish from the bank. Since I don't have much gear to begin with, I don't have to worry about not taking enough or taking up too much space on his boat. Ill just bring 1 or 2 rods and my tackle bag. I can't wait but I still enjoy beating the banks with my wife.

Nice fish man!

Hello and welcome!

Awesome fish!

Those are nice looking. I really like the 3rd one. Question...do you make the actual crankbait itself as well or do you just buy blanks and airbrush them or how does that work?

A belated welcome to you!

Ugh! I HATE those things! I hate all bugs! Hopefully Ill be able to tolerate them more if I'm catching some sweet topwater fish.

Nice! I haven't fished the scatter rap yet but I'm sure I'll end up buying a couple this season.

Another awesome day...WTG!

I know for frogs your supposed to wait 2 or 3 seconds before the hookset but what about lures like poppers or spooks? Do you wait for those too or just set when you see the strike or what?

WalMart brand spinnerbait in chartreuse Strike King KVD spinnerbait in Chartreuse Sexy Shad Two 1/4oz Roostertails in White and Firetiger Yum Crawfish Scent and thanks to a tip in the 'Losing Spinnerbait Skirts' thread...zip ties! Also bought some pistachios.

Wow man...that thing is ugly! That being said, I'd love to catch one. Nice fish!

Nice fish! I don't even want to think about fishing around that many other people. 9 out of 10 times I go out, I'm the only one at the lake and I wouldn't want it any other way.

There are all kinds of different retrieves you can use. Cast it out and start reeling then stop for a couple seconds and let the bait float up a bit before starting to reel again. Or you could reel until you bang off some kind of cover and then pause for a second. It'll look like a small fish ran into a log and got stunned for a second. The perfect opportunity for a hungry bass. Or try fishing a crankbait designed for deeper water than your fishing. For example, if you fish a bait that dives 8 feet in 4 feet of water, you can dig in and stir up the bottom. Just be wary of snags. Then again, you could always just cast it out and burn it back in. Another thing you can do is to move your rod tip back and forth while reeling, say from about 10 o'clock to 2 o'clock making the bait change directions slightly. Remember, baitfish usually don't swim in a strait line. Change it up till you get bit and then try and duplicate what you were doing when the fish hit it.

Good looking fish!

I didn't really notice or even think about it at the time. I just thought it was odd that it looked to be about the same exact size and was caught right around the same area. In hindsight, maybe I should have took the second picture up against my rod like the first one. Would have made for a better comparison.

Hello and welcome!

Welcome to BR!

Hello and welcome!

My wife is just starting out. She's getting better at casting and beginning to pick up on a few techniques. I just have to keep her away from trees.

I went out this morning for a couple hours. I only managed one fish but it was a nice one. As a matter of fact, I could swear it was the same fish I caught about a week ago. I caught it within a couple yards if not feet of where I caught the first one and it hit the same bait, a SK spinnerbait with a tandem willow/colorado config, although it was in a different color. I was thinking maybe a bedding female and I just happened across her bed both times but I don't really know enough to say that for certain. The lily pads are pretty thick even though the pic doesn't show it I'm not really sure if this would be a good spot for beds or not. What do you think? Could this be the same fish? A. B.

Went out this morning. There was all kinds of activity all over the lake. In the past few weeks it was pretty much dead still. Today there was fish breaking the surface all over. I even got a topwater hit. I missed the fish but its a good sign. Caught a nice one a little later on chartreuse spinnerbait.