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Swamp Girl

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  1. Heh. I fear that this is my fate. Oh, well, they'll hit other lures if that happens.
  2. I'm persuaded by numbers. These are the cities with the highest per capita gun deaths: Jackson, Mississippi -- 69 gun homicides per 100,000 people. Gary, Indiana -- 64. St. Louis -- 50. New Orleans -- 48. Memphis, Tennessee -- 47 And these are the states with the highest per capita gun deaths: Mississippi -- 28.6. Louisiana -- 26.3. Wyoming -- 25.9. Missouri -- 23.9. Alabama -- 23.6. Alaska -- 23.5. Everything is else is apocryphal narrative.
  3. So, there's a dam at the end of the swampy pond I fished. Below that dam is more pond, which I could see with Google Earth. Well, I cased that pond this morning and found a narrow, bumpy, dirt road to it. It looks amazing, just the right mix of open water and weeds. I'll be fishing it Monday morning, rising at 4:15. So excited! I won't return to the swamp until my new frogs arrive. I did dig out my baitcasting outfit and need to put some braid on it. The lure and hook manufacturers must love you guys, since you keep sending me to the Internet to buy, buy, buy! Will do. I've also had really good luck this year trolling my Mepps #3 brass spinner through the open stretches. The bass love that little lure and I love to fish while paddling to the next spot.
  4. Whoa! That sounds like a great frog. I'll get it too. Trade-offs for sure. I see you southern boys catch bass that could swallow my biggest fish.
  5. I've never fished below a dam, but I'm sure I'd love it. Thanks for sharing the pics of the cool fish!
  6. Whadda day, throttleplate!
  7. I actually own a pair, but left them at home the last two times. Dang it!
  8. I already googled the Sprinker frog. It looks great. I'm going to order a couple. I'm going to use a buzz bait, fluke, and spinnerbait too. And no more 8-lb. test and spinning rod. I've never used 40-lb. test, not even for muskies. I'll continue to use the Whopper Plopper where there's open water. I've caught fish in the middle of the lake in the middle of the afternoon with it. It's a dinner bell in Maine. I'm going to continue to fish new lakes/ponds too. I've fished five so far this summer and have another three in the queue. I love fishing freshwater that's fresh water to me! I looked at the lake/swamp I fished yesterday evening on Google Earth. It goes on for miles and is a mile wide. I paddled it for a couple miles, but left most of it unfished. Human beings are lazy, so I can't imagine many people have fished it deeply, for it's a maze with dead ends and a motor wouldn't work. But first, I have to heal my bass thumb. It feels like sandpaper. I'm a 66-year old female and my thumb takes such a beating, so no fishing until next week.
  9. Thanks for all the great advice. I'll have to do some googling to locate some of the baits you mentioned, but I wanna learn. I didn't know I had placed my fish backwards, so thanks for that too. I will quit the Whopper Plopper in weeds. I became addicted to that lure when I caught two bass at once four times in a ten-day period. Here was the best pair, a 19-inch fish and a 17-inch fish at once. To be frank, I'm not sure that the bigger one was 19 inches, as I didn't measure it, but it looks like it's that big.
  10. Mike, what specifically works for you in thick cover? I assume I shouldn't use my spinning rods and 8 lb. test. My assumption is based upon my not being able to keep the big bass I hooked out of the lily pads, where I lost him. I further assume that those pencil-thick reeds don't hold bass. Are my assumptions correct? What weeds do you prefer? In northwestern Ontario, cabbage held pike. What weeds do bass like?
  11. The problem is that more than half of my casts were ruined by weeds. I removed more weeds from my lures than bass. At this point, I'm sorry I asked. I do appreciate MN Fisher's suggestions.
  12. Okay, okay, northern lakes are weedy and most southern lakes aren't. The first photo is the weedy, northern "lake." The last photo is the largely open lake I fished this morning. In between are a few of the fish. They're all about the same size so I didn't post all the pics. That fish measuring board works great. When I set the bass on it, not a one flopped off. They felt cradled, I think, because they were. The Whopper Plopper, being so big and heavy, caught weeds more than half the time on its landing, so it wasn't the best choice. However, I tried a light frog for a few casts and it didn't interest them. Gimruis, I didn't think I was complaining. I thought I was asking for advice. "How do you Southern boys do it?" is a question. In that first photo, you're seeing the "lake" at its most open. It really closed up a few hundred yards into it and there were times I was struggling to move the boat through reeds. I couldn't paddle and the reeds offered considerable resistance, so I had to use my paddle like a pole.
  13. I've watched so many fishing shows where guys with southern accents are fishing in salad. The preponderance of oligotrophic lakes in the north, i.e. rocky bottom lakes means fewer weeds. The fishing is amazing here. That weedy pond I fished last night is right off the highway. Thousands of people drive past it, even though it's chock full o' fish.
  14. I went fishing last night and this morning in two, deeply different ponds. One was called a pond, but it was a marsh with lily pads on the surface and other weeds just below the surface in most places. I spent more time removing weeds from my lures than I did removing fish. I still caught 24 fish in less than three hours. All were largemouth except for two chain pickerel, one the biggest chain pickerel I've ever caught. I also used my new yellow measuring board with sides, like a trough. It worked great. The bass were calm when I lay them in it. Nearly every fish on a cast Whopper Plopper. I lost a big one that jumped twice and bulldozed into weeds right by the canoe, coming free. Dang it! This morning's pond was open with rocks. Much easier fishing not having to fight weeds. I caught 29 there with good consistent size from 15" to 17". I have LOTS of pics from both ponds which I'll load later. Caught fish on a trolled and cast Whopper Plopper, a trolled and cast Mepps #3 spinner, a weightless Texas-rigged Senko, a Ned jig, and even a couple on a nightcrawler. All strong fish who knew how to dance in three hours of fishing! Again, how do you Southern boys do it? Those weeds were rough! Also saw three bald eagles, four herons, a kingfisher, swallows, many geese, three turkeys, and two loons. The loons sang too. Again, pics to come.
  15. Whoa, that's a lotta fish! Nice, big one too.
  16. I just bought that yellow measuring board in your photo. I'm excited to use it! I also bought a new net. It's rubberized and it floats.
  17. Ernest Hemingway wrote that any activity that requires gambling to make it interesting isn't worth doing in the first place. I concur.
  18. That's an amazingly small fish. When I used to fish northwestern Ontario, if I caught a dink, I was thrilled and always photographed it.
  19. I was raised in central Ohio and learned to fish there. Lake Erie is world class but I learned fish allure on farm ponds. Where do you fish?
  20. I rarely fish plastics and nearly never fish jigs, even though I read again and again how effective they are. They intimidate me. I often wonder if I'm doing it right and I hate hooking the bottom and having to retie with my old eyes.
  21. Heck, yeah, that's a gorgeous fish! And a river fish means it's twice as fun.
  22. I admire your perseverance and love your joy at landing one after throwing emptying your tackle box. Well done! If I can't catch fish, bait can save the day. I'd be shaking too, Kongming! That's a beaut.
  23. This sounds right to me. I fished for 1.5 hours last night and only caught 10 bass. I wonder if they wised up that quickly.
  24. Weird, huh?
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