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"Deep" yeah fish here are very pressured. Water temps are also in the low to mid 60's so spawn mode has kicked in so bite is slow I yhink? Also the lake I was at on the shore it was so shallow I through a crank bait the is supposed to be a 2' diver and it was dragging on the floor about 5-7 yards out. It was also very cloudy, and kind of cold yesterday. Maybe low 70's. Where past few days have been mid 80's. "Josh" yeah I'm really tempted to buy a used bass boat from crags list. Something cheap. Something I can go and get used to loading unloading myself, something I can learn to tow with, and start learning how to fish better before I drop 20+k on a fiberglass. After a year or so and a lot of fishing sell it buy a boat I want. I just can't see spending 25k on a boat and nit being able to catch a d**n fish lmfao.

Well another bad day out fishing.. lol. It's getting pretty irritating to be honest. 5 fishing trips. 5 times no fish, no bites, no hook ups nothing. I threw worms, in 6 different colors, I through swim baits, plenty of colors, I through frogs, rats, big baits, little baits, fast slow. I even through a worm with a d**n bobber. Not a single bite..

Yeah I'm working on getting more rods reel combos. Working on getting a boat first. Went and looked at them yesterday. Really liked the nitro z6. Also liked the tracker 175. It's aluminum I just dint know If I should go aluminum or fiberglass for my first boat. Obviously the fiber glass had more storage, more hp. Was a all around nicer boat. But is a tracker 175. Or even the best 190 enough boat for me? You know.

Okay I have a couple frogs, and other top water baits I can tie on first! Thanks for the advice. How about a location? What should I look for in a spot to fish? Lol

Oh okay thanks! That's no problem. Can't wait to leave. Have any tips on how to pick a good spot off the shore? I'm basically just going to look for a spot with Lilly pads, stumps, some type of hard cover, preferably off of a point or in a cove possibly. How's that sound? <a href="http://s1232.photobucket.com/user/cpnt2469/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20150511_124500.jpg.html"target="_blank"><img src="http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff368/cpnt2469/Mobile%20Uploads/20150511_124500.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo 20150511_124500.jpg"/></a>

All packed up and ready to go. Picked up a cheap little spinning rod/reel today. The bass pro shop viper spinner combo. I needed something that I could put 4-6lb line on for my light lures like my 1/8th ounce jigs. It's a 6'6 medium action rod. It actually feels like a pretty solid reel for being 29.99... lol. Well I tried to post a picture of my gear but it won't let me.

Hey there hatrix I came to the conclusion I was using worms wrong for a few reasons. I need to be more patient in the retrieve with the worms, I was not letting them fall to the bottom and bounce them, I'm sure they will catch fish if I just throw it out there and reel it in but that's obviously not how you use these baits, and that's pretty much what I was doing. Reeling and twitching from time to time, I try not to pay attention to what others are doing or catching because it distracts from what I'm trying to do. So I don't really see how others are fishing while I'm fishing. I guess I don't know forsure I was wrong but I feel like I could have been using them better. And probably would have caught fish had I been. Lol

Good info thanks! Where can I find your other how to's?

Awesome thanks! I'm thinking of trying out lake perris I've hear of some decent bites going on last week. So figure I'll try it out. Just shoreline fishing so we will see what happens. I figured I would start with a Texas rig, if that failed I was gonna try a senior wakky style, and then some jigs. All on a slow retrieve. I'll keep the shad in mind for diamond valley, next time I'm there I'll focus in on that color, and type of bait. Thanks!

That is a lot of info in the post! Very confusing but made a little bit of sense and helped me understand that bass do not get active by a certain month,but by water temp which I was confused on. And makes more sense than what I was thinking. That helps a lot and will help determine when I fish because of the day, temp, and now water temp. We have had a few days of rain down here last week, and it was a hot rain, that will help raise water temps so that should make the bass more active. I got tomorrow off so I'll be going fishing Tuesday morning tomorrow will be spent getting the gear ready to go. And getting new line put on the. Do you guys recommend mono, fluorocarbon, or braided? I have 10lb mono on it now, I also have 50lb braided I can string up, and I have 10/12lb fluorocarbon. I was going to eventually have a pole with each one since I know they each have there own reasons to use them. But if you have only 1 pole, what would you recommend? 10lb is what I'll be using. Because my reel only holds I think 100yds of 12lb. And like 120 of 10lb. Although I'm sure 100yds of 12lb would work just fine. Thanks again for all the posts. It's helping alot especially reading that last one lots of good info. Thanks.

Thanks for three great reply! I wish I had more answers for you but I truly don't know most of those questions. Most lakes I fish are reservoirs. As for the forage idk. And as for presentations I use worms the most, but to be honest I'm gonna say none of my presentations are done right haha. I have been watching videos online on how to work different bait, and that seems to have caused me to believe I was definitely doing it wrong.. so I'm going to try those out and go for that, I LOVE fishing with frogs, I love the top water hits. Especially on frogs, I also like fishing jigs, so I would say I'm more of a fines fisher. I have crank baits but I prefer other baits before I go to those. I'm actually planning on calling off tomorrow and going fishing. Just a little shoreline fishing at lake perris here in southern California.

Sorry guys havnt filled out the bio yet I'm on my phone (havnt been on a computer yet) and the site is kind of hard to navigate on the mobile version. I'm from California. Mainly fishing diamond valley. I agree there's no better thing than to go and fish. But the bite has been pretty bad here from the reports I have read, so I havnt gone out. Waiting another couple weeks and hopefully the bite to pick up. So figured I'd do some research and what not. I will definitely start reading the other sections.

Thanks and my dad used to fish bass he switched to deep sea fishing and doesn't really like to go bass fishing. As for knowing someone that fishes or has a boat is a negative. Yeah fishing always helps but like I said last 3 times out I have been skunked so I was hoping for a little advice before I went back out again. Haha.

Haha the pursuit of big bass is almost as old as I am! Haha

Okay thanks for the boat suggestions I'll look those two up. As well as those books. Thanks!

Hello everybody, so I'm not really new to fishing but it's been a very long time since I've been bass fishing. Probably like 5-6 years. I was going deep sea fishing for a long time and the fishing is so different that bass fishing that I feel I have lost touch with how to catch them haha. So I have a few questions and hopefully you guys can give me some pointers so I can start catching some bass again. I'm here in socal, I fish diamond valley quite often (it's my main lake) I have 1 rod/ reel. It's a 7' medium fast action with a Daiwa laguna reel. Is this a good rod reel for fishing a little bit of everything? I have read different actions are meant for different types of bait and what not. What times of month are best for bass fishing? I'm confused on what exactly pre spawn, post spawn fishing is better, (maybe there's a book you guys recommend describing bass tendancy?) Lures, my tackle box I feel is pretty diverse, from frogs, to deep diving cranks, spinners, worms, crawdads.. etc. In all types of colors and all that. Are there any books, videos or anything on how to make the action look better? I'm mainly a worm person I get most of my hits off of that and I feel it's because I know how to do that action (so I think) thanks for all the help. I'm real excited about getting back out there and catching some big fish. Last little tid bit. What do you recommend as a first boat? I'd prefer fiberglass. An 18' is fine. I definitely don't need a 22' nor do I need 250hp I'm okay with like an 18' with like a 115-150. Thanks again guys.

Thanks everyone. I probably should have posted I live in banning ca. I'll check out SDfish.com. I'm out there from time to time for military. What are some good lakes here in socal to go fishing at? I've been to DVL 3 times now been skunked all 3 times.. I catch trout and stripper but their large mouth bass just have me stumped. Lol. Any other good lakes out there?

Hey guys, new member here from so cal. So I've been fishing since I was a kid. Me and my dad used to go out all the time. I got out of it when I started college. And we'll it's time to start back up again. Went out bought a Daiwa laguna and a bass pro shop rod, nice cheap combo and it works great. Got a decent amount of tackle started off. And looking at getting a bass boat in the near future. I'll be posting another thread soon asking for some pointers on a good starter boat, something that works great but also something I won't really need to upgrade up from soon. look forward to sharing some cool stories with yall soon.