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Been skunked the last two times I've been out. 4 hours each day with nothing to show... not even a single Pike. It's getting real slow, folks.

Mend-It to me seems to melt the plastic back together through a chemical reaction. Then it dries back up and sticks

I bought a vial of Mend-It. Try it, works absolutely amazingly. No weird lumps or anything.

Easily Squarebills.

Planned on fishing tonight, weather report initially said 5-9mpg winds all day. It's gusting at 20mph now. I don't mind 10-12mph wind but anything past that is horrible for fishing in my opinion. Lures are flying back at me every time I cast and the water's really choppy. Just doesn't make shore fishing very fun. Also don't think I'd wanna risk getting blown in my boat so shallow to where I can't motor myself out and I can't oar myself out because the wind's that strong. Do you fish in the wind?

I credit 1Rod1Reel the most. First Youtube fisherman I got hooked on about 2 or so years ago. I have no one in real life that can teach me so I go to people like Glenn and 1Rod. Lunkers has some good tutorials in his older videos, but I've never really learned anything from Peric, Jon B, and now Lunkers. Their videos are purely for aesthetic and vlogging purposes. I should also give thanks to Extreme Philly Fishing/Leo, he really got me into Pan fishing. 1rod got me onto Bass fishing, and Leo got me onto multi species/panfishing. Uncut Angling also got me into fishing a little before I got into 1Rod1Reel fishing. Anyways, while I think Jon/Peric/Rob are great video producers, I've never learned anything from their post-2014 era newer stuff. They're also great fishermen but in their latest videos they don't explain much about their choices, it's just them catching the fish. Rob's underwater footage in his pool has helped me tons as to which baits are better and how they look in the water as most of the lakes I fish are stained or muddy. Credits to: 1Rod1Reel, EPH, and BassResource.

I see lots of people who fish this thing using only the weight of the Senko/Stickbait.. how do I do it? I figure I tighten everything up and sacrifice casting distance since it's so light. I do have a spinning rod but it takes up so much room and the line tangles so much sometimes. There's also no hook holder so I'm left to just peg the hook on a rod guide. I usually have my Spinning rod setup for panfishing and not Wacky Rigging. Any tips? Thanks! If it helps, I primarily use Yum Dingers and Senkos. I'm going to be buying a few packs of the BPS Stick-o worms soon too.

Walleye, don't do a single thing. Same with Perch, I think. 80% of the Perch I catch let it happen as well. The only time I've ever had a bluegill not fight was when I must of set the hook so hard I shocked it. Never had a LMB not fight, same with Crappies.

I'd go for a 15-20lb Fluro personally. Good all around line, have never had a toothy fish bite it off and I tear from snags easily.

Lol I'm pretty much hooked on fishing (no pun intended.) I love it more than all of my friends and family and I actually get teased for owning so much tackle and fishing so much outside of my work place. I can't fish as much as I wanna anymore for the time being as my truck is broken down. I get so bored just sitting here in my room I just wanna fish fish fish. I haven't hung out with anyone all summer because none of them WANNA FISH. They're out doing weed with their weed buddies. Me? I'm working, spending time with family/girlfriend, or fishing. There's no inbetween most days. Today's a PERFECT day to fish but I can't get out to the lake. Overcast, bit of a breeze, cold front coming through, low air pressure. BUT I CAN'T GET OUT and it angers me haha. Hopefully tomorrow morning though... hopefully.

This happens to me whenever I have to rip my frog from a pad because it snagged it with a hook and it either A.) Ripped and shot towards me and it tangled or B.) I tried to fling my lure over it by snapping my rod tip in the air and the frog goes flying and the line tangles.

Coming to think of it, last year I spent upwards of $230+ on tackle. But this year I've spent maybe only $150 so far. (Shouldn't of been 150 at first but additional shipping SUCKS) and I'm about to spend another $120 after the weekend is over. Might have to wait on it though might not have the money to just simply order $120 worth of tackle after we celebrate my GF's birthday lol. Last year I got tackle rpetty much every pay check, but this year I've been getting a steady supply of tackle from LTB and really I just didn't go order tackle for some reason. I'm about to order 3 spooks, 3 frogs, a few yum dingers, 2 rod sleeves, a swim jig, a new Rage Craw color, Yum Craw Papis in two different colors, 2 new tackle boxes, fluro line for my new rod/reel, 2 Storm Twitch Sticks in two different colors, and some Shaky Heads (never tried shaky head fishing before) 21 items total, $107.61 with the LTB $5 off. Might add some more since I'm under $120 lol... but I shouldn't. But I want to. But I don't need to... decisions decisions.

I use pretty much the Improved Clinch exclusively on Fluoro, sucks you're having trouble with it. really love that knot. My knots came loose once in a while because I was tightening the knot down using the standing and tag ends. Some video told me to do that and I kept ripping the knot out when tying it. But now I know how to do it and it hasn't failed me hundreds of fish later.

At this one place I fish at, I commonly see families fishing here leaving no room for anyone else and they keep EVERYTHING they catch... turtles, frogs, crappies, baitfish(could care less, maybe care about big crappies.), and bass(is a I don't understand to me.) I caught my PB at this one spot and these 4 old ladies BEGGED me to give them my bass and I wasn't going to but I had my mother along and she wanted me to be nice lol. I feel terrible but it's whatever. There's other big bass in this lake and I know that for sure... next time no one is gonna be taking my bass lol. What are your guy's opinions? There's probably been 25290529052 million threads about this topic.

I've learned more here in a few months than the 2 years I've bass angled. My #1 tip is if you can see the fish; you can't catch em. Although that's not true at all for some people. Sight fishing only increases their luck.

Dude, try Yum Dingers. Basically the cheaper version of Senkos. I use these to Wacky Rig primarily, and use my senkos for T-rigging. Dingers go for about 2.99 for 8 worms and senkos are 6.99 for 7 worms. The only thing you're sacrificing with Dingers is the salt and the weight of a senko. Not a whole lot of weight is lost, although.

I'm a 6'0 tall guy around 270. I've watched and seen tons of so called "3lb bass" in a bunch of videos and they're long and skinny. I've seen a video made by Mike from 1Rod1Reel fishing and it was a fish that looked about to be 11-12 inches long and it weighed to be 1lb. Not sure, I might just have to give in and buy a scale I caught it on a Wacky Rigged Senko actually. It's like a Green Pumpkin color with Purple Specks in it. http://www.***.com/Yamamoto_Senko/descpage-YAS.html it's the Green Pumpkin and Purple color, near the lower end of the 82 colors they got. I usually catch dinks on Wacky Rigged Worms but sometimes fish like these take me by storm haha. If you watch you'll probably see I didn't even know he had it, I just twitched it and that set the hook on his lip and off he went. It didn't feel too big at first but then I went "Oh yeah.... oh no." and he tugged me all over that dock. I had already lost a big fish that day at a lake earlier and I wasn't about to lose this one. If you ever decide you wanna gratefully go back to my channel one day and watch a low-quality video I try to list everything I used unless it's simple like one video I fished with nightcrawlers and your basic panfish setup.

In MN it really seems like we have to travel to find Ponds to fish. I know where I live we have a TON of ponds but they're fishless. My GF told me about a pond in town that does actually have fish, but what she described to me sounded really small, and that they were just Sunnies. But perhaps, there's more in there. But if there is, it's super hard to get to since it's smack dab in the middle of steep inclines and a bunch of Cat tails and weeds surround it. Also no where to really park your car besides local business parking lots. I think you're gonna have better luck heading out of City Limits. I know where I'm at there's a chain of lakes that produce PHENOMONAL bass. I COULD walk to them if I wanted to, but it would take about 2 hours, plus when I get there I'd be another 15 minutes to get to the lake lol. Driving takes only about 15 minutes.

First cast catch. I flipped it out into a stream entering another lake and got a hit RIGHT away. Flipped it back and retrieved it back and this thing just swallowed it. No idea how big it is, but I know it's my PB. What's the weight of it? Never weighed it. Was also gonna ask how big you think this fish is? I think it might be a 4lb smallie but I honestly have no idea I haven't invested in a weighing mechanism yet, I probably should lol... Pic here as well: http://imgur.com/8Osr5AP Forgot to add it into the video itself.

What were you using to try and catch him?

Why would a warden steal it? If it was the warden he would of taken everything... not just your one setup lol. Also he would probably have no reason to unless you've violated regulations and laws and rules, in which case legally he has to collect your fishing gear. He's the Game Warden, so I would go up to his house and report it to him and see what he says. We need more info to get our totally unbiased opinion on the matter that lead up to you finding out it was missing and where it was located at previously before being stolen.

It really feels like I need to annoy the crap out of a fish to bite in the Dog Days of Summer. Try getting reaction bites. I'm not experienced at all with Jigs whatsoever so I have no idea what makes fish bite that, hunger or annoyance, but I do know that Jigs are supposed to be heavy and I guess you're supposed to knock them off structures to make vibrations and noise. Tried it yesterday to get a fish from out under this log but the only lure fishing I really know how to do is Wacky Rigged Worms and T-rig. I'm a really bad fisherman lol.

Not a lake, but the Mississippi River. Smallies seem to be super active and coming in good sizes.

Really? I was told the Smallie fishing where I'm at was horrible about 2-3 years ago. I caught two really small baby smallies and there was literally nothing else. I had pictures of the two somewhere but lost em. To me River fishing has been 50/50, the second to last time I went I got absolutely not even a nibble. The river was a little low. Now the last time I went, it was flooded, and all I ended up getting was just boulders from the flooding and I got snagged and broke two lures off But the two times before were absolutely filled with fish. EDIT: Just remembered I got it all on a GoPro video I uploaded to YT.