N Florida Mike

Why in the world is that ? Never mind, just saw the response.

This^^^^^ ?

I just hate what people do. It just wears me out the selfish choices some people make.

Nice ! I haven't picked up any fish like that on the frog yet this summer.

Got out for a few hours after 6 pm. Decided to fish close to home on the shallower end of the lake. Its been rather cool for July here so the fish were a little more active than they normally are on a July afternoon here.Caught 3 in the first hour, then caught 5 off one isolated eel grass bed in 20 minutes . Caught them all on watermelon red super flukes. All were around the same size. Nothing big this time. Tried the frog after dark for awhile, but nothing doing. But it was a nice, refreshing time on the water.

I do a variation of that. When it's cloudy, watermelon seed seems to produce better in my home lake. when it's sunny, watermelon red is better. Lower light, June bug or black grape seems to be best.

I love the color of that fish. Fairly clear water?

I've already forgiven him, life is too short to waste... I'm going to talk to him about it. Hopefully he'll be humble and admit it, and offer to at least pay me the 16.00 back. But I'm not planning to demand it. There is a very small possibility it wasn't him but it was the same pawn shop my chainsaw ended up at at about the same time so.....

Yeah, It's ongoing. He's been clean ( I think ) since he got out of jail for the chainsaw. We speak several times a week and he has to attend meetings as part of his sentence.It just bothers me that he never brought up the fishing pole. It went missing about the same time as the saw, but I didn't realize it.

So My G-Daughter Mackayla and her friend beg me to take them to a local pawn shop to look at games they could buy. I haven't felt up to par all week , and tried to get out of it, but it's my G-daughter so guess who won ? So we get to the pawn shop, they head to the games, and I head to the fishing area. I'm looking for baitcasters but they don't have any. I almost walked away, but a small, ultralight spinning combo caught my eye. I've always loved them for bream fishing so I picked it up. Then I noticed it looked strangely familiar. It was MINE. It was the combo that went missing last year. I thought one of the kids had knocked it off the dock or something, but apparently it was less innocent than that. I told the shop owner and paid only 16.00 to bail it out.I had a chain saw stolen from a family " friend " last year and had to press charges to get it back, which I did after 5 months of the police holding it. I wasn't about to go through that again. Now I wondered how that combo got to that shop and how long it had set out there waiting for purchase.? Its been missing for almost a year ! I am a man of faith, so I'm thankful and blessed to get it back, and in such an amazing way, since it is my favorite bream combo.? It doesn't take a criminal justice degree to figure out who did it. The " friend " and the monkey on his back.?

Nice way to start the 4th. She Crushed a watermelon red super fluke.

What does the winner get in prizes ?

I am exactly opposite. Out of all the bass techniques, I like jig fishing the least. All I catch with jigs is a clump of weeds each cast. Still tear em up with worms, and any soft plastics for that matter. If it ain't broke , why fix it ? I do believe if you fish the same thing too much in the same water, the fish will get used to it, and your catch rate will decrease.

That's a big deal ! Good job Lake !

My PREFERENCE is late afternoon until dark. I enjoy it more when my works done for the day. But for best success I try to fish like this: Early spring : p.m hours primarily as the water will warm during the day. Late spring : A.m or p.m. Middle of the day for bedding fish. Summer : A.m before the heat. Water has had all night to cool. Night is often good too but I don't do it much. Fall: love the p.m bite , rarely go in the morning, but it's often good too. Winter: pm only, after the water has had time to warm. But as @Catt says " Anytime I can go " is a good outlook. Can't catch any if you're not fishing !

That wasn't an easy decision ! Love fried catfish.

Got to share this sunset with my gr. Daughter going home from a spring fishing trip.

Congrats on your new PB.

Yeah, she was about to pop with eggs, so I let her go.

Had a big rain here today, so I figured the cats would be active. They were.

Man, nice tank there !