IndianaFinesse

Look into fisheries management as a freshwater biologist, with guiding as a possible side business until/if guiding starts bringing in enough income to be a full time guide.

I'll help you out and take those off your hands, since you hate em anyways...

Where did you hear this, and are they discontinuing all of the baits in the havoc line?

I would suggest slowing down once you find fish, especially if they are in deeper water they will be in schools.

Oh, I thought from your previous post that you were using straight flouro instead of braid, which might lead to hooking problems. That rig should work fine, I often use 10 pound power pro cause it's usually what gos on sale at Walmart for whatever reason.

Just joking with you, autocorrect doesn't recognize "stripers" so it changes it to "strippers". Done it a few times myself before I realized autocorrect doesn't recognize that word.

Never knew strippers "spawned" in rivers... Bars are a better place to fish for them from what I've heard.

...Then you probably wouldn't have had any fun fishing in 20-30 mile an hour sustained winds with gusts into the fourtys blowing freezing rain that froze on my coat in temperatures around 25 degrees, which also happened to be the day when I caught a four and a five pounder, plus 30something other bass on jerkbaits in a four hour trip.

So you've finally gave in and got converted to ned rigging, I knew you would love it once you put down your wacky rig and dropshot. Your hooking and landing percentage might increase if you try lite braid in the 6-10 pound range with or without a leader. I think it makes it easier to present it the way you want also. Half of a zinkerz on a 1/16 ounce mushroom head is my "confidence technique" also.

In an attempt to get this thread back on track... So far this year I have caught 546 bass and counting. I use a clicker type counter to count fish on. I hang it from my pliers, which are always in my pocket, so all it takes is a push of the button to add a fish to my total.

I use them all the time. One off my favorite soft plastic linups, the pit boss, grass pig, bottom hopper, hawk hog, twin tail grub, and craw fatty get a lot of use. Cheap and effective.

I don't have any secret lures (and I have yet to see any posted), but even if I did it wouldn't be a secret if i told you and the thousand other people reading this...

Basspro brand hard baits and hooks. Thought I was getting a good deal, but it turns out that the hooks rusted in a week and the cranks and jerkbaits were all junk. Half of them didn't even dive below the surface, and the ones that did never caught anything. Best I ever did with them is when the bill snapped off of a floating jerkbait when it shouldn't have, and I used it as a spook. Actually worked pretty good, way better than before it broke. But you know its junk when it catches more fish once its broken.

I agree with road warrior and t-9, what would he the bankline at normal water level is often the best place to start when fishing flooded lakes. But don't pick just any bankline, choose banklines with quick access to deep water and spawning flats with a clear migration route between them. BTW, a 4 pound fish tells you that you were doing something right, think back to exactly the spot that it was caught in and try to replicate it. Not just whether it was a tree or a bush (although that could be important also), but things sch as depth and how close it was to deep water and spawning flats!

I hadn't realized that it was postponed to today, I kept refreshing my page this morning trying to figure out how my one remaining pick did yesterday. Except they didn't even fish yesterday.

Don't know why rose was using an ocho, but the zero's are the same thing as the zinkerz. Zman makes the zero/zinkerz and then strike king puts there name on it.

Fished for about three hours today in the rain, but spent 45 minutes idling between spots because of a temporary idle only mandate because of the high water. Water was very muddy in the upper half of the lake today (where I was fishing yesterday), so I found some small coves lower in the lake with little or no inflow of water to avoid the bulk of the mud. Caught 19 bass with the best five weighing ~11 pounds (and a double humped 9 3/4 inch bluegill), mostly on a chartreuse bandit 100 and the rest on half of a zinkerz. Crank was catching the numbers and the ned was catching the better quality fish. All fish we're caught in less than five feet of water, but they weren't hugging the bank as tightly as yesterday.

Or was the legislation payed for by anti-sportfishing nuts?...

Snuck out for an hour and a half in between thunderstorms, caught 16 bass with the best five weighing about 11-12 pounds and the largest weighing a tad over 3 1/2 (3.6 pounds). Water is high and muddied from all of the rain, plus the water temperature dropped to 62 degrees from about 70 that it was before the cold front. Found them on the now flooded bankline (next to and in the spawning areas) where the bankline is at normal water level, in less than one foot of water. Most of them hit half of a zinkerz on a 1/16 ounce mushroom head, but also caught half a dozen on frogs pulled of the bank into the water.

Not saying that it won't work, but I think the hook may be a little to large to allow the bait to shimmy and wiggle much.

I just assumed there was one cause they seem to do the sale every other week.

Is that question really worth a thread?

First time i'm actually excited to have two inside the cut! Been a rough tournament for everybody. Got 899 points today.

Anybody know the current 20% off code for L.a.n.d b.I.g f.I.s.h?

Here's my picks: A, Jacob Wheeler. I figured if they're shallow he can catch them on topwater, and if they aren't than all the better. B, kvd. Spinnerbaiting around shallow, muddy stumps is his speciality. C, Jacob powronzink. Insurance that hasn't panned out yet. D, Brock Mosley. I dug up some old articles about how he has fished Ross Barnett almost every week for the past 8 years. Couldn't pass up on the home field advantage, and at 4.3 percent ownership he is a bargain. E, tommy biffle. Didn't like anyone in this bucket, but biffle likes shallow muddy water. I thought I bombed yesterday, but I actually rose to 78 percentile with a meager 748 points. Must have been tough on everybody.