IndianaFinesse

Check out the thread that is called, is Water Temperature or photoperiod more important for spawning? I asked that same question there. Everyone thought that the water temperature was more important, and cited recent trips that showed that it is.

Nice fish, it sounds like the fishing keeps getting better and better for you.

White roostertails are the best lure I have found, but a lot of guys do well with a white 2inch curly tail.

It was in a public gravel pit near a tiny town called ainsworth, which is about an hours drive from valentine.

I caught a 10.3 pound hawg in Nebraska!?. You should really check out some of the gravel pits.

Hmm... I haven't had any problems at all with the shroomz, except for the keeper falling off eventually. I would recommend trying the non-weedless style because it tends to hook fish better, although I have used the weedless version with some success. The hooks on mine have always been razor sharp, so maybe you just got a bad batch.

I totally agree, since your new easy baits are best. And there is nothing more easy to use than spinnerbaits, as long as they are wet they can catch fish. A crankbait would be a good second choice though.

Managed to get out for about two hours for some easter fishing, caught a bunch of them but no size to them. Caught twenty-two fish, and not one over two pounds. Most only weighed about a pound. The fish were at the back of shallow coves right next to where they spawn in one to five feet of water. All of the bass were on the green pumpkin trd fished with a drag and very short deadstick retrieve. My guess is the cold front shut down the larger fish, but didn't affect the small fish as much.

A ball head will work, but a mushroom head has a slower fall, sits flush with the bait (making it less likely to pick up weeds) and looks better. For guys that superglue the trd on, it provides more surface area to glue it on to. it also makes it slightly less likely to snag in the rocks.

Fishing Factory outlet. I bought several villians for 50$ when they normally sell for 200$.

I don't know what caused it, but I am seeing more and more bass with black blotches on them around here. I sure hope it doesn't kill them, if it does the fishing is about to get a whole lot worse.

I have heard that Asians think that koi bring good luck, and the bigger the koi the better the luck. Well, I have found a tiny pond that has a seventeen pound koi in it. I have caught it before, and the pond is so small you can cast across it, so I can easily catch it again. Does anybody know someone in indiana or willing to travel that would be willing to purchase it? I have heard that a koi that size is worth several thousand.

That's a nice fish, I never have caught anything on the buzzbait. I bet it's fun seeing them blow up on the bait.

I think bassfanatic just did. those Alabama rigs are extremely expensive, by the time you rig one of them they will often run you thirty dollors.

Figured I would just turn the fan above the stove on to suck all the fumes outside.

I have heard that you can melt lead in a melting pot on a stove, is it true?

Last week I lost a rcstx, two pointers, six trds and shroomz's, broke my rod trying trying to unsnag my pointer, and lost a net while trying to unsnag my other pointer with it. all in one day. If I kept track of all the tackle I lost or broke, I think I would have a heart attack from seeing all the lost money.

Just about any soft plastic will work. My favorites are a six inch lizard and just about all of z-mans plastics, because they are so buoyant they float off the bottom where the bass can see them. you can fish them in quite a few places, over short weeds, weedlines, almost anywhere.

Went to cagles mills crappie fishing today, but somehow didn't catch any. I'm not sure why we didn't, all the other recent trips we always limited out there. Toward the end we spent about forty-five minutes bass fishing, and caught five little guys( all under a pound and a half) on the ned rig near the roped off area by the dam.

Big game is fairly stiff, but since your using it for cranking it shouldn't matter.

I have a shirt that says those exact same things.

I'm not sure if the Trilene xl has changed. Pretty much what bigturtle said, but my favorite mono for cranking is big game. Depending on if you plan to fish over trees/weeds I would probably choose twelve or fourteen pound test line.

Do you have the length/girth measurements? It's hard to guess weights just from pictures without any measurements, but my guess would be 9-10 pounds.

Uh, run out of plastics? You can do that?

It's sure not easy to unhook them, most guys will tell you to grab them behind the head with one hand and keep the rest of the turtle's body still with the other. But the problem is first off getting your hand behind it's head with all of your fingers still attached, and if there is a place on a snapping turtles shell where they can't rake your hand apart with three inch claws, I sure haven't found it. And unfortuanately for you, the place you normally fish is loaded with snapping turtles. I've only fished there about ten or twelve times, and I have caught already caught two of them there.